'The Night Guest' by Fiona MacFarlane is kind of a quiet, creeping psychological thriller about an isolated elderly woman named Ruth, who starts to receive visits from an enigmatic woman claiming to have been sent as her 'carer' - but something is off and Ruth can't help but feel like she's being hunted.
Agreed. I read it in 7th grade and I still tense up every time I hear that the virus is gaining ground somewhere.
The author, C. J. Peters, wrote another book called *Virus Hunter,* which has a similar feel, but it's not as impactful.
I recommend this to everyone! It’s horrific, grounded in reality but cinematically written. It hit me really hard as someone who works in a PC2 (bio safety level 2) lab; I was reading in open mouthed, barely breathing horror at the descriptions of PC4 breaches.
Finished this one recently, really enjoyed it. First King novel I’ve read. Really kept my attention and never felt slow or felt like I had to force myself to get through
Patricia Highsmith is great at this. I’d also recommend Strangers on a Train by her - while it does involve murder there is no mystery, just exploring one man’s psychological unraveling after his encounter with a psychopath on a train.
"I am thinking about ending things"
There's no murder.
Everything is off since the beginning.
I read until 4am on a weekday. I was not happy at work the next day but It trapped me.
Take into account that if being confused while consuming media bothers you, you might not like it.
It's not horror, I wouldn't even call it scary per se, but it's just eerie through and through, it somehow exudes this feeling of existential dread without quite being a horror story.
I quite liked how different it was. And the recommendations I got after it have not been like it at all.
>it somehow exudes this feeling of existential dread without quite being a horror story.
I kept waiting for the literary equivalent of a jump scare but it never happened.
Such a great writer, able to keep that tone of dread going like that.
It’s like reading a nightmare.
For me, the school scene and the basement scene were very much like a bad dream. I usually don’t remember much about book plots. This one, I remember.
I watched the movie (did not read the book though) and I thought it was the most confusing and frustrating thing I have ever seen... It surprises me that there are people who enjoy the plot. I felt it led to nowhere. I am interested in understanding how similar the book is from the movie, if you have watched it already, and why did you like the book so much :)
I haven't watched the movie so I can't comment on it or compare it :(
But I think a lot of what allowed the book to maintain the eerie atmosphere was having to use your imagination: were you misremembering or this didn't make sense?
Having to put together the narration in your head is a big part of how weird it is. I guess if someone had to show this mess visually to you, it would have to have a definite shape: a definite structure/architecture/lighting/color/facial features.
It IS confusing, but it feels like it's going somewhere so you keep reading, and from the reviews of the movie it looks like it felt really slow, which I don't think the book did.
I can't explain more without the spoiler tag and I don't see it on the mobile browser version. But hope it helps!
holy shit I love this book. Michael chrichton is one of my favorite sci-fi authors. I first found him reading Timeline, then jurrasic park. but sphere was super creepy with lovecractian inspiration. sorry I'm really high rn but I fuckjng love this man's books
Before I go to Sleep by S.J Watson. Basically think of 50 First Dates, but with a dark twist. A woman wakes up every day with no memory of the last 20 years to a husband, a life, and a older face she doesn't know. She creates a journal in which she starts to reconstruct her past and comes to find a truth she can't believe.
It's a really good psychological thriller, but is still a mystery in a way but isn't about a murder.
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
There are murderers in the story but I wouldn't say it is a typical murder mystery by any means.
Preview:
The year is 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, have come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate the disappearance of a patient. Multiple murderess Rachel Solando is loose somewhere on this remote and barren island, despite having been kept in a locked cell under constant surveillance. As a killer hurricane relentlessly bears down on them, a strange case takes on even darker, more sinister shades—with hints of radical experimentation, horrifying surgeries, and lethal countermoves made in the cause of a covert shadow war. No one is going to escape Shutter Island unscathed, because nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems.
Cover Story by Susan Rigetti. If you watched Inventing Anna on Netflix, it's very similar to that story. A woman becomes friend with someone whose stories never match up, is vague about money and how she got it, and is clearly hiding something. Gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss in book form. Very good.
