All the Dangerous Things
Stacy Willingham, 2023
Mystery, thriller & crime Contemporary fiction
A sleep-deprived mother, a missing child, and a true-crime circuit that turns her grief into a story.
Feels like dread, grief and unease. About society, memory and family.
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What it costs to love someone you knew was only passing through.
I had come to think of him as a library book, entering my life on rented time. Something that I could enjoy for a few hours, curled up and comfortable, devouring as much of him as possible before our time was up. And because he wasn’t mine, I couldn’t scribble in the margins or write my name on the spine; I couldn’t leave my mark on him in any discernable way. Stacy Willingham.All the Dangerous Things is Stacy Willingham's second novel, following her 2022 debut, A Flicker in the Dark.
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- What is All the Dangerous Things like?
- Feels like dread, grief and unease. About society, memory and family.
- What should I read after All the Dangerous Things?
- If you liked All the Dangerous Things, try Then She Was Gone (Lisa Jewell), All Good People Here (Ashley Flowers) and The Couple Next Door (Shari Lapena).
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What it looks like to see the warning signs only afterward.
But one wrong move, one tiny kink in the time line, it was all over. Not just their love story, but all of it. Youth. Life. Ellie Mack. All gone. All gone forever. If she could rewind the timeline, untwist it and roll it back the other way like a ball of wool, she’d see the knots in the yarn, the warning signs. Looking at it backward it was obvious all along. But back then, when she knew nothing about anything, she had not seen it coming. She had walked straight into it with her eyes open.
Then She Was Gone · Lisa Jewell
What grief turns a mother's love into when no one is watching.
Krissy felt something harden inside her—all these women, their daughters alive and well, come to get off on how benevolent and sad Krissy’s story made them feel. She would gladly murder any one of their daughters right now to have hers back for one more day.
All Good People Here · Ashley Flowers
The moment a quiet house becomes the wrong kind of quiet.
Anne feels her scream inside her own head and reverberating off the walls-her scream is everywhere. Then she falls silent and stands in front of the empty crib, rigid, her hand to her mouth. Marco fumbles with the light switch. They both stare at the empty crib where their baby should be. It is impossible that she not be there. There is no way Cora could have gotten out of the crib by herself. She is barely six months old.
The Couple Next Door · Shari Lapena
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