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Ten years after her daughter’s murder, Bree Winter is trying to rebuild her life when the convicted killer makes a deathbed confession that changes everything: he killed four…
I Came Back for You
Thriller · Mystery · Amateur Sleuths
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Ten years after her daughter’s murder, Bree Winter is trying to rebuild her life when the convicted killer makes a deathbed confession that changes everything: he killed four girls, but not Melanie. I Came Back for You follows Bree back to the town where her nightmare began as new clues, old trauma, and unsettling secrets force her to question the crime, the killer, and her daughter’s hidden past. Rated 4.1 stars on Amazon.
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A mother begins to challenge everything she’s been told about her daughter’s murder in a shocking novel of suspense by a New York Times bestselling author.
Ten years after her daughter, Melanie, was murdered, Bree Winter is finally moving on with a new love, a new home, and a new beginning. Then a deathbed confession from the convicted killer throws Bree’s life into a tailspin all over again. He readily confesses to murdering four girls. But not Melanie.
At first, Bree and her ex-husband don’t buy a word of it. Until inconsistencies about the crime emerge. So does the dreadful feeling that the monster who shattered Bree’s family isn’t lying. The only way she can get to the truth is to power through the trauma and return to the town in upstate New York where Melanie’s life came to a brutal end.
Bree will do anything to find justice for her daughter and finish this nightmare forever. Instead, it’s just beginning. Not only could the real killer still be in their midst, but as Bree begins to dig through Melanie’s past, what she discovers calls into question everything she has believed—about the crime and about Melanie herself.
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Good for readers who want literary climate fiction with survival stakes, family, and questions of what we save.
All the Water in the World
Dystopian · Historical Thriller · Post-Apocalyptic
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A 2026 Gotham Book Prize finalist called “Gripping...tense, delightful and rich with resonance” by Scientific American, All the Water in the World follows a family surviving on the Museum of Natural History’s roof in flooded New York, preserving artifacts while navigating dangerous waters to find safety up north, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 1,100 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want literary climate fiction with survival stakes, family, and questions of what we save.
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FINALIST FOR THE 2026 GOTHAM BOOK PRIZE
In the tradition of Station Eleven, a literary thriller set partly on the roof of New York’s Museum of Natural History in a flooded future.
"Gripping...tense, delightful and rich with resonance." —Scientific American
"Captivating...The setting, the detailed emotive descriptions, and nail-biting adventure are incandescent." —Library Journal (starred)
All the Water in the World is told in the voice of a girl gifted with a deep feeling for water. In the years after the glaciers melt, Nonie, her older sister and her parents and their researcher friends have stayed behind in an almost deserted New York City, creating a settlement on the roof of the American Museum of Natural History. The rule: Take from the exhibits only in dire need. They hunt and grow their food in Central Park as they work to save the collections of human history and science. When a superstorm breaches the city’s flood walls, Nonie and her family must escape north on the Hudson. They carry with them a book that holds their records of the lost collections. Racing on the swollen river towards what may be safety, they encounter communities that have adapted in very different and sometimes frightening ways to the new reality. But they are determined to find a way to make a new world that honors all they've saved.
Inspired by the stories of the curators in Iraq and Leningrad who worked to protect their collections from war, All the Water in the World is both a meditation on what we save from collapse and an adventure story—with danger, storms, and a fight for survival. In the spirit of From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler and Parable of the Sower, this wild journey offers the hope that what matters most – love and work, community and knowledge – will survive.
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Good for readers who want military thrillers built on Cold War tension, naval strategy, and intelligence stakes.
The Hunt for Red October
Thriller · Action Thriller · Techno-Thriller
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A #1 New York Times bestseller, The Hunt for Red October follows a Soviet sub commander’s fateful decision to head west under the Atlantic as the Americans and Russians race to find an advanced nuclear submarine before war breaks out, with a 4.6-star rating from more than 19,000 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want military thrillers built on Cold War tension, naval strategy, and intelligence stakes.
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Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Ghost War is out now on Prime Video!
The #1 New York Times bestseller that launched the phenomenal career of Tom Clancy—a gripping military thriller that introduced the world to his unforgettable hero, Jack Ryan—nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.
Somewhere under the freezing Atlantic, a Soviet sub commander has just made a fateful decision. The Red October is heading west. The Americans want her. The Russians want her back. The chase for the highly advanced nuclear submarine is on—and there’s only one man who can find her...
Brilliant CIA analyst Jack Ryan has little interest in fieldwork, but when covert photographs of Red October land on his desk, Ryan soon finds himself in the middle of a high-stakes game of hide-and-seek played by two world powers—a game that could end in all-out war.