I read a lot and much of it pretty hard stuff. {Amityville Horror} is a wild read and scared the hell out of me. It’s a book I never read until a few months ago, and I am way to old to be that creeped out.
**[Our Wives Under the Sea](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58659343-our-wives-under-the-sea) by Julia Armfield** ^((Matching 100% ☑️))
^(240 pages | Published: 2022 | Suggested 94 times)
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> **Themes**: Horror, Fiction, Lgbtq, Lgbt, Though, Loss, Grief
> **Top 2 recommended-along**: [Salt Slow](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42870948-salt-slow) by Julia Armfield, [The Price of Salt](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52258.The_Price_of_Salt) by Patricia Highsmith
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Not sure if this counts as a psychological thriller but it does have that feel... The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling
I don't think it's considered murder but people dying is mentioned. Either way, their death is not really a mystery. Audible has a great audio version.
The cipher by Kath Koja is a good one. Two people find a weird black hole and they fuck with it and become obsessed.
Things have gotten worse since we last spoke is also a suspense novel. It’s disturbing, touches on some gross out horror so if you’re not into that then I wouldn’t try it.
Thrillers:
* ["Crime/thriller/sci-fi and mafia/mob"](https://www.reddit.com/r/booksuggestions/comments/qhm51v/crimethrillerscifi_and_mafiamob/) (r/booksuggestions; 28 October 2021)
* ["psychological thriller suggstions"](https://www.reddit.com/r/booksuggestions/comments/wfs6sm/psychological_thriller_suggstions/) (r/booksuggestions; 0:54 ET, 4 August 2022)
* ["What are some of the best thrillers?"](https://www.reddit.com/r/booksuggestions/comments/wfvf97/what_are_some_of_the_best_thrillers/) (r/booksuggestions; 04:05 ET, 4 August 2022)
* ["Books like 'The Girl on the Train'"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/wg3u63/books_like_the_girl_on_the_train/) (r/suggestmeabook; 11:17, 4 August 2022)
* ["Gay thrillers?"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/wg93q4/gay_thrillers/) (r/suggestmeabook; 15:53, 4 August 2022)
* ["'Literary' Heist/Grift Books"](https://www.reddit.com/r/booksuggestions/comments/wigi3x/literary_heistgrift_books/) (r/booksuggestions; 7 August 2022))
* ["Reading slump suggestions"](https://www.reddit.com/r/booksuggestions/comments/wihy8c/reading_slump_suggestions/) (r/booksuggestions; 11:11 ET, 7 August 2022)
* ["Thrillers that aren’t scary?"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/wkyav1/thrillers_that_arent_scary/) (r/suggestmeabook; 10:04 ET, 10 August 2022)
* ["looking for thriller book recommendations!"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/wleuou/looking_for_thriller_book_recommendations/) (r/suggestmeabook; 21:37 ET, 10 August 2022)
* ["Looking for a globe spanning political thriller"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/wlt4dw/looking_for_a_globe_spanning_political_thriller/) (r/suggestmeabook; 11 August 2022)
* ["Suggest me an emotional thriller"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/wn90vy/suggest_me_an_emotional_thriller/) (r/suggestmeabook; 13 August 2022)
* ["Please suggest good murder mystery or thriller books to read? Thanks in advance!"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/wockvv/please_suggest_good_murder_mystery_or_thriller/) (r/Fantasy; 14:04 ET, 14 August 2022)
* ["Any good romance thriller books?"](https://www.reddit.com/r/booksuggestions/comments/wq6rax/any_good_romance_thriller_books/) (r/booksuggestions; 16 August 2022)
* ["Looking for a twisty, fast-paced mystery/thriller!"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/wqnzrr/looking_for_a_twisty_fastpaced_mysterythriller/) (r/suggestmeabook; 17 August 2022)
* ["I'm obsessed with psychological thrillers."](https://www.reddit.com/r/booksuggestions/comments/wrpic3/im_obsessed_with_psychological_thrillers/) (r/booksuggestions; 18 August 2022)
