Pavlov's Gun Thrillers

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A small reading room for indie psychological and domestic thrillers — the atmospheric kind. Complicated marriages. Buried secrets. Ordinary people at the edge. Every book here is chosen by a reader, not an algorithm.

Latest list · DecemberChristmas Bells

Five indie crime & thriller books that make December dread-full. None of them want you to have a merry one.

25 Days

Per Jacobsen

Daily gifts from Thanksgiving to Christmas for a family hiding new names. Kindle Unlimited.

countdown dreadfamily secrets

The Last Christmas Eve

Nancy Savage

A knock at the door, family secrets surfacing on the one night everyone's home. For Feeney fans.

domestic noirChristmas Eve

The Christmas Present

Lorna Dounaeva

A family pushed past breaking point by a torment they can't prove. So on Christmas, they fight back.

vigilante gone wrongtwisty

I Saw Mummy Killing Santa Claus

Jessica Huntley

A twenty-five-day advent of healing after a childhood witnessing. Funny, then brutal.

advent novellatrauma & tenderness

Her Silent Night

H.K. Christie

A dead Santa in the chimney, staged displays, snowflake cards taunting a PI. Festive revenge, standalone.

PI revengefestive noir

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