Best Suspense Novels

Discover the best suspense novels that will keep you on the edge of your seat! Explore gripping thrillers, mystery books, and page-turning must-reads in our curated list.

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The Silence of the Lambs

by Thomas Harris

As part of the search for a serial murderer nicknames "Buffalo Bill," FBI trainee Clarice Starling is given an assignment. She must visit a man confined to a high-security facility for the criminally insane and interview him. That man, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, is a former psychiatrist with unusual tastes and an intense curiosity about the darker corners of the mind. His intimate understanding of the killer and of Clarice herself form the core of Thomas Harris' The Silence of the Lambs--an unforgettable classic of suspense fiction.
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By the Light of the Moon

 

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Complicity

by Iain Banks

In Scotland, a self-appointed executioner dispenses justice to fit the crime. Thus the lenient judge who let a rapist go is punished by being raped, while a man who killed is killed in turn. By the author of The Wasp Factory.
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The Exorcist

by William Peter Blatty

A young girl becomes possessed by the devil and causes several violent deaths before she can be cured.
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The Girl Next Door

by Jack Ketchum

A teenage girl is held captive and brutally tortured by neighborhood children. Based on a true story, this shocking novel reveals the depravity of which we are all capable.
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Mr. Murder

by Dean Koontz

#1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz delivers a gripping novel of a man accused of stealing not just someone’s identity, but his entire life... A big house. A beautiful wife. Two happy and healthy children. It’s a nice life that writer Martin Stillwater has made for himself. But he can’t shake this feeling of impending disaster. One bad moment on an otherwise fine day has put Marty on a collision course with a killer—a man with a mere shadow of an identity who is desperately searching for something more... Martin’s home. Martin’s family. Martin’s life.
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The Switch

 

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Christine

by Stephen King

Arnie Cunningham, a bookish and bullied high school senior, becomes obsessed with a 1958 Plymouth named Christine, which he is restoring.
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Frankenstein

by Mary Shelley

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read At the age of eighteen, Mary Shelley, while staying in the Swiss Alps with her lover Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, and others, conceived the tale of Dr. Victor Frankenstein and the monster he brings to life. The resulting book, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, is a dark parable warning against the risks of scientific and creative endeavor, the corrupting influence of technology and progress, and the dangers of knowledge without understanding. Frankenstein was an instant bestseller on publication in 1818 and has long been regarded as a masterpiece of suspense, a classic of nineteenth-century Romanticism and Gothic horror, and the prototype of the science fiction novel. Though it has spawned countless imitations and adaptations, it remains the most powerful story of its kind.
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The Time Machine

 

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Velocity

by Dean Ray Koontz

A series of communications from a deranged killer in which he is offered a number of devastating choices and deadlines draws Bill Wiles into a confrontation with pure evil as his life becomes a downward spiral into a nightmare in which he must risk everything in a desperate race against time. Reprint.
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Left Behind

by Tim LaHaye

Novel about the Apocalypse.
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Red Dragon

by Thomas Harris

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Feed your fears with the terrifying classic that introduced cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter. FBI agent Will Graham once risked his sanity to capture Hannibal Lecter, an ingenious killer like no other. Now, he’s following the bloodstained pattern of the Tooth Fairy, a madman who’s already wiped out two families. To find him, Graham has to understand him. To understand him, Graham has only one place left to go: the mind of Dr. Lecter.
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Carrie

by Stephen King

A repressed teenager uses her telekinetic powers to avenge the cruel jokes of her classmates
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I am Legend

 

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Nineteen Eighty-four

by George Orwell

Portrays life in a future time when a totalitarian government watches over all citizens and directs all activities
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Slow Heat in Heaven

 

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Darkness Bound

by Larry Brooks

In this thriller of erotic obsession and sexual betrayal, two strangers meet: a woman without inhibitions and a man without limits. These two consenting adults enter into a private game in which they indulge every secret fantasy. But one of them has a secret yet to be shared. Now the real games are about to begin.
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