Tag: thriller

384 books with this tag.

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Red Dragon

Thomas Harris · 1981

Graham consults Lecter to catch Tooth Fairy Dolarhyde.

2,592-word summary · 12 min read

Origin

Dan Brown · 2017

Robert Langdon chases Edmond Kirsch's lost discovery through Bilbao and Barcelona to answer where we come from and where we are going.

2,604-word summary · 12 min read

Kiss the Girls

James Patterson · 1995

Cross hunts Casanova kidnapping women including niece Naomi.

2,397-word summary · 11 min read

In a Dark, Dark Wood

Ruth Ware · 2015

Writer Nora joins hen party Clare in glass house where a murder happens.

2,253-word summary · 10 min read

Hidden Pictures

Jason Rekulak · 2022

Nanny Mallory sees Teddy drawings predict a murder in New Jersey.

2,332-word summary · 10 min read

Before I Go to Sleep

S.J. Watson · 2011

Christine wakes each day with no memory, and her secret journal reveals her husband lies.

2,577-word summary · 11 min read

1st to Die

James Patterson · 2001

Lindsay, Claire, Cindy and Jill hunt a honeymoon killer terrorizing San Francisco.

2,536-word summary · 11 min read

The Wife Between Us

Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen · 2018

A jealous ex-wife stalks her replacement, but nothing in this marriage is what it seems.

2,756-word summary · 12 min read

Into the Water

Paula Hawkins · 2017

A drowning pool, eleven narrators, and sisters divided in Hawkins's murky second thriller.

2,598-word summary · 12 min read

In the Woods

Tana French · 2007

A detective investigates a girl's murder in the woods where his own friends vanished twenty years earlier.

2,773-word summary · 12 min read

Hunting Adeline

H.D. Carlton · 2022

Trafficked and caged, Adeline fights back while Zade tears the underworld apart to find her.

2,730-word summary · 12 min read

The Pelican Brief

John Grisham · 1992

Law student Darby Shaw writes a brief on murdered justices and becomes a target, fleeing with a reporter.

2,994-word summary · 13 min read

The Godfather

Mario Puzo · 1969

Vito Corleone and son Michael navigate mafia wars, loyalty, and power in Puzo's crime saga.

2,950-word summary · 13 min read

The Family Upstairs

Lisa Jewell · 2019

Libby Jones inherits a Chelsea mansion and a past tied to a cult house, two runaways, and a baby left waiting.

3,300-word summary · 15 min read

The Client

John Grisham · 1993

Eleven-year-old Mark Sway learns a mob secret in Memphis and hires lawyer Reggie Love for one dollar.

2,536-word summary · 11 min read

The Bourne Identity

Robert Ludlum · 1980

An amnesiac pulled from the sea hunts his identity as Jason Bourne while assassins and the CIA close in.

2,994-word summary · 13 min read

Rock Paper Scissors

Alice Feeney · 2021

Amelia and Adam spend a locked anniversary weekend at Blackwater Chapel, trading letters that hide who wrote what.

3,135-word summary · 14 min read

Pretty Girls

Karin Slaughter · 2015

Estranged sisters Claire and Lydia reunite after a murder exposes snuff films, their sister Julia's fate, and a killer near Lydia's daughter.

2,498-word summary · 11 min read

Nine Perfect Strangers

Liane Moriarty · 2018

Nine guests enter Tranquillum House for ten days while director Masha hides smoothies and motives.

2,313-word summary · 10 min read

Along Came a Spider

James Patterson · 1993

Detective Alex Cross hunts Gary Soneji after two children vanish from a Washington school and a Lindbergh echo grows.

2,523-word summary · 11 min read

A Flicker in the Dark

Stacy Willingham · 2022

Psychologist Chloe Davis faces copycat disappearances in Baton Rouge twenty years after her father confessed to murders.

3,074-word summary · 14 min read