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Thrillers

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SOURCES used in creating this Book Link brochure:Find Me An Author “Thriller Fiction Genre”. Accessed November 19, 2015.

http://www.findmeanauthor.com/thriller_fiction_genre.htm

Wikipedia. “Thriller Genre”. Accessed November 11, 2015. https://en /wikipedia.org/wiki/Thriller_(genre)

What Are Thrillers

The key elements of any thriller novel will be anticipation, suspense, and usually some type of psychological twist. The goal for authors writing within this genre is to keep the reader alert and on the edge of their seats. Though Thrillers and Suspense novels are closely linked, they do have distinct differences. Suspense novels consider the point of view of both the villain and the hero, whereas, thrillers let the reader become a witness to how the story plays out against the protagonist’s profession.

Thriller Sub-Genres

♦ Action thriller ♦ Comedy thriller ♦ Conspiracy thriller ♦ Crime thriller ♦ Erotic thriller ♦ Horror thriller ♦ Legal thriller ♦ Political thriller ♦ Psychological thriller ♦ Supernatural thriller ♦ Techno/Science Fiction thriller

Thriller Novels

♦ The 3rd Woman: A Thriller / Jonathan Freedland.

♦ After She’s Gone / Lisa Jackson

♦ Bazaar of Bad Dreams / Stephen King

♦ Black Dog Summer / Miranda Sherry

♦ Cartel / Don Winslow ♦ The First Wife / Erica Spindler

♦ Forty Thieves / Thomas Perry ♦ Girl With the Wrong Name /

Barnabas Miller ♦ Magician’s Lie /

Greer Macallister ♦ Orphan X : a novel / Gregg

Hurwitz ♦ Saving Grace / Jane Green ♦ What She Knew /

Gilly Macmillan

Thriller Series

♦ Cormoran Strike series / Robert Galbraith (a.k.a. J. K. Rowling)

♦ Kate Burkholder series / Linda Castillo

♦ Donovan Nash series / Philip Donlay

♦ Nick of Time series / John Gilstrap

♦ Michael Bennett series / by James Patterson

♦ Under Suspicion series / Mary Higgins Clark

♦ Bangkok books / John Burdett

Best Selling Thriller Authors

♦ Eric Amber ♦ Jeffrey Archer ♦ Ted Bell ♦ Dan Brown ♦ Frederick Forsyth ♦ Catherine Coulter

♦ Gillian Flynn ♦ Meg Gardiner ♦ Kate White ♦ Elizabeth Heiter ♦ Iris Johansen

Classic Thrillers

♦ The Spy Who Came In from the Cold / John Le Carre (the quintessential espionage thriller)

♦ The Odyssey / Homer (one of the oldest stories in the Western world and is considered the early model of the thriller.)

♦ From Russia with Love / Ian Fleming

♦ The War of the Worlds / H.G. Wells

♦ The Silence of the Lambs / Thomas Harris

♦ Presumed Innocent / Scott Turow

♦ Coma / Robin Cook

♦ The Andromeda Strain / Michael Crichton

♦ Killing Floor / Lee Child

♦ In Cold Blood / Truman Capote