Since its release, there has been a crazy influx of similar books trying to mimic its greatness. Gone Girl is truly the book that elevated the genre of domestic thriller. Others might be completely foreign and outside of your comfort zone, but that’s the whole fun of a thriller, isn’t it? We can’t keep up the suspense any longer, so here’s the 10 best crime and thriller books of the past decade. Some of these books would be familiar to you, having achieved so much success they were adapted into movies and TV shows. There is also the increasingly prevalent element of the unreliable narrator adding to the uncertainty of the events that unfold, leaving the reader unsure of who exactly is the guilty party.
Thrillers are just as popular now as they were years ago, with new writers joining the game, mainly contributing to the domestic suspense fictional spaces. Lives depend on her cracking this case-hers included.Crime never stops, and neither does the crime genre. As her investigation gets darker and darker, Roxane will have to risk everything to find the truth. The stakes get higher as Roxane discovers that the two girls may not be the only beautiful blonde teenagers who've turned up missing or dead. But Roxane finds herself drawn in to the story of Sarah's vanishing act, especially when she links the disappearance to one of her father's unsolved murder cases involving another teen girl. Still reeling from the recent death of her cop father in the line of duty, her main way of dealing with her grief has been working as little and drinking as much as possible. Willing to try anything, she hires PI Roxane Weary to look at the case and see if she can locate Sarah.īrad might be in a bad way, but private investigator Roxane Weary isn't doing so hot herself. His execution is only weeks away when his devoted sister insists she spied Sarah at an area gas station. Though he's maintained his innocence all along, the clock is running out. Her boyfriend Brad Stockton-black and from the wrong side of the tracks-was convicted of the murders and is now on death row. The beautiful blonde teenager disappeared fifteen years ago, the same night her parents were brutally murdered in their suburban Ohio home. Nobody knows what happened to Sarah Cook. Let's hope there are more Roxane Weary novels on the way."- Booklist (starred review)Ģ018 Shamus Award Winner and Best First Novel Nominee for the Anthony and Macavity Awards, The Last Place You Look is a head-on collision between an allegedly closed case and a tenacious, troubled private investigator who doesn't know when to quit. "Roxane is a wonderfully complex character.This is a remarkably accomplished debut mystery, with sensitive character development and a heart-stopping denouement.
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