Why ‘The Burning Library’ is the Thriller of the Year
Gilly Macmillan’s The Burning Library opens with a quietly unsettling premise: a celebrated author vanishes just as long-buried truths from her fictional worlds begin echoing dangerously into real life. Macmillan uses this hook not for gimmickry but to construct a layered psychological mystery that toys with the boundaries between storytelling, memory, and the secrets people…