The Turnout by Megan Abbott
This is a story about sisters, Dara and Marie, who run the dancing school, once owned by their parents, along with Dara’s husband Charlie. Dara and Marie are dancers practically since birth, while Charlie was a dancer who became too injured to continue.
The annual The Nutcracker is approaching, a huge event for the school, when a man arrives, and upsets the careful balance the sisters have carefully maintained.
Abbot is a genius writer-she’s absolutely an auto buy author for me. This book is beautifully and brilliantly unsettling, leaving readers feeling off kilter as the sisters do. As always, Abbot deftly explores femininity and female roles, and what happens when men enter the picture. I highly recommend this book.
Chasing the Boogeyman by Richard Chizmar
Chizmar does something very impressive and clever here. He takes moments and facts from his real life, but inserts a series of fictional murders, writing as if the book is true crime and the murders really happened. There are even photographs included to make it feel even more like a true crime story.
This creepy book had me totally hooked. The reveal of who the killer is was a twist I never saw coming. I highly recommend this book.
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