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1,378 past books matching Thriller
Explosively paced and gripping, this is a must-read for fans of James Rollins.
The Alexander Cipher
Mystery · Thriller
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Will Adams’s The Alexander Cipher, a 4.1-star archaeological thriller with over 7,000 Goodreads ratings, combines history, danger, and nonstop suspense. When a tomb in Alexandria reveals clues to Alexander the Great’s resting place, archaeologist Daniel Knox is thrust into a deadly race against rivals, officials, and zealots. Explosively paced and gripping, this is a must-read for fans of James Rollins.
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In modern Alexandria, construction halts when workers uncover a mysterious tomb filled with relics linked to Alexander the Great. For archaeologist Daniel Knox, it is the discovery of a lifetime—and the kind of obsession that has always driven his work. But it also makes him a target.
Hiding from a dangerous mobster, Knox sneaks onto the dig site and realizes the tomb is far more significant than anyone believes. Its contents could unlock the truth behind one of history’s greatest mysteries: the lost burial place of Alexander the Great.
As rival archaeologists, corrupt officials, and fanatical nationalists join the hunt, the chase becomes deadly. Will Adams’s The Alexander Cipher is a razor-sharp archaeological thriller that blends ancient secrets with nonstop action.
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Rachel Caine’s Stillhouse Lake, an Amazon Charts and USA Today bestseller with 4.4 stars and more than 180,000 Goodreads ratings, is a gripping psychological thriller.
Stillhouse Lake
Thriller · Psychological Thriller · Suspense
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Rachel Caine’s Stillhouse Lake, an Amazon Charts and USA Today bestseller with 4.4 stars and more than 180,000 Goodreads ratings, is a gripping psychological thriller. When Gwen Proctor tries to rebuild her life after discovering her husband was a serial killer, peace is shattered by new threats. Taut, addictive, and unforgettable, this Goodreads Choice nominee launches a bestselling series.
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An Amazon Charts and USA Today bestseller.
Gina Royal is the definition of average—a shy Midwestern housewife with a happy marriage and two adorable children. But when a car accident reveals her husband’s secret life as a serial killer, she must remake herself as Gwen Proctor—the ultimate warrior mom.
With her ex now in prison, Gwen has finally found refuge in a new home on remote Stillhouse Lake. Though still the target of stalkers and Internet trolls who think she had something to do with her husband’s crimes, Gwen dares to think her kids can finally grow up in peace.
But just when she’s starting to feel at ease in her new identity, a body turns up in the lake—and threatening letters start arriving from an all-too-familiar address. Gwen Proctor must keep friends close and enemies at bay to avoid being exposed—or watch her kids fall victim to a killer who takes pleasure in tormenting her. One thing is certain: she’s learned how to fight evil. And she’ll never stop.
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Mark Stevens’s No Lie Lasts Forever, the first Flynn Martin thriller, holds 4.2 stars with over 6,000 Amazon ratings.
No Lie Lasts Forever
Thriller
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Mark Stevens’s No Lie Lasts Forever, the first Flynn Martin thriller, holds 4.2 stars with over 6,000 Amazon ratings. When murders echo the crimes of Denver’s notorious PDQ Killer, Harry Kugel knows the truth, he’s innocent, this time. Teaming with a disgraced journalist desperate for redemption, Harry must hunt a copycat while resisting the darkness that once defined him.
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Fifteen years ago, Harry Kugel was the PDQ Killer. He confessed, he served his time, and now he wants nothing more than to bury his past. But when a reporter is murdered in a disturbingly familiar fashion, headlines scream that the PDQ Killer has returned. Harry knows one thing, he didn’t do it.
Determined not to let a copycat steal his name or attract police suspicion, Harry sets out to unmask the imposter. To succeed, he needs disgraced journalist Flynn Martin, a woman desperate to reclaim her career after a public downfall.
