Once one of the leading minds in the field of forensics, Lincoln Rhyme has all but retired from the police force after an accident left him a quadriplegic. As of 2020, Graham Green’s spy novel “Our Man in Havana” has been adapted into a movie, an opera, and a stage production. Thanks to an incredible marketing strategy by his editor Thomas Congdon, “Jaws” remained on The New York Times’ hardback bestseller list for 44 weeks, and was turned into a movie directed by none other than Steven Spielberg.

The trio’s paths overlap in an unlikely way, and present realities mixed with revelations about the past that leave all of them uncertain about whom they can trust. Paperback. The rest of the Top 5 (in no particular order): The New Girl by Daniel Silva, Someone Knows by Lisa Scottoline, Lethal Agent by Kyle Mills, The Border by Don Winslow.

There are no easy answers to this challenge—legislative efforts at tighter oversight of the CIA have produced mixed results.

The Eighth Sister by Robert Dugoni: While he’s shown he can write anything and everything over the last few years—from legal thrillers to mystery and crime—Dugoni’s The Eighth Sister proves that espionage is right in his wheelhouse too, and this book is insanely awesome. clues about literature? Set in Barcelona in 1945, the book is about a young boy named Daniel Sempere who’s obsessed with a book by an author named Julian Carax. When the whisperings begin again, the father-son duo finds themselves wrapped up in the middle of an investigation that looks as though it may come to a conclusion too late.
While “The Firm” wasn’t John Grisham’s first novel, it was his first hit, and its success eventually earned his first, “A Time to Kill,” a wide release. With so many people feeling overwhelmed with professional and personal obligations—from meeting deadlines and raising children to maintaining an active social life and keeping up appearances on social media— they’re desperate for anything that will offer them a break. When a new psychotherapist joins Alicia’s care team, he’s determined to get her to reveal the truth about what happened that night, while harboring some secrets of his own. Banville, a Dubliner, has a keen eye and ear for the pervasive class distinctions of Irish and British society. But even on its own, Backlash—which is equal parts a survival story and a quest for revenge after Harvath finds himself stranded in the Russian wilderness during a blizzard, with no backup and nothing to keep him going but the anger burning deep inside—is special. Peter Benchley, a former journalist, penned a simple story about a beach town being terrorized by a great white shark, in an attempt to salvage his floundering career in the early 1970s. Her deep knowledge of Parisian life during World War II adds a welcome authenticity to her tale. Vidich focuses his novel on a specific crime, the murder of Dr. Charles Wilson, an Army bio-weapons expert who is pushed to his death from the ninth floor of a Washington, D.C. hotel in 1953. The book jacket for The Secret Guests claims that Black/Banville “has good information that princesses were indeed in Ireland for a time….”. “The Chestnut Man” is the thrilling debut of Søren Sveistrup, creator of the hit TV show “The Killing.”, - Author name: Liane Moriarty - Date published: 2014. In an increasingly secular Great Britain, how does the concept of a divinely-anointed monarch hold up?

Jo Nesbo is a Norwegian crime author and the creator of the detective Harry Hole. Simone St. James’ “The Broken Girls” centers around Idlewood Hall, a fictional boarding school for troubled girls. - Author name: John le Carré - Date published: 1974.

Unbeknownst to Libby, she’s not the only one who’s been waiting on this inheritance, and as she digs deep into her family’s past, which includes ties to a cult, things quickly take a darker turn. Epping undertakes a mission to halt the assassination of JFK, a mission that comes with horrible consequences that, left unresolved, threaten to alter the world as it’s known today. After two Supreme Court justices are assassinated, Darby Shaw, a law student, writes a legal brief guessing at the real reason these two men were targeted. The tale is narrated by a 5-year-old boy named Jack, the son of a kidnapped woman, and follows the duo as they attempt to escape their small world for a much larger one. Ken Follett is best known for his historical fiction work, but “Eye of the Needle” isn’t your ordinary way-back-when kind of tale.

- Author name: R.D. In “The Lincoln Lawyer,” Michael Connelly introduces readers to Mickey Haller, the half-brother of his famous character Harry Bosch.

True Believer by Jack Carr: The closest thing to the second coming of Vince Flynn, Carr puts on a show with his second novel—proving he’s more than a one-hit-wonder after turning in the best debut of 2018 with The Terminal List. The list contains thrillers of every type: crime stories, suspense novels, mysteries, legal thrillers, courtroom dramas, psychological and domestic dramas, the list goes on and on.
- Author name: Angie Kim - Date published: 2019. and The Night Fire is as compelling as anything he’s ever written.

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- Author name: Harlan Coben - Date published: 2001. In a liberal democracy, how can we keep intelligence agencies acting within bounds? Ten classic British spy novels Wilkie Collins’ “The Woman in White” is widely considered to be one of the first mystery novels. Paris - Date published: 2016. - Author name: Simone St. James - Date published: 2020. - Author name: Patricia Highsmith - Date published: 1955.