Thrillers you can't put down until the last page
15 books
A wife disappears on her fifth anniversary. Flynn flips the perspective halfway through and the entire genre noticed.
A famous painter shoots her husband and stops speaking. A psychotherapist gets her admitted to his ward to crack the silence. He should not have.
A reporter returns to her Missouri hometown to cover the murders of two teenage girls. Her mother is the worst-kept secret in the county and the rest of the secrets are worse.
A woman survived the massacre of her family at seven. Twenty-five years later, a club of amateur investigators pays her to dig back in. Flynn doesn't believe in clean endings.
An alcoholic woman watches the same couple from the same train every morning. One day the wife is missing and the watcher is the witness no one will trust.
A struggling writer is hired to finish a famous author's series after an accident. In the office, she finds the manuscript Verity didn't intend anyone to read.
Eight friends at a New Year's hunting lodge in the Scottish Highlands. By the morning of the second, one is dead and the snow is closing the road.
The perfect couple at every dinner party. Then you find out what happens between dinner parties. Paris writes the slowest possible suffocation.
A podcaster meets a woman with the same birthday at a London pub and agrees to record her. The woman is a much better story than the podcaster realises, in the wrong direction.
Three women, one man, and the order in which you read the chapters is doing something to you. The first twist resets the entire novel.
A podcast host returns to her boarding school to revisit the murder of her roommate in 1995. Makkai writes the present-day reckoning at the same volume as the cold case.
A poor woman targets a wealthy wife to get to her husband. Halfway through, the perspective flips and the actual book begins.
A Dublin detective is assigned to investigate a child's murder in the same woods where his two friends disappeared in 1984. The case he can't solve is the one he was.
Ten years after her teenage daughter vanished, a mother starts dating a man with a strangely familiar daughter. Jewell writes the bad-feeling as it arrives.
Three Sydney mothers, a school trivia night, and a death no one will name. Moriarty stages a murder mystery that's secretly a novel about domestic violence.
