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

I enjoyed The Catch by TM Logan

Also for a very unusual real life story The Trauma Cleaner is excellent.

I thought it was crap!! I also thought Girl A and anything by Lisa Jewel and Adele Parks are rubbish, so predictable. I sped read them.

American Dirt was excellent, going to try her others and Educated now.

The Bed I Made by Lucie Whitehouse

Alys, Always by in Harriet Lane
Neither are gruesome but I thought they were very good

Sorry, not sure we're the stray 'in' came from!

See Jane Run by Joy Fielding. I like all her books but this one was my favourite.

I am Pilgrim
can’t remember who wrote but it’s brilliant book I stayed up all night

Simon Kernick His older books are great thriller murder and the books can be read alone or as a series

The Invisible Guest is one of the best thrillers I have ever seen. It's a Spanish film but absolutely amazing!!! Cannot recommend it enough

A Kiss Before Dying by Ira Levin - old, but great.

The Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson

Ruth Rendell writing as Barbara Vine - Dark-Adapted Eye, Gallowglass, The Blood Doctor, The Chimney-sweeper's Boy, A Fatal Inversion, Solomon's Carpet, Asta's Book. All superb reads.

Gentlemen and Players by Joanne Harris

The Inspector Ryan series by LJ Ross is brilliant. Well worth bingeing on.

Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney
The Perfect Wife by JP Delaney
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
All brilliant!

Stephen King - The Stand.

Also Ruth Rendell wiritng in her own name. More mystery than thriller, but very good.

Same for P.D. James.

Want to play? PJ Tracy. That's the first in a series.

I have to say that I am Pilgrim is one of the most truly gripping books I have read. It's long and complicated but I just didn't want it to end. Perfect for bed rest.

Sophie Hannah books definitely

Completely agree with this. An easy read but a good page turner.

Also agree with I Let You Go as others have mentioned.

The Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard was very dark in places but a really good read.

@Charley50
I agree I am Pilgrim is absolutely brilliant so many twist and turns I was on holiday reading it when it came out and I stayed up all night to Finnish it

another old one but brilliant I’ve just re read is the Lion and the Lions Game by Nelson De Mile
They are older probably 2008 -2010 books but they are two brilliant books that start of fast and don’t slow down

If you fancy legal thrillers, Thirteen by Steve Cavanagh (or all of the Eddie Flynn series, but for me, this is the best of them).

Or for something completely disturbing, The Last Thing to Burn by Will Dean. I also like his Tuva Moodyson books, but I really couldn't put this standalone down.

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I was going to recommend I let you go but that's already here.

Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton - I adored this book though I think I spent about the first third or so utterly baffled. Was desperate to finish it to solve the mystery!

Another vote for I Am Pilgrim. Couldn't put it down.

Also anything by Robert Goddard - similar style - gripping, twists and turns.

Has anyone suggested I am pilgrim? Kept me up at nights reading as did A Little Life which isn’t crime etc but v good anyway

I am pilgrim by Terry Hayes

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