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Kristen Van Nest - Thriller Author @kristenvannest.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

#BookSky just found out NOAA counts 20,000+ shipwrecks off US coasts. I have not been normal about the ocean since. 9 coastal gothic books, Rebecca included: kristenvannest.com/2026/08/25/c...

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Kristen Van Nest - Thriller Author @kristenvannest.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

#BookSky Where the Crawdads Sing hit home for me: my mom ran the nature center in our Fire Island community. I found 9 more mysteries where nature plays its own role: kristenvannest.com/2026/08/24/b...

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Kristen Van Nest - Thriller Author @kristenvannest.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

#BookSky every dead book club I've seen died of homework: somebody assigns a 600-page Important Novel, 3 people finish, and the meeting is a potluck with guilt. kristenvannest.com/2026/08/23/h...

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Kristen Van Nest - Thriller Author @kristenvannest.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

9 books like The Flight Attendant, ranked: kristenvannest.com/2026/08/22/b...

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Kristen Van Nest - Thriller Author @kristenvannest.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

#BookSky The Flight Attendant's main character is named Cassandra. In Greek myth she was cursed to always be right and never believed. She warned Troy about the horse! They let it in anyway! I ranked 9 thrillers where nobody believes her, including mine. 👇

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Kristen Van Nest - Thriller Author @kristenvannest.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

ok today's big serial killer release was written by an actual autopsy tech. Alaina Urquhart did the real job before she ever wrote a forensic pathologist. I can't decide if that makes the morgue scenes scarier or just better. probably both? #BookSky #ThrillerBooks

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Kristen Van Nest - Thriller Author @kristenvannest.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The author of today's big serial-killer release did the real job first. Alaina Urquhart was an autopsy tech before she wrote Dr. Wren Muller. The Butcher Legacy is out today, and Wren is back in the New Orleans morgue. Read differently when the author worked the job? #BookSky #ThrillerBooks

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Kristen Van Nest - Thriller Author @kristenvannest.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Netflix's new Newfoundland sea-creature show is being called Jaws-meets-Lovecraft. Reread Benchley first, the town is worse than the shark. 9 beach-town thrillers: kristenvannest.com/2026/06/23/b... #BookSky

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Books Like Jaws: 9 Deadly Beach-Town Thrillers

The best books like Jaws, ranked: 9 deadly beach-town thrillers and coastal horror books where the water turns on a town that can't afford to close.

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Kristen Van Nest - Thriller Author @kristenvannest.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

It is his tenth novel and he keeps running the same trick: take a place people already find creepy, a summer camp or an apartment building with rules, and make the place itself the reason nobody can walk away.

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Kristen Van Nest - Thriller Author @kristenvannest.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The five were mediums. Sager splits the book between Marin, the struggling actress cast in the film, and Daisy, whose 1926 diary says she was the last one left on the island.

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Kristen Van Nest - Thriller Author @kristenvannest.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Riley Sager's new one is out today, and the premise is that five women vanished from an island on Lake Faraday, Vermont in 1926, and a hundred years later a film crew turns up to make a movie about it, on the actual island ↓

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Kristen Van Nest - Thriller Author @kristenvannest.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

12 creepy fall thriller books, ranked: kristenvannest.com/2026/08/02/f...

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Kristen Van Nest - Thriller Author @kristenvannest.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

#BookSky #ThrillerBooks The Chestnut Man turns kids' conker figures, a harvest-season craft, into the worst thing to find beside a body. Ruining something cozy is the move I look for in a fall thriller. Here are 12 that pull it off

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Kristen Van Nest - Thriller Author @kristenvannest.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Four women pooling what the system won't share is still one of the great thriller engines! Same reason Big Little Lies works — comparing notes the institutions ignore. 1st to Die started that whole lineage

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Kristen Van Nest - Thriller Author @kristenvannest.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Your turn: which thriller deserves the next film deal? My vote is None of This Is True — Lisa Jewell's podcast framing would work even better on screen #BookSky #ThrillerBooks

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Kristen Van Nest - Thriller Author @kristenvannest.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The five I'd greenlight tomorrow: Behind Closed Doors (B.A. Paris), The Silent Patient (Alex Michaelides), The Maid (Nita Prose), None of This Is True (Lisa Jewell), The Last Thing He Told Me (Laura Dave) — all limited-location, all built-in fanbases

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Kristen Van Nest - Thriller Author @kristenvannest.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

He studied psychotherapy for three years and worked in an adolescent psychiatric unit before writing a word of it. His own formula for the book: Greek mythology meets psychotherapy. Alicia Berenson is Alcestis with a case file

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Kristen Van Nest - Thriller Author @kristenvannest.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

In Euripides' Alcestis, a wife dies to save her husband. She's brought back from the dead — and won't speak to him. The play never says why. Alex Michaelides grew up with that story in Cyprus, and the silence stuck with him

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Kristen Van Nest - Thriller Author @kristenvannest.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The Silent Patient is secretly a Greek play that's almost 2,500 years old. A woman who shoots her husband and never says another word: Euripides got there first ↓

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Kristen Van Nest - Thriller Author @kristenvannest.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

That is such a good way to put it! The silence is what kept it a mystery for a hundred years — an explanation would have turned it into a press release. Christie knew exactly how much to leave out