As the body count rises, Harry feels the dangerous pull of old urges while Flynn finds herself trapped between chasing the story and aiding a killer. Mark Stevens’s No Lie Lasts Forever is a taut, relentless thriller.
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In Calcutta, a literary search turns into a descent through grief, violence, and spiritual dread.
Song of Kali
Horror · Thriller
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In Calcutta, a literary search turns into a descent through grief, violence, and spiritual dread. In Song of Kali, an American editor follows the trail of a missing manuscript and finds himself pulled toward a cult shaped by death, obsession, and the city’s darkest edges. It’s a bleak, unsettling horror novel driven by atmosphere, psychological collapse, and the fear of what devotion can become.
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The World Fantasy Award winner by the author of the Hyperion Cantos and Carrion Comfort: An American finds himself encircled by horrors in Calcutta.
Praised by Dean Koontz as "the best novel in the genre I can remember," Song of Kali follows an American magazine editor who journeys to the brutally bleak, poverty-stricken Indian city in search of a manuscript by a mysterious poet—but instead is drawn into an encounter with the cult of Kali, goddess of death.
A chilling voyage into the squalor and violence of the human condition, this novel is considered by many to be the best work by the author of The Terror, who has been showered with accolades, including the Bram Stoker Award, the International Horror Guild Award, and the Hugo Award.
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David Lewis’s A Jewel in the Crown launches a thrilling WWII spy series pitched as “James Bond meets Maisie Dobbs.” A daring mission to smuggle the Crown Jewels…
A Jewel in the Crown
Historical Fiction · Thriller · Historical Thriller · World War 2
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David Lewis’s A Jewel in the Crown launches a thrilling WWII spy series pitched as “James Bond meets Maisie Dobbs.” A daring mission to smuggle the Crown Jewels pairs a socialist firebrand with an aristocratic lord in a tense game of espionage and deception. With 4.6 out of 5 stars on Amazon, this historical caper brims with intrigue.
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Summer, 1940. Britain reels from Dunkirk, invasion looms, and Winston Churchill hatches a desperate plan: smuggle the Crown Jewels out of London before they fall into Nazi hands. The mission requires two spies disguised as husband and wife.
Caitrin Colline, a Welsh coalminer’s daughter with sharp wits and sharper convictions, is an unlikely candidate. Yet paired with Hector Neville-Percy, a polished lord, her grit and his aristocratic polish may just work. Their cover story hides a second task: rooting out Nazi sympathizers in Britain’s highest circles.
But with enemies at every turn, Caitrin can trust no one—not even Hector. When the mission spirals into a life-or-death chase across Europe, the stakes aren’t just jewels or secrets. The fate of nations hangs in the balance.
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J. B. Turner’s Hard Road, the first book in the bestselling Jon Reznick series, holds 4.4 stars with over 45,000 ratings.
Hard Road
Thriller
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J. B. Turner’s Hard Road, the first book in the bestselling Jon Reznick series, holds 4.4 stars with over 45,000 ratings. When a black-ops hit goes wrong, Reznick finds himself protecting his target while hunted by terrorists and the FBI. Gritty, fast-paced, and explosive, this action-packed thriller introduces a hero you’ll want to follow through all 15 books.
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Jon Reznick is a ghost, a black-ops operative who follows orders from faceless handlers and takes his pay from the U.S. government. Still haunted by the loss of his wife on 9/11, he accepts another mission without hesitation: make a man’s death look like suicide. Simple. Routine. Textbook.
Until it isn’t. The target is not who he expected, the setup feels wrong, and suddenly Reznick is on the run, with the man he was ordered to kill. Pursued by the FBI and a ruthless terrorist group determined to cripple America, he becomes both hunter and hunted.
J. B. Turner’s Hard Road, book one in the bestselling Jon Reznick series, is a relentless thriller of espionage, betrayal, and survival where every choice could be his last.
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Clive Cussler’s Poseidon’s Arrow, co-written with Dirk Cussler, is a 4.4-star international bestseller in the Dirk Pitt series.
