Top 100 Suspense Books

📘 A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

Everyone is talking about A Good Girl's Guide to Murder! With shades of Serial and Making a Murderer this is the story about an investigation turned obsession, full of twists and turns and with an ending you'll never expect. Everyone in Fairview knows the story.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: General Suspense

📘 The Da Vinci Code

The Da Vinci Code is a 2003 mystery thriller novel by Dan Brown. It is Brown's second novel to include the character Robert Langdon: the first was his 2000 novel Angels & Demons.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: General Suspense

📘 Verity

Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: Romantic Suspense

📘 Angels & Demons

Angels & Demons is a 2000 bestselling mystery-thriller novel written by American author Dan Brown and published by Pocket Books and then by Corgi Books. The novel introduces the character Robert Langdon, who recurs as the protagonist of Brown's subsequent novels.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: General Suspense

📘 The Eyes of Darkness

Tina Evans has spent a year suffering from incredible heartache since her son Danny's tragic death. But now, with her Vegas show about to premiere, Tina can think of no better time for a fresh start. Maybe she can finally move on and put her grief behind her. Only there is a message for Tina, scrawled on the chalkboard in Danny's room: NOT DEAD.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: General Suspense

📘 Jurassic Park

Michael Crichton’s 1990 novel ‘Jurassic Park’ warns about the dangers of genetic engineering as a theme park’s dinosaur exhibit collapses, illustrating chaos theory and the unpredictable outcomes of scientific ambition.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: General Suspense

📘 Under the Dome

Under the Dome is a 2009 science fiction novel by the American author, Stephen King. Under the Dome is the 58th book published by Stephen King, and it is his 48th novel.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: General Suspense

📘 11/22/63

11/22/63 is a novel by Stephen King about a time traveller who attempts to prevent the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy, which occurred on November 22, 1963 (the novel's titular date). It is the 60th book published by Stephen King, his 49th novel and the 42nd under his own name.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: General Suspense

📘 Inferno

In his international blockbusters The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, and The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown masterfully fused history, art, codes, and symbols. In this riveting new thriller, Brown returns to his element and has crafted his highest-stakes novel to date.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: General Suspense

📘 The Dead Zone

The Dead Zone is a science fiction thriller novel by Stephen King published in 1979. The story follows Johnny Smith, who awakens from a coma of nearly five years and, apparently as a result of brain damage, now experiences clairvoyant and precognitive visions triggered by touch.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: Supernatural Suspense

📘 Airframe

Airframe, Michael Crichton's 1996 novel, follows quality‑assurance VP Casey Singleton as she probes a fatal in‑flight crash on a Norton‑manufactured airliner, uncovering corporate cover‑ups and the hidden dangers of modern aviation.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: General Suspense

📘 Firestarter

Stephen King's 1980 science‑fiction horror thriller, 'Firestarter', blends suspense with psychic ability themes and was nominated for the British Fantasy Award, Locus Poll Award, and Balrog Award.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: Supernatural Suspense

📘 Origin

Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend the unveiling of a discovery that will change the face of science forever.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: General Suspense

📘 The Girl in Room 105

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: General Suspense

📘 Missing 411

A comprehensive research on missing people in North America, with a focus on the West and Midwest.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: Supernatural Suspense

📘 The Lost World

The Lost World is Michael Crichton’s 1995 techno‑thriller sequel to Jurassic Park, published by Knopf, and exploring themes of genetics, paleontology, and scientific ambition.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: General Suspense

📘 The Hunt for Red October

Somewhere under the Atlantic, a Soviet sub commander has just made a fateful decision...the Red October is heading west.The Americans want her.The Russians want her back.And the most incredible chase in history is on...The Hunt for Red October is the runaway bestseller that launched Tom Clancy's phenomenal career.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: Action Suspense

📘 Monday's not coming

When her friend Monday Charles goes missing and Monday's mother refuses to give her a straight answer, Claudia digs into her disappearance.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: General Suspense

📘 Digital Fortress

Digital Fortress is a techno-thriller novel written by American author Dan Brown and published in 1998 by St. Martin's Press. The book explores the theme of government surveillance of electronically stored information on the private lives of citizens, and the possible civil liberties and ethical implications of using such technology.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: General Suspense

