My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix is set in the 1980s. It’s horror, not gory horror but the dog does die.
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60s – The Body by Stephen King
70s – They Thirst by Robert McCammon (set in Los Angeles late 70s/early 80s)
80s – The original Jason Bourne series by Robert Ludlum
90s – Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, December Park by Ronald Malfi
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Stephen King’s **11/22/63** A man goes back in time to the early 60s in an attempt to prevent the assassination of JFK.
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Val McDermid, *1979* and *1989*.
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Thrillers/horror:
*The Onion Field* (1973) by Joseph Wambaugh.
*The Choirboys* (1976) by Joseph Wambaugh.
*Jaws* (1974) by Peter Benchley.
*Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders* (1974) by Vincent Bugliosi.
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‘I, Jan Cremer’ by the eponymous Dutch author. You don’t get more sixties (European-style) than this. No mystery, I’m afraid. This is beat generation stuff.
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{{In Cold Blood by Truman Capote}}
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*The Corpse Had a Familiar Face* by Edna Buchanan (60s to early 80s) – non-fiction by Pulitzer Prize winning crime reporter for the Miami Herald. Read the first page or two. If you can put the book down, it’s not for you.
*The Cuckoo’s Egg* by Cliff Stoll (mid-80s cyber-thriller. Technically non-fiction, but as gripping as any novel)
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My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix is set in the 1980s. It’s horror, not gory horror but the dog does die.
60s – The Body by Stephen King
70s – They Thirst by Robert McCammon (set in Los Angeles late 70s/early 80s)
80s – The original Jason Bourne series by Robert Ludlum
90s – Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, December Park by Ronald Malfi
Stephen King’s **11/22/63** A man goes back in time to the early 60s in an attempt to prevent the assassination of JFK.
Val McDermid, *1979* and *1989*.
Thrillers/horror:
*The Onion Field* (1973) by Joseph Wambaugh.
*The Choirboys* (1976) by Joseph Wambaugh.
*Jaws* (1974) by Peter Benchley.
*Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders* (1974) by Vincent Bugliosi.
‘I, Jan Cremer’ by the eponymous Dutch author. You don’t get more sixties (European-style) than this. No mystery, I’m afraid. This is beat generation stuff.
{{In Cold Blood by Truman Capote}}
*The Corpse Had a Familiar Face* by Edna Buchanan (60s to early 80s) – non-fiction by Pulitzer Prize winning crime reporter for the Miami Herald. Read the first page or two. If you can put the book down, it’s not for you.
*The Cuckoo’s Egg* by Cliff Stoll (mid-80s cyber-thriller. Technically non-fiction, but as gripping as any novel)