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Good for readers who like suspense thrillers with copycat crimes, investigative danger, and shocking reveals.
Hour Game
Mystery · Thriller · Police Procedural · Suspense
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A #1 Best Seller in Thriller & Suspense Action Fiction, Hour Game follows ex-Secret Service agents Sean King and Michelle Maxwell as a burglary case pulls them into a murder investigation involving killings modeled after infamous murderers. As the secrets pile up, the partners risk their lives to uncover the truth, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 28,100 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who like suspense thrillers with copycat crimes, investigative danger, and shocking reveals.
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A man accused of burglary seems innocent, but two ex-Secret Service agents quickly learn that nothing is more dangerous than the truth in this propulsive thriller from a #1 New York Times bestselling author.
A woman is found murdered in the woods. It seems like a simple case but it soon escalates into a terrible nightmare. Someone is replicating the killing styles of the most infamous murderers of all time. No one knows this criminal's motives ... or who will die next.
Two ex-Secret Service agents, Sean King and Michelle Maxwell, have been hired to defend a man's innocence in a burglary involving an aristocratic family. Then a series of secrets leads the partners right into the frantic hunt that is confounding even the FBI.
Now King and Maxwell are playing the Hour Game, uncovering one horrifying revelation after another and putting their lives in danger. Because the closer they get to the truth, the closer they get to the most shocking surprise of all.
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Good for readers who like mystery thrillers about trauma, danger, and buried secrets.
Dark Intent
Thriller · Psychological Thriller
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Three years after a brutal assault, Emma has built an anonymous life with a new home, a new job, and work helping crime victims, but the feeling of being watched and a persistent reporter suggest her past is not finished with her, with a 4.3-star rating from more than 230 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who like mystery thrillers about trauma, danger, and buried secrets.
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Three years after a brutal assault, Emma has carved out a life for herself. She has a new job and a new home and leads an anonymous life. She tells herself that she is overcoming her horrific past by working with crime victims, and all of the risky choices and excuses she makes are nothing to worry about. Neither is the feeling of being watched or the persistent reporter poking around her job. But Emma will soon find that the past has a killer grip, and even as she works frantically to bury it, it isn’t ready to let her go.
CW: This book contains/ touches upon elements of abusive relationships, assault, forced captivity, murder, rape, violence, PTSD, intimate partner violence, and profanity. Even when occurring off page, discussion or aftermath occurs on page.
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Good for readers who like gothic horror, haunted houses, creative ambition, and unsettling psychological tension.
A Haunting on the Hill
Horror · Thriller · Supernatural Horror
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Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and Harper's Bazaar, a struggling playwright finds the perfect place to develop her play, but the house has its own eerie secrets and a dark past, with a 3.8-star rating from more than 1,400 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who like gothic horror, haunted houses, creative ambition, and unsettling psychological tension.
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From award-winning author Elizabeth Hand comes the first-ever novel authorized to return to the world of Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House—an "eerily beautiful, strangely seductive, and genuinely upsetting" (Alix E. Harrow) new story of isolation and longing perfect for our present time.
**Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and Harper's Bazaar**
Open the door . . . .
Holly Sherwin has been a struggling playwright for years, but now, after receiving a grant to develop her play Witching Night, she may finally be close to her big break. All she needs is time and space to bring her vision to life. When she stumbles across Hill House on a weekend getaway upstate, she is immediately taken in by the mansion, nearly hidden outside a remote village. It’s enormous, old, and ever-so eerie—the perfect place to develop and rehearse her play.
Despite her own hesitations, Holly’s girlfriend, Nisa, agrees to join Holly in renting the house for a month, and soon a troupe of actors, each with ghosts of their own, arrive. Yet as they settle in, the house’s peculiarities are made known: strange creatures stalk the grounds, disturbing sounds echo throughout the halls, and time itself seems to shift. All too soon, Holly and her friends find themselves at odds not just with one another, but with the house itself. It seems something has been waiting in Hill House all these years, and it no longer intends to walk alone . . .
"A fitting—and frightening—homage." —New York Times Book Review
"It’s thrilling to find this is a true hybrid of these two ingenious women’s work—a novel with all the chills of Jackson that also highlights the contemporary flavor and evocative writing of Hand." —Washington Post
"Only the brilliant Elizabeth Hand could so expertly honor Jackson's rage, wit, and vision." —Paul Tremblay
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Good for readers who want prepper survival fiction with family stakes and post-collapse danger.
