Romantic suspense

Curtis Sittenfeld is the author of seven novels, including American Wife and Rodham, reimaginings of the lives of Laura Bush and Hillary Clinton. Her new novel, Romantic Comedy, revolves around a TV sketch show based on Saturday Night Live, and dissects celebrity culture in a love story set during the pandemic, much of which takes place via email exchange.  Read more

I spent many hours as a child, sitting with my grandmother on her couch, watching black-and-white films from the days of classic Hollywood. Her favorites were mysteries, and if there happened to be a ghost or some paranormal element to it, so much the better.  Read more

When I sat down to write The Marriage Lie, I wanted to create a story that was equal parts suspense - a husband killed in a plane crash, and the wife's subsequent search for the truth about him and her marriage - and emotion that arises as a consequence of the action. These are the types of books I like to read, stories where the action drives the emotion and the emotion drives the action.  Read more