The Underneath

With the assurance and grace of her acclaimed novel The Gloaming-which earned her comparisons to Patricia Highsmith-Melanie Finn returns with a precisely layered and tense new literary thriller.

The Underneath follows Kay Ward, a former journalist struggling with the constraints of motherhood. Along with her husband and two children, she rents a quaint Vermont farmhouse for the summer. The idea is to disconnect from their work-based lifestyle-that had her doggedly pursuing a genocidal leader...