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A Crime In The Neighborhood by Suzanne Berne
I have recommended this book many times to all kinds of readers. For me, it is a novel that uses suspense in the best possible way, not by having a character confront one contrived obstacle after another in a mindless stream of action, but by creating an atmosphere of deep moral peril in which the culminating tragedy seems as inevitable as it is, well…tragic. It is also one of those books in which the title become completely apt, and very moving, after one has completed the book. In this case, the “crime in the neighborhood” turns out to be far more profound and long lasting than any single act of violence could be.
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The Woman in white by Wilkie Collins
This is still a wonderfully mysterious novel. It is large and sweeping, with skillfully drawn characters, lovely passages and absolutely haunting scenes, a fully formed 19th century novel with all the trimmings. The story is complicated, but it was originally written in serial form, so the story moves forward in carefully measured steps. Much of what became standard in crime fiction was first done here, so it is not only an engaging read, but a fundamentally instructive one.
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Seven for a Secret by Lyndsay Faye
Lyndsay Faye caught the attention of thriller aficionados with her Edgar-nominated historical novel “The Gods of Gotham,” about down-on-his-luck Timothy Wilde, who joins the brand-new NYPD in the 1840s. In the second book in Faye’s Timothy Wilde trilogy, “Seven for a Secret,” Wilde has proved himself an able cop, and he’s horrified to learn of the powerful underground network of “blackbirders” who steal free black Northerners and sell them in the South as slaves.
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Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
The master of horror returns in a much-anticipated sequel to his 1977 classic, “The Shining.” Grown up and struggling with alcoholism (like his father before him) along his terrible memories of that fateful winter at the Overlook Hotel, Danny Torrance has found his calling–using his power of “the shine” to comfort the dying. But he is soon faces a bigger task: He and a young girl named Abra must stop a band of wanderers called The True Knot–quasi-immortals who torture children gifted with the shine, living off the “steam” that rises from their writhing bodies.