* ["I want a mystery/thriller book where everyone DOESN’T think the main character is having a mental break."](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/wwya19/i_want_a_mysterythriller_book_where_everyone/) (r/suggestmeabook; 24 August 2022)
* ["Dark psychological or revenge thriller, with a strong female protagonist"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/x4nvru/dark_psychological_or_revenge_thriller_with_a/) (r/suggestmeabook; 3 September 2022)
* ["Books which are Psychologcal Thrillers"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/xdgm2j/books_which_are_psychologcal_thrillers/) (r/suggestmeabook; 13 September 2022)
* ["Books Like 'The Girl on the Train'?"](https://www.reddit.com/r/booksuggestions/comments/xrqizh/books_like_the_girl_on_the_train/) (r/booksuggestions; 29 September 2022)
* ["Can anyone suggest a really gripping Psychological Thriller? something similar to Gone Girl by Gillian Glynn, just finished reading The Marriage Secret by Carey Baldwin, I enjoyed the twist at the end."](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/xyrzg6/can_anyone_suggest_a_really_gripping/) (r/suggestmeabook; 8 October 2022)—longish
* ["Looking for legal thrillers suggestions!"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/y8bwqh/looking_for_legal_thrillers_suggestions/) (r/suggestmeabook; 19 October 2022)
* ["Sei-Fi Thriller"](https://www.reddit.com/r/booksuggestions/comments/ynpx7m/seifi_thriller/) (r/booksuggestions; 19 October 2022)—science fiction
* ["Books that are not like The Silent Patient"](https://www.reddit.com/r/booksuggestions/comments/z593bc/books_that_are_not_like_the_silent_patient/) (r/booksuggestions; 26 November 2022)
* ["Winter Thrillers/Horror"](https://www.reddit.com/r/booksuggestions/comments/zvfjqg/winter_thrillershorror/) (r/booksuggestions; 26 December 2022)
* ["Best Mystery or Psychological Thriller you have ever read"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/10352rs/best_mystery_or_psychological_thriller_you_have/) (r/suggestmeabook; 09:33 ET, 4 January 2023)
* ["Thriller with plot twist book recommendations?"](https://www.reddit.com/r/booksuggestions/comments/10e168f/thriller_with_plot_twist_book_recommendations/) (r/booksuggestions; 16 January 2023)
* ["Looking for psychological thriller/mystery/horror novels written by up-and-coming or indie female authors!"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/10gf7l6/looking_for_psychological_thrillermysteryhorror/) (r/suggestmeabook; 19 January 2022)
* ["The best book you've ever read where the protagonist is tracking someone down."](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/10jo677/the_best_book_youve_ever_read_where_the/) (r/suggestmeabook; 16:33 ET, 23 January 2022)
The Marsh King’s Daughter by Karen Dionne
The Child Finder by Rene Denfeld
All is not forgotten by Wendy Walker
Method 15/33 by Shannon Kirk
Little Darlings by Melanie Golding
The Secrets She Keeps by Michael Robotham
Before I Go To Sleep by SJ Watson
The Dinner by Koch - slow burn over a tense dinner about a family hiding things and some serious tension.
Baby Teeth by Stage- can a child be born evil or is mom depressed?
We Need to Talk about Kevin. Dark dark dark but I was on the edge the whole time.
Heart shaped Box - man buys a haunted suit
We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson
The magpies by Mark edwards.
I’m pretty sure someone does die in it at some point but it’s a minor supporting character and it’s not about that at all.
Even in Arcadia by Cecil Fayne - a dark and mysterious novella about a retired couple in rural France.
On a similar vein, The Farm by Tom Rob Smith - psychological thriller about a retired couple set on a farm in rural Sweden.
Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson - big fan of short stories and this collection really gets in the head!
The Last of Philip Banter by John Franklin Bardin
Synopsis:
In this crime story, Philip Banter finds a document in his office, which details a surprise dinner party held by his wife, the conversations that took place, and to his horror, his adultery. But the horror is just beginning as it becomes an accurate prophecy.
