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189 past books matching Suspense
Ideal for readers looking for a YA thriller that mixes survival competition, murder mystery, isolation, and questions of trust.
We Won’t All Survive
Teen + Young Adult · Thriller · Suspense
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Mercy Gray, hailed as a hero after surviving a mall shooting, joins a survivalist reality show for the prize money that could help her family. But the contestants arrive to an empty off-grid set, the gates close behind them, and one of them turns up dead, with a 3.6-star average from more than 8,600 Goodreads ratings. Ideal for readers looking for a YA thriller that mixes survival competition, murder mystery, isolation, and questions of trust.
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From the bestselling author of I Am Still Alive comes a new nail-biter that's part survival story, part murder mystery, and all thriller—perfect for fans of Karen McManus and Holly Jackson!
Two years ago, Mercy Gray was hailed as a hero for saving lives during a mall shooting. She still carries souvenirs from that day: the fragment of a bullet lodged in her back, a mountain of medical debt, and guilt for ignoring her sister’s warnings that the sweet boy next door was anything but.
So when billionaire turned TV host Damien Dare recruits Mercy to compete on his new survivalist reality show, she can’t turn down a chance at the whopping cash prize that could send her sister to college. But when she and the other contestants arrive at the off-grid location, something isn’t right. The set is empty. The gates close without warning, trapping them inside. And then one of them turns up dead. What appeared at first to be a tragic accident quickly transforms as more contestants start dropping like flies. With time and resources running low, surviving this show takes on a whole new meaning. Mercy must figure out who to trust. Before she’s next.
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Ideal for readers looking for a claustrophobic psychological thriller built around captivity, mistrust, and a high-stakes escape.
The Girl in the Cellar
Horror · Mystery · Thriller · Psychological Thriller · Suspense
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A woman who believes she has been held in a cellar for nearly a year sees a chance to escape when another woman comes downstairs, only to realize the newcomer may be her captor’s wife and in danger too, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 800 Amazon reviewers. Ideal for readers looking for a claustrophobic psychological thriller built around captivity, mistrust, and a high-stakes escape.
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'Wow!!! Is all I can say about this absolutely outstanding book . . . I read it in 12 hours . . . I loved every paragraph, every sentence and every word of this masterpiece!' Reader review, 5 stars
I haven't seen sunlight in almost a year.
Or at least that's how long I think I have been down here. I can only eat when I have been good. I can only wash when he says so. Every day is the same. The darkness. The waiting. The fear when I hear his key turn in the lock and I know he is back.
Until...
One day, finally, someone else comes down the steps. It's a woman... I can't believe I am finally free.
But then I see the fear in her eyes. The bruises on her arms... the ring on her finger.
If this woman is his wife, she knows exactly what he is capable of.
I hear a noise upstairs.
He's home.
Our eyes meet.
If he finds her here, will he kill us both?
An absolutely unputdownable psychological thriller perfect for fans of Freida McFadden, Steena Holmes, John Marrs, Alice Feeney and Becca Day.
Readers can't get enough of THE GIRL IN THE CELLAR!
'HOLY COW!! It grabbed me like a vice from the first page and never let go!! I stayed up until 7am reading it because I just HAD to keep reading. Wrought with suspense and tension, there were times I didn't know who was the true villain. Great book!!' Reader review, 5 stars
'Um, I don't even know what to say about this one! WOW doesn't quite cover it. The turns keep coming and the twists at the end left my jaw on the floor. For fans of just about any thriller author, this one is a must read. Go, NOW.' Reader review, 5 stars
'INTENSE! Deadly game of claustrophobic cat and mouse between killer and his next victim - things get more and more entangled, who is on who's side . . . Edge of your seat for sure!' Reader review, 5 stars
'This book was phenomenal! I could not put it down. It was a cross between Frieda McFadden's writing and a little ofListen for the Lie by Amy Tintera.' Reader review, 5 stars
'You can't help the emotions reading this book! If you are fans of Freida McFadden or John Marrs, then this book is definitely right up your alley!' Reader review, 5 stars
'This book was a real page turner. I couldn't put it down it was so so good. Really hope to read another book by this author soon. A must read book brilliant.' Reader review, 5 stars
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A disgraced surgeon accepts a secretive job for an impossibly wealthy patient, then becomes the prime target when he vanishes under her care.
