Psychological Thriller Books

The best psychological thriller book reviews. Psychological thrillers include a wide-ranging list of themes, including crimes committed by mentally disturbed individuals, the often blurry line between reality and fantasy, and a variety of psychologically suspenseful situations.

Getting It Right: A Psychological Thriller by Karen E. Osborne

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The Bottom Line: A powerful psychological thriller about two sisters unearthing long-buried family secrets. Getting It Right: A Psychological Thriller opens at a funeral, where thirty-year-old Kara Lawrence watches the burial of Jim Smyth, the foster father who sexually abused her as a child. She has come with Tuesday and Flyer, the foster siblings who survived the same household, hoping Smyth’s death will finally put

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RISE, a Deliciously Dangerous Sci-Fi Thriller by Ron Wolff

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The Bottom Line: RISE proves this series is only getting better: darker, smarter, and more dangerous at every turn. The second book in Ron Wolff’s Colony series, RISE, returns to Mars through the first-person narration of Adam Flynn, the first and only human born on the planet. Months after a massacre at Hellas Station, Adam and four other teenagers are barely keeping the damaged colony

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Before the Devil Knows, An Irresistible Crime Thriller by R. John Dingle

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The Bottom Line: Irresistible. Before the Devil Knows pushes Dingle’s Gus Wheeler series into its darkest terrain yet, where religious terror and ritual murder collide. Before the Devil Knows opens in the Maine woods with the kind of betrayal that makes a book impossible to put down. Teenager Adam Carson is dragged from his bed, hooded, beaten and chained to a tree and surrounded by

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GLORIA, a Tender and Terrifying Psychological Thriller by Howard Seaborne

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The Bottom Line: Small town noir that is as tender as it is terrifying, GLORIA mesmerizes while asking whether the greatest mysteries live not in the world, but in our minds. GLORIA begins in small-town Wisconsin as Henry Halder, a boy on the cusp of adolescence, loses both legs in a tragic accident. What exactly happened is elusive. While in and out of consciousness across many surgeries, he’s told

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Do Not Resuscitate, One of the Year’s Best Supernatural Thrillers

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The Bottom Line: One of the year’s best supernatural thrillers. Written with clinical authenticity and paranormal suspense, Do Not Resuscitate finds terror in the thin line between resuscitation and resurrection. Twenty-six-year-old medical intern Harry Lindmark is working the Intensive Care Unit at a hospital in Providence, Rhode Island, when a patient grabs his arm and demands that his chart be marked, “Do Not Resuscitate.” But

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The Boy on the Deck, a Deliciously Eerie Domestic Thriller by A.J. McCarthy

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The Bottom Line: Deliciously eerie, The Boy on the Dock is about the danger only one woman can see, and the doubt that may destroy her. Highly recommended.  As The Boy on the Dock opens, bereaved mother Julie Hampton is alone at a rented lake cottage on Vancouver Island, trying to keep herself sane through a morning routine that consists of coffee, work and kayaking.

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Avalon Moon, a Compelling New Murder Mystery by Michael Amos Cody

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The Bottom Line: With wolves across the river and murder in the high meadow, Avalon Moon knows exactly how to raise the hair on your neck. Move it to the top of your book queue. Gabriel Tanner, editor of a weekly newspaper in the North Carolina mountain town of Runion, expects little excitement from an early March county meeting. Instead, local Spellman Anderson IV explains his controversial plan

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What Have You Done With My Son?: a Fully Believable Kidnapping Thriller

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The Bottom Line: Fully believable from its first shock to its final reckoning, Rosenberg has created the new standard for a modern kidnapping thriller. American couple Heather and John Ricci are in Hanoi with the baby they have fought years to bring home. After failed attempts at natural conception, multiple rounds of IVF, a miscarriage, and stalled adoption efforts in China and Nepal, the Chicago

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Arctic Fire, a Bruising Neo-Western Crime Thriller by Brian L. Reece

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The Bottom Line: A bruising neo-western crime thriller where greed, murder and frontier justice collide in rural Alaska. Perfect for fans of Taylor Sheridan and C.J. Box. Arctic Fire opens with Major Zoe Nichols standing between armed United States Marines and Afghan villagers after a weapons-cache discovery turns into a standoff. Ordered from afar to seize the weapons, Zoe instead removes her helmet and body

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Deranged, a Propulsive Detective Origin Story by John Netti

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The Bottom Line: A dark, propulsive origin story that pits a newly minted detective against the kind of evil that doesn’t stay buried. Maddy Reynolds is a heroine built to last. Set primarily in late-1970s upstate New York, Deranged introduces newly promoted detective Maddy Reynolds. Following in her father’s footsteps, who was fatally stabbed by an uncaught serial killer, Maddy investigates the disappearance of an

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