23 Books About A Character Accused Of A Crime
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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
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