📘 Jaws

A thrilling novel about a great white shark that preys on a small resort town.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: Action Suspense

📘 Corrupted Chaos

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: General Suspense

📘 Persuader

Jack Reacher. The ultimate loner. An elite ex-military cop who left the service years ago, he’s moved from place to place…without family…without possessions…without commitments. And without fear. Which is good, because trouble—big, violent, complicated trouble—finds Reacher wherever he goes.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: Action Suspense

📘 If Tomorrow Comes

***She's Tracy Whitney. Sidney Sheldon's most exciting heroine ever.*** Lovely, idealistic, she's soon to enter into a dazzling world of sumptuous wealth, audacious exploits, and narrow escapes--***and to a passion, dangerous and elusive, that promises to fulfill all her secret dreams ...

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: General Suspense

📘 Flickan som lekte med elden

Mikael Blomkvist på Millennium har fått korn på ett hett nyhetsstoff. Journalisten Dag Svensson och hans sambo Mia Bergman har hittat avslöjande uppgifter om en omfattande sexhandel mellan Östeuropa och Sverige. Många av de personer som utpekas i traffickinghärvan har höga positioner i samhället.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: General Suspense

📘 The Last Thing He Told Me

**The "page-turning, exhilarating" (PopSugar) and "heartfelt thriller" (Real Simple) about a woman who thinks she's found the love of her life—until he disappears.** Before Owen Michaels disappears, he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: General Suspense

📘 The Cartel

The port of Miami brings in millions of dollars worth of cocaine every year, and The Cartel controls eighty percent of it. The Diamond family is a force to be reckoned with, but all hell breaks loose when they lose their leader. The most ruthless gangster Miami has ever seen, Carter Diamond leaves behind a wife, twin sons, a daughter, and a secret.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: Romantic Suspense

📘 Big Little Lies

Pirriwee Public is a beautiful little beachside primary school where children are taught that ‘sharing is caring.’ So how has the annual School Trivia Night ended in full-blown riot? Sirens are wailing. People are screaming. The principal is mortified. And one parent is dead.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: General Suspense

📘 Finders Keepers

Overview: Wake up, genius. So announces deranged fan Morris Bellamy to iconic author John Rothstein, who once created the famous character Jimmy Gold and hasn't released anything since. Morris is livid, not just because his favorite writer has stopped publishing, but because Jimmy Gold ended up as a sellout.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: General Suspense

📘 Double Take

It's been more than six months since her husband's brutal death, and Julia Ransom is just beginning to breathe again. She loved her husband, renowned psychic August Ransom, but the media frenzy that followed his murder sapped what little strength she had left.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: General Suspense

📘 Hidden Riches

Kurzbeschreibung Träume wie Gold (Hidden Riches) - Nora Roberts Dora Conroy besitzt einen Antiquitätenladen mit exklusiven Auktionsstücken in Philadelphia. Als sie eines Tages eine Lieferung geheimnisvoller Sammlerobjekte erhält, kommt es plötzlich zu merkwürdigen Diebstählen und Todesfällen.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: Romantic Suspense

📘 La vérité sur l'affaire Harry Quebert

Sous ses airs de thriller à l'américaine, La vérité sur l'affaire Harry Quebert est une réflexion sur l'Amérique, sur les travers de la société moderne, sur la littérature, sur la justice et sur les médias.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: General Suspense

📘 Once you’re mine

Murder brought us together. Only death can keep us apart. The Tormentor: Calista belongs to me... she just doesn’t know it. The first time we met, I wanted her. The next time, I was obsessed. I watched her. I followed her. It only deepened my need to possess her. Once she's mine, I'm never letting her go.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: Romantic Suspense

📘 Where's Molly

A spinoff of the Cat & Mouse Duet... “Molly Devereaux has been missing for more than two weeks, and police are still searching for the girl who seemed to vanish out of thin air. The world still wants to know... Where's Molly?” In my dreams, I never escaped the Oregon woods.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: Romantic Suspense

