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Best Thriller & Suspense Books

Category100 of 287 books108 recommendations total

Thrillers and suspense recommended most by crime writers and readers — espionage, psychological suspense and legal thrillers. Plus the ones that still work once you know the twist.

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Book cover for “The Godfather”
The Godfather

50th Anniversary Edition

11 recommendations
Recommendation Context
Available recommendation signals cluster around Historical, Fiction, Mystery, CrimeThriller, SuspenseHistorical lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.
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Book cover for “Daemon”
7 recommendations
Description

A hightech thriller for the wireless age that explores the unthinkable consequences of a computer program running without human control?a daemon?designed to dismantle society and bring about a new world orderTechnology, controls almost everything in our modernday world, from remote entry on our cars to access to our homes, from the flight controls...

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Book cover for “Jurassic Park”
Jurassic Park

Jurassic Park, Book 1

6 recommendations
Description

An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind?s most thrilling fantasies have come true. Creatures extinct for eons roam Jurassic Park with their awesome presence and profound mystery, and all the world can visit them?for a price. Until something goes wrong. . . . In Jurassic Park, Michael Crich...

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Book cover for “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”
4 recommendations
Description

The Girl in the Spider?s Web, the new book in the Millennium Series, is available now!Murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue combine into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel.Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her a...

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No coverDark Matter
4 recommendations
Description

Jason Dessen is walking home through the chilly Chicago streets one night, looking forward to a quiet evening in front of the fireplace with his wife, Daniela, and their son, Charlie_x0097_when his reality shatters. 'Are you happy in your life'Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious. Before he aw...

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Book cover for “The Boy from the Woods”
3 recommendations
Recommendation Context
Available recommendation signals cluster around Fiction, Mystery, Crime, CrimeFiction, Thriller lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.
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No coverRipley's Game
Ripley's Game

Ripley, Book 3

3 recommendations
Description

Living on his posh French estate with his elegant heiress wife, Tom Ripley, on the cusp of middle age, is no longer the striving comer of The Talented Mr. Ripley. Having accrued considerable wealth through a long career of crime—forgery, extortion, serial murder—Ripley still finds his appetite unquenched and longs to get back in the game.In Ripley'...

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No coverSphere
Sphere

A Novel

3 recommendations
Description

Now available in trade paperback, New York Times bestselling author Michael Crichton’s classic science fiction thriller.In the middle of the South Pacific, a thousand feet below the surface of the water, a huge vessel is discovered resting on the ocean floor. It is a spaceship of phenomenal dimensions, apparently undamaged by its fall from the sky....

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No coverThe Day of the Jackal
3 recommendations
Description

A tall, blond Englishman with opaque, gray eyes. A killer at the top of his profession. A man unknown to any secret service in the world. An assassin with a contract to kill the world's most heavily guarded man.One man with a rifle who can change the course of history. One man whose mission is so secretive not even his employers know his name. And ...

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Book cover for “Broken”
3 recommendations
Description

In six intense short novels connected by the themes of crime, corruption, vengeance, justice, loss, betrayal, guilt and redemption, Broken is #1 international bestseller Don Winslow at his nerveshattering, heartstopping, heartbreaking best. In Broken, he creates a world of highlevel thieves and lowlife crooks, obsessed cops struggling with life...

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No coverFatherland
Fatherland

A Novel

3 recommendations
Description

Fatherland is set in an alternative world where Hitler has won the Second World War. It is April 1964 and one week before Hitler's 75th birthday. Xavier March, a detective of the Kriminalpolizei, is called out to investigate the discovery of a dead body in a lake near Berlin's most prestigious suburb.As March discovers the identity of the body, he ...

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Book cover for “Necessary People”
2 recommendations
Description

One of them has it all. One of them wants it all. But they can't both win. Stella and Violet are best friends, and from the moment they met in college, they knew their roles. Beautiful, privileged, and reckless Stella lives in the spotlight. Hardworking, laserfocused Violet stays behind the scenes, always ready to clean up the mess that Stella ine...

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Book cover for “Blasphemy”
Blasphemy

Wyman Ford, Book 2

2 recommendations
Recommendation Context
Available recommendation signals cluster around Fiction, Science Fiction, Mystery, Crime, Thriller lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.
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No coverMission Flats
2 recommendations
Description

Former D.A. William Landay explodes onto the suspense scene with an electrifying novel about the true price of crime and the hidden corners of the criminal justice system. Only an insider could so vividly capture Boston’s gritty underworld of cops and criminals. And only a natural storyteller could weave this mesmerizing tale of murder and memory, ...

