Seattle Picks: Mystery and Thriller
Crime fiction, mysteries and thrillers –- there are so many good books published each year that sometimes it’s hard to know where to start. Here is a list of 35 books chosen by our librarians that will keep you up late reading. (Created March 2022.)
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Dead Dead Girls
“After a raid on a Manhattan speakeasy in 1926 Harlem, Louise Lloyd is given the opportunity to avoid jail by helping to solve the murders of several local black girls.” -- NoveList
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Exit
“In Bauer's darkly comic thriller, an elderly widower discovers no good deed goes unpunished when his act of charity goes horribly wrong. A touching crime novel that explores the nature of life and death with heart and soul.” -- Kirkus
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Good Rich People
"A wealthy couple who invite successful entrepreneurs to live in their guesthouse -- and then conspire to ruin their life for sport -- meet their match when Demi, a woman who took over another person’s identity, moves in." -- NoveList
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A Tourist's Guide to Murder
“A Michigan mystery author and bookshop owner’s trip to England entangles her in a real-life murder. Cozy fans get two mysteries for the price of one: The intuitive heroine finishes her novel and solves a murder.” -- Kirkus
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When No One Is Watching
Researching the history of her historically Black – but swiftly gentrifying – Brooklyn neighborhood, Sydney Green discovers a sinister truth behind the recent displacement of longtime neighborhood residents.
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Razorblade Tears
“A lean, mean crime story about two bereaved fathers getting their hands bloody.” -- Kirkus
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Finlay Donovan Is Killing It
“A suburban Virginia divorcée struggles with that classic dilemma: What should she do when she’s offered a fat paycheck to kill a complete stranger?” -- Kirkus
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Never
In this geopolitical thriller, a U.S. president facing a contentious reelection campaign must juggle foreign and domestic threats and complex international alliances in an effort to avoid all-out war with China.
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Gathering Dark
When a prison friend asks recently paroled ex-surgeon Blair Harbour for helping finding her missing daughter, Blair is thrust into a world of gang leaders and corrupt cops, and only LAPD detective Jessica Sanchez – the very woman who put Blair away for murder 11 years earlier - can help.
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Like A Sister
“When her estranged ex–reality-star younger sister turns up shoeless and dead of an overdose on a Bronx playground, Lena Scott has to prove to herself—and everyone else—that it was not an accident.” -- Kirkus
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