Mystery or Espionage? Choose Your Next Thriller

What kind of question keeps you reading?

A detective story asks you to follow an investigation. An espionage novel takes you into a world of hidden intentions and competing loyalties. A relationship-driven mystery may be as interested in the people keeping a secret as in the secret itself.

For the investigation.

Michael Connelly’s Nightshade follows Detective Stilwell as a body discovered near Catalina Island draws him into a murder inquiry. For a darker French crime story, explore Pierre Lemaitre’s Alex.

For international intrigue.

The Persian, by David McCloskey, explores modern intelligence and surveillance. John Grisham’s The French Illusion begins with a honeymoon kidnapping and an investigation crossing borders.

These are editorial starting points. Follow the description that makes you curious, and save another possibility to your TBR for later.