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Book cover for “Savage Son”
Savage Son

James Reece, Book 3

2 recommendations
Description

In this third highoctane thriller in the “seriously good” (Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Past Tense) Terminal List series, former Navy SEAL James Reece must infiltrate the Russian mafia and turn the hunters into the hunted. Deep in the wilds of Siberia, a woman is on the run, pursued by a man harboring secrets—a man intent on ...

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No coverAmerican Spy
2 recommendations
Description

What if your sense of duty required you to betray the man you love One woman struggles to choose between her honor and her heart in this enthralling espionage drama that deftly hops between New York and West Africa.It's 1986, the heart of the Cold War, and Marie Mitchell is an intelligence officer with the FBI. She's brilliant, but she's also a yo...

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Book cover for “The Power of the Dog”
The Power of the Dog

Power of the Dog, Book 1

2 recommendations
Recommendation Context
Available recommendation signals cluster around Historical, Fiction, Mystery, Crime, Thriller lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.
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No coverThe Last Odyssey
The Last Odyssey

Sigma Force, Book 21

2 recommendations
Description

To save the world and our future, Sigma Force must embark on a dangerous odyssey into an ancient past whose horrors are all too present in this pageturning thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author James Rollins that combines cuttingedge science, historical mystery, mythology, and pulsepounding action.For eons, the city of Troy—whose le...

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Book cover for “Long Bright River”
2 recommendations
Description

Two sisters travel the same streets, though their lives couldn't be more different. Then, one of them goes missing.In a Philadelphia neighborhood rocked by the opioid crisis, two onceinseparable sisters find themselves at odds. One, Kacey, lives on the streets in the vise of addiction. The other, Mickey, walks those same blocks on her police beat....

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No coverThen She Was Gone
2 recommendations
Description

THENShe was fifteen, her mother's golden girl. She had her whole life ahead of her. And then, in the blink of an eye, Ellie was gone. NOW It_x0092_s been ten years since Ellie disappeared, but Laurel has never given up hope of finding her daughter.And then one day a charming and charismatic stranger called Floyd walks into a café and sweeps Laurel off he...

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No coverThe Devil All the Time
2 recommendations
Description

A dark and riveting vision of 1960s America that delivers literary excitement in the highest degree. Soon to be a Netflix Film. In The Devil All the Time, Donald Ray Pollock has written a novel that marries the twisted intensity of Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers with the religious and Gothic overtones of Flannery O'Connor at her most haunting...

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No coverKill Decision
2 recommendations
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The shocking technothriller that cements Daniel Suarez’s status as the heir to Michael Crichton and Tom Clancy—a terrifying, breathtaking, and alltooplausible vision of the world’s near future. Unmanned weaponized drones already exist—they’re widely used by America in our war efforts in the Middle East. In Kill Decision, bestselling author Danie...

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Book cover for “The Bourne Identity”
The Bourne Identity

Jason Bourne Book #1

2 recommendations
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Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereWho is Jason Bourne Is he an assassin, a terrorist, a thief Why has he got four million dollars in a Swiss bank account Why has someone tried to murder him...Jason Bourne does not know the answer to any of these questions. Suffering from amnesia, he does not even know that he is Jason Bourne. What ...

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Book cover for “Driving Heat”
Driving Heat

Nikki Heat, Book 7

1 recommendation
Recommendation Context
Available recommendation signals cluster around Fiction, Mystery, Crime, Thriller, Suspense lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.
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Book cover for “The Devil of Nanking”
1 recommendation
Description

“Dazzling . . . In this extremely creepy book, Hayder’s third, the diabolically gifted British author spins a fascinating mystery from the legacy of Japanese atrocities during World War II.”—Entertainment Weekly“A haunting, lyrical, disturbing, important, suspenseful, wonderfully written and beautiful book. You will love reading it, and you will no...

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Book cover for “The Great Train Robbery”
1 recommendation
Description

Fueled with gripping suspense and surprise, Michael Crichton?s The Great Train Robbery is a breathtaking thrillride that races along tracks and breakneck speed.Lavish wealth and appalling poverty live sidebyside in Victorian London ? and Edward Pierce easily navigates both worlds. Rich, handsome and ingenious, he charms the city?s most prominent...

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Book cover for “The Holcroft Covenant”
1 recommendation
Description

The Fourth Reich is waiting to ariseand the only man who can stop it is about to sign its birth certificate. In 1945 the children of the Third Reich were secretly hidden all over the world, to be concealed until they came of age in the 1970s, at which point $780 million would be waiting in a Swiss bank. But all of these elaborate plans need an unsu...

