Gillian Flynn's murder thriller novel Gone Girl was published in 2012. Crown Publishing Group released it in June 2012. The novel was well-received and hit the New York Times Best Seller list. The novel's tension stems from the question of whether Nick Dunne is implicated in the disappearance of his wife Amy.

Gillian Flynn has created a reputation for herself by writing really dark, twisted stories about complicated, often unsympathetic female characters. With Gone Girl, Flynn immersed readers in a narrative hall of mirrors — a slow-burning, noir-tinged maze designed to keep the reader on the edge of their seat. The narrative of Nick and Amy's romance, disintegrating marriage, and Amy's final abduction is a remarkable feat of creative deception. Until the final agonizing page, it's virtually difficult to put down.

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Author: Gillian Flynn

Language: English
Genre: Thriller

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Enduring Love (1997) is a novel by British writer Ian McEwan. The plot concerns two strangers who become perilously entangled after witnessing a deadly accident.

When a tiny kid is taken away in a runaway hot-air balloon, two men are pushed together as members of a makeshift rescue squad in one of the most horrific opening scenes in literature. But things grow much more frightening when Jed gets enamored with Joe, his fellow rescuer. Enduring Love, based on a true tale, is a bizarre reverse-love story thanks to McEwan's fondness for detail and flair for obsession.

Enduring Love was made into a film of the same name in 2004. The film adaptation was directed by Roger Michell and written by Joe Penhall, and it stars Daniel Craig, Rhys Ifans, and Samantha Morton, as well as Bill Nighy, Susan Lynch, and Corin Redgrave. Critics awarded the picture mixed reviews, while the prominent movie review website Rotten Tomatoes gave it a grade of 59 percent positive reviews.

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Author: Ian McEwan

Language: English

Genre: Thriller
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Eileen is a 2015 novel by Ottessa Moshfegh, published by Penguin Press. It is Moshfegh's first novel. It was shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize in September of that year. The story concerns an unhappy 24-year-old woman named Eileen who works at a prison, and what happens to her during a bitter Massachusetts winter in 1964.

Otessa Moshfegh's haunting and the award-winning novel is a melancholy yet enthralling heir to the works of literary giants such as Shirley Jackson and Flannery O'Connor. Moshfegh's protagonist, who works as a counselor in a juvenile detention facility for adolescent males, discloses the novel's thesis in an unsettlingly direct manner at the end of the first chapter: "This is the tale of how I disappeared". Moshfegh's writing is similarly straightforward, with each phrase aiming for the reader's jugular. Eileen, who is gritty, harsh, and especially disturbing, holds a mirror up to the evil that lurks within each of you and does it without apologies. This work is more than a thriller since it is both beautiful and terrifying. It's contemplation about mankind.

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Author: Ottessa Moshfegh

Language: English

Genre: Thriller

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The Girl on the Train is a 2015 psychological thriller novel by British author Paula Hawkins that tells three separate women's stories concerning relationship problems (caused by three coercive/controlling males) and, for the main protagonist, drinking. The novel debuted at number one on The New York Times Fiction Best Sellers of 2015 list (print and e-book) on February 1, 2015, and remained there for 13 weeks till April 2015.

Rachel Watson in Paula Hawkins' The Girl on the Train struggles with her obsessive affections for her ex-husband. Rachel manages to sort through her emotions and concerns during her daily trip by train from Oxfordshire to London as she attempts to recover after their relationship ends. Every day on the journey, the train passes by the house she used to share with her ex. Rachel redirects her focus to a residence near her previous home, occupied by a man and a woman she imagines are happy and profoundly in love, in an attempt to distract herself from the reality of their separation.

Rachel's life is flipped upside down when the lady goes missing and her absence becomes fodder for the local newspapers. The Girl on the Train is a thrilling look at one woman's incapacity to cope with her history, and it articulates a disturbing reality about violence and love.

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Author: Paula Hawkins

Language: English
Genre: Thriller

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Rebecca is a 1938 Gothic novel written by English author Daphne du Maurier. The novel depicts an unnamed young woman who impetuously marries a wealthy widower, before discovering that both he and his household are haunted by the memory of his late first wife, the title character.

Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier's 1938 romantic thriller, has never been out of print. Rebecca, a best-seller in its day and beyond, spawned a cinematic adaptation by none other than the maestro of suspense himself, Alfred Hitchcock, and is based on one of the finest books ever written in English, Jane Eyre. An unnamed narrator has married a European playboy and relocated to his huge mansion. But she is plagued by the memories of his late wife, Rebecca, and her still-loyal servant, Mrs. Danvers.

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Author: Daphne du Maurier
Language: English
Genre: Crime, thriller

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is a thriller book written by British-Irish novelist John le Carré in 1974. It recounts the efforts of taciturn, aged spymaster George Smiley to find a Soviet snitch within the British Secret Intelligence Service. Following Kim Philby's defection, the novel gained critical acclaim for its profound social commentary—and, at the moment, timeliness. The novel has been turned into a television series as well as a film, and it continues to be a standard of the espionage fiction genre.

