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１，「Red Moon」 Benjamin Percy著
（Red Moon by Benjamin Percy）
「おおかみ人間のことが頭から離れない。」
内容紹介
Every teenage girl thinks she's different. When government agents kick down Claire Forrester's front door and murder her parents, Claire realises just how different she is. Patrick Gamble was nothing special until the day he got on a plane and, hours later, stepped off it, the only passenger left alive. A hero. President Chase Williams has vowed to eradicate the menace. Unknown to the electorate, however, he is becoming the very thing he has sworn to destroy. Each of them is caught up in a war that so far has been controlled with laws and violence and drugs. But an uprising is about to leave them damaged, lost, and tied to one another for ever. The night of the red moon is coming, when an unrecognizable world will emerge, and the battle for humanity will begin.
２，「The Marauders」 Tom Cooper著
（The Marauders by Tom Cooper）
「もしお金がクソだったら、貧乏人は肛門なしで生まれてくるだろう。」
内容紹介
When the BP oil spill devastates the Gulf coast, those who made a living by shrimping find themselves in dire straits. For the oddballs and lowlifes who inhabit the sleepy, working class bayou town of Jeannette, these desperate circumstances serve as the catalyst that pushes them to enact whatever risky schemes they can dream up to reverse their fortunes. At the center of it all is Gus Lindquist, a pill-addicted, one armed treasure hunter obsessed with finding the lost treasure of pirate Jean Lafitte. His quest brings him into contact with a wide array of memorable characters, ranging from a couple of small time criminal potheads prone to hysterical banter, to the smooth-talking Oil company middleman out to bamboozle his own mother, to some drug smuggling psychopath twins, to a young man estranged from his father since his mother died in Hurricane Katrina. As the story progresses, these characters find themselves on a collision course with each other, and as the tension and action ramp up, it becomes clear that not all of them will survive these events.
３，「Dominion」 C.J. Sansom著
（Dominion by C.J. Sansom）
「すごくよくできた架空歴史小説だ。ナチスが勝利しイギリスを支配する。注目すべき作品」
「ものすごい作品だ。これは出版社の自画自賛的広告のような言葉ではない。 私はこの小説にとてもほれ込んだ。いい小説だ。そして長い」
内容紹介
C.J. SANSOM REWRITES HISTORY IN A THRILLING NOVEL THAT DARES TO IMAGINE BRITAIN UNDER THE THUMB OF NAZI GERMANY.
1952. Twelve years have passed since Churchill lost to the appeasers and Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany. The global economy strains against the weight of the long German war against Russia still raging in the east. The British people find themselves under increasingly authoritarian rule--the press, radio, and television tightly controlled, the British Jews facing ever greater constraints.
But Churchill's Resistance soldiers on. As defiance grows, whispers circulate of a secret that could forever alter the balance of the global struggle. The keeper of that secret? Scientist Frank Muncaster, who languishes in a Birmingham mental hospital. Civil Servant David Fitzgerald, a spy for the Resistance and University friend of Frank's, is given the mission to rescue Frank and get him out of the country. Hard on his heels is Gestapo agent Gunther Hoth, a brilliant, implacable hunter of men, who soon has Frank and David's innocent wife, Sarah, directly in his sights.
４，「The Killer Next Door」 アレックス・マーウッド著
（The Killer Next Door by Alex Marwood）
「もしあなたがアレックス・マーウッドの"THE WICKED GIRLS"（邪悪な少女たち (ハヤカワ・ミステリ文庫)
）を読んだことがあるなら、彼女の新作であるこの作品はさらに気に入るだろう。 地獄のように恐ろしい。秀逸なキャラクター。」 内容紹介
No. 23 has a secret. In this bedsit-riddled south London wreck, lorded over by a lecherous landlord, something waits to be discovered. Yet all six residents have something to hide. Collette and Cher are on the run; Thomas is a reluctant loner; while a gorgeous Iranian asylum seeker and a 'quiet man' nobody sees try to stay hidden. And watching over them all is Vesta - or so she thinks. In the dead of night, a terrible accident pushes the neighbours into an uneasy alliance. But one of them is a killer, expertly hiding their pastime, all the while closing in on their next victim...As a cloying heatwave suffocates the city, events build to an electrifying climax in this dark, original and irresistibly compelling thriller.