Gone Before Goodbye
Mystery · Thriller · Suspense
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A disgraced surgeon accepts a secretive job for an impossibly wealthy patient, then becomes the prime target when he vanishes under her care. Maggie McCabe is already rebuilding after personal and professional ruin when the disappearance traps her inside a conspiracy where discretion can be deadly. Gone Before Goodbye is a fast-moving suspense thriller driven by medical intrigue, global danger, and a protagonist forced to outrun the truth.
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AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
In this unforgettable suspense novel that combines the storytelling talents of Academy Award-winning actor Reese Witherspoon and internationally bestselling author Harlan Coben, a woman is trapped in a deadly conspiracy—where uncovering the truth could cost her everything.
"Reese Witherspoon and Harlan Coben have delivered a winner. Gone Before Goodbye is a dynamic, riveting and twisty thriller—complete with a heroine that you’ll absolutely love." —Laura Dave, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Thing He Told Me
Maggie McCabe is teetering on the brink. A highly skilled and renowned Army combat surgeon, she has always lived life at the edge, where she could make the most impact. And it was all going to plan ... until it wasn’t. Upside down after a devastating series of tragedies leads to her medical license being revoked, Maggie has lost her purpose, but not her nerve or her passion. At her lowest point, she is thrown a lifeline by a former colleague, an elite plastic surgeon whose anonymous clientele demand the best care money can buy, as well as absolute discretion.
Halfway across the globe, sequestered in the lap of luxury and cutting-edge technology, one of the world’s most mysterious men requires unconventional medical assistance. Desperate, and one of the few surgeons in the world skilled enough to take this job, Maggie enters his realm of unspeakable opulence and fulfills her end of the agreement. But when the patient suddenly disappears while still under her care, Maggie must become a fugitive herself—or she will be the next one who is ... Gone Before Goodbye.
"A tour de force thriller that delivers a killer premise and thundering plot with serious emotional punch. Maggie is flawed, compelling and utterly real. Coben and Witherspoon are a dream team! " —Lucy Foley, New York Times bestselling author of The Guest List
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This will appeal to readers who want historical horror built around institutional cruelty, female friendship, folk magic, and hard-won resistance.
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
Historical Fiction · Horror · Literary Fiction · Occult Horror · Suspense
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In 1970, four pregnant teenagers confined at a Florida maternity home discover witchcraft and use their new power to resist the adults controlling their bodies and futures, with a 3.9-star average from more than 144,000 Goodreads ratings. This will appeal to readers who want historical horror built around institutional cruelty, female friendship, folk magic, and hard-won resistance.
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"Superb ... a perfect horror for our imperfect age.” – The New York Times
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER
They were never girls, they were witches . . . .
They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they’re sent to the Wellwood House in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret, to give them up for adoption, and most important of all, to forget any of it ever happened.
Fifteen-year-old Fern arrives at the home in the sweltering summer of 1970, pregnant, frightened, and alone. Under the watchful eye of the stern Miss Wellwood, she meets a dozen other girls in the same predicament. There’s Rose, a hippie who insists she’s going to find a way to keep her baby and escape to a commune. And Zinnia, a budding musician who plans to marry her baby’s father. And Holly, a wisp of a girl, barely fourteen, mute and pregnant by no-one-knows-who.
Everything the girls eat, every moment of their waking day, and everything they’re allowed to talk about is strictly controlled by the adults who claim they know what’s best for them. Then Fern meets a librarian who gives her an occult book about witchcraft, and power is in the hands of the girls for the first time in their lives. But power can destroy as easily as it creates, and it’s never given freely. There’s always a price to be paid . . . and it’s usually paid in blood.
In Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, the author of How to Sell a Haunted House and The Final Girl Support Group delivers another searing, completely original novel and further cements his status as a “horror master” (NPR).
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Best for readers who like YA thrillers with unreliable memory, public suspicion, true-crime pressure, and missing-person mysteries.
