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With 4.4 out of 5 stars from over 200,000 readers and hailed as a Best of #BookTok, Freida McFadden’s The Inmate is a tense psychological thriller where past…
The Inmate
Thriller · Psychological Thriller · Suspense
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With 4.4 out of 5 stars from over 200,000 readers and hailed as a Best of #BookTok, Freida McFadden’s The Inmate is a tense psychological thriller where past and present collide behind prison walls. Secrets, betrayals, and a dangerously intimate connection make this unputdownable. Step inside and see why BookTok can’t stop talking.
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Brooke Sullivan thought she knew the rules when she accepted a position as nurse practitioner at a maximum-security prison: treat the inmates with respect, keep her personal life private, and never get too close. Simple, except one prisoner already knows everything about her.
Shane Nelson, the star quarterback turned convicted killer, was once Brooke’s first love. Her testimony put him behind bars for life. Now, she’s forced to face him again in the sterile halls of the penitentiary.
Shane claims he’s innocent, but his charm masks the violence everyone warns her about. Torn between guilt, fear, and lingering desire, Brooke struggles to keep her professional distance.
Because if she slips, she risks more than her job. She risks her life.
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Freida McFadden’s One By One is a 4.2-star psychological thriller with more than 115,000 Amazon reviews.
One By One
Thriller · Psychological Thriller
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Freida McFadden’s One By One is a 4.2-star psychological thriller with more than 115,000 Amazon reviews. A vacation gone wrong, a group lost in the woods, and a killer striking silently. Twisty, chilling, and unputdownable, this bestselling novel cements McFadden’s place as the queen of survival thrillers.
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Claire Matchett thought a week in the woods would save her marriage. Hiking. Hot tubs. A little peace away from the chaos of work and parenting. Instead, she finds herself sleeping on dirt and leaves, praying her family makes it out alive.
When her minivan breaks down on a deserted road with no cell signal, Claire and her friends decide to hike the rest of the way. But the forest is unforgiving, the paths impossible to follow, and night brings only terror.
One by one, members of the group fall, struck down in ways no one can explain. Maybe it’s an animal. Maybe it’s something worse.
Because the deeper they go, the clearer it becomes: someone isn’t leaving these woods alive.
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Freida McFadden’s Want to Know a Secret?
Want to Know a Secret?
Thriller · Psychological Thriller
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Freida McFadden’s Want to Know a Secret? is a 4.2-star bestseller with more than 77,000 Amazon reviews. A YouTube baking star hides secrets darker than any recipe, and someone is determined to expose them. Twisty, addictive, and chilling, this psychological thriller cements McFadden as the queen of unputdownable domestic suspense.
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April Masterson has built a perfect life, one recipe at a time. As a YouTube baking star, she’s known for her gooey brownies, flawless key lime squares, and sunny smile. But perfection only exists on camera.
Behind the fogged windows of her SUV, whispers swirl. Her son is sneaking out. The local soccer coach knows more than he should. And her backyard holds something that could shatter everything.
April has secrets, and someone is watching. Someone who knows exactly how to use those secrets against her.
The question isn’t whether April’s life will crumble; it’s how fast, and who will strike the final blow.
Because some secrets don’t just destroy reputations. They destroy lives.
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This YA psychological thriller fits readers who want social tension, moral uncertainty, and a hard-edged mystery.
Allegedly
Thriller · Teen + Young Adult · Psychological Thriller
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The truth becomes dangerous when a girl convicted as a child must fight for the future everyone wants to take from her. In Allegedly, Mary B. Addison faces life in a group home, public judgment, and the threat of losing her unborn baby unless she confronts the past. This YA psychological thriller fits readers who want social tension, moral uncertainty, and a hard-edged mystery.
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“A tightly spun debut that wrestles with many intense ideas and ends with a knife twist that will send readers racing back to the beginning again.” —ALA Booklist (starred review)
Orange Is the New Black meets Walter Dean Myers’s Monster in this gritty, twisty, and haunting story about a girl convicted of murder seeking the truth while surviving life in a group home, from New York Times bestselling author Tiffany D. Jackson.
