The Intruder

7 best books like The Intruder (Peter Blauner): Akin, Red at the Bone, Imaginary Girls, The Neon Rain, Thank You for Smoking, The Worthy: A Ghost's Story, Once Craved

Akin
AuthorEmma Donoghue
ISBN0316491993
A retired New York professor's life is thrown into chaos when he takes a young great-nephew to the French Riviera, in hopes of uncovering his own mother's wartime secrets in the next masterpiece from New York Times bestselling author Emma Donoghue.

Noah Selvaggio is a retired chemistry professor...
Red at the Bone
AuthorJacqueline Woodson
ISBN0525535276
Moving forward and backward in time, Jacqueline Woodson's taut and powerful new novel uncovers the role that history and community have played in the experiences, decisions, and relationships of these families, and in the life of the new child.

As the book opens in 2001, it is the evening of...
Imaginary Girls
AuthorNova Ren Suma
ISBN0525423389
Chloe's older sister, Ruby, is the girl everyone looks to and longs for, who can't be captured or caged. When a night with Ruby's friends goes horribly wrong and Chloe discovers the dead body of her classmate London Hayes left floating in the reservoir, Chloe is sent away from town and away from Ruby.

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The Neon Rain
AuthorJames Lee Burke
ISBN0753820331
Detective Dave Robicheaux has fought too many battles: in Vietnam, with killers and hustlers, with police brass, and with the bottle. Lost without his wife's love, Robicheaux's haunted soul mirrors the intensity and dusky mystery of New Orleans' French Quarter -- the place he calls home, and the place...
Thank You for Smoking
AuthorChristopher Buckley
ISBN0812976525
Nick Naylor likes his job. In the neo-puritanical nineties, it's a challenge to defend the rights of smokers and a privilege to promote their liberty. Sure, it hurts a little when you're compared to Nazi war criminals, but Nick says he's just doing what it takes to pay the mortgage and put his son through...
AuthorWill Clarke
Conrad had it pretty good in life -- a Porsche, pretty girls, and a trust fund full of oil money. But now, thanks to a brutal hazing incident at Louisiana State University's Gamma Chi fraternity, Conrad is dead -- a nineteen-year-old spirit suddenly without an earthly body.Make no mistake, the newly...
Once Craved
AuthorBlake Pierce
ONCE CRAVED is book #3 in the bestselling Riley Paige mystery series, which begins with ONCE GONE.

When prostitutes turn up dead in Phoenix, not much attention is paid. But when a pattern of disturbing murders is discovered, the local police soon realize a serial killer is on a rampage and they...
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