While mysteries satisfy a need for suspense, psychological thrillers often toy with the concept of trust, walking a fine line ...

Luckily for fans of thriller books, there’s no shortage of installments ... in a hotel when she discovers a dead body in one of the guest rooms. She soon becomes tangled up in the investigation ...

Lucy Foley, the author of “The Guest List,” recommends ... This is the book that spawned an entire subgenre of domestic thrillers about “the one before” (though Charlotte Brontë deserves ...

“The Guest is a hugely entertaining, deftly plotted thriller that will have viewers gripped,” said Lindsay Salt, director of BBC Drama. “After the fantastic, five-star response to the tender ...

Our critic on new books by Stephanie Wrobel ... (Admirers of “Presumed Innocent,” the platonic ideal of a legal thriller, will recognize in Harper the specter of Carolyn Polhemus, similarly ...

Thriller premises can often bleed together ... I was especially drawn to those that subverted expectations, whether in the book’s narrative blueprints or exceptional execution.