Mary B. Addison killed a baby.
Allegedly. She didn’t say much in that first interview with detectives, and the media filled in the only blanks that mattered: A white baby had died while under the care of a churchgoing black woman and her nine-year-old daughter. The public convicted Mary and the jury made it official. But did she do it?
There wasn’t a point to setting the record straight before, but now she’s got Ted—and their unborn child—to think about. When the state threatens to take her baby, Mary’s fate now lies in the hands of the one person she distrusts the most: her Momma. No one knows the real Momma. But does anyone know the real Mary?
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Ashley Thomas Sheikh’s Kentucky Blood is a dark Southern Gothic thriller and multi-award winner, including Best Psychological Thriller (BookFest 2025) and Best Intrigue (PenCraft Awards 2025).
Kentucky Blood
Thriller · Horror · Psychological Thriller
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Ashley Thomas Sheikh’s Kentucky Blood is a dark Southern Gothic thriller and multi-award winner, including Best Psychological Thriller (BookFest 2025) and Best Intrigue (PenCraft Awards 2025). With 4.2 stars, this violent family saga spans decades, weaving prophecy, obsession, and brutality into a haunting tale of power and ruin. A gripping start to The Kentucky Blood Series.
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In a 90s-era Kentucky fueled by sex, drugs, and violence, the Cunninghams will stop at nothing to find The Temple, a place of unimaginable wealth and glory. To unlock its secrets, they imprison victims in their garage, each kidnapping leading them closer to their coveted prize.
“We’re gonna find it, Daddy…”
“The Temple…”
But dark secrets threaten to tear the family apart. Rhonda, the eldest daughter, harbors a thirst for violence that may jeopardize everything. Bill, her father, struggles to balance parenthood with the brutal demands of their Quest. Then there’s Bobby, the current prisoner, who may be more dangerous than they realize...
Meanwhile, in the 1970s, a young Bill embarks on a violent rise to power. Driven by prophetic dreams, he forms a ruthless “Posse” determined to rule the Tri County. Standing in his way are the Smoketown Boys, led by Tommy Glick, a rival haunted by visions of his dead brother and a place called "The Temple." In the battle for dominance, both sides spiral deeper into a conflict they can’t control; a warning of the horrors in Bill’s family’s future.
Two timelines. One family. One destiny.
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Some gifts arrive as warnings, others as curses.
The Murmurs
Thriller · Paranormal Fantasy · Psychological Thriller
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Some gifts arrive as warnings, others as curses. In The Murmurs, Annie Jackson begins a new job at a care home only to realize she can foresee the deaths of those around her, a power tied to a long-buried family curse. As past crimes surface within a tight-knit community, this gothic supernatural thriller blends psychological dread with generational secrets and escalating foreboding.
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In the beginning there was fear.
White-hot, nerve-shredding fear.
Terrifying premonitions of deaths.
And then they started…
The Murmurs…
On the first morning of her new job at Heartfield House, a care home for the elderly, Annie Jackson wakens from a terrifying dream. And when she arrives at the home, she knows that the first old man she meets is going to die.
How she knows this is a terrifying mystery, but it is the start of horrifying premonitions … a rekindling of the curse that has trickled through generations of women in her family – a wicked gift known only as 'the murmurs'…
With its reappearance comes an old, forgotten fear that is about to grip Annie Jackson.
And this time, it will never let go…
A compulsive gothic thriller and a spellbinding supernatural mystery about secrets and small communities, about faith, courage and self-preservation, The Murmurs is a startling and compulsive read from one of Scotland's finest authors…
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Good for readers who like graphic crime thrillers, serial killer investigations, and dark procedural suspense.
Headhunter
Horror · Thriller · Psychological Thriller
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“First rate, compelling, nerve-tingling” by The Vancouver Sun, A serial killer is loose on the streets of Vancouver. A sadist preying on women, leaving a trail of decapitated corpses—and a totem pole displaying the grisly head of his latest victim, with a 4.3-star rating from 102 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who like graphic crime thrillers, serial killer investigations, and dark procedural suspense.
