Twenty Favorite Crime or Suspense Novels
(alphabetically by author)
Dare Me by Megan Abbott
Black Wings Has My Angel by Elliott Chaze
The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton
The Poison Oracle by Peter Dickinson
Faithful Place by Tana French
Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household
The Expendable Man by Dorothy B. Hughes
Bluff by Michael Kardos
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré
Sidetracked by Henning Mankell
Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me by Javier Marías
Fletch by Gregory Mcdonald
The City & the City by China Miéville
Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough
Invisible Hands by Stig Sæterbakken
Dirty Snow by Georges Simenon
Seven Demons by Aidan Truhen
The Shark-Infested Custard by Charles Willeford
— July 5, 2021