Top 5 Mind-Blowing Mystery/Thrillers

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I feel bad about this topic because I haven’t read a lot of books from this genre and to think that it’s not just a simple mystery/thriller but a MIND-BLOWING one! So, honestly, today’s topic is the hardest for me! Haha. Some of the books I’m going to share are not 100% mystery/thriller. Rather, these books have somehow felt mysterious and gave a pang of thrill (at least, for me).

1. Girls of Glass by Brianna Labuskes

It takes more than a lie to hide the dark secrets of this picture-perfect family.

When the granddaughter of one of Florida’s most powerful judges disappears, it triggers a personal trauma for Detective Alice Garner: the kidnapping and murder of her own child. As a flood of painful memories comes rushing back, Alice sees herself in the guilt-ridden and emotionally fragile mother Charlotte Burke, who has become the target of a rush to judgment.

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2. Paper Towns by John Green

Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs into his life—dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge—he follows.

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3. White Cat by Holly Black

Cassel is cursed. Cursed by the memory of the fourteen year old girl he murdered. Life at school is a constant trial. Life at home even worse. No-one at home is ever going to forget that Cassel is a killer. No-one at home is ever going to forget that he isn’t a magic worker.

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4. Red Glove and Black Heart by Holly Black

Red Glove: In Cassel Sharpe’s world, they go together. Cassel always though he was an ordinary guy, until he realized his memories were being manipulated by his brothers. Now he knows the truth – he’s the most powerful curse worker around. (Read more on Goodreads)

Black Heart: Cassel Sharpe knows he’s been used as an assassin, but he’s trying to put all that behind him. He’s trying to be good, even though he grew up in a family of con artists and cheating comes as easily as breathing to him. (Read more on Goodreads)

 

5. The Perfect Liar by Thomas Christopher Greene

Susannah, a young widow and single mother, has remarried well: to Max, a charismatic artist and popular speaker whose career took her and her fifteen-year-old son out of New York City and to a quiet Vermont university town. Strong-willed and attractive, Susannah expects that her life is perfectly in place again. Then one quiet morning she finds a note on her door: I KNOW WHO YOU ARE.

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Have you read any of these books? I’d love to know your thoughts about it!

How about you? What are your Top 5 Mind-Blowing Mystery/Thriller? 🙂

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