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A curated collection of books related to Thriller & Suspense, ranked by recommendation signals.

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Daemon
7 recommendations
Description

A hightech thriller for the wireless age that explores the unthinkable consequences of a computer program running without human control?a daemon?designed to dismantle society and bring about a new world orderTechnology, controls almost everything in our modernday world, from remote entry on our cars to access to our homes, from the flight controls...

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
4 recommendations
Description

The Girl in the Spider?s Web, the new book in the Millennium Series, is available now!Murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue combine into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel.Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her a...

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The Boy from the Woods
3 recommendations
Recommendation Context
Available recommendation signals cluster around Fiction, Mystery, Crime, CrimeFiction, Thriller lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.
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No coverSphere
Sphere

A Novel

3 recommendations
Description

Now available in trade paperback, New York Times bestselling author Michael Crichton’s classic science fiction thriller.In the middle of the South Pacific, a thousand feet below the surface of the water, a huge vessel is discovered resting on the ocean floor. It is a spaceship of phenomenal dimensions, apparently undamaged by its fall from the sky....

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No coverThe Day of the Jackal
3 recommendations
Description

A tall, blond Englishman with opaque, gray eyes. A killer at the top of his profession. A man unknown to any secret service in the world. An assassin with a contract to kill the world's most heavily guarded man.One man with a rifle who can change the course of history. One man whose mission is so secretive not even his employers know his name. And ...

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Broken
3 recommendations
Description

In six intense short novels connected by the themes of crime, corruption, vengeance, justice, loss, betrayal, guilt and redemption, Broken is #1 international bestseller Don Winslow at his nerveshattering, heartstopping, heartbreaking best. In Broken, he creates a world of highlevel thieves and lowlife crooks, obsessed cops struggling with life...

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No coverFatherland
Fatherland

A Novel

3 recommendations
Description

Fatherland is set in an alternative world where Hitler has won the Second World War. It is April 1964 and one week before Hitler's 75th birthday. Xavier March, a detective of the Kriminalpolizei, is called out to investigate the discovery of a dead body in a lake near Berlin's most prestigious suburb.As March discovers the identity of the body, he ...

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Savage Son
Savage Son

James Reece, Book 3

2 recommendations
Description

In this third highoctane thriller in the “seriously good” (Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Past Tense) Terminal List series, former Navy SEAL James Reece must infiltrate the Russian mafia and turn the hunters into the hunted. Deep in the wilds of Siberia, a woman is on the run, pursued by a man harboring secrets—a man intent on ...

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No coverThe Last Odyssey
The Last Odyssey

Sigma Force, Book 21

2 recommendations
Description

To save the world and our future, Sigma Force must embark on a dangerous odyssey into an ancient past whose horrors are all too present in this pageturning thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author James Rollins that combines cuttingedge science, historical mystery, mythology, and pulsepounding action.For eons, the city of Troy—whose le...

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The Bourne Identity
The Bourne Identity

Jason Bourne Book #1

2 recommendations
Description

Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereWho is Jason Bourne Is he an assassin, a terrorist, a thief Why has he got four million dollars in a Swiss bank account Why has someone tried to murder him...Jason Bourne does not know the answer to any of these questions. Suffering from amnesia, he does not even know that he is Jason Bourne. What ...

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Driving Heat
Driving Heat

Nikki Heat, Book 7

1 recommendation
Recommendation Context
Available recommendation signals cluster around Fiction, Mystery, Crime, Thriller, Suspense lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.
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The Devil of Nanking
1 recommendation
Description

“Dazzling . . . In this extremely creepy book, Hayder’s third, the diabolically gifted British author spins a fascinating mystery from the legacy of Japanese atrocities during World War II.”—Entertainment Weekly“A haunting, lyrical, disturbing, important, suspenseful, wonderfully written and beautiful book. You will love reading it, and you will no...

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No coverMy Sister, the Serial Killer
1 recommendation
Description

My Sister, the Serial Killer is a blackly comic novel about how blood is thicker and more difficult to get out of the carpet than water...When Korede's dinner is interrupted one night by a distress call from her sister, Ayoola, she knows what's expected of her: bleach, rubber gloves, nerves of steel and a strong stomach. This'll be the third bo...

