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189 past books matching Suspense
Best for readers who like fast YA thrillers built around buried secrets, pursuit, shifting timelines, and psychological suspense.
No Place Left to Hide
Suspense · Teen + Young Adult · Thriller
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No Place Left to Hide follows Brooke Goodwin, whose carefully maintained perfect image conceals the truth about an incident six months earlier. After a celebration with classmates, Brooke and her best friend are pursued along an isolated road by someone determined to make her reveal what really happened, with a 3.5-star average from more than 38,600 Goodreads ratings. Best for readers who like fast YA thrillers built around buried secrets, pursuit, shifting timelines, and psychological suspense.
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Some secrets just won't stay hidden in this twisty new thriller from New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Megan Lally!
To Brooke, image is everything. She works hard to maintain perfect grades, perfect looks, a perfect life—especially after "the incident" that threatened it all. Getting into her dream university puts her that much closer to a fresh start. How can she say no to celebrating with all her classmates?
Hanging out with her crush by the bonfire is the perfect end to the night. Except it isn't the end. An old truck starts aggressively tailing Brooke and her best friend on the isolated road toward home. Someone thinks they know the truth about "the incident," and they won't stop until it's all out in the open. This terrifying drive is about to bring out Brooke's worst fears…if she survives it.
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This will appeal to readers who want morally complex military thrillers built around wartime secrets, accountability, and consequences.
Word of Honor
Historical Fiction · Thriller · Historical Thriller · Political Thriller · Suspense · War Fiction
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Ben Tyson is a successful corporate executive and family man whose buried past as a lieutenant in Vietnam resurfaces sixteen years after the men under his command committed an atrocity in 1968 and swore to keep it secret, with a 4.6-star rating from more than 5,400 Amazon reviewers. This will appeal to readers who want morally complex military thrillers built around wartime secrets, accountability, and consequences.
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Read the gripping story of a Vietnam vet whose secret past threatens his family, career, and honor, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author whose books have sold over 50 million copies worldwide, and is "a true master" (Dan Brown).
He is a good man, a brilliant corporate executive, an honest, handsome family man admired by men and desired by women. But sixteen years ago Ben Tyson was a lieutenant in Vietnam.
There, in 1968, the men under his command committed a murderous atrocity-and together swore never to tell the world what they had done. Not the press, army justice, and the events he tried to forget have caught up with Ben Tyson. His family, his career, and his personal sense of honor hang in the balance. And only one woman can reveal the truth of his past--and set him free.
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When a family claiming to be former residents visits their renovated home, Charlie and Eve welcome them inside.
We Used to Live Here
Horror · Thriller · Supernatural Horror · Suspense
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When a family claiming to be former residents visits their renovated home, Charlie and Eve welcome them inside. The moment they do, everything changes. A missing child, vanishing husband, and shifting reality blur the line between sanity and nightmare. We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer is a chilling debut soon to stream on Netflix.
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Charlie and Eve think they have found their dream project: a beautiful old house bought for a bargain price. But when a man arrives with his family, claiming he once lived there and asking to show his children around, Eve agrees. It is a simple act of kindness that opens the door to something far darker.
Once the strangers step inside, strange noises echo through the halls, a child goes missing, and shadows move where no one stands. As Charlie disappears and the house seems to shift around her, Eve questions what is real and what the walls are hiding.
Marcus Kliewer’s We Used to Live Here is a gripping debut of psychological terror soon to be a Netflix original film.
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A man’s search for meaning in his childhood memories reveals a pattern of terror woven through every innocent game and letter.
Penpal
Horror · Thriller · Psychological Horror · Suspense
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A man’s search for meaning in his childhood memories reveals a pattern of terror woven through every innocent game and letter. With each discovery, the truth grows darker and more impossible. Penpal by Dathan Auerbach transforms nostalgia into dread in a story readers will wish they could forget. A modern classic of psychological horror.
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Haunted by fragmented memories of his childhood, a man begins to piece together the events that shaped his past. What starts as an innocent attempt to understand forgotten moments soon unravels into something far darker. The games, letters, and adventures of his youth twist together into a story that could not be real, yet cannot be denied.
Each revelation brings him closer to the truth, but also deeper into a nightmare that was set in motion long before he understood it. Some connections are too horrifying to uncover, and some memories should never be remembered.
Dathan Auerbach’s Penpal is a chilling work of psychological horror that turns nostalgia into terror and memory into something monstrous.
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Best for readers who like YA thrillers built around missing-person mysteries, fractured memory, and complicated sister relationships.
