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Recommended thriller books (10)
Travel the world without leaving your chair. If you are into thriller here are some thriller books from United States of America for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.

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Monștri invizibili by Chuck Palahniuk RO

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Description:
The career of a model ends when she is disfigured in an accident. Suspecting the accident was the work of her ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend, she takes revenge by slipping him a drug to grow breasts.

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My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell EN

Rating: 5 (2 votes)
Description:
2000: Bright, ambitious fifteen-year-old Vanessa Wye becomes entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her guileful forty-two-year-old English teacher. 2017: Strane has been accused of sexual abuse by a former student, who reaches out to Vanessa. Now Vanessa finds herself facing an impossible choice: remain silent, firm in the belief that her teenage self willingly engaged in this relationship, or redefine herself and the events of her past. But how can Vanessa reject her first love, the man who fundamentally transformed her and has been a persistent presence in her life? -- adapted from jacke... continue


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Notes On An Execution by Danya Kukafka EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE 2023 EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL • NEW YORK TIMES BEST CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR “Defiantly populated with living women . . . beautifully drawn, dense with detail and specificity . . . Notes on an Execution is nuanced, ambitious and compelling.” —Katie Kitamura, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (Editors' Choice) "A searing portrait of the complicated women caught in the orbit of a serial killer. . . . Compassionate and thought-provoking." –BRIT BENNETT, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Half Recommended by New York Times Book Review • Los Angeles ... continue

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Pet Sematary : A Novel by Stephen King EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Description:
A horror story of a children's pet cemetery and another graveyard behind it from which the dead return.

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Recviem pentru un vis

Recviem pentru un vis by Hubert Selby Jr. RO

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Description:
Ecranizarea din 2001 a romanului-cult Recviem pentru un vis, in regia lui Darren Aronofsky, cu Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto si Jennifer Connely in rolurile principale, a primit doua nominalizari la premiile Oscar si Globul de Aur. Visul american a murit de ceva vreme. Dar fiecare are propriul drog care-l ajuta sa viseze mai departe: heroina, televiziunea, mancarea -- modalitati de a nu privi in fata realitatea cruda si neinduratoare. Recviem pentru un vis e povestea supravietuirii a patru oameni dependenti de iluziile care le dau forta de a continua inca o zi, inainte de a se prabusi inevitabi... continue

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Shutter by Ramona Emerson EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
Longlisted for the National Book Award This blood-chilling debut set in New Mexico’s Navajo Nation is equal parts gripping crime thriller, supernatural horror, and poignant portrayal of coming of age on the reservation. Rita Todacheene is a forensic photographer working for the Albuquerque police force. Her excellent photography skills have cracked many cases—she is almost supernaturally good at capturing details. In fact, Rita has been hiding a secret: she sees the ghosts of crime victims who point her toward the clues that other investigators overlook. As a lone portal back to the living for... continue

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The 15:17 to Paris: The True Story of a Terrorist, a Train and Three American Heroes by Anthony Sadler EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
Now a major motion picture directed by Clint Eastwood, in theaters February 2018. An ISIS terrorist planned to kill more than 500 people. He would have succeeded except for three American friends who refused to give in to fear. On August 21, 2015, Ayoub El-Khazzani boarded train #9364 in Brussels, bound for Paris. There could be no doubt about his mission: he had an AK-47, a pistol, a box cutter, and enough ammunition to obliterate every passenger on board. Slipping into the bathroom in secret, he armed his weapons. Another major ISIS attack was about to begin. Khazzani wasn't expecting Anthon... continue

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The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
#1 WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER • While in Paris, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is awakened by a phone call in the dead of the night. The elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum, his body covered in baffling symbols. “Blockbuster perfection.... A gleefully erudite suspense novel.” —The New York Times “A pulse-quickening, brain-teasing adventure.” —People As Langdon and gifted French cryptologist Sophie Neveu sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunned to discover a trail of clues hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci—clues visible for all to see and yet ingenio... continue

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The Expats by Chris Pavone EN

Rating: 2 (1 vote)
Description:
An international spy thriller about a former CIA agent who moves with her family to Luxembourg where everything is suspicious and nothing is as it seems