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Crime Thrillers Books
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Murder on Family Grounds (Mary Wandwalker #3)
by (shelved 138 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.29 — 16,762 ratings — published 2024
The Erkeley Shadows (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 84 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.30 — 8,076 ratings — published 2023
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 71 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,492,824 ratings — published 2005
The Alchemy Fire Murder (Mary Wandwalker #2)
by (shelved 68 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.30 — 8,275 ratings — published 2023
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,507,974 ratings — published 2012
Scavenger Hunt (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.29 — 7,102 ratings — published
The Girl on the Train (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,344,375 ratings — published 2015
Twenty Years Later (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.16 — 195,886 ratings — published 2021
None of This Is True (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,163,781 ratings — published 2023
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2)
by (shelved 41 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.26 — 997,327 ratings — published 2006
And Then There Were None (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,667,769 ratings — published 1939
Pretty Girls (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.00 — 761,532 ratings — published 2015
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium, #3)
by (shelved 38 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.25 — 783,670 ratings — published 2007
Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 36 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.32 — 6,540 ratings — published
The Silent Patient (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,456,766 ratings — published 2019
Never Lie (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 35 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,627,960 ratings — published 2022
Death of an Officer (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 33 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.31 — 6,038 ratings — published 2025
Hell's Corner (The Camel Club, #5)
by (shelved 33 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.19 — 45,228 ratings — published 2010
The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 3.89 — 634,567 ratings — published 2013
Killing Floor (Jack Reacher, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.08 — 356,627 ratings — published 1997
Along Came a Spider (Alex Cross, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.13 — 494,872 ratings — published 1993
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 29 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,558,702 ratings — published 2003
The Spy Coast (The Martini Club, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.31 — 115,095 ratings — published 2023
The Locked Door (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 29 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 3.98 — 700,506 ratings — published 2021
Sharp Objects (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,255,901 ratings — published 2006
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
by (shelved 29 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.20 — 753,126 ratings — published 1934
Murder in the Family (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 3.71 — 54,007 ratings — published 2023
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by (shelved 28 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.26 — 595,399 ratings — published 1988
Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,432,264 ratings — published 2000
The Reappearance of Rachel Price (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.08 — 238,931 ratings — published 2024
The Only One Left (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.12 — 673,927 ratings — published 2023
Dark Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 3.94 — 855,544 ratings — published 2009
Drowning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.14 — 59,100 ratings — published 2021
A Team of One (Unsanctioned Asset, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.55 — 6,720 ratings — published
Off the Grid (Joe Pickett, #16)
by (shelved 25 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.31 — 25,217 ratings — published 2016
Triptych (Will Trent, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.13 — 133,853 ratings — published 2006
Stripped Bare (Kate Fox, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.03 — 8,281 ratings — published 2016
The Housemaid (The Housemaid, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.27 — 3,772,436 ratings — published 2022
1st to Die (Women's Murder Club, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.10 — 362,543 ratings — published 2001
Hidden Pictures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.14 — 646,322 ratings — published 2022
The Guest List (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,328,155 ratings — published 2020
The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike, #2)
by (shelved 23 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.05 — 298,558 ratings — published 2014
Blindsighted (Grant County, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.10 — 126,288 ratings — published 2001
Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.07 — 379,458 ratings — published 1981
Kiss the Girls (Alex Cross, #2)
by (shelved 23 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.01 — 357,247 ratings — published 1994
Found (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 22 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.10 — 29,324 ratings — published 2019
Deeper Than the Dead (Vera Boyett, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.04 — 24,060 ratings — published 2024
Those Empty Eyes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.14 — 106,605 ratings — published 2023
Passions in Death (In Death, #59)
by (shelved 22 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.27 — 22,845 ratings — published 2024
The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.10 — 179,353 ratings — published 2001
“That wasn’t fair Sally.”
“Why not? Do you think you can stay self-righteous forever. You needed a little dose of reality.”
“Reality usually doesn’t include aggravated assault, breaking and entering—twice, and illegal surveillance Sally. You did that on purpose.”
― The Deathbed Confessions
“Why not? Do you think you can stay self-righteous forever. You needed a little dose of reality.”
“Reality usually doesn’t include aggravated assault, breaking and entering—twice, and illegal surveillance Sally. You did that on purpose.”
― The Deathbed Confessions
“Writing crime thrillers is all about building scenes within chapters. Each scene, written from a specific character’s point of view, must ratchet up the tension. And the final scene in every chapter? It has to be so gripping that it leaves the reader no choice but to turn the page.”
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