0 a book, play, or film that has an exciting story, often about solving a crime: --
It's described here as a taut psychological thriller.
1 a book, play, or movie that has an exciting and frightening story --
I was looking at such a thriller on television the other night.
He would find it difficult to write a thriller more amazing than the events of the last few months.
I recommend it particularly to those who like a thriller.
We must distinguish between fiction, such as science fiction and thrillers, and the description of fact.
I do not mind paying 75p to buy a thriller by that author.
Why not get some of the spacemen thriller writers to recruit some of the children for science?
I believe that that is a fiction, from the imagination of thriller writers.
The story is almost like a thriller in many respects—although it may not be very thrilling at the moment.
