Thriller & Suspense

Adult Fiction - Thriller & Suspense

Updated May 19, 2023
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Dominance
Lavender, Will
Paper Book
THE PROCEDURE HAS BEGUN . . . Fifteen years earlier. Jasper College is buzzing with the news that famed literature professor Richard Aldiss will be teaching a special night class called Unraveling a Literary Mystery--from a video feed in his prison cell. In 1982, Aldiss...
GBH
Lewis, Ted
Paper Book
George Fowler heads a lucrative criminal syndicate that specializes in the production and distribution of blue films' - nasty illegal pornography. Fowler is king, with a beautiful girl at his side and a swanky penthouse office, but his entire world is in jeopardy. As his paranoia envelops him,...
Twisted river
MacDonald, Siobhan
Paper Book
A gripping debut psychological thriller for fans of The Silent Wife and The Wicked Girls about two families in crisis and a holiday house swap gone terribly wrong   "She would never have fit as neatly into the trunk of his own car." Limerick, Ireland: the O...
Rage against the dying
Masterman, Becky.
Paper Book
You have never met an (ex) FBI agent like Brigid Quinn "Keeping secrets, telling lies, they require the same skill. Both become a habit, almost an addiction, that's hard to break even with the people closest to you, out of the business. For example, they say never trust a woman who...
Fifty grand : a novel of suspense
McKinty, Adrian.
Paper Book
This knockout punch of a thriller from a critically acclaimed author follows a young Cuban detective’s quest for vengeance against her father’s killer in a Colorado mountain town A man is killed in a hit-and-run on a frozen mountain road in the town of Fairview, Colorado...
The returned
Mott, Jason
Paper Book
From the author of Hell of a Book, a READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK and a winner of The National Book Award. "The Returned transforms a brilliant premise into an extraordinary and beautifully realized novel. My spine is still shivering...
Ladivine
NDiaye, Marie
Paper Book
From the hugely acclaimed author of Three Strong Women--"a masterpiece of narrative ingenuity and emotional extremes" (The New York Times)--here is a harrowing and subtly crafted novel of a woman captive to a secret shame. On the first Tuesday of every month, Clarisse...
Hostage taker : a novel
Pintoff, Stefanie
Paper Book
An electrifying thriller featuring Eve Rossi, head of a secret division of the FBI--one made up of ex-convicts with extraordinary talents, oversized egos, and contempt for the rules   NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY LIBRARY JOURNAL AND ...
The unclaimed victim
Pulley, D. M.
Paper Book
What if the last victim of Cleveland's infamous Torso Killer got away? In 1938, a serial killer terrorizes Cleveland, Ohio, leaving a trail of bodies along the rails and riverbeds. Ethel, a street-hardened woman who's lost everything, takes refuge inside a city mission only to find...
Fifty mice
Pyne, Daniel
Paper Book
Jay Johnson is a decent guy, yet quietly lost: He has a girlfriend he can't commit to, a job that bores him and a traumatic incident in his past that he can't quite remember. When he awakens one night in his LA flat convinced he can hear an intruder, he chalks it up to bad dreams. Hours later, after...
The black hour : a novel
Rader-Day, Lori
Paper Book
For Chicago sociology professor Amelia Emmet, violence was a research topic-until a student she'd never met shot her. He also shot himself. Now he's dead and she's back on campus, trying to keep up with her class schedule, a growing problem with painkillers, and a question she can't let go: Why? All...
If we were villains
Rio, M. L.
Paper Book
"Much like Donna Tartt's The Secret History, M. L. Rio's sparkling debut is a richly layered story of love, friendship, and obsession...will keep you riveted through its final, electrifying moments." --Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, New York Times bestselling author of The...
Brilliance
Sakey, Marcus.
Paper Book
A 2013 Edgar Award Nominee for Best Paperback Original In Wyoming, a little girl reads people's darkest secrets by the way they fold their arms. In New York, a man sensing patterns in the stock market racks up $300 billion. In Chicago, a woman can go invisible by being where no one...
Fever dream : a novel
Schweblin, Samanta
Paper Book
"Genius." --Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker "Samanta Schweblin's electric story reads like a Fever Dream." --Vanity Fair Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize! Experience...
The dark house : a novel
Sedgwick, John
Paper Book
"Don't you ever wonder about them -- the people around you?" Who are they, the strangers you pass, the strangers who pass you, at the supermarket, at the mall, on the road? Take that dark Nissan in your rearview mirror. Just another pair of headlights on your stretch of highway, you...
Séance Infernale
Skariton, Jonathan
Paper Book
An extraordinary debut novel--dark, fast-paced, thrilling--set in contemporary and nineteenth-century Europe, the United States, and Scotland, involving the true inventor of moving pictures; his lost film made in Edinburgh in 1888; and a shocking series of crimes terrorizing the city in present...
The goldfinch
Tartt, Donna.
Paper Book
A young New Yorker grieving his mother's death is pulled into a gritty underworld of art and wealth in this "extraordinary" and beloved Pulitzer Prize winner from the author of The Secret History that "connects with the heart as well as the mind" (Stephen King, New York Times Book...
Limitations
Turow, Scott.
Paper Book
A Picador Paperback Original From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Presumed Innocent comes a compelling new legal mystery featuring George Mason from Personal Injuries. Originally commissioned and published by The New York Times Magazine,...
The graves
Wechsler, Pamela
Paper Book
Abby Endicott, the chief of the District Attorney's homicide unit in Boston, returns in the heart-racing follow-up to Mission Hill. Things are looking good for Abby: she's top pick to be the next District Attorney, and her musician boyfriend Ty has moved in, despite her upper crust family's...

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