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Five Total Strangers
Natalie D. Richards
3.7(7.6k)320 pages · 2020Teen readers aged 14–18 who enjoy fast-moving, atmosphere-driven YA suspense built around a confined setting and a rotating cast of evenly suspicious characters.
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The God Of The Woods
Liz Moore
4.4(133k)576 pages · 2024Readers who want their crime fiction to carry the weight of a family saga and social novel — particularly those drawn to multi-timeline, ensemble-cast stories where class dynamics, parental failure, and community trauma matter as much as the mystery itself.
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The Troop
Nick Cutter
4.1(15k)368 pages · 2014Readers who want unflinching, claustrophobic survival horror — particularly those who enjoy Lord of the Flies-style social collapse combined with extreme body horror and a genuinely irresolvable situation.
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The Only One Left
Riley Sager
4.4(63k)400 pages · 2023Fans of modern Gothic domestic suspense — and Sager's existing readership — who want a Lizzie Borden-flavored cold case, a hostile cliffside mansion, and a caregiver narrator unpicking a decades-old family massacre, with momentum and atmosphere prioritized over everything else.
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The Good Daughter
Karin Slaughter
4.4(68k)528 pages · 2017Readers who want emotionally driven, character-first psychological suspense about two estranged sisters and an old family wound, and who prefer that to a tidy procedural or courtroom book.
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The Sandman
Lars Kepler
4.4(4.8k)528 pages · 2018Readers who want a fast, cliffhanger-chaptered Nordic serial-killer thriller built around an undercover mission on a psychiatric ward, and who can handle graphic violence.
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A Perfect Wife
Elle Gray
4.6(19k)284 pages · 2020Fans of character-driven FBI procedurals who want a fast-moving thriller anchored by a protagonist whose personal grief — a murdered family and a missing sister — is as compelling as the case itself.
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The Alice Network
Kate Quinn
4.6(98k)560 pages · 2017Kate Quinn's The Alice Network is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling historical novel that weaves together two women's stories across the World Wars — a WWI spy operating in German-occupied France and a 1947 Amer…
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Harvest Season
Brynne Weaver
4.3(3.9k)368 pages · 2026Readers who devoured Tourist Season and want Harper and Nolan's combustible dynamic pushed further — specifically those who enjoy their romance laced with genuine thriller suspense and irreverent dark comedy alongside the chaos.
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On a Quiet Street
J.L. Doucette
4.1(100)288 pages · 2019Readers who enjoy psychologically grounded crime fiction in the tradition of Ann Cleeves and Louise Penny, and who want a series they can follow in order through a distinctive Wyoming setting with leads who have genuine interiority.
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Pieces of Her
Karin Slaughter
4.2(20k)496 pages · 2018Readers who enjoy domestic psychological thrillers centred on hidden maternal identities and are already fans of Karin Slaughter's backlist — or curious newcomers who want a self-contained entry point into her work.
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Hannibal
Thomas Harris
4.4(6k)516 pages · 1999Readers who are already invested in the Lecter trilogy and want to follow Thomas Harris into deliberately darker, more operatic territory — even when that means a deeply unsettling destination for Clarice Starling.
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Audition
Ryu Murakami
4.0(1.2k)192 pages · 1997Readers drawn to transgressive Japanese horror who want to trace the literary DNA of Takashi Miike's cult 1999 film, and who are comfortable with a narrative that implicates rather than exonerates its protagonist.
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Twilight
Stephenie Meyer
4.6(48k)416 pages · 2005Readers aged fourteen and up who want a propulsive, emotionally immersive romance in which every ordinary teenage milestone — a new school, an awkward crush, prom night — is shadowed by genuine supernatural danger.
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One Split Second
Robert Dugoni
4.6(7.1k)415 pages · 2026Dedicated Tracy Crosswhite series followers who want a structurally inventive twelfth entry that weaves a present-day murder charge together with a forty-five-year-old cold case, rewarding the emotional investment built across eleven preceding novels.
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Getting Away with Murder
Shari Lapena
3.9(5.7k)416 pages · 2025Readers of domestic suspense who like to watch calculating, entitled characters unravel under several kinds of pressure at once, and who are fine with no one to root for.
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Verity
Colleen Hoover
4.6368 pages · 2018Readers who want a short, twist-driven psychological thriller with a romance undercurrent and who enjoy arguing over an ambiguous ending.
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The Undercover Bookshop
Katherine Reay
4.6(48)320 pages · 2026Readers who love Golden Age detective fiction — especially Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers — and want a cozy village mystery that quietly escalates into a Cold War spy thriller anchored in real historical events.
