Best Suspense Novels?

RevisionIsTheKey · Jan 4, 2010

I need to read some suspense novels for a class I am taking and would like to hear recommendations you may have. I'm not interested in "mystery club" stories (no offense to any writers of same); the novels have to be the kind that have a good story but are also particularly strong in terms of imagery, diction, and craft. I suppose you could say people would want to read the book for the way the author writes as much as for the story. I'd be most interested in hearing about good books published in the past ten years.

Any and all ideas are welcome. :thankyou:

alleycat · Jan 4, 2010

I'll offer one "ringer". While it's not a suspense novel (or even a novel since it's primarily based on real events), but In Cold Blood reads much like a suspense novel. It's not about who did it (we know that just by reading a blurb for the book) but about why such a crime could have been committed, and the effects of the crime on a community, on the people investigating the crime, the friends of the victims, and on the killers themselves.

One suspense novel I might recommend is The Day of the Jackal, even though it was published several years ago.

Best Suspense Novels?

RevisionIsTheKey

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