Megan Abbott writes crime and psychological fiction about ambition, friendship, competition and the forms of power that operate inside tightly controlled groups. Dare Me enters the world of high-school cheerleading, where the arrival of a new coach changes the loyalties between teammates and turns rivalry into a darker investigation. The Fever follows a community unsettled by a mysterious illness among teenage girls, while You Will Know Me centres on a family whose life is organised around their daughter's elite gymnastics career. Abbott's earlier novels draw more directly on classic noir, including Queenpin and Die a Little. Her prose is tense, compressed and particularly attentive to female friendship, bodily discipline and social hierarchies. Dare Me is the clearest entry for contemporary psychological crime, while Queenpin suits readers interested in a stylised mid-century noir atmosphere and criminal apprenticeship. Read more Less
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