Best Thriller Books

In a suburban neighborhood, two women have disappeared: doula Shelby Tebow and Kate Lemmon. Eleven years later, Kate's daughter Delilah, who also vanished, appears — but she cannot remember where she has been.

A successful New York woman's carefully constructed life begins to unravel as dark secrets from her teenage years resurface.

Marco and Anne Conti leave their infant daughter Cora home alone while attending a dinner party next door — checking on her every 30 minutes. When they return at midnight, Cora is gone.

Mia Dennett, daughter of a prominent Chicago judge, is kidnapped by Colin Thatcher — a man hired to deliver her to someone else. Instead, Colin takes her to a remote Minnesota cabin, and over weeks in isolation, something neither of them expected begins to develop.

Surgeon Nora Sinclair has buried a terrible secret from her childhood, but when a series of murders begins to mirror that hidden past, she is forced to confront whether she is the hunter or the hunted.

Colonel Georges Picquart witnesses the public degradation of Captain Alfred Dreyfus in 1895 and believes it justified. As head of French military intelligence, he begins to discover that Dreyfus was framed — and that exposing the truth will destroy him.

Three women — debutante Osla, brilliant Mab, and mathematics prodigy Beth — work as codebreakers at Bletchley Park during the Second World War. Years later, on the eve of the 1947 royal wedding, one of them has been committed to a psychiatric facility with a vital secret, and the other two must find the traitor in their midst to get her out.

Two interweaving storylines — one set during World War II, one in the late 1990s tech boom — converge on a buried treasure, a data haven, and the mathematics of cryptography.

Berlin, 1964. The Reich has won the war. A routine murder investigation draws SS detective Xavier March into a conspiracy that could expose the greatest secret of the Nazi empire — the secret that the rest of the world must never learn.

Based on the true story of Mila Pavlichenko — a Soviet history student turned Red Army sniper who becomes the most lethal female sniper in history with 309 confirmed kills. When she travels to America in 1942 on a propaganda tour, a shadowy figure begins targeting her, and Mila must use the same precision that kept her alive at Sevastopol.

A bus crash in a South Dakota blizzard strands Reacher in a small town where a witness to a drug case is under threat, a nearby military installation holds a dangerous secret, and Reacher has 61 hours before everything goes wrong. Child's countdown structure turns each chapter into a timer.

Pip's final case. Someone is watching her — a killer inspired by her podcast. As the threat closes in and the police fail to act, Pip must choose between safety and justice in the darkest, most consequential investigation of her life.

Members of Reacher's old Special Investigations unit are being murdered one by one, and someone has wired $30,000 into Reacher's bank account — the unit's old distress signal. For the first time in the series, Reacher assembles a team to find out who is hunting his people.

Detective Mick 'Scorcher' Kennedy investigates the brutal murder of a young family in a half-built ghost estate — and discovers a connection to his own past he cannot afford to acknowledge.

A detective investigates a family massacre in a half-built ghost estate — the father found stabbed, the wife in a coma, and holes cut in the walls to catch something the father believed was inside the house. The Dublin Murder Squad's most unsettling case yet.

A man arrested for a current murder offers a confession to a cold case as a bargaining chip — the 1993 disappearance of Marie Gesto, a case Harry Bosch has never stopped working. But as the confession is entered and the case is closed, Bosch's instincts tell him something is wrong.

Undercover detective Frank Mackey's carefully constructed life unravels when the suitcase of the girl he loved — and believed had abandoned him twenty-two years ago — is found in a derelict house on Faithful Place.

Lucas Davenport investigates a series of bodies found in an isolated Minnesota field — a killer who has been operating undetected for years in small-town America.

An unnamed insomniac narrator forms an underground bare-knuckle fighting club with charismatic soap salesman Tyler Durden, and watches it escalate from transgressive therapy into something far more dangerous. A diagnosis of consumer capitalism and male alienation that became one of the defining cult novels of the 1990s.

On a New York City subway at 2am, Reacher spots a woman exhibiting the eleven behavioural signs of a suicide bomber. What follows spirals into a conspiracy reaching back to Afghanistan and forward into a senator's carefully constructed political future.

Reacher stops at a town called Mother's Rest with no reason other than curiosity about the name. A journalist searching for a missing colleague pulls him into something far darker — a secret that explains the town's strange, unsettled atmosphere and that proves to be genuinely horrifying.

A sniper kills five random people in a midwestern city. The evidence is overwhelming. The suspect is in custody. He asks for one thing: Jack Reacher. Reacher arrives not to help the man get off, but to make sure justice is done — only to discover that something about the case does not add up.

John Clark — the CIA field operative who has appeared across Clancy's Jack Ryan universe — is given command of Rainbow, a multinational counter-terrorism unit. When a series of hostage situations reveals a larger conspiracy involving bioterrorism and corporate eco-extremism, Rainbow must stop a plot aimed at reducing the human population.

Retired FBI profiler Will Graham, who was nearly killed capturing Hannibal Lecter, is called back to help catch a serial killer called the Tooth Fairy — and must return to Lecter's cell to get inside the new killer's mind.