How about Harriet Said or The Butterfly Garden? I am assuming you have read Rebecca since it is on the list 🙂 It is generally classified as romance but was made into a Hitchcock movie.
Have you ever read Barbara Vine? She has psychological thrillers — beautifully written — that’ll have you on the edge of your seat. I’m still haunted by The Chimney Sweeper’s Boy. Here is a list of her stories. https://www.fantasticfiction.com/v/barbara-vine/
Authors – John Verdon (Think of a Number, Shut Your Eyes Tight, Let the Devil Sleep), Lars Kepler (The Hypnotist, Stalker, The Rabbit Hunter, The Sandman), Mo Hayder (Birdman, The Treatment, Ritual, Skin, Gone, Poppet, Wolf). These are some amazing authors. Highly recommend! Don’t own all of them yet 😥
Into the Darkest Corner, Gone Girl, The Girl on the Train, The Silent Wife, The Couple Next Door, In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Kind Worth Killing, Hausfrau, The Book of You, Appletree Yard, The Good Girl, Stolen by Daniel Palmer, Desperate by Daniel Palmer, Derailed by James Siegel, The Last Mrs. Parrish, The Wife Between Us, Lie To Me
Anthony Zuiker is the creator of CSI : Crime Scene Investigators TV show. He wrote a psychological thriller series known as a digi-novel”. Readers can link to view video clips about every chapter or so. The series is called Level 26.
Any of David Bell’s books: Cemetery Girl, The Forgotten Girl, Since She Went Away, Somebody I Used To Know, Bring Her Home. Behind Closed Doors by B. A. Paris is very good!
Ruth Rendell is the best. She also wrote as Barbara Vine. The Killing Doll is one I always remember but she wrote many more. Besides the psychological thrillers, she wrote Inspector Wexford mysteries, so you can skip those.
I just nabbed a brand new copy of The Bitter Season on the bargain book table at the grocery store for $3.99! I had never heard of her before but the book looks good.
Have you read Chris Bohjalian? The Flight Attendant and The Sleepwalker were both very good psychological thrillers. He’s written others, I just started reading him & read those this year.
Have you read Gillian Flynn’s other novels? Dark Places and Sharp Objects are both very good! I also recommend Ted Dekker. His psychological thrillers are too often overlooked but he’s a wonderful writer. Try Skin or House for straight psychological thrillers and Boneman’s Daughters or The Bride Collector for serial killer stories. His books are always a wild ride!
Karin Slaughter? Not her series, those are basically cop books. (They’re excellent cop books for those who do like those, by the way!) But Pretty Girls is an excellent psychological thriller (if you don’t mind pretty graphic violence).
I just finished my ARC of Our House by Louise Candlish. It isn’t released until August 7, but it’s EXCELLENT. Kept me up until 2:30 this morning because I HAD. TO. KNOW!
Shirley Jackson wrote amazing short stories. Her most famous is “The Lottery,” but her story “The Renegade” is about something that sadly happens everywhere every day.
Have you read Tess Gerritson’s Rizzoli and Isles series?
There is a series called the Jack Daniels series. Female cop, also Chelsea Cain has a series about a female serial killer
Jack daniels is good
The Heartsick books are so good!
Dennis Lehane books
I just finished Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane!!
Desert Places by Blake Crouch was good. It’s also KU.
Ooh, Blake Crouch is fantastic! I loved Dark Matter and the Wayward Pines trilogy.
Painkiller by Nev Fountain.
That sounds interesting.
It was gripping and I really didn’t see the ending!
An Absolute Gentleman by R.M. Kinder
Did you read The Marsh King’s Daughter?
Also Cape Fear (originally titled The Executioners)
Yes.
How about Harriet Said or The Butterfly Garden? I am assuming you have read Rebecca since it is on the list 🙂 It is generally classified as romance but was made into a Hitchcock movie.
B A Paris. Behind Closed Doors
Great book
Very good psychological thriller
The book: lost boy lost girl by Peter Straub
Noah Hawley’s “Before the Fall” might work. In any case, it is an excellent read.
It was!
It is my book club selection for June. I really liked it!
Try Koko by Peter Straub.
try the silence of the lambs
I just finished Haven by Tom Deady.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23614038
Sharp Objects
The Hanover House series by Brenda Novak
A great quick read is:
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
by Shirley Jackson.
Devil in White City by Erik Larson
New ones I just finished Chalk Man and Sometimes I Lie.
Chalk Man is very good.
The Weight of Silence by Heather Gudenkauf
Still Missing by Chevy Stevens
So good!!
Something in the Water, which just came out.
Therapy by Sebastian Fitzek
Following
I Let You Go, The Woman in the Window, Sometimes I Lie
Loved I Let you Go!
I Let You Go was one of my favorites I read this year.
Freda Claire?
Kathy Mackintosh
The Hideaway by Dean Koontz
Into the Water by Paula Hawkins
Kerry Lonsdale’s Everything We Keep and Everything We Leave Behind (the third is Everything We Give and soon to be released).
Golden State by Michelle Richmond.
Chalk Man
We are reading this in our book club next month!
Good read.
