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Recommend some psychological thrillers please

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PinkyOfPie · 07/10/2016 21:56

I've started to get into psychological thrillers, read Girl on a Train in a day and half way through Behind Closed Doors. Any more good one to recommend? TIA

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MermaidofZennor · 08/10/2016 05:47

Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes is very good.

Before I Go To Sleep by S J Watson. I didn't enjoy this by lots of others have.

MermaidofZennor · 08/10/2016 05:49

But others have ...

Will think of a few more later.

Cousinit · 08/10/2016 06:07

I really enjoyed I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh. Couldn't put it down and there's a very clever twist!

MermaidofZennor · 08/10/2016 07:12

A few more ...

Belinda Bauer's Exmoor Trilogy - Blacklands, Dark Side and Finders Keepers
And anything else by Belinda Bauer - I really rate her as a writer of good psychological thrillers
The Farm by Tom Rob Smith
Apple Tree Yard by Louise Doughty
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Disclaimer by Renee Knight (thought this was pretty bad but others have enjoyed it, so may just be me)

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DramaInPyjamas · 08/10/2016 07:36

My favourite genre!
Recent ones I have read and loved...

The Wicked Girls, The Killer Next Door, The Darkest Secret - all by Alex Marwood

Gone Girl, Sharpest Objects, Dark Places - all by Gillian Flynn

Cuckoo, Tarnished, Every Vow You Break, The Long Fall, Her Husbands Lover - all by Julia Crouch

Tell Me No Secrets, Do Me No Harm, Where The Truth Lies - Julie Corbin

The Poison Tree, The Ties That Bind, The Sick Rose, The Burning Air - all by Erin Kelly

The Book Of You - Claire Kendal Before I Go To Sleep - SJ Watson
Until You're Mine - Samantha Hayes
The Silent Wife - ASA Harrison
Look Behind You - Sibel Hodge
The Girl On The Train - Paula Hawkins
The Girl In The Red Coat - Kate Hamer
The Good Girl - Mary Kubica
The Never List - Koethi Zan
In A Dark Dark Wood - Ruth Ware

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PinkyOfPie · 08/10/2016 13:17

Thanks all
I finished Brhind Closed Doors at 2am last night I couldn't put it down!
I've read the Elizabeth Haynes one and loved it so much I messaged her on FB (she was a new author then) and she replied I was very star struck Grin

Bookmarking thread think I will go for Exmoor trilogy next

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The80sweregreat · 08/10/2016 16:25

Anything by Erin kelly. Love her books.

DramaInPyjamas · 08/10/2016 19:42

Erin Kelly has a new one out in February, I'm counting down the days, I can't wait.

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peachypips · 08/10/2016 20:27

The Kind Worth Killing.
Anything by Nicci French.

froubylou · 08/10/2016 20:28

place marking to come back to. Have read a few in here and liked them. But didn't enjoy Girl on a Train or Gone Girl.

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Kai1977 · 09/10/2016 16:51

Sabine Durrant and Harriet Lane have a few books between them that I really enjoyed.

bumpetybumpbumpbump · 09/10/2016 17:21

When I'm in the mood I love a good, pacy psychological thriller -Sabine durrant, mark Edwards etc. I think it comes from days of devouring point horror and point crime as a kid!

If you like psych thrillers you will like behind closed doors _i really enjoyed it and read it in a day.Brew

Yawnyawnallday · 10/10/2016 12:30

Place firmly and unashamedly marked. Read quite a few of the recommended ones . Burning air was a good page turner I recently read.

tripfiction · 10/10/2016 18:57

Just finished Michael J Malone's "A Suitable Lie", domestic noir set in Ayr, very readable...

ireadnovels · 10/10/2016 19:27

I read thrillers all the time. My favourite
Killing Kate by Alex Lake. Between you and Me Lisa Hall. Only Daughter Anna Snoekstra. The Art Teacher Paul Read A tapping at my Door David Jackson. The Mountain in my Shoe Louise Beech. The Ice Beneath her Camilla Crebe

DonaldTrumpsTrump · 10/10/2016 23:29

The One That Got Away by Simon Wood was brilliant, I read it in a couple of days and was at the edge of my seat the whole time. Highly recommended.

BloodyDifficultWoman · 10/10/2016 23:31

Marking place, thanks to all so far. Gone Girl's author wrote two others which were fab imo.

FlyHighLittleBee · 10/10/2016 23:41

Placemarking, sorry Grin

The80sweregreat · 12/10/2016 16:53

oh good! I love Erin's work. The burning air was simply brilliant.
also waiting for JK Rowling to write another Cormoran Strike/ Robin book. They are thrillers and very well done.
I also like Ruth rendall, but not read any of the more recent books. As Barbara Vine she was also very good, a dark adapted eye was very intense, although its quite old now.

HalloweenQueen1 · 12/10/2016 17:44

You by Caroline Kepnes and the follow up Hidden Bodies. I've read quiet a few mentioned above and they're all really good, especially The Darkest Corner, it was so gripping. The Girl in the Red Coat was also good (and a bit different) I also loved Gillian Flynns Sharp Objects & Dark Places ( thought they were so much better than Gone Girl)

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