Popular mystery thriller books across various subgenres
Popular mystery thriller books across various subgenres
Hi guys ! Welcome back to my blog. I decided to get this side of my blog alive since i will be sharing all the books that i'll be reading and putting on my to be read pile. if you're a bookwork just like me, I hope you that you will enjoy and comment to let me know anything!
The books that i'll be talking about offers thrilling plots, intriguing mysteries, and suspenseful storytelling that will keep you engaged. Enjoy your reading! - Bella ♡
1. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
So who are you?
What harm have we caused one another?
When Nick Dunne's wife Amy mysteriously vanishes on the morning of their fifth wedding anniversary, he is left questioning these concerns. Police believe Nick. His fear of Amy led to her keeping secrets from him, according to her friends. He vouches that it is untrue. His computer was examined by police, who discovered odd searches. He claims that he did not create them. The constant calls to his mobile are another issue. So, is he hiding Amy or not?
2. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stiegg Larsson
A descendant of one of the richest families in Sweden, Harriet Vanger vanished nearly 40 years ago. Her elderly uncle is still searching for the truth all these years later. Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently imprisoned for libel, is hired by him to conduct the investigation. The tattooed and pierced punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander supports him. Together, they are able to access a source of astounding corruption and unfathomable injustice.
Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, an international bestseller, mixes a murder investigation, a family history, a love story, and financial intrigue into one satisfyingly intricate and captivatingly atmospheric book.
3. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is awakened in the middle of the night in Paris by a phone call. The senior Louvre curator was killed within the museum, and his body was covered in perplexing symbols. As Langdon and the talented French cryptologist Sophie Neveu solve the strange puzzles, they are astounded to find a trail of clues that Leonardo da Vinci himself cleverly placed in his paintings. The clues are obvious to everyone yet cleverly concealed by the painter.
Even more astonishing, the late curator had a magnificent historical secret and was a member of the Priory of Sion, a covert organisation that also comprised Sir Isaac Newton, Victor Hugo, and Leonardo Da Vinci. The explosive, ancient truth will be lost for all time unless Langdon and Neveu can solve the perplexing puzzle - while avoiding the faceless foe who follows their every move.
4. The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
The life of Alicia Berenson appears to be ideal. She is a well-known painter who is married to a well-known fashion photographer. She resides in a lavish home with large windows that looks out onto a park into one of London's most prestigious neighbourhoods. Gabriel, her husband, arrives home late one evening from a fashion assignment, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face before going silent.
By being silent and refusing to offer any explanation, Alicia elevates a family tragedy into a mystery that captivates the public's interest and makes her famous. She, the quiet patient, is kept out of the spotlight and tabloids at the Grove, a secure forensic facility in North London, as the value of her artwork soars.
A criminal psychologist named Theo Faber has been eager to work with Alicia for a while. He embarks on a perilous journey into his own motivations in an effort to get her to open up and reveal the mystery of why she shot her husband. His quest for the truth threatens to overwhelm him.
In the unsettling psychological thriller, The Silent Patient, a lady attacks her husband, and the therapist becomes fixated with finding out why.
5. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Every morning, Rachel rides the same commuter train. She is aware that it will consistently wait at the same signal in front of a row of backyard gardens. Even the residents of one of the houses have begun to give her the impression that she knows them. She addresses them as 'Jess and Jason." She believes that their life is ideal. If only Rachel could experience such joy. Then she notices a startling sight. The train won't move on for another minute, but that's ample time. Everything has changed now.
Now Rachel has the opportunity to actively participate in the lives she has previously merely observed. They will now realize that she is so much more than simply the girl on the train.
6. Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty (a favourite of mine!)
A homicide, a tragic accident, or just unruly parents? That someone is dead is beyond question.
Madeline is a formidable competitor. She is witty, biting, and passionate; she never forgets anything and never shows anyone mercy. Celeste is the kind of stunning lady who commands attention, but the appearance of perfection comes at a cost. Jane is a young single mother who is new to he area; another mother confuses her for a babysitter. She arrives with an enigmatic past. These three women are each at a separate fork in the road, yet they will arrive at the same startling destination.
Big Little Lies is a fantastic look at the schoolyard scandal, mothers and daughters, second wives and ex-husbands, as well as the little lies that can be deadly.
7. The Woman in the Window by A.J Finn
Anna Fox is a recluse who lives by herself in her New York City house and is unable to leave. She spends her day watching old films, drinking wine, thinking back on happier times, and spying on her neighbours.
Then the Russell family - a father, a mother, and their adolescent son moves into the house across the street. The ideal household. However, Anna's world starts to fall apart as its terrible secrets are exposed when she looks out her window one night and sees something she shouldn't.
What is real? What is pictured? Who is in danger? Who is in control? Nothing and no one in this sinisterly compelling thriller are what they appear.
The Woman in the Window has the same vibes of the show titled "The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window" it's exactly the same but there are bits and pieces that you will find along the way!
8. The Girl Before by J.P Delaney
An intriguing psychological thriller that weaves the seemingly fortunate fortune of one woman and the inexplicable death of another woman through a kaleidoscope of deceit, death, and dishonesty.
