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Almost Surely Dead
by Amina Akhtar
Dunia Ahmed lives an ordinary life—or she definitely used to. Now she’s the subject of a true crime podcast. She’s been missing for over a year, and no one knows if she’s dead or alive. But her story has listeners obsessed. In the days before her disappearance, Dunia is a successful pharmacist living in New York. The daughter of Pakistani immigrants, she’s coping with a broken engagement and the death of her mother. But then something happens that really shakes up her world: someone tries to murder her. When her would-be killer winds up dead, Dunia figures the worst is over. But then there’s another attempt on her life…and another. And police suspect someone close to her may be the culprit.
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Before We Were Innocent
by Ella Berman
Ten years after being cleared of any involvement in the death of their friend while summering in Greece, Bess must decide if she wants to continue to support Joni, who is again tangled up in an eerily similar crime.
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The Missing Witness
by Allison Brennan
Detective Kara Quinn is back in Los Angeles to testify against a notorious human trafficker, finally moving past the case that upended her life. But when the accused is shot in broad daylight, the chaotic scene of the crime turns up few reliable bystanders. And one witness—a whistleblower who might be the key to everything—has disappeared.
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The Mystery Writer: A Novel
by Sulari Gentill
When Theodosia Benton abandons her career path as an attorney and shows up on her brother's doorstep with two suitcases and an unfinished novel, she expects to face a few challenges. When her mentor, a highly successful author, is brutally murdered, Theo wants the killer to be found and justice to be served. Then the police begin looking at her brother, Gus, as their prime suspect, and Theo does the unthinkable in order to protect him. But the writer has left a trail, a thread out of the labyrinth in the form of a story. Gus finds that thread and follows it, and in his attempt to save his sister he inadvertently threatens the foundations of the labyrinth itself.
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One of the Good Guys
by Araminta Hall
Desperate to escape the ghosts of his failed marriage, Cole upends his life. He leaves London behind for a remote stretch of coast. Leonora has made the same move for similar reasons. She’s living a short walk from Cole’s cottage, preparing for her art exhibition. Though Cole can’t figure out what went wrong with his marriage, and Leonora is having trouble acclimating to the hostile landscape, the pair forges a connection. Then, two women activists disappear while passing through. Cole and Leonora find themselves in the middle of a police investigation and the resulting media firestorm. And as the tension escalates, they quickly realize that they don’t know each other that well after all.
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The Heiress
by Rachel Hawkins
After North Carolina's richest—and most notorious—heiress dies, her adopted son, Camden, rejects his inheritance until ten years later, when his uncle's death pulls him and his wife back into the family fold at Ashby House, where he realizes the bonds of family stretch far beyond the grave.
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She's Not Sorry
by Mary Kubica
Meghan Michaels is trying to find balance between being a single mom to a teenage daughter and working as a full time nurse. While on duty at the hospital one day, a patient named Caitlin arrives in a coma with a traumatic brain injury, having jumped from a bridge and plunging over twenty feet to the train tracks below. But when a witness comes forward with shocking details about the fall, it calls everything they know into question. Was Caitlin pushed and if so, by whom and why?
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Everyone Here Is Lying
by Shari Lapena
A father who had been having an affair that just ended badly discovers his difficult daughter unexpectedly home from school and loses his temper, ultimately discovering he's not the only one harboring secrets when she goes missing several hours later.
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The Teacher
by Freida McFadden
Something isn't right at Caseham High School. Last year, the school was rocked by scandal: a teacher was accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a student. Now, Addie is a pariah and will do anything to get through the year. More than that, she's desperate to keep the truth from coming to light. Evie, a colleague of the disgraced teacher, is horrified to find Addie in her class. She knows the girl can't be trusted and soon realizes she's being watched—which is dangerous, considering she's hiding something from her husband. But each has secrets about what happened last year. And someone in this school will do anything to keep them silent.
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The Fury
by Alex Michaelides
Spending Easter with Lana Farrar, a reclusive ex-movie star and one of the most famous women in the world, on her idyllic private Greek island, her guests, concealing hatred and desire for revenge, become trapped when the night ends in violence and murder.
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The New Mother
by Nora Murphy
New mother Natalie Fanning, left mostly alone with her newborn son, has no one to help her until her neighbor Paul provides the lifeline she needs, but she soon discovers it's no coincidence he befriended her as she becomes a pawn in his twisted game.
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You Shouldn't Have Come Here
by Jeneva Rose
Grace Evans, an overworked New Yorker looking for a total escape from her busy life, books an Airbnb on a ranch in the middle of Wyoming. When she arrives at the idyllic getaway, she's pleased to find that the owner is a handsome man by the name of Calvin Wells – and he's eager to introduce her to his easygoing way of life. But there are things Grace discovers that she's not too pleased about: a lack of cell phone service. A missing woman. And a feeling that something isn't right with the ranch.
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There Should Have Been Eight
by Nalini Singh
Gathering at their late friend Bea's family estate in New Zealand's Southern Alps for a reunion, a group of friends are plagued by long-buried grief, bitterness and rage, revealing that Bea's shocking death wasn't what it was claimed to be—and that the truth will finally be unleashed no matter the cost.
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The Other Mistress
by Shanora Williams
Adira Smith-Cortez is a self-made millionaire whose husband is cheating on her with two women. When his vengeful mistress offers her the perfect plan to get him back, she is pushed to unthinkable extremes and, as her obsession overtakes her, must decide how much of herself she's willing to lose.
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Only If You're Lucky
by Stacy Willingham
Moving into an off-campus house with magnetic and addictive Lucy Sharpe and two other girls, shy and quiet Margot finally comes out of the shell she's been in since her best friend Eliza died until one of the fraternity boys next door is murdered and Lucy goes missing.
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