What are your favourite Thriller novels?

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Brad Thor, the late Vince Flynn, and Clive Cussler’s Dirk Pitt novels are my favorites. I love Michael Connelly’s books dearly and also the ones by Robert Crais. C.J. Box is superb especially his books with Joe Pickett as the hero. Box also wrote a series with a serial killer truck driver that had all but gave me nightmares. I love Dean Koontz although he can get very wordy at times.
I don’t like books with unreliable narrators at all. I tried The Woman in the Window and The Wife Between Us. Didn’t like them.
I love Sue Grafton’s alphabet mysteries and am so sad she died before she could write the last one.
 
You ever try Lee Child? The Jack Reacher series? great stuff.

I fully agree on Michael Connelly, perhaps the best detective writer out there now.

I have read some CJ Box too—I just bought a copy of the newest one, The Disappeared. Have not started it yet.
 
“It”, “The Shining”, “The Stand” and “11/22/63”
 
The Andromeda Strain is excellent. I read it for the first time a couple years ago and am amazed that it was written in 1969 and stands the test of time.
 
I read a collection of his stories. Very well written, but they can sure ruin a sunny day. 😎
 
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I just read The Outsider by King. It was a cool detective horror hybrid. The Bill Hodges trilogy should be read first, starting with Mr. Mercedes. (You will understand why later). But the best detective series without paranormal overtones is possibly the Bosch series by Michael Connelly.
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I love Michael Connelly and the Bosch series.

I read Mr. Mercedes - were the last two good?
 
Finders Keepers was good. But you have to read End of Watch if you read Mr Mercedes. It is directly related beyond featuring Bill Hodges and some other characters, but things get really weird. And the Outsider is not a Bill Hodges book, but if you did like those books, I would say try that. A detective story that gets creepy and paranormal. A cross over with the Bill Hodges series happens…so it makes more sense if you read at least End of Watch.
 
11/22/63 was great…until the end. King wrote this great time travel story and then just phoned it in at the end.
 
It has been awhile since I read it, but I think I do remember being disappointed in the ending.
I thought they were making a movie of this
book. I haven’t heard about any release date though.
 
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Finders Keepers was good. But you have to read End of Watch if you read Mr Mercedes. It is directly related beyond featuring Bill Hodges and some other characters, but things get really weird. And the Outsider is not a Bill Hodges book, but if you did like those books, I would say try that. A detective story that gets creepy and paranormal. A cross over with the Bill Hodges series happens…so it makes more sense if you read at least End of Watch.
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Thanks for the recommendation. I did buy
Mr. Mercedes in paperback and I splurged and bought 11/22/63 in hardback. Anymore I check books out from the library.
 
11/22/63? It was made into a mini-series by Hulu. It was terrible, they did not stay true to the novel.
 
oh, is that what happened to it? I thought it was going to be made into a full length
motion picture. bummer!
 
They made a mini-series on Hulu. I started watching but did not finish—not that it wasn’t good, I just never got around to finishing it.
 
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Which work of Stephen King would you consider to be the best?
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Different Seasons, Night Shift, Dance Macabre, Salems Lot, Skeleton Crew, Pet Cemetery, Christine, The Stand, Dead Zone and I kind of liked Talisman …Loved Eyes of the Dragon…TommyKnockers was the last I read that was enjoyable for me…

I would never read any of these again…maybe The Stand…that was his opus as far as I am concerned…
 
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Which work of Stephen King would you consider to be the best?
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Different Seasons, Night Shift, Dance Macabre, Salems Lot, Skeleton Crew, Pet Cemetery, Christine, The Stand, Dead Zone and I kind of liked Talisman …Loved Eyes of the Dragon…TommyKnockers was the last I read that was enjoyable for me…

I would never read It nor really any of these again…maybe The Stand…that was his opus as far as I am concerned…
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I did like Dead Zone and the movie was good also.
 
Speaking of mini series—the Bosch show made for Amazon is not the same as the novels, but Michael Connelly is involved in the production. Overall, if you have Amazon, I would say that the Bosch show, while not as good as the books, at least does them justice. It is worth watching. My wife never read the Bosch books, but she loves the show. I have read (I think) all of the Bosch books, but not in the order they were written, because I started long after the Black Echo was published in the 1990s. I can’t wait for a new one.
 
We have Amazon, but I have not been able to watch the Bosch shows yet.

I fell behind on his books so I still have a lot to read.
 
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