📘 The Mindf*ck Series

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: Romantic Suspense

📘 Billy Summers

From legendary storyteller and No. 1 bestseller Stephen King, whose 'restless imagination is a power that cannot be contained' (The New York Times Book Review), comes a thrilling new novel about a good guy in a bad job. Billy Summers is a man in a room with a gun. He's a killer for hire and the best in the business.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: General Suspense

📘 The Good Guy

Timothy Carrier, having a beer after work at his friend's tavern, enjoys drawing eccentric customers into amusing conversations. But the jittery man who sits next to him tonight has mistaken Tim for someone very different--and passes to him a manila envelope full of cash."Ten thousand now. You get the rest when she's gone.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: General Suspense

📘 Bad Luck and Trouble

From a helicopter high above the empty California desert, a man is sent free-falling into the night…. In Chicago, a woman learns that an elite team of ex–army investigators is being hunted down one by one....

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: Action Suspense

📘 Without Remorse

Clancy shows how an ordinary man crossed the lines of justice and morality to become the CIA legend Mr. Clark. John Kelly, former Navy SEAL and Vietnam veteran, is still getting over the accidental death of his wife six months before, when he befriends a young woman with a decidedly checkered past.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: Action Suspense

📘 Honest Illusions

Kurzbeschreibung Die Tochter des Magiers (Honest Illusions) - Nora Roberts Die rothaarige und temperamentvolle Roxy Nouvelle ist Tochter eines legendären Zauberkünstlers. Von ihm hat sie nicht nur die außergewöhnliche Begabung für Magie geerbt, sondern auch die Kunst, manche Reichen um ihre Juwelen zu erleichtern.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: Romantic Suspense

📘 Master of the Game

**One of Sidney Sheldon's most popular and bestselling titles. Kate Blackwell is one of the richest and most powerful women in the world. She is an enigma, a woman surrounded by a thousand unanswered questions.** Her father was a diamond prospector who struck it rich beyond his wildest dreams.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: General Suspense

📘 Five Survive

Red Kenny is on a road trip for spring break with five friends: Her best friend – the older brother – his perfect girlfriend – a secret crush – a classmate – and a killer. When their RV breaks down in the middle of nowhere with no cell service, they soon realize this is no accident.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: General Suspense

📘 Angels Fall

The sole survivor of a brutal crime back East, Reece Gilmore settles in Angel's Fist, Wyoming--temporarily. at least--and takes a job at a local diner. One day, while hiking in the mountains, she peers through her binoculars and sees a couple arguing on the bank of the churning Snake River.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: Romantic Suspense

📘 Honeymoon

How does it feel to be desired by every man and envied by every woman? Wonderful. This is the life Nora Sinclair has dreamed about, the life she's worked hard for, the life she will never give up. Meet Nora Sinclair.When FBI agent John O'Hara first sees her, she seems perfect. She has the looks. The career. The clothes. The wit. The sophistication.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: General Suspense

📘 The Thirty-Nine Steps

Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his life in London. But then a murder is committed in his flat, just days after a chance encounter with an American who had told him about an assassination plot which could have dire international consequences.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: Action Suspense

📘 End of Watch

A suspenseful closing volume. Brady Hartsfield, the Mercedes killer, returns to diabolically drive his victims to suicide in this last installment, starring the ever more winning Bill Hodges and Holly Gibney.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: Supernatural Suspense

📘 The Colorado Kid

The Colorado Kid is a mystery novel by American writer Stephen King, published by the Hard Case Crime imprint in 2005. The book was initially issued in one paperback-only edition by the specialty crime and mystery publishing house. Hard Case Crime reissued The Colorado Kid in an illustrated paperback edition in May 2019.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: General Suspense

📘 Homeport

Kurzbeschreibung Das Haus der Donna (Homeport) - Nora Roberts Das Geheimnis der Dunklen Lady. Die amerikanische Kunstexpertin Dr. Miranda Jones reist nach Florenz, um eine kürzlich gefundene Bronzeskulptur zu untersuchen. Ihr Urteil: Die Dunkle Lady stammt tatsächlich aus der Medici-Ära.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: Romantic Suspense

📘 Remarkably Bright Creatures

After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night cleaner shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium. Ever since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat over thirty years ago keeping busy has helped her cope.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: General Suspense

