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Recommended Reading: Thrillers

 

 

 • Adventure     • Legal     • Medical     • Political       

 • Psychological      • Techno     • See also Romantic Suspense

 

Adventure
Single Titles
The Assassin  Rachel Butler
Dirty White Boys  Stephen Hunter
The Eight  Katherine Neville
The Fifth Profession  David Morell
The Flanders Panel  Arturo Perez-Reverte  
The Givenchy Code  Julie Kenner
The Grail Conspiracy  Lynne Sholes & Joe Moore
Ice Hunt  James Rollins
Ice Station  Matt Reilly
The Last Templar  Raymond Khoury
The Rule of Four  Ian Caldwell
The Sea Runners  Ivan Doig
 
Popular Authors
Ted Bell
Dan Brown
Lincoln Child
Michael Crichton
Clive Cussler
C.S. Forester
Douglas Preston
Wilbur Smith
 

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Legal (see also Mysteries - Lawyers)
Single Titles
Act of God  Susan Sloan
The Blood of Angels  Reed Arvin
Blood on the Leaves  Jeff Stetson
The Color of Law  Mark Giminez
The Fifth Angel  Tim Green
The Finishing School  Michele Martinez
High Crimes  Joseph Finder
In Her Defense  Stephen Horn
In the Shadow of the Law  Kermit Roosevelt
Life Sentence  David Ellis
The Lincoln Lawyer  Michael Connelly
The Mayor of Lexington Avenue  James Sheehan
The Nosy Neighbor  Fern Michaels
One True Thing  Doreen Rainey
Plain Truth  Jodi Picoult
Primal Fear  William Diehl
The Quiet Game  Greg Iles
Solomon VS Lord  Paul Levine
Tell Me Your Dreams  Sidney Sheldon
 
Popular Authors
David Baldacci
William Bernhardt
Dominick Dunne
John Lescroart
James Grippando
John Grisham
Phillip Margolin
Steve Martini
Brad Meltzer
Peri O'Shaughnessy
Richard North Patterson
Lisa Scottoline
Robert K. Tanenbaum
Scott Turow
Kate Wilhelm
Stuart Woods
 

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Medical
Single Titles
Brainwaves  Leonard Goldberg
The Cobra Event  Richard Preston
The Cure  David Shobin
The Devil's Cure  Kenneth Oppel
The Devil's Workshop  Stephen Cannell
Do No Harm  Gregg Andrew Hurwitz
Doctored Evidence  Michael Biehl
Fear Nothing  Dean Koontz
The First Horseman  John Case
The Footprints of God  Greg Iles
The Genesis Code  John Case
Indelible  Karin Slaughter
Isolation Ward  Joshua Spanogle
The Madman's Tale  John Katzenbach
Mind Catcher  John Darnton
Pandora's Box  John J. Nance
Plum Island  Nelson DeMille
When the Wind Blows  James Patterson
Wrongful Death  Baine Kerr
 
Popular Authors
Peter Clement
Robin Cook
Patricia Cornwell
Michael Crichton
Ken Follett
Tess Gerritsen
Leonard S. Goldberg
Michael Palmer
Kathy Reichs
Stephen White
F. Paul Wilson
 

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Political  (see also Mysteries - Political)
Single Titles
Area 7  Matthew Reilly
Best Laid Plans  Sidney Sheldon
Capital Crimes  Stuart Woods
Chain of Command  Caspar Weinberger & Peter Schweizer
The Cold Six Thousand  James Ellroy
The Devil's Bed  William Kent Krueger
End of State  Neesa Hart
Free Fall  Kyle Mills
A God in Ruins  Leon Uris
Inside Ring  Michael Lawson
A Long Day For Dying  Patrick A. Davis
The Manchurian Candidate  Richard Condon
The Pardon  James Grippando
The President's Assassin  Brian Haig
The Scorpion's Gate  Richard A. Clarke
Shot  Phillip Kerr
Whirlwind  Joseph Garber
 
Popular Authors
David Baldacci
Tom Clancy
Stephen Coonts
Vince Flynn
Stephen Frey
Tim Green
Jack Higgins
Stephen Horn
Oliver North
Richard North Patterson
Joel C. Rosenberg
 

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Psychological
Single Titles
Acid Row  Minette Walters
Blood Junction  Caroline Carver
Cyanide Wells  Marcia Muller
Denial  Keith Ablow
Derailed  James Siegel
Freedomland  Richard Price
The Horned Man  James Lasdun
Into the Blue  Robert Goddard
The Intruder  Peter Blauner
Just One Look  Harlan Coben
Pilgrim  Timothy Findley
Pyro  Earl Emerson
The Secret History  Donna Tartt
Shutter Island  Dennis Lehane
Thirteen Steps Down  Ruth Rendell
Vanishing Acts  Jodi Picoult
 
Popular Authors
V.C. Andrews
John Case
Mary Higgins Clark
Michael Connelly
Patricia Cornwell
Jeffery Deaver
Thomas Harris
Gerg Iles
Jonathan Kellerman
Stephen King
Dean Koontz
John Sandford
John Saul
 

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Techno
Single Titles
The Blue Nowhere  Jeffrey Deaver
Call to Duty  Richard Herman,
Choosers of the Slain  James Cobb
Cold Fall  John Gardner
Cryptonomicon  Neal Stephenson
Darwin's Children  Greg Bear
The Day Before Midnight  Stephen Hunter
Deep Sound Channel  Joe Buff
The Hammer of Eden  Ken Follett
The Hanged Man's Son  John Sandford
Killing Time  Caleb Carr
Medusa's Child  John J. Nance
Runaway Heart  Stephen J. Cannell
Sword Point  Harold Coyle
The Truth Machine  James Halperin
User I.D.  Jennifer Shute
Vortex  Larry Bond
Voyage of the Devilfish  Michael DiMercurio
The War in 2020  Ralph Peters
 
Popular Authors
Dale Brown
Dan Brown
Lincoln Child
Tom Clancy
Stephen Coonts
Michael Crichton
Clive Cussler
Greg Dinallo
Patrick Robinson

 

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