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Conspiracy Theory Crime Fiction Booklist

 

Books about conspiracies.

 

A list of books, many of which received at least one starred review (indicating a work of unusual merit) from the following review sources: Booklist (BL), Publisher's Weekly (PW), Kirkus, and Library Journal (LJ). Additional titles of interest may be included on this list. Titles are alphabetically by author.

Annotations are from Advance, the Ingram Book Magazine, unless noted.

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• Savage Run: Joe Pickett
  Author: Box, C.J.
  Publisher: Putnam $ 23.95 ISBN: 0399148876 Date: 2002
  Booklist PW
  C.J. Box's debut novel, Open Season, hit the mystery-book world with the force of a speeding rifle bullet. Now Box returns with a gripping and suspenseful new novel, as dramatic and brutal as its Wyoming wilderness setting.
  Updated 5/20/02
• The Enemy: A Jack Reacher Novel
  Author: Child, Lee
  Publisher: Delacorte $ 25 ISBN: 0385336675 Date: 2004
  LJ Kirkus PW Booklist
  Jack Reacher. Hero. Loner. Soldier. Soldier's son. An elite military cop, he was one of the army's brightest stars. But in every soldier's life, there is a turning point. One case that can shatter a career or turn a lawman into a renegade. And make him question words like honor, valor, and duty. For Jack Reacher, this is that case....
  Suggested Reading: All Stars
  Updated 3.22.04
• Liars and Thieves: A Tommy Carmellini Novel
  Author: Coonts, Stephen
  Publisher: St Martins $ 25.95 ISBN: 0312283628 Date: 2004
  PW
  A beautiful woman is being blackmailed, an illegal break-in occurs, and a massacre at a government safe house puts CIA agent Tommy Carmellini on the trail of a dark conspiracy.
  Suggested Reading: Espionage
  Updated 3.11.04
• Medusa: Aurelio Zen
  Author: Dibdin, Michael
  Publisher: Dutton $ 23 ISBN: 0375422692 Date: 2004
  LJ
  Michael Dibdin's veteran Italian police officer is back. The newest addition to this remarkable series is a novel of long-held secrets set against a sweeping background of political and passionate intrigue.
  Suggested Reading: European Crime Fiction
  Updated 2.2.04
• Flint
  Author: Eddy, Paul
  Publisher: Putnam $ 24.95 ISBN: 0399146539 Date: 2000
  PW
  An exceptionally talented undercover policewoman, Grace Flint nearly dies in a botched sting operation. Months later, physically healed but psychologically scarred, she gets an unexpected clue about her attacker and disappears on a mission of revenge, unaware that she is about to pull the first string that will unravel a complex web of international treachery, extortion, and murder.
  Suggested Reading: New Orleans
  Updated 6/30/00
• The Cold Six Thousand
  Author: Ellroy, James
  Publisher: Knopf $ 25.95 ISBN: 0679403922 Date: 2001
  PW Kirkus
  Wayne Tedrow Jr., a young Vegas cop, arrives in Dallas after the Kennedy assassination with a loathsome job to do. He's got $6,000 in cash and no idea that he is about to plunge into a cover-up conspiracy and a hellish five-year ride through the private underbelly of public policy.
  Suggested Reading: Historical Mystery Stars
  Updated 5/17/01
• Blackwater Sound
  Author: Hall, James W.
  Publisher: Minotaur $ 24.95 ISBN: 0312203845 Date: 2002
  PW
  James W. Hall introduces one of the most evil and dysfunctional families in contemporary fiction and, along with Thorn, brings back other favorite characters from his earlier books, including Alexandra Rafferty, the unforgettable heroine of Body Language. A novel that bristles with all the heat and tension of a tropical Florida summer, Blackwater Sound promises to make James W. Hall the first name in suspense fiction.
  Updated 11/15/01
• P.E.A.C.E
  Author: Holmes, Guy
  Publisher: Simon & Schuster $23 ISBN: 0684870797 Date: 2000
  Kirkus
  The police procedural meets 1984. In this sharply drawn, prophetic literary thriller, an anti-crime video surveillance system turns New York City into the base for an astonishing conspiracy that reaches to the highest levels of government.
  Updated 10/5/00
• Sphere of Influence
  Author: Mills, Kyle
  Publisher: Putnam $ 24.95 ISBN: 0399149341 Date: 2002
  Booklist
  Hailed by Tom Clancy as a novelist who is fast becoming "the new master of gripping and intelligent page-turners, " Mills now takes FBI agent Mark Beamon into unnervingly hazardous territory, with shattering results.
  Updated 8.13.02
• Quantico Rules
  Author: Riehl, Gene
  Publisher: Minotaur $ 24.95 ISBN: 031231051x Date: 2003
  Booklist
  In this auspicious debut, an FBI agent and his partner are pulled into a vast conspiracy that threatens to consume them--if they don't destroy themselves first.
  Suggested Reading: Fiction & Mystery Debuts
  Updated 5.14.03
• Heartland
  Author: Wiltse, David
  Publisher: St Martins $ 24.95 ISBN: 0312269579 Date: 2001
  Booklist
  The author of Prayer for the Dead and Bone Deep takes readers on a chilling journey into rural America's heart of darkness. When a decorated Secret Service Agent suffers a crisis of confidence, he returns to his hometown where he finds that behind a small town's bigotry lies deadly intrigue.
  Updated 2/28/01