Mysteries & Thrillers Featuring One of Our Favorite Tropes: Unknown Identities
By Mary Kay McBrayer
If you love a thriller with mistaken identity, an alias, or even an imposter at its core cast of characters, then this short list of mystery and crime fiction is a great place to find your next page-turner!
This stream-of-consciousness narrative thriller is told from the perspective of Evie, whom we learn very quickly is not a real identity. Evie doesn’t exist. She’s an undercover operative for a private agency who assigns her jobs on a personal level. This time, she’s supposed to ruin the life of Ryan by moving in with him in the house he just inherited. Why? To what end? You’ll have to read to find out!
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Dr. Kay Scarpetta is summoned to the murder scene of her former lover, Sal Giordano in Rome, Italy. When she sees a circle of petals around his body, the skin of which has turned strangely red, she knows there will be more to the story than a first glance allows. It’s not until after the autopsy that other investigators start to suspect otherworldly forces.
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Kendall Deaton is the best public defender in the town of Prosper, South Carolina, and she’s married to one of the most powerful men there. When she discovers a small-town secret that makes people in the town want her gone so badly that they run her car off the road, Kendall gets herself and her baby out of the wreckage and into the sights of the authorities. But of course, because she’s been implicated, she can’t give them her real name now….
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Lachlan Harriot’s wife, Susie, is found covered in blood near the murder site of one of her clients. Even as she’s led to jail in handcuffs, Lachlan won’t believe that Susie is a killer, and he undertakes the act of proving her innocence… and along the way he uncovers false identities, affairs, and many other deceptions.
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Trade Paperback
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CIA Agent Tom Blake arrives on the scene of a pile of bodies in Paris. Except, that’s not Agent Blake. It’s Tom Reese, a man who stole Blake’s identity to hunt down his brother’s killer. The CIA figures out what’s happening before long, and when they and the real Agent Blake try to find Tom Reese, they both discover that he’s the latest subject of the mysterious Project Prometheus. Not even Reese knows what that is, nor what exactly it means.
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Trade Paperback
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Lamont Cranston’s a 1930s society man, and only two people in the world know that he has a secret identity as the vigilante hero, The Shadow. One of those people is the love of his life Margo Lane, and the other is his greatest nemesis, Shiwan Khan. When Khan ambushes them, their best chance of survival is in the future… but when Cranston wakes up one hundred and fifty years later, Khan’s power still looms large.
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