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Best Thriller Books

Suspense and thriller novels

1,424 summaries

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  1. Blood Will Tell

    Young, Samantha Young

    ★ 4.0 (2k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A young soul eater, haunted by hunger and a prophecy about her first kill, finds her monstrous fate challenged by a new boy's humanity, only to learn his betrayal might make her choose between revenge and redemption.

  2. Liberty

    Stephen Coonts

    ★ 4.1 (2k) average on Goodreads

    A rogue Russian general sells four nuclear warheads to a radical Islamic terrorist group planning to ignite a holy war in America. Ex-CIA operative Jake Grafton races to stop the apocalypse, uncovering a conspiracy that reaches the highest levels of power.

  3. Claim to Fame

    Margaret Peterson Haddix

    ★ 3.5 (2k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A child star with telepathic abilities escapes her controlling father, only to uncover a conspiracy involving her presumed-dead mother and the true source of her powers.

  4. Gone Too Far

    Natalie D. Richards

    ★ 3.8 (2k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A high school outcast finds a sinister notebook detailing student 'sins' and mutilated photos, then gets pulled into a deadly game of anonymous texts and escalating tragedies when the first name on the list dies under suspicious circumstances.

  5. The Marbled Swarm

    Dennis Cooper

    ★ 3.3 (2k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    In a world of inherited secrets and high artifice, a narrator searches for the truth behind 'the marbled swarm,' a language key to generations of coercion hidden beneath French aristocracy.

  6. Hope to Die

    Lawrence Block

    ★ 3.9 (2k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    Matthew Scudder investigates the murder of an upscale couple and the subsequent killer-suicide, suspecting a clever mastermind is still at large and just beginning his deadly performance.

  7. The Last Good Man

    A.J. Kazinski

    ★ 3.5 (2k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A cynical detective, tasked with protecting Denmark's 'good people' from a global assassin targeting the righteous, must overcome his own jaded view of humanity and team up with a grieving astrophysicist to stop the final two murders of the legendary '36 Just Men' before the world plunges into chaos.

  8. Into the Dark

    Karen Rose

    ★ 4.4 (2k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A child's harrowing escape from an abusive stepfather ignites a dangerous quest for vengeance, forcing a guarded doctor and a protective coach to confront their own dark pasts while shielding him from a relentless killer.

  9. Agent 21

    Chris Ryan

    ★ 4.1 (2k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    Orphaned by a mysterious mass murder, teenager Zak Darke is recruited by a shadowy government agency, becoming Agent 21 and stepping into a perilous world where the fate of the twenty agents before him remains a chilling secret.

  10. Blink and Caution

    Tim Wynne-Jones

    ★ 3.6 (2k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A chance encounter in a crime scene hotel room forces a resourceful street punk and a guarded runaway to forge an unlikely alliance against dangerous criminals and their own haunted pasts.

  11. No Orchids for Miss Blandish

    James Hadley Chase

    ★ 3.7 (2k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    An innocent heiress's kidnapping spirals into a nightmarish descent into depravity when she falls into the clutches of a sadistic mother and son, forcing a detective to race against time to save what's left of her.

  12. The Keeper

    Suzanne Woods Fisher

    ★ 3.3 (2k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A determined Amish woman, set on marrying her childhood sweetheart, confronts a mysterious beekeeper she blames for their wedding's delay, only to discover her heart's true path might lie beyond her carefully laid plans.

  13. The House of Stairs

    Barbara Vine

    ★ 3.8 (2k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A chance encounter reignites a dormant, toxic friendship between two women, forcing them to confront the 'terrible things' of their past as a terrifying intimacy reclaims their lives in 1960s London.

  14. Nothing Gold Can Stay

    Dana Stabenow

    ★ 4.1 (2k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    In the vast Alaskan Bush, State Trooper Liam Campbell hunts a killer whose escalating violence threatens to shatter the peace and expose a truth more chilling than winter.

  15. Asylum

    Madeleine Roux

    ★ 3.9 (2k) average on GoodreadsPsychology

    When a summer program places three teens in a former asylum for the criminally insane, they uncover a terrifying, shared past that refuses to stay buried, blurring the lines between their present and the institution's chilling history.

  16. Plague

    Michael Grant

    ★ 3.8 (2k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    In a town where adults have vanished, a new, terrifying plague and monstrous insects threaten the remaining children, forcing them to confront their deepest fears and make impossible choices to survive.

  17. Messiah

    Gore Vidal

    ★ 4.2 (2k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    When a charismatic new spiritual leader emerges in a future America promising an end to suffering through technology, a cynical journalist uncovers a terrifying conspiracy to control humanity's very essence.

  18. The Nightmarys

    Dan Poblocki

    ★ 3.8 (2k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    His brother's decaying face haunts his waking hours, and his best friend succumbs to monstrous visions. Timothy must uncover the new girl Abigail's dark secret before his nightmares become real.

  19. Dead End

    R.L. Stine

    ★ 3.6 (2k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Teenagers who covered up a fatal car accident are terrorized by an anonymous blackmailer who knows their secret, leaving them trapped and afraid.

  20. Red Leaves

    Thomas H. Cook

    ★ 3.8 (2k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    When his son becomes the main suspect in a child's disappearance, a father's desperate search for the truth unearths family secrets and shattered trust in their perfect-seeming town.

  21. A Crime in the Neighborhood

    Suzanne Berne

    ★ 3.5 (2k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    In the summer of 1973, a nine-year-old girl navigates a suburban murder investigation and her family's breakdown, as her childhood suspicions spark a town's growing paranoia.

  22. Trojan Horse

    Mark Russinovich

    ★ 3.8 (2k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    Two years after averting global cyber-catastrophe, analyst Jeff Aiken and agent Daryl Haugen face an invisible, untraceable trojan that distorts reality itself, threatening to collapse the digital world and ignite a new global conflict.

  23. Everglades

    Randy Wayne White

    ★ 4.0 (2k) average on GoodreadsLifestyle

    Marine biologist Doc Ford goes into the Everglades to find a friend's missing husband and confronts a guru's plan that endangers people and the environment.

  24. The Chosen One

    Carol Lynch Williams

    ★ 3.7 (2k) average on GoodreadsPolitics

    In an isolated, polygamous community, thirteen-year-old Kyra must defy a tyrannical Prophet and risk everything to escape a forced marriage to her sixty-year-old uncle, all while secretly devouring forbidden books and dreaming of a love she can choose.

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