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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Invisible Girl
The Devil and the Dark Water
Plain Bad Heroines
The Hollow Places
They Never Learn
Five Total Strangers
Fortune Favors the Dead (Pentecost and Parker, #1)
Never Turn Back
In the Deep
I Hope You're Listening
Point of Danger (Triple Threat, #1)
The Nightworkers
We Were Restless Things
You Were Never Here
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    Every Last Secret
    The Searcher
    Leave the World Behind
    A Broken Bone (Widow's Island #6)
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    The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon, #3)
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    Dark Places
    The Woman in the Window
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