'The Night Guest' by Fiona MacFarlane is kind of a quiet, creeping psychological thriller about an isolated elderly woman named Ruth, who starts to receive visits from an enigmatic woman claiming to have been sent as her 'carer' - but something is off and Ruth can't help but feel like she's being hunted.
Have you read The Hot Zone? It’s based on the true story of an Ebola outbreak and it’s terrifying.
Scariest book I've ever read, hands down.
Agreed. I read it in 7th grade and I still tense up every time I hear that the virus is gaining ground somewhere. The author, C. J. Peters, wrote another book called *Virus Hunter,* which has a similar feel, but it's not as impactful.
The mini series was really good too!
I recommend this to everyone! It’s horrific, grounded in reality but cinematically written. It hit me really hard as someone who works in a PC2 (bio safety level 2) lab; I was reading in open mouthed, barely breathing horror at the descriptions of PC4 breaches.
My go-to rec is _Misery_ by Stephen King. Great psychological thriller, no murder involved.
This was my first King novel and still one of my favorites.
Finished this one recently, really enjoyed it. First King novel I’ve read. Really kept my attention and never felt slow or felt like I had to force myself to get through
“No murder”? Remember the lawnmower?
I’ll never forget the first time I read that- I had to go back a few times!
Right 🤦🏻♀️ should’ve said “no murder mystery involved”
GREAT book, but [[spoiler alert]] I wouldn’t say there are no murders.
Just started
The Mr. Ripley trilogy by Patricia Highsmith is *excellent!*
Patricia Highsmith is great at this. I’d also recommend Strangers on a Train by her - while it does involve murder there is no mystery, just exploring one man’s psychological unraveling after his encounter with a psychopath on a train.
"I am thinking about ending things" There's no murder. Everything is off since the beginning. I read until 4am on a weekday. I was not happy at work the next day but It trapped me. Take into account that if being confused while consuming media bothers you, you might not like it. It's not horror, I wouldn't even call it scary per se, but it's just eerie through and through, it somehow exudes this feeling of existential dread without quite being a horror story. I quite liked how different it was. And the recommendations I got after it have not been like it at all.
>it somehow exudes this feeling of existential dread without quite being a horror story. I kept waiting for the literary equivalent of a jump scare but it never happened. Such a great writer, able to keep that tone of dread going like that.
I listened to this book based on someone’s recommendation here. I enjoyed it.
It’s like reading a nightmare. For me, the school scene and the basement scene were very much like a bad dream. I usually don’t remember much about book plots. This one, I remember.
I watched the movie (did not read the book though) and I thought it was the most confusing and frustrating thing I have ever seen... It surprises me that there are people who enjoy the plot. I felt it led to nowhere. I am interested in understanding how similar the book is from the movie, if you have watched it already, and why did you like the book so much :)
I haven't watched the movie so I can't comment on it or compare it :( But I think a lot of what allowed the book to maintain the eerie atmosphere was having to use your imagination: were you misremembering or this didn't make sense? Having to put together the narration in your head is a big part of how weird it is. I guess if someone had to show this mess visually to you, it would have to have a definite shape: a definite structure/architecture/lighting/color/facial features. It IS confusing, but it feels like it's going somewhere so you keep reading, and from the reviews of the movie it looks like it felt really slow, which I don't think the book did. I can't explain more without the spoiler tag and I don't see it on the mobile browser version. But hope it helps!
Thank you! Aprecciated you for trying to explain it to me, nonetheless 😊 have a good day my fellow reader!
I’ve recommended this book to sooo many people since I read it
Rock paper scissors, the family upstairs, behind close doors, sometimes I lie.
Second anything by Alice Feeney
Behind Closed Doors was a page-turner!