📘 Montana Sky

Kurzbeschreibung Dies ist Nora Roberts 100. veröffentlichte Novelle !! Der weite Himmel (Montana Sky) - Nora Roberts Der Roman spielt vor der weiten Kulisse Montanas. Die Geschichte um drei eigenwillige Farmerstöchter ist Familiensaga, Liebesroman und prickelnder Thriller zugleich.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: Romantic Suspense

📘 61 hours

Jack Reacher is back.The countdown has begun. Get ready for the most exciting 61 hours of your life. #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child's latest thriller is a ticking time bomb of suspense that builds electric tension on every page.Sixty-one hours. Not a minute to spare.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: Action Suspense

📘 The Dollhouse Murders

A dollhouse filled with a ghostly light in the middle of the night and dolls that have moved from where she last lef them lead Amy and her retarded sister to unravel the mystery surrounding grisly murders that took place years ago.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: Supernatural Suspense

📘 True Betrayals

Kelsey Byden always believed that her mother was dead. But now, after all this time, she has discovered the truth: Naomi Chadwick is still alive--after spending years in prison for the murder of her lover. Now, at Naomi's Virginia horse farm, Kelsey is trying to sort out a lifetime of deception--and her feelings about her mother.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: Romantic Suspense

📘 Virgin

Anne Fitzgerald investigates the impossible conditions of two young women who have become pregnant, and uncovers a sinister plot in Boston.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: Supernatural Suspense

📘 Response

His honor left him no choice Sienna had been swept off her feet by the handsome, powerful Greek, Alexis Stefanides. "I shall imprint myself on your heart and body so that you will never forget me, " he'd said once he'd won her heart. She'd been chosen--not for love--but in vengeance for the wrong he believed her brother had done his sister.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: Romantic Suspense

📘 Haunting Adeline

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: Romantic Suspense

📘 Hidden bodies

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: General Suspense

📘 Hour Game

He's copying famous serial killers and the game has just begun. A woman is found murdered in the woods. It seems like a simple case but it soon escalates into a terrible nightmare. Someone is replicating the killing styles of the most infamous murderers of all time. No one knows this criminal's motives...or who will die next.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: General Suspense

📘 Angar

Thriller: the wicked deeds of a cult.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: General Suspense

📘 Hideaway

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: Romantic Suspense

📘 Lost and Found

Darcy Wills is in big trouble. And she does not know where to turn for help. First there was the mysterious stranger who started following her. Then there was the threatening note left on her desk at Bluford High School. And now her sister has disappeared.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: General Suspense

📘 The Krishna Key

"Krishna: The Key" by Ashwin Sanghi is an electrifying blend of mythology, history, and suspense. Follow a gripping quest as ancient secrets tied to Lord Krishna's legendary wisdom unravel through a modern thriller. Packed with fascinating facts and imaginative twists, this book seamlessly bridges the past and present.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: General Suspense

📘 The butterfly garden

"Near an isolated mansion lies a beautiful garden. In this garden grow luscious flowers, shady trees...and a collection of precious butterflies -- young women who have been kidnapped and intricately tattooed to resemble their namesakes.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: General Suspense

📘 A wanted man

Jack Reacher, an ex-police officer, becomes involved in a conspiracy when he hitchhikes to Virginia.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: Action Suspense

📘 Carolina Moon

Tory Bodeen grew up in South Carolina, in a small run-down house, where her father ruled with an iron fist and a leather belt--and where her dreams and talents had no room to flourish. But she had Hope, who lived in the big house just a short skip away and whose friendship allowed Tory to be something she wasn't allowed to be at home: a child.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: Romantic Suspense

📘 London Bridges

Alex Cross investigates the terrorist threat in London while dealing with his dangerous enemy in New York.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: Action Suspense

📘 Little Stranger

A man avenges himself on the sister who became his forbidden obsession, after sending him to prison for years.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: Romantic Suspense

📘 Slow Horses

Slough House is Jackson Lamb's kingdom; a dumping ground for members of the intelligence service who've screwed up: left a secret file on a train, blown a surveillance, or become drunkenly unreliable.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: General Suspense

