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Hello there! I am from India...its great to be a part of this forum!
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Welcome Gayatri! Just to echo what Sneezy said : If you look on the main page of this site you will find an entire section devoted to Crime, Thrillers & Mystery. I'm sure you will find many titles discussed there which might be of interest to you.
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Welcome, Gayatri!
Hi Gayatri, what kind of crime fiction do you like? Below are a few recent good ones:
Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation has some elements of sci fi. It's about a four-woman expedition (the biologist, the psychologist, the anthropologist, the surveyor), sent by a mysterious governmental agency, the Southern Reach, to Area X, which has been cut off from civilization for decades by an unexplained event. It's the first book in a trilogy; the next will be out later this year.
Andy Weir's The Martian involves an American astronaut, Mark Watney, who is accidentally left alone on Mars with no ability to communicate with Earth. It's pleasurably geeky and glints with black humor as Mark tells his journal how he's going about surviving until the next Mars mission lands in four years. Then NASA discovers he's alive and is determined to bring him home.
Chris Pavone's The Accident, set in the world of publishing, is just out. It features an explosive manuscript that has been handed anonymously to New York City literary agent Isabel Reed. Powerful people are willing to kill to get their hands on it before it's published.
The Ghost Apple by Aaron Thier is an imaginative literary mashup of satire and mysterious motives, set in academia, and composed of pseudo-historical letters, blog posts, emails, newsletters, advertisements, and even course listings. If you liked David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, you'll probably like this.
Ghostman by Roger Hobbs details a professional criminal fix-it man's attempt to straighten out a botched Atlantic City casino robbery. It's a rocket-propelled, dark first novel.
Out today is Owen Laukkanen's Kill Fee, the third in his series about a Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension agent and a special agent for the FBI. The series began with 2012's The Professionals, in which a group of recent University of Washington graduates decide to pull off a series of low-ransom kidnappings to fund their retirement in the Maldives. Needless to say, their well-laid plans go badly astray, and they end up on the run from both the Mob and the cops.
John le Carré's A Delicate Truth, published last year, concerns a messed-up British counterintelligence operation on Gibraltar.
I could go on, but if you let us know what your tastes are, we can come up with some tailor-made recommendations.
Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation has some elements of sci fi. It's about a four-woman expedition (the biologist, the psychologist, the anthropologist, the surveyor), sent by a mysterious governmental agency, the Southern Reach, to Area X, which has been cut off from civilization for decades by an unexplained event. It's the first book in a trilogy; the next will be out later this year.
Andy Weir's The Martian involves an American astronaut, Mark Watney, who is accidentally left alone on Mars with no ability to communicate with Earth. It's pleasurably geeky and glints with black humor as Mark tells his journal how he's going about surviving until the next Mars mission lands in four years. Then NASA discovers he's alive and is determined to bring him home.
Chris Pavone's The Accident, set in the world of publishing, is just out. It features an explosive manuscript that has been handed anonymously to New York City literary agent Isabel Reed. Powerful people are willing to kill to get their hands on it before it's published.
The Ghost Apple by Aaron Thier is an imaginative literary mashup of satire and mysterious motives, set in academia, and composed of pseudo-historical letters, blog posts, emails, newsletters, advertisements, and even course listings. If you liked David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, you'll probably like this.
Ghostman by Roger Hobbs details a professional criminal fix-it man's attempt to straighten out a botched Atlantic City casino robbery. It's a rocket-propelled, dark first novel.
Out today is Owen Laukkanen's Kill Fee, the third in his series about a Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension agent and a special agent for the FBI. The series began with 2012's The Professionals, in which a group of recent University of Washington graduates decide to pull off a series of low-ransom kidnappings to fund their retirement in the Maldives. Needless to say, their well-laid plans go badly astray, and they end up on the run from both the Mob and the cops.
John le Carré's A Delicate Truth, published last year, concerns a messed-up British counterintelligence operation on Gibraltar.
I could go on, but if you let us know what your tastes are, we can come up with some tailor-made recommendations.