With hundreds of Thrillers coming out each year, it becomes difficult for readers to choose the best read.
DON’T WORRY!! I am here to recommend you the best Thrillers.
After going through the synopsis of each and every
thrillers, I have filtered out 25 thrillers that you need to pick up in 2021.
1. The Wife Upstairs BY Rachel Hawkins
Meet Jane. Newly arrived to Birmingham, Alabama, Jane is a
broke dog-walker in Thornfield Estates––a gated community full of McMansions,
shiny SUVs, and bored housewives. The kind of place where no one will notice if
Jane lifts the discarded tchotchkes and jewelry off the side tables of her
well-heeled clients. Where no one will think to ask if Jane is her real name.
But her luck changes when she meets Eddie Rochester.
Recently widowed, Eddie is Thornfield Estates’ most mysterious resident. His
wife, Bea, drowned in a boating accident with her best friend, their bodies
lost to the deep. Jane can’t help but see an opportunity in Eddie––not only is
he rich, brooding, and handsome, he could also offer her the kind of protection
she’s always yearned for.
Yet as Jane and Eddie fall for each other, Jane is
increasingly haunted by the legend of Bea, an ambitious beauty with a
rags-to-riches origin story, who launched a wildly successful southern
lifestyle brand. How can she, plain Jane, ever measure up? And can she win
Eddie’s heart before her past––or his––catches up to her?
With delicious suspense, incisive wit, and a fresh, feminist
sensibility, The Wife Upstairs flips the script on a timeless tale of forbidden
romance, ill-advised attraction, and a wife who just won’t stay buried. In this
vivid reimagining of one of literature’s most twisted love triangles, which Mrs.
Rochester will get her happy ending?
Coming out on- 5th January 2021
Frankie Elkin is an average middle-aged woman, a recovering
alcoholic with more regrets than belongings. But she spends her life doing what
no one else will–searching for missing people the world has stopped looking
for. When the police have given up, when the public no longer remembers, when
the media has never paid attention, Frankie starts looking.
A new case brings her to Mattapan, a Boston neighborhood
with a rough reputation. She is searching for Angelique Badeau, a Haitian
teenager who vanished from her high school months earlier. Resistance from the
Boston PD and the victim’s wary family tells Frankie she’s on her own–and she
soon learns she’s asking questions someone doesn’t want answered. But Frankie
will stop at nothing to discover the truth, even if it means the next person to
go missing could be her.
Coming out on- 19th January 2021
3. Not My Boy by Kelly Simmons
When Hannah packs up her past and moves to the cottage
next-door to her sister, she hopes the luxe neighborhood and close family ties
will be the perfect escape for her son and the shadows that trail them. But
when a young girl goes missing days after they unload their final boxes and her
son is quickly thrown under suspicion, Hannah must do whatever it takes to
protect her child.
Even if that means pointing the blame her sister’s way
instead.
With investigators swarming and neighborhood scrutiny
closing in, the divide between two sisters grows. As one fiercely defends her
husband, the other shields her boy from the crime, keeping quiet the secrets
that might unravel it all.
And all the while, one young girl has vanished, and someone
is to blame.
Coming out on- 5th January 2021
4. The House Uptown by Melissa Ginsburg
Ava, fourteen years old and totally on her own, has still not fully processed her mother’s death when she finds herself on a train heading to New Orleans, to stay with Lane, the grandmother she barely remembers.
Lane is a well-known artist in the New Orleans art scene.
She spends most of her days in a pot-smoke haze, sipping iced coffee, and
painting, which has been her singular focus for years. Her grip on reality is
shaky at best, but her work provides a comfort.
Ava’s arrival unsettles Lane. The girl bears an uncanny
resemblance to her daughter, whom she was estranged from before her death. Now
her presence is dredging up painful and disturbing memories, which forces Lane
to retreat even further into her own mind. As Ava and Lane attempt to find
their way and form a bond, the oppressive heat and history of New Orleans bears
down on them, forcing a reckoning neither of them are ready for.
Coming out on- 16th March 2021
5. Saving Grace by Debbie Babitt
For twenty-four years, Mary Grace Dobbs has been searching for salvation. Orphaned at eleven, she was forced to go live with her Bible salesman uncle, wheelchair-bound aunt, and a cousin who tortured and killed small animals. At school, a bully made her life a nightmare. Everything changed when a newcomer to town became her only best friend, and changed a second time when that friend and another classmate vanished two months later, never to be seen again.
