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

[elm26]

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

These are all the authors I was about to suggest, you have good taste OP 😉

I'm not enjoying bedrest and it's only been a few hours 🤦🏻‍♀️ but I'm high risk for miscarriage and getting to 13 weeks would be a massive relief so here's hoping it works!

Thank you again everyone, I've picked out some random messages and so far I've downloaded I Let You Go, American Dirt and Educated. The rate I read they'll be done by the weekend and I'll be picking some more 😊

I might as well ask here!

I have a kindle paper white which I got about 5 years ago and it's started lagging recently. I think I will ask DH for a new one for Christmas and I wondered if any of you had any suggestions? I don't want a tablet, just the reader versions.

Thank you 😊

Three Hours -Rosemary Lupton - a book I couldn’t put down, and that’s not many books I say that about.

cody McFayden has written a series of thrillers with a character called smokey Barrett which I loved! Tense thrillers great for bed rest. Fingers crossed for you.

I have to agree with @wandawaves, I was disappointed by them too.

The one book I have read fairly recently and not worked out the ending was The Things you find in Rockpools by Gregg Dunnett.
The Lost Child of Philomena Lee is brilliant too. There is a film called Philomena which is based on the book and it's just heart wrenching.

Hope the bed rest goes by quickly op

The Nordic crime books are pretty damned good. Especially Henning Mankell

I listened to On a Quiet Street read by Imogen Church via audiobook this summer; out of many audiobooks purchased, this is the one that stuck with me. Not profound but a good, engaging psychological thriller.

Also A Perfect Widow, ready by the same narrator. She really adds something to the experiene and this book was quite interesting.

I don't like the Ruth Ware books though I've tried and tried.

There is a new-ish series of anthologies out Bodies from the Library, resurrecting little-known or previously unknown golden-age detective stories. I think there are five volumes now and all quite good. Some by famous authors. The audiobooks are read by the chap who was Alistair in As Time Goes By; he has an excellent talent for narration and does the various character voices so well.

There's also a brand-new Ghosts from the Library by the same editor; really been enjoying that, too.

As the winter holidays are drawing near, there also are anthologies of Christmas-themed mysteries; I think the editor is Martin Edwards.

One other tip: If you like retro things, search on YouTube or on Audible, etc., for old-time radio dramas. I really love listening to the ones from the 1940s and 1950s, there are many thriller, horror and supernatural ones from which to choose.

Good suggestion; also Sliver, Rosemary's Baby and The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin. I re-read them every couple of years just to admire the craftsmanship. Can't put down...

Murder by milkshake by Eve Lazarus. I also like Carol Smith’s books.

I just read a Steven king, the outsider. It was pretty gripping.

Any by Jean Christophe Grangé. He has a very strange way of looking at things. The one about negative near death experiences was hard to put down so as not to have nightmares. Not all are in English some are only in French.

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn (IMO much better and creepier than Girl on the Train)
Long Bright River, Liz Moore
The Roanoke Girls, Amy Engel
Happy reading!

Audio books are good when laid up. So not my genre but I really enjoyed Outlander - its narrated brilliantly.

Sorry, Sharp Objects is better than Gone Girl by the same author.

@NorthernSoul55 I haven't read Sharp Objects but the series with Amy Adams was brilliant, so creepy.

I think you should do a separate post for your kindle @elm26 . I Am Pilgrim is a good read. Robert Harris Archangel sucked me right in. Daphne Du Maurier Rebecca is great but My Cousin Rachel is right up there too. Shogun is a fantastic read if you fancy a thriller set in medieval Japan. The Blind Assassin was a great read if I remember rightly.

Anything by Alex Marwood, often inspired by true happenings, always brilliant.

Anything by Colleen Hoover!

Another vote for Robert Galbraith. Total page turners.

I think the series was quite true to the book, but I read the book first and remember well the creeping sense of dread!

Girl A is an absolutely brilliant gritty, psychological thriller. Absolutely excellent!

Thomas Harris- hannibal
Lector series.

great books really thrilling reads

I've got a very old paperwhite which starts to lag sometimes. I find that removing some a lot of the books I've read from the device helps. I forget how many I've downloaded and read at times and it starts to struggle. Might be worth a try.

Chris Carter's Robert Hunter series. I cannot stress enough how brilliant these books are, he is a literal crime/psych thriller genius.