Thriller

Thrillers are characterized by fast pacing, frequent action, and resourceful heroes who must thwart the plans of more-powerful and better-equipped villains. Literary devices such as suspense, red herrings and cliffhangers are used extensively.

Thrillers often overlap with mystery stories, but are distinguished by the structure of their plots. In a thriller, the hero must thwart the plans of an enemy, rather than uncover a crime that has already happened. Thrillers also occur on a much grander scale: the crimes that must be prevented are serial or mass murder, terrorism, assassination, or the ov
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The Twilight Wife
The Marriage Lie
The Seventh Plague (Sigma Force, #12)
Expecting to Die (To Die, #7)
Mind Games (Lock & Mori, #2)
Stalked (The Profiler #4)
The Midnight Bell (Sean Dillon, #22)
Kidnapped (Jon Roscoe Thriller #3)
Dark Fissures
Hunt the Dawn (Fatal Dreams, #2)
The List Conspiracy (Wallis Jones, #1)
Reginald Bones: Part One
Missing
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White Lies (The Black and White Duet, #2)

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