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"First rate, compelling, nerve-tingling. A novel of sex, death, and the macabre. Extraordinarily vivid. A thinking man's Texas Chainsaw Massacre." —The Vancouver Sun
The first in a series of crime thrillers featuring the Special X team of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police—world-weary cops hardened enough to deal with the most heinous of crimes.
A serial killer is loose on the streets of Vancouver. A sadist preying on women, leaving a trail of decapitated corpses—and a totem pole displaying the grisly head of his latest victim.
If this killer is hoping to rile former Royal Mountie Robert DeClercq, he certainly made his mark. Lured out of retirement, DeClercq tirelessly tracks the psychopath across two continents. But as DeClercq gets closer to understanding complex motivations of a criminally insane killer, he's more certain than ever he's about to confront the ultimate evil.
A revised and expanded version of the original Headhunter, which was first published in 1984.
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John Marrs’ The One—a USA Today bestseller with over 1 million copies sold—was named a Wall Street Journal Best Science Fiction Book of 2018.
The One
Thriller · Sci-Fi · Psychological Thriller · Suspense
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John Marrs’ The One—a USA Today bestseller with over 1 million copies sold—was named a Wall Street Journal Best Science Fiction Book of 2018. With 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon, this high-concept thriller follows five people matched to their soulmates through DNA testing, only to uncover shocking secrets. Twisty, addictive, and impossible to put down.
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What if science could find your soulmate with a single DNA test? The One begins with that irresistible promise. Match Your DNA has revolutionized love, pairing millions around the world with their perfect partner. But perfection comes at a price. Relationships shatter. Marriages collapse. The very idea of romance is rewritten.
For five people, the notification has arrived: they’ve been Matched. Each is about to meet the one person they’re genetically destined to love. But happily ever after isn’t guaranteed. Because soulmates can lie, betray, and even kill.
John Marrs’ bestselling speculative thriller delivers jaw-dropping twists on every other page. Equal parts love story and nightmare, The One asks how far we’ll go for destiny—and what happens when destiny turns dark.
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Fast-paced and provocative, this gripping debut is perfect for fans of survival suspense.
The Last One
Dystopian · Thriller · Post-Apocalyptic · Psychological Thriller
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Alexandra Oliva’s The Last One—with 4.3 out of 5 stars on Amazon—blends survival thriller with biting social commentary. When a reality TV contestant named Zoo stumbles on real devastation, she must decide if it’s part of the show or the collapse of civilization itself. Fast-paced and provocative, this gripping debut is perfect for fans of survival suspense.
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Survival is the name of the game as the line blurs between reality TV and reality itself in Alexandra Oliva’s fast-paced novel of suspense.
She wanted an adventure. She never imagined it would go this far.
It begins with a reality TV show. Twelve contestants are sent into the woods to face challenges that will test the limits of their endurance. While they are out there, something terrible happens—but how widespread is the destruction, and has it occurred naturally or is it man-made? Cut off from society, the contestants know nothing of it. When one of them—a young woman the show’s producers call Zoo—stumbles across the devastation, she can imagine only that it is part of the game.
Alone and disoriented, Zoo is heavy with doubt regarding the life—and husband—she left behind, but she refuses to quit. Staggering countless miles across unfamiliar territory, Zoo must summon all her survival skills—and learn new ones as she goes.
But as her emotional and physical reserves dwindle, she grasps that the real world might have been altered in terrifying ways—and her ability to parse the charade will be either her triumph or her undoing.
Sophisticated and provocative, The Last One is a novel that forces us to confront the role that media plays in our perception of what is real: how readily we cast our judgments, how easily we are manipulated.
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Tiffany D. Jackson’s White Smoke—an Amazon Best Book of the Month and YALSA pick—delivers a terrifying YA haunted house thriller.
