Crime books are never out of fashion, perhaps before crime never is. Although crime is not admired as something inspiring, people feel great excitement in reading about how criminals have innovated to find new ways of committing crimes.
Don’t worry, nobody is judging you. But have you read any of these crime books this year?
- Into The Ether – David Sherer
David Sherer has combined medical fiction with crime to produce a fascinating story that might give you the creeps next time you visit a hospital.
The story of an anaesthesiologist drugging a government official to gather sensitive information for personal benefits is only the beginning of the story. What happens next to indulge the lead character in an affair, vengeance on the cards, and going underground only to get arrested later, is a best-selling formula for a crime book. David Sherer seems to have nailed it by penning a crime thriller for readers of all ages.
The book ‘Into The Ether’ is available on amazon.com in Kindle and paperback.
- Dial M for Murder – Frederick Knott
This novel is one of the finest classic crime books of all time for the crime aficionados out there. A murderer is hired to kill a woman, but things get nastier when the murder goes wrong.
The famous novel was adapted by Alfred Hitchcock, giving the story a bigger audience and more admirers for the author.
- The Best of Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle
It would be extremely unsavoury to mention crime and not mention Sherlock Holmes. Perhaps, in this case, the character’s brand is enough to convince the reader to buy this book.
There are fifteen assorted short stories of Sherlock Holmes cases in this book written by Arthur Conan Doyle. The intriguing crime case and their ingenious solutions by Sherlock Holmes and his fellow Dr. Watson have been visited by readers and Television viewers alike. The author has passed away but has created a character that will live on for generations to come.
- The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor – Cameron McCabe
This classic is considered an innovation in books on crime as it used an interesting narration method called the false document technique.
The story revolves around Cameron McCabe’s confessions in London in the 1930s. The crimes of murders of his acquaintances are mentioned and explained as the novel moves into its climax.
McCabe, a film editor, is questioned and tried for a murder involving an actor, an actress, and a cutting room. The results are not quite what the reader expects.
- Murder On The Orient Express – Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie is known as the ‘Queen of Crime.’ Her novels have held immovable spots on the best-seller lists and have rarely ever come off the shelves of bookstores worldwide.
The novel ‘Murder on the Orient Express is one of her famous novels involving the murder of Samuel Ratchett – an American businessman on a train from Aleppo to Istanbul. Hercule Poirot – her genius detective with an eccentric head and an even more eccentric mind – happens to be on the train as well. The murder case needs to be solved before the train reaches its destination and the murderer gets off. But it seems that the murder does not have motives too simple to be identified so quickly.
- Strangers On A Train – Patricia Highsmith
What could go wrong when two strangers with frustrated lives meet on a train – everything.
Charles Anthony Bruno and Guy Haines are travelling on the same train. While sharing their painful life problems, they realise that they are too miserable to solve their problems for good. Bruno offers Haines to swap murders and kill one’s father and other’s wife in an exchange that would set them free of suspicion as they would not have any motive to commit the murders. Things heat up as the two plan their murders together.
