Are you getting bored during the lockdown? Indulging in creative art, watching web series on streaming platforms, and reading books would be helping many of you to beat the quarantine blues. For those of you who want to curl up with a good book to pass the time and want book recommendations, you can look up the reading lists these best thrillers during this lockdown.
1. The Wife Between Us
On the surface, The Wife Between Us looks like a familiar love triangle story, but as the story progresses, you’ll be shocked at the high-paced twists and turns. Vanessa is the ex-wife jealous of her young, pretty replacement, Nellie. Vanessa will stop at nothing to prevent her ex-husband Richard’s marriage.
2. The Dry by Jane Harper
The Dry begins with Federal Agent Aaron Falk receiving a note that demands he return to his hometown. The reason: the death of his best friend, who Frank once used as a false alibi years ago. Now, he must delve into his friend’s death and finally answer unresolved questions — all while keeping buried secrets safe.
3. The Widow by Fiona Barton
Jean Taylor’s always kept quiet about her husband — and the child abuse he’s been accused of. Now that he’s dead, will she finally talk? And if she does, will it actually be the truth?
4. The Butterfly Garden by Dot Hutchison
In a remote mansion with a beautiful garden overseen by the Gardener, a disturbed man captures young women and tattoos them to make them look like butterflies.
5. Stillhouse Lake by Rachel Caine
Stay-at-home mom Gina Royal’s life is turned upside down when a car accident reveals her husband’s secret: He’s a serial killer. With a new name, a new home, and her ex in prison, she’s ready for a fresh start. Then a body turns up in a nearby lake — and threatening letters show up at her door.
6. Verity by Colleen Hoover
Things seem to be looking up for struggling writer Lowen Ashleigh when she accepts a job completing a successful series for injured bestselling writer Verity Crawford. But when she discovers and reads Verity’s hidden, unfinished autobiography, she learns secrets she was never supposed to know. And as she starts to fall for Verity’s husband, she realizes she might be able to use those secrets to her advantage.
7. The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter
Twenty-eight years ago, sisters Charlotte and Samantha Quinn were traumatized by a home attack that left their mother dead and their father devastated. Now, a new tragedy hits their hometown, and Charlotte, a lawyer, is at the center. What secrets will she uncover about the crime that tore her family apart?
8. Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney
Amber Reynolds is in a coma. She can’t remember how she got there. But she knows it wasn’t an accident. Terrified and trapped in her own body, she tries to piece together her memories of the last week. With a husband who no longer loves her, a sister hiding a dangerous secret, and an ex-boyfriend who can’t let go of her, Amber knows that someone is lying, and her life is still very much in danger. But can she force herself to wake up before it’s too late?
9. The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena
Anne and Marco leave their 6-month-old baby home alone while they attend a party next door….nothing could go wrong, right? Fans of high-paced domestic thrillers will tear through this one, especially as Anne and Marco learn they’ve been keeping yearslong secrets from each other.
10. The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
In this mystery thriller, criminal psychotherapist Theo Faber has been given the opportunity of his career when he begins working with Alicia Berenson, a formerly famous painter who has just shot her fashion photographer husband Gabriel five times in the face, and has since gone silent. As Theo tries to get Alicia to talk, she becomes more of an infamous figure, and the prices of her past paintings skyrocket. But no one knows why she did what she did, and Theo is determined to find out.
Bed, kitchen, table, couch, repeat. As the coronavirus pandemic sweeps the globe, many of us with the privilege of staying home to settle into a sense of routine and are looking for ways to occupy the time. Comment down below if you like our recommendations or if you have other mystery novels for us.