Mainstream Fiction that Will Keep You Glued to the Page
Discover the best mainstream fiction books that will keep you glued to the page. Explore gripping stories, unforgettable characters, and page-turning plots in this curated list of must-read novels.
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Charley's Web
by Joy Fielding
New York Timesbestselling and award-winning author Joy Fielding tells the story of an ambitious journalist whose foray into the mind of a killer puts her …
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The Memory Keeper's Daughter
by Kim Edwards
A #1 New York Times bestseller by Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter is a brilliantly crafted novel of parallel lives, familial secrets, and the …
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Say Goodbye
by Lisa Gardner
Pregnant eighteen-year-old Delilah Rose enlists the assistance of FBI agent Kimberly Quincy to investigate the disappearances of young women whom no one else will notice …
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Undone
by Karin Slaughter
Sarah Linton has fled to Atlanta seeking refuge from the patient in her ER. She finds herself deeply ensnared in a case which rips the …
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Shoot Him If He Runs
by Stuart Woods
Sent by the CIA to a beautiful Caribbean island where they are to track down murderous rogue agent Teddy Fay, the team of Stone Barrington, …
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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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Another Thing to Fall
by Laura Lippman
The "New York Times"-bestselling author of "What the Dead Know" is back with an indelible tale that probes the darkest recesses of the human heart. …
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Devil Bones
by Kathy Reichs
When a plumber discovers the remains of a murdered girl and various dark religious objects in the cellar of a client's house, Temperance Brennan is …
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Black Out
by Lisa Unger
A woman has to quickly piece together disturbing events--one of which is the murder of her psychologist--before her past comes to claim her future and …
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Robert Ludlum's (TM) The Arctic Event
by Robert Ludlum
On a remote island in the Canadian Arctic, researchers discover the wreckage of a mysterious World War II-era aircraft, a discovery that forces the Russian …
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Lie Down with the Devil
by Linda Barnes
Boston P.I. Carlotta Carlyle's allegedly unfaithful fiancé disappears right after his supposed mistress turns up dead.
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Dexter in the Dark
by Jeffry P. Lindsay
Miami cop Dexter Morgan and serial killer (the Dark Passenger), one-in-the-same, investigate a double murder on the University of Miami campus while the burned and …
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Tree of Smoke
by Denis Johnson
Once upon a time there was a war . . . and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the …
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Book of the Dead
by Patricia Daniels Cornwell
Relocating to Charleston after a particularly grueling case, Dr. Kay Scarpetta opens a private forensic pathology practice but is quickly targeted by local politics and …
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Dark of the Moon
by John Sandford
Virgil Flowers is sent to Bluestem, a small town where everyone knows everyone else, to investigate the murders of a man burned to death in …
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Dead Heat
by Dick Francis
With his rising culinary career threatened by an episode of food poisoning at a private affair that he had catered, Max Moreton caters an exclusive …
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Bones to Ashes
by Kathy Reichs
Discovering the skeleton of a young girl in the neighborhood of a childhood best friend who had gone missing thirty years earlier, Tempe Brennan investigates …
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Dearly Devoted Dexter
by Jeff Lindsay
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Life’s tough for Dexter Morgan. It’s not easy being the world’s only serial killer with a conscience, especially when you work for …
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The Bone Garden
by Tess Gerritsen
Julia Hamill is pulled into a nineteenth-century mystery when she discovers a human skull bearing the signs of a violent death in her backyard.
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Third Degree
by Greg Iles
Pregnant with another man's child, Elizabeth Pike returns home to find her husband, already distraught over an IRS audit, with a letter from her lover …