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Thrillers and Suspense June 2025 |
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A Flaw in the Design
by Nathan Oates
What it is: a character-driven psychological thriller that blends intricate plotting and lyrical writing with a moving and occasionally disturbing tone.
The premise: Gil is a creatively stagnated, Vermont-based writing professor who reluctantly agrees to take in his privileged but troubled nephew Matthew after the boy is orphaned by a car accident -- a decision he starts to regret immediately as his own insecurities and Matthew's unnerving behavior mix into a caustic, toxic stew.
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A Narrow Door
by Joanne Harris
Series alert: A Narrow Door is the third entry in the series of psychological suspense novels set at elite boarding school St. Oswald's.
This time: big changes are underway, including the arrival of the school's first female students and the first woman hired to replace an outgoing headmaster, but the discovery of human remains in a sinkhole on campus show that the school hasn't moved on from its dark past.
Reviewers say: "This spectacular feat of storytelling will seduce the reader from page one" (Publishers Weekly).
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A Tidy Ending
by Joanna Cannon
What it's about: British housewife Linda Hammett lives a quiet (if unfulfilling) life with her husband Terry in a house she keeps spotless. Things start to get messy when she receives a fancy catalog addressed to the home's previous owner, her husband starts working odd hours, and local women start to disappear.
For fans of: unreliable narrators, suburban malaise, and sardonic humor.
Reviewers say: A Tidy Ending is "sublimely structured and darkly witty" (Publishers Weekly) and "chock-a-block with punch-in-the gut twists, wry humor, tragedy, and heartbreak" (Booklist).
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Bearskin
by James A. McLaughlin
What it's about: Poachers are killing bears on an Appalachian nature preserve where Rice Moore is working as a caretaker, but his attempts to stop them bring up secrets from his past and reveal his location to the members of the drug cartel that he came to Virginia to hide from.
Why you might like it: Lush writing and an atmospheric tone almost turn the natural world into a character itself.
For fans of: Paul Doiron, Nevada Barr, and C.J. Box.
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Dead of Night
by Simon Scarrow
Dead of Night is the action-packed sequel to Blackout, which first introduced readers to police inspector Horst Schenke during his hunt for a serial killer in 1939 Berlin. This time, he investigates the suspicious suicide of a doctor who hid in plain sight as a member of the Nazi Party while secretly helping Jews trapped in the city.
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| Hard Town by Adam PlantingaRetired Detroit cop Kurt Argento, still grieving his wife’s death, is house-sitting in Fenton, Arizona, when he’s asked to help find a missing husband. What seems like a simple request unravels into a dangerous conspiracy involving shady government actions and a town’s dark secrets, pushing Kurt to confront his own moral compass. Read-alikes: Just the Nicest Couple by Mary Kubica; The Scorned by David W. Putnam. |
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| The Perfect Divorce by Jeneva RoseIn the suspenseful sequel to The Perfect Marriage, Sarah Morgan’s life is upended when new DNA evidence reopens her late husband’s murder case, thrusting her back into the spotlight. As she navigates a messy divorce from her current husband, who’s implicated in a mistress’s disappearance, secrets and tensions spiral in a dangerous game. |
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| The Staircase in the Woods by Chuck WendigFive high school friends, bonded by an oath to protect each other, reunite 20 years after one of them vanished up a mysterious disappearing staircase in the woods. As the staircase reappears, they return to uncover the truth, facing both the horrors of the past and a gruesome puzzle that awaits them. |
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Michigan City Public Library
100 E. 4th Street
Michigan City, Indiana 46360
219-873-3044mclib.org/ |
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