![]() ![]() Someone is determined to trap the real killer, to make the guilty pay. ![]() Not everyone left Duquette ten years ago, and not everyone can let Heather’s murder go unsolved. Not the girl she was when she left campus, back when Heather Shelby’s murder fractured everything, including the tight bond linking the six friends she’d been closest to since freshman year.īut not everyone is ready to move on. Everyone is going to see the girl she wants them to see-confident, beautiful, indifferent. Ten years after graduation, Jessica Miller has planned her triumphant return to her southern, elite Duquette University, down to the envious whispers that are sure to follow in her wake. In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead, out now! I can’t guarantee a happy ending, but I can guarantee you’ll love the ride. Some I chose because they have romantic subplots I couldn’t get enough of, others because even though the romance is ultimately toxic, the sexiness is off the charts. By design, it often wrestles with darkness and comes with plenty of angst and longing, so if you’re into that sort of thing (I am!), I humbly suggest adding these thrillers to your TBR. Whatever the angle, romance in thrillers is all about high stakes. Unsurprisingly, crime fiction has a lot to say about love and sex: noir is famous for the trope of the alluring femme fatale, domestic suspense often takes the complications of marriage as its central plot point, and of course there’s romantic suspense, an entire subgenre devoted to mixing romance and high-octane plots. Death is even built into a French expression for orgasm, la petite mort, or the “little death” (which literary theorist Roland Barthes said is also the experience readers should have after finishing a good book). Sigmund Freud argued sex and death are entwined in the human imagination-he, and many theorists who came after him, believed they’re the two primal drives that compel human behavior, often explaining, at a deep-rooted level, what we’re attracted to and why. When it comes to books, I love romance and murder in equal measure, and I know I’m not alone. What’s better than a killer thriller? A sexy killer thriller, maybe even one with a romance you can root for.
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