Recommended books that are not upsetting and harrowing please/

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I have been reading through a lot of the book threads and also recommended books online and so many of them seem to be harrowing stories. I am not interested in anything like that.
i like thrillers, I like horror. Not into love stories. Just want something gripping that isn’t nasty and about abuse, neglect and violence. Do they exist?
Thanks!

Have you read the list of suspicious things, by jeannie Godfrey?

No I haven’t- thanks, I will check it out🙂

I am massively overworked at the moment and all my brain is coping with when I have some downtime are the Jack Reacher books by Lee Child. There’s a lot of violence in them, but the plots are very ‘good guys triumph/bad guys get what they deserve!’

My best friends exorcist and southern book club by Grady Hendrix

the theme of that book is the Yorkshire ripper- not a spoiler- and things that happen to other characters aren’t nice either 🤔

Nancy Mitford, Jilly Cooper, PG Wodehouse. Heartwarming and funny.

It's hard to think of a horror book that isn't "nasty" (isn't that kind of the point of horror?). How about M R James. He wrote ghost stories/horror but it's often a slow burn – beautifully written, wonderful settings and creepy without being too horrific. If you know nothing about him, watch the Mark Gatiss documentary on Youtube. It's brilliant.

Yes- I saw that and binned that idea. I am currently listening to piransei and haven’t got a bloody clue what is going on- apart from nothing.