In terms of serial killer thrillers, I recently absolutely loved the Butcher and Jar of Hearts by Jennifer Hillier. Also I’m thinking of picking up The Angel Maker at some point soon, so hopefully I enjoy that too. Great video!
Really like this theme based recommendation and choice of themes. I would suggest few more for next video : mystery meets comedy, super dark thrillers, horror touch in mystery, friends group based thrillers, very well written (literary) mystery thriller. Also I am picking The house in pines. Seems interesting
Hi, I have always followed your advice. I was really struck by the beauty of "Motion Detection", a thriller book that I found by chance on Amz while looking for a new book. The cover intrigued me, it's an unusual book with a spectacular ending, I highly recommend it!
Just picked up Going Dark and House in the Pines has been on my TBR for a few months! Excited to read both! I guess not really a trope but it'd be interesting to see books with the wildest plot twist, Frienemies ( The writing Retreat ^.^), or haunted house thillers? Great recs as always!
I've always been a romance (and minor fantasy/dystopian) reader but have always wanted to get into thrillers/murder mysteries. I read The Inmate by Freida McFadden and absolutely DEVOURED it! this video definitely helps give me more recommendations.
Great video and great recs! I absolutely love marriage issues in my thrillers, or secrets in a marriage so Behind Closed Doors was a favorite of mine. I also enjoy cults as well, so I'll Be You was a favorite too. Rich women drama is always something I love in thrillers too.
So many books here already on my TBR - The Drift, The Angel Maker, The Soulmate. I've read books by all three of these authors and really enjoyed them. I'm even more excited to read them now after hearing you talk about them! Just added The Writing Retreat to my ever-expanding TBR ☺
It’s one of those stories with a lot of characters that you have to pay attention to which I think turns some people off but I liked it! I read it for Reading Wryly’s book club and we have a discussion on her channel if you’d like to learn more 😊
I love detective or crime procedurals aka the serial killer trope. My author recos for readers like me: Jeffery Deaver, Chris Carter, Steve Cavanagh, Jilliane Hoffman. Also Ashley, maybe you'd like to read some books by African and Asian authors? I just finished *Second Sister by Chan Ho-Kei* and it was excellent. Also reading The Missing American by Kwei Quartey, yet another terrific author.
I just borrowed The House in the Pines! Behind Closed Doors and The Burning Girl were great, but I hated The Book Of Cold Cases! It was the first book I ever returned to Audible 😂.
Dear Ashley, I have also just read Behind Closed Doors and couldn’t put it down. I’ve addd Soulmate to my TBR x Thankyou for brilliant recommendations x
I bought the new neighbour after watching this video, had to get it shipped from America and was extremely disappointed. Didnt make it past 83 pages. Punctuation mistakes, missing full stops and the word BAM repeated 30 times as protag hits the punching bag. Something was missing from this book including smooth dialogue. I realise why it wasnt stocked anywhere in Australia
Great recommendations but the trope you are describing is not locked room thrillers. A locked room thriller or an impossible mystery involves a crime in a scenario which makes it appear impossible for the perpatrator to have left/entered the scene of the crime. For instance "The Mystery of the Yellow Room" in which the attacker disappears from a room in which all the windows are barred and the door is guarded. Other great examples are "The Hollow Man" in which the killer similarly seems to vanish in front of the eyes of the witnesses and "Rim of the Pit" in which the killer disappears without leaving any footprints in the fresh snow. See also the brilliant "Tokyo Zodiac Murders" and Agatha Christie's "They Do it with Mirrors". What you are describing - a thriller about a group of people in a secluded place - is called a closed circle mystery. The most famous example being "And Then There Were None". It is often mistaken for a locked room mystery except there are no impossibilities or... well, a murder in a locked room.
I didn’t like House in the Pines. It was slow and boring and maybe I missed the twist. Spoiler Alert! Hypnosis and fake cabin seems a stretch. Felt like the cult books we don’t like!
