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Thrillers and Suspense June 2025 |
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| The Impossible Thing by Belinda BauerA cinematic literary mystery unfolds across a century, connecting a neglected girl’s discovery in 1926 to a modern-day crime. Young Celie’s rare red bird's egg (known as a Metland egg) brings her family fortune but also leads to murder. Decades later, Patrick Fort (who fans will remember from Rubberneckers) and his friend Nick pursue a stolen Metland egg, exposing a perilous smuggling operation. |
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| Smoke and Embers by John LawtonIn 1950 London, Chief Inspector Troy investigates his sergeant’s ties to a crime boss while unraveling the shadowy past of a mysterious associate. Flashbacks to 1945 Poland reveal identity swaps and wartime betrayals, leading to a suspicious death Troy suspects is murder. Smoke and Embers, the 9th title in the series, is a richly detailed and evocative tale of deception and intrigue. |
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The Writer
by James Patterson
When the husband of bestselling true-crime author Denise Morrow is found dead in their luxury apartment, NYPD Detective Declan Shaw must unravel whether she is a target, a victim, or the mastermind behind a chilling plot.
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Nobody's Fool
by Harlan Coben
Backpacking in Spain, Sami Kierce wakes up covered in blood, his girlfriend Anna dead, and he runs?—?then years later he sees Anna in his night school classroom, she bolts, and he must find her to solve the mystery that has haunted him.
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Rabbit Moon
by Jennifer Haigh
Four years after their bitter divorce, Claire and Aaron Litvak get a phone call no parent is prepared for: their 22-year-old daughter Lindsey, teaching English in China during a college gap year, has been critically injured in a hit and run accident. Ata Shanghai hospital they wait at her bedside, hoping for the best and preparing for the worst. The accident unearths a deeper fissure in the family: the shocking event that ended the Litvaks' marriage and turned Lindsey against them. Estranged from her parents, she has confided only in her younger sister, Grace, adopted as an infant from China. As Claire and Aaron struggle to get their bearings in bustling, cosmopolitan Shanghai, the newly prosperous "miracle city," they face troubling questions about Lindsey's life there, in which nothing is quite as it seems.
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I Would Die For You
by Sandie Jones
When Nicole Forbes opens her door to an interview in 2011 about British 80s band Secret Oktober on the same day her daughter goes missing, she suspects a connection and must revisit her past, which includes sister Cassie's teen obsession with Secret Oktober's frontman Ben Edwards and his eventual interest in Nicole.
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Retreat
by Krysten Ritter
Con artist Liz Dawson takes a job handling an art installation in the home of wealthy Isabelle Beresford, and when she's mistaken for Isabelle herself, she insinuates herself into the deceptive and dangerous world of the Punta Mita resort community.
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The Dark Maestro
by Brendan Slocumb
Curtis Wilson, a cello prodigy from D.C. who rose to classical music stardom, is forced into witness protection after his drug-dealer father turns informant, but when the cartel remains untouchable, Curtis and his family must use their wits and his musical gifts to fight for survival.
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The Tenant
by Freida Mcfadden
Blake Porter, desperate to keep his life afloat after losing his job, rents a room to the seemingly perfect Whitney, but as strange occurrences escalate and secrets unravel, he realizes too late that she's woven a deadly trap within his own home.
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Penitence
by Kristin Koval
When a shocking murder occurs in the home of Angie and David Sheehan, their lives are shattered; and, desperate to defend their family, they turn to small-town lawyer Martine Dumont for help.
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The Children of Eve
by John Connolly
When private investigator Charlie Parker is hired to find Wyatt Riggins, who vanished after a cryptic message, he uncovers a sinister web involving the abduction of four children linked to relentless killers, a cartel boss, and the chilling truth about the enigmatic Children of Eve.
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FDR Drive
by James Comey
Returning as a federal prosecutor, Nora Carleton takes on a rising far-right extremist threat in New York City, building a high-stakes case while racing against time to prevent a deadly attack at the United Nations.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Côte Saint-Luc Public Library
5851 Cavendish Blvd.
Côte Saint-Luc, Quebec H4W 2X8
514-485-6900csllibrary.org/ |
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