1
door Henry Farrell
318 leden
14 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Score 9.11
Toegevoegd 2015-10-07, 01:44 PM
- 3 Members
- sturlington, SomeGuyInVirginia, ManWithAnAgenda
- Verklaringen
- SomeGuyInVirginia: A classic, and to some a religious text (and you know who you are.)
2
- 3 Members
- sturlington, bluepiano, Stepn
- Verklaringen
- bluepiano: Sorry, none of my entries meets the 250-page spec, but this one's full-fat cheese: lurid, many dead, death by swine, violent titled people in the mysterious Baltic, general preposterousness. But fun to read. Once.Stepn: Harris often gets unfairly damned simply for being reliably entertaining. I wish they`d give him a 007 novel to write.
3
door Dennis Lehane
7,498 leden
299 besprekingen
3.9
Score 6.65
Toegevoegd 2015-10-07, 01:55 PM
- 3 Members
- sturlington, SomeGuyInVirginia, Stepn
- Verklaringen
- SomeGuyInVirginia: As good as the hype.
4
door William March
862 leden
30 besprekingen
3.9
Score 6.08
Toegevoegd 2015-10-07, 01:44 PM
- 2 Members
- craso, SomeGuyInVirginia
- Verklaringen
- SomeGuyInVirginia: Children shouldn't play with matches...especially this little girl.
5
door Anne Rivers Siddons
1,158 leden
45 besprekingen
3.8
Score 5.67
Toegevoegd 2015-10-07, 03:47 PM
- 2 Members
- sturlington, SomeGuyInVirginia
- Verklaringen
- SomeGuyInVirginia: Welcome, fiend. Enter freely and of your own free will!
6
- 2 Members
- dara85, SomeGuyInVirginia
- Verklaringen
- SomeGuyInVirginia: Was everybody in this town crazy?
7
door Iain Banks
7,067 leden
200 besprekingen
3.8
Score 5.5
Toegevoegd 2018-11-06, 05:42 AM
- 2 Members
- sturlington, Stepn
- Verklaringen
- Stepn: High jinks in the Highlands.
8
- 2 Members
- sturlington, bluepiano
- Verklaringen
- bluepiano: Fairly interesting but silly & shallow. Another protagonist who's much too fond of mummy.
9
- 2 Members
- sturlington, bluepiano
- Verklaringen
- bluepiano: What could be more novel than death by VHS tape?
10
- 2 Members
- sturlington, SomeGuyInVirginia
- Verklaringen
- SomeGuyInVirginia: When Amanda was a little girl she had an imaginary friend. Now her friend is back...and there's hell to pay!
11
door Patrick Redmond
383 leden
4 besprekingen
3.9
Score 4.32
Toegevoegd 2015-10-08, 05:18 PM
- 2 Members
- SomeGuyInVirginia, ManWithAnAgenda
- Verklaringen
- SomeGuyInVirginia: You'll wish you hadn't!
12
door Scott Smith
1,887 leden
58 besprekingen
3.9
Score 4.18
Toegevoegd 2018-02-05, 11:07 AM
- 2 Members
- sturlington, SomeGuyInVirginia
- Verklaringen
- SomeGuyInVirginia: Simply wonderful!
13
- 2 Members
- sturlington, SomeGuyInVirginia
- Verklaringen
- SomeGuyInVirginia: If you read only one Vatican vampire assassin book this year, make it this one.
14
door Bernard Cornwell
1,280 leden
19 besprekingen
4
Score 4
Toegevoegd 2018-11-06, 05:23 AM
15
- Member
- ManWithAnAgenda
- Verklaringen
- ManWithAnAgenda: Absolute delight. If "satisfying" is the missing ingredient to anyone's cheese, this should do the trick.
16
door Laird Koenig
262 leden
8 besprekingen
½ 3.6
Score 4
Toegevoegd 2016-03-09, 09:30 PM
17
- Member
- SomeGuyInVirginia
- Verklaringen
- SomeGuyInVirginia: Houdini and Doyle can't stop the killing...once upon a midnight dreary!
18
door Jack Kerley
546 leden
14 besprekingen
½ 3.6
Score 3.57
Toegevoegd 2015-10-07, 01:56 PM
- 2 Members
- SomeGuyInVirginia, Stepn
- Verklaringen
- SomeGuyInVirginia: I'm a fan of the Carson Ryder series.
19
door Graham Masterton
324 leden
13 besprekingen
½ 3.6
Score 3.36
Toegevoegd 2016-03-09, 10:01 PM
20
door Charles Willeford
159 leden
4 besprekingen
½ 3.5
Score 3.36
Toegevoegd 2015-10-07, 04:13 PM
21
22
- Member
- ManWithAnAgenda
- Verklaringen
- ManWithAnAgenda: There needs to be a Stine on this list, and this one's a peach.