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The Jerusalem Assassin
The Jerusalem Assassin

Marcus Ryker, Book 3

1 recommendation
Description

"A taut, brilliant thriller ripped right from today's headlines. Joel Rosenberg is masterful! The Jerusalem Assassin is an absolute home run." Brad Thor, #1 New York Times bestselling author of BacklashFrom the New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestselling author!The enemy is invisible and moving fast. The body count is rising. And...

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No coverPalace of Treason
Palace of Treason

Dominika Egorova and Nathaniel Nash, Book 2

1 recommendation
Description

From the bestselling, Edgar Award?winning author of the ?terrifically good? (The New York Times) Red Sparrow, a compulsively readable new novel about starcrossed Russian agent Dominika Egorova and CIA's Nate Nash in a desperate race to the finish. Captain Dominika Egorova of the Russian Intelligence Service (SVR) has returned from the West to Mosc...

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No coverThe One from the Other
The One from the Other

Bernie Gunther, Book 4

1 recommendation
Description

In the fourth mystery in Philip Kerr's New York Times bestselling series, Bernie Gunthera former policeman and reluctant SS offierattempts to start over in the aftermath of World War 2 and quickly learns that the past is never far behind you... Berlin, 1949. Amid the chaos of defeat, Germany is a place of dirty deals, rampant greed, and fleeing...

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Prague Fatale
Prague Fatale

Bernie Gunther, Book 8

1 recommendation
Description

The latest New York Times bestseller from the author of the Berlin Noir trilogy and the New York Times bestseller Field Gray brings Bernie Gunther back—to a house party from hell First introduced in Philip Kerr's celebrated Berlin Noir trilogy, Bernie Gunther is an honest cop living in the most ruthless of times. Prague Fatale is Bernie's latest ou...

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Metropolis
Metropolis

Bernie Gunther, Book 14

1 recommendation
Description

Berlin, 1928, the dying days of the Weimar Republic shortly before Hitler and the Nazis came to power. It was a period of decadence and excess as Berliners after the terrible slaughter of WWI and the hardships that followed are enjoying their own version of Babylon. Bernie is a young detective working in Vice when he gets a summons from Bernard...

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No coverThe Kremlin's Candidate
The Kremlin's Candidate

Dominika Egorova and Nathaniel Nash, Book 3

1 recommendation
Description

Red Sparrow is now a major motion picture starring Jennifer Lawrence and Joel Edgerton! The ?exciting conclusion? (Entertainment Weekly) in the New York Times bestselling Red Sparrow Trilogy has Russian counterintelligence chief Dominika Egorova and her lover, CIA agent Nate Nash, on the hunt for a Russian agent working in the US government.With a ...

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No cover61 Hours
61 Hours

Jack Reacher, Book 14

1 recommendation
Description

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA bus crashes in a savage snowstorm and lands Jack Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation. In nearby Bolton, South Dakota, one brave woman is standing up for justice in a small town threatened by sinister forces. If she’s going to live long enough to testify, she’ll need help. Because a killer is coming to Bolto...

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Target
Target

Alex Cross, Book 26

1 recommendation
Description

When a ring of six elite assassins strikes D. C., Alex Cross teams up with the Secret Service and the FBI to take down a dangerous threat that could destroy America. A leader has fallen, and Alex Cross joins the procession of mourners from Capitol Hill to the White House. Then a sniper's bullet strikes a target in the heart of D.C. Alex Cross's wif...

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If The Dead Rise Not
If The Dead Rise Not

Bernie Gunther, Book 7

1 recommendation
Description

Detective Bernie Gunther navigates two corrupt regimes in this "richly satisfying mystery...that evokes the noir sensibilities of Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald while breaking new ground of its own"(Los Angeles Times). Berlin, 1934. Former policeman Bernie Gunther, now a hotel detective, finds himself caught between warring factions of the Naz...

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No coverTripwire
Tripwire

Jack Reacher, Book 3

1 recommendation
Description

Jack Reacher hunts the hunter in the third novel in Lee Child’s New York Times bestselling series.Reacher's anonymity in Florida is shattered by an investigator who's come looking for him. But hours after his arrival, the stranger is murdered. Retracing the PI's trail back to New York, Reacher's compelled to find out who was looking for him and why...

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Make Me
Make Me

Jack Reacher, Book 21

1 recommendation
Description

“Why is this town called Mother’s Rest” That’s all Reacher wants to know. But no one will tell him. It’s a tiny place hidden in a thousand square miles of wheat fields, with a railroad stop, and sullen and watchful people, and a worried woman named Michelle Chang, who mistakes him for someone else: her missing partner in a private investigation sh...

