by Gillian Flynn (2012)
On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick’s clever and beautiful wife disappears. As the police investigate and Nick’s lies mount, everyone asks: Did Nick Dunne kill his wife?
Scott Turow
When prosecuting attorney Carolyn Polhemus is murdered in her apartment, chief deputy Rusty Sabich is tasked with finding the killer—until forensic evidence turns the investigation inward and he finds himself charged with murder.
Alex Michaelides
Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas. One evening, she shoots her husband five times in the face and never speaks another word.
John le Carré
In John le Carré's masterpiece of cynical realism, veteran British intelligence operative Alec Leamas is summoned back to Berlin for one final, morally compromised mission behind the Iron Curtain to ruin East German counterintelligence.
Tana French
As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When the police arrive, they find only one child clutching a tree trunk in terror. Twenty years later, Detective Rob Ryan must investigate a child's murder in those same woods.