Tag Archives: Thriller
348W: Who Kidnapped Toddler?
British psychological thriller, probably 2019. Small child disappears from yard while young mother carelessly supervises her playtime. Meanwhile, a married woman is in a relationship which begins to reveal itself as rather strange and secretive. Her evasive husband becomes a suspect when coworker points finger in his direction, but his alibi is that his delivery route is far from the kidnapping site. Clues and suspicions build until his wife can no longer avoid suspecting his cagey behavior and question his guilt.
344G: Backstabbing (Literally?) Females At Dream Beach House (Solved!)
340L: The Woman Who Can See Killers In Photographs (Solved!)
This is the plot of the book. In the story a woman has to go to her brother’s town because he is murdered. She finds out that she has a special gift in that when she looks at photographs she can see a killer. She can also see how the killer will kill someone. Her brother had this gift and was killed because of it. She meets a woman (can’t remember if this woman was a police officer or some kind of specialist) who believes in her gift. Later this woman who helps her is killed along with the rest of her family. Later a man who I think is some kind of specialist who knows about this gift meets her and helps her. He is trying to find other people who have this gift. He asks her to look at a photograph and she sees a killer and is able to tell him that this killer will I think plant a bomb somewhere. At the end it seems like this man is killed but he survives and is rushed back to his home which I think is in another country. The woman is not told that this man has survived.
I cannot remember the title or author of this book. I want to read any sequels that are written.
I hope you are able to help me.
328F: Terrorist plot foiled by mismatched federal agents
I listened to an audiobook from a library a couple years ago and have been searching for several years for it, but have been unable to find it. The library has torn itself apart trying to find it and I have physically gone through every audiobook but still can’t find it.
325F: Disappearing Girlfriend’s Sister Turns Out To Be The Missing Woman
I recently read a book, it was a “psychological thriller”. Basically there was a guy from Ireland (calling him Shane) who had moved to England and stayed with a male friend. Shane got a girlfriend who was lost in London and he took her under his wing. They eventually went away together and on the way back, they stopped at a rest stop and he told the police she went missing while he was in the rest stop bathroom.
Shane was initially questioned as she was never found but never charged with her murder. The London flatmate eventually suggests that they put a bench out in honor of the missing girl. The girls sister shows at this event. Eventually Shane and the missing girl’s sister connect and become engaged. Once it becomes announced in the paper, odd things start to happen, including the leaving of the small inside of a Russian nesting doll all over the place for Shane and fiancee to find.
Eventually, we find that the fiancee is actually the missing girl and that her sister had actually died years ago by her abusive dad in some small, hard to get to island town.
Any idea what this book is?
307N: Expat parents killed in Africa
Published pre 2006, probably UK author.
In the prologue, a UK expat family is somewhere in Africa, and the parents are suddenly killed, I think in a helicopter crash that turns out not to be an accident. The children sounded interesting, but they aren’t very relevant to the rest of the story.
The rest of the story focuses on a single male protagonist, in his 30s or 40s, probably the brother of the woman who was killed. He is drawn into some international conspiracy, is at some physical peril, and solves things.
I thought it was by Sam Llewellyn but I can’t find it on his website. It has that kind of feel – like Sam Llewellyn or Dick Francis or the Canadian Jon Evans, a likeable but lonely amateur accidentally falling into a crime network.
In the mass market paperback edition I read in Canada in the late 1990s or early 2000s, the cover might have had a silhouette of a tree on a yellowish sky, and the title might have been Under the (some variety of exotic) Tree.
295H: A plot to take over the world
International bankers corner all the markets and plot to take over the world. I read it in the 70s or 80s and I think it might have been a Robert Ludlum book.
273A: A thrilling debut (Solved!)
Looking for a book by a first time author, Harvard grad. Outstanding effort. I believe it was a political or medical thriller. A car (limo or cab) explodes in an assassination attempt but there’s no debris, just vapor or dust. That’s one scene, not sure it’s the actual plot. Late 1990s.