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Best Thriller Books

Suspense and thriller novels

1,424 summaries

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  1. My Sister, the Serial Killer

    Oyinkan Braithwaite

    ★ 3.7 (150k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A Nigerian nurse’s loyalty to her charming, homicidal sister is tested when the man she loves becomes her sister's next potential victim, forcing a darkly comedic choice between family and justice.

  2. No Country for Old Men

    Cormac McCarthy

    ★ 4.1 (148k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A hunter finds a drug deal gone wrong in Texas, starting a brutal chase with a coin-flipping killer and pulling an aging sheriff into a new, amoral world.

  3. Night Shift

    Stephen King

    ★ 4.0 (147k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Stephen King delivers a chilling collection where industrial machines thirst for blood, ancient evils lurk in cornfields, and the dead refuse to stay buried, proving terror exists in life's most ordinary corners.

  4. Bird Box

    Josh Malerman

    ★ 4.0 (143k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    An unseen force drives people to madness. A mother, blindfolded, must navigate a dangerous river with her two children, using only sound to escape the horror.

  5. The Girl in the Spider's Web

    David Lagercrantz

    ★ 3.8 (140k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A genius hacker and a disgraced journalist are drawn into a global conspiracy involving stolen government secrets and an assassination plot.

  6. Jaws

    Peter Benchley

    ★ 4.0 (137k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A summer of sun-drenched beaches turns into a blood-soaked nightmare when a monstrous great white shark begins to systematically devour swimmers, forcing a small island community to confront the terrifying, insatiable predator.

  7. Gerald's Game

    Stephen King

    ★ 3.5 (134k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Trapped and handcuffed to a bed in an isolated house with her dead husband beside her, Jessie must confront her darkest memories and a lurking, unspeakable horror to survive.

  8. The Dinner

    Herman Koch

    ★ 3.2 (133k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    Over a multi-course meal, two affluent couples navigate polite conversation as they secretly deal with their sons' crime and the decisions they must make to protect them.

  9. Déjà Dead

    Kathy Reichs

    ★ 3.9 (133k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan unearths a chilling pattern in dismembered remains, plunging her into a hunt for a serial killer that puts her closest loved ones, including her own daughter, directly in the crosshairs.

  10. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

    Stephen King

    ★ 3.6 (133k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Lost in the ancient woods, nine-year-old Trisha McFarland, with only a Walkman and the imagined presence of her baseball hero Tom Gordon, must outwit a lurking, supernatural entity or become another forgotten whisper in the Appalachian shadows.

  11. The Surgeon

    Tess Gerritsen

    ★ 4.1 (133k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A Boston detective hunts a surgeon who meticulously tortures and murders women, only to discover the killer's methods chillingly mirror a past attack on a doctor who believed she'd already killed her assailant.

  12. The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

    Stuart Turton

    ★ 3.9 (132k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Trapped in an aristocratic manor, a man must relive the same day in a different body, each a potential suspect, to unmask Evelyn Hardcastle's killer before the cycle, and his memory, is lost forever.

  13. All the Missing Girls

    Megan Miranda

    ★ 3.8 (131k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A woman returns to her hometown, where another girl has gone missing, mirroring a disappearance from a decade ago. She must untangle years of secrets to uncover the truth behind both cases.

  14. House of Leaves

    Mark Z. Danielewski

    ★ 4.1 (131k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    An ordinary house on Ash Tree Lane turns into an impossible, expanding maze, trapping a family in its terrifying story of creature darkness and a reality-defying abyss.

  15. Clear and Present Danger

    Tom Clancy

    ★ 4.1 (131k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    When Colombian drug cartels assassinate the FBI Director, Jack Ryan and the enigmatic Mr. Clark must navigate a shadowy war where the gravest threat might not be the enemy abroad, but the betrayals lurking within their own government.

  16. Eye of the Needle

    Ken Follett

    ★ 4.2 (129k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    A Nazi master spy races against time to deliver critical D-Day intelligence, only to find his escape and the fate of the war resting with a lonely Englishwoman on a remote island.

  17. Mystic River

    Dennis Lehane

    ★ 4.2 (128k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    Twenty-five years after a traumatic childhood abduction, three men are violently reunited when the daughter of one is murdered, forcing a detective to investigate his own haunted past and the prime suspect—another childhood friend.

  18. The Chamber

    John Grisham

    ★ 3.8 (127k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A young lawyer confronts his family's dark past and a ticking clock as he fights to save his Klansman grandfather from the gas chamber for a 1967 bombing.

  19. Death on the Nile

    Agatha Christie

    ★ 4.1 (127k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A luxurious Nile cruise turns deadly when the glamorous Linnet Ridgeway is murdered, leaving Hercule Poirot to untangle jealousy and hidden motives under the Egyptian sun.

  20. The Institute

    Stephen King

    ★ 4.2 (127k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a secret facility, children with psychic powers are harvested, forcing a defiant boy to escape his captors before his unique ability is weaponized.

  21. The Long Walk

    Richard Bachman

    ★ 4.1 (127k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a future dystopia, one hundred teenage boys begin a march where the only prize for survival is life, and the cost of failure is death.

  22. Dolores Claiborne

    Stephen King

    ★ 3.9 (126k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    Accused of murdering her employer, a sharp-tongued island woman reveals a lifetime of secrets, including the truth behind her abusive husband's death and her complex bond with the manipulative heiress she served.

  23. The Turn of the Key

    Ruth Ware

    ★ 3.9 (126k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A nanny's job in a Scottish mansion turns into a nightmare of surveillance, sinister children, and malfunctioning smart home technology, ending in a child's death and her wrongful imprisonment.

  24. The Big Sleep

    Raymond Chandler

    ★ 4.0 (126k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    In Los Angeles, detective Philip Marlowe navigates a world of dangerous women and deadly secrets, uncovering blackmail and murder to find that some truths are best left buried.

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