Thrillers and Suspense
October 2025

Recent Releases
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 Guest in Room 120 by Sara Ackerman
The Guest in Room 120
by Sara Ackerman

In 1905 Honolulu, hotel worker Iliahi Baldwin forms an unexpected friendship with the accomplished, willful Jane Stanford before her mysterious death, leaving a dark legacy at the fashionable hotel for two writers to uncover a century later.
Scar the Sky by J. Todd Scott
Scar the Sky
by J. Todd Scott

Everything changed for Andi Ellis when she was struck by lightning and her heart stopped. Andi was resuscitated, but she was never the same. Years later Andi, her eight-year-old daughter, and a fellow lightning strike survivor have fled Texas and Andi's dangerous ex to go off the grid in a strange and secluded desert community. 
The Intruder by Freida Mcfadden
The Intruder
by Freida Mcfadden

In the middle of a storm, a girl appears on Casey's doorstep, obviously in need of help, but soon things take a violent turn.
End Game by Jeffrey Archer
End Game
by Jeffrey Archer

As London prepares for the 2012 Olympics, Commander William Warwick races against time to dismantle a shadowy international conspiracy planning a devastating attack, in the eighth novel of the series following An Eye for an Eye. 
Other People's Houses by Clare Mackintosh
Other People's Houses
by Clare Mackintosh

DC Ffion Morgan realizes the death of an estate agent in a kayak on Mirror Lake was no accident, while in Cheshire, DS Leo Brady investigates multiple break-ins, and Ffion and Leo are about to learn that people will pay a high price to hide their secrets.
The grave artist : a novel by Jeffery Deaver
The Grave Artist : a novel
by Jeffery Deaver

After a newlywed's death at a Hollywood Hills wedding, agent Carmen Sanchez and security expert Jake Heron uncover a serial killer's twisted plot targeting survivors' grief, racing to stop the Honeymoon Killer before they become his next victims.
The vanishing place by Zoèe Rankin
The Vanishing Place
by Zoèe Rankin

A young girl stumbles out of the bush into a tiny New Zealand town, her clothes smeared with dirt and blood, unable-or unwilling-to speak. No one's ever seen her before, but old-timers insist that she looks just like a girl who disappeared twenty years earlier. 
All this could be yours by Hank Phillippi Ryan
All This Could Be Yours
by Hank Phillippi Ryan

Debut author Tessa Calloway's book tour becomes a nightmare when a stalker, threatening to expose her dark past and destroy her family, demands she pay the price for a chilling deal with the devil. 75,000 first printing.
Love, mom by Iliana Xander
Love, Mom
by Iliana Xander

When Mackenzie Casper's author mother dies in an accident, fans across the world are left grieving, and the investigators are asking: Was that really an accident?
The iron storm by Clive Cussler
The Iron Storm
by Clive Cussler

Detective Isaac Bell faces the horrors of the Great War while battling a mysterious anarchist group intent on bringing brutality to the shores of America.
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