Thrillers and Suspense
July 2026
Recent Releases
The Children
by Melissa Albert

After a traumatic childhood tied to their mother’s famous fantasy series, estranged siblings Guinevere and Ennis Sharp reunite in adulthood as competing versions of their shared past emerge -- one in a memoir, the other in an art installation. As buried truths surface, this atmospheric gothic tale explores memory, legacy, and the cost of storytelling.
When Justice Comes by Colleen Coble
When Justice Comes
by Colleen Coble

USA TODAY bestselling romantic suspense author Colleen Coble and Rick Acker deliver the final book in their beloved Tupelo Grove series: Hez and Savannah Webster have survived storms that would bury others without a love as strong as theirs--but can they withstand the final battle that threatens to sweep away everything they've fought for?
The Tree of Light and Flowers by Thomas Perry
The Tree of Light and Flowers
by Thomas Perry

Jane Whitefield is used to protecting vulnerable people, but after she gives birth, the fugitives she must rescue are her own family. A violent car crash brings on the premature birth of the baby that Jane Whitefield and her husband have hoped for, but it also shatters the period of calm in their lives like an earthquake trigdgering a tectonic shift. Within weeks, Jane's peaceful time as a new mother in a safe, harmonious home starts to revert to her harrowing previous life.
She had spent over a decade rescuing and sheltering people from dangerous foes, taking them to new locations, and teaching them to live under new identities. It was something that she'd hoped to never have to do again. Nearly simultaneously, as though the events were connected, people who are thousands of miles apart in vastly different circumstances start to move."
Some of them are in terrible need of help finding a route to safety. Some are dedicated to serving justice. Others are determined to capture the woman who makes people disappear so they can force her to reveal where their potential victims are now. All of these travelers are soon on their way to the old house in western New York. Suddenly the people requiring Jane's special skills include not only multiple fugitives, but also Jane herself, her husband, and their newborn, as the danger she faces comes from people who know how to find her.
She'll need to use everything she's ever learned in order to survive.
Dead Weight
by Hildur Knútsdóttir

In Reykjavík, a solitary business analyst’s controlled life unravels when a stray cat draws her into an uneasy friendship with its troubled owner. As domestic danger and personal pressures escalate, suppressed instincts surface, pushing both women toward increasingly dark and irreversible choices in this tense psychological thriller.
The Lost Book of Elizabeth Barton by Jennifer N. Brown
The Lost Book of Elizabeth Barton
by Jennifer N. Brown

A dual-timeline murder mystery set in an English country manor, when an ambitious professor discovers the long-lost manuscript of a Reformation-era prophetessHistorian Alison Sage has made a groundbreaking archival discovery--she found a manuscript containing the prophecies of a 16th century nun, Elizabeth Barton. Barton's prophecy condemning Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn led to her execution and the destruction of all copies of her prophecies--or so the world believed. With Alison's discovery, she is catapulted to academic superstardom and scores an invitation to the exclusive Codex Consortium, a week of research among a select handful of fellow historians at a crumbling manor in England, located next to the ruins of the priory where Elizabeth herself once lived. What begins as a promising conference turns into a nightmare as the eerie house becomes the site of a murder. Suddenly, everyone is a suspect, and it seems that answers lie at the root of a local legend about centuries-old hidden treasure. Alison's research makes her best-suited to solve the mystery--but when old feelings resurface for a former colleague, and the stakes of the search skyrocket, everyone's motives become murky. Alison's cutthroat world of academia is almost as dangerous as Elizabeth Barton's sixteenth-century England, where heretics are beheaded, visions can kill, and knowing who to trust is a deadly art. The Lost Book of Elizabeth Barton is a thrilling novel, crackling with the voices of the past and propelled by a mystery that will leave readers in suspense until the very last page.
The Break-Up Retreat
by Camilla Sten

A journalist goes undercover at a remote clinic famed for helping women heal after breakups, only to find manipulation, paranoia, and rising danger among the patients. As unsettling incidents mount, she suspects the clinic’s founder but soon realizes something far more dangerous may be unfolding behind its carefully controlled façade.
All Them Dogs
by Djamel White

In an impoverished part of Dublin, Tony Ward is pulled into a local crime ring run out of a boxing gym, taking on violent jobs to prove his loyalty. As debts and betrayals mount, he becomes increasingly trapped in the organization’s grip. This stark debut explores loyalty, masculinity, and the costs of survival in a criminal underworld.
Man of My Dreams
by Olivia Worley

Romance writer Ivy Harcourt’s chance meeting with a charismatic British architect in Central Park feels like fate -- until she notices he exactly matches the hero of her unfinished novel. As unsettling messages arrive and suspicion mounts, Ivy is forced to question his intentions while facing secrets from her own past in this suspenseful thriller.
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