Meg Gardiner's 6 favorite crime fiction books

Meg Gardiner is the author of sixteen acclaimed, award-winning novels. Her thrillers have been bestsellers in the U.S. and internationally and have been translated into more than twenty languages. China Lake won an Edgar Award and UNSUB, the first in Gardiner’s acclaimed UNSUB series, won a Barry Award. Her third UNSUB novel, The Dark Corners of the Night, has been bought by Amazon Studios for development as a television series. A former lawyer, three-time Jeopardy! champion, and two-time president of Mystery Writers of America, Gardiner lives in Austin, Texas.

[The Page 69 Test: The Dirty Secrets Club; The Page 69 Test: The Memory Collector; My Book, The Movie: Meg Gardiner's Evan Delaney series; The Page 69 Test: The Liar's Lullaby; My Book, The Movie: Meg Gardiner's Jo Beckett series; The Page 69 Test: The Nightmare Thief; The Page 69 Test: Ransom River; The Page 69 Test: The Shadow Tracer; The Page 69 Test: Phantom Instinct; The Page 69 Test: UNSUB; The Page 69 Test: Into the Black Nowhere; The Page 69 Test: The Dark Corners of the Night]

Gardiner's new novel, with director Michael Mann, is Heat 2. At The Week magazine Gardiner tagged six favorite books about crooks and their hunters, including:

Norco '80 by Peter Houlahan (2019)

This stunning true-crime book delivers both a riveting account of a wild Southern California bank robbery and an astonishing courtroom story. The robbery's haunting effect on victims, witnesses, and police officers is movingly portrayed.

Read about the other entries on the list.

The Page 99 Test: Norco ’80.

--Marshal Zeringue