The First 72 Hours
Dystopian · Techno-Thriller
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When an EMP cripples the nation, Jackson Kent is one of the few prepared to survive. In The First 72 Hours, he must rescue the family who rejected him from the violence of the city streets and bring them to his mountain homestead, with a 4.3-star average from more than 90 Goodreads ratings. Good for readers who want prepper survival fiction with family stakes and post-collapse danger.
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No one believed him. Everyone laughed. But when an EMP cripples the nation, Jackson Kent is one of the few prepared to survive. He must now rescue the family who rejected him from the violence of the city streets and bring them to his mountain homestead.
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The Riviera Contract is good for readers who like international terrorism thrillers, CIA intrigue, and bio-threat stakes.
The Riviera Contract
Thriller
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Called “Deftly plotted and compellingly readable,” Hayden Stone, a retired FBI agent, is working for the CIA and is sent to the South of France. While there, he must deal with terrorists, an old love, and a deadly virus, with a 4.1-star rating from more than 90 Amazon reviewers. The Riviera Contract is good for readers who like international terrorism thrillers, CIA intrigue, and bio-threat stakes.
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"Deftly plotted and compellingly readable, Kerns takes his readers into the shadowy world of international terrorism " (Sheldon Siegel, New York Times–bestselling author of Perfect Alibi).
After a mission in Afghanistan leads to the death of a colleague, CIA agent Hayden Stone accepts what he thinks is a cushy assignment in the South of France. But on the Côte d'Azur, two terrorists, acting separately, attempt to murder him. Meanwhile, Stone meets an old love, a contessa, who he had seduced and abandoned years before.
As Stone's love life heats up, he learns that a brutal Middle Eastern terrorist is in Provence to deliver a strain of the Ebola virus to major US cities. At the same time, the CIA and French intelligence have targeted a seriously ill al Qaeda functionary who is seeking medical attention in Nice. Caught up in a web of international intrigue, Stone finds himself on the front lines of the War on Terror.
"A modern thriller that echoes today's headlines. Populated with fascinating characters and tightly plotted with twists and turns that will keep you guessing until the end . . . [A] first-rate debut novel." —D.P. Lyle, Macavity Award–winning author of the Jake Longly Series
"Arthur Kerns draws from a career in counterintelligence and counterterrorism to write nonstop action and create an irrepressible hero in Hayden Stone." —Kirk Russell, bestselling author of Gone Dark
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For readers who like literary historical mysteries with famous figures, metafictional questions, and conspiracy-driven suspense.
The Fifth Heart
Historical Fiction · Mystery · Historical Mystery · Historical Thriller
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Suicidal Henry James and doubting Sherlock Holmes team up to investigate a suspicious death and vast conspiracy in Gilded Age America, with a 4.1-star rating from more than 900 Amazon reviewers. For readers who like literary historical mysteries with famous figures, metafictional questions, and conspiracy-driven suspense.
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In 1893, Sherlock Holmes and Henry James come to America together to solve the mystery of the 1885 death of Clover Adams, wife of the esteemed historian Henry Adams -- member of the Adams family that has given the United States two Presidents. Clover's suicide appears to be more than it at first seemed; the suspected foul play may involve matters of national importance.
Holmes is currently on his Great Hiatus -- his three-year absence after Reichenbach Falls during which time the people of London believe him to be deceased. Holmes has faked his own death because, through his powers of ratiocination, the great detective has come to the conclusion that he is a fictional character.
This leads to serious complications for James -- for if his esteemed fellow investigator is merely a work of fiction, what does that make him? And what can the master storyteller do to fight against the sinister power -- possibly named Moriarty -- that may or may not be controlling them from the shadows?
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For readers who like crime thrillers with maverick detectives, twisty investigations, and high-stakes secrets.
Las Vegas Girl
Thriller · Psychological Thriller
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A young girl’s brutal murder in a Las Vegas hotel sends Detectives Laura Baxter and Jack Holt into a case built on missing evidence, tangled lies, political secrets, and a truth dangerous enough to put their own lives at risk, with a 4.3-star rating from more than 13,800 Amazon reviewers. For readers who like crime thrillers with maverick detectives, twisty investigations, and high-stakes secrets.
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With each passing second, her strength faded as her world turned darker, unable to move, to fight anymore. Her lifeless body fell into a heap at his feet, and he stood there for a brief moment, panting, not taking his eyes off her.
“Excellent Story! First time I've read this author and Las Vegas Girl was excellent. Good story and well written with good supporting characters. Thought I had figured out who the culprit was, but I was totally wrong. Will definitely read more by this author.” – Mike, five-star Amazon review.
The crime: audacious
In a fashionable Las Vegas hotel, with hundreds of witnesses and countless video surveillance cameras watching, a young girl is brutally murdered in an audacious crime that shocks the entire city.
