Hello all,
Not been on this site for a long while for many reasons. Just wondering if anyone had recommendations for psychological thrillers.
I have just read A Predator And A Psychopath by Jay Kerk and have pasted in my review below:
This book scared me.
This book shocked me.
This book made me angry.
This.book was very adult material.
But what a book this was. Never read anything like this before. This is the first book I have read by Jay Meek but I will definitely be looking out for more.
Beware: Having read this book you will always ‘remember it.
Cheers – Joe
I’d suggest absolutely anything and everything by Patricia Highsmith if you have yet to indulge.
Thanks penciksqueezer. Will check her out
The Talented Mr Ripley is superb. Not a bad film neither.
Indeed. The first time I thought, Matt Damon is actually a good actor.
All her books are insanely compulsive to read, even the ones not thrillers as such. Just a shame that there aren’t any more now I’ve read them all.
My girlfriend has just started her first Patricia Highsmith (Strangers on a Train) and is expressing fervent enthusiasm
Ruth Wendell – start with Judgement in Stone – she tells you the whole novel in the first 13 words
Thanks Jaygee. Is it worth reading the rest of the book then 🙂
It certainly is.
Those first 13 words in a Judgement in Stone started me off an a 35-year love affair with her books that only ended when she’d died a couple of years back.
Wow, have you checked that book out on Amazon. You can get the audio cassette version for £224.50!!!
That’s the Jonathan Ross version, obvs. You mean Rendell. 😉
Wats!
I’m a sucker for audiobook thrillers at the moment.I’m making myself do 10000 steps a day minimum at the moment, because I had become alarmingly corpulent and unfit. Audible has come to my aid.
I’ve got through endless contemporary easy listening dramas about families who are not all they seem (Grown Ups by Marion Keyes) , a so so what-if about a suburban family winning the lottery and predictably everything going tits up (‘Just My Luck’ by Adele Parks) a sinister tale of an magazine intern destroying her editor’s life (‘Precious You’ by Helen Monks Takhar), atmospheric tale of a Parisian nurse taking care of a dying despotic old man in rural France (Nightingale, by Marina Kemp)
Not quite a thriller, but I just finished absolutely brilliant debut novel by Eliza Clark, “Boy Parts” which I bought on a punt. Blackly comic, not for faint of heart, beautifully written (and narrated by the author in her addictive Geordie drawl).
I quite like the Ann Cleeves books, with a particular liking for the Shetland books.
The Jackson Brodie books by Kate Atkinson are aces too.
Maybe take a look at Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane. Similar vibe to your recent read by the sound of it.
Also worth checking out Red Dragon & Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris. Both thunderingly good reads.
Black Dahlia by James Ellroy is a sort of hybrid 40s police procedural, serial killer, horror mash up. Grisly and bleak.
Another recommendation for Patricia Highsmith. The Ripley books are brilliant and I’d also suggest The Blunderer if you want to delve a little deeper into her back catalogue.
Finally, Stephen King’s Misery is a superb thriller that details both psychological and physical trauma.
Thanks for the tips Marwood, will definitely add them to my reading list