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No coverMy Sister, the Serial Killer
1 recommendation
Description

My Sister, the Serial Killer is a blackly comic novel about how blood is thicker and more difficult to get out of the carpet than water...When Korede's dinner is interrupted one night by a distress call from her sister, Ayoola, she knows what's expected of her: bleach, rubber gloves, nerves of steel and a strong stomach. This'll be the third bo...

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No coverThe Chill
The Chill

A Novel

1 recommendation
Description

In this terrifying thriller, a supernatural force—set in motion a century ago—threatens to devastate New York City.Far upstate, in New York’s ancient forests, a drowned village lays beneath the dark, still waters of the Chilewaukee reservoir. Early in the 20th century, the town was destroyed for the greater good: bringing water to the millions livi...

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No coverGirl A
Girl A

A Novel

1 recommendation
Description

For readers of Room and Sharp Objects, a propulsive and psychologically immersive novel about a young girl who escapes captivitybut not the secrets that shadow the rest of her life."'Girl A, ' she said. 'The girl who escaped. If anyone was going to make it, it was going to be you.'"Lex Gracie doesn't want to think about her family. She doesn't wa...

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Book cover for “The Jerusalem Assassin”
The Jerusalem Assassin

Marcus Ryker, Book 3

1 recommendation
Description

"A taut, brilliant thriller ripped right from today's headlines. Joel Rosenberg is masterful! The Jerusalem Assassin is an absolute home run." Brad Thor, #1 New York Times bestselling author of BacklashFrom the New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestselling author!The enemy is invisible and moving fast. The body count is rising. And...

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Book cover for “Sunburn”
Sunburn

A Novel

1 recommendation
Description

New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman returns with a superb novel of psychological suspense about a pair of lovers with the best intentions and the worst luck: two people locked in a passionate yet uncompromising game of cat and mouse. But instead of rules, this game has dark secrets, forbidden desires, inevitable betrayals_x0097_and coldblood...

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Book cover for “Troubled Blood”
Troubled Blood

Cormoran Strike, Book 5

1 recommendation
Description

Private Detective Cormoran Strike is visiting his family in Cornwall when he is approached by a woman asking for help finding her mother, Margot Bamborough – who went missing in mysterious circumstances in 1974. Strike has never tackled a cold case before, let alone one forty years old. But despite the slim chance of success, he is intrigued and ta...

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Book cover for “Kane and Abel”
Kane and Abel

Kane and Abel, Book 1

1 recommendation
Description

Born on the same day near the turn of the century on opposite sides of the world, both men are brought together by fate and the quest of a dream. These two men ambitious, powerful, ruthless are locked in a relentless struggle to build an empire, fuelled by their allconsuming hatred. Over 60 years and three generations, through war, marriage,...

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No coverPalace of Treason
Palace of Treason

Dominika Egorova and Nathaniel Nash, Book 2

1 recommendation
Description

From the bestselling, Edgar Award?winning author of the ?terrifically good? (The New York Times) Red Sparrow, a compulsively readable new novel about starcrossed Russian agent Dominika Egorova and CIA's Nate Nash in a desperate race to the finish. Captain Dominika Egorova of the Russian Intelligence Service (SVR) has returned from the West to Mosc...

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No coverThe One from the Other
The One from the Other

Bernie Gunther, Book 4

1 recommendation
Description

In the fourth mystery in Philip Kerr's New York Times bestselling series, Bernie Gunthera former policeman and reluctant SS offierattempts to start over in the aftermath of World War 2 and quickly learns that the past is never far behind you... Berlin, 1949. Amid the chaos of defeat, Germany is a place of dirty deals, rampant greed, and fleeing...

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Book cover for “Prague Fatale”
Prague Fatale

Bernie Gunther, Book 8

1 recommendation
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The latest New York Times bestseller from the author of the Berlin Noir trilogy and the New York Times bestseller Field Gray brings Bernie Gunther back—to a house party from hell First introduced in Philip Kerr's celebrated Berlin Noir trilogy, Bernie Gunther is an honest cop living in the most ruthless of times. Prague Fatale is Bernie's latest ou...

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Book cover for “Metropolis”
Metropolis

Bernie Gunther, Book 14

1 recommendation
Description

Berlin, 1928, the dying days of the Weimar Republic shortly before Hitler and the Nazis came to power. It was a period of decadence and excess as Berliners after the terrible slaughter of WWI and the hardships that followed are enjoying their own version of Babylon. Bernie is a young detective working in Vice when he gets a summons from Bernard...

