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It fits readers who want romantic suspense with gothic atmosphere, damaged characters, and desire threaded through menace.
Grimstone
Romance · Jaime's Picks · Thriller · Contemporary Romance · Gothic Romance
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Inheriting a crumbling manor is bad enough. Wanting the man everyone suspects of murder makes it far worse. In Grimstone, Remi Hayes is pulled into a volatile connection with the doctor next door while violence, blackmail, and the shadows around Blackleaf Manor turn her new life into something increasingly dangerous. It fits readers who want romantic suspense with gothic atmosphere, damaged characters, and desire threaded through menace.
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Remi Hayes is beginning to think she’s cursed—her fiancé cheated on her, her brother Jude is a major pain in her ass, and the moldering mansion she inherited from her uncle might just be haunted.
Flipping Blackleaf Manor already feels impossible, even before Remi is blackmailed by Dane Covett, the dangerously hot doctor-next-door, and Grimstone’s most eligible bachelor—if you can ignore the fact that everyone in town thinks he murdered his wife.
Remi doesn’t want to believe it, especially after Dane sews up a gash in her thigh and steals a kiss in payment—a kiss that makes it hard to walk for reasons that have nothing to do with an injured leg.
But as the renovation takes a strange and violent turn, Remi must decide if Dane is the one haunting her nights, or if he’s trying to protect her from something much worse…
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Freedom becomes more dangerous the closer it feels.
The Boy Who Said No
Historical Fiction · Suspense · War Fiction
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Freedom becomes more dangerous the closer it feels. In The Boy Who Said No, Frank Mederos comes of age under Castro’s regime and risks everything to escape the army, evade a relentless manhunt, and reach the life he wants beyond Cuba. This historical novel draws its momentum from true events, blending political danger, personal loss, and the stubborn courage it takes to refuse submission.
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As a boy Frank Mederos' grandfather teaches him to fish, to navigate the seas, and to think for himself, much needed skills under the new Castro regime. When Frank is drafted into the army, he is soon promoted to the Special Forces, where he is privy to top military secrets. But young Frank has no sympathy for Fidel. He thirsts for freedom and longs to join his girlfriend who has left Cuba for America.
Frank yearns to defect, but his timing couldn't be worse. After two unsuccessful escape attempts, Frank learns that the departure of the next available boat conflicts with upcoming military exercises. If he stays, he will miss the boat. If he doesn't, he will be the object of a massive manhunt.
Problems abound: How will Frank escape the army base without being seen? Where will he hide until the boat comes? How can he outwit his commanding officer? And how can he elude hundreds of soldiers ordered to bring him back "dead or alive"?
Frank's true story, a tale of love, loss and courage that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the last page is turned.
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It fits readers who want dark romance steeped in psychological tension, toxic devotion, and a love story shaped by fear as much as desire.
Psychotic Obsession
Literary Fiction · Romance · Thriller · Psychological Thriller
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Obsession can look tender right up until it turns into control. In Psychotic Obsession, scientist Aria Miller’s connection with her new assistant deepens into something far more dangerous when his fixation hardens into possession and her attempt to leave threatens to expose who he really is. It fits readers who want dark romance steeped in psychological tension, toxic devotion, and a love story shaped by fear as much as desire.
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"Psychotic Obsession is the kind of psychological thriller that completely gets under your skin and never lets up. Leigh Rivers delivers a tense, emotionally charged story with believable conflict, unsettling realism, and an ending that hit even harder than I expected." -Apropos Books
LOVE IS DANGEROUS
TRUST IS A WEAKNESS
POSSESSION IS A TOXIC GAME
Sweet and gentle.
Calm and collected.
Nervous and inexperienced.
He was death cloaked in the form of a handsome man, and instead of running the other way the first chance she got, she fell for him.
Aria Miller is a scientist searching for the cure for a rare genetic disease when her world turns on its head – she collides with Tobias Mitchell. When she takes him on as her assistant, he becomes infatuated with her in ways he knows he shouldn’t be.
