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Best Thriller Books

Suspense and thriller novels

1,424 summaries

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  1. Promised Land

    Robert B. Parker

    ★ 3.9 (6k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    When a businessman hires Spenser to find his runaway wife, the detective uncovers a world of loan sharks, failing businesses, and a woman's desperate flight from a dangerous life.

  2. Riot House

    Callie Hart

    ★ 4.0 (6k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    At a cutthroat elite academy, a quiet new student with a dark past becomes the prey of the school's most ruthless boys, unaware that she harbors a far more dangerous predator within, ready to unleash a calculated revenge for her mother's suspicious death.

  3. Chain Letter

    Christopher Pike

    ★ 3.6 (6k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A year after covering up a fatal accident, seven friends are stalked by a mysterious 'Caretaker' who forces them into a deadly game of escalating dares and revenge via a terrifying chain letter.

  4. Mayday

    Nelson DeMille

    ★ 4.0 (6k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    When a missile cripples a jumbo jet high above the Pacific, three desperate survivors, including a terrified teenage girl clinging to the floor as the cabin rips apart, must defy the impossible and land the plane before they're all sucked into the void.

  5. Death Sentence

    Alexander Gordon Smith

    ★ 4.3 (6k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Imprisoned in the inescapable Furnace, Alex's second breakout attempt plunges him into a sinister transformation, as the warden's dark nectar courses through his veins, twisting him into the very monster he dreads and making the prison not just a place, but a part of him.

  6. My Soul to Take

    Rachel Vincent

    ★ 3.8 (6k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    Caught between a budding romance and a terrifying supernatural compulsion to scream before classmates mysteriously die, Kaylee must uncover the truth behind her curse before she becomes the next victim.

  7. Killing Me Softly

    Nicci French

    ★ 3.7 (6k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A brilliant scientist's life unravels into obsession and terror after a single glance at a charismatic stranger pulls her into a love affair as intoxicating as it is deadly.

  8. Popcorn

    Ben Elton

    ★ 3.5 (6k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    A nihilistic spree killer kidnaps a self-important Hollywood director, forcing him to confront the real-world consequences of his violent art as their hostage crisis becomes a twisted, live-broadcasted spectacle.

  9. Sick Fux

    Tillie Cole

    ★ 4.1 (6k) average on GoodreadsRomance

    A childhood bond formed in innocence becomes a dark, blood-soaked quest for revenge as two damaged people, once separated by great cruelty, reunite to systematically ruin the lives of those who shattered their world.

  10. No Safety in Numbers

    Dayna Lorentz

    ★ 3.5 (6k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    Trapped in a suburban mega-mall under mysterious lockdown, four teens must navigate dwindling supplies, escalating panic, and a deadly illness to survive as civilization crumbles around them.

  11. Haunted

    Chuck Palahniuk

    ★ 3.8 (6k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A group of aspiring artists, trapped in a decaying theater with dwindling resources, weave increasingly grotesque and competitive tales of survival, each vying to become the protagonist of their shared, manufactured horror story.

  12. Loitering with Intent

    Stuart Woods

    ★ 3.8 (6k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    After a breakup and dwindling finances, Stone Barrington's search for a wealthy man's missing son in Key West turns from a tropical escape into a dangerous game when he becomes a target.

  13. The Betrayal of Natalie Hargrove

    Lauren Kate

    ★ 3.2 (6k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A carefully planned path to prom queen unravels into a nightmare of secrets and death when Natalie's ambition turns a prank into a fatal mistake.

  14. A Long Fatal Love Chase

    Louisa May Alcott

    ★ 3.7 (6k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    After selling her soul for freedom, a young woman is swept into a perilous, globe-trotting chase across 19th-century Europe, relentlessly pursued by the enigmatic and obsessive man who first promised her escape.

  15. Bolt

    Dick Francis

    ★ 4.0 (6k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    Jockey Kit Fielding races against a ruthless arms dealer, navigating threats to unmask those behind the killing of racehorses before he becomes the next victim.

  16. Nearly Gone

    Elle Cosimano

    ★ 4.0 (6k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A trailer park teen with a secret power to taste emotions must decipher cryptic newspaper ads left by a serial killer preying on her classmates before she becomes the next victim.

  17. Island

    Aldous Huxley

    ★ 3.8 (6k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    Shipwrecked on a utopian island, a cynical journalist sent to orchestrate its downfall finds his own values transformed by the society he was sent to destroy.

  18. The White Plague

    Frank Herbert

    ★ 3.7 (6k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Driven mad by his family's murder, a bioweapons expert unleashes a gender-specific plague, targeting women in his quest for vengeance.

  19. Shades of Gray

    Brooke McKinley

    ★ 4.0 (6k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    An FBI agent's rigid view of good and bad breaks down when he falls for the drug runner he's trying to flip, leading them to flee a cartel boss and navigate their forbidden attraction.

  20. The Body in the Woods

    April Henry

    ★ 3.9 (6k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    Three teen rescuers, each dealing with personal issues, find a murdered girl in the Oregon wilderness, forcing them to work together and unmask a killer before they become the next victims.

  21. Double or Die

    Charlie Higson

    ★ 4.1 (6k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Before he was 007, a young James Bond deciphers cryptic clues to save a kidnapped professor and the world from a global threat.

  22. The Christmas Thief

    Mary Higgins Clark

    ★ 3.6 (6k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A former scam artist, newly out of prison, races against time and an unwitting public to reclaim a flask of priceless diamonds hidden in the branches of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, all while an amateur sleuth and her PI friend, along with a newly-missing victim of his past scheme, unknowingly close in.

  23. Nobody

    Jennifer Lynn Barnes

    ★ 3.4 (6k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a world where forgotten 'Nobodies' are trained as assassins, a teenage girl who slipped through the cracks finds her only connection to existence in the boy sent to eliminate her.

  24. The Body of Christopher Creed

    Carol Plum-Ucci

    ★ 3.9 (6k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    Christopher Creed, the town outcast, vanishes, uncovering a web of secrets and shifting suspicion to unexpected people, changing the lives of those left behind.

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