She’s Gone
Teen + Young Adult · Thriller · Suspense
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From USA Today bestselling author David Bell, She's Gone follows Hunter, a teen who wakes after a homecoming car crash with no memory, a missing girlfriend, and a town ready to blame him, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 1,300 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who like YA thrillers with unreliable memory, public suspicion, true-crime pressure, and missing-person mysteries.
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A new page-turning thriller from USA Today bestselling author David Bell.
When a girl disappears, who do you suspect?
When 17-year-old Hunter Gifford wakes in the hospital on the night of homecoming, he's shocked to learn he and his girlfriend, Chloe Summers, have been in a terrible car accident. Hunter has no memory of the crash, and his shock turns to horror when he is told Chloe's blood has been found in the car—but she has disappeared.
Back at school, his fellow students taunt him, and his former best friend starts making a true-crime documentary about the case—one that points the finger directly at Hunter. And just when things can't get any worse, Chloe's mother stands in front of the entire town at a candlelight vigil and accuses Hunter of murder.
Under mounting pressure from the police, Hunter takes matters into his own hands by questioning anyone who might know the truth and posting videos to prove his innocence. When Hunter learns he and Chloe were seen arguing loudly outside the dance, he faces a sickening possibility. Was he angry enough to kill the person he loved?
Praise for David Bell:
"David Bell is a top-notch storyteller and Layover is his best book yet. I flew through this twisty, riveting psychological thriller at breakneck speed, hooked from the first page right up through the book's breathless conclusion."—Cristina Alger, New York Times bestselling author of Girls Like Us
"With hints of Patricia Highsmith's THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY, this is a riveting thriller." —Palm Beach Daily News
"Readers will find themselves thoroughly immersed in this riveting thriller…both compelling and surprising."—Booklist
"Bell is a brilliant craftsman as well as storyteller."—The Providence Journal
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A strong match for readers drawn to YA thrillers with vacation danger, survival stakes, stormy seas, and tense group dynamics.
What We Did to Survive
Teen + Young Adult · Thriller · Action Thriller · Suspense
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A #1 New Release in Teen & Young Adult Survival Stories, What We Did to Survive follows Hannah, her best friend Emmy, Jackson, and Emmy’s new boyfriend as a private sailing charter off the coast of Mexico turns dangerous, with a storm closing in and tensions rising onboard, with a 4.0-star rating from more than 900 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers drawn to YA thrillers with vacation danger, survival stakes, stormy seas, and tense group dynamics.
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A vacation in paradise turns deadly when four teens' sailing charter hits stormy seas in this propulsive new thriller from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Megan Lally!
Hannah is having an incredible spring break. A week at a resort in Mexico with her best friend Emmy and her family is perfect for de-stressing from senior year, even if it's awkward being around Emmy's older brother, Jackson, who she's had a crush on for as long as she can remember.
Still, the beach is gorgeous. So is the guy they meet in the surf. Except Hannah is now the third wheel in Emmy's vacation romance.
Eager to impress Emmy, her wealthy new boyfriend charters a private sailboat to make the most of their last day in paradise, and Hannah and Jackson are invited along. As the clouds roll in and the skies darken, their boat is the only one leaving the marina. And the further they get into open water, the more unsettled Hannah becomes. A storm is brewing onboard that's as deadly as the one racing toward them. Forget surviving graduation. Who will make it back to land alive?
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A strong fit for readers drawn to haunted house horror, coastal settings, teenage friendship, buried histories, and supernatural dread.
Something I Keep Upstairs
Thriller · Suspense
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Something I Keep Upstairs follows seventeen-year-old Billy Hasler and his best friend David Spivey as a mysterious inherited island house turns their final summer before college into a nightmare shaped by the island’s dark past and an ancient evil, with a 4.3-star rating from more than 1,400 Amazon reviewers. A strong fit for readers drawn to haunted house horror, coastal settings, teenage friendship, buried histories, and supernatural dread.
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For a haunted house to be born, somebody has to die.
