Best Thriller & Suspense Books

A fast-moving entry in a long-running mystery series that reads like a televised procedural translated into paperback: short scenes, clear stakes, and a steady string of suspects and clues. What works best is uncomplicated momentum — cases, interrogations, and a personal-angle hook keep pages turning. The main limitation is thin character development and recurring series conventions: repetitive banter, familiar plot shortcuts, and a glossy pace that sacrifices depth. Best consumed for entertainment rather than realism or introspection.

“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,…

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…

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.

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…

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.

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.

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.

"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…

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.

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.

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.

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.

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…

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.

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.

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.

#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.

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.

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.

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.

A dark and riveting vision of 1960s America that delivers literary excitement in the highest degree. Soon to be a Netflix Film.

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.

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…

“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…

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.

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.

"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.

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.

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.

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.

In the slums of eighteenthcentury France, the infant JeanBaptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift: an absolute sense of smell.

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.

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.

A terrorist is targeting Britain. And to make matters worse it_x0092_s an _x0093_invisible_x0094_someone traveling under a British passport.

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…

In the late fall of 2013, a lethal pandemic virus emerges from the Islamic Republic of Indonesia (IRI) and rages unchecked across every continent.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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…

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.

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.

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…

@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!

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.

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.

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…

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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…

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder moves with propulsive, clue-driven momentum: a teen narrator reopens a closed local murder and drags small-town secrets into the light. Its main usefulness is sustained suspense and clear chapter cliffhangers that make the plot easy to follow and discuss. Limitations include some plausibility-stretching detective leaps and occasional reliance on familiar YA tropes that flatten secondary characters. Expect entertainment first; if you want meticulous forensics or deep psychological introspection, this will frustrate.

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.

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.

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…

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.

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.

When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car pulled up to their street.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 . . .

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.

For maverick LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch, the body in the drainpipe at Mulholland Dam is more than another anonymous statistic.

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.

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.

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.

_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…

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.

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.