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Thrillers

Top 5 Thrillers

I Remember You by Yrsa Sigurdardottir
This disturbing little thriller will make you believe in ghosts again. Try not to be alone when you're reading it[...]
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Anatomy of a Scandal by Sarah Vaughan
Wow, this one is so good and so relevant. Holly returns home to Liverpool in 1993 after a term at[...]
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He Said She Said by Erin Kelly
There's so much contained within this beautifully written, slow burning thriller it's hard to know where to begin. A young woman,[...]
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Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl. The God of All Thrillers. If you’re one of the ten or so people on the planet who[...]
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Defending Jacob by William Landay
This one is soooooo good. Part courtroom drama, part thriller, part classic Classic Moral Dilemma. It brings to mind a[...]
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All Thrillers

The Girl in the Mirror by Rose Carlyle
Gallows Rock by Yrsa Sigurdardottir
The Mist by Ragnar Jonasson
Little Secrets by Jennifer Hillier
The Trespassers by Meg Mundell
Riptides by Kirsten Alexander
The Dilemma by B.A. Paris
I Thought I Knew You by Penny Hancock
Life Before by Carmel Reilly
The Wife and The Widow by Christian White
Those People by Louise Candlish
The Chain by Adrian McKinty
Good Girl Bad Girl by Michael Robotham
Six Minutes by Petronella McGovern
Whisper Network by Chandler Baker
Eight Lives by Susan Hurley
Dirty Little Secrets by Jo Spain
The Last by Hanna Jameson
Blood Orange by Harriet Tyce
The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley
The Flower Girls by Alice Clark-Platts
The Lost Girls by Jennifer Spence
The Suspect by Fiona Barton
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
The Mother-In-Law by Sally Hepworth
Call Me Evie by J.P. Pomare
The Missing Pieces of Sophie McCarthy by B.M. Caroll
Half Moon Lake by Kirsten Alexander
Unravelling Oliver by Liz Nugent
Ruin Beach by Kate Rhodes
Lying in Wait by Liz Nugent
The Au Pair by Emma Rous
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
November Road by Lou Berney
The Mystery of Three Quarters by Sophie Hannah
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
A Double Life by Flynn Berry
Still Lives by Maria Hummel
After the Darkness by Honey Brown
The Katharina Code by Jorn Lier Horst
Devices and Desires by PD James
The Murder Room by PD James
A Certain Justice by PD James
The Lighthouse by PD James
A Taste For Death by PD James
The Good Parents by Joan London
Three Little Lies by Laura Marshall
The Perfect Girl by Gilly Macmillan
Our Kind Of Cruelty by Araminta Hall
Truth by Peter Temple
Only Daughter by Anna Snoekstra
Scrublands by Chris Hammer
Broken Ground by Val McDermid
What She Knew by Gilly Macmillan
The Party by Lisa Hall
All the Hidden Truths by Claire Askew
Odd Child Out by Gilly Macmillan
Silent Voices by Ann Cleeves
Are You Sleeping by Kathleen Barber
Woman of the Dead by Bernard Aichner
The Life I left Behind by Colette McBeth
Something In The Water by Catherine Steadman
Girls’ Night Out by Liz Fenton and Lisa Steinke
All is Not Forgotten by Wendy Walker
The Other Wife by Michael Robotham
The Geography Of Friendship by Sally Piper
Need to know by Karen Cleveland
The Death Of Mrs Westaway by Ruth Ware
In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena
An Unwanted Guest by Shari Lapena
Do Not Become Alarmed by Maile Meloy
The Drowned Boy by Karin Fossum
Closed Casket by Sophie Hannah
The House on Half Moon Street by Alex Reeve
