Thriller

Amnesia is one of the oldest tricks in the thriller playbook, and it works for a simple reason: a narrator who doesn't know her own story is a narrat

Fourteen books into a series built on a black-ops "ghost" operative eliminating national security threats with brutal efficiency, changing the formul

The best missing-person thrillers eventually admit that the disappearance was never really the point. Into the Fall gets t

The locked-room mystery has a long, well-worn history, but Missing in Flight finds a genuinely fresh version of it: a seal

Twenty-five years is a long time to keep a secret buried, and The Fourth Girl understands exactly how much pressure that k

The best crime writers know that a real, documented horror is always creepier than an invented one. The Laughing Dead buil

Every school has a Good One and a Bad One, and every adult who lived through that dynamic knows the labels were never quite accurate to begin with. [

Some domestic thrillers ask you to believe one marriage is hiding one secret. A Happy Marriage by A.R. Torre isn't interes

A second book in a legal thriller series has one job above all others: prove the first one wasn't a fluke. Fatal Verdict b

Some legal thrillers make you wait until the final chapter to earn their twist. Reckoning Hour by Peter O'Mahoney isn't in