The butterfly garden
The cop ones are so 1999 😂
Haven by Tom Deady
Have you ever read A Dark Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine?
Edgar a. Poe always a good read. Stories are oldies but goodies.
Have you ever read Barbara Vine? She has psychological thrillers — beautifully written — that’ll have you on the edge of your seat. I’m still haunted by The Chimney Sweeper’s Boy. Here is a list of her stories. https://www.fantasticfiction.com/v/barbara-vine/
Love her work!
Three by Ted Dekker, Obsessed by Ted Dekker, Blink of an Eye by Ted Dekker
Also, Patricia Highsmith’s novel about Ripley are very disturbing. You’ll remember her story from the movie “The Talented Mr. Ripley.”
Pretty girls
Paul Cleave novels. All are great.
Following
Judgement in Stone by Ruth Rendell
Before I Go To Sleep by S J Watson
Try Karen Slaughter or Mary Kubica books.
Authors – John Verdon (Think of a Number, Shut Your Eyes Tight, Let the Devil Sleep), Lars Kepler (The Hypnotist, Stalker, The Rabbit Hunter, The Sandman), Mo Hayder (Birdman, The Treatment, Ritual, Skin, Gone, Poppet, Wolf). These are some amazing authors. Highly recommend! Don’t own all of them yet 😥
Some of my favorites:
Into the Darkest Corner, Gone Girl, The Girl on the Train, The Silent Wife, The Couple Next Door, In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Kind Worth Killing, Hausfrau, The Book of You, Appletree Yard, The Good Girl, Stolen by Daniel Palmer, Desperate by Daniel Palmer, Derailed by James Siegel, The Last Mrs. Parrish, The Wife Between Us, Lie To Me
The Last Mrs Parrish. And Sometimes I Lie were both very good
Anthony Zuiker is the creator of CSI : Crime Scene Investigators TV show. He wrote a psychological thriller series known as a digi-novel”. Readers can link to view video clips about every chapter or so. The series is called Level 26.
Never knew this- will definitely check it out! Thanks…
You are welcome!
That book scarred me for life!😲 I loved it!
Christina It was so very frightening!
The Kathleen Mallory books by Carol O’Connell
The Shadow of the Wind and Angel’s Game. Both are by Carlos Ruiz Zafron
Fabulous books
The Passenger by Lisa Lutz
The Church of Dead Girls by Stephen Dobyns
Girl on The Train
The Fiend – Margaret Millar
Any of David Bell’s books: Cemetery Girl, The Forgotten Girl, Since She Went Away, Somebody I Used To Know, Bring Her Home. Behind Closed Doors by B. A. Paris is very good!
Jonathon and Faye Kellerman
The women in the window
Bone Music by Christopher Rice. It’s wonderful.
The woman in the window
Have you read The Perfect Mother? Going to be a movie also
Just finished The Perfect Mother and The Woman in the Window
What did you think of Perfect Mother? Planning to download it next-
Night Film, by Marisha Pessl
The Long Walk by Richard Bachman
1Q84 or Kafka On The Shore by Haruki Murakami. Two great books. You’ll never guess what’s coming next.
Gone girl
The Last Mrs. Parrish
We Need to Talk About Kevin
This one is VERY good for the genre – disturbingly so
Follow You Home by Mark Edwards
Behind Closed Doors and The Couple Next Door
Also, BA Paris’s new book comes out tomorrow. Bring Me Back. I was lucky enough to get an advance readers copy. It’s really good!
Brooke I seen that it was coming out.
Headhunters by Jo Nesbo might fit the bill.
Behind Closed Doors
Behind Her Eyes
Claire mackintosh books
The Widow, or The Woman in the Window.
Lisa Scottoline
You by Caroline Kepnes, Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates! Inside a serial killer’s mind.
You by Caroline Kepnes.
I love “We Have Always Lived in the Castle”- Shirley Jackson, maybe not exactly a thriller, but psychological, yes
Anything by Ruth Rendell writing as Barbara Vine.
Ruth Rendell is the best. She also wrote as Barbara Vine. The Killing Doll is one I always remember but she wrote many more. Besides the psychological thrillers, she wrote Inspector Wexford mysteries, so you can skip those.
Read any by Fred Vargas in translation (from the French).They are page turners and very well written. Amazing!
Try Lisa Jewell and Lisa Gardner
Jonathan Kellerman
Best Day Ever.
John Katzenbach
Our Kind of Cruelty and The Woman In The Window.
Early Mary Higgins Clark…. where Are the children?
Anything by B.A. Paris (especially Behind Closed Doors)
My sister read the Marsh Kings Daughter
I really liked the passenger by Lisa lutz
Sometimes I lie and Woman in the Window
The Twin Game by V J Chambers. Lots of twisting and turning. Suspenseful.
Strangers on a Train.
The Woman in the Window. (A new one)l
Author Chevy Stevens
Anything by James Rollins
The Good Samaritan by John Marrs
Our Kind of Cruelty by Araminta Hall
Sleep No More by Greg Iles & Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough. Both are 2 of my favorite. They’re excellent reads.
This is my favorite of hers. She really lets you into her characters heads.
