The Sun Down Motel
2020 · 2023 edition
352 pages
The most popular crime thriller books of 2020
Crime thrillers are about criminals and the people who hunt them. Gangs, heists, serial killers and undercover work drive these books, and the tension matters more than the puzzle. You often know who did it, and the question is whether they will be stopped. Expect pace, grit and high stakes. This list shows the ones first published in 2020.
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The Night Swim
Megan Goldin
2020 · 2022 edition
416 pages
Moonflower Murders
Anthony Horowitz
2020 · 2021 edition
608 pages
Winter Counts
David Heska Wanbli Weiden
2020 · 2022 edition
352 pages
He Started It
Samantha Downing
Published 2020
384 pages
Into the Fire
Gregg Hurwitz
2020 · 2023 edition
449 pages
Have You Seen Me?
Kate White
2020 · 2021 edition
366 pages
Still Life
Val McDermid
2020 · 2021 edition
464 pages
The Third to Die
Allison Brennan
Published 2020
460 pages
The City of the Living
Nicola Lagioia
2020 · 2024 edition
432 pages
The Wicked Sister
Karen Dionne
2020 · 2021 edition
374 pages
The Invention of Sound
Chuck Palahniuk
2020 · 2021 edition
240 pages
The Chalet
Catherine Cooper
2020 · 2021 edition
400 pages
House on Fire
Joseph Finder
Published 2020
496 pages
A Reasonable Doubt
Phillip Margolin
Published 2020
368 pages
Cry Baby
Mark Billingham
2020 · 2021 edition
560 pages
Remain Silent
Susie Steiner
2020 · 2021 edition
320 pages
The Heatwave
Katerina Diamond
Published 2020
400 pages
Trouble Is What I Do
Walter Mosley
Published 2020
168 pages
The Request
David Bell
Published 2020
416 pages
The Stranger in Our Bed
Samantha Lee Howe
2020 · 2022 edition
384 pages
Bobby March Will Live Forever
Alan Parks
2020 · 2021 edition
320 pages
The Burn
Kathleen Kent
2020 · 2025 edition
352 pages
Framed
S. L. McInnis
Published 2020
336 pages