What is the best psychological thriller you’ve read this year?

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Looking for a book for my sister for Christmas.

Thank you 😊

The Last Mrs Parrish is my favourite from this year

I really liked The Perfect Couple by Jackie Kabler.

The Hunting Party and the Guest List by Lucy Foley and The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware

I really like The Silent Patient.

Another vote for The Hunting Party.

I read one called Precious You by Helen Monks Takhar.

It was very good.

I thought The Hunting Party was awful and couldn't even finish it.

I haven't been impressed with thrillers overall this year. The best of the bunch was Now You See Her, but even that had problems.

I couldn’t get through the Hunting Party at all, awful, don’t understand the love for it.

The Mothers (I've read all the others above and would also recommend The Hunting Party and The Guest List but The Mothers is the best of all these)

Another one that is in the same vein as The Guest list is Sleep - and again it was a "Cluedo Whodunnit" - lots of interesting twists.

I have more if anyone has read all these and is settling in for the long haul - I managed to read voraciously through the first lockdown as my teens, youngest DC and DH hogged the TV's!!!

believe me by j p delany. ..it was just brilliant

The Wife and the Widow by Christian White. I have never known a twist quite like that one.

The Closer You Get

The absolute best was Troubled Blood, Robert Galbraith. Absolutely incredible.

lost man by Jane harper was also brilliant

@MynahBird

The Wife and the Widow by Christian White. I have never known a twist quite like that one.

Very intriguing @MynahBird, I think I’ll have to read it now to find out what the twist is!

Thanks for this thread I need a good new book

Oh I’m excited now! 😊 thank you everyone for your recommendations and the ones you wouldn’t.

Thanks Mynah - I adored Troubled Blood too - but I would only give it to someone with all of the other books in the series as you really need to read them all to get it.

I adore series and if you need recommendations my favourite are

Detective Maeve Kerrigan by Jane Casey
Dr. Ruth Galloway by Elly Griffiths
Firefly and White Hot Silence by Henry Porter
The Ragdoll Series by Daniel Cole

A stand-alone that I also loved last year was The Banker's Wife

Another vote for The Closer You Get

Marking place. I don't tend to read 'genre' thrillers but would like to find some books that are gripping, twisty but well written. I love Sarah Waters for that, but I've read all hers.
I've just read John Banville's Snow; not quite a psychological thriller but a really great read.

I didn't get the fuss about The Hunting Party either. It was almost good but missed the mark IMO.

I also enjoyed The Silent Patient

Follow You Home. Just brilliant

It was almost good but missed the mark IMO.

Yes - that was exactly what I thought. I didn't feel quite engaged enough with the characters to really get into it. Worth a read but not a favourite.

I enjoyed The Other Passenger by Louise Candlish - probably my favourite this year.

The Snakes by Sadie Jones- literally made me gasp out loud !

Following. In need of some good reads.