５，「Local Souls」 Allan Gurganus著
（Local Souls by Allan Gurganus）
「文中に引用されていたジョー・ルイスの名言が気に入った。 "私はベストを尽くした。私が持つ全てを投じて、可能な限りのあらゆる手をうった。"」
内容紹介
Through memorable language and bawdy humor, Gurganus returns to his mythological Falls, North Carolina, home of Widow. This first work in a decade offers three novellas mirroring today s face-lifted South, a zone revolutionized around freer sexuality, looser family ties, and superior telecommunications, yet it celebrates those locals who have chosen to stay local. In doing so, Local Souls uncovers certain old habits adultery, incest, obsession still very much alive in our New South, a "Winesburg, Ohio" with high-speed Internet. Wells Tower says of Gurganus, "No living writer knows more about how humans matter to each other." Such ties of love produce hilarious, if wrenching, complications: "Fear Not" gives us a banker's daughter seeking the child she was forced to surrender when barely fifteen, only to find an adult rescuer she might have invented. In "Saints Have Mothers," a beloved high school valedictorian disappears during a trip to Africa, granting her ambitious mother a postponed fame that turns against her. And in a dramatic "Decoy," the doctor-patient friendship between two married men breaks toward desire just as a biblical flood shatters their neighborhood and rearranges their fates. Gurganus finds fresh pathos in ancient tensions: between marriage and Eros, parenthood and personal fulfillment. He writes about erotic hunger and social embarrassment with Twain's knife-edged glee. By loving Falls, Gurganus dramatizes the passing of Hawthorne s small-town nation into those Twitter-nourished lives we now expect and relish. Four decades ago, John Cheever pronounced Allan Gurganus "the most technically gifted and morally responsive writer of his generation." Local Souls confirms Cheever s prescient faith. It deepens the luster of Gurganus s reputation for compassion and laughter. His black comedy leaves us with lasting affection for his characters and the aching aftermath of human consequences. Here is a universal work about a village."
６，「The Secret Place」 Tana French
（The Secret Place by Tana French）
「グレイトな本だ。読みなさい。」
内容紹介
'A gripping read for those still pining for GONE GIRL' Elle's top five beach reads The photo shows a boy who was murdered a year ago. The caption says, 'I KNOW WHO KILLED HIM'. Detective Stephen Moran hasn't seen Holly Mackey since she was a nine-year-old witness to the events of Faithful Place. Now she's sixteen and she's shown up outside his squad room, with a photograph and a story. Even in her exclusive boarding school, in the graceful golden world that Stephen has always longed for, bad things happen and people have secrets. The previous year, Christopher Harper, from the neighbouring boys' school, was found murdered on the grounds. And today, in the Secret Place - the school noticeboard where girls can pin up their secrets anonymously - Holly found the card. Solving this case could take Stephen onto the Murder squad. But to get it solved, he will have to work with Detective Antoinette Conway - tough, prickly, an outsider, everything Stephen doesn't want in a partner. And he will have to find a way into the strange, charged, mysterious world that Holly and her three closest friends inhabit and disentangle the truth from their knot of secrets, even as he starts to suspect that the truth might be something he doesn't want to hear. From the multi-award-winning author of Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller In the Woods, The Secret Place is a searing novel of psychological suspense.
７，「The Accident」 Chris Pavone著
（The Accident by Chris Pavone）
「もしあなたが心底ドキドキすることが好きなら。この作品は今年のベストだ。」
内容紹介
From the author of the New York Times-bestselling and Edgar Award-winning The Expats
As dawn approaches in New York, literary agent Isabel Reed is turning the final pages of a mysterious, anonymous manuscript, racing through the explosive revelations about powerful people, as well as long-hidden secrets about her own past. In Copenhagen, veteran CIA operative Hayden Gray, determined that this sweeping story be buried, is suddenly staring down the barrel of an unexpected gun. And in Zurich, the author himself is hiding in a shadowy expat life, trying to atone for a lifetime’s worth of lies and betrayals with publication of The Accident, while always looking over his shoulder.
