The Most Popular Mysteries & Thrillers in America (Part 2)
Have you heard about The Great American Read on PBS? It’s aimed at finding—you guessed it—the great American read out of a list of 100 titles voted for by readers across the country. Here are eight of the best mysteries and thrillers on the list—but if you want even more, we’ve got a list of 9 more fantastic reads on The Great American Read list.
Susie Salmon is not your average teen girl. For starters, she's dead. And in her own version of heaven, which is a lot like her school's playground. In Alice Sebold's heartbreakingly lovely novel, Susie recounts the horrible events that led to her murder, as she watches over her family as they carry on with their lives, and follows the case as they search for her killer.
A supernatural thriller about faith, The Shack is the story of a murdered girl and her grieving father. Four years after Mack's daughter, Missy, was murdered, a note claiming to be from God arrives, inviting Mack back to the shack where the murder possibly took place. What Mack finds at the shack will test his beliefs and change everything he knows about the world and his place in it.
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