Over the last decade there has been a boom in psychological thrillers written by women – to the extent that some male authors have adopted gender neutral pen names to attract publishers and readers.
In many ways the field has become oversaturated, with “page-turners” filling supermarket shelves and sacrificing good writing and character development for tired plots and cheap twists. But novels that excavate the depth of the human psyche have enraptured readers since long before “grip lit” arrived. At their heart, they are deliciously wicked and mysterious, with characters who range from the damaged to the deliberately devious.