Today, Mary Grace is the first female sheriff of her rural
town, a position that doesn’t sit well with some of the locals. Keeping order
and her demons at bay becomes an impossible task when the Black drifter
suspected in the earlier disappearances returns to Repentance . . . and another
sixth grader vanishes.
With old prejudices and new secrets spilling out into the
open, the modern world soon illuminates the village’s darkest corners. The case
becomes even more fraught as a cult of white supremacists brings its gospel of
hate to Repentance and violence explodes, claiming more lives. Racing to find
the missing girl while fearing for the safety of her own sixth-grade daughter,
Mary Grace must confront an unspeakable truth—and face a decision no parent
should ever have to make.
Set in a remote mountain town, where the secrets run as deep
as the hollows, Saving Grace is at once a spell-binding tale of innocence lost
and a twisty, edge-of-your-seat psychological thriller. This startling debut
novel introduces a captivating protagonist whose concept of good and evil can
shape a young girl—then and now.
Coming out on- 16th March 2021
Then she meets Margot Banks, an alluring socialite who is
part of an elite clique secretly known as the Hunting Wives. Sophie finds
herself completely drawn to Margot and swept into her mysterious world of
late-night target practice and dangerous partying. As Sophie’s curiosity gives
way to full-blown obsession, she slips farther away from the safety of her
family and deeper into this nest of vipers.
When the body of a teenage girl is discovered in the woods
where the Hunting Wives meet, Sophie finds herself in the middle of a murder
investigation and her life spiraling out of control.
Coming out on- 18th May 2021
7. The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth
Fern needed protecting because their mother was a true
sociopath who hid her true nature from the world, and only Rose could see it.
Fern always saw the good in everyone. Years ago, Fern did something very, very
bad. And Rose has never told a soul. When Fern decides to help her sister
achieve her heart’s desire of having a baby, Rose realizes with growing horror
that Fern might make choices that can only have a terrible outcome. What Rose
doesn’t realize is that Fern is growing more and more aware of the secrets
Rose, herself, is keeping. And that their mother might have the last word after
all.
Spine tingling, creepy, utterly compelling and
unpredictable, The Good Sister is about the ties that bind sisters together…and
about the madness that lurks where you least expect it.
Coming out on- 13th April 2021
8. If I Disappear by Eliza Jane Brazier
Sera loves true crime podcasts. They make her feel empowered
in a world where women just like her disappear daily. She’s sure they are
preparing her for something. So when Rachel, her favorite podcast host, goes
missing, Sera knows it’s time to act. Rachel has always taught her to trust her
instincts.
Sera follows the clues hidden in the episodes to an isolated
ranch outside Rachel’s small hometown to begin her search. She’s convinced her
investigation will make Rachel so proud. But the more Sera digs into this
unfamiliar world, the more off things start to feel. Because Rachel is not the
first woman to vanish from the ranch, and she won’t be the last…
Rachel did try to warn her.
Coming out on- 26th January 2021
9. The Perfect Daughter by D.J. Palmer
Grace never dreamt she’d visit her teenaged daughter Penny
in the locked ward of a decaying state psychiatric hospital, charged with the
murder of a stranger. There was not much question of her daughter’s guilt.
Police had her fingerprints on the murder weapon and the victim’s blood on her
body and clothes. But they didn’t have a motive.
Grace blames herself, because that’s what mothers do—they
look at their choices and wonder, what if? But hindsight offers little more
than the chance for regret.
None of this was conceivable the day Penny came into her
life. Then, it seemed like a miracle. Penny was found abandoned, with a
mysterious past, and it felt like fate brought Penny to her, and her husband
Arthur. But as she grew, Penny’s actions grew more disturbing, and different
“personalities” emerged.
Arthur and Grace took Penny to different psychiatrists, many
of whom believed she was putting on a show to help manage her trauma. But Grace
didn’t buy it. The personas were too real, too consistent. It had to be a severe
multiple personality disorder. One determined psychiatrist, Dr. Mitch McHugh,
helped discover someone new inside Penny—a young girl named Abigail. Is this
the nameless girl who was abandoned in the park years ago? Mitch thinks Abigail
is the key to Penny’s past and to the murder. But as Grace and Mitch dig
deeper, they uncover dark and shocking secrets that put all their lives in
grave danger.
