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Books that will get you hooked on thrillers 🔪🩸

I’m fresh to the thriller book world and Freida McFadden COMPLETELY sucked me in and I’m never leaving, I love it here!

CLEARLY I fell in love with her as an author as well, but I’ve been diving into other authors now and will be taking a break from her in the month of May to explore some more 📚

Highly recommend every one of these books, all with lots of twists and turns, I could not put them down. 🤍

#thrillerbooks #thrillerbookrecommendations #thrillerbooksaddict #lemon8bookclub #readersoflemon8

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