Thrillers and Suspense
October 2025

Recent Releases
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.
The Wasp Trap
by Mark Edwards

At a glamorous London dinner party, six old friends are forced into a deadly game: confess their darkest secrets or face elimination. Tied to a long-buried psychological experiment from 1999, their past resurfaces with chilling consequences. The Wasp Trap is a fast-paced, suspenseful thriller about truth, betrayal, and hidden psychopaths.
Departure 37 : a novel by Scott Carson
Departure 37 : a novel
by Scott Carson

After pilots across America refuse to fly following mysterious calls from their mothers, some long dead, a teenager in Maine becomes entangled in a decades-old secret tied to a 1962 naval experiment, a deadly discovery and rising global tensions.
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.
6:40 to Montreal : a novel by Eva Jurczyk
6:40 to Montreal : a novel
by Eva Jurczyk

A luxury train ride turns deadly after a fellow passenger dies under mysterious circumstances, causing Agatha's quiet writing retreat in the Canadian wilderness to become a chilling fight for survival against an unseen threat.
A murder in paris : a novel by Matthew Blake
A murder in paris : a novel
by Matthew Blake

Memory expert Olivia Finn races to Paris when her grandmother claims to have committed a 1945 murder at Hotel Lutetia, but as present-day deaths mount, Olivia must uncover the truth before the past kills again.
Clown town by Mick Herron
Clown town
by Mick Herron

While recovering from injury, former MI5 agent River Cartwright investigates a missing book tied to his late grandfather's secrets that draws in the disgraced spies of Slough House, in the ninth novel of the series following Bad Actors.
Tom Clancy terminal velocity by M. P. Woodward
Tom Clancy terminal velocity
by M. P. Woodward

After a series of brutal murders linked to a revived terror group, ex-commando Bartosz Jankowski leads a kill mission in the Himalayas, while Jack Ryan Jr. races to prevent catastrophe amid international power struggles and deadly pursuit in the mountainous borderlands.
Guess again by Charlie Donlea
Guess again
by Charlie Donlea

Ten years after teen volleyball star Callie Jones vanished without a trace, former detective Ethan Hall is pulled back to his haunted hometown to uncover long-buried secrets forcing him into a dangerous investigation with ties to his own dark past.
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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