October 2026 list by Bonnie Bradford |
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The Au Pair
by Teddy Wayne
As a headline-grabbing trial captivates the world, novelist Steven Hammer must confront the wreckage he’s created. Is Astrid an innocent young woman, or a calculating femme fatale? And how far will he go for her professed love?
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Based on a True Story
by Sarah Vaughan
All families have secrets. But it's the lies that can kill.
A lavish seventieth birthday party. A body found on a storm-lashed beach. And a secret that someone is dying to tell...
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The Break-Up Retreat
by Camilla Sten
Undercover journalist Isobel Anderssen goes on assignment to expose an exclusive psychological wellness clinic where women go to recover from heartbreak, with dire consequences...
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Choke Point
by Brad Thor
A devastating series of bombings tears through Bangkok. Scores of American citizens are dead. The attacks send shock waves around the world. And the president of the United States quietly prepares a plan B: Scot Harvath.
Scot Harvath series.
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The Housewife
by Natalie Barelli
Jodie married the man of her dreams with the express purpose of becoming his worst nightmare.
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It Could Have Been Her
by Lisa Jewell
Conjuring her memories from years ago, Jane knows an unsettling local house holds the key to a missing teenager, and to her own traumatic story and the dark secrets of the past.
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The Last Time We Saw Her
by Jaclyn Goldis
Ten years ago, a teenage summer camper disappeared while searching for a rumored treasure on a remote island. Now, the long-buried truth of what happened to Sydney and the long-lost gold threatens the lives of those who knew her then.
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The Most Dangerous Man
by Jack Murphy
There are rumors that in some corners of the world, wildlife poachers have become the prey themselves—hunted for sport: the sport of one man hunting another.
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Nasty Little Secrets
by Gabbie Hanks
An infamous murder case is blown back open when a crime writer Rose Dearling's sister goes missing—and her bestselling book might be the key to finding her.
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Nine Lives
by Catherine Steadman
These are your neighbors. One is a killer.
What slowly begins as a voyeuristic fascination with her neighbors and the secrets they’re hiding soon turns into a perilous quest for the truth that threatens to bring untold terrors to Frankie's doorstep.
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Somebody Worth Killing
by Jessica Payne
Meet Nadia Davis, a doting mom and loving wife who has a big secret: she's actually an assassin. And she really needs a babysitter who shows up on time!
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Someone Else's Husband
by Kimberly McCreight
Gretchen Falk knows she lives a charmed life, and she’s not about to risk losing any part of it. That’s why she tried to convince Richard, her devoted husband, not to join his old college friends on an expedition to Mount Kilimanjaro. Little did she know that the beautiful artist climbing alongside him might prove the far greater danger.
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Summer's Never Over
by Darby Bozeman
Greer is finally ready to confront her past at the remote summer camp where the tragic death of her fellow counselor may not have been an accident after all.
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The View from Here
by Rachel Howzell Hall
After eleven years, Nicole Baxter and her husband Truman’s marriage is beginning to fracture. Suddenly, during a scuba diving accident near Catalina Island, Truman is gone. No body. No signs of foul play. Presumed dead... but maybe not.
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Wait and See
by Iris Johansen & Roy Johansen
Investigator Kendra Michaels—formerly blind and now with uniquely insightful observational skills—returns to help Lynch after receiving a cryptic message.
Kendra Michaels series.
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Witness Protection
by Robert Whitlow
Jon Tremaine has lived in hiding for years. Will coming out of the shadows to help a friend be too great a risk?
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You First
by Caroline Kepnes
How did Joe Goldberg become Joe Goldberg? What led to his first love... first obsession... first kill? Find out in the highly anticipated prequel to Caroline Kepnes’s hit You series, which inspired the blockbuster Netflix show.
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