This book is so good!!!!
what a scary cover…I can have that looking at me. LOL
Creepy cover! Couldn’t even hold that book!
Really scary stories –
Barbara Vine
Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough
FantasticLand: A Novel https://www.amazon.com/dp/1510709444/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_BPpkBb89S7CKD
Try Tami Hoag.
I just nabbed a brand new copy of The Bitter Season on the bargain book table at the grocery store for $3.99! I had never heard of her before but the book looks good.
You will love it
The Sinner by Petra Hammesfahr.
The Wife Between Us and The Last Mrs. Parrish
TWBU…… I never saw that ending coming. A little slow in the beginning but the ending made up for it
Agreed
Have you read anything by B.A. Paris?
Behind closed doors was good.
Charlotte who is this written by? I’ve seen this mentioned several times but there are actually several books with this title.
Lynne B.A Paris is the author of Behind Closed Doors
Charlotte thx
A Turn of the Screw by Henry James. It is short, but it is one of the great psychological thrillers of all time.
The Woman in the Window
Maybe any of the Jonathan Kellerman Alex Delaware books. Alex is a psychologist, but he does work occasionally with a cop.
Occasionally? I thought he worked with Milo Sturgis in every book. Milo is the police detective.
Freda you are probably right. It’s been a while since I read one. I wasn’t sure Milo was in all of them.
Barbara still great books! I love them all
New: The Wife Between Us and The Woman in the Window. Both very good.
Before I Go To Sleep by S.J. Watson Say the movie still need to read the book.
I think I’ve read every one of these. 🙄
Anything by Ruth Randell. A Sight for Sore Eyes is one.
I’ve not read her.
She’s been around for years. Her books are written so well. Won many awards. I’ve read 3.
Have you read Chris Bohjalian? The Flight Attendant and The Sleepwalker were both very good psychological thrillers. He’s written others, I just started reading him & read those this year.
Yes.
The Sleepwalker really is good.
The Short Drop is excellent. By Matthew FitzSimmons. Brand new author.
Have you read Gillian Flynn’s other novels? Dark Places and Sharp Objects are both very good! I also recommend Ted Dekker. His psychological thrillers are too often overlooked but he’s a wonderful writer. Try Skin or House for straight psychological thrillers and Boneman’s Daughters or The Bride Collector for serial killer stories. His books are always a wild ride!
I just started my third Ruth Ware, The Death of Mrs. Westaway.
That is one good book!
I am #12 on the library list
💕
Since We Fell” by Dennis Lehane is a very good thriller/mystery book.
I need to start a spreadsheet
To keep track of all the recommended books…always want to hear what others are reading
Girl Unknown or
The Good Daughter
The Lying Game by Ruth Ware
Sometimes I Lie and Chalk Man are two I have read recently.
Sometimes I Lie is the scariest I have read in a while
Mary same
🤗
Karin Slaughter? Not her series, those are basically cop books. (They’re excellent cop books for those who do like those, by the way!) But Pretty Girls is an excellent psychological thriller (if you don’t mind pretty graphic violence).
Author Paul Cleave.
The Third Victim
A Kiss Before Dying by Ira Levin
Rosemary’s Baby
It won the 1954 Edgar Award for Best First Novel. The main character is very manipulative.
Just finished woman in the window, it was really good
gone girl is another one
Probably doesn’t count as a psychological thriller, but I liked Caleb Carr’s Alienist.
books by Tim Wynne-Jones are psychological thrillers. He has a new one out–Ruinous Sweep.
Minette Walters
I just finished my ARC of Our House by Louise Candlish. It isn’t released until August 7, but it’s EXCELLENT. Kept me up until 2:30 this morning because I HAD. TO. KNOW!
Wow!! Really???
Really! It’s told in a very interesting way, & it’s twisty. Loved it!
Books. By Ruth rendell…great psychological thrillers..
Her book A Demon in My View is unforgettable. And I loved The Chimney Sweeper’s Boy, which she wrote under the name Barbara Vine.
Henry James and Edith Wharton wrote psychological ghost stories of the first order.
Otessa Moshfegh’s Eileen is in the Gone Girl/ Girl on the Train genre, but I think it’s better than both.
Shirley Jackson wrote amazing short stories. Her most famous is “The Lottery,” but her story “The Renegade” is about something that sadly happens everywhere every day.
I’m reading “We have always lived in the castle” currently, so far it’s wonderful! I loved “The Lottery”
We Have Always Lived in the Castle is such a favorite of mine. I resisted calling my daughter Merricat.
I read her The Haunting of Hill House when I was in high school (after seeing the original movie on TV) – both scared the crapola out of me!
I highly recommend a biography of her, Private Demons. Can’t think of the author offhand.
Judy Oppenheimer.
Shutter Island
I love Dennis Lehane!
Tangerine by Christine Manganese
Oops! Try Christine Mangan.
Kate Morton’s books are very good, another author Carol Goodman oozes atmosphere. They write in the Daphne du Maurer style.
And then there’s Daphne du Maurier herself for older ones. 😉
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The Wife Between Us is very good.
Have you read Before I Go to Sleep?