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Best Thriller Books

Suspense and thriller novels

1,424 summaries

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  1. The Sisters

    Robert Littell

    ★ 3.8 (433) average on GoodreadsMystery

    Two legendary CIA operatives, known as 'the Sisters Death and Night,' manipulate a former KGB spymaster into unwittingly unleashing his most lethal assassin for a world-shattering crime only he can stop.

  2. Footprints

    Alex Archer

    ★ 3.7 (427) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Archaeologist Annja Creed's quest to debunk or confirm Bigfoot's existence in the Pacific Northwest turns into a dangerous search for her missing friend, involving armed thugs, ancient spirits, and an unseen force determined to hide the truth.

  3. The Last Harvest

    Kim Liggett

    ★ 3.7 (423) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A year after his father's strange death, a star quarterback sees sinister glances, gruesome rituals, and the terrifying possibility that his dad's 'devil worship' accusations were real, or that he's going crazy.

  4. Celebrity

    Thomas Thompson

    ★ 3.9 (417) average on GoodreadsMystery

    Three high school friends become celebrities, their success shadowed by a violent secret from their past that threatens to destroy their lives.

  5. Deeper

    Roderick Gordon

    ★ 3.5 (413) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    Plunged further into the suffocating abyss, Will Burrows unearths a sinister Styx conspiracy threatening the surface world, only to find his presumed-dead sister, Rebecca, at its chilling heart.

  6. The Other Side

    Faraaz Kazi

    ★ 3.6 (395) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A collection of thirteen chilling paranormal tales plunges readers into the unknown, blurring the lines between reality and imagination with scenarios designed to evoke primal fears and sleepless nights.

  7. The Brown House

    Christy Sloat

    ★ 4.2 (391) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    When Brylee Branson's family moves into a house with a terrifying reputation, her gift to talk to the dead becomes the only hope to appease the evil spirits before they harm her new friends.

  8. Paradox

    Alex Archer

    ★ 3.8 (380) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    An archaeologist's skeptical search for Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat turns into a deadly conspiracy among fundamentalists, where the legendary vessel holds not salvation, but a sinister secret that threatens humanity.

  9. The Uncanny

    Sigmund Freud

    ★ 3.2 (357) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Freud explores the unsettling familiarity of the 'uncanny,' showing how deep fears and desires can be hidden by trivial memories and imagination.

  10. Blood Relations

    A.J. Butcher

    ★ 3.8 (355) average on GoodreadsMystery

    Bond Team's ultimate spy school final exams push them to the brink of collapse, forcing them to betray friends and face memory wipes if they fail a gauntlet of simulated terror.

  11. Risk

    Colin Harrison

    ★ 3.5 (345) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A Manhattan insurance lawyer investigates a socialite's son's violent death, uncovering secrets involving a Czech hand model and Christmas ornaments in a volatile city.

  12. Sons of Liberty

    Raymond Benson

    ★ 3.8 (328) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a post-Metal Gear explosion world, a rookie agent named Raiden must navigate a New York Harbor superstructure full of strange villains, resurrected legends, and a hijacked president to uncover a conspiracy and a superweapon hidden in plain sight.

  13. Simple Justice

    John Morgan Wilson

    ★ 4.1 (322) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A disgraced, alcoholic reporter is pulled back into West Hollywood's dangerous underworld to solve a murder, forcing him to confront his past and fall for the prime suspect.

  14. Vaccination

    Phillip Tomasso III

    ★ 3.8 (311) average on Goodreads

    A 9-1-1 dispatcher races to save his children during an H1N1 outbreak that turns the city into a zombie nightmare, forcing him to question the vaccine's origins and seek refuge beyond the border.

  15. Hospital

    ToLitt

    ★ 3.4 (309) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A hospital descends into sex, death, drugs, and dark magic, pulling staff and patients into a voodoo-infused, Satanic hell where salvation is a forgotten dream.

  16. Backlash

    Jack L. Pyke

    ★ 4.4 (306) average on GoodreadsRomance

    A vengeful master, seeking to dismantle the architect of his lover's psychological torture, unleashes his sub's dangerous alter ego. He soon finds their new bond is the next target in a game more twisted than he imagined.

  17. Breaking Point

    Kristen Simmons

    ★ 3.8 (295) average on GoodreadsMystery

    Framed as a notorious sniper by the government she escaped, Ember Miller must choose between hiding from a 'shoot to kill' order or fighting back with a suspicious resistance that now views her as their most wanted.

  18. Reckless Endangerment

    Amber Lea Easton

    ★ 4.0 (279) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A wounded war hero, grappling with his new reality, must confront whether he can still be the hero his investigative reporter wife needs when her pursuit of a dangerous human trafficking story threatens to shatter their already fragile marriage and lives.

  19. Double Helix

    Nancy Werlin

    ★ 3.7 (267) average on GoodreadsMystery

    Eli's summer job with a geneticist uncovers the terrifying truth of his own existence, forcing him to question if he's a son or a scientific experiment.

  20. Riptide

    Amber Lea Easton

    ★ 4.0 (232) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A traumatized anchorwoman in the Cayman Islands gets pulled into a web of deceit, murder, and revenge when her romance with a scandal-plagued screenwriter is threatened by a relentless stalker.

  21. Finding Daddy

    Louise Plummer

    ★ 3.4 (226) average on GoodreadsMystery

    With only a faded photograph and her mother's vague answers, a determined teen sets out to find the truth about the father she's never known, even if it means uncovering a past her mother wants to keep hidden.

  22. Blackout

    Connie Willis

    ★ 4.3 (220) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    Three young historians studying WWII through time travel become trapped in the war-torn past, facing the terrifying possibility that they are changing the history they swore only to observe.

  23. Dog Gone

    Diane Moat

    ★ 4.2 (185) average on Goodreads

    A grieving woman becomes a vigilante, using Robin Hood-style heists to fund her brutal quest for justice against animal abusers, blurring morality and risking everything.

  24. Genesis

    Eduardo Galeano

    ★ 3.7 (169) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    Galeano's 'Genesis' reclaims history from a Latin American viewpoint, exploring pre-Columbian myths, European conquests, and the continent's lasting spirit.

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