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Collected Millar: The Dawn of Domestic Suspense
by Margaret Millar
A grim locked room mystery doubles as brilliantly funny comedy; a nuanced portrait of a marriage rocked by paranoia and loneliness; an examination of a deeply flawed mother's psychology-and its deadly consequences; a chilling noir tale about the value--or lack thereof--of a human life. Humor, politics, chilling psychological insight and the outright macabre are all on display in these novels, which were formative both for the author and the generations of writers who followed her.
Year: 1944
Genre: Domestic Suspense, Locked Room
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
by Shirley Jackson
Mary Katherine “Merricat” Blackwood and her elder sister Constance live alone in their ancestral home with their crippled uncle after the tragic murder of both of their parents, their aunt, and their younger brother. Having been accused and later acquitted of the murders, Constance confines herself to the grounds of their home, while Merricat contends with their hostile neighbors and with the ever-increasing sense of impending danger she feels is heading their way.
Year: 1962
Genre: Domestic Suspense, Horror
Brightness Falls
by Jay McInerney
As he maps the fault lines spreading through the marriage of Russell and Corrine Calloway and chronicles Russell's wildly ambitious scheme to seize control of the publishing house at which he works, Jay McInerney creates an elegy for New York in the 1980s. From the literary chimeras and corporate raiders to those dispossessed by the pandemonium of money and power, Brightness Falls captures a rash era at its moment of reckoning and gives reality back to a time that now seems decidedly unreal.
Year: 1992
Genre: Domestic Suspense, Family Drama
The Good Life
by Jay McInerney
Clinging to a semiprecarious existence in TriBeCa, Corrine and Russell Calloway have survived a separation and are wonderstruck by young twins. Several miles uptown, Luke McGavock has postponed his accumulation of wealth in an attempt to recover the sense of purpose now lacking in a life that often gives him pause. But on a September morning, brightness falls horribly from the sky, and people worlds apart suddenly find themselves working side by side at the devastated site.
Year: 2006
Genre: Domestic Suspense, Family Drama
How It Ended
by Jay McInerney
From the writer whose first novel, Bright Lights, Big City, defined a generation, a collection of twenty-six stories, new and old, that trace the arc of his career for nearly three decades.
Year: 2009
Genre: Domestic Suspense
| Got It | Want It | Read It | Year | Title | |||||||
| -- | -- | -- | 1944 | Collected Millar: The Dawn of Domestic Suspense | by Margaret Millar | ||||||
| -- | -- | -- | 1962 | We Have Always Lived in the Castle | by Shirley Jackson | ||||||
| -- | -- | -- | 1992 | Brightness Falls | by Jay McInerney | ||||||
| -- | -- | -- | 2006 | The Good Life | by Jay McInerney | ||||||
| -- | -- | -- | 2009 | How It Ended | by Jay McInerney | ||||||
| -- | -- | -- | 2016 | Bright, Precious Days | by Jay McInerney | ||||||
