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Best Thriller Books

Suspense and thriller novels

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  1. The Complete Sherlock Holmes

    Arthur Conan Doyle

    ★ 4.5 (174k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    Don your deerstalker and prepare for Victorian London's most perplexing crimes, where Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson unravel mysteries from the scarlet-stained streets to the moors of Baskerville.

  2. The Bourne Supremacy

    Robert Ludlum

    ★ 4.1 (173k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A phantom assassin haunted by his past must confront a deadly imposter who is using his name to plunge the world into chaos.

  3. Bag of Bones

    Stephen King

    ★ 3.9 (173k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Four years after his wife's death, a grieving novelist returns to his haunted Maine summerhouse, only to be pulled into a custody battle and a terrifying supernatural mystery demanding he confront the malevolent secrets lurking within Sara Laughs.

  4. The Rainmaker

    John Grisham

    ★ 4.0 (173k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A broke, unproven law school graduate takes on a monolithic, corrupt insurance giant to expose a billion-dollar scam and fight for a dying boy's denied medical care, risking everything against the nation's most formidable legal defense.

  5. Naked in Death

    J.D. Robb

    ★ 4.1 (167k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    In 2058 New York, a cynical homicide detective investigates the murder of a senator's daughter, uncovering high-society secrets, illicit passions, and a dangerous attraction to her prime suspect, a charismatic billionaire.

  6. Career of Evil

    Robert Galbraith

    ★ 4.2 (167k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A severed leg sent through the mail starts private investigators Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott on a search for a killer from Strike's past before more body parts, and lives, are lost.

  7. Sphere

    Michael Crichton

    ★ 3.8 (167k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Beneath the crushing pressure of the Pacific, a team of scientists unearths a colossal, centuries-old spaceship, only to discover its true terror lies not in its alien origins, but in the dark reflections it casts upon their own minds.

  8. The Girls

    Lori Lansens

    ★ 3.5 (164k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    Joined at the head yet seeking individual lives, conjoined twins Rose and Ruby experience love, loss, and the journey of their shared existence as one sister writes their story.

  9. Shutter Island

    Dennis Lehane

    ★ 4.1 (163k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A U.S. Marshal investigates a vanished patient from a remote asylum for the criminally insane, only to confront a spiraling hurricane, sinister medical secrets, and the terrifying possibility that his own identity is the most dangerous illusion of all.

  10. The Haunting of Hill House

    Shirley Jackson

    ★ 3.8 (162k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    Four strangers seeking proof of the paranormal find themselves ensnared by Hill House, a malevolent entity that hungers for the fragile mind of one lonely woman to claim as its own.

  11. We Need to Talk About Kevin

    Lionel Shriver

    ★ 4.0 (162k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    A mother grapples with her own complicity and chilling dislike for her son, who has committed an unspeakable high school massacre, in a series of searing letters to her estranged husband.

  12. A is for Alibi

    Sue Grafton

    ★ 3.9 (162k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A twice-divorced P.I. with a soft spot for lost causes takes on the cold case of a woman convicted of killing her husband, only to uncover a second corpse and a sharper edge to her own investigation.

  13. Flowers in the Attic

    V.C. Andrews

    ★ 3.8 (161k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    Trapped in an attic by their greedy mother and cruel grandmother, four beautiful children fight for survival and sanity as years of isolation twist their innocence into a desperate struggle for freedom and revenge.

  14. Congo

    Michael Crichton

    ★ 3.6 (159k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A primatologist and a talking gorilla join a desperate expedition into the heart of the Congo, where a lost city, deadly diamond mines, and a terrifying, intelligent species of ape guard the secrets of a massacred research team.

  15. The Bone Collector

    Jeffery Deaver

    ★ 4.2 (158k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A quadriplegic forensic genius, confined to his bed, guides a young detective through New York's streets to decipher clues left by a serial killer who dismembers victims based on a forgotten historical terror.

  16. Verity

    Colleen Hoover

    ★ 4.3 (158k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A writer ghostwriting for an injured author finds a chilling autobiography that blurs truth and manipulation, forcing a choice between love and a devastating secret.

  17. The Dry

    Jane Harper

    ★ 4.0 (156k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    Amidst a devastating drought, a federal agent returns to his isolated hometown to investigate a friend's murder, only to unearth a shared, long-buried secret that threatens to expose the town's darkest truths.

  18. I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

    Michelle McNamara

    ★ 4.1 (155k) average on GoodreadsMemoir

    A tenacious true crime journalist's obsessive, posthumously published investigation into the Golden State Killer exposes the chilling details of his reign of terror and the wreckage left in his wake.

  19. The Black Echo

    Michael Connelly

    ★ 4.1 (155k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    Haunted by his past as a Vietnam 'tunnel rat,' LAPD detective Harry Bosch navigates departmental corruption and personal demons to find a killer, forcing him to choose between justice and vengeance.

  20. THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD

    Agatha Christie

    ★ 4.2 (153k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    In a village full of secrets, a doctor gets caught in a web of lies and murder, where an unexpected confession shatters trust.

  21. Trainspotting

    Irvine Welsh

    ★ 4.1 (153k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    This story follows the lives of Edinburgh's heroin addicts as they deal with friendship, betrayal, and the constant search for drugs, all while rejecting the normal 'choose life' mantra.

  22. Watchers

    Dean Koontz

    ★ 4.2 (153k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A man, a woman, and a smart golden retriever run from a genetically engineered assassin and a monster that escaped a secret lab.

  23. The Knife of Never Letting Go

    Patrick Ness

    ★ 4.0 (152k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a world where men's thoughts are a constant, audible torrent and all women have vanished, a young boy on the run discovers a silent girl who shatters everything he believes about his world and himself.

  24. You

    Caroline Kepnes

    ★ 3.9 (151k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A bookstore manager becomes a predator, creating a 'perfect' romance with a writer by using her online footprint. In an age of oversharing, privacy is a deadly illusion.

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