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Kristen Van Nest - Thriller Author @kristenvannest.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Everyone names Big Little Lies. What's the one nobody names? #BookSky #ThrillerBooks

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Kristen Van Nest - Thriller Author @kristenvannest.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The full seven: Big Little Lies, The Last Thing He Told Me, An Anonymous Girl, The Wife Between Us, Yesteryear, The Push — and Perfect Modern Wife sitting at #2, which I wrote, so read that placement however you like

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Kristen Van Nest - Thriller Author @kristenvannest.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

A hundred years on and we still know the mistress's name because of those eleven days! Whatever Christie meant to happen, that part happened. And she never explained it once

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Kristen Van Nest - Thriller Author @kristenvannest.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Every ripped-from-the-headlines thriller on the shelf is running a play Poe ran in 1842. Which real case do you think produced the best novel? #BookSky #ThrillerBooks

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Kristen Van Nest - Thriller Author @kristenvannest.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Mary Rogers' murder was never solved. Not in 1841, not since. Poe dropped his detective into a real open case, and the case stayed open anyway

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Kristen Van Nest - Thriller Author @kristenvannest.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Everything else he left alone. Same timeline, same river. He handed it to C. Auguste Dupin, the detective from The Murders in the Rue Morgue, and let him work a real open case in fiction

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Kristen Van Nest - Thriller Author @kristenvannest.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

He couldn't investigate. He was working entirely from newspaper accounts. So he wrote The Mystery of Marie Rogêt, moved the whole case to Paris, renamed her, and turned the cigar shop into a perfume shop

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Kristen Van Nest - Thriller Author @kristenvannest.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

185 years ago today, a body was pulled out of the Hudson. Mary Rogers, the shop girl New York newspapers called the Beautiful Cigar Girl. Edgar Allan Poe read the coverage and decided to solve it himself ↓

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Kristen Van Nest - Thriller Author @kristenvannest.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

An ensemble where everyone has something to hide is exactly my weakness! An Unwanted Guest is going straight on the list. Lapena is so good at making a room full of ordinary people feel like a countdown

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Kristen Van Nest - Thriller Author @kristenvannest.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

An author who can sit with his own translator is such a rare advantage — that explains so much! And picking up The Fencing Master because of a translation rabbit hole is a very good reason to start a book. Report back on that one

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Kristen Van Nest - Thriller Author @kristenvannest.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Nothing in And Then There Were None is stranger than the eleven days its own author never accounted for. What's your theory — genuine breakdown, or the best revenge plot Christie ever plotted? #BookSky #ThrillerBooks

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Kristen Van Nest - Thriller Author @kristenvannest.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Christie never publicly explained any of it. Her biographer Andrew Norman argued she was in a fugue state. Others were certain it was aimed straight at her husband. Both camps are still arguing

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Kristen Van Nest - Thriller Author @kristenvannest.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The name she used was Mrs Teresa Neele. Neele was the surname of her husband's mistress — the woman he married after their divorce. Christie never explained the choice

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Kristen Van Nest - Thriller Author @kristenvannest.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Eleven days later a member of the public recognised Christie at a hotel in Harrogate. She had been staying there the whole time, checked in under a name that wasn't hers

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Kristen Van Nest - Thriller Author @kristenvannest.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

In December 1926 Agatha Christie vanished for 11 days. She kissed her daughter goodnight and drove off. Her car was found abandoned ↓

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Kristen Van Nest - Thriller Author @kristenvannest.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The Couple Next Door is such a good gateway — that dinner party where nobody's telling the whole truth! So glad it hooked you. Which of hers should I bump up my list next?

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Kristen Van Nest - Thriller Author @kristenvannest.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The Flanders Panel — that's the one! The murder mystery hidden inside a painted chess game. You've officially made me want to read Pérez-Reverte in order instead of cherry-picking 💙

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Kristen Van Nest - Thriller Author @kristenvannest.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Which island thriller ruined your next beach trip for you? Mine's The Guest List — I still side-eye every wedding boat.

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Kristen Van Nest - Thriller Author @kristenvannest.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Books like this: The Guest List by Lucy Foley (a wedding on an Irish island, bodies before the cake), The Fury by Alex Michaelides (old friends, a Greek getaway), and The Storm Reaper by Kristen Van Nest — full disclosure, I wrote this — a Fire Island cop hunting a killer she's had coffee with.

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Kristen Van Nest - Thriller Author @kristenvannest.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

9 island thriller books where paradise turns into the perfect crime scene — one ferry in, one ferry out, nowhere to run when the killer's someone you've had coffee with 🏝️ kristenvannest.com/island-thriller-books

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8 Island Thriller Books That Prove Paradise Is the Perfect Crime Scene

From The Guest List to The Storm Reaper — nine thrillers where the isolation is the whole point.

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Kristen Van Nest - Thriller Author @kristenvannest.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Writer’s retreat this week had a surprise guest!

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Kristen Van Nest - Thriller Author @kristenvannest.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Meta spent this week building a feature that let anyone tag your public Instagram to generate AI images of you — no warning, no consent, automatically opted in — and named it Muse, like they were doing you a favor CAA, whose clients include Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep, called Meta directly.

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