Please please please help me find a book to read ...

How about The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion? It's a gentle, engaging story with some great characters. Really enjoyable read, not too taxing, easy to follow story with some great laugh-out-loud scenes.

Kiss Me First? Not quite a thriller but certainly gripping and a very interesting take on online identities.

I started listening to an audio book of Kiss Me First this morning. Good so far. So that's another possibility

The Passage, Justin Cronin. Gripping stuff. Addictive.

I finished Alex by Pierre Lemaitre last night and it's the best thriller / crime novel I've read for a long time. For the first 50 pages I thought it might be a torture porn type thriller but, even though there are some descriptions of pretty graphic violence, the violence is never gratuitous. Alex is a fantastic character, as is Camille the 4ft 11-ish police detective.

Other than that, I think Sophie Hannah's early novels are excellent (if a little long-winded). Both The Rosie Project and Longbourn are great books if you fancy something less crime-y.

Loss of light by DM stone. Black comedy thriller about neighbour wars.

I am currently reading The Night Watch Triology for the third time.
I'd recommend them highly, translated from Russian, really gripping but also not heavy reads.
Written by Sergei Lukyanenko.

My favourite book for an easy read is Falling Angels, by Tracey Chevalier (Girl with Pearl Earring.) To give you a taster, it starts with two married people in bed, only they arent married to each other! Really believable storyline, some good for thought, and a few dark bits. And so so easy to read. Historically interesting too from female point of view. Have I sold it to you?

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt is gripping me, right now.

Clara, I completely agree re Sophie Hannah. Her most recent books have been truly dreadful and in dire need of serious trimming and editing.
I don't want to say too much about Alex but it surprised me, which is rare for a thriller or crime novel. I'm also trying get the courage to read The Shining Girls but, as the synopsis gave me nightmares, I'm being cowardly.

If you like her style of writing, I also loved her story about a young girl who collected fossils. I thought it was an amazing storyline - then found out it was an almost true story. Its called Remarkable Creatures. I used to be able to read really long difficult books, but I ve lost the concentration these days, Falling Angels is my all time fave tho.

I read the Never List but didn't like it. It'd been hyped quite a bit so my expectations were high but I thought the premise was wonderful and the execution dreadful. For me, it was full of plotholes and characters didn't act believably (eg an agoraphobic character, who hates to leave their flat, sets off cross-country.) Others have loved it though, so maybe it's just me.
The Shining Girls is about a drifter and all-round bad sort who stumbles onto a house which allows him to travel through time. He then starts stalking and killing his "shining girls". The story follows the one woman to escape. I believe its depictions of violence are quite graphic but the author said she did this so that people would realise how much the women suffered, to make readers hurt for the victims. I've only heard good things about it but I need to be feeling brave before I start it!

Nicci French: Killing Me Softly is very good and it grips you from the first chapter (but you might know this one already)

Broken Harbour by Tana French and A Place of Execution by Val McDermid both very good crime/thrillers. Agree also re Sophie Hannah - hoping her new offering this year is a return to form.

I was the same as you op.
I was fed up with not reading but couldn't concentrate to get on with it.

But, I have just read The good Father because of a thread on here.

It was brilliant. So easy to get into.
It has returned the reading bug for me.

What about trying a Susan Lewis? Easy read but not straightforward chick lit. Im really enjoying her novels on my kindle

JK Rowling's crime novel (Cuckoo Calling) is excellent - entertaining, well plotted and a v easy read