13 Thrillers To Cozy Up With This Fall In Honor Of Halloween

After a whirlwind romance in Monte Carlo, an unnamed woman marries the mysterious and handsome Maxim de Winter, who lost his first wife in a tragic accident only a year before the story began. After honeymooning in Europe, the new Mrs. de Winter and Maxim arrive at his estate on the Cornish coast, Manderly, to find that the mansion is haunted by the presence of the first Mrs. de Winter, Rebecca.

Nobody intimidates the second Mrs. de Winter more than the housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers, who can’t help but compare her every move to the late and seemingly perfect Rebecca. The fact that Maxim refuses to talk about Rebecca doesn’t help, leaving the second Mrs. de Winter insecure and paranoid. This psychological and Gothic thriller will haunt you long after you finish the last page, and you’ll want to pick it up again to see if you missed anything the first time around. 

Though Colleen Hoover is mostly known for her contemporary romance novels, Verity is proof that she can write wonderful books in multiple genres. Lowen Ashleigh is an author struggling to make ends meet, but everything changes when she’s hired to finish the book series of famous author Verity Crawford, who is unable to complete her contract due to the tragic death of her two daughters and injuries from a car accident. It’s an added bonus that Verity’s husband, Jeremy, is incredibly handsome and charming.

Lowen combs through Verity’s office to try to complete her novels, only to find an unpublished memoir of Verity’s darkest secrets, secrets that would devastate the grieving Jeremy. As Lowen grows closer to Jeremy, Verity’s secrets only get darker, leaving Lowen more conflicted than ever. This domestic thriller is as salacious as it’s creepy, making it the perfect read for a chilly fall day. 

Sarah Morgan lives a seemingly perfect life as a powerful and successful defense attorney, but everything is not what it seems (because it’s a domestic thriller, duh). When her husband’s mistress is found brutally murdered at their lake house, Sarah is forced to take on an impossible case: defending her cheating husband accused of murdering his mistress. 

As her marriage unravels in front of her eyes, provocative twists and turns reveal shocking secrets that will turn Sarah’s world upside down. You won’t be able to put this addictive domestic thriller down, and we dare you to binge it all in one sitting. 

Think of Rebecca, but set it in 1820s Mexico, make it creepier, and you have The Hacienda. After losing her father in the Mexican War of Independence, Beatriz is left in the care of cruel relatives, only to find a way to escape by marrying Rodolfo, a wealthy politician with a countryside estate, San Isidro, which Beatriz can call her own.

It doesn’t take long for Beatriz to notice that she’s not alone in San Isidro and that she can’t escape rumors of the mysterious death of Rodolfo’s first wife. When she seeks comfort in a mysterious (and handsome) young priest, Andre, she discovers that San Isidro might not be the safe haven she expected it to be. This book kept me on the edge of my seat the entire time!

If you loved Gone Girl, you’ll love this juicy domestic thriller. Laurel Mack’s life falls apart after her youngest daughter, Ellie, mysteriously goes missing, and it takes her nearly a decade to start putting her life back together.

After quickly falling for her new boyfriend, Floyd, Laurel can’t help but notice that his youngest daughter’s resemblance to Ellie is uncanny. This leads Laurel down a rabbit hole in trying to ultimately solve Ellie’s disappearance, but what she finds might shatter the life she worked so hard to rebuild. This book will keep you guessing until the end, and you won’t be disappointed. 

It’s 1991, and there’s a serial killer on the loose near Charlie Jordan’s college town, making it the perfect night to drive home with a stranger she met on her campus’s ride board! Grieving the recent murder of her best friend, all Charlie wants to do is go home, and Josh, a fellow student who wants to go home to take care of his sick father, is the only one willing to drive her.

It doesn’t take long for Charlie to notice holes in Josh’s story, leading her to not only wonder if she’s in the presence of her best friend’s killer but if she’ll inevitably face the same fate. 

After receiving a frantic and troubling letter from her cousin, Catalina, Noemi Taboada travels to an estate in a mining town to rescue her. Upon Noemi’s arrival, Catalina appears to be fine, but there’s something about the family Catalina just married into that doesn’t sit right with Noemi.

Similar to Rebecca and The Hacienda, this Gothic thriller captures the mysteries and horrors an old house and its inhabitants can hold. It doesn’t take long for things to get darker beyond Noemi’s worst nightmares, and she’ll have to be careful if she wants her and Catalina to make it out alive. 

Lucy Foley is best known for writing thrillers and mysteries that echo some of Agatha Christie’s best, and The Paris Apartment is no exception. After her life falls apart, Jess travels to Paris to stay with her half-brother, Ben, until she gets back on her feet, but Ben is nowhere to be found. 

Told from several different points of view, we learn more about Ben’s neighbors and what could have possibly led to his mysterious disappearance. Jess is determined to find Ben, but what if there’s something more sinister behind his disappearance? And what if she’s under the same roof as the culprit? 

If you loved And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, you’ll love Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney! The Darkers have more secrets than the typical family, but Daisy Darker is willing to let bygones be bygones to celebrate her Nana’s birthday. 

The family reunion is in a mysterious mansion on an island in the middle of nowhere, and it doesn’t take long for family members to start turning up dead. Trapped on an island with a killer on the loose, a storm is brewing, and the Darkers must face their secrets in order to catch the killer before it takes them all. 

Before Alicia Berenson mysteriously killed her husband, she lived a picture-perfect life as an artist in London but hasn’t said a word since the night of the murder. Criminal psychologist Theo Faber is determined to get Alicia to talk, but she remains silent.

Obsessed with trying to uncover the motive behind the murder that once covered tabloids, Theo starts to question not only Alicia’s story but his own motives in trying to solve the mystery. This psychological thriller not only gives off the best Alfred Hitchcock vibes, but the ending will stay with you long after you close the book. We promise you won’t forget this one. 

6-year-old Delilah Dickey was one of many to disappear from her once quiet community, but she was the only one to mysteriously return 11 years later. Her return not only reopens the cold case of her disappearance but leads her community to try to connect the past disappearances. This twisty and suspenseful thriller will not only keep you up at night, but the end will shock you to your core. 

Ani FaNelli has a secret. With a glamorous job and fiancé, she appears to have it all, but nobody knows the lengths she had to go through to reinvent herself after a scandal from her teenage years. She’s closer than ever to putting her past behind her, only for her past to come back to haunt her and tear her seemingly perfect life apart. 

Also a Netflix movie starring Mila Kunis (whom we adore), this dark and twisty thriller will not only leave you frantically turning pages but will have you asking questions until the end. 

Hidden in the Swiss Alps, Le Somme is a sanatorium-turned luxury hotel and the perfect place to celebrate an engagement. Detective Elin Warner sees the trip to Le Somme to celebrate her brother's engagement as the perfect opportunity to escape, but it doesn’t take long for the hotel to creep her out.

When her brother's fiancée goes missing, Elin uses her detective skills to try to find her, only to find out that she’s not the first woman to go missing in the former sanatorium.