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1,192 Mystery Thriller reviews on The Bookish Elf. Mystery Thriller here most often crosses with Crime, Horror and Fantasy. The authors we review most are Freida McFadden and James Patterson.

GIANT- 2nd Inspector Shaktawat Thriller by Vijay Medtia drops Inspector Ajay Shaktawat into 1999 Mumbai, where a catering manager's murder opens onto missing money, corporate walls and threats against his own family. Medtia blends…

Shifta by Miles Joyner opens with a Lunar New Year attack and never slows down. Bodyguard Yemi Uzunma faces a revived assassination market and a taunting hacker called Nightjar while protecting a polarizing senator.…

Sir by Martin James Miriam follows John Klee, a skeptical New York accountant haunted by the numbers 9-1-1, into a world of lucid dreams, diaries from 1944 and a chilling online prophet. Blending simulation…

Shadows of Leningrad by Kay Williams returns to Kate Hennessey in 1991 New York, where a brutal attack on her mentor forces her to run his film production and his investigation at once. Grounded…

The Confessor by Noah Christopher opens the Logan Hollister series with a killer who forces liars to write their own confessions and a wealthy LAPD detective who cannot stay away from the work. Alternating…

Debbie Berlin's Devil's Tango, book two of The Third Estate series, delivers cinematic espionage with heart. A whispered secret drags Sophie Allard into a shadow war beside assassin Kai Lovac, where evidence vanishes and…

The Matryoshka Murders by Kay Williams drops an American documentary filmmaker into 1991 Leningrad, where a missing girl and an accidental piece of footage make her a target. Written with firsthand knowledge of that…

In A Moment’s Surrender, John Burt turns a shocking murder and a devastating secret into a profound meditation on love, grief, and human forgiveness. Set between Reno and Riverside in 1980, this psychologically rich…

Constants by E.B. Miller follows Mark Robson, who dies every 18 minutes and 32 seconds and wakes in a new reality. Told in real time across wildly different worlds, this inventive speculative debut blends…

Locked In a Box by Sheila Sharpe is a masterfully layered psychological thriller in which therapist Kate O'Dade confronts the repressed memories surrounding her opera-star father's death at the Met. Blending clinical authenticity, dual…
























GIANT- 2nd Inspector Shaktawat Thriller, Shifta, Sir, Shadows of Leningrad, The Confessor are our highest-rated Mystery Thriller reviews.
Freida McFadden (18), James Patterson (11), Ruth Ware (10), Shari Lapena (10), Agatha Christie (10).
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