8 Delightfully Page-Turning Revenge Thrillers

After the death of his sister, Virgil Wounded Horse takes guardianship of his nephew, Nathan. To get the money to send him to college, Virgil works as an enforcer in their community, doling out justice when the system fails.
When he’s offered a large sum to handle a drug issue on the reservation, he takes it. That is, until Nathan is caught in the drug scene too. Now, with a personal stake in the issue, Virgil is determined to find the source and put a stop to it.

Under the instruction of her looming father, Maddy hides her Blackness, passing as white at her high school. But after a rainstorm during gym class reveals her natural hair, her classmates begin to taunt her mercilessly and aggressively. After a video of students bullying Maddy goes viral, student leadership at the school come up with a plan to correct their image: an integrated prom. A prom where Maddy might just get the chance to exact her revenge.

In the aftermath of the shooting of a Black teenager in 2019, tensions in Los Angeles rise. Especially for Shawn, the brother of a Black girl who was shot and killed in the 1990s. His story intersects with Grace, the daughter of Korean immigrant parents who run a local pharmacy full of family tension of their own. As Shawn and Grace’s stories overlap, revenge, injustice, and loss amass into a tragedy.

Twelve years after finding the body of her murdered sister and witnessing the murderer flee the scene, 38-year-old Linda Conrads is a best-selling author who also happens to never leave her house. Ever. Then, one day, she sees a journalist on television who she’s convinced is her sister’s murderer. To catch the killer, she hatches a plan in the form of a new book, granting the journalist an exclusive interview to try to get his DNA. Will she succeed, though, or will the effort invite a monster into her sanctuary?

As an orphan, Ming was raised by a white man to be as deadly as possible, later working as a sharpshooter and enforcer for a crime boss in the West. Ming soon falls in love with the daughter of a railroad tycoon, eloping with her to a better life. But after rich and powerful men break up his marriage and get him sentenced to years of hard labor, he’s ready to use his murderous skills to exact revenge.

In exchange for a college scholarship, seven psychopaths, including freshman Chloe, agree to be subjects of a psychological study at John Adams University. Her motives, though, are more focused on getting revenge on another student, Will, in revenge for something he did in their past. But when a murder happens within the group, Chloe must decide who, if any, of the other subjects can be trusted to help her make it out alive.

After her longtime boyfriend, Angus, breaks up with her and then posts a sex tape of them for the world to see, Taylor has had enough of his toxic behavior. Taking advice from The Art of War, Taylor spends her days plotting revenge based on the intricate knowledge of Angus she has learned from all of their time together. But Angus won’t let her revenge happen without a fight and soon the two are locked in an escalating situation neither of them can stop.

Mikael Blomkvist, a journalist, is facing a sentence for libel when he’s hired by Henrik Vanger, the uncle of a woman who was murdered forty years ago, to investigate the case. Teaming up with a hacker named Lisbeth Salander who is out for revenge, the pair uncover something far more sinister than either of them expected.