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Greeks Bearing Gifts
Greeks Bearing Gifts

Bernie Gunther, Book 13

1 recommendation
Description

An NPR Book of the YearA Crime Reads Best Crime Book of 2018 A vicious murder puts Bernie Gunther on the trail of World War 2 criminals in Greece in this riveting historical thriller in Philip Kerr's New York Times bestselling series.Munich, 1956. Bernie Gunther has a new name, a chip on his shoulder, and a deadend career when an old friend arrive...

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The Lions of Lucerne
The Lions of Lucerne

Scot Harvath, Book 1

1 recommendation
Description

An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here.On the snowy Utah slopes, thirty Secret Service agents are viciously executed and the vacationing president of the United States kidnapped, seemingly by the Fatah, a lethal terrorist organization in the Middle East. But Scot Harvath, surviving agent and exNavy SEAL, doesn't believe the Fatah is re...

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No coverThe Lock Artist
1 recommendation
Description

"I was the Miracle Boy, once upon a time. Later on, the Milford Mute. The Golden Boy. The Young Ghost. The Kid. The Boxman. The Lock Artist. That was all me. But you can call me Mike." Marked by tragedy, traumatized at the age of eight, Michael, now eighteen, is no ordinary young man. Besides not uttering a single word in ten years, he discovers ...

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Echo Burning
Echo Burning

Jack Reacher, Book 5

1 recommendation
Description

Jack Reacher finds trouble in Texas in the fifth novel in Lee Child’s New York Times bestselling series. Thumbing across the scorched Texas desert, Jack Reacher has nowhere to go and all the time in the world to get there. Cruising the same stretch of twolane blacktop is Carmen Greer. For Reacher, the lift comes with a hitch. Carmen’s got a wild ...

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No coverAt Risk by Rimington, Stella
Description

A terrorist is targeting Britain. And to make matters worse it_x0092_s an _x0093_invisible_x0094_someone traveling under a British passport. Virtually impossible to find before it_x0092_s too late.The job falls to Liz Carlyle, the most resourceful counter terror agent in British intelligence. Tracking down this invisible is a challenge like none she has faced before. It...

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No coverThe Eight
Description

Computer expert Cat Velis is heading for a job to Algeria. Before she goes, a mysterious fortune teller warns her of danger, and an antique dealer asks her to search for pieces to a valuable chess set that has been missing for years...In the South of France in 1790 two convent girls hide valuable pieces of a chess set all over the world, because th...

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THE JAKARTA PANDEMIC
THE JAKARTA PANDEMIC

A Modern Thriller (Alex Fletcher)

Description

In the late fall of 2013, a lethal pandemic virus emerges from the Islamic Republic of Indonesia (IRI) and rages unchecked across every continent. When the Jakarta Flu threatens his picture perfect Maine neighborhood, Alex Fletcher, Iraq War veteran, is ready to do whatever it takes to keep his family safe. As a seasoned sales representative for Bi...

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Everything You Want Me to Be
Description

No one knows who she really is_x0085_Hattie Hoffman has spent her whole life playing many parts: the good student, the good daughter, the good girlfriend. But Hattie wants something more, something bigger, and ultimately something that turns out to be exceedingly dangerous. When she_x0092_s found brutally stabbed to death, the tragedy rips right through the fa...

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The Killer Inside Me
Description

Everyone in the small town of Central City, Texas loves Lou Ford. A deputy sheriff, Lou's known to the smalltime criminals, the realestate entrepreneurs, and all of his coworkers the lowlifes, the bigtimers, and everyone inbetween as the nicest guy around. He may not be the brightest or the most interesting man in town, but nevertheless,...

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No coverDelirious
Description

Palmer, the son of bestselling author Michael Palmer, makes his phenomenal fiction debut with a fiendishly inventive psychological thriller in which the line between what is real and what is imagined twists and turns. Not just a great thriller debut, but a great thriller, period.Lee Child....

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The Good Son
Description

The Talented Mr. Ripley meets The Bad Seed in this breathless, chilling psychological thriller by the bestselling novelist known as "Korea's Stephen King" Who can you trust if you can't trust yourself Early one morning, twentysixyearold Yujin wakes up to a strange metallic smell, and a phone call from his brother asking if everything's all ri...

