What is your favorite mystery or thriller novel?

Question

I'm looking for something good to read. Series are fine, but I would just like to know the one (1) title of the book you liked the best.

Answer 1

The door to december by Dean Koontz.A psychiatrist's daughter was kidnapped by her ex-husband years ago. When the daughter is finally found, the real fight begins. One by one the people who held her captive become mysteriously tortured and killed. Everyone is afraid the young girl will be next.

The mystery unravels as to what happened to the young girl while she was kidnapped. The young girl, Melanie, is unable to speak, but her mother soon learns that the young girl went through extreme torture as her father used her for a rat in his experiments.

Read Odd thomas,Forever odd and Brother Odd by Dean Koontz.These books are about Odd Thomas who see dead people and is compelled to solve crimes.

The Vivero letter by Desmond Bagley.Jeremy Wheale's well-ordered life is torn apart when his brother is murdered by a mob hit man, whose bait was a family heirloom - a sixteenth-century gold tray. The trail takes Wheale from Devon to Mexico and the wild tropical rain forests of Yucatan. In dense jungle, he helps two archaeologists locate the rest of a fabled hoard of gold - treasure from Uaxuanoc, the centuries-old lost city of the Mayas. But his brother's enemies are on Wheale's trail, and with them are the Chicleros, a vicious band of convict mercenaries.

Landslide by Desmond Bagley.Bob Boyd wakes up in a hospital with no memory,the only surviver of an accident.He was burned badly all over and needed extensive plastic surgery which was payed by a mysterious sponser.He is told that he's a geology student with a bad past.However Bob recovers and gets on with his life.Hired by the powerful Matterson Corporation to survey land before they build a great new dam, he begins to uncover the shaky foundations of the Matterson family and becomes a fly in their ointment.His accident and the Matterson family have more in common than he thought.

Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum.Forget the movie.The book is the real article."The Bourne identity" is the story of a man without a past, rescued from the Mediterranean Sea by some fishermen. He is very ill, and his body has suffered the impact of many bullets. The man is taken by the fishermen to a doctor in a nearby island, who helps him to recover physically and mentally. Our protagonist doesn't remember who he is, but with the help of the doctor he finds some clues he doesn't like too much. He only knows for certain some things, for instance that his face has been altered by plastic surgery, that he knows a lot about firearms and that he carried on him a microfilm that contains the code to an account of four million dollars.

In the Swiss bank where the account is he also finds a name: Jason Bourne. But... is he Jason Bourne?. He cannot remember, and if it were for quite a few people, he won't. From the moment he leaves the island onwards, our man without a past will be followed, and attacked. He doesn't understand why, but he reacts in order to stay alive. Add to this already interesting mixture a woman he takes as a hostage, Marie, a number of assasins (including the most famous assassin in the world, Carlos), and the possibility that he is, as a matter of fact, also an assassin, and you will understand why this book is so good. The main character will be hunted all throughout the book not only by the "bad guys", but also by the "good" ones (mainly agents from the USA Government). You won't be able to stop reading this book, and you will find yourself asking aloud to nobody in particular "who on earth is this man?" and "what started this whole mess"?.
Warning:A character gets raped.

A good supernatural detective series is Nightside book series by Simon R.Green.John Taylor, the main character, is a private eye specializing in finding things. He literally has a private eye, one he can open and find anything. This power only works in the nightside, but anytime he opens it, his enemies (and he does not know who they are, but they have been hunting him since he was young) pick up on his presence like his gift is a homing devise. He as quite a reputation, some of which is true, some not and it gets him into trouble, or sometimes out of it, but it is the fact that some of it has nothing to do with him so much as that he is his mother's son. A mother he never knew and no one will tell him about. One big case is covered in each book, but underlying tensions build up higher and higher running through out the series.

Answer 2

Richard North Patterson's "Degree of Guilt" and "Eyes of a Child." Both books are connected in terms of story line, but they can also be read independently. Patterson is VERY good at writing an involving and thrilling mystery. Good Luck!

Answer 3

Hey Same here :) I love Linwood Barclay - 'No Time for Goodbye' is the most amazing book I've read. 'Too Close to Home' is also a great book by him. They both have the interesting plot, developed characters, suspense, twists and great ending. You might also want to try the Bourne Series by Robert Ludlum, if you haven't already. Hope that helps ~ JLT

Answer 4

well. I think my favorite book is Bag of Bones by Stephan King. You might like that if you like Stephan. He's a good writer, very thought provoking, or if not that there's "Shall We Tell The President?" written in 1981, about the fictious plot to assessinate President Edward Kennedy.

Answer 5

I have one for both of your interests. "And Then There Were None" (or "10 Little Indians") is the mystery and it is by Agatha Christie and she has authored many mysteries so if you like it, it is easy to find more. And the thriller is Thr3e by Tedd Dekker who also has written many books. Hope you enjoy...

Answer 6

The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe

Answer 7

Anything by Tess Gerritson, Robert Parker, Carl Hiaasen,James Patterson or Jeffery Deaver
Can't pick a favourite - I read them all.

Answer 8

The Bad Place by Dean Koontz

Answer 9

James Patterson, John Sanford, and a very good one that I just read is Gone for Good by Harlan Coben. It is a real rollercoaster.

Answer 10

" Rebecca " by Daphne du Maurier.

Riveting.