Tag: thriller

384 books with this tag.

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The Silence of the Lambs

Thomas Harris · 1988

Clarice Starling seeks Hannibal Lecter's help to catch Buffalo Bill before Catherine Martin runs out of time.

2,616-word summary · 12 min read

The Paris Apartment

Lucy Foley · 2022

Jess finds her brother missing in Paris where every neighbor hides something.

2,040-word summary · 9 min read

The Inmate

Freida McFadden · 2022

A nurse takes a prison job and faces the ex who she helped convict for murder years ago.

2,060-word summary · 9 min read

Local Woman Missing

Mary Kubica · 2021

Two women vanish from one street. Eleven years later, a missing girl returns with no memory.

2,581-word summary · 11 min read

Legend

Marie Lu · 2011

Day and June collide in the Republic: he is wanted for murder, she hunts him, then learns the truth about Metias and the plague.

2,609-word summary · 12 min read

Inferno

Dan Brown · 2013

Dan Brown's Inferno retold: Robert Langdon wakes in Florence with lost memory, follows Dante's clues with Sienna Brooks from Palazzo Vecchio to Venice and…

2,395-word summary · 11 min read

Haunting Adeline

H.D. Carlton · 2021

A writer in a gothic manor is stalked by Zade while reading her great grandmother's diary.

2,090-word summary · 9 min read

Dark Matter

Blake Crouch · 2016

Abducted from his Chicago family, Jason Dessen wakes in a life he never chose and fights through worlds to return.

2,707-word summary · 12 min read

11/22/63

Stephen King · 2011

A Maine teacher steps through a diner portal to 1958 to stop the Kennedy assassination, and learns the past resists change while a new life pulls him in.

2,799-word summary · 12 min read

Then She Was Gone

Lisa Jewell · 2017

Ten years after Ellie vanished, her mother finds a link in a new family.

1,956-word summary · 9 min read

The Woman in the Window

A.J. Finn · 2018

Agoraphobic Anna Fox thinks she sees a murder across the street in Harlem.

2,026-word summary · 9 min read

The Woman in Cabin 10

Ruth Ware · 2016

Journalist Lo sees a body thrown from a luxury cabin, then learns no passenger is missing.

2,002-word summary · 9 min read

The Perfect Marriage

Jeneva Rose · 2020

A defense lawyer defends her husband accused of killing his mistress.

2,084-word summary · 9 min read

The Lost Symbol

Dan Brown · 2009

Langdon races through Washington to save Solomon from a tattooed killer seeking an ancient Masonic secret.

2,145-word summary · 10 min read

The Firm

John Grisham · 1991

Young lawyer Mitch joins a Memphis firm with great pay, then learns clients die and the FBI watches.

2,079-word summary · 9 min read

The Couple Next Door

Shari Lapena · 2016

After a dinner next door, Anne and Marco find baby Cora gone and every neighbor has a motive.

2,053-word summary · 9 min read

Room

Emma Donoghue · 2010

Five year old Jack narrates life with Ma in an 11 foot locked room.

1,960-word summary · 9 min read

None of This Is True

Lisa Jewell · 2023

Podcaster Alix meets birthday-twin Josie, whose dark past becomes the series that consumes them both.

1,992-word summary · 9 min read

Misery

Stephen King · 1987

A novelist crashes in Colorado snow and wakes in the home of his self-declared number one fan, who will not let him leave.

2,744-word summary · 12 min read

Digital Fortress

Dan Brown · 1998

NSA cryptographer Susan Fletcher chases a killer code that could expose every secret, across Seville and Fort Meade.

2,125-word summary · 9 min read

Deception Point

Dan Brown · 2001

A meteorite in Arctic ice may prove alien life, and analyst Rachel Sexton must verify it as killers close in.

1,923-word summary · 9 min read