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No coverThe Kremlin's Candidate
The Kremlin's Candidate

Dominika Egorova and Nathaniel Nash, Book 3

1 recommendation
Description

Red Sparrow is now a major motion picture starring Jennifer Lawrence and Joel Edgerton! The ?exciting conclusion? (Entertainment Weekly) in the New York Times bestselling Red Sparrow Trilogy has Russian counterintelligence chief Dominika Egorova and her lover, CIA agent Nate Nash, on the hunt for a Russian agent working in the US government.With a ...

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Book cover for “Field Gray”
Field Gray

Bernie Gunther, Book 6

1 recommendation
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This The New York Times bestseller will make the Bernie Gunther series the new gold standard in thrillers.Bernie Gunther is one of the great protagonists in thriller literature. During his eleven years working homicide in Berlin's Kripo, Bernie learned a thing or two about evil. Then he set himself up as a private detectiveuntil 1940 when Heydrich...

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Book cover for “The Institute”
1 recommendation
Description

In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis_x0092_s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there_x0092_s no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind ...

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No cover61 Hours
61 Hours

Jack Reacher, Book 14

1 recommendation
Description

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA bus crashes in a savage snowstorm and lands Jack Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation. In nearby Bolton, South Dakota, one brave woman is standing up for justice in a small town threatened by sinister forces. If she’s going to live long enough to testify, she’ll need help. Because a killer is coming to Bolto...

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Book cover for “Target”
Target

Alex Cross, Book 26

1 recommendation
Description

When a ring of six elite assassins strikes D. C., Alex Cross teams up with the Secret Service and the FBI to take down a dangerous threat that could destroy America. A leader has fallen, and Alex Cross joins the procession of mourners from Capitol Hill to the White House. Then a sniper's bullet strikes a target in the heart of D.C. Alex Cross's wif...

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Book cover for “If The Dead Rise Not”
If The Dead Rise Not

Bernie Gunther, Book 7

1 recommendation
Description

Detective Bernie Gunther navigates two corrupt regimes in this "richly satisfying mystery...that evokes the noir sensibilities of Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald while breaking new ground of its own"(Los Angeles Times). Berlin, 1934. Former policeman Bernie Gunther, now a hotel detective, finds himself caught between warring factions of the Naz...

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No coverTripwire
Tripwire

Jack Reacher, Book 3

1 recommendation
Description

Jack Reacher hunts the hunter in the third novel in Lee Child’s New York Times bestselling series.Reacher's anonymity in Florida is shattered by an investigator who's come looking for him. But hours after his arrival, the stranger is murdered. Retracing the PI's trail back to New York, Reacher's compelled to find out who was looking for him and why...

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Book cover for “Orphan X”
Orphan X

Orphan X, Book 1

1 recommendation
Description

Who is Orphan XThe Nowhere Man is a legendary figure spoken about only in whispers. It’s said that when he’s reached by the truly desperate and deserving, the Nowhere Man can and will do anything to protect and save them. But he’s not merely a legend.Evan Smoak is a man with skills, resources, and a personal mission to help those with nowhere else...

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No coverMoonflower Murders
Moonflower Murders

Magpie Murders, Book 2

1 recommendation
Description

Featuring his famous literary detective Atticus Pund and Susan Ryeland, hero of the worldwide bestseller Magpie Murders, a brilliantly complex literary thriller with echoes of Agatha Christie from New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz.Retired publisher Susan Ryeland is living the good life. She is running a small hotel on a Greek islan...

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Book cover for “Make Me”
Make Me

Jack Reacher, Book 21

1 recommendation
Description

“Why is this town called Mother’s Rest” That’s all Reacher wants to know. But no one will tell him. It’s a tiny place hidden in a thousand square miles of wheat fields, with a railroad stop, and sullen and watchful people, and a worried woman named Michelle Chang, who mistakes him for someone else: her missing partner in a private investigation sh...

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Book cover for “Greeks Bearing Gifts”
Greeks Bearing Gifts

Bernie Gunther, Book 13

1 recommendation
Description

An NPR Book of the YearA Crime Reads Best Crime Book of 2018 A vicious murder puts Bernie Gunther on the trail of World War 2 criminals in Greece in this riveting historical thriller in Philip Kerr's New York Times bestselling series.Munich, 1956. Bernie Gunther has a new name, a chip on his shoulder, and a deadend career when an old friend arrive...