Then, reality hits, and Aria is forced to leave the country. Faced with the thought of losing the object of his obsession, Tobias’ mask slips, showing her his true self for the first time.
Aria is his, and he’ll do anything to make sure she stays that way.
This is an interconnected standalone set before The Edge of Darkness Trilogy
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Justice gets messier when every road leads back to the place that made you.
Bluebird, Bluebird
Mystery · Thriller
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Justice gets messier when every road leads back to the place that made you. In Bluebird, Bluebird, Texas Ranger Darren Mathews heads into a small East Texas town where the murders of a Black lawyer and a white local woman threaten to ignite long-buried tensions. This crime novel blends racial unrest, personal reckoning, and Southern noir atmosphere into a tense investigation with real emotional weight.
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A "heartbreakingly resonant" thriller about the explosive intersection of love, race, and justice from a writer and producer of the Emmy-winning Fox TV show Empire (USA Today).
"In Bluebird, Bluebird Attica Locke had both mastered the thriller and exceeded it."-Ann Patchett
When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules -- a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger, knows all too well. Deeply ambivalent about growing up black in the lone star state, he was the first in his family to get as far away from Texas as he could. Until duty called him home.
When his allegiance to his roots puts his job in jeopardy, he travels up Highway 59 to the small town of Lark, where two murders -- a black lawyer from Chicago and a local white woman -- have stirred up a hornet's nest of resentment. Darren must solve the crimes -- and save himself in the process -- before Lark's long-simmering racial fault lines erupt. From a writer and producer of the Emmy winning Fox TV show Empire, Bluebird, Bluebird is a rural noir suffused with the unique music, color, and nuance of East Texas.
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It fits readers who want psychological thrillers rooted in family secrets, emotional tension, and revelations that grow more devastating with each turn.
She Left Us
Thriller · Psychological Thriller
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Some families survive by burying the truth until it starts speaking for itself. In She Left Us, Grace Franklin receives recordings in her dead sister’s voice that unravel the story her family protected for years and force her to confront what really happened the night Zoe vanished. It fits readers who want psychological thrillers rooted in family secrets, emotional tension, and revelations that grow more devastating with each turn.
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“I know this is a lot to hear, Grace. And I’m truly sorry for putting you through it. But there are only a couple more episodes to go.”
Grace Franklin was just a child when her older sister Zoe vanished.
The family never called the police. Never searched for her.
They said Zoe was troubled—that she didn’t want to be found.
But now Zoe’s body has been discovered at the bottom of a ravine, just ten miles from home.
Days later, a package arrives on Grace’s doorstep:
A tape recorder.
Zoe’s voice.
Beginning with Eleven Years Before, Zoe recounts the events leading up to her death.
And the story she tells is nothing like the version the Franklins preserved.
It doesn’t just contradict what Grace was told.
It exposes the people she loves the most.
Someone lied.
Someone knows more than they’re saying.
And the truth about what happened that night is darker than Grace ever imagined
Taut, heartbreaking, and deeply unsettling, She Left Us is a haunting psychological thriller about the lies that hold families together—and the truths that tear them apart.
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As Europe edges toward war, suspicion spreads faster than loyalty and no one in intelligence can be trusted.
Every Spy a Traitor
Historical Fiction · Thriller · Historical Thriller · Political Thriller · Spy Thriller · World War 2
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As Europe edges toward war, suspicion spreads faster than loyalty and no one in intelligence can be trusted. Every Spy a Traitor follows a young British writer drawn into a hunt for Soviet agents, only to find himself trapped in a world of divided allegiances and shifting identities. This is historical spy fiction with mounting paranoia, political danger, and the moral instability that defines the best espionage novels.
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A Financial Times Best Book of 2024'One of the superstars of modern spy fiction' Daily Express
'One of the best spy novels I've read' I. S. Berry, author of The Peacock and the Sparrow
'Gerlis is at the top of his game' Paul Vidich, author of Beirut Station
Trust no one. Suspect everyone.
