Thrillers and Suspense
October 2025

Recent Releases
Too Old for This
by Samantha Downing

In Samantha Downing’s wry, twist-filled new novel, 75-year-old Lottie Jones -- once a notorious serial killer -- lives quietly under a new identity. But when a journalist starts digging into her past, Lottie must confront old crimes and consider new ones to stay hidden. Murder, however, isn’t so easy at her age.
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 Wasp Trap is a fast-paced, suspenseful thriller about truth, betrayal, and hidden psychopaths.
Final Orbit by Chris Hadfield
Final Orbit
by Chris Hadfield

Full of intrigue and real history—including the fascinating story of Professor Tsien Hsue-shen, the “Father of Chinese Rocketry” and founder of China’s space program—Final Orbit accelerates to a thrilling conclusion that captures the beauty and terror of survival 270 miles above Earth, as could only be written by one of the most experienced astronauts alive.
Jenny Cooper Has a Secret
by Joy Fielding

In this darkly clever psychological thriller, a lonely widow forms an unsettling bond with a 92-year-old dementia patient who claims to be a killer. When a resident suddenly dies, Linda must decide whether Jenny’s shocking confessions are fantasy -- or the truth. A tense, gripping story of trust and deception.
Keep this for me by Jennifer Fawcett
Keep this for me
by Jennifer Fawcett

Keep This for Me is about parents and children and the hurts we carry, and how one random act of violence can send ripples years into the future, affecting everyone in its wake.
The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer
by Ragnar Jonasson

When Iceland’s most famous crime novelist vanishes without a trace, young detective Helgi Reykdal must unravel the secrets of her shadowy past before the press and a possible killer get there first. Clever, atmospheric, and steeped in golden-age mystery tradition, Jonasson’s latest is a masterful homage to classic whodunits.
The Stranger in Room Six by Jane Corry
The Stranger in Room Six
by Jane Corry

It's been fifteen years since Belinda was convicted of her husband's murder. Now that she’s free, she’s ready for a fresh start. So, when she
gets a job at Sunnyside Home for the Young at Heart, she’s dead set
on making sure no one learns about her awful past. Mabel has spent her life at Sunnyside—first as an evacuee during the Blitz, and now as the home’s oldest resident. She’s held the secrets of this house for as long as she can remember. Secrets that, in the wrong hands, could kill.
But history won’t stay hidden forever, because someone is onto both
Belinda and Mabel, watching and listening from Room Six. And they’ll stop at nothing to find out the truth.
Widow's Point : The Complete Haunting by Richard Chizmar
Widow's Point : The Complete Haunting
by Richard Chizmar

When investigators enter the long-abandoned Widow's Point Lighthouse—site of decades of unexplained deaths and disappearances—they awaken a malignant presence that traps them inside, unraveling time and sanity across two harrowing visits in 2017 and 2025.
The Dead Husband Cookbook
by Danielle Valentine

When book editor Thea Woods is tapped to work on the memoir of celebrated chef Maria Capello, she expects a career reboot -- but instead finds herself isolated on a remote upstate farm, unraveling decades-old secrets behind Maria’s husband’s mysterious disappearance. In this deliciously dark thriller, suspicion and dread simmer beneath a veneer of culinary fame.
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