Jaws by Peter Benchley, 1974: The music of Spielberg`s film resonates in everyone`s head, but the Telegraph invites us to rediscover the beautiful thriller that the author wrote a year before the release of the film. And what about the recommended thrillers of 2017? For now, it`s still a bit early to draw conclusions, so we`ll limit ourselves to pointing out a few titles to consider: For all fans of the genre, here are the two very useful lists that can provide good suggestions to fill in the gaps in your thriller library and discover new authors. You`ll find many famous names on the list, from the Carré to Thomas Harris to Michael Crichton, but also some classics from the past that all need to be rediscovered. At the end of the article, you will also find some tips on the texts that will be released this year 2022, where we bring back the best suspense books that have recently arrived in bookstores or that will arrive on the shelves in a few weeks. It only takes a few days in a criminal court, here too, to see a multitude of lawyers who, young and not yet well established, try to take cases, clients who need their services and who – perhaps – can pay. This is the sad fate that Paul Madriani, a promising young man from the important law firm Potter & Scarpellos, invests when he lets himself be trapped by the boss`s wife. Pulled into the trunk, Paul wanders the courts trying to collect cases until the right coveted client arrives. Too bad it was Talia, the woman who caused his disturbing expulsion. And that`s not enough! The woman is charged with murder. by Ben, her husband, as well as Paul`s former boss and admirer. Scott Turow`s first work, Presumed Innocent, is the novel that created the legal thriller genre for many. Here is the plot (taken from our review by Alessio Massaccesi): “There are only a few days left before the elections when Carolyn Polhemus, a beautiful lawyer, is killed in her own house: it is a heinous and contradictory crime; above all, it could tip the political balance in the head-to-head race between Raymond Horgan, the outgoing prosecutor, and Nico della Guardia, the challenger, in favour of the latter. Unless Rusty Sabich finds the killer before the polls open.
However, the paucity of evidence at the crime scene seems paradoxical: perhaps there was violence before the murder; Maybe a consensual relationship. But who is Carolyn Polhemus really? A corrupt and ruthless bureaucrat or the fragile and sensual young woman who, a few months earlier, was able to undermine all of Sabich`s certainties? To discover and solve the case, Rusty believes he is ready for anything, but reality and truth are fleeting concepts in Kindle County: Here, accusers and defendants are actually confused with friends and enemies. The story is indeed this, but between legal texts and jurors, the author manages to insert a good dose of humanity that can only identify you with the young lawyer ready to turn into a man of the rain, a term used in America to apostrophe the professionals who take the most profitable ends. An excellent legal thriller, which was of course revived in the cinema in a film directed by the great Francis Ford Coppola. The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon, 1959: A political thriller in which American soldiers are brainwashed by Korean communists and end up as “sleeper agents” in the U.S. government. Two films were made: Go and Kill by John Frankenheimer and The Manchurian Candidate by Jonathan Demme. Nowhere on this site can I find 2 wonderful movies! “The Departed”, which says wonderfully, is not much.
but especially the thriller of thrillers. the usual suspects!! Another important novel on the way to today`s legal thriller is certainly The Trial of Franz Kafka from 1925. The Trial” tells the story of Joseph K., a man convicted for unknown reasons by a pervasive judicial system that operates according to its own internal and implacable rules that go through corruption, escapes, influential friendships. Everything in the judicial system is dark, gray, almost incomprehensible to the clear and rational mind of K, who nevertheless does not give up and tries by all means to defend his cause, asking for help even the most bizarre and ambiguous characters who have contact with the court. The theme of the novel is therefore the incomprehensibility of justice and its mechanisms, as well as the inevitability of a fate determined by an unsolicited and misunderstood judgment. Delusional, but revealing. Hello, I read your comment on Steven Cavanagh`s book, although I am a lover of the thriller genre, I do not know this author. I`m going to get the library. Stephen King`s Carrie, 1974: Among the best thriller books of all time, the Telegraph also suggests the thrill king`s novel about telekinetic Carrie, which takes place with considerable tension between supernatural elements, bad parents and teenage issues.
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