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 Night Before
Disappearing Earth
Cari Mora
The Last Time I Saw You
A Perfect Lie
Necessary People
Tell No One
Into the Jungle
The Vanishing Season (The Collector, #4)
The Never Game (Colter Shaw #1)
Mine
If She Wakes
The Missing Season
Keep This to Yourself
Last Things
  • Buried by Ellison Cooper
    Buried (Agent Sayer Altair, #2)
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    Release date: Jul 16, 2019
    In Ellison Cooper’s suspense thriller Buried, an FBI neuroscientist is on the trail of a serial killer who’s turned up the heat on a cold case…

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  • Adrenaline by John Benedict
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    Release date: Dec 03, 2013
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  • The Line Between by Tosca Lee
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    From NEW YORK TIMES bestseller Tosca Lee!

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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.
    Over the years, several of Barclay's novels have been optioned for film and television. Most recently, No Time for Goodbye has been optioned for television in France, and in 2012, Trust Your Eyes was the object of a film rights bidding war between Universal and Warner Bros.

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