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
The Hollow Places
They Never Learn
Five Total Strangers
Fortune Favors the Dead (Pentecost and Parker, #1)
Never Turn Back
In the Deep
Cold as Ice (Lucy Kincaid #17)
I Hope You're Listening
We Were Restless Things
The Nightworkers
You Were Never Here
Cardiff, by the Sea: Four Novellas of Suspense
The Dollhouse Family
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    Release date: Sep 22, 2020
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  • Behind the Door by A. Gavazzoni
    Behind the Door (Hidden Motives #1)
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    Release date: Jan 07, 2017
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  • People Like Her by Ellery Lloyd
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    The Searcher
    One by One
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    Every Last Secret
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    Open House
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    The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium, #2)
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