Any good page-turner type mysteries you can recommend?
Pushkin Press have recently been re-publishing some overlooked suspense classics, and I've read a couple and greatly enjoyed them.
The Disappearance Of Signora Giulia, by Piero Chiara
Every Thursday for three years, Signora Giulia takes the train to Milan to visit her daughter. But one Thursday she simply disappears. how can a young, beautiful high society woman just vanish into thin air? Why does her husband - a prominent criminal lawyer and much older man - know nothing about it? And who was she really visiting during those trips to Milan? For Detective Sciancalepre, the mystery is darker and more tangled than he imagined.
She Who Was No More, by Boileau-Narcejac
Every Saturday evening, travelling salesman Ferdinand Ravinel returns to his wife, Mireille, who waits patiently for him at home. But Ferdinand has another lover, Lucienne, an ambitious doctor, and together the adulterers have devised a murderous plan.Drugging Mireille, the pair drown her in a bathtub, but in the morning, before the "accidental" death can be discovered, the corpse is gone - so begins the unraveling of Ferdinand's plot, and his sanity... (Later adapted as the movie "Les Diaboliques", fact-fans!)
Hard copies are pretty hard to come by, but you can get them cheap on kindle. For more in the Pushkin Vertigo series, click here!
Also most anything by Patricia Highsmith. If you're looking for something more modern, I can't really help you. "I Saw A Man" by Owen Sheers is pretty good. Or the Scandinavian crime canon, like Henning Mankell, Camilla Lackberg, Stieg Larsson, Jo Nesbø etc. etc. I finished "Headhunters" by Jo Nesbø a couple of weeks ago, and it's good fun.
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