A Knife Between Chapters is one of our staff readers, moving quietly through pages where motives matter, alibis unravel, and someone almost always ends up dead. Her reading life leans delightfully murdery, with psychological thrillers, mysteries, and crime at the core, softened now and then by a literary turn of phrase or a beautifully written sentence that cuts just as deep.
You won’t see her face, but you’ll know her taste. Follow along throughout the year as she shares what she’s reading, loving, questioning, and occasionally side-eyeing. If you’d like to read alongside her, you can find A Knife Between Chapters on the Fable App. Simply download the app and join us there to see what’s currently on her stack, with the occasional blog post appearing here as well.
Keep an eye out for other staff readers along the way. You just might discover more than one reading twin hiding in the stacks.
Top 25 of 25
1. Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
2. My Friends by Fredrik Backman
3. The Sideways Life of Denny Voss by Holly Kennedy
4. Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson
5. The Break-In by Katherine Faulkner
6. Spectacular Things by Beck Dorey-Stein
7. Seven Reasons to Murder Your Dinner Guests by K.J. Whittle
8. Too Old for This by Samantha Downing
9. June in the Garden by Eleanor Wilde
10. Love, Mom by Iliana Xander
11. What About the Bodies by Ken Jaworowski
12. Gone Before Goodbye by Reese Witherspoon
14. Reports of His Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated by James Goodhand
15. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham
16. The Locked Ward by Sarah Pekkanen
17. The Intruder by Freida McFadden
18. When You Disappeared by John Marrs
19. We Don’t Talk About Carol by Kristen L. Berry
20. The Seven O’Clock Club by Amelia Ireland
21. The Secret Room by Jane Casey
22. We Are All Guilty Here by Karin Slaughter
23. She Didn’t See It Coming by Shari Lapena
24. Don’t Let Him In by Lisa Jewell
