Suspense
Every suspense author we cover, with each series in the right reading order.
Suspense is the slow tightening: less about the twist itself than the dread of waiting for it to land. These are the series that pull you one more chapter than you meant to read.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Before Taylor Jenkins Reid became a novelist known for contemporary fiction that explores love, ambition, and the versions of ourselves...
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Fredrik Backman
Fredrik Backman is a Swedish author who writes contemporary fiction, novellas, and nonfiction. His work has been published in more...
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Paula Hawkins
Paula Hawkins is a Zimbabwean-born author who writes thrillers. She lived and worked in Zimbabwe for many years before moving...
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Alex Michaelides
Alex Michaelides is a screenwriter and author who writes psychological thrillers. He studied English literature at Trinity College, Cambridge University,...
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E.L. James
E.L. James is an English author of erotic romance who spent twenty-five years working in television before pursuing a childhood...
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Alice Feeney
Alice Feeney is a British author who writes psychological thrillers built on unreliable narrators, layered secrets, and endings that reframe...
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A.G. Riddle
A.G. Riddle is an American author of sci-fi thriller novels, best known for The Origin Mystery series. Before dedicating himself...
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Teresa Driscoll
Teresa Driscoll writes psychological thrillers and women's fiction, drawing on decades of experience as a journalist and BBC TV news...
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Celeste Ng
Celeste Ng is an American novelist whose domestic dramas explore family secrets, identity, and the fault lines of community. Born...
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Mary Kubica
Mary Kubica is an American suspense author who explores how ordinary lives fracture under the weight of secrets. She built...
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Shari Lapena
Shari Lapena is a Canadian author who writes psychological thrillers. She came to prominence in 2016 with the release of...
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Robert Bailey
Robert Bailey is a novelist who writes legal thrillers. His McMurtrie and Drake series has received multiple awards, with The...
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Tara Westover
Tara Westover is a historian and memoirist who writes about the tension between self-invention and family loyalty. She grew up...
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Laura Dave
Laura Dave is an American author whose novels have been translated into forty languages and sold millions of copies worldwide....
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Riley Sager
Riley Sager is the pen name of American author Todd Ritter, who writes horror and thriller novels. His debut novel,...
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Tana French
Tana French is an American-Irish novelist and theater actress who brings her training in character and tension to psychological mystery....
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Jeanine Cummins
Jeanine Cummins is an American author best known for the novel American Dirt, a #1 New York Times bestseller that...
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Gabrielle Zevin
What happens when a writer understands both the architecture of story and the ache of human connection? Gabrielle Zevin happens....
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Dot Hutchison
Dot Hutchison is an American author who writes adult thrillers and young adult novels. She is known for A Wounded...
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Donna Tartt
Donna Tartt is an American novelist who became a literary sensation in 1992 with The Secret History, a debut that...
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Deborah Harkness
Deborah Harkness is an American author and historian of science and medicine. She is known for her All Souls series...
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Maggie O’Farrell
Maggie O’Farrell, an Irish author, writes fiction and historical fiction novels. Her novel Hamnet won the 2020 Women’s Prize for...
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Jane Harper
Jane Harper is an Australian author who writes crime novels. She was born in Manchester, UK, but her family moved...
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Jennifer Hillier
Jennifer Hillier is a Canadian author who writes dark, suspenseful thrillers. She began her career with the 2011 novel Creep,...
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Holly Jackson
Holly Jackson is an English author who writes YA thrillers. Born in 1992 and raised in Buckinghamshire, she finished her...
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Jack Carr
Jack Carr writes military thrillers, hosts the Danger Close podcast, and co-authored the nonfiction work Targeted: Beirut, drawing all of...
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Ann Napolitano
Ann Napolitano is an American novelist who writes literary fiction that excavates grief, family, and what it means to survive...
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Emily Bleeker
Emily Bleeker is an American author of psychological thrillers and women's fiction. Bleeker discovered her passion for writing after introducing...
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A.J. Finn
A.J. Finn—the pen name of former publishing editor Dan Mallory—burst onto the thriller scene in 2018 with The Woman in...
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Lisa Gray
Lisa Gray is a crime writer and journalist, best known for the Jessica Shaw series, which began in 2019 with...
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Terry Hayes
Terry Hayes is an English-Australian author of thriller novels and a screenwriter. Before turning to fiction, Hayes worked as a...
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Gillian McAllister
Gillian McAllister is a British novelist who writes thrillers that place ordinary people in impossible moral traps. Raised in Tamworth,...
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Matthew FitzSimmons
Matthew FitzSimmons writes thrillers, drawing on a transatlantic sensibility shaped by growing up between worlds, born in Illinois and raised...
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Cara Hunter
Cara Hunter is an English author who writes the DI Adam Fawley series of crime novels. She lives in Oxford,...
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Luanne G. Smith
Luanne G. Smith is an American author who writes historical fantasy novels. She is best known for The Vine Witch...
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Victoria Aveyard
Victoria Aveyard is an American author of young adult fantasy novels and a screenwriter. She was born and raised in...
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Nele Neuhaus
Nele Neuhaus is a German crime novelist who reached English-speaking readers in 2013 with Snow White Must Die, the first...
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Stacy Willingham
Stacy Willingham writes psychological thrillers and made her debut in 2022 with A Flicker in the Dark. The novel quickly...
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Julie Clark
Julie Clark is a novelist who grew up in Santa Monica, California, reading books on the beach. After attending college...
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Hanya Yanagihara
Hanya Yanagihara is an American novelist, journalist, and travel writer who has built a career spanning fiction and editorial work....
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Saul Herzog
Saul Herzog is the author of the Lance Spector Thriller series, a collection of books known for their timely and...
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Jackie Kabler
Jackie Kabler is a British author who writes psychological thrillers and the Cora Baxter Mysteries series, bringing the sharp instincts...
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Natalie Barelli
Natalie Barelli is an Australian author who writes psychological thrillers, a genre she has made her own with books like...
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M.L. Stedman
M.L. Stedman is an Australian author who has also published short stories in anthologies. She began writing in 1997, seeking...
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Jeannette Walls
Jeannette Walls is an American author and journalist. She grew up in the American Southwest and Welch, West Virginia, experiencing...
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Maddie Dawson
Maddie Dawson is an American novelist who writes women's fiction that excavates the emotional truths buried in relationships, regrets, and...
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Lily King
Lily King is an American novelist who writes literary fiction that probes the friction between ambition, desire, and the human...
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David Nicholls
David Nicholls is a British novelist and screenwriter who reached readers worldwide with One Day, his 2009 novel about two...
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Fiona Barton
Fiona Barton is a British crime novelist who won Reporter of the Year at the British Press Awards during her...
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Sarah Penner
Sarah Penner is an American author who writes historical fiction. Penner traded the ledgers of corporate finance for the shadowed...
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