10 Must-Read Psychological Thrillers to add to Your TBR
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Hello Book Besties! It’s Dominique. Welcome or welcome back to my blog. This post is all about the 10 must-read psychological thrillers (they will have your mind reeling!)
The days are getting shorter, and the temperatures are dropping. Is there a better time to curl up under a warm blanket and get into a psychological thriller? Look no further than this list of the top 10 must-read psychological thrillers which really get under your skin ? in the best way.
Let’s start the must-read psychological thriller list, shall we?
The It Girl by Ruth Ware
“She was the perfect friend–until she wasn’t.”
The It Girl is a psychological thriller about a murder that happens at Oxford and the woman who may have been responsible for the conviction of the wrong suspect.
Before: Hannah Jones experiences imposter syndrome when she arrives at Oxford University to study literature. Her sparkly, rich roommate, April, has all in her thrall, but when April is murdered, Hannah’s newly crafted life implodes. She should have known something was wrong.
After: Hannah, now pregnant and married living in Edinburgh, It’s been 10 years since Hannah found her friend and roommate, April Coutts-Cliveden, dead in their Oxford room. 10 years since a combination of Hannah’s testimony and some terrible investigating put John Neville behind bars. He’s just died in prison and journalists are eager to revisit the case. One journalist is convinced that things just don’t add up, the evidence that convicted Neville was never there, and the real killer is out there. Hannah questions whether or not she was responsible for convicting an innocent man.
A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham
You will not see the twist coming
When Chloe Davis was twelve, six teenage girls went missing in her small Louisiana town. By the end of the summer, Chloe’s father had been arrested as a serial killer. Chloe and the rest of her family were left to struggle with the truth and try to move forward while dealing with the aftermath.
Now 20 years later, Chloe is a psychologist with her own private practice in Baton Rouge, getting ready for her wedding. She finally has a grasp — although just barely on the happiness she’s worked so hard to get. Sometimes, though, she feels out of control of her own life, still battling with her father being a murderer. Then a local teenage girl goes missing, and then another, and another, and that terrifying summer comes crashing back. Is Chloe just paranoid, and seeing parallels that aren’t really there, or for the second time in her life, is she about to unmask a killer?
This book has to be on the must-read psychological thriller list ?
The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena
It’s true you never quite know what goes on behind closed doors.
It all started at a dinner party. . .
Anne and Marco Conti seem to have it all—a loving relationship, a wonderful home, and their beautiful baby, Cora. But one night, when they are at a dinner party next door, a terrible crime is committed. Suspicion immediately lands on the parents. But the truth is a much more complicated story.
Inside the curtained house, an unsettling account of what actually happened unfolds. Detective Rasbach knows that the panicked couple is hiding something. Both Anne and Marco soon discover that the other is keeping secrets, secrets they’ve kept for years.
The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager
If you are looking for a must-read psychological thriller look no further with The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager.
Be careful what you watch for . . .
Casey is a recently widowed actress trying to escape a streak of bad press. She has retreated to the peace and quiet of her family’s lake house in Vermont. To pass the time she watches Tom and Katherine Royce, the glamorous couple living in the house across the lake. They make for good viewing— Tom is powerful, and Katherine is gorgeous.
One day on the lake, Casey saves Katherine from drowning, and the two strike up a friendship. But the more they get to know each other—and the longer Casey watches—it becomes clear, that everything isn’t as it seems. When Katherine suddenly vanishes, Casey immediately suspects Tom of foul play. But what she doesn’t realize is that there’s more to the story than meets the eye—and secrets can lurk beneath the most placid of surfaces.
One Step too Far by Lisa Gardner
Timothy knew the woods. Yet when he disappeared on the first night of a bachelor party camping trip with his best friends in the world, he didn’t leave a trace and a pile of clues that don’t add up.
