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TARA LASKOWSKI is the author of the suspense novels The Weekend Retreat, The Mother Next Door, and One Night Gone, which won the Agatha Award, Macavity Award, and the Anthony Award. She also wrote two short story collections, Modern Manners for Your Inner Demons and Bystanders. She has won the Agatha Award and Thriller Award for her short fiction and was the longtime editor of the online flash fiction journal SmokeLong Quarterly. Follow her on Instagram, @TaraLWrites.

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Average rating: 3.52 · 22,241 ratings · 2,654 reviews · 24 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Weekend Retreat 3.45 avg rating — 9,720 ratings — published 2023 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mother Next Door 3.50 avg rating — 6,264 ratings — published 2021 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	One Night Gone 3.59 avg rating — 5,104 ratings — published 2019 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flash Fiction International: Very Short Stories from Around the World by James Thomas (Editor), Robert Shapard (Editor), Christopher Merrill (Editor) 3.79 avg rating — 446 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The New Black by Richard Thomas (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Laird Barron (Goodreads Author) (Foreword), Brian Evenson (Contributor) 4.10 avg rating — 355 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Modern Manners for Your Inner Demons really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 2012 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bystanders 4.07 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 2016 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	SmokeLong Quarterly: The Best of the First Ten Years, 2003-2013 by Tara Laskowski (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Elaine Chiew (Goodreads Author), Bob Arter (Contributor) 4.81 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Cold Read 3.88 avg rating — 17 ratings — expected publication 2026 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Cat Weekly #259 by Tara Laskowski (Goodreads Author), Ron Miller, Paula Messina 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“But I know family can bring out the worst in people.”
― Tara Laskowski, The Weekend Retreat

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“This weekend has hardly begun and already I’m nauseated. When can we start stabbing each other in the backs and rewarding ourselves with long naps?”
― Tara Laskowski, The Weekend Retreat

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“She shrugs, like she’s talking about the breakfast menu and not a childhood trauma.”
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February 2022 Poll

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Which Crime, Mystery or Thriller would you like to read in February?

He Was A Liar: A twisty psychological thriller with a shock ending by Daniel Hurst

30 votes, 23.3%

The Mother Next Door by Tara Laskowski

26 votes, 20.2%

The Body on the Beach (Fethering Mystery #1) by Simon Brett

17 votes, 13.2%

The Naturalist (The Naturalist #1) by Andrew Mayne

17 votes, 13.2%

The Butcher's Boy (Butcher's Boy #1) by Thomas Perry

15 votes, 11.6%

The Wicked Bible by Sharon L. Dean

13 votes, 10.1%

The Ritual Bath (Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus #1) by Faye Kellerman

11 votes, 8.5%

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