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Book cover for “The Lions of Lucerne”
The Lions of Lucerne

Scot Harvath, Book 1

1 recommendation
Description

An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here.On the snowy Utah slopes, thirty Secret Service agents are viciously executed and the vacationing president of the United States kidnapped, seemingly by the Fatah, a lethal terrorist organization in the Middle East. But Scot Harvath, surviving agent and exNavy SEAL, doesn't believe the Fatah is re...

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No coverThe Lock Artist
1 recommendation
Description

"I was the Miracle Boy, once upon a time. Later on, the Milford Mute. The Golden Boy. The Young Ghost. The Kid. The Boxman. The Lock Artist. That was all me. But you can call me Mike." Marked by tragedy, traumatized at the age of eight, Michael, now eighteen, is no ordinary young man. Besides not uttering a single word in ten years, he discovers ...

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Book cover for “Echo Burning”
Echo Burning

Jack Reacher, Book 5

1 recommendation
Description

Jack Reacher finds trouble in Texas in the fifth novel in Lee Child’s New York Times bestselling series. Thumbing across the scorched Texas desert, Jack Reacher has nowhere to go and all the time in the world to get there. Cruising the same stretch of twolane blacktop is Carmen Greer. For Reacher, the lift comes with a hitch. Carmen’s got a wild ...

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No coverConclave
Conclave

A Novel

1 recommendation
Description

The bestselling author of Enigma and Fatherland turns to today's Vatican in a rippedfromtheheadlines novel, and gives us his most ambitious, pageturning thriller yetwhere the power of God is nearly equaled by the ambition of men.The pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, one hundred and eighteen cardinals from all over ...

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No coverNot a Penny More, Not a Penny Less
Description

The conned: an Oxford don, a revered society physician, a chic French art dealer, and a charming English lord. They have one thing in common. Overnight, each novice investor lost his life's fortune to one man. The con: Harvey Metcalfe!!A brilliant, selfmade guru of deceit. A very dangerous individual. And now, a hunted man. With nothing left to lo...

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Book cover for “Perfume”
Perfume

The Story of a Murderer

1 recommendation
Description

In the slums of eighteenthcentury France, the infant JeanBaptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift: an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and herbs.But Grenouille's genius is such that he is not ...

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Book cover for “Die Trying”
Die Trying

Jack Reacher, Book 2

1 recommendation
Description

Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereIn a Chicago suburb, a dentist is met in his office parking lot by three men and ordered into the trunk of his Lexus. On a downtown sidewalk, Jack Reacher and an unknown woman are abducted in broad daylight by two men practiced and confident who stop them at gunpoint and hustle them into the same s...

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Book cover for “Run Away”
1 recommendation
Description

A perfect family is shattered when their daughter goes missing in this "brilliantly executed" New York Times bestselling thriller from a "master storyteller" (Providence Sunday Journal).You've lost your daughter. She's addicted to drugs and to an abusive boyfriend. And she's made it clear that she doesn't want to be found.Then, by chance, you see h...

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No coverAt Risk by Rimington, Stella
Description

A terrorist is targeting Britain. And to make matters worse it_x0092_s an _x0093_invisible_x0094_someone traveling under a British passport. Virtually impossible to find before it_x0092_s too late.The job falls to Liz Carlyle, the most resourceful counter terror agent in British intelligence. Tracking down this invisible is a challenge like none she has faced before. It...

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No coverThe Eight
Description

Computer expert Cat Velis is heading for a job to Algeria. Before she goes, a mysterious fortune teller warns her of danger, and an antique dealer asks her to search for pieces to a valuable chess set that has been missing for years...In the South of France in 1790 two convent girls hide valuable pieces of a chess set all over the world, because th...

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Book cover for “THE JAKARTA PANDEMIC”
THE JAKARTA PANDEMIC

A Modern Thriller (Alex Fletcher)

Description

In the late fall of 2013, a lethal pandemic virus emerges from the Islamic Republic of Indonesia (IRI) and rages unchecked across every continent. When the Jakarta Flu threatens his picture perfect Maine neighborhood, Alex Fletcher, Iraq War veteran, is ready to do whatever it takes to keep his family safe. As a seasoned sales representative for Bi...

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Book cover for “Lock Every Door”
Description

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "The Bartholomew is an apartment building of terrifying secrets. You'll find startling twists and alarming surprises down every dark hallway. It's too late to lock the doorsthe horror is already inside. My favorite thriller of the year!" R.L. Stine, author of GoosebumpsNo visitors. No nights spent away from the...