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Three Perfect Liars
Description

YOUR NEXT READING OBSESSION The breathtaking new thriller from the author of the Richard and Judy bestseller NOW YOU SEE HER____________________________When a body is pulled out of an office fire, three women are first in line for questioning. All of them have reasons for wanting revenge against the company_x0092_s CEO.It could be Laura, who has re...

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The Lying Room
Description

It should have been just a midlife fling. A guilty indiscretion that Neve Connolly could have weathered. An escape from twenty years of routine marriage to her overworked husband, and from her increasingly distant children. But when Neve pays a morningafter visit to her lover, Saul, and finds him brutally murdered, their piedàterre still heady ...

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Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy Deluxe Box Set
Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy Deluxe Box Set

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, Plus On Stieg Larsson

Description

Readers all across America are talking about Stieg Larsson_x0092_s #1 bestselling trilogy_x0097_The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet_x0092_s Nest_x0097_which has more than 12 million copies in print. Now, just in time for the holidays: a deluxe, slipcased set of the three hardcover novels_x0097_each unjacketed, bou...

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Bones Don't Lie
Bones Don't Lie

Morgan Dane, Book 3

Description

Shocking evidence hits close to home for attorney Morgan Dane and PI Lance Kruger as Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh_x0092_s acclaimed series continues.Private investigator Lance Kruger was just a boy when his father vanished twentythree years ago. Since then he_x0092_s lived under the weight of that disappearance_x0097_until his father_x0092_s car i...

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A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Recommendation Context
Available recommendation signals cluster around Fiction, Teen, Young, Mystery, Crime lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.
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No coverThe Bone Collector
The Bone Collector

Lincoln Rhyme, Book 1

Description

Lincoln Rhyme was once a brilliant criminologist, a genius in the field of forensics until an accident left him physically and emotionally shattered. But now a diabolical killer is challenging Rhyme to a terrifying and ingenious duel of wits. With police detective Amelia Sachs by his side, Rhyme must follow a labyrinth of clues that reaches back...

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No coverThe Lost Man
Description

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERTwo brothers meet in the remote Australian outback when the third brother is found dead, in this stunning new standalone novel from Jane HarperBrothers Nathan and Bub Bright meet for the first time in months at the remote fence line separating their cattle ranches in the lonely outback.Their third brother, Cameron, ...

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No coverMystic River
Description

When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car pulled up to their street. One boy got into the car, two did not, and something terrible happened something that ended their friendship and changed all three boys forever.Now, years later, murder has tied their lives together again ......

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Shutter Island
Description

The year is 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, have come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate the disappearance of a patient. Multiple murderess Rachel Solando is loose somewhere on this remote and barren island, despite having been kept in a locked cell under consta...

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No coverPresumed Innocent
Description

Hailed as the most suspenseful and compelling novel in decades. Presumed Innocent brings to life our worst nightmare: that of an ordinary citizen facing conviction for the most terrible of all crimes. It's the stunning portrayal of one man's alltoohuman, allconsuming fatal attraction for a passionate woman who is not his wife, and the story of h...

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The Keeper of Lost Causes
The Keeper of Lost Causes

The First Department Q Novel (A Department Q Novel)

Description

Carl Mørck used to be one of Copenhagen?s best homicide detectives. Then a hail of bullets destroyed the lives of two fellow cops, and Carl?who didn?t draw his weapon?blames himself. So a promotion is the last thing he expects. But Department Q is a department of one, and Carl?s got only a stack of Copenhagen?s coldest cases for company. His collea...

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Pretty Girls
Description

Twenty years ago Claire Scott's eldest sister, Julia, went missing. No one knew where she went no note, no body. It was a mystery that was never solved and it tore her family apart.Now another girl has disappeared, with chilling echoes of the past. And it seems that she might not be the only one.Claire is convinced Julia's disappearance is linked...

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No coverTake It Back
Take It Back

The thrilling, explosive and shocking novel that has everyone gripped

Description

?A superb legal thriller?crackles with tension? Guardian?A topical and gritty story? Observer'A thoughtprovoking and sparklingly intelligent novel, with the welcome bonus of an unguessable ending? Daily Telegraph?A fresh and compelling read? Sunday Post ?An unflinching, riveting novel? S Magazine ?Razorsharp?Much more than a courtroom thriller? C...

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