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Thrillers and Suspense - July 2025 |
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| The Ghostwriter by Julie ClarkIn The Ghostwriter, Julie Clark crafts a suspenseful, emotionally charged thriller about Olivia Dumont, a ghostwriter hired by her estranged father to tell the truth about a decades-old family tragedy. As buried secrets emerge, Olivia confronts legacy, identity, and the chilling cost of uncovering the past. You might also like: The Only One Left by Riley Sager. |
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Stuart Woods' Finders Keepers
by Brett Battles
"After attending an Arrington properties meeting on Martha's Vineyard at the group's newest location, The Vineyard Arrington, Stone Barrington returns to New York City to catch up with his old friend Jack Coulter over lunch, who requests Stone's help in settling his niece Sara into city life post-divorce. Always one to please, Stone takes Sara under his wing. But when various men from Sara's past start getting hurt, and Jack's loved ones find themselves a target in a deadly scheme, it's up to Stone to put the pieces together...before the shrouded conspirer manages to tear them all apart, permanently"
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| The Safari by Jaclyn GoldisA glamorous South African safari turns deadly when fashion mogul Odelia Babel is murdered on the eve of her wedding -- and her son is the prime suspect. This stylish, twist-filled thriller blends Succession-level drama with Agatha Christie intrigue in a vividly exotic setting. |
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King of Ashes : A novel
by S. A. Cosby
After returning to Jefferson Run, Virginia, and family business Carruthers Crematorium—with brother Dante in debt to criminals and sister Neveah exhausted from holding everything together—Roman discovers that his father's crash was no accident and Dante has placed them all in real danger.
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| With a Vengeance by Riley SagerAnna Matheson lures six individuals responsible for her family’s ruin onto a luxury train, planning to confront them and force confessions. But when a passenger is murdered, Anna's carefully laid plans unravel. Now, she must risk her own life to protect her enemies as the situation spirals into deadly chaos. |
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Next to heaven
by James Frey
New Bethlehem, Connecticut, is a picture perfect town. But beneath the designer yoga gear and country club memberships lies a darker reality. Devon and Belle have it all, but they want something more. Something dangerous. Their solution? A party made up of New Bethlehem’s elite. One night. Multiple betrayals. And a murder will shatter New Bethlehem’s carefully constructed facade.
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| Kill Your Darlings by Peter SwansonPeter Swanson's twisty thriller follows Thom and Wendy Graves, a seemingly ordinary couple with a deadly secret. Told in reverse, the narrative reveals their shared dark past, Wendy's growing plan to murder Thom, and the slow unraveling of their marriage. This complex psychological tale is full of surprises and emotional tension. |
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El dorado drive : A novel
by Megan Abbott
Twice a month, the women of the Wheel meet. New members bring cash to the party that is pooled together and then gifted to one lucky member. It's all about giving back. Lifting each other up. As women should. But when Harper is invited, with the promise of an end to her financial burdens, she inadvertently unleashes a darkness lurking within the group. If she's not careful, it might just get her killed.
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| The Poet's Game by Paul VidichA former CIA operative turned financier is drawn back into the world of espionage when the agency needs his help extracting a Russian asset with compromising information about the White House. As the operation goes awry, he faces betrayal, danger, and the haunting question of who he can trust. |
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Cat fight : A novel
by Kit Conway
When a rumored panther sighting sparks suburban hysteria in the posh London enclave of Sevenoaks, three women including a former zoologist must navigate secrets, rivalries and escalating tensions that reveal the true predators may be much closer to home.
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| So Happy Together by Olivia WorleyJane believes Colin is her soulmate, and after their brief romance ends, she becomes determined to win him back. When he starts dating Zoe, Jane’s obsession leads to a shocking discovery that entangles all three in a web of lies, secrets, and murder. This is the adult debut of YA author Olivia Worley. |
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Proof : A thriller
by Jon Cowan
From a writer and executive producer of Suits comes a riveting and gritty legal thriller about murder, cover-ups, redemption and Los Angeles.
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Shaw Connolly Lives to Tell
by Gillian French
In this adult debut novel, Shaw Connolly has started taking disturbing calls from a man who all but claims to have something to do with her sister's disappearance 16 years ago. The calls go to the next level as he begins to show just how dangerous he might be. Shaw is too desperate for answers to hang up now, just when she's getting close to finding proof. The only question left is what she must lose to learn the truth.
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The Bachelorette Party
by Camilla Sten
Ever since she was a teenager, Tessa Nilsson has been consumed by the story of four friends who disappeared on a remote island, and soon enough, she gets an opportunity to investigate when her friend has a bachelorette party on the site of the disappearance.
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A Murder in Paris : A novel
by Matthew Blake
Olivia Finn is a memory expert at Charing Cross Hospital in London. When she receives a call that her French grandmother has appeared at the Hotel Lutetia in a distressed state claiming she committed a murder in one of the hotel rooms in WWII, Olivia travels to Paris to uncover the truth about what really happened all those years ago.
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The Whyte Python World Tour : A novel
by Travis Kennedy
In 1986 Los Angeles, drummer Rikki Thunder's dream comes true when he joins rising glam metal band Whyte Python, but as their music reaches the Eastern Bloc, he's thrust into a high-stakes battle where rock and roll collides with global politics.
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