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Thriller & Mystery Gone Girl

Gillian Flynn

On their fifth anniversary, Nick Dunne's wife vanishes. The story he tells doesn't quite add up.

3.8 via Goodreads
Tense & Suspenseful Love
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Thriller & Mystery The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Stieg Larsson

A disgraced journalist and an unconventional hacker uncover decades of dark secrets within a powerful Swedish dynasty.

4.2 via Goodreads
Tense & Suspenseful Revenge
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Thriller & Mystery Big Little Lies

Liane Moriarty

Three women in a seaside town. A dead body at a school trivia night. Everyone is hiding something.

4.1 via Goodreads
Tense & Suspenseful Friendship
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Thriller & Mystery In Cold Blood

Truman Capote

The brutal 1959 murders of a Kansas farming family -- and the two men who committed them. The book that invented true crime.

4.1 via Goodreads
Dark & Gritty Survival
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Thriller & Mystery The Girl on the Train

Paula Hawkins

A woman who watches the world from a commuter train window becomes entangled in the disappearance of a stranger.

3.6 via Goodreads
Tense & Suspenseful Love
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Thriller & Mystery And Then There Were None

Agatha Christie

Ten strangers lured to a remote island. One by one they begin to die. A perfect, impossible puzzle.

4.3 via Goodreads
Mysterious & Atmospheric Survival
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Thriller & Mystery In the Woods

Tana French

A detective is assigned a murder case in the same woods where his two childhood friends vanished twenty years ago.

4.0 via Goodreads
Mysterious & Atmospheric Identity
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Thriller & Mystery The Silent Patient

Alex Michaelides

A famous painter shoots her husband and never speaks another word. Her therapist is determined to unravel her silence -- but some truths are better left unspoken.

4.2 via Goodreads
Tense & Suspenseful Revenge
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Thriller & Mystery The Woman in the Window

A.J. Finn

An agoraphobic woman spends her days watching neighbours through the window -- until she witnesses something she shouldn't have.

3.8 via Goodreads
Tense & Suspenseful Survival
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Thriller & Mystery Sharp Objects

Gillian Flynn

A reporter returns to her small hometown to cover the murders of two young girls -- and confronts a past she carved into her own skin.

3.9 via Goodreads
Dark & Gritty Family
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Thriller & Mystery The Name of the Rose

Umberto Eco

A Franciscan friar and his novice investigate a series of mysterious deaths in a medieval Italian abbey.

4.0 via Goodreads
Tense & Suspenseful Politics
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Thriller & Mystery Fingersmith

Sarah Waters

A Victorian pickpocket is hired to help con an heiress -- but no one in this story is quite who they appear to be.

4.2 via Goodreads
Tense & Suspenseful Identity
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Thriller & Mystery The Thursday Murder Club

Richard Osman

Four retirees in a luxury retirement village spend their Thursdays going over cold case files -- until a real murder lands on their doorstep.

4.0 via Goodreads
Funny & Witty Friendship
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Thriller & Mystery The Devotion of Suspect X

Keigo Higashino

A brilliant mathematician hides the evidence of a murder committed by the woman he secretly loves -- in a cat-and-mouse game where we know the killer from the first page.

4.3 via Goodreads
Thought-Provoking Love
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Thriller & Mystery The Secret in Their Eyes

Eduardo Sacheri

A retired Argentine detective reopens a twenty-five-year-old murder case -- and finds that its long shadow has fallen over every life it touched, including his own.

4.2 via Goodreads
Mysterious & Atmospheric Love
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Thriller & Mystery The Tokyo Zodiac Murders

Soji Shimada

In 1930s Japan, an artist draws up a plan to murder six women and create from their parts a single perfect figure. Forty years later, no one has solved it.

3.9 via Goodreads
Mysterious & Atmospheric Identity
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Thriller & Mystery The Da Vinci Code

Dan Brown

A murder in the Louvre launches Harvard professor Robert Langdon into a desperate race to decode a centuries-old conspiracy hidden in plain sight.

3.6 via Goodreads
Tense & Suspenseful Identity
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Thriller & Mystery The Snowman

Jo Nesbo

The first winter snow falls, and Oslo detective Harry Hole finds a severed head placed beside a snowman -- the killer's calling card.

4.0 via Goodreads
Dark & Gritty Survival
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Thriller & Mystery Before I Go to Sleep

S.J. Watson

Every morning Christine wakes with no memory of her past. Every night she forgets again. But her secret journal says: Don't trust Ben.

3.8 via Goodreads
Tense & Suspenseful Identity
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Thriller & Mystery The Alienist

Caleb Carr

New York, 1896. A psychiatrist and a journalist chase a serial killer preying on boy prostitutes -- using the radical new science of the mind.

4.0 via Goodreads
Dark & Gritty Identity
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Thriller & Mystery The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Alexander McCall Smith

Precious Ramotswe opens Botswana's first and only female-run detective agency -- armed with a van, a kettle, and extraordinary common sense.

4.1 via Goodreads
Light & Fun Identity
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Thriller & Mystery Shutter Island

Dennis Lehane

A US Marshal arrives at a remote asylum for the criminally insane to investigate an impossible escape -- and begins to question everything he knows.

4.0 via Goodreads
Mysterious & Atmospheric Identity
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Thriller & Mystery The Dry

Jane Harper

Federal agent Aaron Falk returns to his drought-stricken hometown for a funeral -- and finds himself entangled in a murder that echoes a twenty-year-old secret.

4.1 via Goodreads
Mysterious & Atmospheric Survival
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Thriller & Mystery The Likeness

Tana French

A murdered woman shares not just Detective Cassie Maddock's alias but her face -- so Cassie goes undercover as the dead woman to find her killer.

