Books with Shocking Plot Twists!
"We often mistake love for fireworks--for drama and dysfunction. But real love is very quiet, very still. It's boring, if seen from the perspective of high drama. Love is deep and calm--and constant." --Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient
Fourth of July is over, but the thrills don't end! Check out these incredible mysteries with shocking plot twists!
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
One cannot think of plot twists without thinking of Agatha Christie, and none of her incredible list of books fit the bill quite like The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. Roger Ackroyd had to die--he knew too much. He knew the woman he loved was being blackmailed with the knowledge that she poisoned her first husband. Then came the news that she had taken her own life with a drug overdose--but Ackroyd knew better. But while he wrote a letter revealing all, he was stabbed to death. Enter: Hercule Poirot.
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
(If it hasn't been spoiled for you with the movie, this book is a MUST read! The book is always better than the movie anyway.) In 1954, US Marshall Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, arrive at Shutter Island, where Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane sits. A murderer is loose on the island and a hurricane almost at the shores, but not all is as it seems in this hospital sitting at the edge of the world...
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist tasked with the difficult job of getting Alicia Berenson--former famous painter, current accused murderer of her in-demand photographer husband--to speak. Which is difficult because she hasn't spoken a single word since she shot her husband five times in the face. Down into a twisting rabbit hole goes Theo in a search to find answers...