GENRE OF THE WEEK # 2: THRILLER - Page 2

When did you start reading thrillers and what was your first book in this genre?

Ever since I started reading. I think it was one of the Goosebumps books which my brother was obsessed with.

Who are your favorite thriller authors & why?

Sidney Sheldon, BA Paris, Colleen Hoover, Riley Sager, Keigo Hagashino - they keep me hooked until the end with their suspense

What are your favorite thriller books (share a review if you'd like)?

Layla by Colleen Hoover

Too Late by Colleen Hoover

Verity by Colleen Hoover

Survive The Night by Riley Sager

Behind Closed Doors by BA Paris

The Devotion Of Suspect X by Keigo Hagashino

Are You Afraid Of The Dark by Sidney Sheldon

What are your favorite thriller tropes?

[Psychological mind games, Cat-and-mouse chase, Conspiracy theories, Race against time, Undercover operations, Revenge, Survival, etc.]

The ones in bold and basically anything that keeps me guessing until the end

What is/are your favorite thriller sub-genre/s?

[Psychological/Crime/Legal/Spy/Techno/Romance/Political/Action/Supernatural etc.]

The ones in bold, especially dark romance and paranormal.

Which thriller book do you think should be adapted into a movie or TV series and why?

I would love to watch Behind Closed Doors as a movie, I can already picture it as a Bollywood movie.

What elements do you think make a thriller truly gripping?

Mystery/suspense that keeps you guessing until the end, unpredictable twists

Share some thriller books in your TBR list.

Tell Me Your Dreams by Sidney Sheldon

One Of Us Is Lying by Karen McManus

The Breakdown by BA Paris

Malice by Keigo Hagashino

What was the last 5-star thriller book you read?

Too Late by Colleen Hoover

What’s a lesser-known thriller you think more people should read?

Survive The Night by Riley Sager

Do you have any thriller reading rituals or habits (e.g., specific time of day, location, etc.)?

I just don't read them at night, I get scared.

Originally posted by: DreamOfEndless

🤣 Cool okay!

I haven't read this series. Can you give a blurb and/or a spoiler free review?

I am a huge fan of detective thrillers and psychological thrillers 😍. Last thriller I read was White Space by Ilsa J. Bick.

(I'll give a detailed review when I have a better internet connection)

Her series is about this forensic anthropologist who works with the Montreal, Quebec, Canada and in Charlotte, North Carolina, US police forces on cases where the flesh is too degraded for regular autopsies. She was originally an archeologist so sometimes she still teaches classes or goes on digs. There's some romance and some family drama in her life as well. But overall, it's about how she sometimes get emotionally and mentally involved in some cases, especially those involving kids or young women.

Each book deals with something new. Like the last one I just finished, Break No Bones (#9 in the series), is about bodies that show up during a prehistoric grave dig and it leads to some turmoil in her life (trying to keep it spoiler free).

I wouldn't call the series a psychological thriller - more like murder mysteries or just plain thrillers. What I like about the series is that no character is perfect and the author herself is a forensic anthropologist and academic so the cases take some inspiration from her own cases or cases she's heard about.

Originally posted by: MochaQueen

Mystery/suspense that keeps you guessing until the end, unpredictable twists

Share some thriller books in your TBR list.

Tell Me Your Dreams by Sidney Sheldon

One Of Us Is Lying by Karen McManus

The Breakdown by BA Paris

Malice by Keigo Hagashino

Do let me know if you start One Of Us Is Lying! I started listening to it a few weeks ago but stopped like ten minutes in. Maybe I just need to be in the right mindset to enjoy this book.

Thanks for the thread, T!

When did you start reading thrillers and what was your first book in this genre?

I honestly cannot remember but I started out as early as my teens. Mysteries were my thing even as a kid, and I recall reading Woman in White, Rebecca and Sherlock Holmes very early on. Started with Alfred Hitchcock, then was very into Erle Stanley Gardner's Perry Mason series (legal thrillers) and James Hadley Chase. And of course, Agatha Christie - the queen of mysteries.

Who are your favorite thriller authors & why?

Agatha Christie - I was into her so much as a teen and never got out . Some of books feel dated now, bt I still enjoy re-reading them once in a while. I still feel no one can write a juicy whodunit as well as her! Some others that I have enjoyed at different points of time: Sidney Sheldon, Robin Cook (I was so addicted to his medical thrillers), & Frederick Forsyth (for his political and spy thrillers), Daniel Silva, Harlan Coben, Michael Crichton, Stephen King, Mary Higgins Clark, John Grisham, Dan Brown, Alistair MacLean, Irving Wallace, Edgar Allan Poe.

What are your favorite thriller books (share a review if you'd like)?

Too many to share but some of AC's best come to mind: Murder on the Orient Express, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Lord Edgware dies, Murder at the vicarage, The Moving finger... oh so many.

What are your favorite thriller tropes?

I have enjoyed a lot of thriller books but my comfort reads are the classic whodunits - a group of close-knit suspects and a juicy murder waiting to unravel. Nothing I like better than these.

What is/are your favorite thriller sub-genre/s?

Crime

Which thriller book do you think should be adapted into a movie or TV series and why?

Umm, I've watched the recent AC adaptations by Kenneth Branagh and did not enjoy them much so I'm not sure. But a lot of the authors I mentioned have had books adapted into movies.

Share some thriller books in your TBR list.

Currently not reading much of thrillers so don't have any books in my TBR, but would sure be up for recs.

What was the last 5-star thriller book you read?

Can't remember - would probably be an AC