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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Before We Were Strangers
For Better and Worse
Verses for the Dead (Pendergast, #18)
The Boy (Broussard and Fourcade, #2)
Hunting Annabelle
This Lie Will Kill You
The First Lady
Pandemic (Jack Stapleton & Laurie Montgomery, #11)
The Intern (Orphan X, #3.5)
What You Hide
Deadfall
The One That Got Away
Valiant
Il gioco del Suggeritore
Deep War: The War with China and North Korea—The Nuclear Precipice (Dan Lenson #18)
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    I Am Watching You
    An Anonymous Girl
    The Reckoning
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    My Sister, the Serial Killer
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    You (You, #1)
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    Deception Point
    Digital Fortress
    Dark Places
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    Aleatha Romig is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author who lives in Indiana. She grew up in Mishawaka, graduated from Indiana University, and is currently living south of Indianapolis. Aleatha has raised three children with her high school sweetheart and husband of nearly thirty years. Before she became a full-time author, she worked days as a dental hygienist and spent her nights writing. Now, when she's not imagining mind-blowing twists and turns, she likes to spend her time a with her family and friends. Her other pastimes include reading and creating heroes/anti-heroes who haunt your dreams!

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