Mindbending Thrillers With Secrets Hiding in Plain Sight
What if everyone around you turned out to be a liar, including people you thought you knew? And what if someone out there was trying to break you from within, toying with your sense of what’s true or false?
A good thriller keeps the reader in suspense, holding their breath as they read on to see what comes next. Some of the best thrillers involve mind games: people finding they can no longer trust their sense of what is real and what is false, and having to match wits with accomplished liars and masters of deception. Be prepared to be glued to the edge of your seat with this captivating list of psychological thrillers.
Travis Devine’s humdrum life as a lower-level employee at a Wall Street firm is dramatically, horribly upended when he receives a strange email saying only “She is dead.” Moments later, the police are demanding to speak to him about the death of his ex-girlfriend Sara; her death by hanging may have been a suicide…or it may not have been. Things grow even stranger, and more dangerous, when Travis is coerced into helping with a secret investigation into his employers: an investigation that will lead to high-stakes encounters with some of the most powerful people in the country, and a killer who has Travis very much in their sights.
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Erin Roll is a freelance writer, editor, and proofreader. Her favorite genres to read are mystery, science fiction, and fantasy, and her TBR pile is likely to be visible on Google Maps. Before becoming an editor, Erin worked as a journalist and photographer, and she has won far too many awards from the New Jersey Press Association. Erin lives at the top floor of a haunted house in Montclair, NJ. She enjoys reading (of course), writing, hiking, kayaking, music, and video games.