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Thrillers and Suspense September 2025 |
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A beautiful family : a novel
by Jennifer Trevelyan
Her family distracted by summer vacation, a ten-year-old and a new friend investigate what happened to Charlotte, a child presumed drowned two years earlier—but when someone else goes missing, the family find themselves at the center of a police investigation.
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Carved in blood
by Michael Bennett
Detective Hana Westerman is drawn into a high-stakes investigation when her ex-husband is murdered, uncovering a tangled web of gang violence and past vendettas in Auckland's underworld, in the third book of the series following Return to Blood.
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| The Ascent by Allison BuccolaTwenty years after being the sole survivor of a now-vanished doomsday commune whose members vanished overnight, Lee Burton’s carefully built life begins to unravel. A stranger's sudden offer of answers pulls her back into the mystery she’s long tried to forget, forcing her to confront secrets, rising paranoia, and the fragility of motherhood and identity. |
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The dead husband cookbook
by Danielle Valentine
When Thea Woods is chosen to work with Maria Capello on her sure-to-be-infamous memoir, she finds that there might be something sinister lurking behind the Capello family.
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| Parents Weekend by Alex FinlayDuring Parents Weekend at an elite California college, five students vanish without a trace. As panic spreads and secrets unravel, FBI Agent Sarah Keller is called in to investigate. Told through multiple perspectives, this suspenseful, character-driven story explores family dysfunction, public scrutiny, and buried pasts. Fans of Mary Higgins Clark will be hooked. |
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The good liar
by Denise Mina
A year ago, a father and his fiancé were brutally murdered in their opulent London townhouse, sparking the most high-profile murder investigation in recent history. Blood spatter expert Doctor Claudia O'Sheil's evidence put the killer behind bars--or so everyone believes. But since the trial, Claudia's learned a horrific truth: her evidence and her testimony were wrong. And someone she knows made sure of it. Now, as she takes the stage to give a career-defining speech before London's elite, Claudia faces a devastating choice. Protect her children and her career with her continued complicity, or blow the whole conspiracy apart and reveal the truth: not only is the real murderer still out there, but they're in the audience. As Claudia steps toward the microphone, she revisits that fateful night. What really happened? And what will Claudia say?
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The locked ward : a novel
by Sarah Pekkanen
It's the Crime of the Decade when glamorous Georgia Cartwright, who was adopted as a newborn, is accused of killing the biological daughter of her wealthy, Southern family. Georgia is locked in a psychiatric institution where the most violent offenders are held while she awaits trial. The only words she whispers when her estranged twin sister Amanda visits are, "I didn't do it. You've got to get me out of here."
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