It's 1937. Fear and suspicion stalk the Continent. A million have died in Stalin's Great Purge and the Nazi terror grips Germany. But British intelligence is still trying to work out who the enemy is.
As Europe heads towards war, treason is in the air. British spymasters know there is one Soviet agent in their ranks, codenamed Agent 'Archie', and there's a frantic search to find them. What they don't know is that he is not the only traitor.
The life of Charles Cooper, a young British writer travelling Europe to research his novel, is about to change for ever
The thrilling first novel in Alex Gerlis' new Double Agent espionage series, perfect for fans of Charles Cumming and Mick Herron.
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A good pick for fans of historical thrillers built around espionage, political intrigue, and prewar Europe.
Corpus
Historical Fiction · Thriller · Political Thriller · Spy Thriller
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In 1936, Cambridge professor Thomas Wilde investigates a pair of murders and uncovers a conspiracy reaching from Britain to Berlin and into the highest levels of government, with a 4.0-star average from more than 5,600 Goodreads ratings. A good pick for fans of historical thrillers built around espionage, political intrigue, and prewar Europe.
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The gripping spy thriller for fans of Robert Harris from Sunday Times bestseller Rory Clements, author of the award-winning NUCLEUS.
1936 - Europe is in turmoil. The Nazis have marched into the Rhineland. In Russia, Stalin has unleashed his Great Terror. Spain has erupted in civil war.
In Berlin, a young Englishwoman evades the Gestapo to deliver vital papers to a Jewish scientist. Within weeks, she is found dead, a silver syringe clutched in her fingers.
In an exclusive London club, a conspiracy is launched that threatens the very heart of government. When a renowned society couple with fascist leanings are found brutally murdered, a maverick Cambridge professor is drawn into a world of espionage he knows only from history books. The deeper Thomas Wilde delves, the more he finds to link the murders with the girl with the silver syringe - and even more worryingly to the scandal surrounding the Abdication . . .
Set against the gathering drumbeat of war and moving from Berlin to Cambridge, from Whitehall to the Kent countryside, and from the Fens to the Aragon Front in Spain, this sweeping international thriller, like C J Sansom's WINTER IN MADRID, marks the beginning of a brilliant new series for Rory Clements.
What the critics are saying about CORPUS:
'Dramatic . . . pacy and assured . . . Well crafted, it has all the pleasures of an intriguing lead character, intricate plot and fascinating historical context' Daily Mail
'Rory Clements's timely spy thriller set in the 1930s evokes a period of political polarisation, mistrust and simmering violence. Corpus is fast-paced and there are plenty of red herrings to keep you guessing. This is the first of a promising series and Wilde is a likeable hero' The Times
'This clever novel, rich in deceptions and intrigue, shows the reach of Stalin and Hitler into every class of British society, threatening violence on horrific scale. Corpus is a standout historical novel and spy thriller' Daily Express
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In a future where memories can be bought, altered, and weaponized, even private grief becomes dangerous.
These Memories Do Not Belong to Us
Dystopian · Mystery · Thriller
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In a future where memories can be bought, altered, and weaponized, even private grief becomes dangerous. In These Memories Do Not Belong to Us, a son inherits a cache of forbidden memories that could expose the machinery of an empire built on control and erasure. This dystopian novel blends speculative technology, political repression, and a sweeping fight over truth, history, and who gets to own the past.
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Best Book of 2025 by Electric Literature, PEN America, Debutiful • Top First Novel of 2025 by Booklist • Spotify Editors’ Pick • Longlisted for the Goodreads Choice Award in Science Fiction
"Ma’s These Memories Do Not Belong to Us brilliantly inventive weaves worlds around a central question: What happens when technology enables a totalitarian government to break into the last private frontiers of the internal mind? Chilling, poignant, and uncomfortably timely, Ma’s braided memory dispatches explore a future in which the shifting concepts of safety, loyalty, and truth lead nowhere except condemnation." — Tessa Hulls, author of Pulitzer Prize-winner Feeding Ghosts
For fans of Cloud Atlas and The Power, a hauntingly beautiful and prescient debut set in a future where a renamed China is the sole global superpower.
