The Turn of the Key
A nanny writes from prison about a smart Highland house, four girls, and the night one child died.
3,207-word summary · 14 min read
Tag: thriller
384 books with this tag.
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The Silkworm
A missing novelist and a cruel manuscript pull Strike and Robin into London publishing.
3,583-word summary · 16 min read
The Runaway Jury
A tobacco trial in Biloxi is quietly rigged from inside the jury box and by a woman offering to sell the verdict.
2,920-word summary · 13 min read
The Institute
A kidnapped prodigy wakes in a Maine facility where gifted kids earn tokens in Front Half and vanish from Back Half.
3,814-word summary · 17 min read
The Hunting Party
Nine Oxford friends gather at a remote Scottish lodge for New Year, where old rivalries and secrets end in murder.
2,424-word summary · 11 min read
The House Across the Lake
A widowed actress watching the couple across Lake Greene sees a disappearance that drags her own drowned husband back up.
3,217-word summary · 14 min read
Odd Thomas
A twenty year old fry cook who sees the dead tries to stop a mass shooting in his desert town.
3,797-word summary · 17 min read
My Sister, the Serial Killer
Korede covers up her sister Ayoola's murders in Lagos until Ayoola starts dating Tade, the doctor Korede secretly loves.
2,739-word summary · 12 min read
Leviathan Wakes
A destroyed ice hauler, a missing heiress, and an alien growth pull a crew and a tired detective toward war across the solar system.
3,653-word summary · 16 min read
Killing Floor
Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is arrested for murder in Margrave, Georgia, then learns the victim was his brother.
2,872-word summary · 13 min read
If We Were Villains
Seven Shakespeare students at a cutthroat conservatory close ranks after a death by the lake, and one serves ten years for it.
2,715-word summary · 12 min read
Doctor Sleep
Grown Dan Torrance gets sober in New Hampshire and helps gifted Abra Stone face the True Knot.
2,841-word summary · 13 min read
Death Note, Vol. 1: Boredom
Light Yagami finds a notebook that kills with a written name, and the hidden detective L sets a trap to expose him.
2,989-word summary · 13 min read
Cujo
A rabid St. Bernard traps a mother and her young son in a broken-down car at a lonely Maine garage.
2,910-word summary · 13 min read
Butcher & Blackbird
Two rival killers who only murder other killers meet once a year for a deadly contest, then slowly fall for each other in this dark romantic comedy.
2,335-word summary · 10 min read
Wrong Place Wrong Time
Jen sees her son Todd kill a stranger, then wakes the day before, slipping back in time to stop the murder.
2,522-word summary · 11 min read
The Push
Blythe fears daughter Violet is dangerous while husband Fox doubts her.
2,260-word summary · 10 min read
The Outsider
Coach Terry Maitland's DNA and witnesses point to an impossible murder, until Ralph Anderson and Holly Gibney trace it to El Cuco.
2,586-word summary · 11 min read
The Only One Left
Caregiver Kit tends mute Lenora Hope accused of 1929 family murders.
2,592-word summary · 12 min read
The Maidens
Therapist Mariana hunts Cambridge professor Edward Fosca after a Maidens murder.
2,234-word summary · 10 min read
The Locked Door
Surgeon Nora Davis hides serial killer father while patients die.
2,465-word summary · 11 min read
The Last Mrs. Parrish
A con artist targets a rich wife, then the marriage game turns with a hidden past.
2,018-word summary · 9 min read
The Hunt for Red October
Soviet captain Ramius defects with stealth sub Red October while Jack Ryan must prove intent.
2,305-word summary · 10 min read
The Coworker
When odd accountant Dawn vanishes, star salesperson Natalie becomes the prime suspect in a tense office thriller with turtles, lies and revenge.
2,511-word summary · 11 min read