Riot Recommendation

21+ Of Your Favorite Thrillers With a Female Lead Character

Kelly Jensen

Editor

Kelly is a former librarian and a long-time blogger at STACKED. She's the editor/author of (DON'T) CALL ME CRAZY: 33 VOICES START THE CONVERSATION ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH and the editor/author of HERE WE ARE: FEMINISM FOR THE REAL WORLD. Her next book, BODY TALK, will publish in Fall 2020. Follow her on Instagram @heykellyjensen.

This Riot Recommendation is sponsored by Security by Gina Wohlsdorf. WOLSDORF_SECURITY_HCJKT_02_25.inddThe terrible truth about Manderley is that someone is always watching. Manderley Resort is a gleaming, new twenty-story hotel on the California coast. Guests are about to be welcomed into a palace of opulence and unparalleled security. But someone is determined Manderley will never open. The staff has no idea their every move is being watched, and over the next twelve hours they will be killed off, one by one. A shocking thriller, a brilliant narrative puzzle, and a multifaceted love story unlike any other, Security marks the debut of a fearless and gifted writer. Gina Wohlsdorf pairs narrative ingenuity with gasp-inducing terror in Security.
____________________ We wanted to know what your favorite thrillers with a female lead are, and you answered! Get ready to get your read on. Before I Go to Sleep by SJ Watson The Blue Line by Ingrid Betancourt Dare Me by Megan Abbott Echo Lake by Letty Ann Trent Feed by Mira Grant The Fixer by Jennifer Lynn Barnes Flint by Paul Eddy The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins The Good Girl by Mary Kubica Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn Hush Hush by Laura Lippman Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes The Likeness by Tana French The Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larrson Out by Natsuo Kirino Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight Special Topics In Calamity Physics by Marish Pessl The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon You by Caroline Kepnes You Can Trust Me by Sophie McKenzie