Psychological thrillers with a twist - recommendations please

[Hftgl]

That’s it really, anyone got any recommendations?

[matahairyy]

Liked mine
The silent patient
Blood orange

[carbuncleonapigsposterior]

Lie with Me Sabine Durrant
At her best Barbara Vine/Ruth Rendell- she wrote some truly excellent psychological thrillers, and the occasional bad one
Divided opinions but I liked Our House by Louise Candlish
I Let you Go - Clare Mackintosh

[Clawdy]

tobee you are right about The Hours Before Dawn. Written so long ago, but so good.

[Beebumble2]

I’ve just finished ‘Sometimes I Lie’ by Alice Feeney. Loads of twists and turns. Couldn’t put it down.

[Krisskrosskiss]

The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena is really good

And my favourite recently read book is The Possessions by Sara Flannery Murphy. It is a thriller but it has touches of gothic romance, sci fi and crime noir about it too... I thought it had such wonderful atmosphere and such an interesting premise.

[rosegoldwatcher]

@tobee
Thank you. Have downloaded the Kindle sample.

[tobee]

Not necessarily a psychological thriller but a domestic noir from 1958, I've just read The Hours Before Dawn by Celia Fremlin. It was excellent in the domestic details; some of the parenting of the time are bang up to date and some many Mumsnetters would be

[rosegoldwatcher]

@growlingbear - I loved The Silent Girls too. Alex Marwood's new book The Poison Garden is available on Kindle tomorrow.

Have just finished Now You See Her by Heidi Perks - good, especially for 99p.

[TonTonMacoute]

A book called 'Based on a True Story' by a French writer Delphine de Vigan. I am usually a bit disappointed by the twists in these books, but this one quite impressed me!

[househunter2019]

The Widow by Fiona Barton was good. Also, The Girl Before by JP Delaney.

[rosegoldwatcher]

xmasbaba2014 thank you for the recommendation. I downloaded The Silent Patient this morning and have just finished it. It has a WTAF twist at 93% (Kindle!) which I was NOT expecting!
It is to be made into a film (courtesy of Brad Pitt's production company.)
Who would you have playing Theo and Alicia?

Binforky I read Our Kind of Cruelty yesterday. I thought that I would love it (as I had previously read and loved Everything and Nothing by the same author.) But I found it very juvenile and wanted to hear from Verity's PoV at the end.

[PrincessMonacoOfKent]

I've just read The Chain by Adrian McKinty, and Sleep by CL Taylor which were both excellent.

If you fancy a legal thriller, I'd definitely recommend Thirteen by Steve Cavanagh. It's the 4th Eddie Flynn book and by far the best, but you don't need to have read the other three books first (just go back and read them after!).

[EmmaJR1]

Behind closed doors by BA Paris is also very chilling.

[TakeOneForTheBreem]

A bit old school but I recently reread The Firm by John Grisham. So tense. Some of it is ludcirous, but it's so well written that it doesn't bother me.

[Binforky]

I also liked the silent patient and the girl before.

[Binforky]

I hated Our House as well I just didn't care enough about any of the characters.

The woman in the window is good.

I recently listened to "Our Kind of Cruelty" which I quite liked. It did scare me a bit as I feel like it's from inside the head of my ex.

[growlingbear]

I was really disappointed in the film A Simple Favour. It suffered from that thriller ailment of being randomly preposterous rather than a slow burn f real behaviour sliding out of control. If you go back to writers like Patricia Highsmith, there's always a real motivation for the behaviour, whereas today it seems to just be: sling a psycho into suburbia and let anything happen.

[ThatCurlyGirl]

Ooh really enjoyed A Simple Favour - it went on Netflix today and I was really impressed with it. Just the right amount of comedy within it too.

And fucking hell I don't know who I fancy more, Blake Lively or her entire wardrobe in the film. Fucccck it's so hot.

[Starstruck2020]

A simple favour was good. It might not be “hardcore” enough though

[ThatCurlyGirl]

Ooh Primal Fear for sure.

Fuuuuck such a good ending.

[xmasbaba2014]

The Silent Patient is very good

[narcissistseverywhere]

I hated Our House too, really unpleasant characters, I know he was supposed to be, but I really wanted to warm to her a bit more

[glittertissues]

Shamelessly placemarking for when I dig out my kindle tomorrow!

[growlingbear]

I hated Our House too. Load of twaddle. Withholding massive clues from the reader and then shoving them in at the end is such weak plotting.

[growlingbear]

Tana French is good. In the Woods was great. I loved Blacklands by Belinda Bauer - great story. Alex Marwood is always good too: Wicked Girls and the one based on a child going missing at a house party were both riveting.
Classic US thrillers Tell No One by Harlen Coben and No Time To Say Goodbye by Linwood Barclay both kept me addicted with curiosity as to what had really happened.