In the sleepy coastal town of New Castle, New Hampshire, seventeen-year-old Billy Hasler's life is about to take a terrifying turn. When his best friend David Spivey inherits a mysterious house on a nearby island, it seems like the perfect place to spend their final summer before heading off to college. No parents. No police. No responsibilities.
As they dig into the island's dark past, they awaken an ancient evil that has influenced generations. What begins as an innocent summer adventure quickly descends into a nightmare.
"Something I Keep Upstairs" is a haunting exploration of friendship, sacrifice, and the darkness lurking just beyond our understanding. It will keep you on edge until the final, chilling page.
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A good pick for readers who like glamorous business drama, romantic suspense, ruthless ambition, and twist-heavy storytelling.
The Stars Shine Down
Mystery · Romance · Thriller · Suspense
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The Stars Shine Down follows Lara Cameron, a powerful real estate mogul whose business empire, marriage, and carefully guarded past are all threatened by secrets, loyalty, ambition, and high-stakes choices, with a 4.3-star rating from more than 2,500 Amazon reviewers. A good pick for readers who like glamorous business drama, romantic suspense, ruthless ambition, and twist-heavy storytelling.
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The Stars Shine Down is Sidney Sheldons twelfth and most passionate novel, set against the glamorous world of international business and featuring a complex and compelling heroine faced with a series of life-shattering decisions.
Lara Cameron is young and beautiful. Rising from a past she seeks to repress, she achieves her wildest ambition, creating a much envied business empire. Then, overnight, all that has gone before, her fortune, her achievements, and her marriageeverythingis at risk.
Paul Martin, a brilliant but mysterious lawyer who is captivated by Lara, finally is faced with her desire for independence and his own compulsion no to let her go.
Howard Keller, Laras longtime friend and mentor, is torn between loyalty to her and maintaining a terrifying secret, one that must never be revealedespecially to Lara.
It is Philip Adler who offers Lara an exciting new world, but at a devastating price that threatens to destroy them both.
From Scotland to Nova Scotia, New York to London, Rome to Reno, The Stars Shine Down is classic Sidney Sheldon, featuring the startling shocks and amazing surprises millions of readers have come to expect and love. It is also a highlight in a continuum of virtuoso performances by the man everyone turns to for irresistible romance, cliff-hanger suspense, and the totally unexpected.
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Best for readers who want pitch black psychological thrillers with dark romance, trauma, vigilante violence, and heavy emotional themes.
In You
Mystery · Romance · Thriller · Psychological Thriller · Romantic Suspense · Suspense
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In You follows Tamryn, a woman searching for love and protection, and Caleb, a lonely vigilante killer whose connection with her forces both of them toward their darkest secrets, with a 4.3-star rating from more than 1,000 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who want pitch black psychological thrillers with dark romance, trauma, vigilante violence, and heavy emotional themes.
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My name is Tamryn.
I am a woman with a job, a home, and a mother who loves me. Not whole, but not quite incomplete, either. I have many faces, but they all want one thing; someone to protect me. Someone to love me. And then I find him...He's everything I thought I ever wanted. Handsome, suave, gentlemanly, my knight in shining armor with a hand stretched out to make everything perfect. And everything is perfect, that is, until my true savior comes along and shows me just how broken I am, and works to piece me back together... At the end of the day, all I really know my name is Tamryn, and I've always wanted to live by the sea. Preferably in a kingdom, but a small house will do...
My name is Caleb.
I am a survivor, a killer, a loner. Ruthless in my pursuit of justice, I fill my time moonlighting as a vigilante, cleansing the world of the filth that walks upon it. I handle what needs to be taken care of, then I retreat back to my thousand acres of woods until I'm needed again. Though the kills aren't ever enough to erase the touch of my abuser, the bloodlust I feel is sweet, and so far, it's been enough to soothe the aching loneliness that threatens on a daily to swallow me whole. I've accepted my heart is dead, that is, until I meet Tamryn. This fragile woman touches something inside of me, and forces me to realize that I need so much more than that what I've been settling for. She makes me crave more, and enables me to face my deepest, darkest secrets.
