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Thriller is a genre of fiction with numerous, often overlapping, subgenres, including crime, horror, and detective fiction. Thrillers are characterized and defined by the moods they elicit, giving their audiences heightened feelings of suspense, excitement, surprise, anticipation and anxiety. [1] This genre is well suited to film and television.
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House Rules (2010) is the eighteenth novel by the American author Jodi Picoult.The novel focuses on a young adult male, Jacob Hunt, with Asperger's syndrome living in Townshend, Vermont, [1] who is accused of murder.
Reviewer David Ellis, naming The Curious Incident an "ambitious and innovative novel", wrote that Haddon "manages to avoid the opposing pitfalls of either offending people with autism and their families or turning Christopher into an object of pity. Instead of becoming the focus of the plot the autism enhances it.
Ransom (reprinted under the title Five Were Missing) [1] is a 1966 thriller novel by Lois Duncan. [2] [3] Its plot follows a group of children who are kidnapped and held hostage on a school bus. It marked Duncan's first foray into the suspense and thriller genre, and was nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award. [4]
From 'Gone Girl' and 'Big Little Lies' to 'The Silence of the Lambs' and 'Misery,' here are the 30 best thriller books to add to your TBR list.
This poses a challenge to psychiatrists in identifying undiagnosed adults who may have autism. [2] Adults are being referred or self referred for diagnosis with increasing frequency, making this a useful clinical tool. [3] A score of 64 or more has been shown to be consistent and support a clinical diagnosis, but in the case the clinical ...
American thriller novels, a genre of fiction with numerous, often overlapping, subgenres, including crime, horror, and detective fiction. Thrillers are characterized and defined by the moods they elicit, giving their audiences heightened feelings of suspense , excitement , surprise , anticipation and anxiety .