Thriller

Thrillers are characterized by fast pacing, frequent action, and resourceful heroes who must thwart the plans of more-powerful and better-equipped villains. Literary devices such as suspense, red herrings and cliffhangers are used extensively.

Thrillers often overlap with mystery stories, but are distinguished by the structure of their plots. In a thriller, the hero must thwart the plans of an enemy, rather than uncover a crime that has already happened. Thrillers also occur on a much grander scale: the crimes that must be prevented are serial or mass murder, terrorism, assassination, or the ov
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Don't You Cry
All the Missing Girls
With Malice
The Woman in Cabin 10
The Leaving
Ink and Bone
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
The House of Secrets
We Could Be Beautiful
The Long Game (The Fixer, #2)
Under the Harrow
Disappearance at Devil's Rock
False Hearts (False Hearts, #1)
How to Disappear
Into the Light (The Light, #1)

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