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Gwendy’s Magic Feather – Stephen King (2019)

Gwendy’s Magic Feather by Richard Chizmar follows Gwendy Peterson as she faces new challenges when the mysterious button box from her past resurfaces with greater stakes.

Michael Crichton

Adventure Science Fiction Thriller

Disclosure – Michael Crichton (1994)

A corporate executive is falsely accused, and only cutting-edge technology can expose the truth in a battle where power, ambition, and perception collide.

John Grisham

Mystery Thriller

The Associate – John Grisham (2009)

A brilliant law graduate is blackmailed into corporate espionage, forcing him to choose between a shattered future and a daring fight for truth.

Ken Follett

Historical Mystery Thriller

Never – Ken Follett (2021)

A global crisis ignites from a chain of rational choices, pushing world leaders toward nuclear war in a chillingly plausible tale of politics, power, and peril.

John Grisham

Mystery Thriller

The Appeal – John Grisham (1969)

A courtroom victory sparks a ruthless power struggle as corporate greed, political ambition, and the fragile hope of justice collide in a battle far beyond the law.

Daphne du Maurier

Classics Historical Mystery

Jamaica Inn – Daphne du Maurier (1936)

A lone woman faces secrets, smuggling, and murder on the windswept moors, where darkness creeps through stone walls and no soul is safe from the lies that bind them.

John Grisham

Mystery

Playing for Pizza – John Grisham (2007)

A disgraced quarterback escapes to Italy, where football is played for passion, not fame - and discovers that redemption can be found in the unlikeliest of places.

Ken Follett

Historical Romance Thriller

A Dangerous Fortune – Ken Follett (1993)

A deadly schoolboy secret fuels decades of betrayal, ambition, and revenge in Victorian London’s ruthless world of banking and power.

Michael Crichton

Adventure Science Fiction Thriller

Rising Sun – Michael Crichton (1992)

A murder in a Japanese corporate tower sparks a tense clash of cultures, secrets, and power as a detective duo races to expose truth buried beneath diplomacy and deceit.

Stephen King

Psychological Thriller

Blaze – Stephen King (2007)

Blaze by Stephen King, published under Richard Bachman, follows a mentally impaired conman who embarks on a desperate and tragic plan to kidnap a wealthy baby.