As you can guess by the spoiler-y title, I’m going to discuss 13 crime, mystery, thriller and Suspense novels featuring characters who are journalists. I’ve decided to divide this episode into two parts, the first is "books I want to read", and the second is "books I’ve read.”

My love of characters who are journalists stems from two places. The first is my love of the superman story. And the second, which is directly related to the first, is my love of the hit 90’s TV show Lois and Clark. I’m not going to lie; 14-year-old me had a huge crush on Dean Cain. Not Dean Cain as Superman but Dean Cain as Clark Kent.

What can I say? I love me a nerd.

But I also loved Lois—I could relate to her. She was stubborn, ambitious, and obsessed with her work. Fourteen-year-old Amelia wanted to be Lois Lane when she grew up. Honestly, there’s a part of me that still does.

My Personal Tastes in Books

This episode originally had sixteen books, but as I was curating this list, I realised that two of the books contained plots centred around the deaths of toddlers or young children. My family has been through the tragedy of losing an older baby to SIDS when I was five years old. As I’ve grown up, got married, and considered having my own children, I discovered that this event had a profound effect on me.

So, I removed the books from my to-be-read list because I will probably find them quite triggering. In general, I tend to stop reading books that feature investigations of crimes against children and minors under the age of eighteen. I did start reading a book that opened with the aftermath of the death of a young teenage girl, and I got the hint that the crime had a sexual element; I immediately closed the book, and I have no intention of picking it back up. And there are certain curse words or racial slang that I can’t handle, so I deleted another book for that reason as well as other reasons.

I’m not saying those three books were bad; they were just not for me. Also, it’s worth pointing out that those books had a significant number of good reviews.

So, without further ado, let’s get into my list of books I want to read.

Books I Want to Read

See Her Run by Peggy Townsend

The Dying Hour by Rick Mofina

The Poet by Michael Connelly

False truth (Jordan Fox Mystery Series) by Diane Capri and Beth Dexter

The Secret Patient by Vaughan W. Smith

Books I’ve Read

Absolute Truth by Peter James

Anonymous Source by A. C. Fuller

Don’t Tell Meg by Paul J. Teague

Fatal Enemy (The Jess Kimball Thrillers Series, Book 1) by Diane Capri

Dead Shot (A Cal Murphy Thriller Book 1) by R J Patterson

Last Girl Gone by J. G. Hetherton

Sanctus by Simon Toyne

Suspicion (James Lalonde, Book 1) by A. D. Hay

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