5 new thrillers and mysteries deliver the best kind of tension

New books by Lev AC Rosen, Ausma Zehanat Khan, Wanda M. Morris, Kaoru Takamura and Catherine Steadman

By Flynn Berry

In five new thrillers, outsiders come out of the woodwork: They peer behind the doors of a locked mansion, menace a corrupt police department, and threaten a small town, a Tokyo corporation and a powerful family. These outsiders are all damaged, which makes them formidable. As Josephine Hart wrote: “Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.” Read Flynn’s reviews at the Washington Post.