Thrillers Worth Knowing

A solicitor visits a client in the mountains, only to find the client has teeth.

A doctor creates a chemical shortcut to immorality and finds the commute is impossible to stop.

A mourning prince meets his father's ghost, feigns madness, and delays a murder until almost everyone is dead.

A London detective solves complex crimes while his roommate takes notes on the absurdity of it all.

A student kills a pawnbroker to prove he is a superman, then discovers he lacks the stomach for the aftermath.

A family curse involving a glowing giant dog forces a detective to leave London for the foggy Devon moors.

The Opera House has a phantom, a basement lake, and an employee who refuses to retire.

A bored expatriate finds a corpse in his flat and must outrun the police to stop a global war.

A phantom billiards game, a kidnapper demanding gold for fingers, and a dream woman with a very real knife.

An orphan girl inherits a castle and a guardian who treats hospitality like a hostage negotiation.

A governess protects two beautiful children from ghosts only she can see, until her protection becomes their greatest danger.

An undercover detective infiltrates a cabal of anarchists, only to find the revolution is surprisingly bureaucratic.

The heir disappears on Christmas Eve, leaving behind a baffled town and a permanently unwritten conclusion.

A mining engineer swaps his uniform for a tweed suit to stop a German intelligence plot.

A self-appointed detective finds a babe on his doorstep and twenty years of mystery in a sleepy Revolutionary War monument town.

A wife loses a borrowed necklace, a shepherd sees a spirit, and a Babylonian man tries to remain reasonable in Babylon.

Telepathy and horse racing collide; it turns out human nature is still just as messy as ever.

A detective returns from the dead. His friend is thrilled. The villains, less so.

A village girl loses her innocence to a liar and her reputation to everyone else.

A coded warning arrives, a man disappears, and a long-standing debt comes due.

A fan brings death, debt, and a very persistent ghost. Nobody should have opened the box.

An antiquarian’s curiosity proves hazardous as long-dead monks, cursed ash trees, and forgotten whistles unleash specific, physical, and very angry spirits.

A nurse swaps two babies in their cribs; twenty years later, the wrong boy inherits everything.

A collection of sleuths, secrets, and enough missing pages to fill a police report.

Russian peasants outwork devils, survive crushing poverty in ten-foot stone rooms, and learn why a stolen egg starts a fire.

British spies race across Europe to prevent a German-backed holy war from setting the East on fire.

Lawyers with thin wallets, sharp minds, and a total disregard for the refined side of the courtroom.

A broker weaponizes a market panic to incinerate his rivals, but the fire consumes everything.

A drifter takes a job delivering memoirs and ends up accidentally inheriting a throne and a murder investigation at a country house.

A law student, a secretary, and several medical students encounter spectral visitors in isolated cabins and drafty city rentals.

Billions of parallel timelines, one persistent gang of kidnappers, and zero room for error.

A young wife is shot in her own bedroom, and the history of the house suggests she isn't the first.

An ambassador warns New Texas of a canine alien invasion. Texans remain unimpressed by talking dogs.

Three brothers balance farm chores, mystery-solving, and the final weeks of military school.

A stage play turns its readers into walking disasters. The city is just collateral damage.

An invisible predator stalks the wilderness, but the jury is only interested in your sanity.

Big Jake runs the city through fear, until his goons start slipping on soap and bad luck.

A man wakes up married to a stranger, only to discover he is actually an alien impersonator.

She is a gold-rich heiress with a murder alibi and a very complicated guardian.

A telegraphist with supersonic hearing lands in China and discovers the local intrigue is deafening.

A Fleet Street barber offers a very close shave while his neighbor sells the most popular, mysterious pies in London.

A century of tragedy in a cellar, until the narrator brings a carboy of acid.

A rash of graft, riots, and resignations suggests the American government isn't just failing — it is being mentally nudged.

A Japanese industrialist tanks the U.S. economy, all while brandishing a sword that is definitely a fake.

A director tracks a missing woman to a jungle clinic where fertility meets a terrifying, proprietary agenda.

A shuttered window, a sliding stair landing, and an unopened letter lead a club of girls to a family reunion.

A wounded war veteran moves in with a man who identifies perfumes and catches murderers using forensic chemistry.

A sky-cop loses his fiancée to a high-tech pirate and goes undercover in Cornwall to ground a flying fortress.

