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The Mystery of Mrs. Christie by Marie Benedict

The Mystery of Mrs. Christie

There’s a theme to The Mystery of Mrs. Christie and it’s, “Maybe don’t fuck with your wife when she invents unsolveable ways to murder people for a living.” In a lot of ways this book is a historical Gone Girl, which normally would be my jam, but I found the suspense disrupted by the fact that this is based on a real event and I already knew what happened. Add to that, we spend a … Continue reading The Mystery of Mrs. Christie by Marie Benedict

Good Girl, Gone Girl, and Women in Psychological Thrillers

Warning: This post will be discussing the book Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, and I am presuming that most everyone has read it/ seen the movie by now, so spoilers ahead! Ahoy! I enjoyed Gone Girl when it came out, so when the book became part of the zeitgeist I was thrilled. I was more than a little baffled, though, when people started saying that the book/movie was anti-feminist or even misogynist. I get where some people were angry … Continue reading Good Girl, Gone Girl, and Women in Psychological Thrillers