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Best Thriller Books

Suspense and thriller novels

1,424 summaries

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  1. Killjoy

    Julie Garwood

    ★ 4.0 (14k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    An FBI analyst, haunted by a past shooting, must confront a brilliant assassin to save her aunt from a secluded, deadly plot.

  2. The Demon in the Freezer

    Richard Preston

    ★ 4.1 (14k) average on GoodreadsHistory

    After 9/11, a US virologist races to stop weaponized smallpox, brought back from storage and possibly made into a super-virus.

  3. Wink Poppy Midnight

    April Genevieve Tucholke

    ★ 3.3 (14k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A wild-haired girl, a manipulative queen, and the boy caught between them create a dangerous web of secrets and lies in a story where everyone is both hero and villain.

  4. When the Lion Feeds

    Wilbur Smith

    ★ 4.2 (13k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    In 19th-century South Africa, a young man's journey from a cattle farm to the Zulu Wars and the gold rush shapes him into a legend as fierce as the land.

  5. No Place Like Home

    Mary Higgins Clark

    ★ 3.9 (13k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A woman, haunted by a childhood tragedy, returns to her old home under a new identity, only to face a deadly game when a killer from her past resurfaces.

  6. The End of Everything

    Megan Abbott

    ★ 3.3 (13k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    When her best friend vanishes, a thirteen-year-old girl becomes the reluctant center of a suburban mystery, forcing her to confront unsettling truths about their bond and the secrets beneath their perfect lives.

  7. The Raft

    S.A. Bodeen

    ★ 3.8 (13k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Stranded in the vast Pacific after a cargo plane crash, experienced traveler Robie must battle dehydration, sharks, and her own dwindling hope alongside a mysterious co-pilot, Max, with only a bag of Skittles and a life raft between them and the crushing ocean.

  8. For the Sake of Elena

    Elizabeth George

    ★ 4.0 (13k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A murdered Cambridge student's web of conflicting identities and illicit affairs unravels under Scotland Yard's scrutiny, exposing dark academic and familial secrets.

  9. Jennifer Government

    Max Barry

    ★ 3.7 (13k) average on GoodreadsPolitics

    In a future where corporate identity is literal and assassination is a marketing strategy, a low-level employee's accidental hitman contract ignites a global chase with a government agent to expose the absurdity of unchecked capitalism.

  10. The Tin Roof Blowdown

    James Lee Burke

    ★ 4.2 (13k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    After Hurricane Katrina, Detective Dave Robicheaux navigates a lawless New Orleans, where stolen diamonds, desperate people, and a fight between good and evil unfold in a raw, memorable story.

  11. The Last Echo

    Kimberly Derting

    ★ 4.1 (13k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Haunted by the dead, a teenage girl with a macabre gift must navigate a deadly love triangle and a serial killer's obsession before she becomes the next trophy.

  12. Await Your Reply

    Dan Chaon

    ★ 3.5 (13k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    Three strangers, each running from a created past or an uncertain future, find their quests for identity linked by secrets, lies, and the echoes of a shared, hidden history.

  13. Breaking The Silence

    Diane Chamberlain

    ★ 4.2 (13k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A daughter's promise to her dying father uncovers a decades-old mystery, linking a silent child, a forgotten love, and a truth that shatters a woman's present and reveals her daughter's true parentage.

  14. Jumper

    Steven Gould

    ★ 3.9 (13k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A runaway teen with the power to instantaneously teleport across the globe discovers that a world without boundaries comes with exhilarating freedom and dangerous enemies.

  15. Nightrise

    Anthony Horowitz

    ★ 4.0 (13k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    As ancient evils awaken and a gate to another dimension opens, two psychically-linked twins must unlock their mysterious bond to join the fight against the Old Ones before humanity's last hope is extinguished.

  16. Sleepers

    Lorenzo Carcaterra

    ★ 4.2 (13k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    Four Hell's Kitchen friends, scarred by a year of brutal abuse in a juvenile home, reunite decades later to orchestrate an elaborate, high-stakes revenge plot that blurs the lines between street justice and legal manipulation.

  17. Dragon

    Clive Cussler

    ★ 3.9 (13k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    Dirk Pitt races to stop a Japanese industrialist from using atomic-era secrets and a tidal wave to attack the West.

  18. Nine Coaches Waiting

    Mary Stewart

    ★ 4.0 (13k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    In a secluded French chateau, a young governess uncovers a sinister plot against her orphaned charge, forcing her to distinguish between genuine protectors and charming manipulators amidst a web of family secrets and burgeoning romance.

  19. The Cleaner

    Mark Dawson

    ★ 3.7 (13k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A government assassin, haunted by a decade of sanctioned kills, seeks redemption by protecting a desperate mother and her son from a ruthless London gang, only to find himself hunted by his former employers amidst a city in chaos.

  20. Black Cherry Blues

    James Lee Burke

    ★ 4.2 (13k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    Haunted by a past he can't escape, ex-cop Dave Robicheaux is dragged from the Louisiana bayou into a deadly web of Mafia hitmen, federal agents, and personal demons, all while battling a homicide rap and his own alcoholism across the American West.

  21. Woman of God

    James Patterson

    ★ 3.8 (13k) average on GoodreadsSpirituality

    A compassionate doctor with a difficult past in Sudan becomes the unexpected and controversial frontrunner for Pope, starting a deadly power struggle within the Vatican where old ways clash with a new vision for the Church's future.

  22. The Little Sister

    Raymond Chandler

    ★ 4.0 (13k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    In the sun-drenched, shadow-laden world of 1940s Hollywood, Philip Marlowe navigates a serpentine trail of blackmail, drug rings, and escalating murders, all sparked by a seemingly innocent search for a missing brother.

  23. The Scarlatti Inheritance

    Robert Ludlum

    ★ 3.9 (13k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A Nazi's defection threatens to expose the 'Scarlatti Inheritance,' a secret that could ruin powerful Western figures and change World War II.

  24. The Auschwitz Escape

    Joel C. Rosenberg

    ★ 4.3 (13k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    A young Jewish man, after escaping Nazi Germany and joining the resistance, must find a way to break out of the horrific Auschwitz death camp and expose the Holocaust to a world on the brink of collapse.

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