📘 I am watching you

"A missing girl. A tormented witness. A web of lies. And someone is watching... When Ella Longfield overhears two attractive young men flirting with teenage girls on a train, she thinks nothing of it - until she realises they are fresh out of prison and her maternal instinct is put on high alert.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: General Suspense

📘 Kill Alex Cross

The President's son and daughter are abducted, and Detective Alex Cross is one of the first on the scene. But someone very high-up is using the FBI, Secret Service, and CIA to keep him off the case and in the dark.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: General Suspense

📘 Nine Coaches Waiting

Linda Martin, an English woman is hired to be a governess for a young French boy. But a strange terror coiled in the shadows behind the brooding elegance of the huge Château Valmy. It lay there like some dark and twisted thing -- waiting, watching, ready to strike.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: Romantic Suspense

📘 Roadwork

Roadwork is a thriller novel by American writer Stephen King, published in 1981 under the pseudonym Richard Bachman as a paperback original. It was collected in 1985 in the hardcover omnibus The Bachman Books. The story takes place in an unnamed Midwestern city in 1972–1974.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: General Suspense

📘 Exclusive

Barrie Travis is not famous: she's just a damn good reporter stuck at a low-budget television station. Then the First Lady calls her...and offers her the story of a lifetime. The president's wife, stunned by grief after the loss of her infant son, hints that her child may have been murdered.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: Romantic Suspense

📘 Breathless

When Colorado carpenter Grady Adams spots two mysterious creatures in the woods near his house, he calls on his friend, veterinarian Cammy Rivers for advice. But like Grady, Cammy has never seen an animal resembling this beautiful species.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: Action Suspense

📘 Surfacing

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: General Suspense

📘 Blaze

Blaze is a novel by American writer Stephen King, published under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman. King announced on his website that he "found it" in an attic. As stated in the afterword of Different Seasons, it was written before Carrie.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: General Suspense

📘 Ordeal by Innocence

Recovering from amnesia, Dr. Arthur Calgary discovers that he alone could have provided an alibi in a scandalous murder trial. It ended in the conviction of Jacko Argyle. The victim was Jacko's own mother, and to make matters worse, he died in prison.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: General Suspense

📘 Leave the World Behind

Amanda and Clay head out to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter, and a taste of the good life in the luxurious home they’ve rented for the week. But a late-night knock on the door breaks the spell. Ruth and G. H.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: General Suspense

📘 The switch

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown comes another masterful creation, a riveting novel of suspense, revenge, and unpredictable twists and turns...Identical twins Melina and Gillian Lloyd haven't considered switching places since childhood. So when Melina proposes that Gillian take her place as a media escort to NASA astronaut Col.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: General Suspense

📘 The wife between us

When you read this book, you will make many assumptions. You will assume you are reading about a jealous wife. You will assume she is obsessed with her replacement - a woman who is about to enter a new marriage with the man she loves. You will assume you know the anatomy of the relationships. Assume nothing. Read between the lies.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: General Suspense

📘 Beneath the Attic

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: General Suspense

📘 The Devil's arms

She was told that her name was Lyn Sheridan and that she was engaged to the immensely attractive Jake Forrester, in whose house in Yorkshire she was staying.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: Romantic Suspense

📘 Brothers Hawthorne

Grayson Hawthorne ist als Kronprinz des milliardenschweren Familienunternehmens herangewachsen, doch der Patriarch ist verstorben, die Familie enterbt, das Vermögen dahin. Und so hat er es sich zur Aufgabe gemacht, jeden Schaden von Avery, der Erbin, fernzuhalten.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: General Suspense

📘 The Chalk Man

"Narrated by 'Eddie' who receives a chalk drawing of a stick figure that hurtles him back to an innocent childhood game 30 years before which went terribly, terribly wrong. As history begins to repeat itself, it seems the game was never really over" --

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: General Suspense

📘 One Door Away from Heaven

The number-one bestseller from "America's most popular suspense novelist" (The New York Times) is now in paperback. Following a missing family to the edge of America, Michelina Bellsong finds herself in a place she never knew existed, a place of terror, wonder, and shattering revelation.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: General Suspense