When I was a boy, my mother used to tell me stories of a world before memories could be shared between strangers…
In a far-off future ruled by the Qin Empire, every citizen is fitted with a Mindbank, an intracranial device capable of recording and transmitting memories between minds. This technology gives birth to Memory Capitalism, where anyone with means can relive the life experiences of others. It also unleashes opportunities for manipulation: memories can be edited, marketed, and even corrupted for personal gain.
After the sudden passing of his mother, an unnamed narrator inherits a collection of banned memories from her Mindbank so dangerous that even possessing them places his freedom in jeopardy. Traversing genres, empires, and millennia, they are tales of sumo wrestlers and social activists and armless swimmers and watchmakers, struggling amid the backdrop of Qin’s ascent toward global dominance. Determined to release his mother's memories to the world before they are destroyed forever, the narrator will risk everything—even if the cost is his own life.
Powerful and provocative, These Memories Do Not Belong to Us masterfully explores how governments and media manipulate history to control the collective imagination. It forces us to see beyond the sheen of convenient truths and to unearth real stories of sacrifice and love that refuse to be eradicated.
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Best for readers who like gothic domestic suspense, haunted-house unease, and dark family secrets.
The Woman in the Dark
Thriller · Horror · Psychological Thriller · Suspense
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Called “Claustrophobic and compelling” by Good Housekeeping, Sarah moves her family into her husband's childhood home, now known as the Murder House, as strange incidents and conflicting stories make her question both the house and him, with a 4.1-star rating from more than 900 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who like gothic domestic suspense, haunted-house unease, and dark family secrets.
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In the vein of The Couple Next Door, a debut psychological thriller about a woman who moves with her family to the gothic seaside house where her husband grew up -- and where 15 years ago another family was brutally slaughtered.
For Sarah and Patrick, family life has always been easy, until her mother's death sends Sarah spiraling into depression. When she overdoses on sleeping pills, Sarah insists it was an accident, but neither Patrick nor their teenage children believe her. Determined to give their family a fresh start, Patrick convinces her to move back to the idyllic beachside home where he grew up.
But there's a catch: The once-beautiful old house is now known as the Murder House. It has been standing empty for fifteen years, ever since another family was brutally slaughtered within its walls. Nostalgic for his childhood, Patrick is adamant that this can be their "dream home" again. Sarah tries to bring it back to its original warmth, but as locals hint that the house is haunted, the children begin having nightmares, strange writing appears on the walls, and creepy "gifts" suddenly arrive on the doorstep at odd hours. With the news that the murderer has been paroled, Sarah can't shake the feeling that something just isn't right. Not with the house, not with the town, not even with her own loving husband--whose stories about his perfect childhood suddenly aren't adding up. Can Sarah uncover the secrets of the Murder House before another family is destroyed?
With an irresistible, fog-drenched atmosphere that hides its knife-sharp twists, Vanessa Savage's THE WOMAN IN THE DARK is the perfect new read for fans of I Let You Go and The Couple Next Door, a chilling psychological thriller about a dark family dysfunction and the secrets that haunt us.
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A brutal murder in an isolated town forces a man who studies violent minds to step back into darkness he hoped to leave behind.
Impostor
Thriller · Mystery · Police Procedural · Psychological Thriller
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A brutal murder in an isolated town forces a man who studies violent minds to step back into darkness he hoped to leave behind. In Impostor, psychologist Alexander Gregory is drawn into a small-town investigation where fear spreads quickly and the killer may be hiding in plain sight. This psychological thriller pairs an eerie setting with criminal profiling, suspicion, and inward unease.
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From internationally bestselling author LJ Ross comes a tense, atmospheric thriller that explores how far we'll go to understand—and survive—the darkness around us.
There's a killer inside all of us…
In the remote hills of western Ireland, fear spreads as the locals struggle to make sense of a killer who is seemingly one of their own...
