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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Every Last Fear
Firekeeper's Daughter
Every Vow You Break
The Girls Are All So Nice Here
Who Is Maud Dixon?
Her Dark Lies
She's Too Pretty to Burn
The Babysitter: My Summers with a Serial Killer
The Last House on Needless Street
The Lamplighters
Raft of Stars
The Poet (Samantha Jazz, #1)
Our Last Echoes
Girl in the Walls
The Castle School (for Troubled Girls)
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    Finding Tessa

    Release date: May 11, 2021
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  • Thread by J. Franklin Payne
    Thread: A Story Like No Other
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    Release date: Dec 03, 2020
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  • The Rift by Rachel Lynch
    The Rift

    Release date: Apr 22, 2021
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    The Next Wife
    The Guest List
    Win (Windsor Horne Lockwood III, #1)
    The Push
    The Silent Patient
    The Other Emily
    Verity
    The Sanatorium
    The Watcher Girl
    Drown Her Sorrows (Bree Taggert, #3)
    The Shadow Box
    The Wife Upstairs
    The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)
    Northern Spy
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    Gone Girl
    The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
    Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
    The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium, #2)
    Sharp Objects
    The Silent Patient
    The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium, #3)
    The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon, #3)
    The Woman in the Window
    Dark Places
    Inferno (Robert Langdon, #4)
    Digital Fortress
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