12 thriller novels with best openings
Thriller novels have always been my favorite. There’s something about the twist and turn of plots that makes the novels simply irresistible.
So far here’s a list of suspense/thriller novels I had enjoyed reading with the openings being quite the catch.
12. You walk into the bookstore and you keep your hand on the door to make sure it doesn’t slam. You smile embarrassed to be a nice girl, and your V-neck sweater is beige and it’s impossible to know if you’re wearing a bra but I don’t think that you are. -YOU by Caroline Kepnes
11. I hear the cracking of his skull before the spattering of blood reaches me. -VERITY by Colleen Hoover
10. Welcome to the beautiful Sinclair family. No one is a criminal. No one is an addict. No one is a failure. The Sinclairs are athletic, tall and handsome. We are old money democrats. Our smiles are wide, our shins square, and our tennis serves aggressive. -WE WERE LIARS by E. Lockhart
9. Last night I dreamed I went to Manderly again. -REBECCA by Daphne Du Maurier
8. I buy violets for Amy. Not roses. Roses are for people who did something wrong. I have done everything right this time around. I’m a good boyfriend. -HIDDEN BODIES by Caroline Kepnes
7. My sweater was new, stinging red and ugly. - SHARP OBJECTS by Gillian Flynn
6. I don’t know why I’m writing this. That’s not true. Maybe I do know and just don’t want to admit it to myself. I don’t even know what to call it, this thing I’m writing. It feels a little pretentious to call it a diary. -THE SILENT PATIENT by Alex Michaelides
5. Did he love her? He loved the way she looked at him, the way her bottom lip trembled and her foot quaked when she orgasmed. -THE PERFECT MARRIAGE by Jeneva Rose
4. Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. -LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov
3. Edward Fosca was a murderer. This was a fact. - THE MAIDENS by Alex Michaelides
2. If I leave this house, it will be in handcuffs. I should have run for it while I had the chance. Now my shot is gone. Now that the police officers are in the house and they’ve discovered what’s upstairs, there’s no turning back. -THE HOUSEMAID by Freida McFadden
1.When I think of my wife, I always think of her head. The shape of it, to begin with. The very first time I saw her, it was the back of the head I saw, and there was something lovely about it, the angle of it. Like a shiny, hard corn kernel or a riverbed fossil. -GONE GIRL by Gillian Flynn
Which one is your favorite?
