I need a break from romance, what's some of your favorite thriller Books, or just your favorites?

35 Answers

It depends whether you want light hearted mystery, or gritty, down and dirty investigation. Do you like detective stories, or maybe serial killer sagas?

MelodieQuestion author

I’m not entirely sure, I don’t read much thrillers, but I’ve read behind her eyes and loved it, if that helps any. I’ve always read romance, but it’s gotten to the point it’s pretty much the same story line and I need a break from it.

Stacey

Melodie did you read behind closed doors when we read it??? I felt it had a similar feel to behind her eyes

MelodieQuestion author

Stacey no, I’m still waiting for my library to get it

Cathy

Try anything by Jeffery Deaver.

Ruth

Is he American?

Cathy

Ruth yes, he is American.

Hannah

I just read “All the missing girls” and loved it. It wasn’t like “girl on the train”, which I’m finding too many thrillers are trying to emulate.

Nellie

I read All The Missing Girls last year and loved it!

Kaitlin

Big Little Lies
The Lying Game
The Wife Between Us
The Broken Girls
Little Fires Everywhere
Behind Closed Doors
The Perfect Mother
Baby Teeth
Sharp Objects
Sometimes I Lie
The Butterfly Garden
Behind Hey Eyes

Hannah

I loved The Broken Girls! Very different

Kaitlin

Yes! Me too! One of my favs!

Stacey

I loved big little lies

Tiffany

I LOVED butterfly garden!!!!!

Kristy

Behind closed doors!!!! So good I read it in a day and a half!

Amanda

I agree – that one was really good!

Dez

Stephen King is always good

Sarah

The woman in cabin 10

Kyra

I See You

Debbie

Something in the water

Stacey

it’s always the husband by michele campbell

Stacey

I also just finished the way we burn by m leighton and it was somewhat of a romance but so much more than that and I highly highly highly recommend it (and its on kindle unlimited)

Jessica

The knowing was good!

Mel

Not a thriller but a quiet and funny book.
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in the real world, so when she takes on a job in a convenience store while at university, they are delighted for her. For her part, in the convenience store she finds a predictable world mandated by the store manual, which dictates how the workers should act and what they should say, and she copies her coworkers’ style of dress and speech patterns so she can play the part of a normal person. However, eighteen years later, at age 36, she is still in the same job, has never had a boyfriend, and has only few friends. She feels comfortable in her life but is aware that she is not living up to society’s expectations and causing her family to worry about her. When a similarly alienated but cynical and bitter young man comes to work in the store, he will upset Keiko’s contented stasis–but will it be for the better?

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36739755-convenience-store-woman

Ruth

M. C. Beaton’s Hamish Mc. Beth Series, which is my most favorite( she has Agatha Raisin Series also) but they are lighthearted whodunits. Then for Thriller/ profiler, Val Mc Dermid’s The Mermaids Singing or a little heavier with Minette Walters.

Ruth

Those are my normal read. I am now venturing out my comfort zone a little by reading miscellaneous Genres.

Arielle

Face of Deception by Iris Johansson is really good! It’s the first book in her Eve Duncan series

Sue

Butterfly Garden

Kaitlin

I loved this book so much!!!

Jeanne

Baby Teeth-such a different premise for a story!
Something in the Water

Kaitlin

I loved Baby Teeth