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Psychological Thrillers and Breakdowns
The scariest among us is lurking beneath the surface -- unseen, unheard, and uncontrollable.
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Unjust: A Jason Michelson Legal Thriller
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Fight Club
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Chuck Palahniuk (Goodreads Author)
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Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)
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The Girl on the Train
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Paula Hawkins (Goodreads Author)
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Gone Girl
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Gillian Flynn (Goodreads Author)
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Don't Close Your Eyes
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Lynessa James (Goodreads Author)
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Complicated Moonlight (DCYE, #2)
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Lynessa Layne (Goodreads Author)
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A New Calling
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Sylvian Breker (Goodreads Author)
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The Lottery and Other Stories
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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Mad Love (DCYE, #3)
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Lynessa Layne (Goodreads Author)
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We Need to Talk About Kevin
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Lionel Shriver (Goodreads Author)
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The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings
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You (You, #1)
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Caroline Kepnes (Goodreads Author)
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The Silent Patient
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Alex Michaelides (Goodreads Author)
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American Psycho
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The Club
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Anthony Hulse (Goodreads Author)
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Beauty Beyond Death
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Anthony Hulse (Goodreads Author)
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Apostle of the Tyrants
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Anthony Hulse (Goodreads Author)
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Cupid's Poison Arrow
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Precarious Infatuations
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Massive Black Hole
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Andrea Barbosa (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 62 ratings
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A Watched Pot
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Mr. Blue (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 111 ratings
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Scent of the Dragon
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Anthony Hulse (Goodreads Author)
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True Evil
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Between the Lies
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Michelle Adams (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 2,062 ratings
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Keep Me Close
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Jane Holland (Goodreads Author)
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The Carer
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Scott Nelson (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 93 ratings
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The Tests
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Robert W. Kirby (Goodreads Author)
4.68 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The 333 Syndrome
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Izzy Bond (Goodreads Author)
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Heartsick (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, #1)
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Chelsea Cain (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 43,004 ratings
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The All-Night Sun
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Stillhouse Lake (Stillhouse Lake, #1)
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The Good Girl
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Mary Kubica (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 273,546 ratings
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The Pocket Wife
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Susan H. Crawford (Goodreads Author)
3.33 avg rating — 10,566 ratings
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The Vanished Man (Lincoln Rhyme, #5)
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Jeffery Deaver (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 25,186 ratings
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The Bone Collector (Lincoln Rhyme, #1)
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Jeffery Deaver (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 193,136 ratings
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The Heiress
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Rachel Hawkins (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 164,307 ratings
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The Coffin Dancer (Lincoln Rhyme, #2)
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Jeffery Deaver (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 54,708 ratings
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The Empty Chair (Lincoln Rhyme, #3)
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Jeffery Deaver (Goodreads Author)
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Verity
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Colleen Hoover (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 3,604,601 ratings
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The Stone Monkey (Lincoln Rhyme, #4)
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Jeffery Deaver (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 22,874 ratings
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The Twelfth Card (Lincoln Rhyme, #6)
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Jeffery Deaver (Goodreads Author)
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Verity
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The Cold Moon (Lincoln Rhyme, #7)
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4.08 avg rating — 21,615 ratings
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Nurtured Evil
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4.57 avg rating — 58 ratings
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The Sleeping Doll (Kathryn Dance, #1)
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Jeffery Deaver (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 20,880 ratings
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A Clean Kill in Tokyo (John Rain, #1)
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Barry Eisler (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 19,213 ratings
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A Lonely Resurrection (John Rain, #2)
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Barry Eisler (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 10,326 ratings
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Winner Take All (John Rain, #3)
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Strangers on a Train
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Redemption Games (John Rain, #4)
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Barry Eisler (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 9,472 ratings
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The Midnight Line (Jack Reacher, #22)
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Lee Child (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 87,789 ratings
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Ripley's Game (Ripley, #3)
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The Last Assassin
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4.30 avg rating — 9,139 ratings
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Turning Angel (Penn Cage #2)
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4.14 avg rating — 29,414 ratings
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24 hours
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Mortal Fear
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When the Bough Breaks (Alex Delaware, #1)
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4.02 avg rating — 67,665 ratings
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The Ritual Bath (Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus #1)
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The Burnt House (Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus, #16)
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Double Homicide
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Capital Crimes
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Déjà Dead (Temperance Brennan, #1)
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Kathy Reichs (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 154,763 ratings
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Death du Jour (Temperance Brennan, #2)
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Kathy Reichs (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 50,305 ratings
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Deadly Decisions (Temperance Brennan, #3)
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3.94 avg rating — 38,965 ratings
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Fatal Voyage (Temperance Brennan, #4)
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Grave Secrets (Temperance Brennan, #5)
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Break No Bones (Temperance Brennan, #9)
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Bare Bones (Temperance Brennan, #6)
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Bones to Ashes (Temperance Brennan, #10)
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CLANK: A Book of Madness
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Sway
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Matthew Keith (Goodreads Author)
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Another Life (Another Life, #1)
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Jasmine Denton (Goodreads Author)
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Stranger at Sunset
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Eden Baylee (Goodreads Author)
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Damnatio Memoriae
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Laura Giebfried (Goodreads Author)
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Bridges: An Extraordinary Journey of the Heart
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How the Water Falls
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K.P. Kollenborn (Goodreads Author)
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Blood and Shattered Glass (Vyberdex Chronicles, #1)
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Tyffani Clark Kemp (Goodreads Author)
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Oiorpata
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Richard Ferguson (Goodreads Author)
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Dark of Night
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Marios Savva (Goodreads Author)
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The Experiment of Dreams
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Brandon Zenner (Goodreads Author)
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A Prisoner Within
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J.M. Northup (Goodreads Author)
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Jezebel (Jezebel, #1)
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K. Larsen (Goodreads Author)
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Mojado (Navajo Nation Mystery #4)
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Peerless Detective
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Michael Raleigh (Goodreads Author)
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Catharsis
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Why Me? (The Revenge Series, #1)
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Angels Sing to Rest
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Chrinda Jones (Goodreads Author)
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Pursued by the Past
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P.D. Workman (Goodreads Author)
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The Exception
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Sostiene Pereira
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Veritas The Pharmacological Endgame
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Alessandro Boccaletti (Goodreads Author)
4.54 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Loderunner
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Christina Engela (Goodreads Author)
4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Best Day Ever (Family Secrets, #1)
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Kaira Rouda (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 20,237 ratings
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A Borrowed Hell
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L.D. Colter (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 102 ratings
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The Black Heart: A Dark Disturbing Murder Thriller
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Allen Dark (Goodreads Author)
3.51 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Ghosts of Manor House
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Matt Powers (Goodreads Author)
3.55 avg rating — 151 ratings
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Mind Frame
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