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Thrillers are characterized by fast pacing, frequent action, and resourceful heroes who must thwart the plans of more-powerful and better-equipped villains. Literary devices such as suspense, red herrings and cliffhangers are used extensively. Thrillers often overlap with mystery stories, but are distinguished by the structure of their plots. In a thriller, the hero must thwart the plans of an enemy, rather than uncover a crime that has already happened. Thrillers also occur on a much grander scale: the crimes that must be prevented are serial or mass murder, terrorism, assassination, or the o...more

Most Read This Week Tagged "Thriller"

The 5th Wave (The Fifth Wave, #1)
Inferno (Robert Langdon, #4)
Dark Places
Six Years
12th of Never (Women's Murder Club, #12)
Before I Go To Sleep
Reboot (Reboot, #1)
Mila 2.0 (MILA 2.0, #1)
The Forgotten (Puller, #2)
The Rook (The Checquy Files, #1)
The Boy in the Suitcase (Nina Borg, #1)
Game (Jasper Dent, #2)
Cross My Heart, Hope To Die (The Lying Game, #5)
The One I Left Behind
Darkhouse (Experiment in Terror, #1)
The Keeper of Lost Causes (Department Q, #1)
Breaking Point
Murder as a Fine Art
Persuader (Jack Reacher, #7)
The Last Man (Mitch Rapp #13)
The Bone Bed (Kay Scarpetta, #20)
NOS4A2
The Hit  (Will Robie, #2)
The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon, #3)
Alex Cross, Run (Alex Cross, #20)
Die Trying (Jack Reacher, #2)
The Rules for Disappearing
The Fifth Assassin
Taking Eve (Eve Duncan # 13)
Guilt (Alex Delaware, #28)
In the Shadow of Blackbirds
The Other Typist
Two Graves (Pendergast, #12)
Bones Are Forever (Temperance Brennan, #15)
Stay Close
Merry Christmas, Alex Cross (Alex Cross, #19)
The Redbreast (Harry Hole, #3)
Gone Tomorrow (Jack Reacher, #13)
City of Dark Magic
Frozen Heat (Nikki Heat, #4)
Never Knowing
Child 44 (Leo Demidov, #1)
Love You More (Detective D.D. Warren, #5)
Paper Valentine
Pirate Latitudes
Daemon (Daemon, #1)
Sleep No More (Eve Duncan, #12)
Reconstructing Amelia
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium, #2)
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium, #3)
Consequences (Consequences, #1)
Touch & Go
The Madness Underneath (Shades of London, #2)
I Hunt Killers (Jasper Dent, #1)
Altered (Altered, #1)
A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher, #17)
The Demonologist
Reamde
The Beggar King (The Hangman's Daughter, #3)
61 Hours (Jack Reacher, #14)
The Testing (The Testing, #1)
Zoo
Unremembered (Unremembered, #1)
Code (Virals, #3)
Cut & Run (Cut & Run #1)
The Blood Gospel (The Order of the Sanguines, #1)
Unintended Consequences (Stone Barrington, #26)
Run
Divide & Conquer (Cut & Run, #4)
Phantom (Harry Hole, #9)
Nothing to Lose (Jack Reacher, #12)
Silken Prey (Lucas Davenport, #23)
The Innocent (Will Robie, #1)
Calculated in Death (In Death, #36)
Broken Harbor (Dublin Murder Squad, #4)
The Madman's Daughter (The Madman's Daughter, #1)
Feed (Newsflesh Trilogy, #1)
Golden
Sister
Unbreakable (Unraveling, #2)
The Expats
Mind Games (Mind Games, #1)
The Next Time You See Me
Suspect
The Affair (Jack Reacher, #16)
A Delicate Truth
The Snowman (Harry Hole, #7)
Private Berlin (Other Private Offices)
Every Move He Makes
Slated (Slated, #1)
The Dark Monk (The Hangman's Daughter, #2)
The Panther  (John Corey, #6)
14
Ghostman
Worth Dying For (Jack Reacher, #15)
The Ice Princess (Patrik Hedström, #1)
Catch Me (Detective D.D. Warren, #6)
Gun Machine
Micro
NYPD Red

William Gibson
William Gibson Zero History (Blue Ant, #3)
His Favorite Books About London: The father of cyberpunk, cyberspace, and maybe even cybersex picks his five favorite books about London, the setting of his new techno-thriller, Zero History.
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Sara Shepard
The sweetest smiles hold the darkest secrets...
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Leslie Parrish
Would you believe I was in the neighborhood?” “No." “Well, how about that I needed to see you.” “Why? Did one of my neighbors call and say my cat’s been stalking their bunny?” One corner of his mouth went up. “You know, that sounds like a euphemism. A kind of salacious one” “Ooh, big words for Mr. Average Joe street cop,” she said, knowing she sounded bitchy but unable to help it. “Can you take out the angry eyes, Mrs. Potato Head, and just let me talk to you?
Leslie Parrish, Cold Touch

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