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Thriller & Suspense

Page-turners built on tension, twists and dread. Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl and Alex Michaelides's The Silent Patient are among the best-known psychological thrillers of recent years; Tana French's In the Woods and Keigo Higashino's The Devotion of Suspect X pair crime with deep character studies. Stuart Turton's The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle is a puzzle box, and Maggie O'Farrell's The Marriage Portrait builds suspense around a young duchess in Renaissance Italy. Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary and Cixin Liu's The Three-Body Problem bring the same tension to science. For readers who want to keep turning the pages.

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Psychological Thriller

Thrillers where the danger is in the mind. Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl tells a marriage from two unreliable sides after a wife disappears; Alex Michaelides's The Silent Patient follows a therapist determined to make a silent murderer speak. Tana French's In the Woods puts a detective's own buried memories at the heart of a case, and Keigo Higashino's The Devotion of Suspect X is a duel of wits between two brilliant men. Maggie O'Farrell's The Marriage Portrait builds a slow, growing fear around a young bride in Renaissance Ferrara. Twisty, unsettling and hard to put down.

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Technological Thriller

Technological thrillers build suspense on real science and engineering. In Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary, a schoolteacher wakes up alone on a spaceship with no memory and must use science, one problem at a time, to save Earth from a dying Sun. Cixin Liu's The Three-Body Problem begins in China during the Cultural Revolution and follows a secret science project, a strange virtual-reality game and a threat to all of humanity. Smart, gripping books for readers who like their thrills with real ideas. See Thriller & Suspense and Science Fiction for more.

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The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

By Stuart Turton

At Blackheath, a decaying English country estate, a house party is approaching the moment when Evelyn Hardcastle will die. Aiden Bishop must identify her killer if he hopes to escape—but he is trapped in a repeating day and awakens each time inside a different guest. Every host gives him new access, abilities, weaknesses, and prejudices, turning detection into a struggle over perspective as well as evidence. Meanwhile, rival investigators pursue their own freedom, a murderous footman stalks the estate, and Aiden’s missing memories conceal another mystery. Stuart Turton combines the clue-driven architecture of a country-house whodunit with a speculative time loop and body-swapping narrative. The result is an intricate puzzle about identity, observation, guilt, punishment, and whether people can become more than the worst things they have done.

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