Thriller genre books (336)


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Miracle Creek : A Novel by Angie Kim EN

0 Ratings
Country: Asia / South Korea flag South Korea
Description:
A thrilling debut novel for fans of Liane Moriarty and Celeste Ng about how far we’ll go to protect our families—and our deepest secrets My husband asked me to lie. Not a big lie. He probably didn’t even consider it a lie, and neither did I, at first . . . In rural Virginia, Young and Pak Yoo run an experimental medical treatment device known as the Miracle Submarine—a pressurized oxygen chamber that patients enter for therapeutic “dives” with the hopes of curing issues like autism or infertility. But when the Miracle Submarine mysteriously explodes, killing two people, a dramatic murder trial... continue

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Mit Maigret in der Bretagne

Mit Maigret in der Bretagne by Georges Simenon DE

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Belgium flag Belgium
Description:
TwoDie Bretagne! Eine Gegend, die jeden in Ferienstimmung versetzt – außer den aus Paris angereisten Kommissar, der in Concarneau einen Mordversuch aufklären soll. Mürrisch setzt er sich ins Café de l’Amiral, um sich bei einem Glas Pernod ein Bild von dem Opfer und den Verdächtigen zu machen. Doch der Pernod ist mit Strychnin versetzt, und ein herrenloser gelber Hund verbreitet Angst und Schrecken. Düster lässt sich auch Maigrets zweiter bretonischer Fall an, obwohl sich eine hübsche Mordzeugin dem Kommissar als Assistentin anbietet. Maigret mysteries located in France.

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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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Mörder ohne Gesicht by Henning Mankell DE

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Sweden flag Sweden
Description:
Auf einem abgelegenen Bauernhof ist ein altes Ehepaar überfallen und getötet worden. 'Ausländer, Ausländer!' waren die letzten Worte der sterbenden Frau. Als die Öffentlichkeit davon erfährt, wird Schonen von einer Welle ausländerfeindlicher Gewalt überrollt. Doch plötzlich führen die Ermittlungen in eine ganz andere Richtung ... Kommissar Wallanders erster Fall, mit dem Henning Mankell den Grundstein zu seiner Karriere als Erfolgsschriftsteller gelegt hat.

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Mother Dear : A Thriller by Nova Lee Maier EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Netherlands flag Netherlands
Description:
There's only one thing worse than doing the unthinkable: what you're willing to do to hide it. Helen lives a decent, uncomplicated life. Satisfied in her career, she's raising three happy teenagers, and her family has the most envied house on the street. Admittedly, she's growing just a little disenchanted with her marriage to her workaholic husband, Werner. But that's nothing she can't fix. Then one day Helen comes home to something completely unexpected that threatens to shatter her carefully cultivated world. For disaffected, young petty criminals Ralf and Brian, it was a scheme to make som... continue


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My Annihilation by Fuminori Nakamura EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Japan flag Japan
Description:
What transforms a person into a killer? Can it be something as small as a suggestion? Turn this page, and you may forfeit your entire life. With My Annihilation, Fuminori Nakamura, master of literary noir, has constructed a puzzle box of a narrative in the form of a confessional diary that implicates its reader in a heinous crime. Delving relentlessly into the darkest corners of human consciousness, My Annihilation interrogates the unspeakable thoughts all humans share that can be monstrous when brought to life, revealing with disturbing honesty the psychological motives of a killer.

149.

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell EN

Rating: 5 (5 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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My Husband : A Novel by Maud Ventura EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / France flag France
Description:
In this suspenseful and darkly funny debut novel, a sophisticated French woman spends her life obsessing over her perfect husband--but can their marriage survive her passionate love? At forty years old, she has an enviable life: a successful career, stunning looks, a beautiful house in the suburbs, two healthy children, and most importantly, an ideal husband. After fifteen years together, she is still besotted with him. But she's never quite sure that her passion is reciprocated. After all, would a truly infatuated man ever let go of his wife's hand when they're sitting on the couch together? ... continue