Coming out on- 20th April 2021
10. The Other Me by Sarah Zachrich Jeng
On her twenty-ninth birthday, Chicago artist Kelly steps
through a door at a gallery opening and emerges in her Michigan hometown.
Suddenly her life is unrecognizable: She’s got twelve years of the wrong
memories in her head and she’s married to Eric, a man she barely knew in high
school.
Racing to get back to her old life, Kelly’s search leads
only to more questions. In this life, she loves Eric and wants to trust him,
but everything she discovers about him–including a connection to a mysterious
tech startup–tells her she shouldn’t. And strange things keep happening. The
tattoos she had when she was an artist briefly reappear on her skin, she
remembers fights with Eric that he says never happened, and her relationships
with loved ones both new and familiar seem to change without warning.
But the closer Kelly gets to putting the pieces together,
the more her reality seems to shift. And if she can’t figure out what happened
on her birthday, the next change could cost her everything…
Coming out on- 10th August 2021
11. The Project by Courtney Summers
Lo Denham is used to being on her own. After her parents
died, Lo’s sister, Bea, joined The Unity Project, leaving Lo in the care of
their great aunt. Thanks to its extensive charitable work and community
outreach, The Unity Project has won the hearts and minds of most in the Upstate
New York region, but Lo knows there’s more to the group than meets the eye.
She’s spent the last six years of her life trying—and failing—to prove it.
When a man shows up at the magazine Lo works for claiming
The Unity Project killed his son, Lo sees the perfect opportunity to expose the
group and reunite with Bea once and for all. When her investigation puts her in
the direct path of its leader, Lev Warren and as Lo delves deeper into The
Project, the lives of its members it upends everything she thought she knew
about her sister, herself, cults, and the world around her—to the point she can
no longer tell what’s real or true. Lo never thought she could afford to
believe in Lev Warren . . . but now she doesn’t know if she can afford not to.
Coming out on- 2nd February 2021
12. The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey
Martine is a genetically cloned replica made from Evelyn
Caldwell’s award-winning research. She’s patient and gentle and obedient. She’s
everything Evelyn swore she’d never be.
And she’s having an affair with Evelyn’s husband.
Now, the cheating bastard is dead, and the Caldwell wives
have a mess to clean up.
Good thing Evelyn Caldwell is used to getting her hands
dirty
When they said all happy families are alike, this can’t be
what they meant…
Coming out on- 16th February 2021
13. Mother May I by Joshilyn Jackson
Revenge doesn’t wait for permission.
Growing up poor in rural Georgia, Bree Cabbat was warned by
her single mother that the world was a dark and scary place. Bree rejected her
mother’s fearful outlook, and life has proved her right. Having married into a
family with wealth, power, and connections, Bree now has all a woman could ever
dream of: a loving lawyer husband, two talented teenage daughters, a new baby
boy, a gorgeous home, and every opportunity in the world.
Until the day she awakens and sees a witch peering into her
bedroom window—an old gray-haired woman dressed all in black who vanishes as
quickly as she appears. It must be a play of the early morning light or the
remnant of a waking dream, Bree tells herself, shaking off the bad feeling that
overcomes her.
Later that day though, she spies the old woman again, in the
parking lot of her daughters’ private school . . . just minutes before Bree’s
infant son, asleep in his car seat only a few feet away, vanishes. It happened
so quickly—Bree looked away only for a second. There is a note left in his
place, warning her that she is being is being watched; if she wants her baby
back, she must not call the police or deviate in any way from the instructions
that will follow.
The mysterious woman makes contact, and Bree learns she,
too, is a mother. Why would another mother do this? What does she want? And why
has she targeted Bree? Of course Bree will pay anything, do anything. It’s her
child.
To get her baby back, Bree must complete one small—but
critical—task. It seems harmless enough, but her action comes with a
devastating price, making her complicit in a tangled web of tragedy and
shocking secrets that could destroy everything she loves. It is the beginning
of an odyssey that will lead Bree to dangerous places, explosive
confrontations, and chilling truths.
Bree will do whatever it takes to protect her family—but
what if the cost tears their world apart?
