Looking for a slow or heady book to put you to sleep at night? Do not pick up anything by Jessica Knoll. The queen of the smart-girl psychological thriller is known for books you can’t put down that simultaneously challenge their very genre. (Her breakout hit Luckiest Girl Alive took on sexual trauma; her phenomenal 2023 Bright Young Women turned the serial killer story on its head.)
And now she’s back with Helpless, about an Emmy-award winning writer sucked back into an erotic relationship with an ex-flame, reigniting an affair that’s both sexy and obsessive and certainly more that it initially seems…
If this sounds like the perfect beach book, we’re right there with you. Which is why we asked Knoll for some of her personal picks for can’t-put-down summer fiction.
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