Fast-Paced Fiction to Talk About Over Snacks
Discover the best fast-paced fiction books perfect for lively discussions over snacks. Find thrilling, engaging reads that keep you hooked and spark great conversations.
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The Turnaround
by George P. Pelecanos
Thirty-five years after a devastating accident that irrevocably shapes the lives of six people, a pair of redemption-seeking survivors reaches out to one another in …
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Foreign Body
by Robin Cook
A series of unexplained deaths in foreign hospitals sends Jennifer Hernandez, an idealistic UCLA medical student, on a desperate search for answers about her grandmother's …
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The Night Following
by Morag Joss
Subtle, intimate, and terrifying, this work is the story of a killers journey from the shadows into the light, in an unflinching examination of the …
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Don't Tell a Soul
by David Rosenfelt
The popular author of six Andy Carpenter mysteries, including the recent hit "Play Dead," delivers his first stand alone with this gripping suspense novel.
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The Lost Luggage Porter
by Andrew Martin
Working as an official railway detective during the winter of 1906, Jim Stringer covers York Station for the North Eastern Railway Company and encounters the …
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An Incomplete Revenge
by Jacqueline Winspear
In this latest installment of the bestselling series, Maisie Dobbs, the extraordinary psychologist and investigator, delves into a strange series of crimes in a small …
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The Closers
by Michael Connelly
In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Detective Harry Bosch joins LA's elite Open/Unsolved Unit to help piece together the mysterious death of a teenage …
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Running Scared
by Ken Douglas
Joey Sapphire wakes next to a dead man, the son of the American Ambassador to Trinidad, in a boat at anchor. It quickly dawns on …
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Diablerie
by Walter Mosley
Enjoying a precarious sober life balancing family duties with his relationship with a patient mistress, Ben finds his years of alcoholism catching up with him …
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Burn Zone
by James O. Born
It was supposed to be a low-level bust for ATF agent Alex Duarte, with the hope that he could work it up the ladder to …
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Atomic Lobster
by Tim Dorsey
Batten the hatches, don the life jackets, and take cover--Serge A. Storms is setting sail on a cruise ship to hell in this latest manic …
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A Toast to Tomorrow
by Manning Coles
Book Sense March 2008 Notable Book Pick. Joseph Goebbels is fuming. It's the mid-1930s and the Nazi Minister of Propoganda has a nice little racket …
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The Chameleon's Shadow
by Minette Walters
Returning from the war in Iraq a changed man due to serious head injuries, British lieutenant Charles Acland rejects his former life and grows increasingly …
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Calumet City
by Charlie Newton
Among the most self-assured and sharply crafted debuts in recent years, "Calumet City" detonates a Molotov cocktail of character-driven suspense and ghetto-Chicago intrigue.Meet Patti Black, …
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The Secret Scroll
by Ronald Cutler
Josh Cohan, a work-obsessed archaeology professor, has a recurring dream about uncovering a great secret. He follows his instincts to the Judean desert, where he …
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Bone Rattler
by Eliot Pattison
Ordered to find another prisoner accountable for a series of suspicious deaths aboard a British convict ship, Duncan McCallum follows a series of clues that …
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The Venetian Betrayal
by Steve Berry
The "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Alexandria Link" offers a gripping international thriller that sends Cotton Malone on a perilous quest for the …
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Radio Secrets
by Steve Brown
"A free man after 22 years and 22 days in prison, Raymond Lister has set out on a mission of revenge against the woman who …
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Touchstone
by Laurie R. King
Left with an extraordinary sensitivity that allows him to determine the lies and deceptions of everyday life with a mere touch after the Great War, …
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The Dark Tide
by Andrew Gross
A woman whose husband was caught in a deadly explosion, teams up with a detective to uncover secrets from her husband's past.
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Betrayal
by John T. Lescroart
Taking over the casework of a recently disappeared attorney, Dismas Hardy and his friend, detective Abe Glitsky, tackle an unexpectedly challenging appeal to overturn the …
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The Spies of Warsaw
by Alan Furst
In 1937 Warsaw, on the eve of World War II, intelligence operatives on both sides of the forthcoming struggle wage their own espionage battle in …
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Three Shirt Deal
by Stephen J. Cannell
LAPD detective Shane Scully fights to save a man railroaded for murder, while he struggles to save his marriage.
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Last Call
by James Grippando
Jack Swyteck is drawn into the investigation of a mother who was murdered on a hot Miami night twenty years ago.
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A Prisoner of Birth
by Jeffrey Archer
International bestseller and master storyteller Jeffrey Archer is at the very top of his game in a story of fate and fortune, redemption and revenge. …
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City of Shadows
by Ariana Franklin
A cultured city scarred by war. . . . An eastern émigré with scars and secrets of her own. . . . A young woman …