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Best Thriller Books

Suspense and thriller novels

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  1. The Gloaming

    Melanie Finn

    ★ 3.8 (1k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    Haunted by a tragic accident and an unraveling marriage, a guilt-ridden woman flees to the sun-baked plains of East Africa, only to find herself embroiled in a chilling local mystery involving a witch doctor's curse and the unsettling feeling of being relentlessly pursued.

  2. The Winter People

    Jennifer McMahon

    ★ 3.8 (1k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    In a town with chilling disappearances and old legends, a teenager finds a century-old diary that may explain her mother's vanishing, making her face a past that seems to repeat itself.

  3. Hick

    Andrea Portes

    ★ 3.8 (1k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    Thirteen-year-old Luli, a quick-witted runaway, plunges into the perilous heart of American rootlessness, navigating a treacherous road trip west with a violent drifter and a fading grifter, as she grapples with her developing sexuality and the brutal realities of survival.

  4. Streams of Babel

    Carol Plum-Ucci

    ★ 3.8 (985) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A New Jersey suburb poisons itself with every glass of water. A Pakistani teen hacker races against time to decipher extremist chatter about 'Red Vinegar' and prevent a bioterror attack.

  5. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

    J.L. Murray

    ★ 3.6 (967) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Niki Slobodian sees ghosts in a city run by a totalitarian government that calls her 'Abnormal.' To save her freedom, she must hunt a body-hopping demon from Hell and uncover her imprisoned father's connection to escalating murders.

  6. Loch

    Paul Zindel

    ★ 3.6 (958) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    When a scientific expedition to prove lake monsters exist turns deadly, a young boy named Loch discovers the prehistoric beasts are gentle and must risk everything to protect them from a ruthless mogul.

  7. The Dirty Dozen

    E.M. Nathanson

    ★ 4.0 (955) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    Twelve condemned G.I.s in WWII are given a brutal chance at redemption: a suicidal mission behind enemy lines where violence is their only currency and their lives are expendable.

  8. Gideon

    Jacquelyn Frank

    ★ 3.8 (949) average on GoodreadsPolitics

    A reclusive ancient demon healer must confront his past passion for the Demon King's sister and fight a rising tide of human necromancers to save her and their hidden world.

  9. Dead Reckoning

    Charlaine Harris

    ★ 4.1 (915) average on GoodreadsMystery

    When Merlotte's burns down, telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse is caught between an anti-shifter arson investigation and a vampire power struggle as her lover Eric plots regicide.

  10. A Flag for Sunrise

    Robert Stone

    ★ 3.9 (915) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    In the volatile heart of Tecan, a jaded American anthropologist, a disillusioned priest, and a cynical CIA operative collide amidst a brewing revolution, each desperately seeking meaning or escape as the country teeters on the brink of a bloody, inevitable dawn.

  11. The Rose of Tibet

    Lionel Davidson

    ★ 3.6 (909) average on GoodreadsLifestyle

    A British film director's quest for his missing brother in the treacherous, isolated kingdom of Tibet unravels a perilous web of ancient prophecies, forbidden love, and a race against time to uncover a sacred treasure before a ruthless warlord.

  12. Dead of Night

    Jonathan Maberry

    ★ 4.3 (884) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A prison doctor's experiment to prolong a serial killer's consciousness after death unleashes a ravenous, contagious undead plague upon the world.

  13. Single White Female

    John Lutz

    ★ 3.6 (869) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A desperate New Yorker seeking a roommate unwittingly invites a shy, obsessive doppelgänger into her apartment, whose admiration curdles into a terrifying, identity-stealing nightmare with a bloody price.

  14. Denial

    Peter James

    ★ 4.0 (862) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A psychiatrist and an editor confront a terrifying truth when their patient, dismissed as delusional, offers irrefutable proof of God's existence, shattering their understanding of reality.

  15. Snowbound

    Cari Hunter

    ★ 4.0 (846) average on GoodreadsMystery

    Trapped by a blizzard and criminals, a doctor must save a wounded police officer during a hostage situation, leading to an unexpected romance.

  16. The Prophetess

    Barbara Wood

    ★ 3.8 (831) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    An archaeologist unearths ancient scrolls in the Sinai as the millennium nears, pulling her into a global race against powerful groups to find a missing seventh parchment before Armageddon.

  17. Destroy Me

    Tahereh Mafi

    ★ 3.2 (824) average on GoodreadsRomance

    Haunted by Juliette's betrayal and a bullet wound, the ruthless Warner races against his own tyrannical father to recapture the girl he's obsessed with, all while struggling to maintain control over his fractured sector.

  18. Metal Gear Solid

    Raymond Benson

    ★ 3.6 (824) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    On a remote Alaskan island, a lone operative infiltrates a nuclear facility to stop six renegade commandos and their Metal Gear superweapon, only to uncover a genetic conspiracy and a shocking truth about his own past.

  19. Burning

    Danielle Rollins

    ★ 3.6 (820) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A teen inmate about to be released finds her world changed by a mysterious ten-year-old, whose arrival brings a terrifying, supernatural threat.

  20. Alchemist

    Peter James

    ★ 4.0 (802) average on GoodreadsMystery

    When bizarre deaths plague an English town, a detective races to uncover a modern alchemist's dark secrets before more victims are sacrificed for immortality.

  21. The Survivors

    Tom Godwin

    ★ 3.9 (788) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Marooned on a hostile alien world with two suns and deadly monsters, untrained survivors must choose between despair or fueling their will to live with a burning desire for revenge against their cruel captors.

  22. The Miracle

    Irving Wallace

    ★ 3.6 (743) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    At Lourdes, a skeptical journalist, a desperate young woman, a reluctant celebrity, and a dying American converge during the Virgin Mary's promised miracle cure, each with their own hopes and secrets, on a collision course with a truth more complex than divine intervention or simple fraud.

  23. The Cloud of Unknowing

    Thomas H. Cook

    ★ 3.5 (713) average on GoodreadsPsychology

    A man’s life unravels as his brilliant sister, consumed by grief and a Gaia-inspired delusion, implicates her husband in their schizophrenic son’s drowning, forcing him to confront the dark legacy of their family’s mental illness and the terrifying possibility of murder.

  24. The Prisoner

    Omar Shahid Hamid

    ★ 4.0 (686) average on GoodreadsPolitics

    In the chilling streets of Karachi, a kidnapped American journalist's Christmas Eve execution deadline ignites a desperate race against time, exposing a city rife with jihadis, corrupt police, and treacherous political machinations where nothing is as it seems.

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