As you’ve seen, I have read a lot and I am here to tell you that most of them are mysteries or thrillers. I am a thriller junkie. It’s my go-to genre and my chosen escapism. You might think I am dark and twisted after you see what I have read, but I am not ashamed. I have read some great ones this year and I look forward to another year filled with them!
MYSTERIES AND THRILLERS
Broken Harbour (Dublin Murder Squad #4)
by Tana French
Tana French is a good mystery author and when she picks up the pace, she’s a great one who makes you slightly concerned about traveling to Ireland.
The Dry (Aaron Falk #1)
by Jane Harper
A solid first thriller with fairly adequate character development, but this isn’t a book you’ll want to stay up all night reading.
The Girl Before
by Rena Olsen
An intense, compelling thriller from the deep circle of hell that is human trafficking.
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium #3)
by Stieg Larsson, Reg Keeland (Translator)
A somewhat satisfying conclusion to the series–and then they made me liar by adding two more books to the series.
The Girl in the Spider’s Web
by David Lagercrantz, Stieg Larsson (Creator), George Goulding (Translator)
Ah, the book that made me a liar (because the Millennium series didn’t end with the third book) is enjoyable and is stronger than the previous finale, so I forgive it.
The Perfect Stranger
by Megan Miranda
Enjoyable enough reading for a long plane ride, but you’ll forget about it the minute you step off of it.
You (You #1)
This is one of the best, creepiest thriller I’ve ever read and you’ll hate yourself for liking the disturbing stalker at the heart of this story. (P.S. It’s going to be a Lifetime series, so let’s hope they don’t ruin it for us.)
Hidden Bodies (You #2)
While this takes a slightly different path than the first book, it’s still the same old Joe you oddly like.
The Woman in Cabin 10
A hot mess of a woman gets into trouble on a boat and no one believes her, but *SPOILER ALERT*: SHE WAS RIGHT.
Final Girls
by Riley Sager
So much is happening all of the time and I don’t care that there isn’t the strongest plot because I love the craziness and everything that is going on at once.
Stillhouse Lake (Stillhouse Lake #1)
by Rachel Caine
Gwen wasn’t always a badass, but watch out for her now because she is a protective mama bear who will destroy you.
My Sister’s Grave (Tracy Crosswhite #1)
by Robert Dugoni
Dull, boring, and blah.
The Keeper of Lost Causes (Department Q #1)
by Jussi Adler-Olsen, Lisa Hartford (Translator)
This fed my thriller addiction as the twisting timelines had me on the edge of my seat, needing to know what happened next.
The Absent One (Department Q #2)
by Jussi Adler-Olsen, K.E. Semmel (Translator)
Oh, how I used to love you, Department Q, until you were ruined for me with this mediocre second book.
In a Dark, Dark Wood
by Ruth Ware
A decent mystery where you see what’s coming, but a decent novel nonetheless.
The Good Daughter
by Karin Slaughter
Karin Slaughter delivers yet another fantastically sick and twisted thriller, just how I like them.
Last Breath (The Good Daughter 0.5)
This is a solid supplemental read to the first book in the series and I think it was cleaved from the first because that was already becoming a War and Peace-length book.
The Secrets She Keeps
by Michael Robotham
Predictable moral of the story: Don’t trust people you meet at the grocery store, especially if you’re a pregnant woman.
One of Us Is Lying
by Karen M. McManus
Learn how to say no to mediocre YA novels by passing this one up.
Alone
by Lisa Gardner
If you like sick and twisty Karin Slaughter, Lisa Gardner is like her less damaged little sister who’s also enjoyable to be around.
Blindsighted (Grant County #1)
by Karin Slaughter
If you are looking for a new thriller series to pass the time, Slaughter has you covered with this first installment of a series where a small town in Grant County, GA is rocked by some truly gruesome and heinous murders.
Kisscut (Grant County #2)
by Karin Slaughter
Sara Linton, the town’s pediatrician and medical examiner (such a random combination, right?), steps in it again in this fast-paced thriller that keeps you guessing until the very end.
The Book of Ivy
by Amy Engel
After a devastating nuclear war, a small group of survivors are fighting for power because that’s really the most important thing when you’re trying to survive a nuclear winter.
The Child Finder
by Rene Denfeld
You pulled me in with your gorgeous cover and you let me down with this discontinuous, meandering novel that failed to deliver an interesting premise.
The Last Mrs. Parrish
by Liv Constantine
It’s like a Lifetime movie, except with phenomenal writing.
The Lying Game
by Ruth Ware
A group of lying friends continue to lie to everyone around them to help their deceitful friend when they could’ve been honest all along, but who wants to read a book like that?