C rime fiction has thrived in the past 25 years, gaining more readers, introducing new writers and producing works likely to ...

Some of the best thriller books, with their quiet tension and psychological complexity, are particularly prone to this fate.

THE HOUSE ON BUZZARDS BAY (Viking, 276 pp., $30) is set in a seemingly placid town on the southern coast of Massachusetts. It’s here that a group of old friends gather for a vacation that, alas, isn’t ...

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