Thrillers and Suspense
October 2025
Recent Releases
Dying to Meet You by Sarina Bowen
Dying to Meet You
by Sarina Bowen

From the author of The Five Year Lie comes a chilling novel about trust, obsession, and buried secrets. When architect Rowan Gallagher finds her ex murdered outside the mansion she's restoring, she becomes the prime suspect. As she digs deeper, dark truths -- and someone watching her -- suggest she could be next.
The lake escape by Jamie Day
The Lake Escape
by Jamie Day

When a woman disappears during a summer trip to Vermont's Lake Timmeny, longtime friends Julia, David, and Erika confront local legends and their own buried pasts as suspicion grows and generational secrets threaten to pull them under.

*Also available digitally.
Too Old for This
by Samantha Downing

In Samantha Downing’s wry, twist-filled new novel, 75-year-old Lottie Jones -- once a notorious serial killer -- lives quietly under a new identity. But when a journalist starts digging into her past, Lottie must confront old crimes and consider new ones to stay hidden. Murder, however, isn’t so easy at her age.

*Available digitally.
House of Monstrous Women
by Daphne Fama

Set against the backdrop of the 1986 People Power Revolution in the Philippines, this gothic horror follows Josephine, a grieving young woman who accepts an invitation to a childhood friend’s eerie mansion. Promised her heart’s desire if she wins a mysterious game, Josephine must survive a house that hungers for blood.
Jenny Cooper Has a Secret
by Joy Fielding

In this darkly clever psychological thriller, a lonely widow forms an unsettling bond with a 92-year-old dementia patient who claims to be a killer. When a resident suddenly dies, Linda must decide whether Jenny’s shocking confessions are fantasy -- or the truth. A tense, gripping story of trust and deception.
The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer
by Ragnar Jonasson

When Iceland’s most famous crime novelist vanishes without a trace, young detective Helgi Reykdal must unravel the secrets of her shadowy past before the press and a possible killer get there first. Clever, atmospheric, and steeped in golden-age mystery tradition, Jonasson’s latest is a masterful homage to classic whodunits.
A girl like us by Anna Sophia McLoughlin
A Girl Like Us
by Anna Sophia McLoughlin

It's 2004 and former reality TV star and party girl Maya Miller has just married the most eligible bachelor on the planet: Colin Sterling, of the globally famous Sterling family whose history of aristocratic titles and land holdings rival a British royal and whose media empire is comparable to the Murdochs. To some, Maya represents the American dream. To others, a gold digger. But when Colin's cousin Arianna, the heiress to the family's immense fortune, is found murdered, Maya is thrust into the spotlight: first as she is revealed to be the next heiress to the fortune, and then as the prime suspect.
Lime Juice Money
by Jo Morey

Laelia Wylde leaves London for Belize, hoping to start fresh with her partner and children near her botanist father. But in the lush, dangerous jungle, her volatile romantic relationship worsens, and mysterious gunshots and hidden family secrets blur the line between reality and paranoia in this atmospheric, searing debut thriller.
Stillwater
by Tanya Scott

Trying to escape his violent past, Jack Quinlan assumes a new identity as college student Luke Harris. But when ruthless crime boss Gus resurfaces, Luke is dragged back into the underworld, forced to resurrect lethal skills and fight for survival in this gritty, fast-paced debut thriller for fans of Jack Reacher.

*Digital edition
No body no crime : a novel by Tess Sharpe
No Body No Crime
by Tess Sharpe

A rural PI sets off to locate the girl who got away with her heart - and with murder - six years ago, and finds herself deep in a crime ring she'd known nothing about.
The Dead Husband Cookbook
by Danielle Valentine

When book editor Thea Woods is tapped to work on the memoir of celebrated chef Maria Capello, she expects a career reboot -- but instead finds herself isolated on a remote upstate farm, unraveling decades-old secrets behind Maria’s husband’s mysterious disappearance. In this deliciously dark thriller, suspicion and dread simmer beneath a veneer of culinary fame.
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