Best Thriller Books

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 government inquiry into past intelligence operations unearths secrets from the Berlin Wall era. Two young civil servants conducting the inquiry find themselves trapped in a room with testimony that someone powerful wants to remain buried.

The new thriller from Riley Sager, releasing August 4, 2026. In The Unknown, struggling actress Marin Keane lands a role in a film about the unsolved mystery of New Avalon, an island on a sprawling Vermont lake.

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.

Diana Taverner's position as First Desk is under threat, someone is running a hostile influence operation through Westminster, and the slow horses of Slough House are, as usual, in the middle of something they were never meant to touch.

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 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.

A man shot ten years ago in a drive-by shooting finally dies of his wound — the bullet lodged too close to his spine to remove — making it a homicide a decade after the fact. Bosch and his new partner Lucia Soto must reconstruct a crime that the city has long since moved on from.

Eleven-year-old Mark Sway witnesses a lawyer's suicide and learns a dangerous secret — the location of a murdered Senator's body. Now the mob wants Mark dead, the federal government wants him as a witness, and Mark is too smart to trust either side. He hires his own lawyer: Reggie Love, a Memphis attorney who believes him.

Harry Bosch comes out of retirement to join the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit, working cold cases. His first assignment: the 1988 murder of sixteen-year-old Rebecca Verloren, whose case was buried in ways a DNA match on the murder weapon has just made impossible to ignore.

Harry Bosch is being sued for wrongful death by the family of a man he shot — a man he believed was the Dollmaker, a serial killer who preyed on prostitutes. As the civil trial grinds forward, a new body surfaces with the Dollmaker's signature, suggesting Bosch may have killed the wrong man.

A trio of Nazi hunters — a war correspondent, a Soviet night-bomber, and a young Boston woman — track a female war criminal known as the Huntress across postwar Europe and America. Based on the all-female Night Witches regiment of the Soviet air force.

Detective Antoinette Conway and her partner Stephen Moran catch what looks like a routine domestic killing — but someone in the Murder Squad is pushing hard to close the case fast, and Conway can't tell who to trust.

Five years after Vicious, Victor Vale is still evading capture and hunting Eli, while a new ExtraOrdinary named Marcella Riggins rises with destruction at her fingertips and an agenda of her own. Three storylines converge in Schwab's expansion of the Villains universe — a world where everyone with powers has reasons to use them.