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Book cover for “Resurrection Day”
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In 1972, ten years after a nuclear war decimated both the United States and Soviet Union, Carl Landry, a young reporter, searches for the killer of a veteran of the 1962 war and begins to suspect that the victim may have held the key to a terrifying conspiracy....

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Book cover for “My Lovely Wife”
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Dexter meets Mr. and Mrs. Smith in this wildly compulsive debut thriller about a couple whose fifteenyear marriage has finally gotten too interesting...Our love story is simple. I met a gorgeous woman. We fell in love. We had kids. We moved to the suburbs. We told each other our biggest dreams, and our darkest secrets. And then we got bored.We loo...

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No coverAfraid
Description

WELCOME TO SAFE HAVEN, POPULATION 907...Nestled in the woods of Wisconsin, Safe Haven is miles from everything. With one road in and out, this is a town so peaceful it has never needed a fulltime police force. Until now...A helicopter has crashed on the outskirts of town and something terrible has been unleashed. A classified secret weapon program...

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No coverComa
Description

The blockbuster bestseller that kickstarted a new genrethe medical thrilleris now available in trade paperback for the first time.They called it "minor surgery," but Nancy Greenly, Sean Berman and a dozen othersall admitted to Boston Memorial Hospital for routine procedureswere victims of the same inexplicable, hideous tragedy on the operat...

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Book cover for “Everything You Want Me to Be”
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No one knows who she really is_x0085_Hattie Hoffman has spent her whole life playing many parts: the good student, the good daughter, the good girlfriend. But Hattie wants something more, something bigger, and ultimately something that turns out to be exceedingly dangerous. When she_x0092_s found brutally stabbed to death, the tragedy rips right through the fa...

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Book cover for “The Killer Inside Me”
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Everyone in the small town of Central City, Texas loves Lou Ford. A deputy sheriff, Lou's known to the smalltime criminals, the realestate entrepreneurs, and all of his coworkers the lowlifes, the bigtimers, and everyone inbetween as the nicest guy around. He may not be the brightest or the most interesting man in town, but nevertheless,...

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No coverLong Man
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From the critically acclaimed author of Bloodroot, a gripping, wondrously evocative novel drawn from reallife historical events: the story of three days in the summer of 1936, as a governmentbuilt dam is about to flood an Appalachian townand a little girl goes missing.A river called Long Man has coursed through East Tennessee from time immemoria...

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No cover#MurderTrending
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@doctorfusionbebop: Some 17 y. o. chick named Dee Guerrera was just sent to Alcatraz 2.0 for killing her stepsister. So, how long do you think she'll last @morrisdavis72195: I hope she meets justice! She'll get what's coming to her! BWAHAHA!@EltonJohnForevzz: Me I think Dee's innocent. And I hope she can survive.WELCOME TO THE NEAR FUTURE, where ...

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No coverDominion
Description

C.J. Sansom rewrites history in a thrilling novel that dares to imagine Britain under the thumb of Nazi Germany. 1952. Twelve years have passed since Churchill lost to the appeasers and Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany. The global economy strains against the weight of the long German war against Russia still raging in the east. The British peopl...

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No coverDelirious
Description

Palmer, the son of bestselling author Michael Palmer, makes his phenomenal fiction debut with a fiendishly inventive psychological thriller in which the line between what is real and what is imagined twists and turns. Not just a great thriller debut, but a great thriller, period.Lee Child....

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Book cover for “The Good Son”
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The Talented Mr. Ripley meets The Bad Seed in this breathless, chilling psychological thriller by the bestselling novelist known as "Korea's Stephen King" Who can you trust if you can't trust yourself Early one morning, twentysixyearold Yujin wakes up to a strange metallic smell, and a phone call from his brother asking if everything's all ri...

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Book cover for “Three Perfect Liars”
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YOUR NEXT READING OBSESSION The breathtaking new thriller from the author of the Richard and Judy bestseller NOW YOU SEE HER____________________________When a body is pulled out of an office fire, three women are first in line for questioning. All of them have reasons for wanting revenge against the company_x0092_s CEO.It could be Laura, who has re...

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Book cover for “The Lying Room”
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It should have been just a midlife fling. A guilty indiscretion that Neve Connolly could have weathered. An escape from twenty years of routine marriage to her overworked husband, and from her increasingly distant children. But when Neve pays a morningafter visit to her lover, Saul, and finds him brutally murdered, their piedàterre still heady ...

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No coverThe Circle Series
Description

Four novels. Two worlds. One Story. Enter an adrenalinelaced epic where dreams and reality collide.Black An incredible story of evil and rescue, betrayal and love, and a terrorist threat unlike anything the human race has ever known. A virulent evil has been unleashed upon the people of Earth. The only man who can stop it is Thomas Hunter, an un...

