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Thrillers and Suspense May 2026 |
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| Strangers in the Villa by Robyn HardingAfter her husband’s betrayal, Sydney agrees to start over by restoring a crumbling Spanish villa into a winery, but their marriage remains strained. When two stranded tourists join them, buried secrets and shifting desires surface, turning their uneasy refuge into a tense, seductive, and increasingly dangerous game. For fans of: Lucy Foley. |
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Beach Thriller
by Jamie Day
The ultimate summer suspense novel is perfect for beach read lovers everywhere. Some people lose themselves in a novel. Others lose everything. Holly Sinclair, a struggling author, is dead broke. After being evicted from her New York apartment, she returns to her family's dilapidated beach house in coastal New England with one urgent goal: write a book that sells. Fast.
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| Last One Out by Jane HarperFive years after her son vanished, Ro Crowley returns to a dying Australian mining town still shadowed by grief and suspicion. As she revisits the past, overlooked clues emerge, exposing buried secrets and rising danger in a haunting, slow-burning mystery about loss, family, and a community unraveling under pressure. |
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| Killing Me Softly by Sandie JonesA tragic hit-and-run shatters the seemingly perfect marriage of Freya and Charlie, exposing jealousy, addiction, and betrayals. As suspicion deepens and secrets unravel, their once-devoted bond turns toxic, revealing how far each will go to protect themselves in this dark, propulsive tale of guilt, obsession, and deception. |
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| The Story of Marceau Miller by Marceau MillerWhen bestselling author Marceau Miller dies in a mysterious fall, his wife, Sarah, suspects foul play. Driven to find his final manuscript, she uncovers clues pointing to betrayal within their inner circle. This layered, metafictional thriller blends grief, secrets, and suspense into a clever, atmospheric mystery. |
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The Keeper
by Tana French
On a cold night in the remote Irish village of Ardnakelty, a girl goes missing. Sweet, loving Rachel Holohan was about to be engaged to the son of the local big shot. Instead, she's dead in the river. In a close-knit small town, a death like this isn't simple. It comes wrapped in generations-old grudges and power struggles, and it splits the townland in two. One of the greatest crime novelists writing today (Vox) crafts a masterwork of atmospheric suspense that brings the story of one of her most beloved characters to a spellbinding conclusion.
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The Anniversary: A Thriller
by Alex Finlay
From the national bestselling author of Parents Weekend, comes one of the most anticipated thrillers of the year. On May 1, 1992, Jules Delaney and Quinn Riley hardly know each other. Jules is high school queen bee in a small Midwestern town when she survives a brutal attack by the elusive May Day Killer--a predator who strikes every May 1st and then vanishes without a trace. Quinn, a boy from the wrong side of the tracks, is arrested the same night after trying to break up a fight and nearly killing someone. By morning, their lives are forever connected.
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The Shadow Carver
by Nadine Matheson
When a convicted killer is released and later found brutally murdered, DI Henley and the Serial Crimes Unit are pulled into a deadly investigation with links to other recent attacks - all the victims are connected by the vicious signature left behind by the killer.
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A Cruise to Die for
by Heather Graham
Special Agent Chloe McMurray has been asked to do many things in the name of her job. Going undercover on a cruise ship leaving from her home port of Miami, however, is a new one. Not only that, but she's tasked with posing as the wife of her federal counterpart, Special Agent Wesley Law. Their investigation? A string of murders and suicides across three states that seem unrelated, until they uncover a deadly technological connection.
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