Poseidon’s Arrow
Thriller
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Clive Cussler’s Poseidon’s Arrow, co-written with Dirk Cussler, is a 4.4-star international bestseller in the Dirk Pitt series. When a groundbreaking submarine and its designer vanish, NUMA director Dirk Pitt uncovers a deadly conspiracy stretching from Washington to Panama. Fast-paced, explosive, and packed with intrigue, this adventure proves why Cussler is hailed as “The Adventure King.”
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In 1943, a submarine carrying a vital secret is attacked, its cargo lost to the depths. Decades later, that secret resurfaces. The revolutionary Poseidon’s Arrow submarine, capable of altering the balance of global power, has vanished along with its designer, and every major government wants it.
NUMA director Dirk Pitt is tasked with the impossible: locate the missing scientist, recover the plans, and stop the technology from falling into the wrong hands. From the corridors of Washington to the dense jungles of Panama, Pitt follows a trail of betrayal and danger that exposes a conspiracy with the power to topple nations.
Clive Cussler’s Poseidon’s Arrow, book 22 of the Dirk Pitt Adventures, delivers nonstop action, global intrigue, and a race against time only Pitt can win.
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A strong match for readers drawn to emotional family fiction about survival, guilt, loss, and moral choices.
In an Instant
Literary Fiction · Thriller · Women's Fiction
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A #1 Amazon and USA Today bestseller and Goodreads Choice Awards finalist, In an Instant follows sixteen-year-old Finn Miller after a car accident sends her and ten others over the side of a mountain. Suspended between worlds, Finn watches the survivors confront grief and the consequences of the choices they made, with a 4.4-star average from more than 106,000 Goodreads ratings. A strong match for readers drawn to emotional family fiction about survival, guilt, loss, and moral choices.
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An Amazon Charts bestseller.
A deeply moving story of carrying on even when it seems impossible.
Life is over in an instant for sixteen-year-old Finn Miller when a devastating car accident tumbles her and ten others over the side of a mountain. Suspended between worlds, she watches helplessly as those she loves struggle to survive.
Impossible choices are made, decisions that leave the survivors tormented with grief and regret. Unable to let go, Finn keeps vigil as they struggle to reclaim their shattered lives. Jack, her father, who seeks vengeance against the one person he can blame other than himself; her best friend, Mo, who bravely searches for the truth as the story of their survival is rewritten; her sister Chloe, who knows Finn lingers and yearns to join her; and her mother, Ann, who saved them all but is haunted by her decisions. Finn needs to move on, but how can she with her family still in pieces?
Heartrending yet ultimately redemptive, In an Instant is a story about the power of love, the meaning of family, and carrying on…even when it seems impossible.
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Bryan Reardon’s Finding Jake, a New York Times bestseller with 4.3 out of 5 stars and over 16,000 Goodreads ratings, delivers a harrowing psychological thriller.
Finding Jake
Thriller · Historical Thriller
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Bryan Reardon’s Finding Jake, a New York Times bestseller with 4.3 out of 5 stars and over 16,000 Goodreads ratings, delivers a harrowing psychological thriller. When a school shooting leaves one teen missing, his father must confront rumors, guilt, and the terrifying possibility that his son is more than a victim. Tense, emotional, and unforgettable, this novel grips to the final page.
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Simon Connolly has devoted his life to raising his children while his wife built her career. For his daughter Laney, it has always been easy. But Jake has been different, quiet, thoughtful, content in the margins. Simon never worried. Until the day everything shatters.
A text message announces the unthinkable: a shooting at the high school. Parents are reunited with their children one by one, until Simon is left standing alone. Jake never comes out. Whispers swirl. Rumors point fingers. Could his son be involved? Did Simon miss the signs?
Bryan Reardon’s Finding Jake, a New York Times bestseller, is a haunting psychological thriller and heart-wrenching portrait of fatherhood, guilt, and the desperate search for truth when love collides with fear.
