Thrillers for Adults

If you like spies and espionage, or fast-paced political, legal and psychological mysteries.

Updated May 13, 2023
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The cabinet of Dr. Leng
Preston, Douglas J.
Paper Book
Preston & Child continue their #1 bestselling series featuring FBI Special Agent Pendergast and Constance Greene, as they cross paths with New York's deadliest serial killer: Pendergast's own ancestor...and now his greatest foe. AN INCREDIBLE JOURNEY ...

Also available in Large Print, CD, eBook, and eAudiobook.

Hunting time
Deaver, Jeffery
Paper Book
THE INSPIRATION FOR THE CBS ORIGINAL SERIES TRACKER In New York Times bestselling master of suspense Jeffery Deaver's riveting thriller, reward seeker Colter Shaw plunges into the woods and races the clock in a case where nothing is quite what it seems. ...

Also available in Large Print, CD, eBook, and eAudiobook.

No plan B
Child, Lee
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A gripping new Jack Reacher thriller from Lee Child and Andrew Child "No Plan B is not to be missed. A perfectly plotted, fast-paced thriller, with bigger twists than ever before. It's no wonder Jack Reacher is everyone's favorite...

Also available in Large Print, CD, eBook, and eAudiobook.

I will find you
Coben, Harlan
Paper Book
In this breathtaking thriller from a New York Times bestselling author, an innocent father serving life for the murder of his own son receives evidence that his child may still be alive--and must break out of prison to find out the truth.   ...

Available in Large Print format.

Simply lies
Baldacci, David
Paper Book
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The 6:20 Man comes a twisting psychological thriller in which two women--one a former detective, the other a dangerous con artist--go head-to-head in an electrifying game of cat and mouse. ...

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The Last Word
Adams, Taylor
Paper Book
After posting a negative review of a horror novel, a woman staying at an isolated beach house begins to wonder if the author is a little touchy--or very, very dangerous--in this pulse-pounding novel of psychological suspense and terror from the critically acclaimed author of No Exit and...

Also available in Large Print.

The Lie Maker
Barclay, Linwood.
Paper Book
In this twisty, fast-paced thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Find You First and Take Your Breath Away, a man desperately tries to track down his father--who was taken into witness protection years ago--before his enemies can get to him. Your...

Also available in Large Print, CD, and eBook.

The Only Survivors
Miranda, Megan.
Paper Book
From the New York Times bestselling author of All the Missing Girls and "master of suspense, Megan Miranda" (Mary Kubica, New York Times bestselling author of The Good Girl), a thrilling mystery about a group of former classmates who reunite to mark the...

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The soulmate
Hepworth, Sally
Paper Book
"One of the best thrillers of the year"--The New York Times "The book is many things: a crime story, a psychological study, a blueprint for how and when to mete out information in a thriller. But most of all it is an inquiry into the mysteries of marriage and commitment,...

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3 days to live
Patterson, James
Paper Book
The people closest to you can be your most dangerous enemies in this heart-pounding collection of three thrillers from master of suspense and New York Times bestselling author James Patterson. 3 Days to Live: A CIA-agent bride is on her European...

Also available in Large Print, CD, eBook, and eAudiobook.


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