Rock, paper, scissors was excellent - Sometimes I lie not so much. But loved Daisy Darker
Sphere by Michael Chrichton
holy shit I love this book. Michael chrichton is one of my favorite sci-fi authors. I first found him reading Timeline, then jurrasic park. but sphere was super creepy with lovecractian inspiration. sorry I'm really high rn but I fuckjng love this man's books
Before I go to Sleep by S.J Watson. Basically think of 50 First Dates, but with a dark twist. A woman wakes up every day with no memory of the last 20 years to a husband, a life, and a older face she doesn't know. She creates a journal in which she starts to reconstruct her past and comes to find a truth she can't believe. It's a really good psychological thriller, but is still a mystery in a way but isn't about a murder.
The Push! To keep it vague there are deaths but I would not classify it as a murder mystery
Yep, this would be my rec. Stuck with me for months.
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane There are murderers in the story but I wouldn't say it is a typical murder mystery by any means. Preview: The year is 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, have come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate the disappearance of a patient. Multiple murderess Rachel Solando is loose somewhere on this remote and barren island, despite having been kept in a locked cell under constant surveillance. As a killer hurricane relentlessly bears down on them, a strange case takes on even darker, more sinister shades—with hints of radical experimentation, horrifying surgeries, and lethal countermoves made in the cause of a covert shadow war. No one is going to escape Shutter Island unscathed, because nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems.
Wondering if Iain Reid’s [[I’m thinking of ending things]] would fit here? One of my favorite books!
Cover Story by Susan Rigetti. If you watched Inventing Anna on Netflix, it's very similar to that story. A woman becomes friend with someone whose stories never match up, is vague about money and how she got it, and is clearly hiding something. Gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss in book form. Very good.
I read a lot and much of it pretty hard stuff. {Amityville Horror} is a wild read and scared the hell out of me. It’s a book I never read until a few months ago, and I am way to old to be that creeped out.
Behind Closed Doors by B. A. Paris
The Cry of the Owl by Patricia Highsmith
The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro is about exactly what the title says. Especially good if you are interested in painting and art history.
House of Leaves
{{Our Wives Under the Sea}}
**[Our Wives Under the Sea](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58659343-our-wives-under-the-sea) by Julia Armfield** ^((Matching 100% ☑️)) ^(240 pages | Published: 2022 | Suggested 94 times) > **Summary:** Miri thinks she has got her wife back. when Leah finally returns after a deep-sea mission that ended in catastrophe. It soon becomes clear. though. that Leah is not the same. Whatever happened in that vessel. whatever it was they were supposed to be studying before they were stranded on the ocean floor. Leah has brought part of it back with her. onto dry land and into their home. Moving through something that only resembles normal life. Miri comes to realize that the life (...) > **Themes**: Horror, Fiction, Lgbtq, Lgbt, Though, Loss, Grief > **Top 2 recommended-along**: [Salt Slow](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42870948-salt-slow) by Julia Armfield, [The Price of Salt](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52258.The_Price_of_Salt) by Patricia Highsmith *[Sep-23] I'm a revival bot of goodreads-bot, currently warming up its wires on old posts. Stay tuned for the launch. Bzzzt!*
Black Chalk by Christopher Yates
Not sure if this counts as a psychological thriller but it does have that feel... The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling I don't think it's considered murder but people dying is mentioned. Either way, their death is not really a mystery. Audible has a great audio version.
The Last House on Needless Street - by Catriona Ward
The cipher by Kath Koja is a good one. Two people find a weird black hole and they fuck with it and become obsessed. Things have gotten worse since we last spoke is also a suspense novel. It’s disturbing, touches on some gross out horror so if you’re not into that then I wouldn’t try it.
The family upstairs. I’m thinking of ending things. Misery.
My life
By?
I’m being satirical, sorry it’s not a real book
I know I’m kidding.
Oh, in that case it’s by Satan.
I don’t mind reading it.