White Smoke
People of Color · Teen + Young Adult · Thriller · Psychological Thriller
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Tiffany D. Jackson’s White Smoke—an Amazon Best Book of the Month and YALSA pick—delivers a terrifying YA haunted house thriller. With 4.6 out of 5 stars on Amazon, this modern mashup of The Haunting of Hill House and Get Out unravels secrets, corruption, and ghosts both real and metaphorical. A masterclass in psychological suspense from a bestselling author.
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Marigold needs a reset. Her family’s move to Cedarville comes with a renovated house courtesy of the Sterling Foundation, a new start in a city trying to rebuild. But Maple Street is not what it seems. The neighbors are suspicious. The houses around them are crumbling. And the walls of their perfect home whisper secrets only Mari seems to hear.
Doors slam, shadows move, and a rancid smell seeps through the vents. Worse, her ten-year-old stepsister insists she has a friend who wants Mari gone. As the house tightens its grip, Mari realizes the rot isn’t confined to Maple Street—Cedarville itself is hiding something much darker.
Ghosts, corruption, and buried truths collide in this chilling YA thriller that blends The Haunting of Hill House with Get Out.
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Rachel Caine’s Stillhouse Lake, an Amazon Charts and USA Today bestseller with 4.4 stars and more than 180,000 Goodreads ratings, is a gripping psychological thriller.
Stillhouse Lake
Thriller · Psychological Thriller · Suspense
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Rachel Caine’s Stillhouse Lake, an Amazon Charts and USA Today bestseller with 4.4 stars and more than 180,000 Goodreads ratings, is a gripping psychological thriller. When Gwen Proctor tries to rebuild her life after discovering her husband was a serial killer, peace is shattered by new threats. Taut, addictive, and unforgettable, this Goodreads Choice nominee launches a bestselling series.
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An Amazon Charts and USA Today bestseller.
Gina Royal is the definition of average—a shy Midwestern housewife with a happy marriage and two adorable children. But when a car accident reveals her husband’s secret life as a serial killer, she must remake herself as Gwen Proctor—the ultimate warrior mom.
With her ex now in prison, Gwen has finally found refuge in a new home on remote Stillhouse Lake. Though still the target of stalkers and Internet trolls who think she had something to do with her husband’s crimes, Gwen dares to think her kids can finally grow up in peace.
But just when she’s starting to feel at ease in her new identity, a body turns up in the lake—and threatening letters start arriving from an all-too-familiar address. Gwen Proctor must keep friends close and enemies at bay to avoid being exposed—or watch her kids fall victim to a killer who takes pleasure in tormenting her. One thing is certain: she’s learned how to fight evil. And she’ll never stop.
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Kiersten Modglin’s Widow Falls, a 4.2-star psychological thriller with nearly 9,000 Goodreads ratings, takes summer camp terror to new heights.
Widow Falls
Thriller · Psychological Thriller
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Kiersten Modglin’s Widow Falls, a 4.2-star psychological thriller with nearly 9,000 Goodreads ratings, takes summer camp terror to new heights. When Sloane discovers a chilling warning, “Don’t trust anyone at Widow Falls,” she’s pulled into the mystery of her missing predecessor. Atmospheric, suspenseful, and addictive, this twist-filled thriller proves some legends are all too real.
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Sloane thought she was signing up for summer adventure. Widow Falls, a whitewater rafting camp tucked deep in the wilderness, promised fun, freedom, and escape. What it didn’t mention was the string of disappearances.
The guide she’s replacing vanished. Locals whisper about dark legends. Her roommates laugh it off as folklore. But when Sloane discovers a hidden message under the floorboards—Don’t trust anyone at Widow Falls—she realizes the truth is far more sinister.
Every clue ties her closer to the girl who went missing before her. Every step forward tightens the trap. Someone doesn’t want the secrets of Widow Falls exposed.
Kiersten Modglin’s Widow Falls is a gripping psychological thriller where lies, legends, and fear converge. This summer, survival is anything but guaranteed.
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