Michigan City Public Library: Thrillers and Suspense: March 2026

Featuring:

The Plotters
by Un-Su Kim

Featuring: Reseng, a bookish thirtysomething hitman living in an alternate-universe Seoul. Reseng works for a secretive cabal of men who live above the law, controlling South Korean politics through targeted assassination.

What goes wrong: Reseng barely avoids being killed himself, and this taste of his own medicine makes him begin to question the mysterious corporate and political forces that dominate both his life and the wider society he lives in.

Read it for: the surreal world-building and refreshing moments of dark humor.

A Spy Like Me
by Kim Sherwood

A Spy Like Me is the action-packed follow-up to Double or Nothing, in which the one and only James Bond went missing. Johanna Harwood (aka Agent 003) has recently been placed on extended leave to recover from a sudden personal loss, but grieving or not she decides to go on an off-the-books mission to locate Bond and quell a looming terrorist attack.

Mr. Mercedes: A Novel
by Stephen King

Suspense Fiction. Stephen King might be better known as a horror writer, but he's no slouch when it comes to crime fiction, either. In this trilogy opener (followed by Finders Keepers and the recently published End of Watch), an unhappy retired detective is given a reason to live by the very killer he was never able to capture. Bored by his own inactivity, the killer threatens to do even worse in a crazed letter, and a high-stakes game of cat and mouse, played out in American suburbia, quickly ensues. The 2015 winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award, Mr. Mercedes was also shortlisted for the Gold Dagger Award in that same year.

Bad Summer People
by Emma Rosenblum

What it is: an intricately plotted and character-driven debut about the delightfully despicable summertime residents of an exclusive Fire Island enclave and how the discovery of a dead body threatens to bring all their hidden secrets to the surface.

Is it for you? In addition to all the gossip, infidelity, and backstabbing, the nonlinear storyline is narrated from the alternating perspectives of a large cast of characters.

Reviewers say: Bad Summer People is "wickedly entertaining" (Publishers Weekly) and "a heck of a beach read" (Kirkus Reviews).

Paper Cut
by Rachel Taff

Lucy Golden, infamous for escaping a murderous California cult as a teenager, thought her past was behind her. But when a high-profile documentary threatens to unearth long-buried secrets, she must confront the desert, her family, and online critics, navigating fame, memory, and danger in a darkly addictive, twist-filled suspense debut.

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