International Students Guide: Thriller /Suspense /Mystery

Since the mysterious death of four family members, the superstitious Mary Katherine "Merricat" Blackwood, her ailing uncle Julian, and agoraphobic sister Constance have lived in a bizarre but contented state of isolation. But when cousin Charles arrives in search of the Blackwood fortune, a terrible family secret is revealed. Unsettling, this is a novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the dramatic struggle that ensues when an unexpected visitor interrupts their unusual way of life.

Jason Dessen, a quantum physicist, once had a brilliant research career ahead of him. But after a girlfriend’s unexpected pregnancy and the birth of a son, this future was derailed. Now Jason is a professor at a small Chicago college, content with his warm and loving family life until he’s abducted into the world in which his quantum many-worlds theory has become a fully realized technology for inter-dimensional transfer. In this world, Jason didn’t marry his girlfriend and never had a son. Jason is determined to get back to his family and his own world, but nefarious powers in an alternate reality conspire to stop him from revealing the criminal lengths they have gone to create the world-hopping technology. Fantastically terrifying, this sc-fi thriller will confront its readers far past the last sentence.

This is a story of 10 strangers, each lured to Indian Island by a mysterious host. Once his guests have arrived, the host accuses each person of murder. Unable to leave the island, the guests begin to share their darkest secrets--until they begin to die. Which among them is the killer and will any of them survive? According to Time magazine, it is praised as “ One of the most ingenious thrillers in many a day.”

Awakening in a Florence hospital with no memory of the preceding 36 hours, Langdon and an attractive attending physician with an oversized intellect are immediately pursued by an ominous underground organization and the Italian police. Relying on a deceased villain's trail of clues threaded through the text of Dante's The Divine Comedy, the duo attempt to unravel the events leading up to Langdon's amnesia and thwart a global genocide scheme. Involving a lot of history and art into the story, Dan Brown draws us in with his appealing tale INFERNO.

On the day of their fifth wedding anniversary, Nick's wife Amy disappears. There are signs of a struggle in the house and Nick quickly becomes the prime suspect. It doesn't help that Nick hasn't been completely honest with the police and, as Amy's case drags out for weeks, more and more vilifying evidence appears against him. Nick, however, maintains his innocence. Darkly funny and at times moving, Gillian Flynn invites us to see the wonderful and damaged characters all at once.

Conan Doyle’s incomparable tales bring to life a Victorian England of horse-drawn cabs, fogs, and the famous lodgings at 221B Baker Street, where for more than forty years Sherlock Holmes earned his undisputed reputation as the greatest fictional detective of all time.Volume I starts with the early novel A Study in Scarlet, which introduced the eccentric genius of Sherlock Holmes to the world.
Volume II begins with The Hound of the Baskervilles, a haunting novel of murder on eerie Grimpen Moor, which has rightly earned its reputation as the finest murder mystery ever written.

Sixteen people were gathered to read Samuel W. Westing’s will when Bizarre events soon unwind. Who is this host? Is he even alive? No one knows why the eccentric, game-loving millionaire has chosen a virtual stranger - and a possible murderer - to inherit his vast fortune. The Westing Game allows the readers to see the story from different views with a wide cast of characters, each of whom has his or her own narrative, as opposed to the mystery series that focus only on the detective’s perspective. An interesting and fun mystery that gets its readers fully involved.