Best Thriller Books

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 disbarred lawyer brings a complaint to Florida's Judicial Conduct Commission: a sitting judge is on the take, protected by the mob, and a Native American casino is at the centre of a corruption scandal with lethal reach.

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.

Symbologist Robert Langdon arrives in Prague to attend a lecture by noetic scientist Katherine Solomon, whose groundbreaking manuscript on human consciousness could shatter everything we believe. When she vanishes amid a brutal murder, Langdon races to recover it.

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.

The fifth Robert Langdon thriller. At the Guggenheim in Bilbao, billionaire futurist Edmond Kirsch promises to answer humanity's oldest questions — where we come from and where we are going — but is silenced before he can. Langdon and museum director Ambra Vidal race across Spain to release his discovery.

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.

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.

The death of a former Slough House officer's child pulls the team into an operation in Oxford, where old enemies are surfacing and the landscape of British intelligence is quietly being dismantled by people who see it as a procurement opportunity.

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.

A populist politician is using terrorism for political gain. Slough House is pulled into the middle of a crisis that combines the worst instincts of Westminster with the worst capabilities of the intelligence world — and the rules, as always, are being made by whoever has the most to hide.

When one of the slow horses is kidnapped, Slough House is suddenly, involuntarily useful to Diana Taverner and Regent's Park. But the price of their cooperation may be higher than anyone at Slough House anticipated.

River Cartwright's legendary grandfather David — the Old Bastard, founder of a generation of British intelligence — appears to be losing his mind. But the intelligence world doesn't really lose its old warriors: it uses them up, and someone is using David Cartwright very deliberately.