To ask for your best psychological thriller or gritty books for me as I'm on 3 weeks bed rest

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I'm starting 3 weeks bed rest and would love some recommendations for my kindle.

Love anything gritty, thriller, psychological.

Also love reading non fiction, people who have really interesting stories to tell for example I read the story of Jaycee Lee Dugard who tells her story of being abducted.

Thanks in advance x

Anne Perry if you like a historical crime drama

The Wynch Elm by Tana French is great

"they all love Jack". Bruce Robinson (with ail and I writer) spent fifteen years researching this book which is his take on Jack the ripper. Very convincing argument and a real page turner.

If you like serial killers try the author Mike Omer - very addictive

I've just read I Found You by Lisa Jewell. It's a thriller. Read the whole thing in 24 hours, couldn't put it down

American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
The Collector by John Fowles

all fairly grim but literary. For a lighter serial killer read I quite like anything by Jo Nesbo.

If you like really deep psychological books with plenty of violent deaths, then have a look at Karen Slaughter ( yes, her real name!)

Silent Patient which was mentioned by a PP still haunts me. A brilliant book
Harriet Tyce writes good psychological thrillers although they are slightly heavy on the detail around London and the Inns of Court
MC Craven is also a good crime writer

I've read the first three of those and thought they were absolute rubbish. So basic and predictable.

I'm still looking for a thrilling thriller...

If you want psychologic thrillers tied up with religion and spirituality, try Susan Howatch' "Starbridge" series. Start with Glittering Images. I absolutely loved this set of books.

Mark Edwards
Ruth Ware
Harriet Tyce
Alice Feeny
Shari Lapena
Clare Mackintosh
Louise Candlish
BA Paris
Claire Douglas
Lisa Jewel
Lucy Clarke
Lucy Foley
Lesley Kara
T M Logan

Hi, I hope that your bed rest passes quickly.
I recently read ‘Forget My Name’ J.S. Monroe - a page turning thriller, worth a look.

My Dark Vanessa

Read what it's about first in case it's not a subject for you, but it's gripping, psychological, honest, very well written.

Dark Matter - Michele Paver - more a psychological borrow

I second lady in waiting

How to kill your family

We are all beside ourselves is thought provoking too, not what I was expecting

Helen Fields' books about French-Scottish detective Luc Callanach are great, and Minette Walters has written some seriously good thrillers. Jane Casey's books about Detective Maeve Kerrigan are worth getting stuck into as well.

Marie Benedict writes fictionalised stories about well known (or who should be) women. I liked "The Other Einstein" and my cousin enjoyed "The Only Woman in the Room" and "Her Hidden Genius", which are on my list.

Camilla Lackberg has some fine Scandi thrillers, and the Joona Linna books by Lars Kepler are good'uns too.

Thanks so much again!

I have read lots of Sue Watson, Lisa Jewell, T M Logan, Harriet Tyce.

Also have read the popular ones like The Girl On The Train and Girl A.

Thank you for the tv suggestion! I didn't even think of series 🤦🏻‍♀️

I will look into all of your suggestions, you're all fab thank you z

That's the one I was going to suggest!

Behind Closed Doors - B.A Paris

How to Kill Your Family is really good
I am Pilgrim - Terry Hayes
The Push - Ashley Audrain

Dark Matter - Michele Paver is perfect for this time of year the audio is excellent too really takes you away it’s very atmospheric

The Dry by Jane Harper is also very atmospheric but takes you to the outback a very good thriller

My Dark Venessa is really good though very disturbing left me feeling quite low after though

How to kill your family is bizarrely enjoyable and amusing at times

American Dirt is very good I also really enjoyed Jeannine Cummins others books The Outside Boy is very moving, The Crocked Branch and A Rip in Heaven

hope you feel better soon

Slade House by David Mitchell - fantastic creepy ghost story, but thrilling rather than horrific.
Mick Herron’s Slow Horses - spy thriller, but with wonderful characters and very funny, and gripping. There’s about 8 books in the series.

There is evidently something wrong with me as I quite like the idea of three weeks in bed reading.

Not really what you are asking for but 'my sister the serial killer' was an enjoyable quick read.

Educated is brilliant.

The Night Village - a new mum and her weird house guest, set in the Barbican in London.