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Thrillers and Suspense August 2026 |
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The Exes
by Leodora Darlington
Who hasn't wanted to murder an ex--figuratively, at least? Natalie has only ever wanted one thing: a kind man and a chance to create the happy family she never had. There's just one problem--her boyfriends keep turning up dead. Enter James. Handsome, wonderful, perfect James. Natalie is convinced her luck has finally turned. He's everything she's ever wanted. More importantly, he's still breathing. But the harder Natalie tries to play the role of the normal, happy wife, the more her dark past threatens to tear her new life apart.
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| It Could Have Been Her by Lisa JewellWhen a lost dog leads Jane Trevally to a sinister London house tied to a terrifying night from her past, she becomes drawn into the search for a missing teenage girl. As long-buried secrets surface, Jane and her stepson uncover a chilling legacy of abuse and deception in Lisa Jewell’s atmospheric, gothic psychological thriller. |
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| Murder at the Spirit Lounge by Jess KiddFormer nun Nora Breen investigates when a celebrated medium dies during a séance and the attendees begin dying one by one under seemingly supernatural circumstances. Fearing Detective Inspector Hilary Rideout may be next, Nora races to expose a clever killer in this atmospheric postwar cozy mystery filled with ghostly intrigue, sharp wit, and impossible deaths. |
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| McKenna's Guy by Mike LawsonRoger Smith seems like an ordinary civil servant nearing retirement -- until he kills a hired assassin who breaks into his home. As a determined detective uncovers ties to a secret passport-forging operation, Roger and his longtime associate John McKenna must stay one step ahead of relentless killers in this clever, propulsive thriller. |
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January and July
by Jeff Abbott
A disgraced intel officer anxious to redeem herself after a disastrous mission, January Holte vows to uncover the identity of a traitor who is selling her agency's secrets. The few clues she's found have led her to a sleepy river town: Lethey, Texas--and to Bill Connors, the one man who might know the truth.July Whitlock, a rookie bodyguard, searches for his one and only client, who has suddenly disappeared. He follows a trail to Lethey to find his missing protectee--Bill Connors.But Bill's friends and enemies in Lethey have secrets of their own. And as January and July ask questions no one wants to answer, they find a tangled web of murder, greed, and ambition--one that will kill anyone who tries to unravel its mysteries.
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| The Death Row Club by V.A. VazquezFollowing the public unmasking of her father as a serial killer, Nicola Fischer is isolated, disgraced, and struggling to rebuild her life. An invitation to an exclusive retreat for the children of killers offers a chance at understanding and belonging -- until a newcomer’s disappearance and a sudden death turn the group’s fragile trust into suspicion and fear. |
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| The Au Pair by Teddy WayneWhen a once-successful novelist’s stagnant career and strained marriage collide with the arrival of a captivating Norwegian au pair, long-suppressed tensions come to the fore. Obsession and betrayal take hold and the household descends into chaos, culminating in tragedy and public fallout in this dark, incisive domestic thriller about ambition, desire, and self-deception. |
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All the Little Houses
by May Cobb
It's the mid-1980s in the tiny town of Longview, Texas. Nellie Anderson, the beautiful daughter of the Anderson family dynasty, has burst onto the scene. She always gets what she wants. What she can't get for herself... well, that's what her mother is for. Because Charleigh Andersen, blond, beautiful, and ruthlessly cunning, remembers all too well having to claw her way to the top. When she was coming of age on the poor side of East Texas, she was a loser, an outcast, humiliated, and shunned by the in-crowd, whose approval she'd so desperately thirsted for. When a prairie-kissed family moves to town, all trad wife, woodworking dad, wholesome daughter vibes, Charleigh's entire self-made social empire threatens to crumble. Who will be left standing when the dust settles?
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