WHAT IF you could go back in time and change the course of history? WHAT IF the watershed moment you could change was the JFK assassination? 11.22.63, the date that Kennedy was shot - unless . . . King takes his protagonist Jake Epping, a high school English teacher from Lisbon Falls, Maine, 2011, on a fascinating journey back to 1958 - from a world of mobile phones and iPods to a new world of Elvis and JFK, of Plymouth Fury cars and Lindy Hopping, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake's life - a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time. With extraordinary imaginative power, King weaves the social, political and popular culture of his baby-boom American generation into a devastating exercise in escalating suspense.
Tag: suspense
The Missing One by Lucy Atkins
Run by Ann Patchett
Run is ultimately a novel about secrets, duty, responsibility, and the lengths we will go to protect our children.
Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel
Hilary Mantel’s supremely suspenseful novel is a masterpiece of dark humour and even darker secrets.
The Remedy by Michelle Lovric
Set against the vivid, haunting backdrops of eighteenth-century Venice and London, The Remedy weaves together the stories of three mesmerizing characters.
The Photograph by Penelope Lively
A seductive and hugely suspenseful novel about what can happen when you look too closely into the past.
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
Gripping, tragic, and densely atmospheric, Snow Falling on Cedars is a masterpiece of suspense-- one that leaves us shaken and changed.
The Broker by John Grisham
The Broker is a suspense novel written by American author John Grisham and published in the United States on January 11, 2005. The novel follows the story of Joel Backman, a newly pardoned prisoner who had tried to broker a deal to sell the world's most powerful satellite surveillance system to the highest bidder.