This book is a psychological thriller and pitch black romance. As well as various aspects of abuse, it also features heavy themes depicting Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). It is recommended to read the trigger warnings before proceeding. 18+ only.
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Good for readers who like suspense thrillers with copycat crimes, investigative danger, and shocking reveals.
Hour Game
Mystery · Thriller · Police Procedural · Suspense
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A #1 Best Seller in Thriller & Suspense Action Fiction, Hour Game follows ex-Secret Service agents Sean King and Michelle Maxwell as a burglary case pulls them into a murder investigation involving killings modeled after infamous murderers. As the secrets pile up, the partners risk their lives to uncover the truth, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 28,100 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who like suspense thrillers with copycat crimes, investigative danger, and shocking reveals.
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A man accused of burglary seems innocent, but two ex-Secret Service agents quickly learn that nothing is more dangerous than the truth in this propulsive thriller from a #1 New York Times bestselling author.
A woman is found murdered in the woods. It seems like a simple case but it soon escalates into a terrible nightmare. Someone is replicating the killing styles of the most infamous murderers of all time. No one knows this criminal's motives ... or who will die next.
Two ex-Secret Service agents, Sean King and Michelle Maxwell, have been hired to defend a man's innocence in a burglary involving an aristocratic family. Then a series of secrets leads the partners right into the frantic hunt that is confounding even the FBI.
Now King and Maxwell are playing the Hour Game, uncovering one horrifying revelation after another and putting their lives in danger. Because the closer they get to the truth, the closer they get to the most shocking surprise of all.
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Good for readers who want dark sci-fi about infection, survival, and forced evolution.
Clay’s Ark
Dystopian · Thriller · Genetic Engineering · Suspense
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Blake Maslin and his teenage twin daughters are ambushed in an alternate America and taken to an isolated compound where a contagious alien disease has transformed its carriers into powerful, dangerous outcasts. Clay’s Ark follows their fight to escape, warn the world, or accept a new reality that could change humanity’s future, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 1,000 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want dark sci-fi about infection, survival, and forced evolution.
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From the acclaimed author of the Earthseed series, two immortals chase each other across continents and centuries, binding their fates together and changing the destiny of the human race.
Blake Maslin is traveling with his teenage twin daughters through an alternate America marked by volatile class warfare when their car is ambushed. Their attackers appear sickly yet possess inhuman strength, and they transport Blake's family to an isolated compound. There, the three captives discover that the compound's residents have a highly contagious alien disease that has mutated their DNA to make them powerful, dangerous, and compelled to infect others.
If Blake and his daughters do not escape, they will be infected with a virus that will either kill them outright or transform them into outcasts whose very existence is a threat to the world around them.
In the following hours, Blake and his daughters must make a vital choice: risk everything to escape and warn the rest of the world, or accept their new reality—as well as the uncertain fate of the human race.
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Good for readers who like domestic thrillers built around impossible choices, family danger, and one-night survival stakes.
The Good Father
Mystery · Thriller · Suspense
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Lucas is hiding his job loss from his pregnant wife when a rideshare pickup turns into a nightmare in The Good Father. With a gun to his head, he must help passenger Damon kill men on a list or risk his family becoming the next target, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 280 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who like domestic thrillers built around impossible choices, family danger, and one-night survival stakes.
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‘Clear your day because once you start reading this, you won't be able to put it down… One of the most gripping books you'll ever read, and the ending! OMG!’ Reader review
When faced with a killer, he'll do anything to keep his family safe.
Lucas and Julia are about to become parents, but there’s something Lucas hasn’t told his wife. Two months ago, he lost his job and has been secretly working as a rideshare driver in a desperate attempt to make ends meet.
But that’s about the be the least of his problems. One evening he picks up a passenger in the Hollywood Hills. The man, Damon, puts a gun to Lucas’s head, and tells him to drive.
Because Damon has a list of men he intends to kill, and he needs Lucas’s help. If Lucas complies, his family will be safe, but others will suffer. If he fights back, Damon will target his wife and daughter.
It’s an impossible choice, but what’s clear is that Lucas’s life is about to change forever. If he survives the night.
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