Frankie doesn’t know the woods, but she knows how to find people. So when she reads that Timothy’s father is organizing one last search, she heads to help. But as they hike into the mountains, it becomes clear that there’s something dangerous at work in the woods…or someone who is willing to do anything to stop them from going any further.
A must-read psychological thriller list wouldn’t be complete without the queen? Taylor Jenkins Reid
Forever Interrupted by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Elsie is an ordinary 20-something and yet what happens to her is anything but ordinary. On a rainy New Year’s Day, she heads out to pick up a pizza. She isn’t expecting to see anyone else in the shop, much less the adorable and charming Ben. Their chemistry is instant and electric. Ben cannot even wait twenty-four hours before asking to see her again. Within weeks, the two are head over heels in love. By May, they’ve eloped.
Only nine days later, Ben is out riding his bike when he is hit by a truck and killed on impact. Elsie hears the sirens outside her apartment, but by the time she gets downstairs, he has already been whisked off to the emergency room. At the hospital, she must face Susan, the mother-in-law she has never met—and who doesn’t even know Elsie exists.
The Family Across the Street by Nicole Trope
In a normal family, in a normal house, on a normal street, everything is about to go horribly wrong…
You’d never know what secrets the house on Hogarth Street holds – what’s happening, right this second, behind closed doors. An emerald-green front lawn. Perfectly trimmed hedging. An ivy-covered front gate and the scent of honeysuckle in the air. In the yard, two scooters lie on the grass. One blue, one pink, belonging to five-year-old twins.
But if you look closely, you’ll see the windows closed on the hottest day of the year. If you listen carefully, you’ll hear the sound of a mother reassuring her precious children, the son, and daughter she’d do anything for, as she holds their little hands.
If you manage to get past the locked doors, you’d find her blaming herself. For the mistakes, she has made. The choices that lead to this moment. She regrets trusting the wrong people.
We are all the Same in the Dark by Julia Heaberlin
It’s been a decade since Trumanell Branson disappeared, leaving only a bloody handprint behind. Her face still hangs like a watchful on the posters on the walls of the town’s church, the police station, and the high school. They all promise the same thing: We will find you. Meanwhile, her brother, Wyatt, lives as a pariah in the desolation of the old family house, cleared of wrongdoing by the police but tried and sentenced in the court of public opinion and in a new documentary about the crime.
When Wyatt finds a girl dumped in a field of dandelions, making silent wishes, he believes she is a sign. The town cop, Odette, believes she is a catalyst that will ignite a seething town still waiting for its own missing girl to come home. And she is haunted by her own history with the missing Tru.
This is definitely a must-read psychological thriller
The Next Girl by Carla Kovach
She thought he’d come to save her. She couldn’t have been more wrong.
Deborah sets out on her short walk home in the pouring rain. But she never makes it home that night. And she is never seen again …
Four years later, an abandoned baby girl is found wrapped in dirty rags on a doorstep. An anonymous phone call urges the police to run a DNA test on the baby. But nobody is prepared for the results.
The newborn belongs to Deborah. She’s still alive.
The Six by Anni Taylor
28 people travel to a remote island for a unique program that promises to heal their addictions.
But they’ve headed into the worst danger of their lives.
In the grip of a crushing gambling addiction, young mother Evie is desperate for a way out. She’s stunned when she’s offered a lifeline: A program that includes a six-day stay in a Greek monastery, six challenges, and a chance at sixty thousand dollars.
There is just one condition – she must keep it secret.
*BONUS*
Her Darkest Secret by Addison Moore
She never meant to keep a secret so dark that it held the key to another hell entirely. She never meant to say I’m sorry.
Lizzy Hartley disappeared over a year ago and is sending cryptic messages from beyond the grave.
It’s hot in hell, and Lizzy wants Phoebe to know it.
Destinies collide as Phoebe hunts for the truth about Lizzy’s disappearance. Assuming someone else’s identity is proving far more dangerous than Phoebe could have ever imagined. And if she’s not careful, she might join Lizzy in hell.
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