Mystery, Thriller, Detective, Psychological books you'll love. Get spooked or feel like a detective.
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Detective / Police Mystery
Thriller
Multi-Parter
Potential Supernatural
Mystery Thriller Romance OH MY
Detective / Police Mystery
These recommendations have a main character that is or has something to do with the police, detectives, FbI, etc.
She works for a forensics lab and has a history with crime and trauma. Her husband is a hot ATF agent (not really a romance he just sounds super hot)
Last Seen
Follows a police officer in a small town and let me tell you this one is so good but it hurts, be prepared to be breathless.
We Are All Guilty Here
She works for Search and Rescue bit I figured it still counted in a way.
Have You Seen Her
He was a lawyer and was disbarred. Are we rooting for him?
The Substitution Order
Not all books need a happy ending to be good. This was proof of that.
We Are All the Same in the Dark
What if your rescuer was actually your captor? Except you are kind of into him so hopefully he's not your captor.
Left To Die
Might have been too late to save her, but not too late to fight for her.
Last Seen Alone
No Matter how hard you try you cant outrun your past.
The Unforgiven
Agatha Christie for a true classic
The Agatha Christie Collection
Its giving vintage but also can't even try to guess this ending
I Know Who You Are
This one is addictive
Paranoid
Now detective solving a mystyery that has been haunting them for years
This Is How I Lied
Murder, danger, FBI, seriously sinister and action packed.
Danger in Numbers
I wish I was a part of the Krewe and had special abilities. Would make being in law enforcement so much better.
Seeing Darkness
So cute, I love reading to my dog and this book just basically made it a reality.
How to Talk to Your Dog About Murder
Thriller
Think Michael Jackson.. JK. But definitely not following the police or a detective.
Girl Power! You think you know how this is going to play out and then at the end you are like wow, okay then.
Please Don't Lie
The real interest of the book wasn't Grady or what happened to Abby. The real interest is The Isle of Amberley and I defitnely want more!
Beautiful Ugly
Yes we love a beautifully wrapped up terrible horror show
The House Guests
The type of book where you feel like you are falling apart with the main character and you aren't sure who the sane person is anymore
Claire, Darling
For those us who have been her, who believe women, who are following The Clancy Trial
Her Many Faces
A book on finding the truth, redemption, memories and what people will do for their family. The lengths they will go. this book had a little bit of everything. drama, mystery, love, murder and even some semblance of a cult.
Forget Me Not
Never considered the idea that my own therapist could be someone who needs therapy instead of being the person offering it until now
Tell Me Who You Are
It's giving slightly gothic and defintely vibey
The Blue Hour
Will have you screaming “dang are you for real”. Home really is where the bodies are, there was no lie here.
Home Is Where the Bodies Are
Is it supernatural or just tragic? My vote is tragic
The Night We Lost Him
It gives Lovely Bones. I definitely wasn't expecting to make me as sad as it did.
Then She Was Gone
I have this memory of my grams having borrowed this book from our public library that had to do with a skeleton key. I told her that when I was old enough I was going to read that book too. As I got older I forgot about the book and once I had rememb...
The Turn of the Key
Follows a psychotherapist and the criminally insane, or so we think.
The Silent Patient
With friends like these who needs any
The Last Time We Met
Feels like a true crime story. Nothing a mom wont do to protect her kids.
Killman Creek
Following the criminally insane. Nina prose's front cover quote was spot on. I found myself staying up well past my bedtime reading. The Anna O mystery had me guessing until the very last page.
Anna O
Women, their book clubs and their children.
The Neighbor's Secret
What are you supposed to do when your whole world falls apart and you don't realize until it's too late?
Hold Tight
Truly, from the bottom of my heart, wtf.
Beautiful Bad
We love a classic neighborhood drama.
Someone We Know
Mothers and Daughters against all
Freefall
Sinister af for a thriller mystery
The Family
TW SV SA
Such a Pretty Girl
Talk about family drama! I HOPE this becomes a movie one day.
Bad
Scary and honestly a little bit crazy. WOW.
The Girl Before
When your whole life is a lie what are you supposed to do
Our House
Murder House. Would you live there? How can you forget or move on or make it feel love again
The Woman in the Dark
Definitely gave me the creeps
Intensity
You think you know someone and then BAM
I Invited Her in
Why does a group of friends getting together makes things feel so sinister
The Hunting Party
1,2, it's coming for you. Seriously those movies where they each die one by one and yuo know its coming but you just dont know when keeps me at the edge of my seat. The book version of this is a whole other ball game
Wicked Game
NO one is safe in this blizzard
An Unwanted Guest
A bunch of intersting thriller mystery short stories!
Nothing Good Happens After Midnight
An intense read that had me seriously stressing. Would definitely make a good movie.
The Marsh King's Daughter
I love these types of stories. Watching people, becoming sort of ethralled or obsessed with them. Wondering what it is like to be them, only for disaster to strike.
Looker
Something wicked this way comes. Leave it up to the girls who lived through it to be able to solve the mystery.
The Shining Girls
Sometimes just being friends with someone leads you into a game you didn't know you were playing, and if you did know you would have run far far away from it.
The Invitation
A mothers run on the clock to find out how to help her son, and why would he do something like this? Truly pulse pounding and stressful but ultimately a mind fudge.
Wrong Place Wrong Time
Being a parent sounds so stressful but this book makes it more of a stressful yet exciting adventure. The things we do for our kids.
Hold Tight
The whole town is a mystery, people know more than they are letting on. One person running from the past, or the truth, or maybe something more.
Still Water
Sort of devastating and definitely tragic. We are here for redemption.
Girl, Forgotten
Sort of just ominous and spooky short stories written by Indigenious voices
Never Whistle at Night
A very rich and spooky thriller YIKES
The Devil's Playground
Multi-Parter
Yay for a story continuation!
Written by one of the hosts of Morbid True Crime Podcast and so good!
The Butcher and the Wren
(part 2) and so good!
The Butcher Game
Potential Supernatural
Is it supernatural? Is it a monster? Is it fantasy? WHAT IS IT
My mind has been thoroughly bent
The Ghost Tree
SO fun! Has detectives/FBI but they are “special” they have abilities that most people don't have to help them solve crimes.
Fear the Dark
A very fun read
The Other Side of Mrs. Wood
Mystery Thriller Romance OH MY
Might have a love/romance aspect
Such a fun read! Mystery with a little love and a lot of drama - who can you trust?
Matchmaking for Psychopaths
For us easily attached girlies who are a lil crazy
Love Letters to a Serial Killer
(part 1) Not really a romance but they talking about dating and I am lowkey obsessed with them and I promise you will be to after reading
Killing Me
(part 2) I accidently read this one first and it was so good, made me so excited for book 1. Thriller, Mystery, Girl Power, Inuendos all in one!