23
door Thomas Tessier
112 leden
2 besprekingen
½ 3.3
Score 3.04
Toegevoegd 2015-10-07, 04:14 PM
24
25
26
27
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- SomeGuyInVirginia
- Verklaringen
- SomeGuyInVirginia: Who's killing her little darling's rivals?
28
door Philippa Gregory
2,231 leden
52 besprekingen
½ 3.3
Score 2.68
Toegevoegd 2018-11-08, 10:37 AM
29
door Jonathan L. Howard
1,779 leden
91 besprekingen
3.9
Score 2.68
Toegevoegd 2015-10-07, 01:45 PM
- Member
- SomeGuyInVirginia
- Verklaringen
- SomeGuyInVirginia: Johannes is one doctor you don't want to call.
30
- Member
- ManWithAnAgenda
31
door Don Pendleton
285 leden
8 besprekingen
½ 3.4
Score 2.56
Toegevoegd 2018-11-08, 10:40 AM
32
door Helen Fitzgerald
60 leden
2 besprekingen
4
Score 2.56
Toegevoegd 2015-10-07, 01:46 PM
- Member
- SomeGuyInVirginia
- Verklaringen
- SomeGuyInVirginia: I think I just read a YA novel.
33
door Shane Stevens
247 leden
5 besprekingen
4
Score 2.46
Toegevoegd 2015-10-07, 04:27 PM
- Member
- bluepiano
- Verklaringen
- bluepiano: Wildly over-long for this list & Stevens isn't by any means a mediocre writer--but what seems to be attempt at a character study is over-colourful & over-inclusive. To be fair, a spate of killings near the end that seems thoroughly OTT is much like one of Ted Bundy's final crimes though the book would have been written first.
34
door Fredric Brown
241 leden
10 besprekingen
3.9
Score 2.46
Toegevoegd 2015-10-07, 01:46 PM
- Member
- SomeGuyInVirginia
- Verklaringen
- SomeGuyInVirginia: Well, really, it's perfect.
35
36
door HonorƩ de Balzac
391 leden
8 besprekingen
3.2
Score 2.38
Toegevoegd 2015-10-07, 05:09 PM
37
door James Kirkwood
198 leden
5 besprekingen
4.1
Score 2.38
Toegevoegd 2015-10-07, 01:47 PM
- Member
- SomeGuyInVirginia
- Verklaringen
- SomeGuyInVirginia: Theirs was a strange friendship, but will it be enough to help them fight evil?
38
39
- Member
- SomeGuyInVirginia
- Verklaringen
- SomeGuyInVirginia: Someone's going to die at this prep school...and someone's going to kill!
40
door Chris Mooney
33 leden
2 besprekingen
½ 3.6
Score 2.31
Toegevoegd 2018-11-09, 09:23 AM
41
door Matthew Reilly
1,602 leden
27 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Score 2.25
Toegevoegd 2018-11-12, 07:37 AM
42
- Member
- SomeGuyInVirginia
- Verklaringen
- SomeGuyInVirginia: He didn't always use his powers for good. He couldn't!
43
door Gladys Mitchell
183 leden
8 besprekingen
½ 3.5
Score 2.2
Toegevoegd 2015-10-07, 01:49 PM
- Member
- SomeGuyInVirginia
- Verklaringen
- SomeGuyInVirginia: A dismembered corpse in a butcher's shop window. It's like Christmas came early.
44
door Charles Higson
67 leden
1 bespreking
½ 3.7
Score 2.2
Toegevoegd 2018-11-09, 09:27 AM
45
door James Patterson
7,251 leden
144 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Score 2.15
Toegevoegd 2018-11-12, 08:01 AM
46
door John Franklin Bardin
228 leden
5 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Score 2.15
Toegevoegd 2015-10-07, 01:49 PM
- Member
- SomeGuyInVirginia
- Verklaringen
- SomeGuyInVirginia: Starts as a screwball comedy, ends...badly.
47
48
- Member
- SomeGuyInVirginia
- Verklaringen
- SomeGuyInVirginia: Proof positive that when the grid fails, human sacrifice isn't far behind.
49
50
- Member
- SomeGuyInVirginia
- Verklaringen
- SomeGuyInVirginia: The title alone gets this on a lot of my lists.
51
- Member
- SomeGuyInVirginia
- Verklaringen
- SomeGuyInVirginia: Geriatric revenge killings.