4.2 via Goodreads
Mysterious & Atmospheric Identity
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Thriller & Mystery Behind Closed Doors

B.A. Paris

Jack and Grace Angel have the perfect marriage. But no one has ever seen Grace alone -- and there is one room in their house that is always locked.

3.9 via Goodreads
Tense & Suspenseful Love
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Thriller & Mystery I Am Pilgrim

Terry Hayes

A brilliant but anonymous intelligence officer comes out of hiding when a bioterrorist threatens to release a plague that could kill millions.

4.2 via Goodreads
Tense & Suspenseful Survival
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Thriller & Mystery Daisy Darker

Alice Feeney

The Darker family gathers on a tidal island for grandmother Nana's 80th birthday. When the tide cuts them off, family members start dying one by one.

3.8 via Goodreads
Mysterious & Atmospheric Family
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Thriller & Mystery Holly

Stephen King

Private detective Holly Gibney investigates a string of disappearances in a quiet college town -- and uncovers a horror hiding behind a respectable facade.

4.1 via Goodreads
Dark & Gritty Survival
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Thriller & Mystery The Lincoln Lawyer

Michael Connelly

Defense attorney Mickey Haller works out of the back seat of his Lincoln Town Car -- until a high-profile murder case turns out to be the most dangerous of his career.

4.2 via Goodreads
Tense & Suspenseful Politics
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Thriller & Mystery The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

Stieg Larsson

Lisbeth Salander lies in a hospital bed, shot in the head -- and the Swedish establishment wants her buried before she can testify.

4.3 via Goodreads
Dark & Gritty Revenge
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Thriller & Mystery The Maid

Nita Prose

Hotel maid Molly Gray finds a dead man in a suite she is cleaning -- and becomes the prime suspect, despite having no idea what happened.

3.9 via Goodreads
Mysterious & Atmospheric Identity
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Thriller & Mystery The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Agatha Christie

Poirot investigates the murder of a wealthy man in a quiet English village -- and the solution is one of the most audacious reveals in the history of detective fiction.

4.2 via Goodreads
Tense & Suspenseful Identity
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Thriller & Mystery The Witch Elm

Tana French

A lucky man survives a brutal assault and retreats to his family's crumbling estate -- where a skull turns up in the old wych elm in the garden.

3.8 via Goodreads
Mysterious & Atmospheric Identity
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Thriller & Mystery Behind Her Eyes

Sarah Pinborough

A single mother befriends both her boss and his wife, not realising she is being drawn into something she cannot explain and cannot escape.

3.9 via Goodreads
Tense & Suspenseful Identity
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Thriller & Mystery The Girl Before

JP Delaney

Two women, years apart, move into an architect's obsessively minimalist house -- and both find that its beautiful rules come at a cost.

3.7 via Goodreads
Tense & Suspenseful Identity
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Thriller & Mystery In the Lake of the Woods

Tim O'Brien

After a political defeat, a man retreats to a remote Minnesota lake with his wife -- and then she vanishes. What follows is not a conventional mystery.

3.9 via Goodreads
Tense & Suspenseful Identity
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Thriller & Mystery The Woman in White

Wilkie Collins

A woman in white appears on a moonlit road, a sinister baronet controls everyone around him, and two people try to expose a conspiracy that has swallowed someone whole.

4.0 via Goodreads
Tense & Suspenseful Identity
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Thriller & Mystery In a Dark, Dark Wood

Ruth Ware

A writer is invited to an isolated hen party in the English countryside by a friend she has not spoken to in years -- and it ends in death.

3.5 via Goodreads
Tense & Suspenseful Survival
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Thriller & Mystery Verity

Colleen Hoover

A struggling writer moves into a bestselling author's home to finish her series -- and finds a manuscript that reveals what the bedridden author may have done.

4.2 via Goodreads
Tense & Suspenseful Love
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Thriller & Mystery Apples Never Fall

Liane Moriarty

A retired tennis coach disappears, her husband becomes the prime suspect, and their adult children are forced to examine what they actually know about their parents.

3.8 via Goodreads
Mysterious & Atmospheric Family
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Thriller & Mystery The Wife Between Us

Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

A woman tries to warn her ex-husband's new fiancee -- but nothing about this situation is what it appears to be.

3.8 via Goodreads
Tense & Suspenseful Love
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Thriller & Mystery Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

John le Carre

A disgraced spy is pulled back from retirement to find a Soviet mole at the very top of British intelligence.

4.1 via Goodreads
Thought-Provoking Politics
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Thriller & Mystery The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

John le Carre

A burned-out British agent is sent on one final mission into East Germany -- but nothing about it is what it seems.

4.0 via Goodreads
Dark & Gritty Politics
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Thriller & Mystery Casino Royale

Ian Fleming

James Bond faces a Soviet paymaster across a baccarat table in a high-stakes game where losing means death.

3.8 via Goodreads
Action-Packed Survival
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Thriller & Mystery The Talented Mr. Ripley

Patricia Highsmith

A charming, resourceful imposter travels to Italy and finds he wants someone else's life badly enough to take it.

4.1 via Goodreads
Tense & Suspenseful Identity
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Thriller & Mystery The Eyre Affair

Jasper Fforde

In an alternate 1985, literary detective Thursday Next must stop a villain who has kidnapped Jane Eyre out of the original manuscript.

3.9 via Goodreads
Funny & Witty Identity
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Thriller & Mystery No Country for Old Men

Cormac McCarthy

A Texas hunter stumbles onto a drug deal gone wrong and takes the money -- and the killer who comes for it is unlike anything the law has seen.

4.0 via Goodreads
Dark & Gritty Survival