Trick of Light

10 best books like Trick of Light (David Hunt): When the Bough Breaks, Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal, The Key to Rebecca, Gold Coast, The Lion's Game, The General's Daughter, Mortal Fear, The Diary of Jack the Ripper: The Discovery, the Investigation, the Authentication, the Debate, Mars Crossing, Head of State

When the Bough Breaks
AuthorJonathan Kellerman
ISBN0345466608
In the first Alex Delaware novel, Dr. Morton Handler practiced a strange brand of psychiatry. Among his specialties were fraud, extortion, and sexual manipulation. Handler paid for his sins when he was brutally murdered in his luxurious Pacific Palisades apartment. The police have no leads, but...
Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
AuthorBen Macintyre
ISBN0307353400
Eddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a con man, and a philanderer. He was also one of the most remarkable double agents Britain has ever produced. Inside the traitor was a man of loyalty; inside the villain was a hero. The problem for Chapman, his spymasters, and his lovers was to know where one persona...
The Key to Rebecca
AuthorKen Follett
ISBN0451207793
Ken Follett’s The Key to Rebecca took readers and critics by storm when first published more than twenty years ago. Today, it remains one of the best espionage novels ever written. Look out for Ken’s newest book, A Column of Fire, available now.

A brilliant and ruthless Nazi master agent...
Gold Coast
AuthorNelson DeMille
ISBN0751531219
Welcome to the fabled Gold Coast, that stretch on the North Shore of Long Island that once held the greatest concentration of wealth and power in America. Here two men are destined for an explosive collision: John Sutter, Wall Street lawyer, holding fast to a fading aristocratic legacy; and Frank Bellarosa,...
The Lion's Game
AuthorNelson DeMille
ISBN0446679097
Detective John Corey, last seen in Plum Island, now faces his toughest assignment yet: the pursuit and capture of the world's most dangerous terrorist -- a young Arab known as "The Lion" who has baffled a federal task force and shows no sign of stopping in his quest for revenge against the American pilots...
The General's Daughter
AuthorNelson DeMille
ISBN0446364800
Captain Ann Campbell is a West Point graduate, the daughter of legendary General "Fighting Joe" Campbell. She is the pride of Fort Hadley until, one morning, her body is found, naked and bound, on the firing range.

Paul Brenner is a member of the Army's elite undercover investigative unit and...
Mortal Fear
AuthorGreg Iles
ISBN0340686014
By day, Harper Cole trades commodities from his farmhouse in the isolated Mississippi Delta. But at night, Harper serves as system operator for E.R.O.S., a highly exclusive, sexually explicit on-line service whose clients range from the glitterati of Hollywood to the literati of New York. Shielded...
AuthorShirley Harrison
ISBN1562827049
For starters, I think a lot of people rated and reviewed this book based on whether they believed it's authenticity or not instead of rating how it read. I think some people went into it already sure it was fake. So what I'm saying is, I suggest you read it if you're interested in Jack the Ripper. Ignore the...
AuthorGeoffrey A. Landis
ISBN0812576489
By the middle of the 21st century, humanity has finally landed men on Mars-only to watch helplessly as the first two missions end in catastrophe and death.

With resources running out, a third-and perhaps final-mission to Mars is hastily mounted, with a crew of four men and two women. But from...
Head of State
AuthorAndrew Marr
ISBN1468310569
The debut novel by Britain’s most celebrated pundit, a gleefully twisted take on 10 Downing Street 

It’s September 2017, and the United Kingdom is on the verge of a crucial referendum that will determine, once and for all, if the country remains a member of the European Union or goes its...
Flight of Eagles
AuthorJack Higgins
ISBN0425169685
In the early days of World War II, nations were forced to choose sides in the epic battle that would change history forever. But for two brothers, fate had already made the choice. Separated as boys, Max and Harry Kelso have grown up to become ace fighter pilots --- Max with the German Luftwaffe and Harry...
The Hammer of Eden
AuthorKen Follett
ISBN0449227545
Ken Follett hits the top of his form with "The Hammer of Eden," a state-of-the-art suspense thriller to rival his best. When controversial radio talk host John Truth broadcasts a terrorist threat of a man-made earthquake, few people take it seriously. Crackerjack young FBI agent Judy Maddox is assigned...
Jacquot and the Master
AuthorMartin O'Brien
Provence, a sensual landscape of golden light, rich contrasts and striking colour, is an artist's dream. But sometimes dreams turn into nightmares and the shadows cast can be as dangerous as the darkest night.

Chief Inspector Daniel Jacquot of the Cavaillon Regional Crime Squad is called...
The Price of Power
AuthorJames W. Huston
ISBN0688159184
From coast to coast, raves greeted James W. Huston's first electrifying thriller of Washington intrigue, Congressional confrontation, and fast-paced, flat-out war at sea. Now he's back with a new novel featuring the same winning style and many of the same characters, who face off once again in a deadly,...
Crimes of the Heart
AuthorCarolyn G. Hart
ISBN0425156745
Also writing as Carolyn Hart.