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Book cover for “Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy Deluxe Box Set”
Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy Deluxe Box Set

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, Plus On Stieg Larsson

Description

Readers all across America are talking about Stieg Larsson_x0092_s #1 bestselling trilogy_x0097_The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet_x0092_s Nest_x0097_which has more than 12 million copies in print. Now, just in time for the holidays: a deluxe, slipcased set of the three hardcover novels_x0097_each unjacketed, bou...

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Book cover for “Bones Don't Lie”
Bones Don't Lie

Morgan Dane, Book 3

Description

Shocking evidence hits close to home for attorney Morgan Dane and PI Lance Kruger as Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh_x0092_s acclaimed series continues.Private investigator Lance Kruger was just a boy when his father vanished twentythree years ago. Since then he_x0092_s lived under the weight of that disappearance_x0097_until his father_x0092_s car i...

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No coverThe Disaster Tourist
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An ecothriller with a fierce feminist sensibility, The Disaster Tourist engages with the global dialog around climate activism, dark tourism, and the #MeToo movement.For ten years, Yona has been stuck behind a desk as a coordinator for Jungle, a travel company specializing in vacation packages to destinations devastated by disaster and climate cha...

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Book cover for “A Good Girl's Guide to Murder”
Recommendation Context
Available recommendation signals cluster around Fiction, Teen, Young, Mystery, Crime lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.
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Book cover for “Journey Under the Midnight Sun [Paperback] [Jan 01, 2015] Higashino, Keigo”
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A twentyyearold murderA chain of unsolvable mysteriesCan one detective solve this epic riddleWhen a man is found murdered in an abandoned building in Osaka in 1973, unflappable detective Sasagaki is assigned to the case. He begins to piece together the connection of two young people who are inextricably linked to the crime; the dark, taciturn so...

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No coverThe Bone Collector
The Bone Collector

Lincoln Rhyme, Book 1

Description

Lincoln Rhyme was once a brilliant criminologist, a genius in the field of forensics until an accident left him physically and emotionally shattered. But now a diabolical killer is challenging Rhyme to a terrifying and ingenious duel of wits. With police detective Amelia Sachs by his side, Rhyme must follow a labyrinth of clues that reaches back...

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No coverThe Lost Man
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERTwo brothers meet in the remote Australian outback when the third brother is found dead, in this stunning new standalone novel from Jane HarperBrothers Nathan and Bub Bright meet for the first time in months at the remote fence line separating their cattle ranches in the lonely outback.Their third brother, Cameron, ...

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No coverEye of the Needle
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One enemy spy knows the secret to the Allies' greatest deception, a brilliant aristocrat and ruthless assassin code name: "The Needle" who holds the key to ultimate Nazi victory. Only one person stands in his way: a lonely Englishwoman on an isolated island, who is beginning to love the killer who has mysteriously entered her life. All will c...

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No coverThe Chestnut Man
Description

A Best Book of the Year: Kirkus, Library Journal, New York Times Book ReviewA Book of the Month Club selection | An Indie Next Pick FROM THE CREATOR OF THE HIT TELEVISION SHOW THE KILLING , _x0093_a fullthrottle thriller in the tradition of classic Stieg Larsson_x0094_ (A.J. Finn)_x0097_SOON TO BE A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES.IF YOU FIND ONE, HE_x0092_S ALREADY FOUND YOUA ...

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No coverMystic River
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When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car pulled up to their street. One boy got into the car, two did not, and something terrible happened something that ended their friendship and changed all three boys forever.Now, years later, murder has tied their lives together again ......

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Book cover for “Shutter Island”
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The year is 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, have come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate the disappearance of a patient. Multiple murderess Rachel Solando is loose somewhere on this remote and barren island, despite having been kept in a locked cell under consta...

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No coverPresumed Innocent
Description

Hailed as the most suspenseful and compelling novel in decades. Presumed Innocent brings to life our worst nightmare: that of an ordinary citizen facing conviction for the most terrible of all crimes. It's the stunning portrayal of one man's alltoohuman, allconsuming fatal attraction for a passionate woman who is not his wife, and the story of h...

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Book cover for “Rules of Prey”
Rules of Prey

Prey, Book 1

Description

Please Read Notes: Brand New, International Softcover Edition, Printed in black and white pages, minor self wear on the cover or pages, Sale restriction may be printed on the book, but Book name, contents, and author are exactly same as Hardcover Edition. Fast delivery through DHL/FedEx express....

