Espionage
- Bowen, Rhys, On Her Majesty’s Frightfully Secret Service
- Dunmore, Helen, Exposure
- Follett, Ken, Code to Zero
- Furst, Alan, Midnight in Europe
- Gortner, C. W., The Tudor Secret
- Harris, Robert, Munich
- Harris, Robert, An Officer and a Spy
- Le Carré, John, The Honourable Schoolboy, A Perfect Spy, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
- Mawer, Simon, Tightrope
- McEwan, Ian, Sweet Tooth
- Mitford, Nancy, Pigeon Pie
- Quinn, Kate, The Alice Network
Thrillers and Suspense
- Alvtegen, Karin, Betrayal
- Barry, Brunonia, The Fifth Petal, The Lace Reader, The Map of True Places
- Bauer, Belinda, The Beautiful Dead, Blacklands, Darkside, Rubbernecker, The Shut Eye
- Burdett, John, Vulture Peak
- Busch, Frederick, The Night Inspector
- Cadell, Elizabeth, Death Among Friends
- Chapman, Emma, How to Be a Good Wife
- Child, Lee, 61 Hours, Without Fail
- Cline, Emma, The Girls
- Dibdin, Michael, The Tryst
- Donoghue, Emma, Room
- Du Maurier, Daphne, Rebecca
- Dunn, Mark, Under the Harrow
- Ephron, Delia, Siracusa
- Flynn, Gillian, Dark Places, Gone Girl, Sharp Objects
- Frazier, Charles, Nightwoods
- French, Nicci, Blue Monday, Thursday’s Children, Tuesday’s Gone, Waiting for Wednesday
- Goodman, Carol, The Widow’s House
- Griffiths, Elly, The Crossing Places
- Hamilton, Steve, The Second Life of Nick Mason
- Hannah, Sophie, The Cradle in the Grave, The Dead Lie Down, Kind of Cruel, Little Face, The Orphan Choir, The Truth-Teller’s Lie, Woman with a Secret, The Wrong Mother
- Harris, Robert, Conclave, Conspirata, Dictator, Imperium, Pompeii
- Harrison, A. S. A., The Silent Wife
- Hawkins, Paula, The Girl on the Train, Into the Water
- Haynes, Elizabeth, Into the Darkest Corner
- Highsmith, Patricia, The Blunderer, Ripley Under Ground, The Talented Mr. Ripley
- Hodge, Jane Aiken, Strangers in Company
- Hustvedt, Siri, The Enchantment of Lily Dahl
- Kasischke, Laura, Mind of Winter
- Kelly, Elizabeth, The Last Summer of the Camperdowns
- Kelly, Erin, The Dark Rose
- King, Laurie R., Lockdown
- Kostova, Elizabeth, The Shadow Land
- Lagercrantz, David, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye
- Le Carré, John, A Delicate Truth
- Mazzola, Anna, The Story Keeper
- McDermid, Val, The Vanishing Point
- McHugh, Laura, Arrowood
- McMahon, Jennifer, Burntown, The Night Sister
- McPherson, Catriona, As She Left It, The Child Garden, Come to Harm, The Day She Died, Go to My Grave, House. Tree. Person., Quiet Neighbors
- Millar, Louise, Accidents Happen
- Millar, Margaret, Beast in View
- Miller, A. D., Snowdrops
- Moriarty, Liane, Big Little Lies, The Husband’s Secret, Nine Perfect Strangers, Truly Madly Guilty
- Moshfegh, Otessa, Eileen
- Owen, Lauren, The Quick
- Powell, Laura, The Unforgotten
- Stewart, Mary, The Ivy Tree, Nine Coaches Waiting, This Rough Magic, Touch Not the Cat, Wildfire at Midnight
- Tallis, F. R., The Sleep Room
- Theorin, Johan, The Asylum, The Darkest Room, Echoes from the Dead, The Quarry
- Vine, Barbara, The Child’s Child
- Walters, Minette, The Cellar
- Ware, Ruth, In a Dark, Dark Wood
- Watson, S. J., Before I Go to Sleep
- Webb, Wendy, The Vanishing
- White, Kate, Hush
- Zan, Koethi, The Never List
