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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 — 16,759 ratings — published 2024
The Erkeley Shadows (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 84 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.30 — 8,073 ratings — published 2023
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 71 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,509,500 ratings — published 2005
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,532,648 ratings — published 2012
The Alchemy Fire Murder (Mary Wandwalker #2)
by (shelved 68 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.30 — 8,272 ratings — published 2023
Scavenger Hunt (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.29 — 7,108 ratings — published
The Girl on the Train (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,366,844 ratings — published 2015
Twenty Years Later (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.16 — 204,098 ratings — published 2021
None of This Is True (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,188,925 ratings — published 2023
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2)
by (shelved 41 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,001,259 ratings — published 2006
And Then There Were None (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,688,892 ratings — published 1939
Pretty Girls (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.00 — 779,094 ratings — published 2015
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium, #3)
by (shelved 38 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.25 — 786,488 ratings — published 2007
Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 36 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.32 — 6,537 ratings — published
The Silent Patient (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,534,885 ratings — published 2019
Never Lie (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 35 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,693,733 ratings — published 2022
Death of an Officer (The DCI Frank Merlin Series)
by (shelved 33 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.32 — 6,110 ratings — published 2025
Hell's Corner (The Camel Club, #5)
by (shelved 33 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.20 — 45,588 ratings — published 2010
Killing Floor (Jack Reacher, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.08 — 358,726 ratings — published 1997
The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 3.89 — 637,470 ratings — published 2013
Along Came a Spider (Alex Cross, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.13 — 497,688 ratings — published 1993
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
by (shelved 30 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.20 — 761,020 ratings — published 1934
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 29 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,570,916 ratings — published 2003
The Spy Coast (The Martini Club, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.31 — 117,215 ratings — published 2023
The Locked Door (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 29 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 3.98 — 725,198 ratings — published 2021
Sharp Objects (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,268,530 ratings — published 2006
The Reappearance of Rachel Price (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.08 — 247,854 ratings — published 2024
Murder in the Family (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 3.71 — 54,798 ratings — published 2023
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by (shelved 28 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.26 — 598,636 ratings — published 1988
Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,446,001 ratings — published 2000
Dark Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 3.94 — 862,001 ratings — published 2009
Drowning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.14 — 59,948 ratings — published 2021
The Only One Left (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.12 — 703,281 ratings — published 2023
A Team of One (Unsanctioned Asset, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.55 — 7,180 ratings — published
Off the Grid (Joe Pickett, #16)
by (shelved 25 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.31 — 25,560 ratings — published 2016
The Housemaid (The Housemaid, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,879,648 ratings — published 2022
Stripped Bare (Kate Fox, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.03 — 8,453 ratings — published 2016
1st to Die (Women's Murder Club, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.10 — 364,244 ratings — published 2001
Triptych (Will Trent, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.13 — 136,376 ratings — published 2006
Hidden Pictures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.14 — 669,919 ratings — published 2022
The Guest List (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,345,343 ratings — published 2020
The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike, #2)
by (shelved 23 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.05 — 300,150 ratings — published 2014
Blindsighted (Grant County, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.10 — 129,371 ratings — published 2001
Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.07 — 381,830 ratings — published 1981
Kiss the Girls (Alex Cross, #2)
by (shelved 23 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.01 — 358,466 ratings — published 1994
Found (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 22 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.10 — 29,614 ratings — published 2019
Deeper Than the Dead (Vera Boyett, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.04 — 24,447 ratings — published 2024
Those Empty Eyes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.13 — 112,809 ratings — published 2023
Passions in Death (In Death, #59)
by (shelved 22 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.27 — 23,213 ratings — published 2024
The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as crime-thrillers)
avg rating 4.10 — 180,553 ratings — published 2001
“False Proof will grab you and keep you reading to the end. Detective Manny Watson is a former Army MP, ex-FBI, and psychologist who profiles suspects with the best of them.”
― False Proof: A Dark Small-town Crime Thriller
― False Proof: A Dark Small-town Crime Thriller
“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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