Best Thrillers With Morally Grey Protagonists You Root For Anyway
The trick is complicity — making the reader an accessory before they notice they have agreed to something.
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1. Gone Girl
by Gillian Flynn
The mid-book turn that reset the genre's expectations about who deserves sympathy.
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2. My Sister, the Serial Killer
by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Lean, funny, and entirely about the cost of loyalty.
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3. The Boy Who Survived With Me On this site
by Simran Mehta
Mia's horror is not that Lucas orchestrated the deaths. It is how much she helped.
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4. You
by Caroline Kepnes
Second person, so the reader is implicated by grammar alone.
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5. The Talented Mr. Ripley
by Patricia Highsmith
The origin point for wanting the wrong man to get away with it.