Thrillers ~ Staff Picks, pt. 2
If you enjoy page-turning thrillers, the staff at your Lewis & Clark Library have more book recommendations you might enjoy. Read on for a great selection of both fiction and nonfiction suspense reads.
The Guest List
by Lucy Foley
A page turning thriller that will have you guessing right until the very end!
Find it in the library catalog Here
Also available in digital format:
Montana Library2Go eBook and eAudiobook
Axis360 eBook
Where It Hurts
by Reed Farrel Coleman
If you like a well-written suspense novel, then Where It Hurts is for you. Check out this first in a series featuring retired police officer, Gus Murphy.
Find it in the library catalog Here
Also available in digital format:
Hoopla eAudiobook
Read more about the Gus Murphy series and the author’s other series Here
The Yellow Wallpaper
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a suspenseful short story that follows the narrator’s descent into madness. The story is based on the author’s real-life experience with the archaic rest cure doctors prescribed to treat women who were
deemed hysterical from the late 19th through the early 20th century. The rest cure involved isolating the patient in a bare room lacking any form of stimuli, which were perceived to contribute to feminine neurosis. Imagine quarantining in a single-capacity room with only a bed for company. While not a traditional thriller, this short story certainly had me gripping my seat, clenching my jaw, and frantically wondering what would come next.
Do you like short stories? You can find “The Yellow Wallpaper” and other great tales in these short story collections in the library:
The Outsider: a Novel
by Stephen King
Private investigator, Holly Gibney, from the Mr. Mercedes trilogy, is on the case after popular English teacher, Terry Maitland is convicted of a brutal crime. How could Terry commit a terrible crime while simultaneously attending a school training hundreds of miles away? As Holly uncovers more details, she finds that something more sinister is at work than anyone could have imagined.
The Outsider was also made into an HBO series. Available in the library Here
Five Days Gone:
The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child.
by Laura Cumming
A solitary child played on the Lincolnshire Beach, as her mother watched her from her nearby. Did the mother drift off? Perhaps she was daydreaming? But when she looked up her child was gone! A gripping true story about the disappearance of a 3-year-old child for five days without a trace- and then reappearing mysteriously in a nearby town completely unharmed! Where was she during that time? Who took her? Why? Much like a detective, Author Laura Cumming tries to piece together her mother's mystery in England in 1929.
Find it in the library catalog Here
Killers of the Flower Moon:
The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
by David Grann
Director Martin Scorsese is creating the film adaptation of Killers of the Flower Moon starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro. Here’s your chance to read this true story about a devastating time in 1920s American history before the movie comes out.
Find it in the library catalog Here
Also available in digital format:
Axis 360 eBook
Montana Library2Go eBook and eAudiobook
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