''2012 has been a particularly good year for psychological thrillers. Gone Girl
by Gillian Flynn (Weidenfeld & Nicholson) is the brilliant, darkly
comic tale of Amy Dunne, wife of Nick, who disappears just as the couple
are about to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary. The narration
alternates between Nick and Amy, and it becomes increasingly clear that
neither has been entirely honest with the other. The Girl on the Stairs
by Louise Welsh (John Murray) is the story of Jane, heavily pregnant
and newly arrived in Berlin, where she becomes obsessed by a neighbour's
treatment of his teenage daughter. A portrait of a city haunted by its
past, with nods to Don't Look Now and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper, it's a profoundly creepy read..''
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