Over the course of one long, desperate, increasingly perilous day, these lives collide as the book begins its dangerous march toward publication, toward saving or ruining careers and companies, placing everything at risk?and everyone in mortal peril. The rich cast of characters?in publishing and film, politics and espionage?are all forced to confront the consequences of their ambitions, the schisms between their ideal selves and the people they actually became.
The action rockets around Europe and across America, with an intricate web of duplicities stretching back a quarter-century to a dark winding road in upstate New York, where the shocking truth about the accident itself is buried.
Gripping, sophisticated, layered, and impossible to put down, The Accident proves once again that Chris Pavone is a true master of suspense.
８，「Missing You」 Harlan Coben著
（Missing You by Harlan Coben）
「ハーラン・コベンの新作は、ひねりが効いてずぬけている。 特に警官の妻の描写が秀逸だ。私は嫉妬した。」
内容紹介
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Harlan Coben comes a heart-pounding thriller about the ties we have to our past?and the lies that bind us together?as the ultimate Internet scam unfolds....
Surfing an online dating site, NYPD detective Kat Donovan feels her whole world explode. Staring back at her is her ex-fiance, the man who shattered her heart?and whom she hasn’t seen in eighteen years.
But when Kat reaches out to the man in the profile, an unspeakable conspiracy comes to light. As Kat begins to investigate, her feelings are challenged about everyone she’s ever loved?even her father, whose cruel murder so long ago has never been fully explained.
With lives on the line, including her own, Kat must venture deeper into the darkness than she ever has before and discover if she has the strength to survive what she finds there.
９，「Doing Harm」 Kelly Parsons著
（Doing Harm by Kelly Parsons）
「最高の医療系スリラーだ。私は25年間読み続けている。 恐怖の手術室シーン、キャラクターがリアルで実在するかのよう。」
内容紹介
Steve Mitchell, happily married with a wife and two kids, is in line for a coveted position at Boston's University Hospital when his world goes awry. His over-reaching ambition causes him to botch a major surgery, and another of his patients mysteriously dies. Steve's nightmare goes from bad to worse when he learns that the mysterious death was no accident but the act of a sociopath. A sociopath he knows and who has information that could destroy Steve's career and marriage. A sociopath for whom killing is more than a means to an end: it's a game. Because he is under a cloud of suspicion and has no evidence, he knows that any accusations he makes won't be believed. So he must struggle to turn the tables, even as the killer skillfully blocks his every move. Detailing the politics of hospitals, the hierarchy among doctors and the life and death decisions that are made by flawed human beings, Doing Harm marks the debut of a major fiction career.
１０―１２，「The Southern Reach」三部作 Jeff Vandermeer著
（The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff Vandermeer）
「この作品を気に入った。インディー出版社から推薦された作品だ。奇妙であり魅惑的だ。」
内容紹介
If J.J. Abrams and Margaret Atwood collaborated on a novel, it might look something like ‘Annihilation’, the first in an extraordinary trilogy.
For thirty years, Area X, monitored by the secret agency known as the Southern Reach, has remained mysterious and remote behind its intangible border? an environmental disaster zone, though to all appearances an abundant wilderness. Eleven expeditions have been sent in to investigate; even for those that have made it out alive, there have been terrible consequences.
‘Annihilation’ is the story of the twelfth expedition and is told by its nameless biologist. Introverted but highly intelligent, the biologist brings her own secrets with her. She is accompanied by a psychologist, an anthropologist and a surveyor, their stated mission: to chart the land, take samples and expand the Southern Reach’s understanding of Area X.
But they soon find out that they are being manipulated by forces both strange and all too familiar. An unmapped tunnel is not as it first appears. An inexplicable moaning calls in the distance at dusk. And while each member of the expedition has surrendered to the authority of the Southern Reach, the power of Area X is far more difficult to resist.
‘Annihilation’ is the first volume in Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach trilogy, which will be published throughout 2014: volume two (’Authority’) in May, and volume three (’Acceptance’) in September 2014.
