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• The 39 Steps

  Buchan, John, 1875-1940

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  CLASSIC - A very British thriller in which a Canadian gets caught up in an international spy ring.

• The Talented Mr. Ripley

  Highsmith, Patricia, 1921-1995

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  CLASSIC - Noir thriller with a dark and compelling protagonist.

• Rebecca

  Du Maurier, Daphne, 1907-1989

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  CLASSIC - Gothic thriller featuring a new bride living in the shadow of her beautiful, dead predecessor, Rebecca.

• Blacktop Wasteland

  Cosby, S. A.

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  "Bug," the hero of this high-octane neo-noir thriller set in 2012 Virginia put his criminal past behind him until his financial woes from marriage and parenthood begin to pile up.

• Fever

  Cook, Robin, 1940-

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  Medical thriller. A little girl with leukemia and her father take on a medical and environmental conspiracy in a race against death.

• Gone Girl

  a Novel

  Flynn, Gillian, 1971-

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  Unreliable narrators and betrayals abound in this thriller about a wife who has gone missing in suspicious circumstances and her feckless husband.

• The Hunt for Red October

  Clancy, Tom, 1947-2013

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  Military thriller with CIA analyst Jack Ryan searching frantically for a Soviet submarine whose captain may or may not want to defect.

• The Day of the Jackal

  Forsyth, Frederick, 1938-

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  Page-turner about a plot to assassinate the President of France, Charles de Gaulle.

• Fingersmith

  Waters, Sarah, 1966-

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  LGBTQ2S+. Historical Gothic thriller, full of plot twists and turns and wonderful Victorian atmosphere.

• The Order

  a Novel

  Silva, Daniel, 1960-

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  SPY THRILLER. Other writers of this type include Olen Steinhauer, Alan Furst, and John Le Carre. Gabriel Allon of the Israeli secret service is called back to the Vatican to help investigate the mysterious death of the pope himself.

• The Da Vinci Code

  a Novel

  Brown, Dan, 1964-

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  Bestselling thriller involving ancient code-breaking and international conspiracies.

• THE SHINING

  King, Stephen

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  HORROR. In this classic, a writer moves his family to a remote snowy inn to try to write.

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