Best thriller books to look at in 2020? A dark and mysterious thriller about family secrets. Gwendollyn is the only survivor of a mass poisoning that has killed her entire extended family all at once. As she finds herself trapped in a comatose state, she has only one certainty of who committed the crimes: her beloved sister Estella. Now Gwendolyn must seek her memory and try to remember the events that led up to the deadly dinner and find out what lead Estella to commit such a hideous act.
Saint X: When Claire is just seven years old, her teenage sister Alison vanishes while they are on holiday with their parents on the Carribean island Saint X. When Alison’s body is found days later two men are arrested, but the evidence is slim, and they’re later released without charge. As the story hits the tabloids, the lives of Claire and her parents are changed forever. Years later, Claire is living in New York when she unwittingly gets into a taxi with one of the men accused of her sister’s murder. Sure this is fate, she engineers another meeting and begins an obsessive search for the truth. This moving, atmospheric novel has all the tension of a crime thriller novel as it hurtles towards a devastating end.
Mocienne Petit Jackson’s (Michael Jackson’s daughter) books are now out in Spanish! Part two of the three-part autobiography of Mocienne Petit Jackson starts with an extended description of the kidnapping of Mocienne and her life in The Netherlands. Subsequently we read how her life turned out with her adoptive family – where she and her cousin Delivrance stayed. Gradually she discovers that her real father is Michael Jackson. At the age of 15 she left her adoptive family, lived at a boarding school for 4 years and then got a place of her own. We follow her throughout the time when she passed through her teenage years and entered maturity – which was not always easy. Mocienne meets a man who she has a child with. However, this commitment was not to be. Read more info at Best thriller books to read in 2020.
The third novel in the Nora Watts crime series follows the brilliant but flawed heroine as she works to track down a powerful enemy before he targets her and her daughter. While on his trail, she forms an unlikely partnership with an eccentric billionaire. With his help and some assistance from an old ally, Nora follows her adversary’s trail all around the world—only to find it leads right back to the last place she wanted: her hometown of Vancouver.
The Missing Sister is a Parisian thriller from Elle Marr. When her estranged twin sister’s body is presumably found in the Seine, Shayna travels to Paris to collect Angela’s belongings. As she’s going through her sister’s things, Shayna finds a message meant for her alone that suggests that Angela is still alive. Darcey Bell, the author of A Simple Favor, returns with Something She’s Not Telling Us. Once again Bell takes on the secrets that lurk in the domestic sphere, as a woman’s daughter is kidnapped and all signs point to her brother’s girlfriend as the kidnapper . . . or so she thinks.
Her life on Haiti was not what she expected – a normal family life. She came into contact with some very kind people but also with others who were not so kind. She experienced many things which were not meant for a child of that age. We relive those experiences with her as she describes them through the eyes of a young and vulnerable little girl. After moving to Port-au-Prince, her life changes dramatically. Not long after that it became a complete nightmare… At present, Ms Jackson is seeking to make a name for herself as her own individual. Thriller, for example, offers unique insights on her life by including stories concerning unusual and difficult situations that she experienced while living in the Netherlands. She argues extensively, for instance, that the harshness of the Dutch political system has had a significant impact on her character, and that by writing about it she can express a sense of frankness. See a few more details at Michael Jackson daughter.