Mysteries & Thrillers
Our Favorite Mystery and Thriller Books
We love a good Mystery. Here are some to make you want to read all day long.
"I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Girl Before
by J P Delaney
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In the tradition of The Girl on the Train, The Silent Wife, and Gone Girl comes an enthralling psychological thriller that spins
Please make a list of every possession you consider essential to your life.
The request seems odd, even intrusive
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The Widower's Wife
by Cate Holahan
Ana Bacon, a young housewife, tumbles off a cruise ship into the dark and deadly waters, but did she take her secrets with her?
Investigator Ryan Monahan is a numbers man. So when his company sends him the Bacon case, which could net a ten million dollar payout, Monahan More PBR Review
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The Guest Room
by Chris Bohjalian
When Kristin Chapman agrees to let her husband, Richard, host his brother's bachelor party, she expects a certain amount of debauchery. She takes their young daughter to Manhattan for the evening, leaving her Westchester home to the men and their hired entertainment.More PBR Review
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Everything You Want Me To Be
by Mindy Mejia
Full of twists and turns, Everything You Want Me to Be reconstructs a year in the life of a dangerously mesmerizing young woman, during which a small town's darkest secrets come to the forefront...and she inches closer and closer to her death.
High school senior More PBR Review
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While The City Slept
by Eli Sanders
"Binged Making a Murderer? Try . . . [this] riveting portrait of a tragic, preventable crime." -Entertainment Weekly
Edgar Award finalist for Best Fact Crime
A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter's gripping account of one young man's path to murder-and a wake-up call for mental health care More PBR Review
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The Life We Bury
by Allen Eskens
The Life We Bury tells the story of Joe Talbert, a junior at the University of Minnesota, who receives a class assignment to write a biography of someone who has lived an interesting life. At a nursing home he meets Carl Iverson, a man dying of cancer who has been medically paroled More PBR Review
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The Widow
by Fiona Barton
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An NPR Best Book of 2016 One of The Wall Street Journal's 5 "Killer Books" of the Year A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year Following the twists and turns of an unimaginable crime, The Widow is an electrifying debut thriller that will take you More PBR Review
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What She Knew
by Gilly Macmillan
New York Times bestseller Nominated for an Edgar Award in Best Paperback Original category, 2016 International Thriller Writers Thriller Award finalist in Best First Novel category, 2016 Indie Next Pick for December 2015 Target Book Club Pick for December 2015 LibraryReads More PBR Review
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Before The Fall
By Noah Hawley
New York Times Bestseller
From the Emmy, PEN, Peabody, Critics' Choice, and Golden Globe Award-winning creator of the TV show Fargo comes the thriller of the year.
On a foggy summer night, eleven people--ten privileged, one down-on-his-luck painter--depart Martha's Vineyard More PBR Review
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