18 books like Red Dragon

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Big Little Lies Liane Moriarty · 2014 · ★ 4.5 · 482p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Pirriwee Public is a beautiful little beachside primary school where children are taught that ‘sharing is caring.’ So how has the annual School Trivia Night ended in full-blown riot? Sirens are wailing. People are screaming. The principal is mortified. And one parent is dead. Was it a murder, a tragic accident or just good parents gone bad? As the parents at Pirriwee Public are about to discover,… Shares: Thriller, Mystery

Dead Inside Chandler Morrison · 2015 · ★ 3.4 · 166p · ≈ 5h · Moderate A young hospital security guard with a disturbingly unique taste in women. A maternity doctor with a horrifically unusual appetite. When the two of them meet, they embark on a journey of self-discovery while shattering societal norms and engaging in destructively aberrant behavior. As they unwittingly help each other understand a world in which neither seems to belong, they begin to realize… Shares: Cannibalism, Horror

Four Past Midnight Stephen King · 1990 · ★ 3.9 · 694p · ≈ 23h · Moderate Four Past Midnight is a collection of novellas written by Stephen King in 1988 and 1989 and published in August 1990. It is his second book of this type, the first one being Different Seasons. The collection won the Bram Stoker Award in 1990 for Best Collection and was nominated for a Locus Award in 1991. One Past Midnight: "[The Langoliers][1]" takes a red-eye flight from L.A. to Boston into a… Shares: Dissociative identity disorder, Horror, Thriller

Under a Watchful Eye Adam Nevill · 2017 · ★ 4.0 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Moderate 399 pages ; 24 cm Shares: Stalking, Horror, Thriller

Cadáver exquisito Agustina Bazterrica · 2015 · ★ 4.2 · 224p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans—though no one calls them that anymore. His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then… Shares: Cannibalism, Horror, Thriller

Seeds of Yesterday V.C. Andrews · 1984 · ★ 4.2 · 382p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Seeds of Yesterday is a novel written by V. C. Andrews. It is the fourth book in the Dollanganger Series. The story continues from the point of view of the protagonist, Cathy, following her from the age of 52 until her death a few years later. ---------- Also contained in: If There Be Thorns / Seeds of Yesterday Shares: Child Abuse, Novel, Horror, Thriller

The Firm John Grisham · 1991 · ★ 4.1 · 501p · ≈ 16h · Moderate The Firm is a 1991 legal thriller by American writer John Grisham. It was his second book and the first which gained wide popularity. ---------- Also contained in: Novels (Firm / Pelican Brief) Reader's Digest Condensed Books. Volume 3 1991 Selections from Reader's Digest condensed books and other Reader's Digest Publications [1]: https://www.jgrisham.com/the-firm/ Shares: FBI, Mystery

The Client John Grisham · 1993 · ★ 4.1 · 566p · ≈ 18h · Moderate In a weedy lot on the outskirts of Memphis, two boys watch a shiny Lincoln pull up to the curb...Eleven-year-old Mark Sway and his younger brother were sharing a forbidden cigarette when a chance encounter with a suicidal lawyer left Mark knowing a bloody and explosive secret: the whereabouts of the most sought-after dead body in America. Now Mark is caught between a legal system gone mad and a… Shares: FBI, Thriller, Mystery

Exquisite Corpse Poppy Z. Brite · 1996 · ★ 3.8 · 244p · ≈ 8h · Moderate To serial slayer Andrew Compton, murder is an art, the most intimate art. After feigning his own death to escape from prison, Compton makes his way to the United States with the sole ambition of bringing his "art" to new heights. Tortured by his own perverse desires, and drawn to possess and destroy young boys, Compton inadvertently joins forces with Jay Byrne, a dissolute playboy who has pushed… Shares: Cannibalism, Horror, Thriller

Everywhere that Mary went Lisa Scottoline · 1993 · ★ 4.0 · 359p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Lisa Scottoline's breakout novel. Mary DiNunzio is in a cutthroat competition for partner of her law firm -- until crank phone calls seem to follow her every move... and the shadowboxing turns deadly. Shares: Stalking, Horror, Thriller, Mystery

Danse Macabre Stephen King · 1980 · ★ 3.8 · 480p · ≈ 16h · Moderate This is a non-fiction study of the horror genre including books, movies, television, etc. ([source][1]) ---------- Also contained in: Works (Danse Macabre / Salem's Lot / Shining [1]: https://stephenking.com/library/nonfiction/danse_macabre.html Shares: Horror, Thriller

The Institute Stephen King · 2019 · ★ 4.2 · 624p · ≈ 20h · Moderate In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there’s no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special… Shares: Child Abuse, Horror, Thriller, Mystery

Reader's Digest Condensed Books--Volume 1 1995 Barbara J. Morgan · 1995 · 574p · ≈ 19h · Moderate The chamber / by John Grisham Remember me / by Mary Higgins Clark The intruders / by Stephen Coonts The acorn winter / by Elizabeth Webster. Shares: FBI, Thriller, Mystery

Everville Clive Barker · 1994 · ★ 4.0 · 643p · ≈ 21h · Moderate "Our most accomplished contemporary purveyor of horror fiction strikes again in Everville, a tale of worlds in conflict. . . . [Barker's] extravagantly unconventional inventions are ingenious refractions of our common quest to experience and understand the mysterious world around us and the mysteries within ourselves."  — New York Times Book ReviewFrom master storyteller and New York… Shares: Horror, Mystery

Enduring Love Ian McEwan · 1984 · ★ 3.6 · 251p · ≈ 8h · Moderate NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREI cannot remember the last time I read a novel so beautifully written or utterly compelling from the very first page' Bill Bryson, -Sunday TimesOne windy spring day in the Chilterns, Joe Rose's calm, organized life is shattered by a ballooning accident. The afternoon, Rose reflects, could have ended in mere tragedy, but for his brief meeting with Jed Parry. Unknown to… Shares: Stalking, Mystery

Trace Patricia Cornwell · 1529 · ★ 3.8 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Demanding Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing from south Florida, returns to the city that turned its back on her five years ago.In Trace, Scarpetta travels to Richmond, Virginia, at the odd behest of the recently appointed Chief Medical Examiner, who claims that he needs her help to solve a perplexing crime. When she arrives, however, Scarpetta finds that nothing is as she expected: her former lab is in… Shares: Stalking, Thriller, Mystery

Les històries naturals Joan Perucho · 1978 · ★ 3.5 · 214p · ≈ 7h · Moderate "Un modelo de narración elípica para la literatura del futuro". Harold Bloom Las historias naturales es una novela fantástica que abrió a Perucho las puertas al reconocimiento internacional, y es sin duda la obra más emblemática del autor, a quien la crítica ha situado a menudo junto a Borges, Lovecraft o Calvino. En una sugerente simbiosis de erudición histórica e imaginación creadora,… Shares: Novel, Horror

Fifty Candles Earl Derr Biggers · 1926 Biggers had always been interested in mystery fiction, but his interest in Hawaii clearly stems from a 1919 vacation in Honolulu. While there, he read a newspaper article on a Chinese detective named Chang Apana. Apana would become the model for Charlie Chan in Biggers' 1925 novel, House Without a Key, and there quickly followed five more Charlie Chan novels. Fifty Candles -- first published in… Shares: Thriller, Mystery

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