10 Mystery & Suspense Books With Tortured Heroines
If the bestseller lists are any indication, readers are hungry for female characters who are authentic, edgy–sometimes even unhinged. Here are my top 10 picks for great novels with tortured heroines in atmospheric settings.
A fresh legal thriller about a young lawyer in an unhappy marriage who’s having an affair with a violent man. When she represents a wife charged with killing her abusive husband, it hints at what happens if a woman is pushed too far. Features my favorite alcoholic lawyer since Sydney Carton in Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities!
About S. L. McInnis
S. L. McInnis has a degree in broadcasting and has worked in public radio and television. Framed is her suspense debut.
Beth Montgomery seems to have the perfect life: a beautiful house in the hills above Los Angeles, a handsome, ambitious husband, and plans of starting a family. So it doesn’t occur to her to worry when the news breaks of a quadruple homicide across town, a botched drug deal that leaves an undercover officer among the dead. Beth certainly would never think to tie the murders to the sudden reappearance in her life of wild, sexy Cassie Ogilvy, the estranged best friend she hasn’t seen since they were college roommates. As Cassie confidently settles into Beth’s new life, making herself comfortable not only in Beth’s guestroom but with her husband as well, it becomes increasingly clear that her old friend has a lot to hide. But it isn’t until a shocking late-night phone call, and Cassie’s even more startling disappearance, that Beth begins to understand that her world, as she knew it, is gone forever.
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