Silent Sister
Teen + Young Adult · Thriller · Suspense
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After sisters Grace and Maddy disappear on a class trip, Grace is found injured, without her memories, and with Maddy's blood on her clothes. She must piece together Maddy's notebook and classmates' accounts to discover what happened, with a 3.81-star average from more than 8,500 Goodreads ratings. Best for readers who like YA thrillers built around missing-person mysteries, fractured memory, and complicated sister relationships.
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The must-read suspense novel about a sister’s deadly secret you won’t see coming.
Grace and Maddy are sisters who have nothing in common—until they both disappear on a class trip.
Days later, Grace is found, injured and disoriented, with no memory of what happened—and no clue where her sister is. Everyone thinks she’s lying. It’s hard not to look guilty with Maddy’s blood on her clothes.
With nothing but Maddy's journal as her guide, Grace must piece together what happened to clear her name and find her sister. But she is about to discover that her own secrets could be the most terrifying of all.
Part stunning story about fractured sisterhood, part pulse pounding mystery, Silent Sister will completely keep you guessing until the last page with an ending you won't be able to stay silent about.
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Fifteen years after her friends vanished from Camp Nightingale, Emma returns to teach art—and to uncover what really happened.
The Last Time I Lied
Horror · Thriller · Psychological Thriller · Suspense
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Fifteen years after her friends vanished from Camp Nightingale, Emma returns to teach art—and to uncover what really happened. But the past waits in the shadows, and the truth may cost her everything. The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager is a haunting, twist-filled thriller of memory, guilt, and the lies we tell ourselves.
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Fifteen years ago, three girls vanished into the woods at Camp Nightingale. Only Emma came back.
Now a rising painter haunted by their disappearance, Emma fills her canvases with echoes of the past—ghostly shapes among the trees, figures in white dresses that refuse to fade. When she’s invited to return to the newly reopened camp as an instructor, she can’t resist the chance to uncover what really happened.
But Camp Nightingale hasn’t changed. The lake is still dark, the forest still watching, and Emma’s cabin still holds its secrets.
The Last Time I Lied by New York Times bestselling author Riley Sager is a gripping, atmospheric thriller of guilt, obsession, and buried truth—where every memory hides a lie.
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After her daughter wakes from an accident claiming to be someone else, Clem travels to the Orkney Islands to uncover a truth rooted in witchcraft and vengeance.
The Book of Witching
Horror · Historical Literary Fiction · Suspense · Women's Fiction
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After her daughter wakes from an accident claiming to be someone else, Clem travels to the Orkney Islands to uncover a truth rooted in witchcraft and vengeance. The Book of Witching is a chilling, emotional thriller by C. J. Cooke, an Editors’ Pick with 4.1 stars on Amazon and 3.8 on Goodreads.
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A mother’s love can defy reason, time, and even death.
When Clem receives the call that her nineteen-year-old daughter has been found unconscious after a hiking trip gone wrong, she rushes to the remote Orkney Islands seeking answers. But when Erin wakes, she does not recognize her mother. She claims a new name—Nyx—and speaks of things no one could know.
Desperate to save her daughter, Clem searches the island’s past and uncovers the story of a woman condemned for witchcraft four centuries earlier. As the veil between history and haunting begins to tear, Clem must face the possibility that her child’s soul has been claimed by something ancient.
An Editors’ Pick for Mystery, Thriller, and Suspense, The Book of Witching holds 4.1 stars on Amazon and 3.8 on Goodreads.
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Executed for a crime he never committed, Friedrich Hoffmann awakens as Frankenstein’s creation and vows revenge on the man who damned him.
Monster: A Novel of Frankenstein
Historical Fiction · Thriller · Historical Thriller · Suspense
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Executed for a crime he never committed, Friedrich Hoffmann awakens as Frankenstein’s creation and vows revenge on the man who damned him. His pursuit leads through vampyres, dark cults, and the Marquis de Sade himself. Dave Zeltserman’s Monster: A Novel of Frankenstein delivers gothic horror steeped in vengeance, corruption, and the power of rebirth.
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Condemned to die for a crime he did not commit, Friedrich Hoffmann meets his end beneath the executioner’s wheel. But death is not the end. He awakens on a laboratory table, reborn as something unrecognizable, stitched together by the mad ambitions of Victor Frankenstein.
Hunted by those who once mocked him and haunted by the fragments of the man he used to be, Friedrich sets out to destroy the creator who cursed him. His path leads through a Europe of vampyres, dark cults, and the depravity of the Marquis de Sade, where vengeance and damnation blur into one.
Dave Zeltserman’s Monster: A Novel of Frankenstein is a visceral gothic tale of resurrection, obsession, and the monstrous cost of revenge.
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At Oxford, Victor Frankenstein’s friendship with poet Percy Bysshe Shelley sparks a fascination with creation and the power to defy death.
