Mystery/Thriller

Sleep With All the Lights On: A Round-Up of Freaking Good Thrillers

This edition of the Riot Recommendation is sponsored by Freak by Jennifer Hillier from Gallery Books. Suspense magazine chose Jennifer Hillier’s “truly frightening” debut, Creep, as one of 2011’s best novels, while #1 bestselling author Jeffery Deaver cautioned “you better call in sick—you’re not going anywhere until you finish reading.” Now, Hillier returns to the Pacific Northwest college town where one killer’s stranglehold has ebbed . . . but another sick mind has waited for the perfect moment to pick up where the terror left off.   _________________________ Earlier this week, we asked for your favorite, most heart-pounding, so-scary-you-had-to-sleep-with-all-the-lights-on thrillers. Here’s a round-up of the books you suggested in the comments and on Facebook and Twitter. Add more in the comments here! Room by Emma Donoghue Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill Swan Song by Lee Hanson The Small Hand by Susan Hill Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn Dark Places by Gillian Flynn Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris The 7th Victim by Alan Jacobson The Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson It by Stephen King anything by Chelsea Cain The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson The Shining by Stephen King Pet Sematary by Stephen King Tell No One by Harlan Coben anything by Lisa Jackson Intensity by Dean Koontz Criminal by Karin Slaughter Dare Me by Megan Abbott