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Thrillers and Suspense August 2026 |
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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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This Changes Everything
by Lisa Scottoline
Julia Pritzker loves her new life as a wife and mother in beautiful Tuscany--except that she misses her best friend Courtney, back in the States. One night, Julia calls Courtney and reaches her as she's arriving at her grandmother's farm in Pennsylvania. A dreadful premonition overwhelms Julia moments before Courtney enters the house--and makes a heartbreaking discovery.
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Brain Damage
by Freida McFadden
How can you survive when you can't remember who wants you dead? Dr. Charly McKenna had the perfect life: a thriving dermatology practice, a luxury apartment overlooking Central Park, and a handsome husband who adored her. Until the night a bullet tore through her skull. Now Charly wakes in a rehabilitation hospital unable to walk, speak, or remember her own name. All she knows is that someone tried to kill her--and they may still be out there.
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The Witch
by Freida McFadden
When Julia Barlow loses her job and her apartment, she has nowhere left to go but Pemberton, her family's sprawling seventeenth-century estate in rural Massachusetts. Officially, she's there to check in on her aging grandmother. Unofficially, she's hoping the old house will give her a place to disappear. Instead, Pemberton begins to unravel her. Every night, the grandfather clock stops at exactly 3:41 a.m. The lights flicker without warning. And a disembodied voice cries for help outside Julia's bedroom door.
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Wisdom Corner
by David Heska Wanbli Weiden
From the award-winning author of Winter Counts comes a new thriller about life--and death--on the Rosebud Indian Reservation. Virgil Wounded Horse is desperately trying to escape his past as a hired vigilante on the Reservation. But when a legendary figure from the reservation is murdered, Virgil is forced to return to the job. David Heska Wanbli Weiden, whose writing melds the gritty realism of Dashiell Hammett with the lyricism of Tommy Orange (O, The Oprah Magazine), once again brings us a tour de force of crime fiction--and an expansive look at Native American life in a shifting world.
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Helpless
by Jessica Knoll
It's been twelve years since Faye Heron broke Henry Spalding's heart. Henry was her college boyfriend, her first love, but Faye was in danger of being subsumed by him and the intensity of their connection--a connection that took her beyond boundaries she'd only dreamed of crossing. When a former and beloved college professor suddenly passes away, Faye and Henry find themselves back on campus for the funeral, circling something old and dangerous.
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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 later 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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| Based on a True Story by Sarah VaughanBestselling children’s author Dame Eleanor Kingman has spent decades carefully crafting her public image, but an anonymous threat on the eve of her 70th birthday celebration puts everything at risk. As secrets unravel and a death shocks her family and guests, a web of lies, resentments, and hidden motives emerges in this gripping psychological suspense novel. |
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Sisterhood Above All: A #Rushtok Novel
by Kathleen Barber
Being a Gamma at Southern State University means belonging to the most desirable, exclusive sisterhood there is. For Ava, it means even more--it's the last connection she has to her beloved late mother, and she'll do anything to wear the Gamma letters. The sisterhood, the parties, the elite status--and the connection to her mother--are what Ava has always wanted, but she never guessed the cost of membership would be so high. Three women, two houses, one dead body: rush has never been this messy.
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With Friends Like You
by Amy Chozick
Emily is unmoored as a new mother in Manhattan--exhausted, broke, and slipping away from her well-meaning husband. She becomes fixated on finding the one person who ever truly understood her: her college roommate, Daisy. Cool, poetry-reading Daisy, who vanished years ago, after she took a job dancing at a strip club off campus. In her desperate search, Emily tumbles from new-mom message boards into a world of sex work, secrets, and a high-end escort service for global billionaires.
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Hot Girl Murder Club
by Ashley Winstead
From national bestselling author Ashley Winstead comes a buzzy, bloody new thriller about success, sisterhood, and demanding justice...by any means necessary.
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Dreams of Bronze
by Läckberg Camilla
Faye's ex-husband is dead, but she is threatened by her father who is still on the run from prison. The man who should be her safety net is her greatest fear. Faye also has to protect her loved ones and her life's work, the Revenge company.
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