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Unputdownable psychological or crime thriller suggestions please!

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namechangemania · 29/02/2020 18:32

I’ve recently finished the child by Fiona Barton which I thought was good and was a definite page turner.
Suggestions please Smile

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One2Three4Five6 · 15/03/2020 13:01

I've just finished Gone, by Leona Deakin and loved that!
Others I've enjoyed are
John Marrs, anything by this author is great!
Karin Slaughter, again, everything she writes is fantastic (though I wasn't keen on Pieces of her, which has been picked up by netflix, she has other books that would have been far better)
M J Arlidge is also a favourite of mine.

OneOfManyDays · 10/03/2020 12:49

All the Karin Slaughter 'Will Trent series' are fab reads (or in my case, listens, as I tend to use audiobooks on the mammoth commute to London!)

Others I've read recently and really enjoyed are:

  • Blood Orange
  • The Silent Patient
  • My Lovely Wife
  • The Woman in the Window
  • Before I Let You In
  • How I Lost You
Sypha · 06/03/2020 14:34

I agree with a PP, Clare Macintosh is fantastic

ChessieFL · 05/03/2020 17:05

I also like Cara Hunter. There’s a fourth one as well, All The Rage.

TheMemoryLingers · 05/03/2020 16:35

Yes, DI Fawley is one of the few police point-of-view protagonists I have time for.

BookMeOnTheSudExpress · 05/03/2020 15:51

I agree Winnie, there is so much rubbish put there but DI Fawley is good.

Winniewonka · 05/03/2020 15:44

Cara Hunter's Adam Fawley series are so good. Real pageturners. They're set in modern day Oxford ( but not in the world of Inspector Morse).

It's best to read them in order and I think they would make a great TV series

Close to Home
In the Dark
No way out

princessspotify · 04/03/2020 12:55

I second Into the darkest corner, read it within two days

TheOnlyLivingBoyInNewCross · 04/03/2020 07:17

I am a big fan of American crime/detective fiction and these are my go to authors:
Jeffrey Deaver
Karin Slaughter
John Sandford

I also love Val McDermid.

Have just read the third of J P Delaney's books - they're quite gripping.

The last genuine "whole family raced through them one summer, fighting over who got the next one next" books we read were the Orphan X series.

Sircat · 04/03/2020 07:12

Long bright river by Liz Moore published this year. A well written drug and prostitute/wrong side of the tracks story based in Philadelphia. The reader can see through the first person account of a police officer looking for her sister. We can see things about her past that she can‘t see.

MrsPussinBoots · 04/03/2020 07:06

The Jan Fabel series by Craig Russell

Eeyoresstickhouse · 04/03/2020 07:00

The Flower Girls by Alice Clark-Platts. I couldn't put that down over Christmas break.

PlausibleSuit · 04/03/2020 06:49

There's a few of them now but the Slough House books by Mick Herron are terrific. Spy thrillers but shot through with a very dry wit. Beautifully written. Slow Horses is the first one.

Russellbrandshair · 04/03/2020 06:44

The magpies by mark edwards
The house next door Anne rivers siddons

TheMemoryLingers · 04/03/2020 06:43

Elizabeth Haynes' Human Remains is quite good albeit rather gruesome if you are squeamish.

looselegs · 03/03/2020 23:14

Into the Darkest corner by Elizabeth Haynes.
Could not put it down!

namechanged984630 · 03/03/2020 00:34

Gillian McAllister. Crime meets emotion.

Ellmau · 03/03/2020 00:33

Ruth Ware is great.

bananajelly · 01/03/2020 23:41

The whisper man and The Family Upstairs

ViveLEntenteCordiale · 01/03/2020 22:25

I second Lisa Jewell's more recent books, especially And then she was Gone and I Found You. Also really enjoyed Louise Candlish's Our House and JP Delaney's The Girl Before.

Elbels · 01/03/2020 20:45

I've just finished the whisper man and really enjoyed it

peanutbutterandbanana · 01/03/2020 20:41

The Whisper Man by Alex North has got some cracking reviews and one of my favourite radio presenters recommended it and he never recommends anything dud.

HollowTalk · 01/03/2020 19:45

Fiona Barton's The Suspect is really good, too. I love her books.

ChessieFL · 01/03/2020 19:43

Clare Mackintosh I Let You Go

Feenie · 01/03/2020 19:43

Elizabeth Haynes

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