Coming out on- 6th April 2021
14. The Burning Girls by C.J. Tudor
Welcome to Chapel Croft. Five hundred years ago, eight
protestant martyrs were burned at the stake here. Thirty years ago, two teenage
girls disappeared without a trace. And two months ago, the vicar of the local
parish killed himself.
Reverend Jack Brooks, a single parent with a
fourteen-year-old daughter and a heavy conscience, arrives in the village
hoping to make a fresh start and find some peace. Instead, Jack finds a town
mired in secrecy and a strange welcome package: an old exorcism kit and a note
quoting scripture. “But there is nothing covered up that will not be revealed
and hidden that will not be known.”
The more Jack and daughter Flo get acquainted with the town
and its strange denizens, the deeper they are drawn into their rifts,
mysteries, and suspicions. And when Flo is troubled by strange sightings in the
old chapel, it becomes apparent that there are ghosts here that refuse to be
laid to rest.
But uncovering the truth can be deadly in a village where
everyone has something to protect, everyone has links with the village’s bloody
past, and no one trusts an outsider.
Coming out on- 9th February 2021
15. The Lost Village by Camilla Sten
Documentary filmmaker Alice Lindstedt has been obsessed with
the vanishing residents of the old mining town, dubbed “The Lost Village,”
since she was a little girl. In 1959, her grandmother’s entire family
disappeared in this mysterious tragedy, and ever since, the unanswered
questions surrounding the only two people who were left—a woman stoned to death
in the town center and an abandoned newborn—have plagued her. She’s gathered a
small crew of friends in the remote village to make a film about what really
happened.
But there will be no turning back.
Not long after they’ve set up camp, mysterious things begin
to happen. Equipment is destroyed. People go missing. As doubt breeds fear and
their very minds begin to crack, one thing becomes startlingly clear to Alice:
They are not alone.
They’re looking for the truth…
But what if it finds them first?
Come find out.
Coming out on- 23rd March 2021
16. Hour of the Witch by Chris Bohjalian
Boston, 1662. Mary Deerfield is twenty-four-years-old. Her
skin is porcelain, her eyes delft blue, and in England she might have had many
suitors. But here in the New World, amid this community of saints, Mary is the
second wife of Thomas Deerfield, a man as cruel as he is powerful. When Thomas,
prone to drunken rage, drives a three-tined fork into the back of Mary’s hand,
she resolves that she must divorce him to save her life. But in a world where
every neighbor is watching for signs of the devil, a woman like Mary–a woman
who harbors secret desires and finds it difficult to tolerate the brazen
hypocrisy of so many men in the colony–soon finds herself the object of
suspicion and rumor. When tainted objects are discovered buried in Mary’s
garden, when a boy she has treated with herbs and simples dies, and when their
servant girl runs screaming in fright from her home, Mary must fight to not
only escape her marriage, but also the gallows. A twisting, tightly plotted
thriller from one of our greatest storytellers, Hour of the Witch is a timely
and terrifying novel of socially sanctioned brutality and the original American
witch hunt.
Coming out on- 20th April 2021
17. Waiting for the Night Song by Julie Carrick Dalton
Cadie Kessler has spent decades trying to cover up one truth. One moment. But deep down, didn’t she always know her secret would surface?
An urgent message from her long-estranged best friend
Daniela Garcia brings Cadie, now a forestry researcher, back to her childhood
home. There, Cadie and Daniela are forced to face a dark secret that ended both
their idyllic childhood bond and the magical summer that takes up more space in
Cadie’s memory then all her other years combined.
Now grown up, bound by long-held oaths, and faced with
truths she does not wish to see, Cadie must decide what she is willing to
sacrifice to protect the people and the forest she loves, as drought,
foreclosures, and wildfire spark tensions between displaced migrant farm workers
and locals.
Waiting for the Night Song is a love song to the natural
beauty around us, a call to fight for what we believe in, and a reminder that
the truth will always rise.
Coming out on- 12th January 2021
18. Quiet in Her Bones by Nalini Singh
My mother vanished ten years ago.
So did a quarter of a million dollars in cash.
Thief. Bitch. Criminal.
Now, she’s back.
Her bones clothed in scarlet silk.