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carré is so intricate that most cinematic adaptations have failed to appropriately adapt its complex narrative. Le Carré nails the essence of espionage and the futility of the job, as well as the futility of war itself, in his twisting tale. Even CIA personnel, writing anonymously, praised it as "one of the most lasting portrayals of the profession", and it is now regarded as one of the finest espionage thrillers ever written.

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Author: John le Carré

Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Spy novel

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And Then There Were None is a thriller novel written by the English author Agatha Christie that she describes as the hardest of her works to write. On November 6, 1939, the Collins Crime Club released Ten Little Niggers, named for the children's counting rhyme and minstrel song that serves as a crucial narrative element. The US rendition was issued in January 1940 under the title And Then There Were None, which was derived from the song's final five lyrics. That title has been adopted in subsequent American reprints and adaptations, however, Pocket Books paperbacks used the title Ten Little Indians between 1964 and 1986. The original title was used in UK versions until 1985.

With over 100 million copies sold, the novel is the world's best-selling thriller and one of the best-selling books of all time. The novel is the sixth best-selling publication in the world (any language, including reference works).

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Author: Agatha Christie
Language: English
Genre: Mystery crime, psychological thriller
Link to read: www.goodreads.com/book/show/16299.And_Then_There_Were_None

Bret Easton Ellis' work American Psycho was released in 1991. Patrick Bateman, a serial murderer and Manhattan investment banker, tells the plot in the first person. While "some nations [deem it] so potentially upsetting that it can only be sold shrink-wrapped", according to Alison Kelly of The Observer, "critics rave over it" and "academics luxuriate in its transgression and postmodern features".

The plot culminates in a SWAT helicopter chase through New York after Bateman randomly shoots several people on the streets. Bateman holes up in his office and calls his lawyer, Harold Carnes, confessing all of his crimes to Carnes’ answering machine. However, when he later meets Carnes and confronts him about his taped confession, Carnes mistakes him for a different Patrick Bateman and insists that Bateman’s confession is all a hilarious joke. When Bateman argues with him about having murdered Paul Owen, Carnes insists that he has just had dinner with Owen in London.

The story concludes with Bateman carrying on with his life as if nothing had occurred, going out on the town with his pals for a night of partying, with no repercussions for his misdeeds. The reader is left in no question about the insignificance of each human being and the meaninglessness of modern existence, while not knowing if Bateman is a psychopath or a deluded schizophrenic. In either case, Ellis' thesis suggests that mental instability, including murderous wrath, is a natural reaction to the commercialization of all human interaction and connection.

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Author: Bret Easton Ellis
Genre: Transgressive fiction, Thriller

Link to read: www.goodreads.com/book/show/28676.American_Psycho

Jeffery Deaver's suspense book The Bone Collector was published in 1997. Lincoln Rhyme, a quadriplegic forensic criminalist, is introduced in the novel. In 1999, it was made into a film of the same name. In 2019, NBC ordered a pilot for a television series based on the novel. Although the pilot was made accessible on some platforms on January 1, 2020, it did not air until January 10, 2020.

Lincoln Rhyme, the former chief of NYPD forensics, was the nation's best criminalist, the man who could work a murder scene and leave with a flawless profile of the perpetrator frozen in time. Lincoln is now stuck in place — for good. An on-the-job accident left him a quadriplegic with just one finger movement, a brilliant mind shackled to his bed, mulish and sardonic, fleeing from a life he no longer wants to live.

Until he sees the crime-scene report about a corpse found buried on a deserted West Side railroad track, its bloody hand rising from the dirt. It belonged to a man who got into a cab at the airport and never got out. Reluctantly, Lincoln Rhyme abandons retirement to track down a killer whose ingenious clues hold the secret to saving his victims — if Rhyme can decipher them in time. The search leads him to the Bone Collector, whose obsession with old New York colors every scrap of evidence he leaves for Rhyme and his new partner, Amelia Sachs, whom he drafts as his arms and legs. But she’s never worked a crime scene in her life — and he can only whisper in her ear as she does the exacting work he loved more than anything else.

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Author: Jeffery Deaver
Language: English
Genre: Thriller

Link to read: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2373

Gillian Flynn's debut novel, Sharp Objects, was published in 2006. The book was initially released on September 26, 2006, by Shaye Areheart Books and has since been reprinted by Broadway Books. Camille Preaker, a newspaper writer, is forced to return to her hometown to report on a series of horrible killings.

Camille Preaker, a writer fresh from a brief spell in a psychiatric hospital, is faced with a difficult assignment: she must return to her small community to investigate the killings of two teenage girls. Camille hasn't talked to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother in years, or to her half-sister, a stunning thirteen-year-old with an unsettling grip on the town. Camille, again residing in her old bedroom in her family's Victorian house, finds herself relating with the young victims—perhaps a little too deeply. Dogged by her own issues, she must piece together the psychological jigsaw of her own history if she is to get the story—and survive her homecoming.

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Author: Gillian Flynn
Language: English
Genre: Psychological Thriller, Mystery

Link to read: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18045891