An accomplished master of mystery with 46 published books, Carolyn Hart is the creator of the highly acclaimed Henrie O,Death on Demand, and Bailey Ruth Raeburn series. Her books have won multiple Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Awards. Letter from Home (2003),...
Against All Enemies
AuthorRichard Herman
ISBN0380787873
Amazing story has a little bit of everything including cover-ups, a conspiracy, odd characters, bureaucratic bull and a prosecutor who is worth his weight in gold. A military man accused of treason is fighting to prove his innocence even though mounds of evidence is produced which would appear to "color...
Thunder From Heaven
AuthorBrian Kelleher
ISBN0451161009
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The Prodigal Spy
AuthorJoseph Kanon
ISBN0440225345
In a time of accusations, treachery and lies, some secrets were heartbreaking....

Others were deadly.

Once, Nick Kotlar tried to save his father. From the angry questions. From the accusations. From a piece of evidence that only Nick knew about and that he destroyed--for his father....
Dr. Death
AuthorJonathan Kellerman
ISBN0345413881
A brutalized corpse discovered in a remote region of the Hollywood Hills plunges psychologist-detective Alex Delaware into a landscape of rage and madness as he struggles to solve this most baffling of homicides.

To some, Eldon Mate was evil personified. Others saw the former physician...
Night Sins
AuthorTami Hoag
A sensational New York Times bestseller and subject of a CBS-TV miniseries, Night Sins has confirmed Tami Hoag's reputation as the new modern master of suspense.

This gripping tale unfolds in a peaceful Minnesota town, where crime is something that just doesn't happen. But when a young boy...
Los Alamos
AuthorJoseph Kanon
ISBN0316641286
A successful thriller tells an exciting, satisfying story and lets us look at the lives of some interesting people in an environment either totally new or freshly observed. Former publishing executive Joseph Kanon's first novel does all of that, and adds a layer of acute perception about recent history...
Thunder of Erebus
AuthorPayne Harrison
ISBN0517584050
After the Cold War, in the not-too-distant future, the United States and the new Soviet Confederation come together on a joint mission in the frozen wastes of Antarctica. But deep beneath the glaciers lies a devastating discovery destined to shatter the fragile peace between East and West. And now,...
The Hearing
AuthorJohn Lescroart
ISBN0451204891
Hardy's best friend, Lieutenant Abe Glitsky, has kept a secret from him...and everyone else. Hardy never knew that Abe had a daughter-until she was shot dead. It seems obvious that the heroin addict hovering over her body with a gun is the guilty party, and Glitsky has few qualms about sweating a confession...
Masquerade
AuthorGayle Lynds
ISBN0312986033
When you gaze into the mirror--and find a stranger looking back? Liz Sansborough has no recollection of her past as a CIA agent; no idea what her future holds. For her, there is only the present...and the chilling knowledge that the world's most lethal assassin has set his sights on her.

When...
Acts and Omissions
AuthorNancy Kopp
ISBN0451404777
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The Miko
AuthorEric Van Lustbader
ISBN0345484851
"Swiftly paced and fascinating...An intricately designed puzzle."
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
She is a sorceress--indescribably beautiful, overpoweringly sensual--who possesess incomprehensible powers. She is also a murderess who plans to use her power to kill Nicholas Linnear, the hero...
Bad Chemistry
AuthorGary Krist
ISBN0425173003
kate is an ex chicago cop who has moved to the east coast and met the man of her dreams, joel. they r now happily married with him running his own company and making a lot of money in the process

then one evening he pops out to the shops and never returns ......

naturally kate is worried - is...
Black Heart
AuthorEric Van Lustbader
ISBN0345466837
"Chilling, brutal, and satisfying...The reader becomes deeply involved."
THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE
The sudden death of a major presidential contender in the arms of his beautiful mistress sends his best friend, Tracy Richter, on an epic journey of violence back into the heart of the Cambodian...
The Ninja
AuthorEric Van Lustbader
ISBN0449209164
"Totally absorbing...as gripping a tale of hatred and revenge as you will read...It is superb."
NEWS RECORD
This is the story of Nicholas Linnear, half-Caucasian, half-Oriental, a man caught between East and West, between the sexual passions of a woman he can't forget and the one he can't...
The Color of Night
AuthorDavid L. Lindsey
ISBN0446608033
Unless I'm somehow misreading this, the book seems to start off with one of the most glaring examples of authorial and editorial malpractice I've seen in years (underlining added):

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Chapter 1

Venice, Sestiere Di Dorsoduro

It was the middle...
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