📘 Brother Odd

Loop me in, odd one. The words, spoken in the deep of night by a sleeping child, chill the young man watching over her. For this was a favorite phrase of Stormy Llewellyn, his lost love, and Stormy is dead, gone forever from this world.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: Supernatural Suspense

📘 Reamde

Reamde is a speculative fiction novel by Neal Stephenson, published in 2011. The story, set in the present day, centers on the plight of a hostage and the ensuing efforts of family and new acquaintances, many of them associated with a fictional MMORPG, to rescue her as her various captors drag her about the globe.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: General Suspense

📘 The Affair

Everything starts somewhere. For elite military cop Jack Reacher, that somewhere was Carter Crossing, Mississippi, way back in 1997. A lonely railroad track. A crime scene. A cover-up. A young woman is dead, and solid evidence points to a soldier at a nearby military base. But that soldier has powerful friends in Washington.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: Action Suspense

📘 State of Fear

State of Fear is a 2004 techno-thriller novel by Michael Crichton, his fourteenth under his own name and twenty-fourth overall, in which eco-terrorists plot mass murder to publicize the danger of global warming.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: General Suspense

📘 Two Can Keep a Secret

Echo Ridge is small-town America. Ellery's never been there, but she's heard all about it. Her aunt went missing there at age seventeen. And only five years ago, a homecoming queen put the town on the map when she was killed. Now Ellery has to move there to live with a grandmother she barely knows.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: General Suspense

📘 High Noon

Police Lieutenant Phoebe MacNamara found her calling at an early age when an unstable man broke into her family's home, trapping and terrorizing them for hours. Now she's Savannah's top hostage negotiator, defusing powderkeg situations with a talent for knowing when to give in-and when to jump in and take action.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: Romantic Suspense

📘 The beach house

A mystery thriller about a wealthy summer resident who investigates his brother's death.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: General Suspense

📘 Personal

Someone has taken a shot at the president of France in the City of Light. The bullet was American. The distance between the gunman and the target was exceptional. How many snipers can shoot from three-quarters of a mile with total confidence? Very few, but John Kott -- an American marksman gone bad -- is one of them.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: Action Suspense

📘 Then she was gone

"Ten years after her teenage daughter disappears, a woman crosses paths with a charming single father whose young child feels eerily familiar, in this evocative, suspenseful drama from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell--perfect for fans of Paula Hawkins and Liane Moriarty. Ellie Mack was the perfect daughter.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: General Suspense

📘 El Juego del Ángel

En la turbulenta Barcelona de los años 20 un joven escritor obsesionado con un amor imposible recibe la oferta de un misterioso editor para escribir un libro como no ha existido nunca, a cambio de una fortuna y, tal vez, mucho más.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: General Suspense

📘 The postman always rings twice

Frank Chambers, un trotamundos sin empleo, narra en primera persona la atracción que siente por Cora Papadakis, la esposa de un emigrante de origen griego propietario de una taberna en California, y cómo se vuelven amantes unidos por el ardor y la ambición. Pero no será tan fácil librarse del viejo marido.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: General Suspense

📘 NEVER GO BACK

"Never go back--but Jack Reacher does, and the past finally catches up with him. Never Go Back is #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child's new novel of action-charged suspense starring "one of the best thriller characters at work today" (Newsweek).

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: Action Suspense

📘 When No One Is Watching

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: General Suspense

📘 Past tense

"Family secrets come back to haunt Jack Reacher in this electrifying thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child, "a superb craftsman of suspense" (Entertainment Weekly). Jack Reacher has extended his thumb and hit the pavement. His plan is to follow the autumn sun on an epic trip across America, from Maine to California.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: Action Suspense

📘 The Love Conspiracy

The uncertainty was unnerving Kathleen Kendon had cheerfully accepted her friend Todd's invitation to stay at the family home for the weekend - during which his Uncle Daniel was to announce his engagement. Only slowly did it dawn on Kat that she was the pawn in another game altogether.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: Romantic Suspense

📘 Pulang-Pergi

Love, friendship, and destiny in a heart-wrenching tale of first impressions and confrontations.

Genre: Suspense Subgenre: Action Suspense