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
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The Wives
In the Dark
The Dead Girls Club
A Madness of Sunshine
Good Girls Lie
Reputation
The Playground
Just Watch Me (Riley Wolfe #1)
Trace of Evil (Natalie Lockhart #1)
Anyone
Thin Ice (Alaska Wild Mysteries #1)
The Kill Club
A Small Town: A Novel of Crime
The Intended Victim (The Agency #4)
The Assistant
  • The Dead Girls Club by Damien Angelica Walters
    The Dead Girls Club
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    A supernatural thriller in the vein of A Head Full of Ghosts about two young girls, a scary story that becomes far too real, and the tragic—and ...more
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  • Mother Knows Best by Kira Peikoff
    Mother Knows Best
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    Release date: Sep 10, 2019
    A mother's worst nightmare, a chance at redemption, and a deadly secret that haunts a family across the generations.

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  • The Silent Patient
    Unspeakable Things
    The Wives
    The Family Upstairs
    Lost Hills (Eve Ronin #1)
    Blue Moon (Jack Reacher, #24)
    Photographing the Dead (Nameless #2)
    The Woman in the Window
    The Praying Mantis Bride (Nameless #3)
    The Turn of the Key
    What You Did
    Memories of Tomorrow (Nameless #6)
    The Institute
    Red Rain (Nameless #4)
    The Mercy of Snakes (Nameless #5)
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    Stiff by Mary RoachThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken KeseyThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
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    Best Action-Adventure Novels
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    The Girl on the Train
    The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
    Gone Girl
    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
    Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
    The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium, #2)
    The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium, #3)
    The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon, #3)
    Sharp Objects
    Dark Places
    Inferno (Robert Langdon, #4)
    Digital Fortress
    Deception Point
    The Woman in the Window
    The Silence of the Lambs  (Hannibal Lecter, #2)

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