Thrillers and Suspense
September 2025
Recent Releases
The surrogate mother
by Freida McFadden

Abby's dream of having a child is endangered when she discovers that her personal assistant, and the surrogate mother carrying her child, has an unspeakable secret.
The Last Ferry Out
by Andrea Bartz

In this stylish, twist-filled thriller from bestselling author Andrea Bartz, Abby travels to remote Isla Colel to uncover the truth behind her fiancée Eszter’s mysterious death. Among a suspicious group of expats, Abby’s grief-fueled search reveals chilling truths, offering readers emotional depth and a haunting, unpredictable journey.
You belong here : a novel
by Megan Miranda

When her daughter enrolls at the college Beckett Bowery fled after a deadly scandal two decades earlier, Beckett is forced to return to Wyatt Valley, where buried truths and old suspicions threaten to resurface against the backdrop of the picturesque Virginia town.
The first gentleman : a thriller
by Bill Clinton

The President of the United States is up for reelection. Her husband is on trial for murder. Is the First Gentleman a killer? A pair of brilliant investigative journalists set out to answer that burning question about the NFL star-turned-political spouse.
Famous last words : a novel
by Gillian McAllister

Returning to work, new mom Camilla's life is upended when she learns her husband is the gunman in a London hostage crisis, leaving her to decipher his cryptic goodbye note and make a critical choice. 
Parents Weekend
by Alex Finlay

During Parents Weekend at an elite California college, five students vanish without a trace. As panic spreads and secrets unravel, FBI Agent Sarah Keller is called in to investigate. Told through multiple perspectives, this suspenseful, character-driven story explores family dysfunction, public scrutiny, and buried pasts. Fans of Mary Higgins Clark will be hooked.
Mr. Whisper
by Andrew Mayne

Investigator Sloan McPherson finds a frightened vagrant suffering from amnesia living in a Florida swamp ... then learns he disappeared from Oregon when he was a teenager. To find out how he ended up three thousand miles from home thirty years later, Sloan enlists the help of two brilliant colleagues.
Book 3 in the 
Theo Cray and Jessica Blackwood series. 
Hidden nature
by Nora Roberts

Natural Resources police officer, Sloan Cooper, and her partner had just taken down three men preying on hikers in the Western Maryland mountains. Driving back, she pulled in at a convenience store - and walked right into a robbery in progress. One gunshot from a jittery thief and her world changed. She may be down, but she's not out. So when a woman vanishes, Sloan searches online for similar cases. She finds them, spread across three states.
Broken country : a novel
by Clare Leslie Hall

When her brother-in-law's actions reconnect her with a former love, Gabriel, whose son eerily resembles her deceased child, Beth's carefully constructed life unravels as past secrets and jealousies resurface, leading to deadly consequences and a difficult choice.
Julie Chan is dead : a novel
by Liann Zhang

In this razor-sharp, diabolical debut thriller, a young woman steps into her deceased twin's influencer life, only to discover dark secrets hidden behind her social media facade. Julie Chan has nothing. Her twin sister has everything. Except a pulse. 
The Deepest Fake
by Daniel Kalla

From internationally bestselling author Daniel Kalla comes a sharp psychological thriller about a CEO whose carefully curated life is falling apart. His wife is cheating, someone is stealing from his AI company, and he's just been given a fatal diagnosis. He'd end it all, except he can't trust his own reality anymore.
Hello, Juliet
by Samantha M. Bailey

Ivy Westcott fled LA as her acting career imploded. In a flash, she lost her first love and chosen family--her Hello, Juliet castmates. But she never discovered who turned her closest friends against her...A decade later, Ivy is horrified when a celebrity expose thrusts the Hello, Juliet cast back into the limelight, dredging up the old scandals she hoped to escape. 
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