52
53
- Member
- SomeGuyInVirginia
- Verklaringen
- SomeGuyInVirginia: A cri de coeur from the gritty 70s.
54
55
56
door Thomas Sterling
39 leden
2 besprekingen
4.2
Score 1.97
Toegevoegd 2015-10-07, 01:53 PM
- Member
- SomeGuyInVirginia
- Verklaringen
- SomeGuyInVirginia: Death in Venice was murder most foul!
57
- Member
- SomeGuyInVirginia
58
door Reginald Hill
60 leden
2 besprekingen
½ 3.3
Score 1.94
Toegevoegd 2018-11-10, 04:27 AM
59
door Peter O'Donnell
580 leden
22 besprekingen
4.2
Score 1.92
Toegevoegd 2018-11-13, 05:45 AM
60
- Member
- SomeGuyInVirginia
- Verklaringen
- SomeGuyInVirginia: Nicely paired with the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
61
62
- Member
- SomeGuyInVirginia
- Verklaringen
- SomeGuyInVirginia: Too well written to be anything other than extremely disturbing.
63
door Sidney Sheldon
1,511 leden
26 besprekingen
½ 3.5
Score 1.87
Toegevoegd 2018-11-13, 05:35 AM
64
65
door Kyril Bonfiglioli
279 leden
3 besprekingen
3.9
Score 1.83
Toegevoegd 2015-10-07, 01:57 PM
- Member
- SomeGuyInVirginia
- Verklaringen
- SomeGuyInVirginia: Wow, I love love love this series.
66
door Lawrence Block
145 leden
13 besprekingen
3.1
Score 1.83
Toegevoegd 2018-11-09, 09:36 AM
67
door Rohan O'Grady
213 leden
33 besprekingen
3.9
Score 1.81
Toegevoegd 2015-10-07, 01:58 PM
- Member
- SomeGuyInVirginia
- Verklaringen
- SomeGuyInVirginia: They were just innocent children. Weren't they?
68
69
door Douglas Preston
1,096 leden
57 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Score 1.79
Toegevoegd 2018-11-08, 10:01 AM
70
door Julian Barnes
183 leden
4 besprekingen
½ 3.5
Score 1.79
Toegevoegd 2015-10-07, 01:59 PM
- Member
- SomeGuyInVirginia
- Verklaringen
- SomeGuyInVirginia: Dan Kavanaugh=Julian Barnes.
71
door Davis Grubb
437 leden
11 besprekingen
4
Score 1.77
Toegevoegd 2015-10-07, 02:00 PM
- Member
- SomeGuyInVirginia
- Verklaringen
- SomeGuyInVirginia: This world is hard on small things.
72
door Stav Sherez
38 leden
7 besprekingen
½ 3.6
Score 1.77
Toegevoegd 2018-11-06, 05:34 AM
73
door Justin Evans
649 leden
28 besprekingen
½ 3.6
Score 1.76
Toegevoegd 2015-10-07, 02:01 PM
- Member
- SomeGuyInVirginia
- Verklaringen
- SomeGuyInVirginia: Demonic possession in a small college town. Need I say more?
74
- Member
- SomeGuyInVirginia
- Verklaringen
- SomeGuyInVirginia: 30s noir masterpiece!
75
door Tom Sharpe
763 leden
12 besprekingen
½ 3.5
Score 1.72
Toegevoegd 2015-10-07, 02:11 PM
- Member
- SomeGuyInVirginia
- Verklaringen
- SomeGuyInVirginia: A Brit nasty.
76
door Andrew Martin
99 leden
7 besprekingen
3.2
Score 1.71
Toegevoegd 2018-11-16, 10:34 AM
77
door Donald E. Westlake
62 leden
3 besprekingen
½ 3.6
Score 1.71
Toegevoegd 2015-10-07, 02:15 PM
- Member
- SomeGuyInVirginia
- Verklaringen
- SomeGuyInVirginia: Read anything by Westlake.
78
door Craig Johnson
804 leden
48 besprekingen
4.1
Score 1.7
Toegevoegd 2015-10-07, 03:44 PM
- Member
- SomeGuyInVirginia
79
80
door Margaret Millar
402 leden
21 besprekingen
½ 3.5
Score 1.68
Toegevoegd 2015-10-07, 03:44 PM
- Member
- SomeGuyInVirginia
- Verklaringen
- SomeGuyInVirginia: She was hunted by a psycho!
81
door Julian Symons
83 leden
1 bespreking
3.1
Score 1.66
Toegevoegd 2015-10-07, 05:00 PM
- Member
- SomeGuyInVirginia
- Verklaringen
- SomeGuyInVirginia: Some people just suck!
