Thriller

Fast-paced fiction packed with mystery, suspense, crime, and psychological twists. From detective stories and whodunits to YA thrillers and edge-of-your-seat narratives, this category is for readers who love tension, secrets, and shocking revelations.

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The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman – An Unconventional, Amusing, Cozy Thriller

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Elizabeth, Ron, Ibrahim, and Joyce, residents of a community for retired, old people are not the stereotyped old people, helpless and ailing. They are skilled in their own ways, use their knowledge, expertise, experience, and their age to their advantage to solve murders simply because they are curious. Often, amusingly, they are a step ahead of even the police! In a village where nothing interesting generally happens, when a murder occurs, members of The Thursday Murder Club get excited and start investigating the case, whether or not the police will allow them to do that.

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Trigger Mortis – A James Bond Novel by Anthony Horowitz – Can 007 Come Back to Life After Ian Fleming?

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An engineer Thomas Keller who works at the Naval Research Laboratory is bribed by a stranger to ensure that their newest rocket would malfunction. He agrees and does what is asked of him without knowing who the stranger is or who he works for. In his world, Bond has a normal day, but this week, he is not alone, he stays with Pussy Galore whom he brought back to England to keep her protected, against M’s orders. M assigns his latest assignment: to participate in a deadly motor racing event, under the guise of a racer, to save their country’s top car racer Lancy Smith, as the SMERSH want him dead during the event. Suddenly, Pussy is almost killed, he needs to protect Lancy, and there might be far bigger threats that Bond would have to face. Anthony Horowitz brings back 007 to life in this spy thriller that matches the original creator’s work in all ways. Let this classic-style fast-paced action spy thriller add some adventure to your weekend!

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The Veiled Lady – One of Agatha Christie’s Funny and Clever Short Stories

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“The Veiled Lady”, first published as “The Case of The Veiled Lady”, written by Agatha Christie is a fast-paced, entertaining quick-read, a short thriller story featuring a bored Hercule Poirot and his companion Inspector Hastings. If you want to get back to the world of thrillers and do not have much time to read, this would be a good story to pick. Warm and funny, the story starts with a scandal but turns into something deeper and unexpected, while still being a short story – perfect for fans of Hercule Poirot!

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Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn – Dark and Compelling

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Camille Preaker is a journalist in Chicago, and her boss Curry sends her to Wind Gap, her hometown, asking her to cover an interesting murder case: a young girl child was found dead. But for several years now, she has not even spoken to her mom, her stape-father, or her step-sister. As she starts working on the case, many painful memories resurface and dark secrets are revealed. She learns that a serial killer might be on the loose, all eyes are on her, runours spread, shocking events happen, and Camille herself becomes physically and mentally weak and sick. But she continues working with the police, despite all the discomfort – will they find out who has been killing little girls in the town?

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The Girls in The Snow by Stacy Green – Defintely Putdownable

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Special Agent Nicole “Nikki” Hunt returns to her hometown Stillwater, Minnesota for the first time in twenty years. The last time she was here was when she discovered her parents’ dead bodies in their home one night and she was the primary witness in the case. She had seen Mark Todd that night and following her testimony, Mark was arrested. This time Nikki was invited to visit a crime scene in Stillwater, where the local police had found the dead bodies of two young girls dumped in the snow. Since she is the expert in the serial killer Frost cases, she was informed, but this is not how Frost behaves; there are several differences. Will she be able to find who killed these girls? Shockingly, new evidence reevals that Mark Todd is innocent. Is this case somehow connected to her parents’ murders?

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A Murder of Crows – Not your Average Thriller Novel but A Rare Treat for Fiction Lovers

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A Murder of Crows is a promising, feel-good page-turner. The author’s writing is so good that you don’t notice how time passes by or pause to see how many more pages are left. Starting from the smart word play in the title to the ability to beautifully blend in details of ecology with a murder mystery, the storytelling is almost perfect. The narration also smoothly alternates between light moments and the more serious ones, as we experience spontaneous, witty humour, romance that feels deep, and the curiousity to learn what happens next. Sarah Yarwood-Lovett delivers the complete package, not just another thriller story.

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The Roommate by Andrea Mara – A Gripping, Short Thriller Story

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The Roommate is a short story, a psychological thriller written by Andrea Mara, published recently as part of the Deadly Ambition collection by Amazon Original Stories. Elena lives with her husband Richard and two kids in Dublin. She is grateful for all the luxury and peace they have. Richard is the perfect husband, but he does not know about a dark incident from her past. When the two sit down to watch a crime show on TV, Elena is shocked to learn that the show is an exact narrative of what happened in her past, what she has tried to forget and has told nobody about. Her past comes back to haunt her? But who is behind this and what do they want?

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The Affair at the Victory Ball – Hercule Poirot’s First Short Story

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The Affair at The Victory Ball is one of the many short stories written by Agatha Christie featuring the brilliant Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. This is also the first Hercule Poirot short story, first published on 7th March, 1923. This was also part of the TV adapatation of “Agatha Christie’s Poirot”. There was a costume party based on an Italian play Commedia dell’arte, in which six friends participated, and two of them end up dead. This is a light and amusing read for a fiction or thriller fan to have your little grey cells exercised when you do not have the time to read an entire novel.

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Silenced Girls by Roger Stelljes: An Engaging Serial killer Thriller Novel

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Silenced Girls is a page-turning thriller novel, so it is no wonder that the book has been a best-seller that is loved by lots of thriller fans. This is only the first book in the Agent Tori Hunter series. Here and there, the pace may slow down a bit, but mostly, Roger Stelljes keeps the reader engaged with a fast or at least even pace. If you like serial killer plots that have complete stories with writing that keeps you effortlessly interested and if you can overlook some logical flaws, you should give this a try.

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A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – The Sherlock Holmes Debut Novel

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This is the first novel in a series of four stand-alone Sherlock Holmes novels. This book is narrated from the perspective of Dr Watson, a surgeon who worked in war zones but returns to London and becomes the roommate of the smartest man he has ever met, the “consulting detective” Sherlock Holmes. In a case considered highly complicated, Watson watches Holmes solving the case with so much ease. How could Holmes investigate and solve cases so effortlessly?

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