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Best Thriller Books

Suspense and thriller novels

1,424 summaries

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  1. Palace of Treason

    Jason Matthews

    ★ 4.2 (19k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    Russian operative Dominika Egorova, a CIA mole, navigates a deadly world of love, espionage, Kremlin power, and assassination attempts as a mole hunt closes in and her forbidden passion for her handler threatens to unravel everything.

  2. The Jefferson Key

    Steve Berry

    ★ 3.9 (19k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    Cotton Malone uncovers Thomas Jefferson's secrets to stop a shadowy pirate society from using a hidden constitutional clause to fuel presidential assassinations.

  3. The Seven Dials Mystery

    Agatha Christie

    ★ 3.8 (19k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    When a prank involving eight alarm clocks ends in the discovery of a dead body and a missing timepiece, a seemingly innocent game at Chimneys transforms into a perilous quest to unravel a fatal mystery.

  4. The Secret Agent

    Joseph Conrad

    ★ 3.6 (19k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A Russian spy in London plans a disastrous anarchist bombing, exposing the dark ironies and widespread fear hidden beneath Edwardian society.

  5. Never Have I Ever

    Sara Shepard

    ★ 4.0 (19k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A murdered girl's long-lost twin sister steps into her seemingly perfect life to unmask a killer, only to discover a web of dangerous games and vengeful secrets that put her own life at risk.

  6. The Fourth Monkey

    J.D. Barker

    ★ 4.1 (19k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A detective races against time to decipher a dead serial killer's final, elaborate puzzle, navigating the psychopath's chilling diary and his own fractured past to save a kidnapped victim who may still be alive.

  7. The Mill River Recluse

    Darcie Chan

    ★ 3.6 (18k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    A reclusive, disfigured widow, hidden for decades in a marble mansion, holds a secret that will unravel the lives of a quaint Vermont town, from its nosy newcomers to a spoon-stealing priest.

  8. Sweetheart

    Chelsea Cain

    ★ 4.0 (18k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    Haunted by the serial killer who tortured him, Detective Archie Sheridan is drawn back into a deadly game of cat and mouse when she escapes, forcing him to confront his obsession to stop her, even if it means sacrificing himself.

  9. The Midnight Palace

    Carlos Ruiz Zafón

    ★ 3.6 (18k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In 1930s Calcutta, orphaned twins Ben and Sheere must unravel a sixteen-year-old mystery and confront a terrifying, shadowy entity that hunts them through the city's dark palaces on the eve of their sixteenth birthday.

  10. The Bourne Objective

    Eric Van Lustbader

    ★ 4.1 (18k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    After faking his death to unmask his attacker, Jason Bourne uncovers a plot involving a downed airliner and a secret group, forcing him to confront who wants him dead and who he truly is before a global war starts.

  11. Mississippi Blood

    Greg Iles

    ★ 4.4 (18k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    In the conclusion to a Southern epic, a grieving Penn Cage races to untangle his father's murder trial from the Klan-laced secrets of Mississippi's past, risking everything to save his family.

  12. Noble Beginnings

    L.T. Ryan

    ★ 3.8 (18k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A Marine on loan to the CIA in 2002 Iraq, Jack Noble's intervention to protect an Iraqi family from rogue agents pulls him into a deadly conspiracy that reaches the highest levels of the U.S. government.

  13. The Labours of Hercules

    Agatha Christie

    ★ 3.8 (18k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    Before he can retire, Hercule Poirot takes on twelve final cases, each a mystery mirroring the ancient Greek myths, from tracking a lost poet to unmasking a deadly cult leader.

  14. Lockdown

    Alexander Gordon Smith

    ★ 4.1 (18k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Framed for murder, Alex Sawyer is condemned to Furnace Penitentiary, a subterranean juvenile prison where gas-masked creatures, monstrous guards, and a devilish warden reveal a horrifying truth: death is the least of his worries in a place designed for something far more sinister than punishment.

  15. Mercy

    Lucian Bane

    ★ 4.1 (18k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A sadist's controlled world shatters when the enigmatic Mercy offers help, a proposition he intends to turn into his own twisted game.

  16. High Heat

    Lee Child

    ★ 4.0 (18k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    During the 1977 New York City blackout and Son of Sam panic, a young Jack Reacher helps a woman, beginning his vigilante path.

  17. The Perfect Wife

    J.P. Delaney

    ★ 3.7 (18k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A woman with no memory awakens to a tech mogul husband who claims she's a scientific resurrection, forcing her to question if his 'perfect wife' is a love story or a high-tech prison.

  18. The Minority Report

    Philip K. Dick

    ★ 3.8 (18k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    In a future where crimes are stopped before they start, the system's creator is accused by his own invention, forcing him to outwit fate to prove his innocence.

  19. The Witness

    Nora Roberts

    ★ 4.0 (18k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    Years after a traumatic night forced her into hiding, a reclusive programmer's defenses are challenged by a police chief who suspects her secrets hide a dangerous past.

  20. Meg

    Steve Alten

    ★ 3.8 (18k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    Haunted by a monstrous prehistoric shark he barely escaped, a disgraced deep-sea diver must confront his ultimate terror when the colossal Megalodon resurfaces from the abyss to claim new victims.

  21. The Pale Horse

    Agatha Christie

    ★ 3.8 (18k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A dying confession, a murdered priest, and a cryptic list of names plunge Mark Easterbrook into a sinister world where an ancient evil may be orchestrating modern-day murders.

  22. The Drowned World

    J.G. Ballard

    ★ 3.4 (18k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a flooded, tropical London of 2145, a biologist and his team navigate a city of giant iguanas and albino alligators, slowly changing psychologically and physically as Earth returns to a Triassic past.

  23. The Cradle Will Fall

    Mary Higgins Clark

    ★ 3.9 (18k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    In a hospital where healing and horror blur, a young prosecutor uncovers an abduction and a research project so twisted it threatens medicine.

  24. The 19th Christmas

    James Patterson

    ★ 3.9 (18k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    As Christmas nears, Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club race to unmask "Loman," a criminal planning a deadly holiday surprise for San Francisco during a city-wide crime wave.

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