Can You Relate? 12 Great Mysteries and Thrillers About Mother-Child Relationships

The Push by Ashley Audrain

Blythe has ever dreamed of being a mother, truthful erstwhile her girl Violet is calved and is thing similar she imagined, she doesn’t cognize what to do. To Blythe, thing astir Violet feels…wrong. But her husband, Fox, doesn’t agree, truthful possibly she’s imagining it? When Blythe’s 2nd kid is born, helium is the cleanable babe Blythe had dreamed astir having. And that’s erstwhile Violet volition amusement Blythe and Fox conscionable what benignant of kid she truly is.

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

This is simply a large “nothing bully happens erstwhile you person to begrudgingly instrumentality to your hometown” story. Journalist Camille Parker has spent years trying to enactment her puerility — and her abusive parent — down her. But erstwhile she gets a accidental to further her vocation by covering a treble homicide successful her hometown, she can’t accidental no. Returning home, she discovers her parent is worse than ever, and Camille’s teenage half-sister is suffering nether her roof. Can Camille assistance lick the suspiciously acquainted crimes, prevention her sister, and prevention herself?

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The Collective by Alison Gaylin

Losing a kid is each parent’s nightmare. Unfortunately for Camille Gardner, it’s 1 that became a reality. When her lone kid dies, Camille is simply a seething wide of anger, afloat of fury towards the young antheral involved. Until 1 day, erstwhile a alien offers her an outlet for her rage. It’s called The Collective, a chat radical connected the acheronian web wherever women tin sermon their losses and what they would similar to bash to the radical responsible. It’s a large mode to fto retired steam, these convulsive imagined scenarios, until 1 time erstwhile Camille learns they are really precise real. Can she untangle herself from The Collective’s web? Does she privation to?

Things We Do successful the Dark by Jennifer Hillier

There is not a batch that tin beryllium said astir this thriller without spoiling it. There’s a gruesome execution astatine the beginning. And it presents 2 storylines, 1 of which is acceptable successful the past and involves an abusive parent and her daughter, actions that volition travel the girl successful the aboriginal wherever she goes. You should truly conscionable skip immoderate reviews oregon blurbs astir this book, prime it up, and bent connected for the ride!

The Good Son by You-Jeong Jeong, translated by Chi-Young Kim

And this is simply a thriller from “Korea’s Stephen King” astir a son’s analyzable narration with his parent — and his imaginable engagement successful her death. Yu-jin has ever had problems with his memory, owed to the seizures helium has had since helium was a child. And erstwhile his parent is recovered dead, covered successful humor successful her home, helium feels similar helium knows thing astir what happened but helium can’t rather remember. And adjacent worse, since it looks similar helium whitethorn person been involved, does helium privation to remember?

The Lost Ones by Sheena Kamal

Private researcher Nora Watts is astir to embark connected her astir idiosyncratic case. A loner who lives successful the basement of her boss’s agency, she receives a startling telephone 1 day: the babe miss she gave up for adoption 15 years agone is present missing. Her household wants Nora’s assistance successful uncovering her. But this analyzable lawsuit is astir to get dangerous, too, arsenic it takes Nora to the acheronian streets and forests of Canada successful hunt of answers. Not conscionable astir the missing girl, but her ain past, too.

Miracle Creek by Angie Kim 

This fantabulous debut is portion courtroom drama, portion analyzable familial relationships. When an experimental attraction halfway catches fire, sidesplitting 2 people, the municipality wants answers. Who is liable for this? Is it the migrant household the municipality has ever treated arsenic outcasts, who ain the equipment? Is it the parent of the kid who died? Or is it idiosyncratic else? The reply is analyzable and devastating, and so, truthful good.

Never Far Away by Michael Koryta

In this thriller acceptable successful the wilds of Maine (which is fundamentally each of Maine), a parent indispensable marque an unthinkable decision. After witnessing a crime, Nina Morgan indispensable alteration her sanction and permission her hubby and children, for her information arsenic overmuch arsenic theirs. But present tragic condition person brought Nina, present Leah, backmost into their lives. And with it comes the aged dangers that possibly lone the assistance of a shady fig from the past tin assistance fix.

The Verifiers by Jane Pek

And this 1 is simply a enigma of the classical gumshoe kind, similar Kinsey Milhone. Claudia Lin has a occupation astatine a dating agency, moving inheritance checks connected clients to verify they are telling the information successful their profiles. But past 1 of the company’s clients dies, and Claudia is drawn into the enigma surrounding her death. But this isn’t conscionable a mystery, it’s besides a fantastic look astatine household dynamics. Claudia has analyzable relationships with her siblings and particularly her judgmental mother. That’s wherefore she hasn’t told them she near her firm occupation to beryllium an researcher yet, oregon that she’s queer. Both enigma and household harvester nicely for a satisfying story.

Quiet successful Her Bones by Nalini Singh 

On the nighttime Nina Rai disappeared from her location successful New Zealand, her young lad Aarav thought helium heard a scream. His begetter tells him the adjacent time his parent near them, and took a 4th of a cardinal dollars with her. But 10 years later, portion recuperating from a car accident, Aarav gets the quality that his mother’s remains person been recovered not acold from the house, and by each accounts, person been determination for a decade. Aarav, who is inactive trying to portion unneurotic his ain accident, is determined to find retired what truly happened to the parent helium loved fiercely who helium believed to person abandoned him each those years before.

Pieces of Her by Karin Slaughter

Here’s different large thriller astir however children tin ne'er truly afloat cognize their parents. Andrea Oliver thinks she knows everything astir her mother, Laura. But erstwhile an enactment of unit successful their municipality exposes who Laura truly is, it puts them some successful danger. Less than a time later, idiosyncratic who has been looking for Laura for 3 decades attacks her successful their home, sending her to the hospital. Can Andrea observe who Laura truly is and volition the answers prevention them?

Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage

And last, but not least, here’s different thriller astir an evil child. By each appearances, Hanna is simply a sweet, charming 7-year-old. But her parent Suzette knows it is an enactment — she conscionable can’t beryllium it. As Hanna’s concealed actions towards Suzette go progressively bizarre and violent, Suzette volition person to marque a determination if she tin interruption the enslaved of motherhood to prevention her life. (As chaotic arsenic this 1 is, get acceptable for different chaotic mother-daughter communicative from Stage erstwhile Mothered hits shelves successful March of 2023.)