Some great literary thrillers and crime fiction
Discover the best literary thrillers and crime fiction books. Explore gripping, high-quality reads that blend suspense with masterful storytelling for an unforgettable experience.
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Dead I Well May be
by Adrian McKinty
This New York Irish bad-boy thriller--brimming with violence, greed, and sexual betrayal--brings a gripping new voice to the literary turf of Michael Connelly, Chuck Palahniuk, …
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Smilla's Sense of Snow
by Peter Hoeg
She thinks more highly of snow and ice than she does of love. She lives in a world of numbers, science and memories--a dark, exotic …
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The Blind Man of Seville
by Robert Wilson
Investigating the brutal murder of an artist's son, the first of several victims, detective inspector Javier Falcn reads the artist's journals and learns several disturbing …
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The Vanished Hands
by Robert Wilson
Javier Falcon, still struggling with the psychological trauma of his last case, investigates an apparent suicide in a wealthy neighborhood and becomes increasingly alarmed when …
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Motherless Brooklyn
by Jonathan Lethem
When Lionel's friend is killed, he is forced to delve into the complex, shadowy web of relationships, threats, and favors that make up the Brooklyn …
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Absolute Friends
by John le Carre
An absolutely triumphant bestseller-everywhere hailed as the masterpiece toward which John le Carre has been building since the fall of communism. This thrilling tale of …
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Gorky Park
by Martin Cruz Smith
"Brilliant...One of the best books of the season." ASSOCIATED PRESS A triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen in the snow, …
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The Book of Evidence
by John Banville
Returning to Ireland to reclaim a painting that is part of his patrimony, a thirty-eight-year-old man commits a ghastly and motiveless murder, which he confesses …
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Father's Music
by Dermot Bolger
Tracey is a streetwise 22-year-old born to a middle-class English woman. All she knows about her father is his name, Eoin MacSweeney, and that he …
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Complicity
by Iain Banks
In Scotland, a self-appointed executioner dispenses justice to fit the crime. Thus the lenient judge who let a rapist go is punished by being raped, …
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The Innocent
by Ian McEwan
A member of a British-American surveillance team in Cold War Berlin finds himself in too deep in this "wholly entertaining" work (The Wall Street Journal) …
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Divorcing Jack
by Colin Bateman
In Belfast, reporter Starkey arrives in the apartment of his mistress, a politician's daughter, to find her dying from bullet wounds. Her last words send …