Nine thrillers in which class warfare is a zero-sum game

Eliza Jane Brazier is an author, screenwriter, and journalist.

If I Disappear is her adult debut. Her new novel is Good Rich People.

She currently lives in California, where she is developing her books for television.

At CrimeReads, Brazier tagged nine books that pit the Have against the Have-Nots, including:

Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld

Curtis Sittenfeld’s debut novel follows scholarship student Lee Fiora as she enters an exclusive prep school. Lee is looking for a better life but finds herself continually on the outside of her classmates’ glamourous lives.

Read about the other entries on the list.

Prep is among Bethany Ball's seven of the weirdest high schools in literature, James Scudamore's ten top books about boarding school, Caroline Zancan's eight stories about what really happens on campus, Lucy Worsley's six best books, and James Browning's ten best boarding school books.

--Marshal Zeringue