5 Thriller Books That Need to Be Turned Into a Miniseries

The article argues that five thriller novels could make compelling miniseries, pointing to successful book adaptations such as *His & Hers*, *The Night Manager* and *Sharp Objects*. It says effective adaptations depend on suspense that holds viewers’ attention and delivers revelations they would not readily predict.

Two of the books discussed are R. F. Kuang’s *Yellowface*, about a struggling white novelist who takes an unpublished manuscript by a Chinese-American writer, and Oyinkan Braithwaite’s *My Sister, the Serial Killer*, set in Lagos and centred on a nurse who repeatedly helps her younger sister hide bodies. The article notes that Lionsgate TV optioned *Yellowface* as a scripted series in 2024, but gives no confirmed updates since then; it also highlights the novels’ themes of identity, privilege, family loyalty and dark comedy.