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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Suspicion
Saint Odd (Odd Thomas, #7)
Cold Cold Heart
Now That You're Here (Duplexity #1)
Hush
Full Force and Effect (Jack Ryan, #10)
A String of Beads
Fifty Mice: A Novel
Under My Skin (Immortality Strain, #1)
No Fortunate Son (Pike Logan, #7)
Rain on the Dead (Sean Dillon, #21)
The Unquiet Dead
Bad Blood
Sparrow 59 (The Sleepers' Coalition, #1)
Checkmate (Patrick Bowers, #7)

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