Pretty much anything by Megan Abbott. Her more recent stuff is v. good but I really wish she'd write more of her 1920's-40's noir novels.
Simon: You're out of your mind. Early: That's between me and my mind.
'Objects In Space'
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Strix - Dec 07, 2016 1:36:22 pm PST #24199 of 28265
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
-t - Dec 07, 2016 1:45:03 pm PST #24200 of 28265
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
sj, i recently read a collection called Troubled Daughters Twisted Wives that might be up your alley. All female authors IIRC. The forewords are not great, but the actual stories are good.
Sue - Dec 07, 2016 2:20:32 pm PST #24201 of 28265
hip deep in pie
If you haven't read Tana French, that is my recommendation.
lisah - Dec 07, 2016 2:25:07 pm PST #24202 of 28265
Punishingly Intricate
Seconding Tana French heartily! And Laura Lippman is pretty great, too
sj - Dec 07, 2016 2:35:04 pm PST #24203 of 28265
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I'm reading In the Woods right now. I kind of got bored there for a while, but it's picking up again. I just got to the part where the narrator spent the night in the woods trying to remember what happened when he was a kid.
sj - Dec 07, 2016 2:40:58 pm PST #24204 of 28265
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
-t, I grabbed the anthology on the kindle and I'll look into Megan Abbott, Strix
Kate P. - Dec 07, 2016 2:42:29 pm PST #24205 of 28265
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I love Tana French, especially her second and third novels, The Likeness and Faithful Place.
Sue - Dec 07, 2016 3:28:30 pm PST #24206 of 28265
hip deep in pie
The Likeness was may favourite of them all.
They are allegedly working on a TV series based on the first five Dublin Murder Squad novels, and I am both impatient to see them and dubious they can do them justice. I 'm assuming they do a book a series.
Gris - Dec 07, 2016 4:03:42 pm PST #24207 of 28265
Hey. New board.
I know Megan Abbott! Well, I know her ex husband and met her once. Maybe that isn't so exciting.
Jesse - Dec 07, 2016 4:10:40 pm PST #24208 of 28265
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
sj, have you read Laura Lippman? They aren't necessarily that dark, but there are a lot of them!