１３＆１４，「ナイスヴィル 影が消える町」と「The Homecoming」 カーステン・ストラウド著
（Niceville and The Homecoming by Carsten Stroud）
「頭がおかしくなるほど良い。超常的犯罪ホラー。ぶっ飛ばされたよ。」
「唯一無二の小説だ。あなたもこのような小説を読んだことがないはずだ。 フォークナーがスティーブン・キングと交配してできたような作品だ。」
内容紹介：「ナイスヴィル 影が消える町」
銀行強盗、老婦人の失踪……相次ぐ怪事件に、元特殊部隊隊員の刑事ニックは翻弄される。しかも事件は彼の目の届かぬところでも起きていた。ネットを悪用する卑劣漢、産業スパイと関わる警備会社。そして事件はニック自身の家族、地元の名家出身の妻ケイトの身にも降りかかろうとしていた。美しい南部のスモールタウンに、何が起きようとしているのか? 実力派の著者が真っ向からこの世ならぬ怪異を描く三部作の開幕篇。
内容紹介：「Homecoming」
When two plane crashes set off a spellbinding chain reaction of murder, inadvertent kidnapping, corporate corruption and financial double-dealing, Niceville detective Nick Kavanaugh has to investigate.
To add to his worries, he and his wife, Kate, have also just taken in brutally orphaned Rainey Teague. Something bothers Nick about Rainey - and it isn't just that the woman in charge of attendance at Rainey's school has suspiciously disappeared. In fact, people have long been disappearing from seemingly placid Niceville, including, most disturbingly, Kate's father.
Using his files, Kate and Nick start to unearth Niceville's blood-stained history, but something (or is it Nothing?) stands in their way ...
１５―２０，「Gone」シリーズ Michael Grant著
（Gone series by Michael Grant）
「Goneシリーズの最終作を今日読み終わった。やっとFAYZから解放されたよ。 しかしそれはいい時間だった。」
内容紹介
It's been eight months since all the adults disappeared. Gone. They've survived hunger. They've survived lies. But the stakes keep rising, and the dystopian horror keeps building in Plague, Michael Grant's fourth book in the New York Times bestselling Gone series.
A highly contagious fatal illness is spreading at an alarming rate, while sinister, predatory insects terrorize Perdido Beach. Sam, Astrid, Diana, and Caine are plagued by a growing doubt that they'll escape?or even survive?life in the FAYZ. With so much turmoil surrounding them, what desperate choices will they make when it comes to saving themselves and those they love?
２１，「Joyland」 Emily Schultz著
（Joyland by Emily Schultz）
「エミリー・シュルツは私のニューヒーローだ。」
内容紹介
Welcome to 1984 and the town of South Wakefield. Chris Lane is 14 and he's sure that he can see the future, or at least guess what's inside of Christie Brinkley's mind. But he can't foresee the closing of Joyland, the town’s only video arcade.
With the arcade’s passing comes a summer of teenage lust, violence, and a search for new entertainment. Never far away is Chris’s younger sister, Tammy, who plays spy to the events that will change the lives of her family and town forever. Joyland is a novel about the impossibility of knowing the future. Schultz brings the Cold War home in a novel set to the digital pulse of video games and the echoes of hair metal. Joyland is illustrated throughout by graphic novelist Nate Powell, whose work has been praised by Sin City creator Frank Miller as “observant, intimate cartooning [that] surgically cuts to the bone.”
２２，「密林の夢」 パチェット,アン著
（State of Wonder by Ann Patchett）
「強くおすすめするよ。」
内容紹介
製薬会社の研究員マリーナは、同僚の死をきっかけに画期的な新薬の極秘開発拠点であるアマゾンの奥地に赴くことになるが──。傑作『ベル・カント』のオレンジ賞受賞作家が放つ驚きと希望の物語
S・キング氏は自身の作品を書きながらも、多くの小説を読み漁っているんですね。どれも面白そうで惹かれます。
参照元：Stephen King’s Reading List: 22 Books Recommended via Twitter
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