Can anyone recommend an excellent suspense novel that isn't about gore?

Can anyone recommend an excellent suspense novel that isn't about gore?
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Dan Brown’s “The Da Vinci Code” and/or “Angels and Daemons” are pretty suspenseful and not particularly gory.
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