82
door Mark McShane
52 leden
4 besprekingen
½ 4.4
Score 1.65
Toegevoegd 2015-10-08, 07:24 AM
- Member
- SomeGuyInVirginia
- Verklaringen
- SomeGuyInVirginia: The psychic wasn't able to foresee...disaster!
83
702 leden
28 besprekingen
3.9
Score 1.63
Toegevoegd 2015-10-08, 10:06 AM
- Member
- SomeGuyInVirginia
- Verklaringen
- SomeGuyInVirginia: Even the New York Review of Books reissued it. Feel good about slumming through this psycho carnival.
84
door Mark Frost
1,026 leden
17 besprekingen
3.8
Score 1.62
Toegevoegd 2015-10-08, 10:09 AM
- Member
- SomeGuyInVirginia
- Verklaringen
- SomeGuyInVirginia: THE perfect beach book.
85
- Member
- SomeGuyInVirginia
- Verklaringen
- SomeGuyInVirginia: Stalked by demons with days to live.
86
door Theodore Sturgeon
478 leden
9 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Score 1.59
Toegevoegd 2015-10-08, 02:00 PM
- Member
- SomeGuyInVirginia
- Verklaringen
- SomeGuyInVirginia: A psychiatrist locked inside a cell with a psycho killer. Can he get out...in time?
87
- Member
- SomeGuyInVirginia
- Verklaringen
- SomeGuyInVirginia: Bewitched in the real world.
88
door James Herbert
477 leden
4 besprekingen
½ 3.3
Score 1.57
Toegevoegd 2015-10-08, 02:04 PM
- Member
- SomeGuyInVirginia
- Verklaringen
- SomeGuyInVirginia: A cheese classic!
89
door Shelley Smith
28 leden
2 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Score 1.56
Toegevoegd 2015-10-08, 04:34 PM
- Member
- SomeGuyInVirginia
- Verklaringen
- SomeGuyInVirginia: Even nice old ladies can be killers!
90
door David Wong
3,611 leden
177 besprekingen
3.8
Score 1.55
Toegevoegd 2015-10-07, 03:46 PM
- Member
- SomeGuyInVirginia
- Verklaringen
- SomeGuyInVirginia: One long dick joke.
91
door Friedrich Glauser
220 leden
6 besprekingen
4
Score 1.54
Toegevoegd 2015-10-08, 04:39 PM
- Member
- SomeGuyInVirginia
- Verklaringen
- SomeGuyInVirginia: What's creepier than murder in an asylum for the criminally insane? Set it in Germany!
92
door John Katzenbach
382 leden
7 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Score 1.54
Toegevoegd 2015-10-08, 04:43 PM
- Member
- SomeGuyInVirginia
- Verklaringen
- SomeGuyInVirginia: He was a SS whore but he was supposed to be dead. Wasn't he?
93
door Fred Mustard Stewart
132 leden
3 besprekingen
½ 3.4
Score 1.53
Toegevoegd 2015-10-08, 05:01 PM
- Member
- SomeGuyInVirginia
94
door Thorne Smith
379 leden
11 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Score 1.52
Toegevoegd 2015-10-08, 05:07 PM
- Member
- SomeGuyInVirginia
- Verklaringen
- SomeGuyInVirginia: Like herding all-powerful kittens.
95
door Lesley Glaister
56 leden
2 besprekingen
3.8
Score 1.51
Toegevoegd 2015-10-08, 05:09 PM
- Member
- SomeGuyInVirginia
- Verklaringen
- SomeGuyInVirginia: The anti-cosy.
96
- Member
- SomeGuyInVirginia
- Verklaringen
- SomeGuyInVirginia: Bonnie cleans up after violent crimes, but things are about to get messy!
97
door S. G. Browne
642 leden
67 besprekingen
3.8
Score 1.48
Toegevoegd 2015-10-08, 05:23 PM
- Member
- SomeGuyInVirginia
- Verklaringen
- SomeGuyInVirginia: Just because she's dead doesn't mean she isn't hot.
98
- Member
- SomeGuyInVirginia
- Verklaringen
- SomeGuyInVirginia: No joke!
99
door Stefan Dziemianowicz
24 leden
1 bespreking
½ 4.3
Score 1.47
Toegevoegd 2015-10-08, 05:29 PM
- Member
- SomeGuyInVirginia
- Verklaringen
- SomeGuyInVirginia: Jack and Jill ran up the hill. Pray they don't find you!
100
- Member
- SomeGuyInVirginia
- Verklaringen
- SomeGuyInVirginia: Snowbound with a psychotic serial killer, but that's not even the worst of it!