Teenagers stranded in the Alaska forest, trapped in a creepy mansion, and stuck aboard the Titanic in novels from Kate Alice Marshall, Marisha Pessl and Sarah Jane.
Marilyn Stasio’s Crime column features a “bitter as hell” ex-con, a homicidal professor, a near-mad narrator, and a soldier of fortune turned beach bum.
Riley Sager’s “The Last Time I Lied” is about a woman who has returned to the summer camp from which her three bunkmates once mysteriously disappeared.
In her new book, former New York Times book critic Michiko Kakutani suggests that truth should be added to the list of casualties of the Trump administration.