When socialite Nina Rai disappeared without a trace,
everyone wrote it off as another trophy wife tired of her wealthy husband.
But now her bones have turned up in the shadowed green of
the forest that surrounds her elite neighborhood, a haven of privilege and
secrets that’s housed the same influential families for decades.
The rich live here, along with those whose job it is to make
their lives easier. And somebody knows what happened to Nina one rainy night
ten years ago.
Her son Aarav heard a chilling scream that night, and he’s
determined to uncover the ugly truth that lives beneath the moneyed
elegance…but no one is ready for the murderous secrets about to crawl out of
the dark.
Even the dead aren’t allowed to break the rules in this
cul-de-sac.
Coming out on- February 2021
19. Every Last Fear by Alex Finlay
“They found the bodies on a Tuesday.” So begins this twisty and breathtaking novel that traces the fate of the Pine family, a thriller that will both leave you on the edge of your seat and move you to tears.
After a late night of partying, NYU student Matt Pine
returns to his dorm room to devastating news: nearly his entire family—his mom,
his dad, his little brother and sister—have been found dead from an apparent
gas leak while vacationing in Mexico. The local police claim it was an
accident, but the FBI and State Department seem far less certain—and they won’t
tell Matt why.
The tragedy makes headlines everywhere because this isn’t the first time the Pine family has been thrust into the media spotlight. Matt’s older brother, Danny—currently serving a life sentence for the murder of his teenage girlfriend Charlotte—was the subject of a viral true crime documentary suggesting that Danny was wrongfully convicted. Though the country has rallied behind Danny, Matt holds a secret about his brother that he’s never told anyone: the night Charlotte was killed Matt saw something that makes him believe his brother is guilty of the crime.
When Matt returns to his small hometown to bury his parents
and siblings, he’s faced with a hostile community that was villainized by the
documentary, a frenzied media, and memories he’d hoped to leave behind forever.
Now, as the deaths in Mexico appear increasingly suspicious and connected to Danny’s
case, Matt must unearth the truth behind the crime that sent his brother to
prison—putting his own life in peril—and forcing him to confront his every last
fear.
Coming out on- 2nd March 2021
20. What You Never Knew by Jessica Hamilton
Idyllic Avril lsland, owned by the Bennett family, where their hundred-year-old cottage sat nestled in acres of forest. Forty-year-old June Bennett believed that the island had been sold after the summer of her father’s disappearance when she was only twelve years old. It’s months after the shocking death of her older sister May in a fatal car accident, that June finds out that the cottage was never sold. Avril Island is still owned by the Bennett family and now it’s hers.
Still reeling from the grief of losing her sister, June
travels back to Avril lsland in search of answers. As she digs, she learns that
the townspeople believe her father may have, in fact, been murdered rather than
abandoning his family in the dead of night, as she was led to believe by her
mother. And that’s when she begins to notice strange things happening on the
island–missing family possessions showing up on her bed, doors open when she
had locked them closed. It takes June no time at all to realize that her
childhood summers at Avril Island were not at all what they had seemed to be.
Coming out on- 13th April 2021
21. The Stranger in the Mirror by Liv Constantine
“Liv Constantine plants her flag squarely in land staked out by the likes of Lisa Gardner and Karin Slaughter.”—Providence Journal
Addison’s about to get married, but she’s not looking
forward to the big day. It’s not her fiancรฉ; he’s a wonderful man. It’s because
Addison doesn’t know who she really is. A few years ago, a kind driver found
her bleeding next to a New Jersey highway and rescued her. While her physical
wounds healed, Addison’s memory never returned. She doesn’t know her real name.
Or how she ended up injured on the side of a road. Or why she can’t shake the
notion that she may have done something very, very bad . . .
In a posh home in the Boston suburbs, Julian tries to figure
out what happened to his loving, caring wife, Cassandra, who disappeared
without a trace two years ago. She would never have left him and their
seven-year-old daughter Valentina of her own free will—or would she?
As these two lives intersect, The Stranger in the Mirror
hooks readers with riveting drama, told with Liv Constantine’s hallmark blend
of glamour, tense psychological thrills, and jaw-dropping twists.
Coming out on- 6th July 2021
22. Survive the Night by Riley Sager
It’s November 1991. George H. W. Bush is in the White House, Nirvana’s in the tape deck, and movie-obsessed college student Charlie Jordan is in a car with a man who might be a serial killer.
