Many God’s Father crime thrillers

It is one of the hardest things to choose a crime thriller of your choice, because there are many authors of this genre, which spans several decades. You are bombarded with crime stories all the time; and that is true even when you read a newspaper. It is therefore difficult to come up with something original. However, there are a few books that excite you. One such fiction is ‘Only Time Will Tell’ by Jeffry Archer. The epic story of Harry Clifton’s life begins in 1920 with the words: “I was told that my father was killed in the war.” Harry, a dockworker in Bristol, does not know who his father was.

He learns about the dockers from his uncle – who expects Harry to join him at the shipyard after he finishes school. But then everything in Harry’s life changes, when he gets a scholarship. Harry finally finds out how his father died. A few questions, like is he the son of Arthur Clifton, a dock worker who spent his whole life on the docks? Is he the first-born son of a scion of West Country society? It consists of colorful characters and takes you through the devastation of the Second World War.

This was the time when Harry had to decide whether to join Oxford or join the Navy and fight against Hitler’s Germany. The Only Time Will Tell takes us from the records of the English working class to the streets of 1940s New York City. Every page is a breathtaking portrait of events. Other page-turners that can drive you crazy are Fredrick Forsyth’s Icon, The Day of The Jackal and The Odessa File. Icon begins with the state of Russia in 1999.

Forsyth writes: “It was the summer when the price of a small loaf of bread was more than a million rubles.” While famine, crime, corruption and inflation ravage the country, a president sits in Moscow. A horde of unemployed roams the streets. In the midst of the total chaos in which Russia finds itself, Igor Komarov, a former army sergeant, rises to the leadership of the right-wing UPF. A document consisting of secret missions of the UPF or Black Manifesto is stolen from his office and smuggled to Washington and London.

Black Manifesto is related to Mein Kampf. Once you start reading it, you might want to read it all at once. The world of detective stories remains incomplete unless you are talking about Sherlock Holmes. Holmes and the Case of Sabina Hall is the book in which Holmes and Watson agree to take the Baker Street Suite together.

The book begins on a cold note – the state of Sabina Hall – where Holmes and Watson travel to. From the first page, the book spreads a hint of mystery. The thistle of Scotland, a rare jewel, becomes the pivot around which the mystery revolves and the fate of the Mowbray family – especially the daughter, Lady Caroline Mowbray. Thistle disappears in the presence of the guests at the wedding breakfast after Lady Caroline’s marriage to fortune hunter Dolph Stanely. Only Holmes can solve the mystery. Will he really? This is the gripping story hidden in the cold Sabina Hall. When we talk about the world of crime, we can hardly forget The Godfather by Mario Puzo.

It is one of the few novels that has managed to worm its way into the imagination of its readers as subtly as Puzo’s ‘The Godfather’. The book raises questions about the legitimacy of power obtained through violence. The main character of the novel is Don Vito Corleone. It is modeled on a real-life Mafia boss, the Sicilian-born Joseph Bonanno. Nevertheless, your last recommendation, which dates from the golden age of mystery writing, the 1930s, has yet to come.

It’s And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie. If she were alive today she would have a big problem because today’s Poirot couldn’t gather six or seven people in a room and interrogate them after giving a sermon. What the criminals would have told a detective like Poirot was to talk to their lawyers. But 50 years ago that wasn’t unfair. The other problem Christie would have had is DNA testing which came into being in 1986 and opened a new door to the world of detectives. So Christie might have missed it today.