psychological thriller

Thrillers

Bestselling Author of “The Girl on the Train” Provides Ample Twists, Turns, and Tides in Latest Thriller

In her latest addictive novel, The Blue Hour, Paula Hawkins immediately captures her readers' attention through deception, beautiful art, and complicated characters. While this recipe is Hawkins’ bread and butter, we see a new side to her storytelling that we have not seen in the past. When art curator James…

Lydia LefevreOctober 2, 2024

Fiction Thrillers

Neighborly Curiosity Crosses a Line as Nosiness Becomes Stalking in “When I Was You”

“Amber Garza has upped the game on the classic stalker novel! ... A fast-paced, beautifully plotted book.” — Samantha Downing, author of My Lovely Wife There's something fascinating about stalking. We stalk to compare our lives with others, so we can keep up with the Joneses. In our current social…

Y. M. NelsonAugust 25, 2020

Recommended Thrillers

A Trip to Cancún, a Chilling Murder and Three Friends Who Will Never Be the Same

Yes, I know it’s only fiction, but still you have to reread the first few pages of Caroline Steiger’s psychological thriller The Sacrifice to make sure you’ve got it right, that a cool cucumber named John is casually explaining how he just murdered a girl in a swimming pool in…

Jim AlkonOctober 24, 2023

Fiction Recommended Thrillers

One Man’s Killer Grip on Small-Town in Psychological Thriller

The Killer’s Kid (Woodhall Press) is Adelene Ellenberg’s newest thriller and from page one it immerses the reader into the carefully cultivated power of one evil man and a small town’s efforts to make him accountable. The story’s tidy first sentence — “Clarisse Quinn was tucked neatly into her satin-lined…

Anne Eliot FeldmanNovember 20, 2023

Thrillers

Brilliant and Twisted: Emily Elgar’s Debut ‘If You Knew Her’ is a Thriller You Won’t Forget

Fans of Cate Holahan's Lies She Told, will love the debut by Emily Elgar, If You Knew Her--- a psychological suspense centered on the meeting of three strangers unexpectedly brought together after a hit-and-run. What follows is a gripping chain of events that will keep readers in suspense to the very end. https://www.amazon.com/If-You-Knew-Her-Novel/dp/0062834045/…

Rachel Fogle De SouzaJanuary 8, 2018

Fiction Thrillers

Odd Twin Sisters’ Coming of Age in Dark Psycho Thriller

Things that appear too simple never are — at least as far as top-notch thrillers go. While zipping through the pages of Janet Porter’s intriguing and intricate debut psychological thriller Free Rider (TKO Rogue), the clues into a series of gruesome murders were heading in a certain direction. There had…

Jim AlkonJanuary 4, 2023

Fiction Thrillers

Kira Peikoff’s Psychological Thriller, “Baby X,” Is Cautionary Tale of Genetic Engineering

Imagine a world in which any biological matter — an eyelash, a cheek cell swab, a hair follicle — can be used to create life. And even worse, it could happen without the permission, or knowledge, of the “donor.” That’s the concept at the heart of Kira Peikoff’s chilling new…

Dawn IusMarch 5, 2024

Listicles Thrillers

8 Scarily Good Reads for Friday the 13th

It’s a special October for fans of horror, mystery, thriller and all things scary. Not only is it spooky season, with Halloween ending the month, but Friday the 13th is just around the corner. Looking for a way to spend the crisp autumn days between the two creepiest holidays of…

Megan BeauregardOctober 11, 2023

Fiction Romance Thrillers

Colleen Hoover’s Latest Tackles Obsession & Dangerous Love

“That’s where love finds you … in the tragedies.” Too Late (Grand Central Publishing) is a twisted love story told from alternating perspectives that author Colleen Hoover has worked on over the last decade and never knew would see the light of day. This thrilling and dangerous book highlights the…

Lydia LefevreAugust 14, 2023

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Wrap Up The Summer with These 10 August Audiobooks

Every month, AudioFile Magazine reviewers and editors select the best new audiobooks just for BookTrib’s readers. Get ready for the last beach days of the season, back-to-school preparation and cooler days ahead with these August picks! This story appears through BookTrib’s…

AudioFileSeptember 2, 2022

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A Lesson in Fear From Someone Who Knows

In Alaina Urquhart’s The Butcher and the Wren (Zando), a man named Jeremy knows all of that very well. A second-year medical student at Tulane University, his interests in experimentation go way beyond anything he’s been taught in class. His father’s advice echoes in his mind: “You want to learn…

Neil NyrenAugust 26, 2022

Thrillers

“One Fatal Night” Offers Psychological Suspense with Nordic Noir Flavor

Ten years ago in Bergen, Norway, Astrid's mother, Ingrid, was murdered in a double homicide — a crime that was never solved. Now a young woman, Astrid begins a quest to uncover the past and discover her mother’s murderer, though her only clues are a few emotionally charged childhood images:…

David ToddJune 29, 2020

Thrillers

“The Wife Between Us” Meets “Rebecca”

Since high school, Claire Prescott planned her life. From the first time she saw university professor Byron Prescott speak about literature at her high school, she knew he would be a part of it. Even though everyone told her Byron was too old and his first wife, Colleen, seemed to…

Missi GwartneyJune 10, 2019

Thrillers

A Mystery and a Mind Unravel in “The Silent Patient”

Alex Michaelides grew up reading Agatha Christie “obsessively,” but she never wrote anything like this. The Silent Patient (Celadon Books) grips you immediately, but where it goes is completely unpredictable – and it takes you to dark corners of the human psyche you never knew existed. “I love him so totally,…

Neil NyrenFebruary 6, 2019

Thrillers

Alan Brenham Plays With Our Minds in “Game Piece”

A killer is messing with Barry Marshall’s head -- and with everything he holds dear. That sets the stage for Alan Brenham’s chilling, twisting, rocketing thriller, Game Piece (Black Opal Books), in which Marshall is the game piece that the killer is coldly, cruelly maneuvering. Alan Brenham is the pseudonym…

Jim ParryOctober 30, 2018

Thrillers

Tall Poppy Review: Psycho Dysfunction in “Little Black Lies”

A funny thing happened after I read Little Black Lies (Grand Central Publishing). I met Sandra Block on Twitter soon after reading the book. I remember writing in 140 characters or less: I loved Little Black Lies. You should be a Tall Poppy Writer. I want to be your friend. I’m…

Ann GarvinAugust 9, 2018

psychological thriller

Neighborly Curiosity Crosses a Line as Nosiness Becomes Stalking in “When I Was You”

A Trip to Cancún, a Chilling Murder and Three Friends Who Will Never Be the Same

One Man’s Killer Grip on Small-Town in Psychological Thriller

Brilliant and Twisted: Emily Elgar’s Debut ‘If You Knew Her’ is a Thriller You Won’t Forget

8 Scarily Good Reads for Friday the 13th

Wrap Up The Summer with These 10 August Audiobooks

A Lesson in Fear From Someone Who Knows

“One Fatal Night” Offers Psychological Suspense with Nordic Noir Flavor

“The Wife Between Us” Meets “Rebecca”

A Mystery and a Mind Unravel in “The Silent Patient”

Alan Brenham Plays With Our Minds in “Game Piece”

Tall Poppy Review: Psycho Dysfunction in “Little Black Lies”

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