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If You Like Gone Girl
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What is it about Gillian Flynn's latest bestseller that hooked you? Was it the unreliable narrators? The startling revelations? The suspense? Try one of these addictive titles to find more of the same dark qualities.
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Abrahams, Peter Lights Out Eddie Nye was jailed for 15 years for a crime he did not commit. On his release he sets out to discover who stashed the drugs which the Coast Guard found on his ship. The trail leads him to surprising people, including a brother on Wall Street. 1994 |
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Flynn, Gillian Sharp Objects : a Novel Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, Camille's first assignment from the second-rate daily paper where she works brings her reluctantly back to her hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. Dogged by her own demons, Camille will have to confront what happened to her years before if she wants to survive this homecoming. With its taut, crafted writing, Sharp Objects is addictive, haunting, and unforgettable. 2006 |
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French, Tana In the Woods When a twelve-year-old girl is found murdered in an Irish wood, Detective Rob Ryan and Detective Cassie Maddox -- his partner and closest friend -- find themselves investigating a case chillingly similar to a previous unsolved mystery. Now, with only snippets of long-buried memories to guide him, Ryan has the chance to uncover both the mystery of the case before him and that of his own shadowy past. In the Woods is richly atmospheric, stunning in its complexity, and utterly convincing and surprising to the end. 2007 |
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Hayder, Mo Birdman In Greenwich, England, Inspector Jack Caffery investigates the case of a woman with a live bird sewn in her body. The case is the latest in a series of murders of women whose bodies were surgically mutilated. A debut in fiction by a British woman. 1999 |
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Haynes, Elizabeth Into the Darkest Corner : a Novel When young, pretty Catherine Bailey meets gorgeous, charismatic Lee Brightman, she can't believe her luck. But Catherine soon discovers that Lee's dazzling blue eyes and blond good looks hide a dark, violent nature. Increasingly isolated and driven into the darkest corner of her world, a desperate Catherine plans a meticulous escape. Four years later, Lee is behind bars and Catherine--now Cathy--is trying to build a new life in a new city, finding unexpected hope and the possibility of love and a normal life. Until the day the phone rings... 2011 |
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Landay, William Defending Jacob : a Novel Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney in his suburban Massachusetts county for more than twenty years. When a shocking crime shatters their New England town, Andy is blindsided by what happens next: his fourteen-year-old son is charged with the murder of a fellow student. As the crisis reveals how little a father knows about his son, Andy will face a trial of his own-- between loyalty and justice, between truth and allegation, between a past he's tried to bury and a future he cannot conceive. 2012 |
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McGovern, Cammie Eye Contact : a Novel In the woods of a small town, Adam, a nine-year-old autistic boy, is discovered hiding near to the body of his classmate. With her community in shock and her barely-verbal son unable to help with the police investigation, Adam's single mother Cara tries to decode the puzzling events and how to interpret the changes in Adam’s behavior not only to help him through the trauma, but to help the police catch a killer. A powerful story of the tangled emotional bond between mother and son, and a thrilling novel of psychological suspense, Eye Contact won’t let you go. 2006 |
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Picoult, Jodi House Rules : a Novel A teenager with Asperger's syndrome--smart, quirky, with a passion for crime scene analysis--winds up on trial for murder. 2010 |
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Unger, Lisa Die for You : a Novel When successful novelist Isabel Raines learns that everyone that her husband worked with is dead -- and that her missing husband has been legally dead for some time -- she will not rest until she finds the truth about him. Who he was, where he's gone, and how he was able to deceive her so completely. 2009 |
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Walters, Minette The Breaker A woman's body washes on a beach in England and evidence shows she was raped. At the same time her little daughter is found wandering in a nearby village, screaming at any man who approaches her. A tale of psychological suspense. 1999 |
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Watson, S. J. (Steven J.) Before I Go to Sleep : a Novel An amnesiac attempts to reconstruct her past by keeping a journal and discovers the dangerous inconsistencies in the stories of her husband and her secret doctor. 2011 |
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White, Stephen The Best Revenge Psychologist Alan Gregory is living through a season of discontent. With a new daughter, a wonderful wife, and a prospering career, he has little to complain about and lots of regrets: past cases that won't let him go, patients who don't get better, and a growing unease with keeping secrets. But Gregory has two new patients who will drag him out of his introspection--and dare him to enter a storm of injustice and revenge. 2003 |
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