Tag: thriller
2024 Adult Reading Challenge! July
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2024/07/08/2024-adult-reading-challenge-july/
Adults! Welcome to year 3 of our year-long reading challenge. Explore different genres, discover new authors and be entered to win prizes. To complete the challenge, read just one book in each category by midnight on December 31st, 2024. Earn bigger prizes by reading...
Spotlight on Author Stuart Neville
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2021/11/16/spotlight-on-author-stuart-neville/
If you like Irish crime fiction, or you just want to find a new author, you should give Stuart Neville a try. Neville is a staff favorite (especially for one particular staff member), and has a great backlist to choose from. His newest, THE...
The Silent Patient
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2019/04/24/the-silent-patient/
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides Artist Alicia Berenson is accused of brutally shooting her husband, however, she will not speak, not even to defend herself. Her only voice is through her last painting which holds the key to this mystery and reveals a...
Pretty Girls
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2016/01/31/pretty-girls/
Title: Pretty Girls Author: Karin Slaughter Publisher: William Morrow, September 2015 *This book contains graphic descriptions of violence, particularly sexual violence against women, so be warned.* Summary/Review: I found this novel a somewhat interesting read because it describes good, bad, and even horrible relationships,...
Poppet
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2013/08/01/poppet/
Title: Poppet Author: Mo Hayder Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press, May 2013 Summary/Review: A thriller set in and around a psychiatric hospital? Creepy cover? Sign me up! Mo Hayder has outdone herself with her newest Jack Caffery thriller, Poppet. Psychiatric nurse AJ LeGrande believes that...