Suspense Thriller Books

The best suspense thriller book reviews. While all thrillers contain elements of anticipation, suspense thrillers spend ample time building a state of mental uncertainty and anxiety in the story’s core characters, often delaying acts of violence over long periods of time to maximize the effect of the ensuing climactic scene.

The Wolf in Winter by John Connolly

The Wolf in Winter, a New Charlie Parker Thriller by John Connolly

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The community of Prosperous, Maine has always thrived when others have suffered. Its inhabitants are wealthy, its children’s future secure. It shuns outsiders. It guards its own. And at the heart of Prosperous lie the ruins of an ancient church, transported stone by stone from England centuries earlier by the founders of the town… [easyazon_image add_to_cart=”default” align=”left” asin=”1476703183″ cloaking=”default” height=”160″ localization=”default” locale=”US” nofollow=”default” new_window=”default” src=”//ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61WX%2BSlg2xL._SL160_.jpg” […]

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Twisted by Lola Smirnova

Book Review: Twisted, a new Suspense Thriller by Lola Smirnova

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The Bottom Line: Inspired by the author’s own struggles as a sex worker, this gritty, sharply written tale transports readers into a perilous world where every breath could be your last. [easyazon_cta add_to_cart=”default” align=”left” asin=”1496031016″ cloaking=”default” height=”42″ key=”tall-orange” localization=”default” locale=”US” nofollow=”default” new_window=”default” tag=”bestthricom-20″ width=”120″] [hr] There’s no shortage of suspense in Lola Smirnova’s pull-no-punches novel about a young Ukranian girl named Julia, whose family finds

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The Franciscan by W R. Park

Book Review: The Franciscan, a new Vatican Thriller from W R. Park

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The Bottom Line: Equal parts Vatican thriller and spy fable, The Franciscan is a fast-moving feast of betrayal, corruption and murder told by a master craftsman. [easyazon_cta add_to_cart=”default” align=”left” asin=”1500610062″ cloaking=”default” height=”42″ key=”tall-orange” localization=”default” locale=”US” nofollow=”default” new_window=”default” tag=”bestthricom-20″ width=”120″] [hr] It’s only fitting that W R.Park begins The Franciscan with a quote from Nostradamus, since Park himself appears to be something of a prophet. The book

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Prince Lestat by Anne Rice

Prince Lestat: The Vampire Chronicles, a new Paranormal Thriller by Anne Rice

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Anne Rice once again summons up the irresistible spirit-world of the oldest and most powerful forces of the night, invisible beings unleashed on an unsuspecting world able to take blood from humans, in a long-awaited return to the extraordinary world of the Vampire Chronicles and the uniquely seductive Queen of the Damned (“mesmerizing” —San Francisco Chronicle), a long-awaited novel that picks up where The Vampire Lestat (“brilliant…its undead characters

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Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult

Leaving Time, a new Mystery by Jodi Picoult

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For more than a decade, Jenna Metcalf has never stopped thinking about her mother, Alice, who mysteriously disappeared in the wake of a tragic accident. [easyazon_image add_to_cart=”default” align=”left” asin=”0345544927″ cloaking=”default” height=”160″ localization=”default” locale=”US” nofollow=”default” new_window=”default” src=”//ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/510Zvlksn0L._SL160_.jpg” tag=”bestthricom-20″ width=”107″]Refusing to believe she was abandoned, Jenna searches for her mother regularly online and pores over the pages of Alice’s old journals. A scientist who studied grief among

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Noise by Brett Garcia Rose

Book Review: Noise, a new Mystery from Brett Garcia Rose

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The Bottom Line: One of the year’s most memorable heroes embarks on a high-velocity quest to save the only woman he’s ever cared about. Leon’s jaw-dropping courage in a world of sleaze and unimaginable danger is pure magic. [easyazon_cta add_to_cart=”default” align=”left” asin=”0991549406″ cloaking=”default” height=”42″ key=”tall-orange” localization=”default” locale=”US” nofollow=”default” new_window=”default” tag=”bestthricom-20″ width=”120″] [hr] “I know this letter will hurt you.” So begins the suicide letter that

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Midnight Betrayal by Melinda Leigh

Midnight Betrayal, a new Suspense Thriller by Melinda Leigh

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Curator Dr. Louisa Hancock left behind Maine and her troubled past for Philadelphia and a job at a prominent museum. [easyazon_image add_to_cart=”default” align=”left” asin=”1477824235″ cloaking=”default” height=”160″ localization=”default” locale=”US” nofollow=”default” new_window=”default” src=”//ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Lzk4jnPgL._SL160_.jpg” tag=”bestthricom-20″ width=”107″]Just when it seems that Louisa’s new life is safe from her dark secrets, the body of a museum intern is found—the victim of a brutal and baffling murder. Louisa realizes this is

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I Really Really Want It by Richard Hennerley

Book Review: I Really, Really Want It – a new Suspense Thriller by Richard Hennerley

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The Bottom Line: This quirky, one-of-a-kind thriller manages to be both funny and searing in its indictment of celebrity culture. Set in a world of unimaginably lascivious British entertainers, Hennerley’s world is darkly addictive one that you won’t soon forget. [easyazon_cta add_to_cart=”default” align=”left” asin=”1500739588″ cloaking=”default” height=”42″ key=”tall-orange” localization=”default” locale=”US” nofollow=”default” new_window=”default” tag=”bestthricom-20″ width=”120″] [hr] While I Really, Really Want It does qualify as a thriller,

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The Good Girl by Mary Kubica

The Good Girl, a new Psychological Thriller by Mary Kubica

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“I’ve been following her for the past few days. I know where she buys her groceries, where she has her dry cleaning done, where she works. I don’t know the color of her eyes or what they look like when she’s scared. But I will.” [easyazon_image add_to_cart=”default” align=”left” asin=”0778316556″ cloaking=”default” height=”160″ localization=”default” locale=”US” nofollow=”default” new_window=”default” src=”//ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51P3outSH8L._SL160_.jpg” tag=”bestthricom-20″ width=”106″]Born to a prominent Chicago judge and his

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Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

Annihilation, a Dystopian Thriller by Jeff VanderMeer

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In the first installment of Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Research Trilogy, Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; the second expedition ended in mass suicide, the third expedition in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another. [easyazon_image add_to_cart=”default”

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