5 TENSE THRILLERS TO KEEP YOU UP THIS WINTER
It’s December and there’s a chill in the air—winter is around the corner. And what better time to sit down with a tense, pulse-pounding thriller—one that will leave you gasping for breath?
For thriller buffs, the colder it gets, the better—it adds to the atmosphere, after all! From Agatha Christie to Alfred Hitchcock to Jo Nesbo, writers have used wintery settings time and again to produce the most effective of chills. It’s no coincidence that Norway is known for so many great thrillmeisters!
If you’re looking for the perfect thriller to make your winter much more spine-tingling, look no further.
The night Seeni died, the fault line reappeared. The existing equilibrium between men and women, the antagonistic species that inhabit Elone began to crumble. If a clash happens, how long would it last? What would remain? Who? How many? Were they heading for a time like the last days on Earth?
Set in a possible future that is refreshingly not dystopian, this science fiction thriller from Sadhna Shanker delves into ideas of divergence, immortality and consequent new social constructs.
Beaten and brutally raped, her body is never found. However, the killers make one mistake. They leave a witness, a witness who has nothing to live for except revenge. And when he crosses the boundaries of time to make the guilty pay, a whole lot of dark characters come to light. There is Valentine, the superstar brand ambassador who sells anything for a price; there is Medici, a pharmaceutical company fraudulently manufacturing banned drugs; there is the perverted and sinister-minded Dr Ranga, and there is Este, the prostitute whose dark secret will blow up a daughter’s sanity. So, is there another murder waiting to happen? Will Police Inspector Dorab Silva be able to connect the clues to prevent another crime? Will these gods of greed be exposed?
Deeply unsettling, Richa Lakhera’s Hungry Gods takes a hard look at greed for wealth and power.
Piyush Jha’s three explosive crime novellas unravel the secrets of maximum city—from the slums of Dharavi and the bylanes of Kamathipura to the swank high-rises of Bandra.
A prostitute, her lover and a policeman play for high stakes in ‘BombDay’. ‘Injectionwala’ exposes chilling medical malpractices and a lovelorn vigilante’s twisted game plan. In ‘Coma Man’, a man awakens from coma after twenty years, and sets out in search of his wife— and himself. Gritty love stories, manipulative cops and hard-boiled slumlords form the backdrop of this unputdownable thriller—and if it leaves you craving for more, check out the next two Mumbaistan novels: Compass Box Killer and Anti-Social Network.
Ace detective Avinash Roy arrives at a sleepy hill station in Sikkim in the fervent hope that holidaying at a secluded Buddhist monastery up in the mountains will work as a perfect antidote to his jaded, city-weary nerves. And surprisingly, it does. The crisp mountain air and long walks through undulating valleys not only rejuvenates him, but also rekindles his libido, much to the pleasure of his wife.
On their last night, Roy is faced with a strange request from the head lama of the monastery. Apparently, a rare invaluable manuscript, the very existence of which is a secret, is missing from the underground vaults of the monastery. Could Roy retrieve the treasure without others knowing anything about it?
As Roy agrees to help the senior monk, he soon realizes that the serene ambience of the place could well be just an illusion. Beneath its placid surface lurk intrigues, conspiracies, unbridled passion, ambition, religious extremism and elemental fear. Worse, Roy’s very life is in grave danger, hanging by the proverbial thread…
Penned by legendary actor and writer Barun Chanda, this hillbound thriller is just the right recipe for winter chills.
Set in London with revolution and counter-revolution as backdrop, Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent introduces the reader to a ruthless world of anarchism, espionage and counter-espionage. Laymen, pawns in the big game, are the true victims. Based on Conrad’s own experiences, this intensely emotional and profoundly political thriller laid the foundations of the spy thriller genre, and is rightfully considered a classic.
Which book are you picking up this week?
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