A man inherits a hat, a curse, and a family property disaster that refuses to die.

An artist kills a friend in his Chelsea studio, then treats the body like unwanted furniture.

A boy grows fast, hides his twin in the attic, and everything goes wrong.

From murderous cats to phantom toes, twenty-five accounts of the supernatural range from the psychological to the suspiciously culinary.

A lieutenant visits a space station only to find the entire facility hijacked by impostors.

A doctor narrates a murder investigation while hiding the truth in plain sight.

The FBI has a telepath problem, and 1973 is already busy enough.

A man inherits a box of clippings and discovers the stars are finally aligning for a giant, gelatinous apocalypse.

The little grey cells work overtime, while Hastings watches from the window in confusion.

An officer survives a Welsh social season and a Russian winter, only to lose a limb and his first love.

A millionaire is found buried in a bunker, and his golf game was the least of his problems.

A girl witnesses a London subway death and decides to solve the case herself.

Professor Fordney catches killers and kidnappers by spotting the one detail that doesn't fit a liar's script.

A scientist treats every crime like a math equation, and the answers are rarely pretty.

A psychic princess visits a seaside spa, disrupts the local social order, and finds that death is the only cure.

A disciplined soldier ruins his life for a Romany pickpocket who values her absolute freedom more than her heartbeat.

A body appears in a stranger's bathroom, and Lord Peter is currently having a bad Tuesday.

Thirteen distinct windows into lives ranging from Andean bridges to the dusty streets of Gaza.

A quiet priest walks into a major international manhunt. The criminal never stood a chance.

Uncle Peter cleans up the local mob by turning gangsters into dust, confusing everyone.

The wealthy matriarch dies in a locked room; only a retired policeman remembers how to listen.

A locked library, a deadly telephoto lens, and a house hiding secrets in its very windows.

A green mummy goes missing, a man ends up in a packing crate, and everyone becomes a detective.

A man lures his enemy into a wine cellar. The enemy never leaves.

A dumpy priest with a club-like umbrella explains how he catches killers by mentally committing their murders first.

A scientific expedition to Antarctica discovers that the continent’s original inhabitants are not extinct, just very, very irritable.

A legendary detective solves high-stakes mysteries involving horse racing and family secrets before meeting his match at a Swiss waterfall.

The detective retires to his bees, but the world keeps sending him its messiest problems.

A priest finds the truth where the professionals only find a headache.

An uncle challenges his niece to a duel of wits, and the referee is Poirot.

A cavalry officer faces war, a secret engagement, and an unwelcome suitor named Lord Slubber de Gullion.

A galactic con man turns detective when a massive warship vanishes from a shipyard using nothing but forged paperwork.

An American heiress boards a train with a fortune in jewels but never reaches her destination alive.

A wealthy uncle is shot, and his heirs expect a quick inheritance and zero consequences.

A global conspiracy attempts to reshape the world; Poirot and Hastings try to keep up.

A drawing teacher meets a woman in white at midnight, triggering a frantic, multi-witness conspiracy.

A stolen Indian gem leaves a smear of wet paint and a trail of ruined reputations across a Yorkshire estate.

A mysterious gift of pearls leads to a locked-room murder, a high-speed boat chase, and a very grumpy detective.

An elderly woman dies, leaving behind a fortune and a nurse with surprisingly efficient bookkeeping habits.

Two young, broke, and bored Londoners decide to start an adventure agency; they immediately find a dangerous international conspiracy.

A British agent and an American painter race through France while history falls apart around them.

A millionaire's daughter is strangled for her rubies, leaving Hercule Poirot to untangle a web of false alibis on the Riviera.

A doctor performs brain surgery to grant a glimpse of reality. Reality refuses to be polite.

A group of friends finds a body, a note, and an international criminal conspiracy hidden in plain sight.

An embassy official demands a bomb, a spy recruits his brother-in-law, and the Greenwich Observatory becomes a target for boredom.

Priscilla hunts a German spy in an Irish bay, while her cousin Frank tries to maintain his dignity.

A surgeon ruins his life for a lady, a train vanishes without tracks, and the sky is full of jelly.

A government agent chases a brilliant criminal mastermind through London, only to find the villain is already ahead.

A reporter hunts for the truth behind a digital blackmail syndicate and a historical secret.

A criminal queen gathers a rogues' gallery to target a detective. The detective crashes the party.