The Most WTF Thrillers and Crime Novels!

The mystery and thriller genres are constantly upping the game to keep readers on their toes. Think of Gone Girl and the explosion of domestic thrillers that followed after Gillian Flynn introduced a seemingly standard missing person mystery that ended up having a WTF twist that most readers did not see coming. While I’m overall neutral on the existence of WTF twists — most times I feel it goes too over the top in a distracting way, but am always here, and excited, to be proven wrong — I have never been able to resist a book where the actual premise makes me do a double-take. If you can use some WTF premises in your reading life, I’ve got some backlist along with a brand new release that range from crime novels to thrillers, with horror and sci-fi sprinkled in. The Secret Dinner by Raphael Montes, Zoë Perry (Translator) The Secret Dinner is part crime novel, part thriller, part horror (not supernatural), and not for the faint of stomach. This was originally published in 2016 in Brazil and got very popular during the pandemic (reading horror during a horror, I guess) and has now been translated into English. There are four friends who are in the stage of life where you’re in college...