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Thrillers and Suspense October 2026 |
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| The Silent Appeal by Janice HallettTruth emerges one message at a time as two investigators sift through emails, texts, and case files to solve a murder tied to an amateur theater group. The latest entry in Janice Hallett's innovative series, it rewards attentive readers with ingenious plotting, dry wit, and satisfying, clue-driven twists. |
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| Heart of Glass by Jennifer HillierTwenty-five years after their friend’s murder tore them apart, former best friends Barb and Nicolette are forced to reconnect when the convicted killer claims he was not responsible for her death. After a new body is discovered, the women investigate a web of secrets and deception in this atmospheric, twisty thriller with emotional depth and compulsively readable prose. |
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| Pictures of You by Josh MalermanA chance encounter with a mysterious artist’s work pulls Emily into a terrifying mystery where reality and imagination begin to blur. Blending psychological horror, surreal elements, and a creeping sense of unease, this atmospheric novel explores obsession, identity, and the power of art through the author's inventive, genre-bending storytelling. |
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| They Say a Girl Died Here by Sarah PinboroughA skilled con artist with a talent for assuming new identities finds her carefully controlled world threatened when she is assigned her most dangerous job yet. Stylish and fast-moving, this psychological thriller combines deception, shifting loyalties, and clever twists with a sharp, character-driven narrative about identity, survival, and reinvention. For fans of: The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson. |
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Beyond Honor
by K. B. Brodsky
A man forged by war, paramilitary operative Kevin Rhoads is recruited for a solo extraction mission deep inside Siberia. CIA analyst Whitney Skyler's investigation into a Russian-backed bank on American soil leads to the President of the United States. Director Cynthia King plays an audacious gambit, leveraging a thirty-year debt of honor to save a captured American agent. But in this world of shifting alliances, even the most careful plans can unravel. Skyler faces an impossible choice: expose her mentor's dangerous game to protect national security or reveal the truth to Rhoads. Already shattered by loss, Rhoads discovers the devastating betrayal that will transform him into a force of vengeance, leaving death in his wake.
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Buried in the Woods Below
by Daniel G. Miller
When Charlotte Hoffman's picture-perfect career implodes overnight, she retreats to the one place she swore she'd never return: Big Island, Minnesota. Home to her childhood best friend, Olivia Parker, and the place where her life first fell apart. Eighteen years ago, tragedy struck, and Charlotte's blamed herself for that bloody night ever since. Now she's back, staying with the Parkers in their isolated lakeside home, surrounded by dark woods shrouded in mist and the decaying remains of a long-abandoned amusement park. But something isn't right. The Parkers' young twin girls whisper about ghosts in the trees. Threatening notes appear on doors. An old carousel screams in the wind. And every night the island claims another victim. As Charlotte wades ever-deeper into danger, she can't shake the feeling that someone brought her back to the isolated island for a reason. Someone who wants to finish what was started all those years ago.
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Hail Mary
by Elizabeth Urso
Welcome to North Shore Township. Where you can never dig a grave too deep, and you can never keep a secret for too long. The Foreman family has made their fortune burying the dead (and not just funeral services, allegedly). Mary Foreman fled North Shore Township years ago to escape her family's legacy. But when her estranged mother reappears during a local election, reigniting rumors of corporate corruption and criminal activity, Mary's uncle summons her to help with his campaign. Mary leaves Toronto and takes up residence in Foreman House--the now-vacant gothic mansion once home to the Foremans and their infamous funeral business. She also secures a teaching job at her alma mater, St. Joseph's School for Girls, set to unearth the time capsule her great-grandmother helped mastermind. But when the time capsule is opened, the family's legacy rears its ugly head once again. Embroiled in a criminal investigation--one with eerie parallels to several cold cases--Mary begins to unravel a truth rooted in her cursed matrilineal line, the haunted funeral home she grew up in, and the crime her mother stood trial for decades earlier.
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The Wellness Retreat
by Dawn Kurtagich
Jaimie Vane used to measure her life in concert halls and standing ovations. Now she measures it in symptoms. The chronic illness that ended her career as a cellist doesn't have a name or a cure--just a long list of things her body can't do any more. When her wild child younger sister Sybil reinvents herself as a live-in staffer at an ultra-exclusive wellness retreat, Jaimie assumes it's another phase. Until her messages stop. Until the voucher arrives. Talamh Dhubh, a black-sand island in the middle of a wintery sea and home to Saoghal Spa, is a place for guests to be reborn. The founder, the enigmatic and glamorous Cyan Blache, promises restoration. Clarity. Transcendence. Whatever ails you, Saoghal will draw it from you. For guests willing to surrender completely, body and soul, the results are nothing short of miraculous. Jaimie tells herself she's only there to find Sybil, but the longer she stays, the lighter her body feels. The quieter her pain becomes. The easier it is to forget what she was like before she got sick. At Saoghal, healing is real. And so is the cost.
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