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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Odd Child Out (Jim Clemo #2)
This Darkness Mine
A Line in the Dark
Her Last Day (Jessie Cole, #1)
The Hanging Girl
Gun Shy
The Midnight Dance
Righteous (IQ, #2)
Mind Game (Eve Duncan #22)
Hello Again (The Evelyn Talbot Chronicles, #2)
The Breathless
Bad Girls with Perfect Faces
Killing Season (Killing Season #1-3)
The Murders of Molly Southbourne

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    Linwood Barclay

    Author of No Time for Goodbye

    Linwood Barclay is the #1 internationally bestselling author of thirteen novels, including Trust Your Eyes, A Tap on the Window, No Time for Goodbye and that novel's followup, No Safe House.
    This summer, his thriller Broken Promise, the first of three linked novels about his fictional upstate New York town Promise Falls, will be released. Book two will come nine months later, and another nine months after that, the conclusion will be released.
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