The best thrillers with unreliable narrators (or are they?)

This razor-sharp, creepy thriller will leave you constantly questioning what is real, as a woman discovers her life has been depicted in the pages of a bestselling novel. Ten years ago, ambitious and driven Hope landed a job with bohemian author Ambrose Glencourt, which ended in a fatal disaster. Hope has worked hard to keep the secret of those events ever since. But now, Ambrose has written a novel based on the story which paints a rather different version of events from what Hope remembers. Which one of them is the reliable narrator?

This instant Sunday Times bestseller is a gripping and deliciously dark new thriller about marriage, and revenge. When Grady Green finds his wife’s car by a cliff edge, the headlights are on, the driver door is open, her phone is still there . . . but she is nowhere to be seen. A year later, still in the depths of grief and on a trip to a remote island in search of a fresh start, he sees the impossible: a woman who looks exactly like his missing wife. Prepare for a tense, atmospheric read with a chilling twist.

Patrick Bateman appears to have everything – youth, wealth, status – but beneath the polished Wall Street façade lurks a psychopathic killer, turning the American Dream into a cold, consumerist nightmare of modern capitalism. Adapted into a major feature film starring Christian Bale in 2000 and multi-million-copy bestseller, Ellis’s notorious novel remains one of the most controversial, disturbing psychological thrillers ever written.

What book could be more packed with unreliable narrators that a courtroom drama? This debut from Jo Murray features a dead judge, a silent defendant and a court full of liars. It's Leila Reynold's first murder case and the stakes couldn't be higher: it involves the death of a very well known judge. Leila doesn't think she's ready for such a big case but the defendant, Jack Millman, is insistent. He wants her. He's also refusing to talk. Suddenly, Leila finds herself fighting not only to keep Jack out of prison, but also to keep her own secrets buried.

Cole, considered the 'perfect husband,' is left shocked when his wife, Mel, decides to leave him. Seeking isolation, he moves to the coast and befriends Lennie, an artist leading a similarly solitary existence in a precarious cliff-edge cottage. But their quiet lives are upended when two young women vanish nearby while on a protest walk on the coast. Now at the centre of a police investigation and media storm, it becomes clear that Cole and Lennie may not know each other as well as they thought. Full of suspense, mystery and twists, this feminist thriller tells the story of what happens when women have had enough.

It's a perfect life: Ani FaNelli has a glam job, a designer wardrobe and a wealthy, handsome fiancé. But her life is a lie, and behind the facade lies a grim past. When a documentary producer invites Ani to tell her side of the violent incident that marked her teenage years, Ani confidently also invites the production company to film her lavish wedding. But as she tells her story, Ani's veneer begins to crack, and her whole carefully crafted life is thrown into question. The Netflix adaption of the story stars Mila Kunis in the lead role. 

A compelling story of obsession, loneliness and lies. Newspaper archivist Chloe lives a quiet life until the day she reads about the long-forgotten cold case of Angie Kyle, a girl who went missing as a child. When an unexpected turn of events finds her living as a lodger in Angie's parents' house, Chloe soon learns that the case of the missing girl is not as simple as it first seemed and becomes obsessed with finding out the truth.