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Just For You! -- Thrillers & Suspense

If you appreciate thrillers and suspense with vivid language, detail and engaging characters you may find something appealing on this list.

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  • No sooner does he get to know Ricardo Laverde than disaffected young Colombian lawyer Antonio Yammara realises that his new friend has a secret, or rather several secrets. Antonio's fascination with the life of ex-pilot Ricardo Laverde begins by…
    Book, 2013New York : Riverhead Books, 2013. — FICTION VASQUEZ
  • In 1533, an Italian orphan with an uncanny knack for creating fragrance is plucked from poverty to become Catherine de Medici's perfumer. To repay his debt, over the years Rene; le Florentine is occasionally called upon to put his vast knowledge to…
    Book, 2014New York : Atria Books, 2014. — FICTION ROSE
  • Documenting his grandparents' experiences during the siege of Leningrad, a young writer learns his grandfather's story about how a military deserter and he tried to secure pardons by gathering hard-to-find ingredients for a powerful colonel's…
    Book, 2016New York : Penguin, 2016. — FICTION BENIOFF
  • As one of seven young actors studying Shakespeare at an elite arts college, Oliver and his friends play the same roles onstage and off: hero, villain, tyrant, temptress. But when the casting changes, and the secondary characters usurp the stars, the…
    Book, 2017New York, N.Y. : Flatiron Books, 2017. — FICTION RIO
  • Grist Mill Road is a dark and twisty Rashomon-style narrative which is expertly plotted. The year is 1982, the setting an Edenic hamlet some 90 miles north of New York City. There, among the craggy rock cliffs and glacial ponds of timeworn…
    Book, 2018New York : Picador, 2018. — FICTION YATES
  • Theodore 'Theo' Decker was thirteen years old when his mother was killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The tragedy changes the course of his life, sending him on a stirring odyssey of grief and guilt, reinvention and redemption,…
    DVD, 2019Burbank, California : Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, [2019] — DVD G
  • Homer Wells grows up in an orphanage in remote St. Cloud, Maine. Dr. Larch, who also provides medically safe, if illegal, abortions, runs the orphanage. Homer is Dr. Larch's favorite, and over the years, Dr. Larch trains Homer as his successor.…
    DVD, 2000Burbank, Calif. : Miramax Home Entertainment : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 2000. — DVD C
  • This gripping political thriller follows Madam Secretary, Dr. Elizabeth McCord as she navigates the maze of politics to protect America and affect global issues.
    DVD, 2015–[New York, NY] : Paramount Home Entertainment, c2015- — DVD TV MADAM