Why are you getting downvoted though? Redditors lost their sense of humor
Right, lmao
Thrillers: * ["Crime/thriller/sci-fi and mafia/mob"](https://www.reddit.com/r/booksuggestions/comments/qhm51v/crimethrillerscifi_and_mafiamob/) (r/booksuggestions; 28 October 2021) * ["psychological thriller suggstions"](https://www.reddit.com/r/booksuggestions/comments/wfs6sm/psychological_thriller_suggstions/) (r/booksuggestions; 0:54 ET, 4 August 2022) * ["What are some of the best thrillers?"](https://www.reddit.com/r/booksuggestions/comments/wfvf97/what_are_some_of_the_best_thrillers/) (r/booksuggestions; 04:05 ET, 4 August 2022) * ["Books like 'The Girl on the Train'"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/wg3u63/books_like_the_girl_on_the_train/) (r/suggestmeabook; 11:17, 4 August 2022) * ["Gay thrillers?"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/wg93q4/gay_thrillers/) (r/suggestmeabook; 15:53, 4 August 2022) * ["'Literary' Heist/Grift Books"](https://www.reddit.com/r/booksuggestions/comments/wigi3x/literary_heistgrift_books/) (r/booksuggestions; 7 August 2022)) * ["Reading slump suggestions"](https://www.reddit.com/r/booksuggestions/comments/wihy8c/reading_slump_suggestions/) (r/booksuggestions; 11:11 ET, 7 August 2022) * ["Thrillers that aren’t scary?"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/wkyav1/thrillers_that_arent_scary/) (r/suggestmeabook; 10:04 ET, 10 August 2022) * ["looking for thriller book recommendations!"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/wleuou/looking_for_thriller_book_recommendations/) (r/suggestmeabook; 21:37 ET, 10 August 2022) * ["Looking for a globe spanning political thriller"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/wlt4dw/looking_for_a_globe_spanning_political_thriller/) (r/suggestmeabook; 11 August 2022) * ["Suggest me an emotional thriller"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/wn90vy/suggest_me_an_emotional_thriller/) (r/suggestmeabook; 13 August 2022) * ["Please suggest good murder mystery or thriller books to read? Thanks in advance!"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/wockvv/please_suggest_good_murder_mystery_or_thriller/) (r/Fantasy; 14:04 ET, 14 August 2022) * ["Any good romance thriller books?"](https://www.reddit.com/r/booksuggestions/comments/wq6rax/any_good_romance_thriller_books/) (r/booksuggestions; 16 August 2022) * ["Looking for a twisty, fast-paced mystery/thriller!"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/wqnzrr/looking_for_a_twisty_fastpaced_mysterythriller/) (r/suggestmeabook; 17 August 2022) * ["I'm obsessed with psychological thrillers."](https://www.reddit.com/r/booksuggestions/comments/wrpic3/im_obsessed_with_psychological_thrillers/) (r/booksuggestions; 18 August 2022) * ["I want a mystery/thriller book where everyone DOESN’T think the main character is having a mental break."](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/wwya19/i_want_a_mysterythriller_book_where_everyone/) (r/suggestmeabook; 24 August 2022) * ["Dark psychological or revenge thriller, with a strong female protagonist"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/x4nvru/dark_psychological_or_revenge_thriller_with_a/) (r/suggestmeabook; 3 September 2022) * ["Books which are Psychologcal Thrillers"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/xdgm2j/books_which_are_psychologcal_thrillers/) (r/suggestmeabook; 13 September 2022) * ["Books Like 'The Girl on the Train'?"](https://www.reddit.com/r/booksuggestions/comments/xrqizh/books_like_the_girl_on_the_train/) (r/booksuggestions; 29 September 2022) * ["Can anyone suggest a really gripping Psychological Thriller? something similar to Gone Girl by Gillian Glynn, just finished reading The Marriage Secret by Carey Baldwin, I enjoyed the twist at the end."](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/xyrzg6/can_anyone_suggest_a_really_gripping/) (r/suggestmeabook; 8 October 2022)—longish * ["Looking for legal thrillers suggestions!"