request to add mystery/thriller/suspense titles
| From: | Lisa P. |
| Sent on: | Sunday, June 8, 2014, 2:48 PM |
Dear Members: There is some interest in reviving the "mystery/thriller/suspense" genre in our rotation. I've begun a list of possible books to consider (see below) but would like your help identifying titles that should be included. If you'd like to contribute, please email me. Thanks! Lisa
"Gone Girl" Gillian Flynn 425 psychological thriller
NYT bestseller. Wife disappears on the couple's fifth anniversary. Husband becomes prime suspect.
"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" Stieg Larsson 675 mysterious disappearance
Bestseller and book 1 of a trilogy. Swedish capitalist talks financial reporter into solving 40-year-old family mystery, and the reporter enlists the help of the above-mentioned girl.
"Perfume: The Story of a Murderer" Patrick Suskind 250 18th century murder
Bestseller. Man with a phenomenal sense smell is driven to capture complex smells of all sorts, not just those involving his perfumer's apprenticeship
"Boy's Life" Robert McCammon 600 thriller/nostalgia
Secrets and shadows, good and evil, haunt a father and son in Zephyr, Alabama.
"The Lovely Bones" Alice Sebold 375 murder/coming of age
Bestseller. A 14-year-old is raped and murdered by a serial killer, and struggles to accept her fate in the afterlife as she observes how her murder affects her family.
"The Rule of Four: A Novel" Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason 400 intellectual suspense
NYT bestseller. Two Princeton grads set out to solve the mysteries of a 15th manuscript
"The Alienist" Caleb Carr 500 serial killer in the Gilded Age
Pub Weekly bestseller. A Freudian psychiatrist tries to help police find a serial killer in NYC in 1896
"The Long Goodbye" Raymond Chandler 375 hardboiled urban private eye
PI takes the case of a WWII vet who is on the lam because his wealthy nymphomaniac wife is dead
"The Name of the Rose" Umberto Eco 525 murder in a 14th cent abbey
"Brother Sherlock" shows up to investigate heresy and winds up investigating murder
"Snow Falling on Cedars" David Guterson 450 murder trial in the 50's
PEN/Faulkner award. Soon after WWII, a Japanese-American man is on trial for murder in Puget Sound
"Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: A George Smiley novel" John le Carre 400 Cold War spy/suspense
NYT bestseller. First installment in a trilogy, spy seeks to find the traitor within their ranks
"The Drowning Pool" Ross Macdonald 250 hardboiled urban private eye
The second "Lew Archer" novel; he investigates the murder of a wealthy woman in suburban LA.
"The Eight" Katherine Neville 625 thriller set in 1972 and in 1790
In this fantasy/adventure, a modern computer expert seeks to recover eight chess pieces that were hidden by a French nun during the French Revolution because of their legendary power.
"A Murder is Announced" Agatha Christie 325 Miss Marple mystery
In a small town in England, it is announced that a murder will be taking place on Friday, October 29
"The Hound of the Baskervilles" Arthur Conan Doyle 175 Sherlock Holmes mystery
A man is found dead on the moors, apparently as a result of attack by a lengendary hound
"Original Sin" P.D. James 425 Adam Dalgliesh mystery
Scotland Yard investigates: Is it suicide or murder at the publishing house on the Thames?
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