Posted on August 4, 2010 | 
I’m so glad my friends read. Chuck sent me a list of results in the NPR “Killer Thriller” poll, and I found a few of my favorites in the top 100.
- 1. The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
- 5. In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote
- 6. The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown
- 7. The Shining, by Stephen King
- 10. The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- 11. Dracula, by Bram Stoker
- 19. The Day of the Jackal, by Frederick Forsyth
- 20. Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier
- 21. Eye of the Needle, by Ken Follett
- 29. The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett
But I want to add: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Anne Rice’s Interview with a Vampire, Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones and, of course, Dead Love … though that isn’t even in bookstores yet!
Oh, the books not read yet … something to keep in mind while cooling your heels in the crypt.
—Erin Orison, DEAD LOVE/the Daily Slice