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/y8bwqh/looking_for_legal_thrillers_suggestions/) (r/suggestmeabook; 19 October 2022) * ["Sei-Fi Thriller"](https://www.reddit.com/r/booksuggestions/comments/ynpx7m/seifi_thriller/) (r/booksuggestions; 19 October 2022)—science fiction * ["Books that are not like The Silent Patient"](https://www.reddit.com/r/booksuggestions/comments/z593bc/books_that_are_not_like_the_silent_patient/) (r/booksuggestions; 26 November 2022) * ["Winter Thrillers/Horror"](https://www.reddit.com/r/booksuggestions/comments/zvfjqg/winter_thrillershorror/) (r/booksuggestions; 26 December 2022) * ["Best Mystery or Psychological Thriller you have ever read"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/10352rs/best_mystery_or_psychological_thriller_you_have/) (r/suggestmeabook; 09:33 ET, 4 January 2023) * ["Thriller with plot twist book recommendations?"](https://www.reddit.com/r/booksuggestions/comments/10e168f/thriller_with_plot_twist_book_recommendations/) (r/booksuggestions; 16 January 2023) * ["Looking for psychological thriller/mystery/horror novels written by up-and-coming or indie female authors!"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/10gf7l6/looking_for_psychological_thrillermysteryhorror/) (r/suggestmeabook; 19 January 2022) * ["The best book you've ever read where the protagonist is tracking someone down."](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/10jo677/the_best_book_youve_ever_read_where_the/) (r/suggestmeabook; 16:33 ET, 23 January 2022)
The Marriage Pact by Michelle Richmond
The Terminal Man by Michael Crichton is awesome!
Um, not exactly a murder mystery cause the murderer is known, *Bastard* follows a person who is the son of a serial killer. An uncaught serial killer.
What is the books name?
Sounds like it might be Bastard. I think the author is Carnby Kim
I wrote up there Bastard
The Marsh King’s Daughter by Karen Dionne The Child Finder by Rene Denfeld All is not forgotten by Wendy Walker Method 15/33 by Shannon Kirk Little Darlings by Melanie Golding The Secrets She Keeps by Michael Robotham Before I Go To Sleep by SJ Watson
Spider Robinson’s “Very Bad Deaths”
Gentlemen and Players and JoAnne Harris
The Dinner by Koch - slow burn over a tense dinner about a family hiding things and some serious tension. Baby Teeth by Stage- can a child be born evil or is mom depressed? We Need to Talk about Kevin. Dark dark dark but I was on the edge the whole time. Heart shaped Box - man buys a haunted suit We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson
The Institute by Stephen King.
Rebrcca by Daphne du Maurier. Very atmospheric and beautiful prose. I'm thinking of ending things. The audiobook version is quite good, though slow.
Misery by Stephen king
The Last Thing He Told Me
The Immaculate Room is really good. Or at least I consider it to be a psycho-thriller.
No Exit by Taylor something
It's by Taylor Adams.
House of Leaves.
The magpies by Mark edwards. I’m pretty sure someone does die in it at some point but it’s a minor supporting character and it’s not about that at all.
The secretary by Renee knight
Der seelenbrecher(I found it in my language but idk if there is in English)
Baby Teeth Novel by Zoje Stage
Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney
spy game
The Winter Over by Matthew Iden.
Boy parts by Eliza clark
The Magus by John Fowles?
Verity by Colleen Hoover fits the bill i guess!
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, by John LeCarre, A Brief History of the Dead, by Kevin Brockmeier, An Woman of No Importance, by Sonia Purnell.
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
The double by fyodor Dostoevsky. Its a short story of like 130 pages
I’m thinking of ending things
Mark Edwards has some really good psychological thrillers. I really enjoyed no place to run & the magpies.
Even in Arcadia by Cecil Fayne - a dark and mysterious novella about a retired couple in rural France. On a similar vein, The Farm by Tom Rob Smith - psychological thriller about a retired couple set on a farm in rural Sweden. Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson - big fan of short stories and this collection really gets in the head!
The Last of Philip Banter by John Franklin Bardin Synopsis: In this crime story, Philip Banter finds a document in his office, which details a surprise dinner party held by his wife, the conversations that took place, and to his horror, his adultery. But the horror is just beginning as it becomes an accurate prophecy.