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Thrillers and Suspense January 2026 |
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| Best Offer Wins by Marisa KashinoDesperate to secure her dream home and start a family, Margo Miyake’s obsessive pursuit escalates from awkward charm offensives to manipulative, violent schemes. Sharp, satirical, and chaotic, the novel explores millennial anxieties, material obsession, and the extremes of ambition. |
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Cape Fever
by Nadia Davids
In a colonial city in 1920, a young woman becomes a personal maid to an eccentric widow. She soon discovers that the household holds secrets and supernatural presences. A ritual of dictating letters to her employer strengthens the bond between maid and matron--but also introduces psychological tension. Combining elements of gothic fiction, folklore, and historical context, the novel explores themes of love, grief, class, and the legacies of colonialism.
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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, Peter is 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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Everyone in the Group Chat Dies
by L. M. Chilton
Kirby Cornell needs a break from everything--her dead-end job, her sleazy landlord, her messy roommates. And most of all, from the terrible thing they all did. She's in the clear until a new message on their old group chat pops up: "Everyone in the group chat dies." Even more haunting is that the writer is her ex-roommate Esme--who died twelve months ago...
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The First Time I Saw Him
by Laura Dave
Five years after her husband, Owen, disappeared, Hannah Hall and her stepdaughter, Bailey, have settled into a new life in Southern California. Together, they've forged a relationship with Bailey's grandfather Nicholas and are putting the past behind them. But when Owen shows up, Hannah knows that she and Bailey are in danger again. Mother and daughter are forced to go on the run in a relentless race to keep their past from catching up with them.
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| The Living and the Dead by Christoffer CarlssonTwo decades after a teenager was killed, a new murder forces a small Swedish town to confront what it tried to forget. The earlier case was overshadowed by a deadly crash and a catastrophic landslide, leaving the truth buried. Now investigators revisit old lies, uncovering enduring loyalties and deep betrayals. |
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The Murder at World's End
by Ross Montgomery
On a remote tidal island, the Viscount of Tithe Hall prepares for the apocalypse that he believes will accompany the passing of Halley's Comet. He aims to seal the Hall from top to bottom. But the danger lies within... By morning, he will be dead in his sealed study, murdered by his own ancestral crossbow. All eyes turn to Stephen Pike, Tithe Hall's newest under-butler. His unlikely ally in solving the mystery is Miss Decima Stockingham, the foul-mouthed, 80-year-old family matriarch. Together they navigate secret passages, buried grudges, and rising terror to unmask the killer.
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| The Red Scare Murders by Con LehaneCon Lehane delivers a gripping noir set in 1950s New York, where blacklisted animator-turned-PI Mick Mulligan races to save a Black communist cab driver from execution. Immersed in Cold War paranoia, labor unrest, and organized crime, Mick navigates a tangled web of politics, betrayal, and danger in a tale that blends historical detail with tense, hardboiled suspense. |
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