What is forbidden or what is prohibited that draws our interest most and this is the reason that plays behind the popularity of the most thrilling crime stories of the history that made generations of reader dazzled with the brilliance of their story telling maneuvers. Thrill is what we all want irrespective of our minor differences of choices, tastes and our demographic as well as social and economic background. Maybe the expectation of the thrill and the sensory perception of the thrill differs in accordance to our state of maturity, either in age or in education or in experience, but considering the popularity of all types of thrillers in fictional books or in films among all types of people we can confidently say that thrill really matters and in many cases it matters more than any other aspects of the entertaining literature or film. In the past century or even through many years of literary heritage in the nineteenth century we have seen too many great works which can be designated as crime thriller and they presented to the readers of the subsequent generations some of the most thrilling crime stories of the history. Here we would present some of the most thrilling crime stories of the history that for many people all over the world have produced unforgettable thrilling experience.

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

This superb book by one of the greatest crime story writers of all time portrays the crime from most diverse range of angles and that made the book a gem of a reading experience. The specialty of this story which is a invariable choice in the list of most thrilling crime stories of the history is the superb twist in the plot that leaves the reader simply dazzled with most unexpected kind of happenings. You are in a unbelievably strained mental situation with your adrenalin gushing forth. It is really a must read for those who love to read crime thrillers.

Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris

This great crime thriller is already a world famous name thanks to a film based on its storyline. This is the thriller that tells the story of a serial killer and corresponding mind game in relation to the crime in a most glaringly uncommon way by portraying the crime in its absolute detail and simultaneously maintaining the crude distance with the absent observer eyes of the narrator that weaves the brilliant mind game to produce one of the most thrilling crime stories of the history.

The Poet by Michael Connelly

Michel Connelly is too well-known an artist who is famous for his dramatic style of writing that shocks the reader from nowhere and interweaves the reader’s consciousness into the thinking of the protagonist and thus produces his brilliance of depicting a crime from the depth of the onlooker. All his idiosyncratic style present in this piece of writing, the book is just a must pick in our list of most thrilling crime stories of the history. The story of the book centers on the following of a reporter behind a multiple killer criminal.