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Best Thriller Books

Suspense and thriller novels

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  1. The Tears of Autumn

    Charles McCarry

    ★ 4.0 (2k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    A former agent, haunted by the truth behind a president's assassination, defies his government and a secret group, traveling across continents to expose a conspiracy that could shatter international order.

  2. Hunter

    Mercedes Lackey

    ★ 4.2 (2k) average on GoodreadsRomance

    When a Hunter from a mountain community arrives in Apex City, she uncovers a conspiracy: the city's powerful leaders are manipulating the monstrous Othersider threat for their own gain, making them a greater danger than the creatures she hunts.

  3. True Lies

    Sara Shepard

    ★ 3.8 (2k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A jilted teen queen bee navigates a summer of disappearing boyfriends, vengeful best friends, and a rival sister determined to steal her social crown.

  4. Invisible City

    M.G. Harris

    ★ 3.7 (2k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Orphaned by a mysterious plane crash, teenager Joshua enters the Mexican jungle, pursued by a hitman, to uncover a world-altering secret tied to ancient prophecies and extraterrestrial forces.

  5. Beyond Reason

    Autumn Jones Lake

    ★ 4.6 (2k) average on GoodreadsRomance

    Charlotte's dark past threatens to shatter her future with Teller, forcing her to confront buried secrets and prove her loyalty to the man who loves her despite the lies that could destroy them.

  6. They Never Came Home

    Lois Duncan

    ★ 3.5 (2k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    When a cryptic phone call shatters the fragile peace surrounding her brother and boyfriend's disappearance, Joan is pulled into a terrifying game of cat and mouse where the truth is far more sinister than their presumed deaths.

  7. Pretty Little Devils

    Nancy Holder

    ★ 3.8 (2k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    To join the Pretty Little Devils, Hazel must sacrifice more than her innocence; their exclusive parties hide a sinister price for popularity.

  8. Dreadful Sorry

    Kathryn Reiss

    ★ 4.1 (2k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    After a near-drowning, seventeen-year-old Molly finds her nightmares manifesting as vivid visions, pulling her into the century-old mystery of a girl who once inhabited her own house.

  9. Extreme Measures

    Vince Flynn

    ★ 3.9 (2k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    When a dedicated counterterrorism operative is betrayed by the very government he swore to protect, he must fight to clear his name while uncovering a conspiracy that threatens the nation he loves.

  10. Executive

    Leslie Wolfe

    ★ 4.1 (2k) average on GoodreadsPolitics

    When a rogue drone turns a Florida highway into a kill zone, an executive uncovers a conspiracy of corporate greed and poor leadership behind the very technology designed to protect, threatening to expose a deadly secret that reaches the highest levels of power.

  11. The Resurrectionist

    James Bradley

    ★ 2.8 (2k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    In 1826 London, a young anatomist's ambition to study cadavers pulls him into a corrupt world of body snatchers and murder, where the line between life and death blurs with every stolen corpse.

  12. Death by Denim

    Linda Gerber

    ★ 4.0 (2k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    In Paris, a teen girl trying to outrun assassins and follow her mother's survival rules struggles with her feelings for her boyfriend, leading her to a deadly confrontation in Italy that puts them both in danger.

  13. The Dead Man in Indian Creek

    Mary Downing Hahn

    ★ 3.9 (2k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    When two boys discover a corpse by Indian Creek, their summer camping trip transforms into a chilling detective hunt as they spy on a suspicious new boyfriend and uncover dark secrets lurking within an antique store.

  14. Velocity

    Dean Koontz

    ★ 3.9 (2k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A bartender's ordinary life shatters into a high-speed nightmare when he's forced to choose which innocent person dies next, making him the unwilling puppet in a psychopath's deadly game.

  15. Layer Cake

    J.J. Connolly

    ★ 4.0 (2k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A smooth-talking London cocaine dealer, aiming for early retirement, finds his exit from the criminal underworld unraveling into a deadly 'layer cake' of double-crosses, neo-Nazis, and a missing socialite, forcing him to become a hitman just to survive.

  16. Never Go Back

    Lee Child

    ★ 3.7 (2k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    An ex-military drifter returns to his old unit's headquarters to meet a captivating voice, only to be charged with a 16-year-old murder and forcibly reinstated into the army. His nostalgic visit quickly becomes a fight for freedom and survival.

  17. Contagion

    Erin Bowman

    ★ 3.8 (1k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A routine rescue mission to a desolate mining planet turns into a horrifying fight for survival when a skeleton crew unearths a parasitic alien horror that can reanimate the dead and rewrite human minds.

  18. The Lifeguard

    Richie Tankersley Cusick

    ★ 3.6 (1k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    On a glamorous island where sunny beaches hide a dark secret, a teenager’s summer dream turns into a nightmare of suspicious drownings and the chilling realization that the lifeguards meant to save lives might be the ones taking them.

  19. The Book of Revelation

    Rupert Thomson

    ★ 3.4 (1k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    After a dancer is abducted and tortured for eighteen days by three mysterious women, he is released into a new kind of hell: the isolating torment of an unbelievable truth and the sinister connection between sexuality and power.

  20. Jude

    Kate Morgenroth

    ★ 4.2 (1k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    After seeing his father murdered, fifteen-year-old Jude navigates silence, political schemes, and family secrets in a desperate bid for his DA mother's approval, only to find his quest for acceptance turning into a burning desire for revenge.

  21. The Prize

    Julie Garwood

    ★ 3.9 (1k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    After a forced marriage in post-conquest England, a Saxon captive and a Norman baron navigate treachery and a growing passion, their love a fragile prize amidst clashing cultures.

  22. The Halo Effect

    M.J. Rose

    ★ 3.6 (1k) average on GoodreadsPsychology

    A Manhattan sex therapist enters the dangerous world of high-class escorts and ritualistic murders when her patient, a call girl with an explosive memoir, vanishes, forcing her to go undercover to expose the powerful men who might be involved.

  23. In the Forest

    Edna O'Brien

    ★ 3.6 (1k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    A young, isolated boy's idyllic forest life shatters when a charismatic but dangerous stranger, haunted by his own past, invades their remote Irish home, blurring the lines between protector and predator.

  24. White Bird in a Blizzard

    Laura Kasischke

    ★ 3.6 (1k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A teen navigating first love and budding sexuality faces a chilling mystery when her mother vanishes, forcing her to confront the dark secrets of her suburban life.

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