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Thrillers and Suspense January 2026 |
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| Everybody Wants to Rule the World by Ace AtkinsIn Cold War-era Atlanta, 14-year-old Peter Bennett’s hunch about his mom’s boyfriend being a Soviet spy sets off a chain reaction of chaos. With help from a washed-up writer and a formidable drag queen, he’s swept into a maze of assassins, double agents, FBI intrigue, and ’80s-soaked danger in this action-packed and comedic thriller. |
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A Death in Berlin
by Simon Scarrow
Berlin. 1940. Hitler's rule casts a menacing shadow over the city distant war moves closer, Criminal Inspector Horst Schenke fights to keep criminals off his patch. But he is walking a tightrope. If his secret relationship with a Jewish woman is exposed, his career will be over. And her fate will be far, far worse.
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Cry Havoc
by Jack Carr
Amidst the turbulent backdrop of 1968, Navy SEAL Tom Reece navigates a clandestine mission across Vietnam and beyond, uncovering a Soviet plot that threatens to reshape global power in a high-stakes tale of espionage, betrayal and brutal realism.
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Hot Wax
by M. L. Rio
After witnessing a violent moment that shattered her father’s rising rock band, Suzanne spends decades hiding from her past, until his death sends her on a wild road trip to uncover the truth and escape from her husband.
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The Tourists
by Christopher Reich
Retired special agent Mac Dekker races through Paris's brightest and darkest places to find his vanished lover, former Mossad assassin Ava Attal, uncovering a deadly plot involving a ruthless prince, enigmatic assassins, and a terrifying act of violence that could kill thousands.
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The Stranger in Room Six
by Jane Corry
It's been fifteen years since Belinda was wrongly convicted of her husband's murder. Now, she's ready for her life to begin again, and she's set on that happening at Sunnyside Home for the Young at Heart. The owner, Mabel, has spent her life here. First as an evacuee during the Blitz and now as the care home's oldest resident, Mabel has held the secrets of this house for as long as she can remember. Secrets that could kill if in the wrong hands. But history won't stay hidden forever and someone is onto them both. Watching and listening from room number six, they'll stop at nothing to find out the truth. With a past this dark, is anyone as innocent as they seem?
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A Long Time Gone
by Joshua Moehling
Embarking on a dangerous quest to uncover the truth about his brother's mysterious disappearance decades earlier, Deputy Ben Packard uncovers a chilling link to a recent suspicious death.
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The Widow
by John Grisham
Already struggling at work and at home, rural Virginia attorney Simon Latch finds himself accused of her murder after he secures wealthy widow Eleanor Barnett's secret inheritance only to see her fortunes unravel in the wake of a car crash.
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The Tin Men
by Nelson DeMille
Army CID Special Agents Scott Brodie and Maggie Taylor are sent to the isolated Camp Hayden to investigate a major's death amid secret war games pitting Rangers against autonomous weapons, where the truth is obscured amidst desert isolation, internal rivalries and hidden agendas.
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The King's Ransom
by Janet Evanovich
Recovery agent Gabriela Rose teams up -- reluctantly -- with her irresistible ex, Rafer Jones, to save his cousin from taking the fall for a global art-theft scam. Their hunt for the missing masterpieces drags them into corruption, murder, and a conspiracy to crash the world economy.
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The Persian
by David McCloskey
Hoping to fund a new life in California, Stockholm dentist Kamran Esfahani becomes a Mossad spy in Iran but when he is captured, he must confront the personal and political costs of betrayal, loyalty and love amid a brutal covert war between nations.
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A Beautiful Family
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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See How They Hide
by Allison Brennan
When murder victims are found in different parts of the country in the same unusual position the same night, Matt Costa and his team discover that both victims had escaped from Colorado's Havenwood cult and are being hunted one by one.
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Crooks
by Lou Berney
Spanning four decades, Crooks follows the unforgettable Mercurio family as they wrestle with crime, ambition, and loyalty. From Las Vegas hustles to Moscow’s dangers and Hollywood’s glitter, each sibling faces the pull of their outlaw roots. Lou Berney delivers a vivid, epic tale of inheritance, reinvention, and the inescapable weight of legacy.
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Revenge of Odessa
by Frederick Forsyth
Fifty years after revealing Odessa’s secrets, Peter Miller is retired and has cared for grandson Georg since his son and daughter-in-law died in a tragic car accident; now Georg’s reputation for fearless journalism in growing fast, and Odessa has been replaced by Medusa, which has even higher levels of secret power.
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