The Best Mysteries & Thrillers Set in the Workplace
There are plenty of mysteries and thrillers that take you all around the world, but what about one set right where you work? We’ve got a list of the best thrillers that take place in the office—and we won’t blame you if you try to sneak a read at work!
The Intern's Handbook
Shane Kuhn
The Intern’s Handbook begins as an unofficial survival guide for new recruits at Human Resources, Inc.—a front for one of the most elite assassin training and “placement” programs in the world.
"Intern" John Lago is undercover at big Manhattan law firm to assassinate one of the firm's high profile, heavily guarded partners. But John's plans for a clean, untraceable kill turns into a twisted, violent thrill ride when he's pitted against the strongest (and sexiest) adversary he has ever faced: Alice, a federal agent assigned to investigate the same law firm partner John’s been hired to kill.
The Firm
John Grisham
When Mitch McDeere signed on with Bendini, Lambert & Locke of Memphis, he thought that he and his beautiful wife, Abby, were on their way. The firm leased him a BMW, paid off his school loans, arranged a mortgage, and hired a decorator for the McDeere's new home.
Mitch should have remembered what his brother Ray—doing fifteen years in a Tennessee jail—already knew: You never get nothing for nothing. Now the FBI has the lowdown on Mitch’s firm and needs his help. Mitch is caught between a rock and a hard place, with no choice–if he wants to live.
Vertical Run
Joseph R. Garber
Each morning in his 45th-floor executive office, David Elliot savors the quiet moments until the workday begins. That is, until today, when his boss walks in and aims a gun at him.
For the rest of the day, he will be trapped in his midtown office building, and everyone David Elliot meets will try to kill him. He has 24 hours to find out why. . .
The Circle
Dave Eggers
When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world’s most powerful internet company, she thinks she’s been given the opportunity of a lifetime—even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public.
What begins as the captivating story of one woman’s ambition and idealism soon becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense that raises questions about memory, history, privacy, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge.
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