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The Hunt for Red October
Tom Clancy
4.6528 pages · 1984Readers who want Cold War naval suspense built on layered, wheels-within-wheels plotting and are comfortable with a long, detail-heavy book and barracks-room language.
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We Are All Guilty Here
Karin Slaughter
4.5(46k)448 pages · 2025Readers of dark, character-driven crime fiction who want a new series entry point with fresh protagonist Emmy Clifton, set in the atmospheric rural Georgia milieu Slaughter's Grant County fans already love.
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Where No One Can Hear You
J.E. Rowney
4.1(4.7k)419 pages · 2025Readers drawn to survivor-centred trauma narratives — particularly those who valued books like Room or Speak — who want to follow a young protagonist's psychological and emotional recovery rather than a plot-driven thriller.
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Tell Me What You Did
Carter Wilson
4.0(9.8k)448 pages · 2025True-crime podcast fans and thriller readers who relish morally compromised protagonists and plots built on public exposure rather than physical pursuit.
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None of This Is True
Lisa Jewell
4.2(124k)400 pages · 2023Adult readers who want a psychologically precise domestic thriller built around unreliable narration and a true-crime podcast conceit — particularly those drawn to dark, morally uncomfortable subject matter handled with craft rather than sensationalism.
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Pretty Girls
Karin Slaughter
4.2(168k)432 pages · 2015Adult readers of dark psychological thrillers who want morally complex, grief-stricken female protagonists at the centre of a cold-case investigation that doubles as a family reckoning — and who are prepared for extremely graphic depictions of violence against women.
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Every thriller book, A to Z71 titles
- A Perfect Wife · Elle Gray
- Audition · Ryu Murakami
- But Not Forgotten · BJ Bourg
- Butcher & Blackbird · Brynne Weaver
- Cold Lake · Jeff Carson
- Dark Matter · Blake Crouch
- Deliverance Lost · Gav Thorpe
- Dire · Jeff Carson
- Every Last Lie · Mary Kubica
- First Lie Wins · Ashley Elston
- Five Total Strangers · Natalie D. Richards
- Fruit Fly · Josh Silver
- Getting Away with Murder · Shari Lapena
- Gone Girl · Gillian Flynn
- Hannibal · Thomas Harris
- Harvest Season · Brynne Weaver
- Home Before Dark · Riley Sager
- I See You · Elle Gray
- Killing Hope · Stephen H. Arnold
- Last Girl Ghosted · Lisa Unger
- Last Patient of the Night · Gary Gerlacher
- Last Seen Alone · Laura Griffin
- Look Closer · David Ellis
- My Husband's Wife · Alice Feeney
- Nemesis · James Swallow
- Never Lie · Freida McFadden
- New Girl in Town · Elle Gray, K.S. Gray
- None of This Is True · Lisa Jewell
- On a Quiet Street · J.L. Doucette
- One Split Second · Robert Dugoni
- Pieces of Her · Karin Slaughter
- Pretty Girls · Karin Slaughter
- Sin City Treachery · Gary Gerlacher
- Something in the Water · Catherine Steadman
- Tell Me What You Did · Carter Wilson
- The 7 She Saw · Elle Gray
- The Alice Network · Kate Quinn
- The Bullet That Missed · Richard Osman
- The Chosen Girl · Elle Gray
- The Committed · Viet Thanh Nguyen
- The Compound · Aisling Rawle
- The Divorce · Freida McFadden
- The Dying of the Night · R.A. Valletta
- The Escape Game · Marissa Meyer, Tamara Moss
- The First Witch of Boston · Andrea Catalano
- The Forgotten Girls · Elle Gray
- The God Of The Woods · Liz Moore
- The Good Daughter · Karin Slaughter
- The Hunt for Red October · Tom Clancy
- The Last Thing He Told Me · Laura Dave
- The Last Time We Drowned · Saratoga Schaefer
- The Love of My Life · Rosie Walsh
- The Night of the Crash · Jessica Irena Smith
- The Only One Left · Riley Sager
- The Outcast Dead · Graham McNeill
- The Patient's Secret · Loreth Anne White
- The Sandman · Lars Kepler
- The Silent Patient · Alex Michaelides
- The Thursday Murder Club · Richard Osman
- The Troop · Nick Cutter
- The Undercover Bookshop · Katherine Reay
- The Whisper Man · Alex North
- The Wife Before · Shanora Williams
- The Woman in the Woods · A.J. Rivers
- Then She Was Gone · Lisa Jewell
- This is Me · Shari Low
- Twenty Years Later · Charlie Donlea
- Twilight · Stephenie Meyer
- Verity · Colleen Hoover
- We Are All Guilty Here · Karin Slaughter
- Where No One Can Hear You · J.E. Rowney