by Gillian Flynn (2006)
Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, journalist Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the unsolved murders of two young girls. To crack the case, Camille must untangle the psychological puzzle of her own past and her estranged, neurotic mother.
Stieg Larsson
Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families, disappeared forty years ago. Her aged uncle cannot let go of the mystery, believing she was murdered by a member of their own clan. He hires disgraced investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist and punk hacker prodigy Lisbeth Salander to uncover the truth.
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.
Lucy Foley
A wedding celebration turns dark and deadly in this deliciously wicked locked-room mystery. On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives together: the handsome television golden boy and the ambitious magazine publisher. As resentments and petty jealousies mingle, a storm hits and a body is found.
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.