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No coverHome Before Dark
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What was it like Living in that house.Maggie Holt is used to such questions. Twentyfive years ago, she and her parents, Ewan and Jess, moved into Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods. They spent three weeks there before fleeing in the dead of night, an ordeal Ewan later recounted in a nonfiction book called House of Ho...

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Book cover for “Along Came a Spider”
Along Came a Spider

Alex Cross, Book 1

Description

A missing little girl named Maggie Rose . . . a family of three brutally murdered in the projects of Washington, D.C. . . . the thrillkilling of a beautiful elementary school teacher . . . a psychopathic serial kidnapper/murderer who is so terrifying that the FBI, the Secret Service, and the police cannot outsmart him even after he's been captur...

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No coverPsycho
Psycho

A Novel

Description

It was a dark and stormy night when Mary Crane glimpsed the unlit neon sign announcing the vacancy at the Bates motel. Exhausted, lost, and at the end of her rope, she was eager for a hot shower and a bed for the night. Her room was musty but clean and the plumbing worked. Norman Bates, the manager, seemed nice, if a little odd....

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Book cover for “The Black Echo”
The Black Echo

Harry Bosch, Book 1

Description

For maverick LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch, the body in the drainpipe at Mulholland Dam is more than another anonymous statistic. This one is personal...because the murdered man was a fellow Vietnam "tunnel rat" who had fought side by side with him in a hellish underground war. Now Bosch is about to relive the horror of Nam. From a dangerous ...

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Book cover for “Lightning”
Description

A storm struck on the night Laura Shane was born, and there was a strangeness about the weather that people would remember for years. But even more mysterious was the blondhaired stranger who appeared out of nowhere _x0096_ the man who saved Laura from a fatal delivery. Years later _x0096_ another bolt of lightning _x0096_ and the stranger returned, again to save L...

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Book cover for “The Keeper of Lost Causes”
The Keeper of Lost Causes

The First Department Q Novel (A Department Q Novel)

Description

Carl Mørck used to be one of Copenhagen?s best homicide detectives. Then a hail of bullets destroyed the lives of two fellow cops, and Carl?who didn?t draw his weapon?blames himself. So a promotion is the last thing he expects. But Department Q is a department of one, and Carl?s got only a stack of Copenhagen?s coldest cases for company. His collea...

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Book cover for “Pretty Girls”
Description

Twenty years ago Claire Scott's eldest sister, Julia, went missing. No one knew where she went no note, no body. It was a mystery that was never solved and it tore her family apart.Now another girl has disappeared, with chilling echoes of the past. And it seems that she might not be the only one.Claire is convinced Julia's disappearance is linked...

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No coverTake It Back
Take It Back

The thrilling, explosive and shocking novel that has everyone gripped

Description

?A superb legal thriller?crackles with tension? Guardian?A topical and gritty story? Observer'A thoughtprovoking and sparklingly intelligent novel, with the welcome bonus of an unguessable ending? Daily Telegraph?A fresh and compelling read? Sunday Post ?An unflinching, riveting novel? S Magazine ?Razorsharp?Much more than a courtroom thriller? C...

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Book cover for “Postmortem”
Postmortem

Kay Scarpetta, Book 1

Description

Four women with nothing in common, united only in death. Four brutalized victims of a brilliant monster a "Mr. Nobody", moving undetected through a paralyzed city, leaving behind a gruesome trail of carnage . . . but few clues. With skilled hands, an unerring eye, and the latest advances in forensic research, an unrelenting female medical examine...

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No coverThe Gone World
Description

_x0093_I promise you have never read a story like this._x0094_ _x0097_Blake Crouch, New York Times bestselling author of Dark MatterInception meets True Detective in this science fiction thriller of spellbinding tension and staggering scope that follows a special agent into a savage murder case with grave implications for the fate of mankind...Shannon Moss is part o...

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Book cover for “Patient Zero”
Patient Zero

Joe Ledger, Book 1

Description

When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week there's either something wrong with your world or something wrong with your skills... and there's nothing wrong with Joe Ledger's skills. And that's both a good, and a bad thing. It's good because he's a Baltimore detective that has just been secretly recruited by the government to lead a n...

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No coverI Hunt Killers
Description

What if the world's worst serial killer...was your dadJasper "Jazz" Dent is a likable teenager. A charmer, one might say.But he's also the son of the world's most infamous serial killer, and for Dear Old Dad, Take Your Son to Work Day was yearround. Jazz has witnessed crime scenes the way cops wish they could_x0097_from the criminal's point of view.And...

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