It looks like a relatively simple investigation for Detectives Laura Baxter and Jack Holt, but it soon proves to be anything of the sort, as the one vital piece of the jigsaw is missing; the killer.
The forensics: stupefying
Even with a crime-scene fingerprint that reveals more questions than answers, the persistent duo are undeterred and begin to make inroads into the life of the deceased. But what they discover is a complex web of lies and intrigue about her life that all seem to lead to an ambitious politician and a terrible secret.
The truth: shocking
And now that secret threatens Baxter and Holt’s lives too, as a message from beyond the grave reveals the shocking truth.
Will a connection with the victim’s distant past hold the key to catching her killer? And can they uncover them before they become victims themselves?
Two mavericks form an intriguing team. Baxter and Holt trust each other with their lives, just not with their darkest secrets.
Praise for Las Vegas Girl
“Las Vegas Girl is a well written, captivating, psychological thriller with enough twists and turns to satisfy even the most demanding reader.”
“Las Vegas homicide detectives Laura Baxter and Jack Holt are well paired, each willing to do whatever is necessary to find justice.”
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Good for readers who want psychological horror built around dread, guilt, and a relentless supernatural threat.
Fly
Horror · Thriller · Psychological Horror
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Called “a fantastic story” by Readers Favorite, Fly follows Ric Hunter as a grotesque horsefly appears around tragedy and death, forcing him and his friend Spencer to uncover whether it is a curse, a warning, or something worse, with a 4.3-star rating from 60 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want psychological horror built around dread, guilt, and a relentless supernatural threat.
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"Overall, Styles offers readers a fantastic story that is so suspenseful and absorbing that it deserves a soundtrack, leaning into the unpredictability of both human and insect behavior". -- Jamie Michele, Readers Favorite
SHADOWED BY A FLY, ENSNARED BY AN ANCIENT CURSE.
Can Ric evade the wicked entity that lurks in the shadows of his every move?
Ric Hunter's once mundane existence spirals into a chilling nightmare when a grotesque horsefly emerges, heralding a series of sinister events. Entangled in the web of a faltering marriage, Ric clings to the comfort of friendship—until the darkness descends. At his friend Gary’s home, Ric is confronted by a grim sight: a lingering fly crawling across Gary's lifeless body after a baffling accident. This relentless creature stalks Ric everywhere—appearing in the hospital's sterile halls, lurking in the confines of his car, and invading the sanctity of his own home.
In a desperate alliance with his friend Spencer, they unravel a horrifying revelation—the fly is not merely a nuisance but a harbinger of death. As the body count rises and the fly's menacing presence becomes inescapable, Ric and Spencer embark on a perilous journey.
To discover the elusive key to their salvation, the duo must confront their most haunting regrets, seeking redemption before the fly's malevolence devours them whole.
Descend into a psychological horror where battling inner demons is the sole path to survival. Uncover the enigma of the fly today—before darkness claims everything.
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Good for readers who want tense military thrillers, confined settings, and lone-wolf investigators.
Steel Fear
Mystery · Thriller · Military Thriller
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A Barry Award nominee called “Sensationally good” by Lee Child, Steel Fear follows disgraced Navy SEAL sniper Finn aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, where disappearing crew members point to a serial killer hiding among thousands. Under suspicion himself, Finn must find the killer before more people die, with a 4.6-star rating from more than 1,400 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want tense military thrillers, confined settings, and lone-wolf investigators.
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An aircraft carrier adrift with a crew the size of a small town. A killer in their midst. And the disgraced Navy SEAL who must track him down . . . The high-octane debut thriller from New York Times bestselling writing team Webb & Mann—combat-decorated Navy SEAL Brandon Webb and award-winning author John David Mann.
A BARRY AWARD NOMINEE • “Sensationally good—an instant classic, maybe an instant legend.”—Lee Child
The moment Navy SEAL sniper Finn sets foot on the USS Abraham Lincolnto hitch a ride home from the Persian Gulf, it’s clear something is deeply wrong. Leadership is weak. Morale is low. And when crew members start disappearing one by one, what at first seems like a random string of suicides soon reveals something far more sinister: There’s a serial killer on board. Suspicion falls on Finn, the newcomer to the ship. After all, he’s being sent home in disgrace, recalled from the field under the dark cloud of a mission gone horribly wrong. He’s also a lone wolf, haunted by gaps in his memory and the elusive sense that something he missed may have contributed to civilian deaths on his last assignment. Finding the killer offers a chance at redemption . . . if he can stay alive long enough to prove it isn’t him.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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