{"id":2456,"date":"2010-08-10T11:37:01","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T16:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danversreads.wordpress.com\/?p=2456"},"modified":"2010-08-10T11:37:01","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T16:37:01","slug":"top-100-killer-thrillers-selected-by-nprs-audience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=2456","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Top 100 Killer Thrillers&#8221; &#8211; Selected by NPR&#8217;s Audience"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s been a cliffhanger, but now the final page can be turned.<\/p>\n<p>The NPR audience nominated some 600 novels to our &#8220;Killer Thrillers&#8221; poll and cast more than 17,000 ballots. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=128718927#results\">final roster <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/npr.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2457  alignright\" title=\"npr\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/npr.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"138\" height=\"46\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=128718927#results\">of wi<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=128718927#results\">nners<\/a> is a diverse one to say the least&#8230;&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To view the complete list, click on the link in the passage above. For now, check out the books that clocked in at 90 through 100:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li>90. <a href=\"http:\/\/innopac.noblenet.org\/record=b1515065~S4\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Goldfinger<\/em><\/a> by Ian Fleming<\/li>\n<li>91. <a href=\"http:\/\/innopac.noblenet.org\/record=b2104775~S4\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Bangkok 8<\/em><\/a> by John Burdett<\/li>\n<li>92. <a href=\"http:\/\/innopac.noblenet.org\/record=b1955343~S4\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Kill Artist<\/em><\/a> by Daniel Silva<\/li>\n<li>93. <a href=\"http:\/\/innopac.noblenet.org\/record=b2699083~S4\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Hardball<\/em><\/a> by Sara Paretsky<\/li>\n<li>94. <a href=\"http:\/\/innopac.noblenet.org\/record=b2114663~S50\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Club Dumas<\/em><\/a> by Arturo Perez-Reverte<\/li>\n<li>95. <a href=\"http:\/\/innopac.noblenet.org\/record=b1614912~S50\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Deep Blue Good-by<\/em><\/a> by John MacDonald<\/li>\n<li>96. <a href=\"http:\/\/innopac.noblenet.org\/record=b2263973~S50\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Monkey&#8217;s Raincoat<\/em><\/a> by Robert Crais<\/li>\n<li>96. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/innopac.noblenet.org\/record=b2179485~S50\" target=\"_blank\">Berlin Game<\/a> <\/em>by Len Deighton [tie]<\/li>\n<li>98.<em> <a href=\"http:\/\/innopac.noblenet.org\/record=b1717518~S50\" target=\"_blank\">A Simple Plan<\/a><\/em> by Scott Smith<\/li>\n<li>99. <a href=\"http:\/\/innopac.noblenet.org\/record=b2613314~S50\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Child 44<\/em><\/a> by Tom Rob Smith<\/li>\n<li>100. <a href=\"http:\/\/innopac.noblenet.org\/record=b2437171~S50\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Heartsick<\/em><\/a> by Chelsea Cain<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/goldfinger.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2470\" title=\"goldfinger\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/goldfinger.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"102\" height=\"154\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/kill-artist.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2471\" title=\"kill.artist\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/kill-artist.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"102\" height=\"154\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/club-dumas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2465\" title=\"club.dumas\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/club-dumas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"102\" height=\"154\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/heartsick.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2468\" title=\"heartsick\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/heartsick.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"102\" height=\"154\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a cliffhanger, but now the final page can be turned. The NPR audience nominated some 600 novels to our &#8220;Killer Thrillers&#8221; poll and cast more than 17,000 ballots. The final roster of winners is a diverse one to say the least&#8230;&#8221; To view the complete list, click on the link in the passage&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mystery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-DC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}