Best Thriller Books

Grace and Jack Angel appear to have the perfect marriage, but behind their elegant facade lies a nightmare of control, captivity, and carefully maintained appearances.

A woman inherits a Chelsea townhouse on her twenty-fifth birthday and discovers a mystery inside: three dead bodies were found there when she was a baby, and the house holds secrets about the cult that destroyed two families.

A glamorous wedding on a remote Irish island turns deadly, and the assembled guests all have reason to wish the groom harm.

Millie Calloway returns as a housemaid in a new household where she suspects her employer is in danger — but the situation is far more complicated and deadly than it first appears.

A struggling novelist steals a dead student's book idea — a plot so good it guarantees a bestseller — only to find that someone knows exactly what he did.

A darkly twisting psychological thriller in which a struggling writer discovers a disturbing manuscript hidden in the home of a bestselling author.

Eva Khatchadourian writes letters to her estranged husband in the aftermath of their son Kevin's school massacre, examining her own culpability and the nature of maternal ambivalence.

The origin story of John Kelly — who will become John Clark, Jack Ryan's right-hand operative — set during the Vietnam War. A grieving Navy SEAL wages a one-man war against a Baltimore drug ring while simultaneously being recruited for a secret POW rescue mission in North Vietnam.

A white female author steals the unfinished manuscript of her Chinese-American friend who has just died, publishes it as her own, and watches her carefully constructed lies unravel as the internet closes in.

Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon races through Rome to stop the Illuminati from destroying Vatican City with an antimatter bomb as a new Pope is being elected.

A physics professor is kidnapped, wakes up in a version of his life where he made different choices, and must navigate a multiverse of parallel worlds to find his way back to the family he loves.

Jack Ryan has become National Security Advisor when a trade war with Japan escalates into economic warfare and then military conflict in the Pacific. The novel that introduced the concept of a coordinated attack on financial infrastructure, and that ends with an act of terrorism that presaged 9/11.

Lara is trained from birth to be a spy-bride sent to destroy the Bridge Kingdom from within, but when she arrives she must choose between the mission she was raised for and the truth she discovers.

A woman with a hidden past takes a housemaid position with a wealthy family and discovers that the picture-perfect household conceals something deeply sinister.

A group of Oxford friends gather for their annual New Year's holiday in a remote Scottish hunting lodge, and one of them doesn't survive.

Hannah Hall's husband Owen vanishes the same day a massive fraud investigation erupts at his company, leaving behind only a note reading 'Protect her' — a directive aimed at his teenage daughter Bailey, a stepdaughter who has never warmed to Hannah and who may know more about Owen's secrets than she has let on.

A woman arrives in Paris to visit her journalist brother and finds he has mysteriously disappeared, drawing her into the secrets of his glamorous but sinister apartment building.

A novel that appears to be about two women competing for one man reveals itself, in stages, to be about something entirely different from what the reader initially believes.

A travel journalist on a luxury cruise witnesses what she believes is a woman being thrown overboard — but there is no record of any missing passenger.

An agoraphobic child psychologist who has not left her Manhattan brownstone in ten months witnesses what she believes is a murder through her window — and no one believes her.

A thriller writer is invited to a bachelorette party in a remote glass house in the English woods, and the weekend turns violent in ways she didn't see coming.

An alcoholic woman who commutes daily past her ex-husband's house becomes entangled in the disappearance of a woman she had been secretly watching from the train.

A Harvard symbologist and a French cryptologist race through Paris and London decoding clues that lead to a secret that could shake the foundations of Christianity.

Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon wakes in a Florence hospital with no memory of the past few days and must decode a mystery rooted in Dante's Inferno before a bioterrorist threat kills millions.