Missing, Presumed by Susie Steiner
The Dry by Jane Harper
An Act of Silence by Colette McBeth
Snap by Belinda Bauer
The Double Silence by Mari Jungstedt
The Reckoning by Yrsa Sigurdardottir
The Nowhere Child by Christian White
Munich by Robert Harris
The Good Father by Noah Hawley
The Sudden Departure of the Frasers by Louise Candlish
Into the Night by Sarah Bailey
Dear Amy by Helen Callaghan
The Secrets She Keeps by Michael Robotham
Life or Death by Michael Robotham
Year One by Nora Roberts
The Father by Anton Svensson
An Isolated Incident by Emily Maquire
Our House by Louise Candlish
Don’t Believe It by Charlie Donlea
The Punishment She Deserves by Elizabeth George
The Darkness by Ragnar Jonasson
If I Die Before I Wake by Emily Koch
The Liar’s Girl by Catherine Ryan Howard
It’s Always the Husband by Michele Campbell
The Perfect Mother by Aimee Molloy
Cast Iron by Peter May
Cross Her Heart by Sarah Pinborough
This Is How It Ends by Eva Dolan
Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell
1222 by Anne Holt
The Fall of Lisa Bellow by Susan Perabo
The Darkest Day by Hakan Nesser
I’ll Keep You Safe by Peter May
Lullaby by Leila Slimani
Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey
Give Me the Child by Mel McGrath
Mine by Susi Fox
The Perfect Couple by Lexi Lansman
Daughter by Jane Shemilt
The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan
Fellside by MR Carey
The Dark Lake by Sarah Bailey
The Child by Fiona Barton
I Found You by Lisa Jewel
Best Day Ever by Kaira Rouda
Wilde Lake by Laura Lippmann
White Bodies by Jane Robbins
The Stepmother by Claire Seeber
The Fifth Letter by Nicola Moriarty
Say Nothing by Brad Parks
Behind her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough
The Dark Rose by Erin Kelly
The Lucky One by Caroline Overington
The Breakdown by BA Paris
The Burning Air by Erin Kelly
Hidden Bodies by Caroline Kepnes
Into the Water by Paula Hawkins
Since We Fell by Dennis Lehane
The Silence of the Sea by Yrsa Sigurdardottir
The Lying Game by Ruth Ware
The Golden Child by Wendy James
Why Did You Lie? by Yrsa Sigurdardottir
I Remember You by Yrsa Sigurdardottir
The Mistake by Wendy James
Persons Unknown by Susie Steiner
Ashes to Dust by Yrsa Sigurdardottir
The Lost Girls by Wendy James
A Stranger in the House by Shari Lapena
My Soul to Take by Yrsa Sigurdardottir
The Marsh King’s Daughter by Karen Dionne
The Day is Dark by Yrsa Sigurdardottir
The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter
The Way Back by Kylie Ladd
The Upstairs Room by Kate Murray-Browne
Someone To Watch Over Me by Yrsa Sigurdadottir
Fierce Kingdom by Gin Phillips
Let Me Lie by Clare Mackintosh
Quick Sand by Malin Persson Giolito
All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda
Girl in Snow by Danya Kukafka
Bombproof by Michael Robotham
The Party by Robyn Harding
Friend request by Laura Marshall
Force of Nature by Jane Harper
Here and Gone by Haylen Beck
Say You’re Sorry by Michael Robotham
Anatomy of a Scandal by Sarah Vaughan
The Accident On The A35 by Graeme Macrae Burnet
Raven Black by Ann Cleeves
He Said She Said by Erin Kelly
Tattletale by Sarah J Naughton
Crimson Lake by Candice Fox
Stillhouse Lake by Rachel Caine
White Nights by Ann Cleeves
Under the Harrow by Flynn Berry
A Talent for Murder by Andrew Wilson
Beneath the Skin by Nicci French
Mission Flats by William Landay
Hidden Depths by Ann Cleeves
Bring Me Back by BA Paris
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Glass Houses by Louise Penny
The Mountain Story by Lori Lansens
Defending Jacob by William Landay
The Confession by Jo Spain
The Woman in the Window by AJ Finn
The Wife by Alafair Burke
The Missing Girl by Jenny Quintana

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