FICTION -- Thrills and Suspense

Christine Falls
by Benjamin Black
Quirke, a Dublin pathologist with a prickly personality, is a widower. He drinks too much and spends too much time alone. Quirke is a character who grows on you, because he’s smart, eccentric and flawed, and also because he is relentless in finding the truth about the death of a young woman named Christine Falls, whose body turns up in his morgue one evening.
ISBN: 0312426321; Audiobook: 1427200726
–Suzanne Fisher


Child 44
by Tom Rob Smith
Leo, a Red Army war hero (and he has the photograph to prove it), works for the Soviet secret service. His dedication to his job starts to crack after he watches innocent people tortured into giving false confessions. His confusion increases when he’s assigned to investigate his own wife. A parallel plot involves a series of child murders Leo is ordered not to investigate. This thriller reads like a combination of Kafka, Martin Cruz Smith, and Dennis Lehane.
ISBN: 0446402389; Audiobook: 1600241598
–Suzanne Fisher


City of Thieves
by David Benioff
Kolya is the grandson of a Cossack, and Lev is the son of a Jewish poet. Arrested in wartime Leningrad, Kolya for desertion and Lev for plundering, their lives are spared by an NKVD colonel who offers to let them live if they bring him a dozen eggs for his daughter’s wedding cake – not a simple task in city under siege. In spite of the wartime horrors they witness and the seeming impossibility of their task, Kolya never loses his optimism. This is a book with heart.
ISBN: 0670018708; Audiobook: 0143143476
–Suzanne Fisher


Killing Rommel
by Steven Pressfield
This absorbing military thriller is based on the real life story of the Long Range Desert Group, an elite WWII British Special Forces unit whose mission was to destroy Rommel’s Afrika Korps. Pressfield captures the adrenaline and fear of battle and the camaraderie of the brave men whose mission was so dangerous they knew many of them would die so realistically you will forget it’s fiction.
ISBN:0385519702; Audiobook: 142818077X
–Suzanne Fisher