The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
Thriller · Romance · Suspense
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At Oxford, Victor Frankenstein’s friendship with poet Percy Bysshe Shelley sparks a fascination with creation and the power to defy death. As his experiments cross every boundary of morality and reason, genius gives way to horror. Peter Ackroyd’s The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein is a richly imagined gothic reworking of an immortal tale.
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At Oxford, Victor Frankenstein finds a kindred spirit in the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, whose radical ideas about creation and the limits of science ignite Victor’s imagination. What begins as an intellectual friendship soon transforms into obsession as Victor turns his curiosity toward the ultimate experiment: to restore life to the dead.
Gathering bodies from the coroner’s table and graves beyond, Victor descends into the shadows of his own ambition, haunted by questions of faith, genius, and mortality. Each step toward discovery leads him closer to madness.
From acclaimed author Peter Ackroyd, The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein is a brilliant reimagining of Mary Shelley’s timeless myth, blending literary history, gothic atmosphere, and the tragic cost of creation.
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When a string of brutal murders shakes New Orleans, Detectives Carson O’Connor and Michael Maddison uncover a conspiracy born of science and madness.
Frankenstein: Prodigal Son
Horror · Thriller · Suspense
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When a string of brutal murders shakes New Orleans, Detectives Carson O’Connor and Michael Maddison uncover a conspiracy born of science and madness. Their only ally is Deucalion, a man tied to a centuries-old secret. Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein: Prodigal Son reinvents the classic myth in a dark and gripping tale of creation and corruption.
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In the storm-shadowed streets of New Orleans, something ancient has returned. Detective Carson O’Connor and her partner Michael Maddison are hunting a killer whose victims seem chosen for their humanity because he has none. Each clue leads deeper into a nightmare of science and obsession, where monsters are both man-made and self-made.
Into this darkness steps Deucalion, a tattooed wanderer carrying secrets older than the city itself. His past is bound to the case, to the killer, and to a creator who refuses to die.
From master storyteller Dean Koontz, Frankenstein: Prodigal Son reimagines Mary Shelley’s legend for the modern age, blending thriller, mystery, and gothic horror into a chilling story of creation gone wrong.
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In U.S.-occupied Baghdad, a junk dealer stitches together a body from war’s dead—only for it to vanish and return as a vengeful killer.
Frankenstein in Baghdad
Literary Fiction · Thriller · Speculative Fiction · Suspense
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In U.S.-occupied Baghdad, a junk dealer stitches together a body from war’s dead—only for it to vanish and return as a vengeful killer. As horror spreads, justice and vengeance become indistinguishable. Winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, Frankenstein in Baghdad is a gripping, blackly comic tale of creation and consequence.
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In war-torn Baghdad, Hadi, a junk dealer and storyteller, scours the wreckage for human remains—hoping to honor the dead by sewing their parts into a single body and demanding recognition for lives lost to chaos. But when his creation disappears, a string of brutal murders grips the city, each victim chosen according to a twisted sense of justice.
As rumors of an unkillable monster spread through occupied Baghdad, fear gives way to moral reckoning. Who deserves vengeance in a world where innocence and guilt blur beyond repair?
Winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction and a finalist for the International Booker Prize, Frankenstein in Baghdad is a darkly funny, haunting allegory of war, guilt, and resurrection.
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A safe new neighborhood becomes dangerous when the person offering help has her own reasons for getting close.
The Psychopath Next Door
Thriller · Mystery · Suspense
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A safe new neighborhood becomes dangerous when the person offering help has her own reasons for getting close. In The Psychopath Next Door, Ethan and Emma trust Fiona with their daughter, Rose, only to discover that kindness can hide revenge. This psychological thriller fits readers drawn to domestic suspense, dangerous neighbors, manipulation, and children caught in adult secrets.
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In this mesmerising thriller from the bestselling author of Keep Her Secret, a family’s fresh start is just the beginning of their nightmare…
Ethan Dove’s family has moved to a new home in a safe community, and it’s exactly the fresh start they need. Not only is his marriage to Emma hanging by a thread, but his son, Dylan, and twelve-year-old daughter, Rose, deserve to have a happy childhood.
After Rose is bullied by the boys across the road, Ethan is relieved when the woman who lives next door steps in. Fiona Smith has come into their lives at just the right moment, and when she offers to look after Rose during the school holidays, Ethan and Emma can’t believe their luck.
Which is exactly what Fiona wants. Because, far from being the perfect neighbour, Fiona is the last person you should trust with your child. With a vicious plot for revenge, Fiona is happy to train Rose to be her accomplice, especially when she begins to suspect that Rose might not be as innocent as she appears…
The Psychopath Next Door is a gripping and twisted psychological suspense thriller set in the terrifying world of Mark Edwards’s bestselling The Magpies universe.
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