Emma wants a new location to live after experiencing a horrible break-in. But none of the apartments she sees feel secure or are within her price range. Previous to One Folgate Street. The home is a work of art in terms of architecture, with a simple layout made up of pale stone, plate glass, and high ceilings. Yet there are regulations. No books, throw pillows, photos, or other personal items of any type are allowed in the house, which is still completely under the supervision of the mysterious architect who constructed it. The area is designed to change its occupant, and its succeeds in doing so.
Jane has to start again after experiencing a personal catastrophe. When she comes across One Folgate Street, she is immediately captivated to the location as well as to its distant yet alluring architect. After moving in, Jane discovers that the previous renter, a woman who resembled Jane in age and looks, passed away suddenly.
Unknowingly, Jane untangles the truth from lies while making the same decisions, encountering the same people, and going through the same terrifying events as the last girl.
9. In the Woods by Tana French
Mothers can start calling their kids home in the summer of 1984 as twilight falls in a small Dublin neighbourhood. However, three kids do not come back from the quiet and dark woods on this beautiful evening. Only one of the kids is there when the police show there. He is clutching a tree trunk in fear, has blood on his trainers and has no memory of what happened in the earlier hours.
Twenty years later, Rob Ryan, the youngster who was found, works as a detective with the Dublin Murder Squad and maintains his anonymity. However, when a 12-year old girl is discovered dead in the same woods, he and Detective Cassie Maddox (his colleague and best friend) find themselves delving into a case that is uncannily identical to the prior unsolved crime. Now that he only has fragments of long-forgotten memories to guide him, Ryan has the chance to solve the mysteries of both the case at hand and his own mysterious history.
10. The Snowman by Jo Nesbo
In November, Oslo. The season's first snowfall has already occured. In the middle of the night, Jonas, a kid, discovers his mother has left. He can see the snowman that mysteriously materialized in the yard earlier that day from his window, shining in the chilly moonlight. His mother's pink scarf is wrapped around its neck.
Hole believes that the disappearance of Jonas's mother and probably a dozen other women, all of whom vanished on the day of the first snowfall, is related to a scary letter he recently received. As his research progresses, another finding comes to light: he is becoming a pawn in a game whose rules are created by the murderer and are continuously being changed.
11. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
A group of intelligent, eccentric misfits at a prestigious New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is very different from the mundane existence of their colleagues thanks to the influence of their charismatic classics professor.
However, when they cross the line into immoral behaviour, they progressively progress from obsession to deceit and treachery before finally and inexorably turning evil.
12. The Silent Corner by Dean Koontz
These are the terrifying statements that a man who had everything to live for yet chose to commit suicide left behind. In the wake of the incident, his wife Jane Hawk pursues the truth no matter what, as her grief, terror, and rage require.
Surprisingly many talented, accomplished, happy, and in good mental health people have been taking their own lives. When Jane tries to figure out why, she ends up being the most sought fugitive in the country.
Her fierce adversaries are savagely eliminating everybody standing in their path as they guard a secret that is both crucial and terrible.
But despite their might and brutality, they might not be able to stop a woman who is as cunning as they are heartless, as persistent as they are ruthless, and who is motivated by a righteous wrath they will never understand. Since it was created out of love.
13. The Bone Collector by Jeffrey Deaver
However, a ruthless assassin has now challenged Rhyme to a frightful and cunning battle of wits. Rhyme must pursue a maze of clues that go back to a terrible period in New York City's history and farther into the darkness of a madman's mind who won't stop until he has stripped life down to the bare bones with police investigator Amelia Sachs by his side.
14. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
The mysterious Winter has spent six decades inventing a number of bizarre life tales for herself, all of which have gained her fame and money while concealing her violent and terrible background.
She now wants to share the truth about her unusual life now that she is old and ill. She calls on biographer Margaret Lea, a young person whose own birth secret, kept from those who loved her best, still causes her great sorrow. Margaret accepts the contract after being intrigued by a strange resemblance between Miss Winter's tale and her own.
Margaret becomes fascinated as Vida unearths the life she intended to put to rest forever. The Angelfield family, the beautiful and obstinate Isabelle, the ferocious twins Adeline and Emmeline, a ghost, a governess, a topiary garden, and a catastrophic fire are all featured in this gothic horror story.
Alhough Margaret is won over by Vida's narration, she is still dubious of the author's sincerity. Together, they face the spirits that have followed them and, in the end, are transformed by the truth as she forces Vida to tell the truth.
The Thirteenth Tale is a novel for the feral reader in all of us, a love letter to reading, and a return to the rich tradition of storytelling that our parents and we both cherished as kids. Diane Setterfield will keep you in suspense, pique your curiosity, elicit laughter and tears from you, and ultimately leave you gasping for air yet content as you return to the shore of your regular life.
Are you ready to get into your fictional little bubble cuz I AM! Please let me know what you thought about this post and let me know what your favourite book is & what you book would you read from what I mentioned 🤗 Stay safe and keep on slaying the day ♡ - Bella
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