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David Fort

Specialist I

What is the best psychological thriller to read?

July 01, 2011 4:52 PM PDT · Flag · 8 answers

David Hugh

Practitioner II

Killing for Sport: Inside the Minds of Serial Killers

Killing for Sport is the most valuable insight into the minds of serial killers you'll ever read. While other profilers tend to conceal the clear facts behind complex technical language and psychobabble, Pat Brown actually tells it like it is. Kil... read more...

This is not necessarily a happy read, but its unusually interesting to know what really goes on in the minds of these serial killers. There are some thoughts and people you would not suspect are real. It's disturbing and a little graphic so beware before reading this but I think we should all be educated on this so that we can be aware and really keep our eyes open because it could be someone close, or you could look like someone they don't like....

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Sam Brownstone

Practitioner III

Trapped: A Novel of Terror

An original, full-length horror novel, not yet available in print, on sale for a limited time. TERRIFIED...It was supposed to be a harmless camping trip. Six wayward teenagers who'd run into trouble with the law, and their court-appointed guardi... read more...

I dont want to ruin it for you but it is full of Terror and Twists, and you wont want to go camping after this =) Enjoy! It was awesome, a great writer!

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Anthony Cristo

Specialist I

Gerald's Game (Signet)

Stephen King cranks up the suspense in a different kind of bedtime story. A game of seduction between a husband and wife goes horribly awry when the husband dies. But the nightmare has just begun... read more...

My wife says that Gerald's Game is sort of a psychological thriller. About a woman and her husband who get away for a weekend to try "new" things. The husband handcuffs the wife to the bedpost and shortly after the wife accidently kills her husband. Stephen King does a good job of taking you through all of the mental things that go through the wife's head while she tries to escape for the next 28 hours only to suddenly remember things about her father and her younger childhood. It was a well put together book. My wife couldn't sleep for weeks!

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Jason Liechman

Practitioner II

Truck Stop - A Psycho Thriller

Before the events of Jack Kilborn's epic horror novel AFRAID...Before the events of J.A. Konrath's critically acclaimed thrillers FUZZY NAVEL and CHERRY BOMB...Before the events of Jack Kilborn's and Blake Crouch's #1 Amazon Kindle bestseller SERI... read more...

I always liked reading Horror stories and when I read this one, I think I should have gotten therapy just for reading it. lol Its pretty scary. I made a mistake by reading it when I did because I had totally forgotten about the road trip my family had planned about 21 hours away from home and I knew there were quite a few trucks stops between point A and Point B. So yeah, don't read this if you plan on enjoying your road trip drive. ha ha ha! It really well written though and keeps your interested, definitely does not get boring. I'd say give it a try, it's a pretty crazy story.

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Jeannie Sutton

Specialist I

Vanish (Jane Rizzoli, Book 5)

A blessed event becomes a nightmare for pregnant homicide detective Jane Rizzoli when she finds herself on the wrong side of a hostage crisis in this timely and relentless new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Body Double.A na... read more...

For a Pschological Thriller, this has got to be the best one for you. It have a twisted story and within it, there is sexual slavery, murder and more! This is a nail biter that is easy to read and quite addicting, hard to put down. A horrifying story with some humor and political content. It has everything you fear from jails to murders to prostitution and a broken family trying to find their way back to each other in once piece.

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Amy Bell

Specialist I

On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and S...

On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society

The good news is that most soldiers are loath to kill. But armies have developed sophisticated ways of overcoming this instinctive aversion. And contemporary civilian society, particularly the media, replicates the army's conditioning techniques, ... read more...

This is a book on the psychological ways that humans can be "trained" or "Conditioned" to become killers whether its legal or illegal. A pretty scary truth about video games and the military both contributing to create "killers."

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Lorenzo Hernandez

Practitioner III

Killing for Sport: Inside the Minds of Serial Killers

This is a crazy book! I read it 2 years ago and it was creepy! After I finished it, I started viewing the world differently. I thought, who could I trust? Are they a serial Killer? Be careful who you talk crap to... I really look at the world differently and in fear because I had no idea about what goes on in a killers head but this gives you an example and it's really a sad thing that people are so troubled they would need to kill another innocent human being. Well, I could go on, but this is a scary but REAL and informative book.

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James Lawrence

Enthusiast III

Trapped: A Novel of Terror

This was freaky!! but I read the entire thing! lol Couldnt put it down.

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Voting Summary

1.	Trapped: A Novel of Terror	25% agree
2.	Killing for Sport: Inside the Minds of Serial K...	25% agree
3.	On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning ...	12% agree
4.	Truck Stop - A Psycho Thriller	12% agree
5.	Vanish (Jane Rizzoli, Book 5)	12% agree