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Dan Brown’s Deception Point, with 4.4 out of 5 stars and nearly 700,000 Goodreads ratings, is a pulse-pounding blend of science and suspense.
Deception Point
Thriller · Techno-Thriller
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Dan Brown’s Deception Point, with 4.4 out of 5 stars and nearly 700,000 Goodreads ratings, is a pulse-pounding blend of science and suspense. When a shocking discovery beneath Arctic ice proves too perfect, analyst Rachel Sexton uncovers a conspiracy that could upend global politics. Gripping, twisty, and explosive, this bestselling thriller is Dan Brown at his finest.
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Heralded for masterfully intermingling science, history, and politics in his critically acclaimed thrillers The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons, New York Times bestselling author Dan Brown has crafted another pulse-pounding novel in which nothing is as it seems -- and behind every corner is a stunning surprise.
A shocking scientific discovery. A conspiracy of staggering brilliance. A thriller unlike any you've ever read....
When a NASA satellite discovers an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory -- a victory with profound implications for NASA policy and the impending presidential election. To verify the authenticity of the find, the White House calls upon the skills of intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton. Accompanied by a team of experts, including the charismatic scholar Michael Tolland, Rachel travels to the Arctic and uncovers the unthinkable: evidence of scientific trickery -- a bold deception that threatens to plunge the world into controversy. But before she can warn the President, Rachel and Michael are ambushed by a deadly team of assassins. Fleeing for their lives across a desolate and lethal landscape, their only hope for survival is to discover who is behind this masterful plot. The truth, they will learn, is the most shocking deception of all.
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Joe Hill’s The Pram, a chilling entry in the Creature Feature collection, holds 4.0 out of 5 stars with more than 26,000 Goodreads ratings.
The Pram
Horror · Thriller
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Joe Hill’s The Pram, a chilling entry in the Creature Feature collection, holds 4.0 out of 5 stars with more than 26,000 Goodreads ratings. When a grieving husband becomes obsessed with a decrepit baby carriage, he begins hearing impossible coos inside. Twisted, eerie, and unforgettable, this short horror story explores how desire can summon nightmares.
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Willy and Marianne wanted a child, but hope has slipped away. Their quiet farmhouse in Maine feels emptier with every passing year, until a battered old baby carriage enters Willy’s life. Loaned as nothing more than a grocery hauler, the pram soon becomes something far more disturbing. The creak of its wheels soothes him. The coos from inside are sweet, impossible, and terrifying.
Alone on a forest path, Willy begins to wonder whether grief has broken him or whether the pram has brought him exactly what he craved. But some wishes come true at a terrible cost.
Joe Hill’s The Pram, part of the Creature Feature collection, is a nightmarish tale of yearning, madness, and horror that lingers long after the last page.
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Tiffany D. Jackson’s Monday’s Not Coming is a gripping YA mystery about friendship, loss, and a system that fails the most vulnerable.
Monday’s Not Coming
Mystery · Teen + Young Adult · Thriller
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Tiffany D. Jackson’s Monday’s Not Coming is a gripping YA mystery about friendship, loss, and a system that fails the most vulnerable. With 4.7 out of 5 stars on Amazon, this acclaimed novel showcases Jackson’s powerful storytelling. Heartbreaking and unforgettable, it forces readers to ask how a girl could vanish without anyone noticing she was gone.
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Monday Charles is missing. And no one seems to care.
For Claudia, Monday is more than a best friend. She is the person who makes school bearable, the one who knows every secret and every fear. So when Monday does not show up for the first day of class, Claudia worries. When she is still missing weeks later, Claudia knows something is wrong.
But every adult Claudia turns to dismisses her. Monday’s mother avoids questions, and her sister April insists nothing is wrong. As Claudia pushes for answers, she discovers that no one even remembers the last time they saw Monday. No one except her.
To find the truth, Claudia must face the unthinkable: some disappearances happen not by accident, but because the world looks away.
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