2024 is the year for some pulse-pounding adventures for crime thriller enthusiasts. This popular genre explores the dark side of humanity marred by morally dubious behaviors, deception, and deceit. The lethal blend of suspense, thrill, and guessing games makes reading these stories enjoyable.
Experiencing a high-stakes situation with action-packed sequences, the crime-thriller novels keep you on your toes. These stories are compelling, engaging, immersive, and intriguing, the essence and themes for which the crime thriller genre is known.
With numerous crime thrillers this year, Here we’d elaborate on our favorite picks. Check out the top three books you should read this year.
Sanctuary by Garry Disher
Sanctuary is a standalone novel set in South Australia, written by one of the esteemed Australian crime authors, Garry Disher. Compared to his previous works, Sanctuary offers a unique perspective and takes a different approach. It follows the story of Grace, a thief or, should you say, a master pilferer who experts have taught since she was a child.
She specializes in small but high-value heists. Grace has an eye for valuables and can easily tell a Jaeger-LeCoultre from a Patek Philippe. But her life is lonely and monotonous, not the one she desires.
After encountering an old associate, Grace leads a grounded life and eventually finds herself in Erin Mandel’s quaint antique shop. She sees it as an opportunity for a different life, a home. But someone is looking for Erin, and someone is also looking for Grace, too; they are both very dangerous men in their ways.
Long Time Gone by Charlie Donlea
Charlie Donlea’s latest novel, Long Time Gone, is a quirky, twisty, yet interesting tale about a family’s mysterious disappearance. The story revolves around Dr. Sloan Hastings, a brilliant forensic pathologist studying under Dr. Livia Cutty. As part of her research project, Sloan reluctantly submits her DNA online to a genealogy website despite being happy with her adoptive family. She did not want to seek out her biological parents, but the results she received were shocking.
Sloan’s DNA matches that of Charlotte Margolis, infamously known as “Baby Charlotte,” who vanished along with her parents without leaving a trace in July 1995. This shocking revelation propels Sloan to travel to Cedar Creek, Nevada, where the Margolis family disappeared. There, she meets Sheriff Eric Stamos, whose father died under suspicious circumstances while investigating the Margolis family case.
The small town is still heavily influenced by the powerful Margolis family as Sloan and Eric join forces, hoping to unravel the mystery of her past and suspicion around Eric’s father’s death.
You Better Not Get Old by Yomi Akinode
In this suspenseful and bone-chilling global thriller by Yomi Akinode, an FBI agent, Berlin Yords, finds herself on the frontlines of an extraordinary crisis. The author uses his creative writing prowess to engage his readers and leave them guessing what will happen next. He blends horror, thrill, and suspense in his latest unputdownable offering, mesmerizing the readers with every page turn. The multi-layered plot, characters, and themes remain relevant and resonate with the readers as the mysterious events unfold. The novel takes a unique approach to highlight the significance of contemporary issues facing the world to such an extent that they have triggered a paradigm shift in the socio-political and economic fabric of the international community.
Lying in an Israeli village orchard, she aims at Goram Naphtali, a former Knesset member turned international fugitive. Naphtali is thought to be the mastermind behind a series of unwarranted disappearances—of many 70-year-olds at a global scale—an event that has thrown the global community into turmoil.
As panic spreads, U.S. President Bender Castle exerts diplomatic pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Aram Marzheim to crack down on THE ORDER, a Tel Aviv-based zealot organization believed to be at the heart of the conspiracy. The disappearances, initially centered in Tel Aviv, have now expanded globally, inciting widespread fear and chaos. Communities worldwide struggle to protect their elderly while governments grapple with a looming and unprecedented threat.
Amidst this upheaval, scientists are racing against time to decipher the alien technology that is believed to trigger these vanishings. Their efforts gain new momentum when a missing 70-year-old individual mysteriously reappears, plummeting from the sky above the White House and landing among protesters decrying the U.S. government’s mishandling of the crisis.
As the world teeters on the brink of paranoia and disorder, the young and often underestimated Agent Berlin Yords finds herself in a high-stakes situation that demands professional understanding, loyalty, and determination. Her mission is to uncover the truth behind the disappearances and prevent further chaos before this alien technology can wreak more havoc on a world already pushed to its limits.
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