23 Books About A Character Accused Of A Crime
This Riot Recommendation is sponsored by Last Seen Leaving by Caleb Roehrig
Flynn’s girlfriend, January, is missing. All eyes are on Flynn—he must know something. After all, he was—is—her boyfriend. They were together the night before she disappeared. But Flynn has a secret of his own. As he struggles to uncover the truth about January’s disappearance, he must also face the truth about himself.
A favorite tropes in mystery/thriller/ok any fiction is when a character is accused of a crime (falsely or not falsely) and has to defend his honor, even if he has no honor to defend. Will justice prevail? Did the character actually do it? Just how unreliable is this narrator, anyway?
We asked you to share your favorite books about a character accused of a crime, and you answered. Here are 23 of your favorites!
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
The Confession by John Grisham
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
Dear Daughter by Elizabeth Little
Deathwatch by Robb White
Dolores Claibourne by Stephen King
Exit Strategy by L.F. Falconer
Gilt Hollow by Lorie Langdon
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
The Green Mile by Stephen King
House Rules by Jodi Picoult
Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov
Kindness for Weakness by Shawn Goodman
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J Gaines
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Crime by Tamar Myers
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Trial by Franz Kafka
