Thriller

Thrillers are characterized by fast pacing, frequent action, and resourceful heroes who must thwart the plans of more-powerful and better-equipped villains. Literary devices such as suspense, red herrings and cliffhangers are used extensively.

Thrillers often overlap with mystery stories, but are distinguished by the structure of their plots. In a thriller, the hero must thwart the plans of an enemy, rather than uncover a crime that has already happened. Thrillers also occur on a much grander scale: the crimes that must be prevented are serial or mass murder, terrorism, assassination, or the ov
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Her Last Breath
When I Kill You
How to Get Away with Murder
The Girls Before
In Her Defense
We Were Never Friends
Little One
Ours Is a Tale of Murder
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Adrift
Trad Wife
The Bone Queen
Room 706
The Better Mother
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    Never Lie
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