AIBU to have had a gut full of "psychological thrillers"

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Having just read yet another one with a totally ridiculous and implausible ending, I don't think I can take any more. One of my favourite authors has a kindle book at £0.00 on offer at Amazon and I don't think I can even be bothered to download it.

I think "psychological thrillers" is just another name for chick-lit, and it does amuse me to read all the redacted reviews (back-slapping and puff pieces) from other authors of the same genre eg:

"The most gripping read of 2021"
" I could not put this book down!" fast enough
" Twisty and keeps you guessing through to the end".

I can't believe these other authors really have the time and inclination to read all this similar stuff being churned out in droves. About 15 years ago, this type of book was a novelty and tightly plotted and well-written. But since then, what has happened, why is the world suddenly being taken over with this genre of books?

Yep. But I'm not sure I've ever read a thriller I actually found that thrilling tbh

Ahhh I thought it was just me that was sick of this type of book. I have a bad habit of only buying 99p Kindle books and this seems to be all Amazon recommends to me.
Must try harder to expand my reading repertoire

Hand on heart I’ve not been thrilled or psychologically affected by any book of that genre! Despite all the accolades on the back.

I have only read a few, found them underwhelming and not brilliantly written.

What shall we all read instead?!

I completely agree with you!

I’ve just finished ‘the maidens’ and thought it was so predictable.

Read some others recently that were recommended to me and didn’t really get on with them either.

I read so many thrillers or murder mystery type books, again either free or 99p. But I don't watch TV, I just treat it as easy, disposable entertainment.
I have definitely read some crap and like OP have given up on a few of the authors I read loads of, because the quality seemed to get worse.
I can recommend Last House On Needless Street. That was brilliant.
Also anything by Belinda Bayer, but not sure they count as thrillers. I read Exit on holiday, paper copy Tesco for £5 then realised it was 99p on offer on Kindle. Paid £3.99 for each of her other books on Kindle as I enjoyed it so much, it was easy to read but good and also funny in places.

Oh, also just finished a few by Andrea Mars, set in NI, which were actually pretty good for kindle unlimited freebies. One Click was good. Slightly different storyline to the usual thriller.

Mara not Mars.

I downloaded Exit for holiday reading but never got through my list so will make that my next read.

Not psychological thrillers but 3 holiday reads I loved were Daisy Jones & The Six, Small Pleasures and The Idea of You

Yes

It was the therapist OH was it really

It was a minor character mentioned once halfway through

It was a completely new character that came out of nowhere

Also gone off them!

I think it's also all the abuse of women portrayed in these novels - paedophilia, rape, coercion, capture and imprisonment, gaslighting .... urgh I feel I have fed myself a diet of misery and misogyny as a form of entertainment and escapism.

We have an ongoing joke in our bookclub that all books are ‘Sunday Time bestsellers’ or ‘New York top ten’.

Yes! Every book that comes out seems to have been written by a "Sunday Times best-selling author".

Yep, they’re such tripe now, which is annoying as there must be some good ones but how do you know? Reviews and blurb are no use as all gamed to sound good…! Agree that Belinda Bauer are excellent though.

Well said! I totally agree. If I read about one more neighbour, friend, nanny or lodger who wants to worm their way into a perfect, Sunday Supplement lifestyle, I'll yelp.

Yes, @Wavypurple, agree about, The Maidens...predictable tripe.

I no longer believe any more old guff that other authors write about the latest rubbish.

This genre has surely now had its day.

What do posters think will be the next big thing?

I think quirky murder mysteries might be coming up after the Richard Osman novels. Which again can be very good but also pretty dire!

Or, god help us, Covid novels…

So glad to see this thread as I'm increasingly feeling like this.
"She has the perfect life but it all starts to unravel, how long can her secrets stay hidden?"
And the ones where the synopsis is written in the second person
"you're asleep, the phone is ringing. You answer it... You grab your glasses and peer at the clock, 3am. When you hear your daughter's voice you know things will never be the same!"
All good when it was new but now overdone.
I'm ready for the next thing.

They buy up books themselves (ie publishers etc.) so they get on those lists

I reckon hilary mantel's career is now just offering quotes

I'm starting to enjoy disaster novels, planes falling out of the sky etc

They certainly don't buy ebooks, @BrozTito. You can't buy more than one per account.

Yes and full of women ‘padding’ across the floor.

‘Mia woke with a start. She couldn’t have just heard the front door click open- could she?! She swung her tanned legs out of the bed, and softly padded across the bedroom carpet’

Yeah im on about hardbacks

Rarely read thrillers but recently really enjoyed 50/50 by Steve Kavanagh. Really had no idea how it was going to turn out. V good.

I bet all those people quoted on the back cover don’t bother reading the dross. They always say the same stuff ‘has you on the edge of your seat’ or ‘a real page turner!’