Josh Baxter, the man behind the wheel, is a virtual stranger
to Charlie. They met at the campus ride board, each looking to share the long
drive home to Ohio. Both have good reasons for wanting to get away. For
Charlie, it’s guilt and grief over the murder of her best friend, who became
the third victim of the man known as the Campus Killer. For Josh, it’s to help
care for his sick father. Or so he says. Like the Hitchcock heroine she’s named
after, Charlie has her doubts. There’s something suspicious about Josh, from
the holes in his story about his father to how he doesn’t seem to want Charlie
to see inside the car’s trunk. As they travel an empty highway in the dead of
night, an increasingly worried Charlie begins to think she’s sharing a car with
the Campus Killer. Is Josh truly dangerous? Or is Charlie’s suspicion merely a
figment of her movie-fueled imagination?
What follows is a game of cat-and-mouse played out on
night-shrouded roads and in neon-lit parking lots, during an age when the only
call for help can be made on a pay phone and in a place where there’s nowhere
to run. In order to win, Charlie must do one thing—survive the night.
Coming out on- 6th July 2021
23. A Dark and Secret Place by Jen Williams
When prodigal daughter Heather Evans returns to her family home after her mother’s baffling suicide, she makes an alarming discovery–stacks and stacks of carefully preserved letters from notorious serial killer Michael Reave. The “Red Wolf,” as he was dubbed by the press, has been in prison for over twenty years, serving a life sentence for the gruesome and ritualistic murders of several women across the country, although he has always protested his innocence. The police have had no reason to listen, yet Heather isn’t the only one to have cause to re-examine the murders. The body of a young woman has just been found, dismembered and placed inside a tree, the corpse planted with flowers. Just as the Red Wolf once did.
What did Heather’s mother know? Why did she kill herself?
And with the monstrous Red Wolf safely locked inside a maximum security prison,
who is stalking young women now? Teaming up with DI Ben Parker, Heather hopes
to get some answers for herself and for the newest victims of this depraved
murderer. Yet to do that, she must speak to Michael Reave herself, and expose
herself to truths she may not be ready to face. Something dark is walking in
the woods, and it knows her all too well.
Coming out on- 8th June 2021
24. You Love Me (YOU #3) by Caroline Kepnes
Joe Goldberg is back. And he’s going to start a family – even if it kills him.
Joe Goldberg is done with cities, done with the muck and the
posers, done with Love. Now, he’s saying hello to nature, to simple pleasures
on a cozy island in the Pacific Northwest. For the first time in a long time,
he can just breathe.
He gets a job at the local library – he does know a thing or
two about books – and that’s where he meets her: Mary Kaye DiMarco. Librarian.
Joe won’t meddle, he will not obsess. He’ll win her the old fashioned way… by
providing a shoulder to cry on, a helping hand. Over time, they’ll both heal
their wounds and begin their happily ever after in this sleepy town.
The trouble is… Mary Kaye already has a life. She’s a
mother. She’s a friend. She’s… busy.
True love can only triumph if both people are willing to
make room for the real thing. Joe cleared his decks. He’s ready. And hopefully,
with his encouragement and undying support, Mary Kaye will do the right thing
and make room for him.
Coming out on- 6th April 2021
25. Ruby Falls by Deborah Goodrich Royce
On a brilliantly sunny July day, six-year-old Ruby is abandoned by her father in the suffocating dark of a Tennessee cave. Twenty years later, transformed into soap opera star Eleanor Russell, she is fired under dubious circumstances. Fleeing to Europe, she marries a glamorous stranger named Orlando Montague and keeps her past closely hidden.
Together, Eleanor and Orlando start afresh in LA. Setting up
house in a storybook cottage in the Hollywood Hills, Eleanor is cast in a dream
role—the lead in a remake of Rebecca. As she immerses herself in that eerie
gothic tale, Orlando’s personality changes, ghosts of her past re-emerge, and
Eleanor fears she is not the only person in her marriage with a secret.
In this thrilling and twisty homage to Daphne du Maurier’s
Rebecca, the story ricochets through the streets of Los Angeles, a dangerous
marriage to an exotic stranger, and the mind of a young woman whose past may
not release her.
Coming out on- 4th May 2021
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