32+ of Your Favorite Psychological Thrillers
This Riot Recommendation is sponsored by The Killing Forest by Sara Blaedel.
The #1 international bestselling author of The Forgotten Girls, Sara Blaedel returns with the thrilling next book in her series featuring police investigator Louise Rick, The Killing Forest.
Sara Blaedel is the most popular author in Denmark, literally. Winner of the prestigious Golden Laurel, Blaedel’s dark, suspenseful stories reach one fifth of Denmark’s entire population, collectively, and her fan base is growing all the time. With the publication of The Forgotten Girls—which was praised as “gripping” with “uncompromising realism” by The Washington Post—and now The Killing Forest, she is poised to become a star in America, too.
This time, Louise Rick is assigned a case involving a fifteen-year-old who vanished a week earlier. When Louise realizes exactly who the missing teenager is, she seizes the opportunity to combine the search for the teen with her personal investigation of her boyfriend’s long-ago death. . . . And as she moves through the small town’s cramped network of deadly connections, Louise unearths toxic truths left unspoken and dangerous secrets.
A good psychological thriller can often become one of those infamous “one sit reads.” With the weather getting nicer and long days of reading outside (or inside with the windows open), here’s a round-up of your favorite psychological thrillers. Get ready to have your mind warped! *For the sake of making this list as broad as possible, I’ve limited to just one book or one series per author. Plenty of these authors have more great psych thrillers to offer. The Alienist by Caleb Carr And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie Beautiful Lies by Lisa Unger Bird Box by Josh Malerman Dark Places by Gillian Flynn The Dublin Murder Squad series by Tana French Gerald’s Game by Stephen King House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson Little Black Lies by Sharon Bolton Night Film by Marisha Pessl Now You See Me by SJ Bolton One Kick by Chelsea Cain Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight The Ripley novels by Patricia Highsmith The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon The Shut Eye by Belinda Bauer Sleeping with the Enemy by Nancy Price The Snowman by Joe Nesbo The Three by Sara Lotz The Turn of the Screw by Henry James We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson The Weight of Blood by Laura McHugh We Were Liars by E. Lockhart What She Knew by Gilly Macmillan Woman with a Secret by Sophie Hannah You by Caroline Kepnes
The #1 international bestselling author of The Forgotten Girls, Sara Blaedel returns with the thrilling next book in her series featuring police investigator Louise Rick, The Killing Forest.
Sara Blaedel is the most popular author in Denmark, literally. Winner of the prestigious Golden Laurel, Blaedel’s dark, suspenseful stories reach one fifth of Denmark’s entire population, collectively, and her fan base is growing all the time. With the publication of The Forgotten Girls—which was praised as “gripping” with “uncompromising realism” by The Washington Post—and now The Killing Forest, she is poised to become a star in America, too.
This time, Louise Rick is assigned a case involving a fifteen-year-old who vanished a week earlier. When Louise realizes exactly who the missing teenager is, she seizes the opportunity to combine the search for the teen with her personal investigation of her boyfriend’s long-ago death. . . . And as she moves through the small town’s cramped network of deadly connections, Louise unearths toxic truths left unspoken and dangerous secrets.
A good psychological thriller can often become one of those infamous “one sit reads.” With the weather getting nicer and long days of reading outside (or inside with the windows open), here’s a round-up of your favorite psychological thrillers. Get ready to have your mind warped! *For the sake of making this list as broad as possible, I’ve limited to just one book or one series per author. Plenty of these authors have more great psych thrillers to offer. The Alienist by Caleb Carr And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie Beautiful Lies by Lisa Unger Bird Box by Josh Malerman Dark Places by Gillian Flynn The Dublin Murder Squad series by Tana French Gerald’s Game by Stephen King House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson Little Black Lies by Sharon Bolton Night Film by Marisha Pessl Now You See Me by SJ Bolton One Kick by Chelsea Cain Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight The Ripley novels by Patricia Highsmith The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon The Shut Eye by Belinda Bauer Sleeping with the Enemy by Nancy Price The Snowman by Joe Nesbo The Three by Sara Lotz The Turn of the Screw by Henry James We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson The Weight of Blood by Laura McHugh We Were Liars by E. Lockhart What She Knew by Gilly Macmillan Woman with a Secret by Sophie Hannah You by Caroline Kepnes
