“Khattak re-examined his assumptions yet again. A black chador said nothing about a woman’s thoughts or hopes or her engagement with her country’s political future.”
All in thriller
Do Not Become Alarmed by Maile Meloy
“One aspect of human resilience, in all its marvelousness, was the ability to recalibrate, to adjust to new circumstances with astonishing speed.”
Missing, Presumed by Susie Steiner
She is alone and an insomniac who falls asleep listening to the “low murmurings about road traffic accidents of drunken altercations outside Level 2 Nightclub on All Saints Passage, all of which she can safely ignore because they are far too lowly for the Major Incident Team,” on an unauthorized police radio on her bedside table.