Dr. Alexander Gregory, a psychologist recovering from the collapse of a high-profile criminal profiling unit, wants nothing more than a quiet life to finally sit and think things through. But his rare ability to understand the minds of violent offenders makes him hard to ignore—especially when a small town is shaken by a brutal murder. Reluctantly pulled into the case, Gregory finds himself confronting not only a cunning predator, but the darker corners of his own mind.
From internationally bestselling author LJ Ross comes a tense, atmospheric thriller that explores how far we'll go to understand—and survive—the darkness around us.
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The world has collapsed into cold silence, but one woman still moves through its ruins with discipline, grit, and a fragile sense of purpose.
Far North
Dystopian · Mystery · Thriller
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The world has collapsed into cold silence, but one woman still moves through its ruins with discipline, grit, and a fragile sense of purpose. In Far North, a sheriff in a failed frontier city sets out after signs of life beyond the wasteland and finds brutality, mystery, and the faint possibility of redemption. This is literary dystopian fiction at its starkest and most hopeful.
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Far North is a 2009 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.
My father had an expression for a thing that turned out bad. He'd say it had gone west. But going west always sounded pretty good to me. After all, westwards is the path of the sun. And through as much history as I know of, people have moved west to settle and find freedom. But our world had gone north, truly gone north, and just how far north I was beginning to learn.
Out on the frontier of a failed state, Makepeace—sheriff and perhaps last citizen—patrols a city's ruins, salvaging books but keeping the guns in good repair.
Into this cold land comes shocking evidence that life might be flourishing elsewhere: a refugee emerges from the vast emptiness of forest, whose existence inspires Makepeace to reconnect with human society and take to the road, armed with rough humor and an unlikely ration of optimism.
What Makepeace finds is a world unraveling: stockaded villages enforcing an uncertain justice and hidden work camps laboring to harness the little-understood technologies of a vanished civilization. But Makepeace's journey—rife with danger—also leads to an unexpected redemption.
Far North takes the reader on a quest through an unforgettable arctic landscape, from humanity's origins to its possible end. Haunting, spare, yet stubbornly hopeful, the novel is suffused with an ecstatic awareness of the world's fragility and beauty, and its ability to recover from our worst trespasses.
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Going home means reopening the kind of violence that never really stayed in the past.
Every Sweet Thing Is Bitter
LGBTQIA+ · Mystery · Thriller · Suspense
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Going home means reopening the kind of violence that never really stayed in the past. In Every Sweet Thing Is Bitter, Providence Byrd returns after her mother’s disappearance believing her abusive father is responsible, only to find herself caught between revenge, family fracture, and the possibility of redemption. This suspense-driven literary novel explores inherited harm, sisterhood, and the brutal difficulty of choosing healing over vengeance.
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A woman with a violent past gets a chance at redemption in this upmarket suspense debut, perfect for fans of Lisa Taddeo and Tiffany McDaniel.
Thirteen years ago, Providence Byrd threw the family car in reverse and ran over her mother. Even though her mother survived, that single instant of teenage madness made Providence a felon and irrevocably altered her life. When her mother disappears years later under suspicious circumstances, Providence tells herself that returning home is her chance to find closure after a prolonged estrangement from her family. Never mind that this is only half of the truth: she’s also returning to finally confront her abusive father, Tom Byrd. Nothing can stamp out Providence’s certainty that he is guilty of whatever terrible thing has happened to her mother.
As the search unfolds, Providence is haunted by the wounds of her past, none of which cut as deep as the distance between her and her younger sisters. Harmony and Grace are both uniquely scarred by her attempted matricide, and both have their own idea of what reconciliations might look like – if reconciling is even possible. Harmony urges Providence to make their father pay for his sins; Grace begs her to end the cycle of violence that has haunted their family for generations. As her thirst for vengeance collides with her desire to heal her relationships with her sisters, Providence must decide which she values more: revenge or redemption.
Sharp and poignant, Every Sweet Thing Is Bitter is a stunning novel that eschews picture-perfect endings and dares to tell a story about a resilient queer woman and her relentless determination to persevere.
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