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A group of high school students takes a sinister plan too far when their prank on their teacher leads to unforeseen consequences.
Gillian Flynn
A young woman who can read people's minds runs a scam, but soon finds herself entangled in a dangerous situation.
Joe Hill
A rock star buys a ghost online, hoping for a thrill, but he soon learns the haunting is very real and very deadly.
Nick Cutter
A group of boy scouts on a camping trip encounter a stranger infected with a deadly parasite that drives him to gruesome acts, testing their morality and survival instincts.
Stieg Larsson
Journalist Mikael Blomkvist teams up with hacker Lisbeth Salander to solve the decades-old disappearance of a wealthy industrialist's niece, leading them into a dark world of corruption and violence.
Caroline Kepnes
A charming yet manipulative bookstore manager becomes obsessed with a customer, leading him to dangerous extremes to insert himself into her life.
Blake Crouch
A man is abducted into a world where his life diverged from the one he knows, leading him to question the choices he's made.
Donna Tartt
A young girl sets out to solve the mystery of her brother's murder in a small Mississippi town, uncovering dark secrets along the way.
Tana French
A detective is drawn back to the woods where he experienced a traumatic event as a child while investigating a young girl's murder.
Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling)
A private detective investigates the mysterious death of a supermodel, uncovering hidden secrets and lies in the glamorous world.
Gillian Flynn
A woman who survived her family's massacre returns to the scene to confront her past and the truth behind the tragedy.
Giorgio Faletti
A serial killer taunts the police with a series of riddles, pushing them to solve the mystery behind the murders.
Paul Tremblay
A family on vacation at a remote cabin encounters four strangers who demand they make an unthinkable choice to avert catastrophe. Tension rises as they grapple with fear, love, and survival in a story that explores the fragility of human ties and the elements of choice and fate.
Jedediah Ayres
A gritty crime story imbued with dark humor, exploring the underbelly of American life.
John Grisham
A young lawyer is recruited by a prestigious law firm with a dark secret that threatens his life and freedom.
Tom Clancy
Jack Ryan gets involved with an IRA kidnapping that turns his life and family upside down.
John Grisham
A law student uncovers a conspiracy involving the murders of two Supreme Court Justices and must race to protect her life before she becomes the next victim.
Dan Brown
A brilliant Harvard symbologist is pulled into a murder investigation that reveals a hidden truth about the Holy Grail. As he works to solve the puzzle, he uncovers a conspiracy that dates back thousands of years.
Lee Child
Jack Reacher, a former military policeman, arrives in a small town and gets embroiled in a conspiracy involving counterfeit money and murder. His quest for information quickly turns into a thrilling adventure.
Andy Weir
A lone astronaut awakens from sleep to find himself on a mysterious spaceship, with no memory of who he is and a mission to save Earth from an extinction-level threat posed by an alien species.
Gabrielle Lord
A suspenseful series following a teenager on the run for an entire year, uncovering hidden truths surrounding his family's past.
Maureen Johnson
A charismatic girl interested in true crime investigates a cold case at an elite boarding school, leading to new mysteries.
Holly Jackson
A high school student investigates an old murder case, unraveling layers of lies while facing her own challenges.
R.F. Kuang
The novel explores themes of cultural appropriation and the literary world, focusing on a writer who steals the work of her deceased friend and must navigate the consequences of her deceitful actions.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
A girl inherits a billionaire's fortune and has to solve puzzles to claim her inheritance while being pursued by the billionaire's relatives.
M.R. Carey
In a post-apocalyptic world, a girl with unique capabilities must navigate the dangers posed by the remnants of civilization.
Peter Clines
The story involves a mysterious apartment building and the dark secrets it hides, contributing to a feeling of suspense similar to 'Lost'.
Ashby
A story with elements of survival and mystery that captures a similar vibe to 'Lost'.
Dorothy Sayers
The first Lord Peter Wimsey mystery involving a dead body in a bathtub.
James M. Cain
A drifter and a married woman plot to kill her husband, but their plan goes awry, leading to a suspenseful and tragic turn of events.
Dorothy Sayers
A series of detective novels featuring the aristocratic sleuth Peter Wimsey as he solves various crimes.
Agatha Christie
Ten strangers are invited to an isolated island, and one by one they are killed off in accordance with a nursery rhyme.
Gillian Flynn
A thriller that explores the complexities of marriage through the lens of a missing wife and the media frenzy that follows.
Gillian Flynn
A psychological thriller about a journalist who returns to her hometown to cover a series of brutal murders, confronting her own troubled past.
Scott Smith
A group of friends on vacation in Mexico find themselves trapped in a deadly jungle when they discover an ancient Mayan ruin and its sinister secret.
Stephen King
A time traveler attempts to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy while grappling with the complexities of tampering with history and the personal sacrifices involved.
Stephen King
After a pandemic wipes out most of the world's population, the survivors must choose sides in a battle between good and evil, led by the benevolent Mother Abagail and the sinister Randall Flagg.
Chuck Palahniuk
A tale of an insomniac office worker who forms an underground fight club as a form of therapy and rebellion against consumerism.
Stephen King
A group of children must face a malevolent entity that takes the form of a clown and preys on their fears and traumas.
Oscar Wilde
A story about a man who becomes increasingly obsessed with his own beauty, leading to a moral decline and supernatural consequences.
Peter Hamilton
The second book in the Commonwealth Saga that continues the story introduced in Pandora's Star and delves deeper into the universe and its characters.
Peter Hamilton
The first book in the Commonwealth Saga, it explores humanity's expansion into space and the conflicts that arise from it.