Thriller books
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Can you recommend books that are thrillers or suspenseful?
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Anonymous
| Snap by Belinda Bauer |
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Red Sparrow, by Jason Matthews (contemporary spy novel - first in a trilogy)
Before the Fall, by Noah Hawley I am Pilgrim, by Terry Hayes The Informationist, by Taylor Stevens The Short Drop, by Matthew FitzSimmons The Last Flight, by Julie Clark |
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I loved this one! My rec: the narrow door |
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Thanks! I will try them.
Any others? |
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Deep Storm, by Lincoln Child
Mayday, by Thomas Block (1979 version - haven't read the 1998 update so don't know if it's good but the '79 version definitely keeps me on the edge of my seat) |
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Don't Look For Me by Wendy Walker (about a missing mom)
To Tell You the Truth by Gilly Macmillan (about a writer, unreliable narrator) Little Secrets by Jennifer Hillier (trigger:kidnapped child) I Don't Forgive You by Aggie Blum Thompson (suburban mom framed for murder-- extra fun b/c it takes place in the DMV) A Noise Downstairs -- Linwood Barclay (Academic thinks he's losing his mind) |
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Red Widow by Alma Katsu
Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid. This is not your typical thriller, but I found it so suspenseful that I had to put it down in places. Perhaps I was overinvolved. |
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Slippery Creatures, KJ Charles.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52237989-slippery-creatures “Will Darling came back from the Great War with a few scars, a lot of medals, and no idea what to do next. Inheriting his uncle’s chaotic second-hand bookshop is a blessing...until strange visitors start making threats. First a criminal gang, then the War Office, both telling Will to give them the information they want, or else…” |
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How are you with extremes in content? Like, what’s your limit on content such as torture, trauma, sexual assault? |
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Relic, Preston and Childs.
There is an element of horror here. Could not put this book down, though. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/67035.Relic “ Just days before a massive exhibition opens at the popular New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being savagely murdered in the museum's dark hallways and secret rooms. Autopsies indicate that the killer cannot be human... ” |
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The Doomsday Book, Connie Willis.
Suspense and time travel. Very British! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24983.Doomsday_Book “ For Kivrin, preparing an on-site study of one of the deadliest eras in humanity's history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi for a woman traveling alone. For her instructors in the twenty-first century, it meant painstaking calculations and careful monitoring of the rendezvous location where Kivrin would be received. But a crisis strangely linking past and future strands Kivrin in a bygone age as her fellows try desperately to rescue her. In a time of superstition and fear, Kivrin--barely of age herself--finds she has become an unlikely angel of hope during one of history's darkest hours...” |
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The Bridge of Sighs, Olen Steinhauer
This is very, very good, but bleak. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1242480.The_Bridge_of_Sighs “ It's August, 1948, three years after the Russians "liberated" this small nation from German Occupation. But the Red Army still patrols the capital's rubble-strewn streets, and the ideals of the Revolution are but memories. Twenty-two-year-old Detective Emil Brod, an eager young man who spent the war working on a fishing boat in Finland, finally gets his chance to serve his country, investigating murder for the People's Militia…” |
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I’m not sure how many of these are considered actual thrillers, but here are some I’ve really enjoyed lately:
Counterfeit by Kirsten Chen. Ostensibly about two Asian women involved in distributing counterfeit luxury bags, but so much more than that. Cover Story by Susan Rigetti. Young publishing intern from a modest background gets sucked into fraud and deceit. The Golden Couple by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen. Wealthy DC couple goes in for unusual martial therapy. The Last Flight by Julie Clark. Two women on the run swap identities. The Lies I Tell by Julie Clark. Female friendship and sisterhood in unlikely circumstances. Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam. Two families are forced together by apocalyptic circumstances. Kind of disturbing. |
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One Second After…
Scared the heck out of me. |