6 Books That Explore Stockholm Syndrome
Kidnapping is surely one of the most terrifying crimes anyone can experience. Whereas other violent crimes may inflict more physical…
Thrillers
The Girl in The Spider’s Web is Even More Larsson Than Larsson
If Stieg Larsson’s story were a film, people would complain about its theatricality: A man writes a trilogy of thrillers…
September’s Top Picks in Thrillers
Just like that, it’s September, and our summer lives are coming to an end: back to school, back to work,…
In a Dark, Dark Wood Author Ruth Ware’s Top 10 Psychological Thrillers
In Ruth Ware’s twisty thriller In a Dark, Dark Wood, homebody mystery novelist Nora Shaw receives a fateful invitation: Clare, a…
August’s Top Picks in Thrillers
August may be the month we need thrillers the most: summer fun is winding down, in many parts of the world it’s too…
In a Dark, Dark Wood Is Your Next Up-All-Night Read
A broken friendship. A dark past. A doomed bachelorette party. And an isolated cabin in a dark, dark wood. Back…
Feeling the Heat? Chill Out by the Pool with Two Brilliant Female Detectives
We write songs about it, plan our whole year around it, and retire to places where it never ends. But for book…
5 Old-School Thrillers That Would be Hits Today
Times change. Inflation makes money less valuable, technology makes formerly tense moments comical, and real-life events make what was once…
5 Thrillers that Resist Easy Fixes
In the realm of science fiction and fantasy, there’s such a thing as a “handwave,” a problem-solving technology or phenomenon…
July’s Top Picks in Thrillers
The best thing about thrillers is that no matter how many of them you read last month, there’s a whole…
Fear Strikes Close to Home in These Chilling Family Thrillers
Something about the summer makes us long for a good thriller with which to scare ourselves witless. It’s a little…
June’s Top Picks in Thrillers
Summer is coming. Though that phrase likely doesn’t quite inspire the sort of dread “winter is coming” evokes if you’re a book…
Stephen King’s Finders Keepers is a Chilling Portrait of Literary Obsession
Billed as Stephen King’s first hard-boiled detective novel, the Edgar Award-winning Mr. Mercedes took readers by storm in 2014. If…
May’s Top Picks in Thrillers
Spring is finally in the air, and that means your daily commute, wherever it takes you, is going to become…
14 Reasons to Love James Patterson’s 14th Deadly Sin
It’s hard to remember a time when James Patterson wasn’t James Patterson, when each month didn’t bring at least one—sometimes several—novels…
6 Gritty Gumshoes: Our Favorite Hard-boiled Detectives are on the Case
Is there anything more satisfying than a stellar detective story? A good gumshoe is observant, hyper curious, and passionate about making…