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Best Thriller Books

Suspense and thriller novels

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  1. The Winner Stands Alone

    Paulo Coelho

    ★ 3.4 (32k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    At the Cannes Film Festival, a killer driven by a twisted vision of immortality hunts his next victim, forcing a look at the dark side of celebrity and the cost of chasing illusions.

  2. The Passenger

    Lisa Lutz

    ★ 3.7 (32k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    After fleeing her husband's suspicious death, a woman with a troubled past takes on many identities and forms a risky partnership with a fellow drifter, desperate to escape the secrets that pursue her.

  3. The Whole Truth

    David Baldacci

    ★ 4.0 (32k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    When a shadowy organization's manipulation of international tensions for a defense contractor spirals towards global conflict, a skilled operative must confront the terrifying reality that he might be igniting World War III.

  4. Jamaica Inn

    Daphne du Maurier

    ★ 3.9 (32k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    Orphaned Mary Yellan uncovers a terrifying smuggling ring and forbidden love within the desolate, storm-battered walls of her uncle's foreboding Cornwall inn.

  5. The Good Widow

    Liz Fenton

    ★ 3.8 (32k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A widow reeling from the sudden death of her husband discovers he died in Hawaii with another woman, prompting her to team up with the other woman's fiancé to uncover the truth behind their shared betrayal and the mysterious accident.

  6. Fever Dream

    Douglas Preston

    ★ 4.1 (32k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A Special Agent's decade-old grief for his supposedly deceased wife shatters when he unearths her murder, spiraling him into a treacherous quest to expose her killer and confront the shocking truth of the woman he never truly knew.

  7. Chasing the Dime

    Michael Connelly

    ★ 4.0 (32k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A tech mogul, adrift after a breakup, stumbles into a dangerous digital underworld of escorts and murder when he answers a phone meant for a woman named Lilly, forcing him to trade his pursuit of millions for a fight for his life.

  8. Whiteout

    Ken Follett

    ★ 3.6 (32k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    Amidst a Christmas Eve blizzard, a security director races against time to recover twelve stolen samples of a deadly virus from a converging group of desperate individuals, each with their own hidden agenda, before the whiteout becomes a bloodbath.

  9. The 39 Steps

    John Buchan

    ★ 3.6 (32k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    Framed for murder and pursued across the Scottish moors by a ruthless conspiracy, Richard Hannay must decipher the enigmatic 'thirty-nine steps' to unmask an assassination plot threatening to plunge Europe into war.

  10. Lord Edgware Dies

    Agatha Christie

    ★ 3.9 (32k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    When a woman claims to have killed her husband, only for him to turn up dead with her having an ironclad alibi, Hercule Poirot must untangle a web of lies where nothing is as it seems.

  11. Curtain

    Agatha Christie

    ★ 4.1 (31k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A dying Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings reunite at Styles to catch a murderer, 'X,' before they kill again, in a final case that costs the detective his life.

  12. Promises in Death

    J.D. Robb

    ★ 4.4 (31k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    When a fellow cop and friend of her chief medical examiner is brutally murdered, Lieutenant Eve Dallas must navigate a web of secrets stretching from Atlanta to New York, only to find the killer's taunting threats connect directly to her own dark past, promising a deadly confrontation.

  13. Cradle and All

    James Patterson

    ★ 3.9 (31k) average on GoodreadsSpirituality

    As immaculate conceptions herald a global apocalypse, a former nun turned PI must unravel a divine conspiracy to save two virgin mothers and humanity's future from an unholy war between light and darkness.

  14. Life Expectancy

    Dean Koontz

    ★ 4.0 (31k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Haunted by his dying grandfather's chilling prophecy of five dark days, Jimmy Tock must confront an escalating series of nightmarish events, each pushing him closer to a destiny as terrifying as it is wondrous.

  15. Silent Scream

    Angela Marsons

    ★ 4.0 (31k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    D.I. Kim Stone unearths a decades-old pact of silence and murder, forcing her to confront the chilling echoes of her own past to stop a killer whose gruesome spree began with a child's grave.

  16. Lunar Park

    Bret Easton Ellis

    ★ 3.6 (31k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A famous author, Bret Ellis, is haunted by his past and the specter of his own fictional creations. He descends into a terrifying reality where his new family and his sanity are threatened by murders that mirror his darkest novels.

  17. Midnight Bayou

    Nora Roberts

    ★ 4.0 (31k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    An impulsive lawyer buys a decaying New Orleans mansion, uncovering a century-old tragedy and a passionate romance as he battles ghostly visions and unearths the house's dark secrets with a woman tied to its past.

  18. The Crossing Places

    Elly Griffiths

    ★ 3.9 (31k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A solitary forensic archaeologist, who likes ancient bones and two cats, is drawn into a modern mystery when child remains on a desolate beach link to a decade-old disappearance, a taunting killer, and her Iron Age home.

  19. Broken Angels

    Richard K. Morgan

    ★ 3.9 (31k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A jaded mercenary hunts an alien starship gate on a war-torn planet, navigating radioactive ruins and deadly nanotechnology in a future where consciousness shifts bodies, proving loyalty only to himself.

  20. The Vanishing Stair

    Maureen Johnson

    ★ 4.2 (31k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    Pulled from the enigmatic Ellingham Academy, true-crime sleuth Stevie Bell is forced to choose between unraveling a decades-old mystery that has already claimed one classmate and protecting a fragile, forbidden romance with the son of a powerful, manipulative politician.

  21. The Judas Strain

    James Rollins

    ★ 4.1 (31k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    A deadly plague linked to an ancient threat sweeps the globe. A SIGMA Force commander races against time with an unlikely ally, following Marco Polo's trail to a cure hidden in humanity's genetic code, all while battling a madman and potential betrayal.

  22. The Quiet Game

    Greg Iles

    ★ 4.2 (31k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A widowed lawyer returns to his Mississippi hometown, only to unearth a decades-old murder, a blackmail scheme against his father, and the tangled, dangerous secrets of his own past, all while battling a corrupt judge and the lingering presence of J. Edgar Hoover's legacy.

  23. From Russia With Love

    Ian Fleming

    ★ 3.9 (31k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    James Bond becomes the ultimate target of a Soviet assassination plot, lured by a defector onto the Orient Express where SMERSH's assassins wait.

  24. The Last Days of Night

    Graham Moore

    ★ 4.1 (31k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    In a city ready for electric light, a young lawyer risks everything to defend George Westinghouse against Thomas Edison, uncovering ambition, espionage, and invention where everyone has a shocking secret.

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