9 Novels That Will Keep You in Suspense

by Joseph Kanon

Another compelling, intellectually charged period piece by Kanon, who works in the shadows of fear as well as anyone now... Full review >

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by Dennis Lehane

On one level, a very moving meditation on fathers and sons; on another, an illumination of character and fate. Full review >

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by Francine Mathews

Mathews writes well, keeps the pace brisk and has great fun re-creating historical personages. Full review >

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by Richard Price writing as Harry Brandt

In the wake of rage and sorrow, ordinary people respond by going crazy and screwing up. In this far-from-ordinary novel,... Full review >

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by M.O. Walsh

Celebrate, fiction lovers: The gods of Southern gothic storytelling have inducted a junior member. Full review >

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by Liane Moriarty

Deservedly popular Moriarty invigorates the tired social-issue formula of women’s fiction through wit, good humor, sharp... Full review >

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by Duane Swierczynski

In a long, rambling and cheeky letter to her mother, Sarie Holland describes her arrest and incarceration on a drug charge.... Full review >

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by Lynne Truss

A Chinese box of anti-narrative that reads like M.R. James on bad acid with a laugh track, complete with demonic cats,... Full review >

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by Rhys Bowen

Bowen shrewdly explores the tension between a husband and his very independent wife as they both work to solve a complicated... Full review >

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