Thrillers about ordinary men/women placed in extraordinary circumstances

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November Road
by Lou Berney
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Good Me Bad Me
by Ali Land
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Emma in the Night
by Wendy Walker
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The Blind: A Chilling Psychological Suspense
by A.F. Brady
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The Parking Lot Attendant: A Novel
by Nafkote Tamirat
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Little Deaths
by Emma Flint
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The Never-Open Desert Diner
by James Anderson
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The People of the Broken Neck
by Silas Dent Zobal
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The Perfect Girl
by Gilly Macmillan
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Complicit
by Stephanie Kuehn
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Every Fifteen Minutes
by Lisa Scottoline
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A Small Indiscretion: A Novel
by Jan Ellison
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The Animals
by Christian Kiefer
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Descent
by Tim Johnston
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The Painter
by Peter Heller
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Frog Music
by Emma Donoghue
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The Kept
by James Scott
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The Dinosaur Feather
by S J. Gazan
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Night Film
by Marisha Pessl
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The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair: A Novel
by Joel Dicker
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Ordinary Grace
by William Kent Krueger
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Beneath the Abbey Wall
by A. D. Scott
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Stealing Mona Lisa: A Mystery
by Carson Morton
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Angelmaker: A Novel
by Nick Harkaway
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Zone One: A Novel
by Colson Whitehead
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The Quiet Twin: A Novel
by Dan Vyleta
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Save Me
by Lisa Scottoline
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The Book of Air and Shadows: A Novel
by Michael Gruber
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The Collaborator of Bethlehem: An Omar Yussef Mystery
by Matt Beynon Rees
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The Poe Shadow
by Matthew Pearl
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