Best Dark Thrillers About Childhood Secrets That Refuse to Stay Buried
The pact made at twelve, the thing nobody reported, the version of events everyone agreed on. These thrillers are about the bill arriving decades late.
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1. Sharp Objects
by Gillian Flynn
Going home is the crime scene. Flynn writes damage as inheritance.
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2. The Boy Who Survived With Me On this site
by Simran Mehta
Two survivors of a school bus crash that killed twenty-three children, a blood pact never to speak of it, and witnesses starting to die twenty years on.
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3. The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
The definitive account of a group who did something together and then had to keep being a group.
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4. We Have Always Lived in the Castle
by Shirley Jackson
A household organised entirely around one unspoken event.
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5. The Dry
by Jane Harper
A drought-cracked town, a childhood alibi, and a friend who never stopped being suspected.