The Reading Lounge: Cons and Schemes
Page turners with plenty of trickery, clever deceptions, and ingenious plots
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Hello! I had the best time browsing my backlist and revisiting stories involving cons, schemes, and trickery. There’s something intriguing to me about reading a story and being kept in the dark about what’s really going on or who’s really telling the truth. Oh and who will pay the price in the end? I love the suspense and tension that can be built around waiting to find all of this out. When done well, the wide variety of characters who may or may not be involved in the con/scheme and the storylines themselves can be pure gold. For this reader, I LOVE to be fooled. I don’t mind when an author builds tension and creates intrigue by subtly manipulating me. In fact, if I’m reading a psychological thriller, I expect and hope to be manipulated so much that I’m left unsure as to who or what to believe. That. Is. The. Best
The books I’m recommending today all have some element of a con, scheme, deception, and/or trickery. Some have every single one! I loved all of these books and hope you find a new to you title in the bunch
Book Recommendations
The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz - A propulsive read about a story too good not to steal, and the writer who steals it.
The Sunday Girl by Pip Drysdale - A dramatic thriller for any woman who's ever been involved with a bad, bad man and who knows how it feels to be broken, broken-hearted, and bent on revenge.