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When aging artist Penny moves into an elegant care home, the peace she finds soon twists into dread.
We Spread
Horror · Mystery · Thriller · Psychological Horror · Psychological Thriller
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When aging artist Penny moves into an elegant care home, the peace she finds soon twists into dread. Time warps, memories shift, and reality begins to unravel. Is she losing her mind, or is something darker at work? We Spread by Iain Reid holds 4.0 stars on Amazon and 3.8 on Goodreads with more than 22,000 ratings.
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The author of the “evocative, spine-tingling, and razor-sharp” (Bustle) I’m Thinking of Ending Things that inspired the Netflix original movie and the “short, shocking” (The Guardian) Foe returns with a new work of suspense following an elderly woman trapped in a mysterious facility.
Penny, an artist, has lived in the same apartment for decades, surrounded by the artifacts and keepsakes of her long life. She is resigned to the mundane rituals of old age, until things start to slip. Before her longtime partner passed away years earlier, provisions were made for a room in a unique long-term care residence, where Penny finds herself after one too many “incidents.”
Initially, surrounded by peers, conversing, eating, sleeping, looking out at the beautiful woods that surround the house, all is well. She even begins to paint again. But as the days start to blur together, Penny—with a growing sense of unrest and distrust—starts to lose her grip on the passage of time and on her place in the world. Is she succumbing to the subtly destructive effects of aging or is she an unknowing participant in something more unsettling?
At once compassionate and uncanny, told in spare, hypnotic prose, Iain Reid’s “exquisite novel of psychological suspense” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) explores questions of conformity, art, productivity, relationships, and what, ultimately, it means to grow old.
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When Blake Brier meets Haeli Becher in Las Vegas, he is pulled into a deadly hunt.
Unleashed
Mystery · Thriller
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When Blake Brier meets Haeli Becher in Las Vegas, he is pulled into a deadly hunt. The organization that built her now wants her silenced, and its killers are closing in. Brier and his team must risk everything to protect her and expose the truth. Unleashed holds 4.5 stars on Amazon and Goodreads with 11,000 ratings.
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When Blake Brier crosses paths with Haeli Becher during a weekend in Las Vegas, he expects a quiet escape, not a fight for survival. Haeli is the hunted subject of a secret government project that has outlived its usefulness. Now, the organization that created her wants her dead.
Drawn into a conspiracy that stretches from the desert to the highest levels of power, Brier and his team must protect Haeli against relentless assassins and uncover the truth behind her creation. Every move brings them closer to exposing a buried operation and to becoming its next targets.
Unleashed by L.T. Ryan and Gregory Scott delivers nonstop action and high-stakes suspense, with 4.5 stars on both Amazon and Goodreads and more than 11,000 ratings.
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When alumni gather to honor a tragedy from their college years, a snowstorm traps them on campus—and one by one, their old fears turn deadly.
The Bones of the Story
Mystery
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When alumni gather to honor a tragedy from their college years, a snowstorm traps them on campus—and one by one, their old fears turn deadly. The Bones of the Story by Carol Goodman is a smart, atmospheric locked-room thriller with 4.1 stars on Amazon and 3.7 on Goodreads.
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Old stories never stay buried.
Twenty-five years ago, a student vanished at Briarwood College, and the professor who searched for her died in the attempt. Now, the campus is hosting a commemorative weekend to honor the victims. As a winter storm cuts the college off from the world, a group of former classmates find themselves trapped together in the same halls where their secrets began.
When one alumna dies in the exact manner she once imagined in a horror story, panic spreads through the snowbound crowd. Each revelation draws the survivors closer to the truth, and to a killer determined to finish the story they started.
With 4.1 stars on Amazon and 3.7 on Goodreads, The Bones of the Story is a chilling locked-room mystery by Carol Goodman.
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In a fragile utopia rebuilt after the climate crisis, a daughter searches for her missing mother, a hero now accused of murder.
The Great Transition
Dystopian · Mystery
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In a fragile utopia rebuilt after the climate crisis, a daughter searches for her missing mother, a hero now accused of murder. The Great Transition by Nick Fuller Googins blends hope, mystery, and memory in a gripping debut, praised with 4.2 stars on Amazon and 3.8 on Goodreads.
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When the world was saved, no one asked what it would cost.
Emi Vargas has grown up in a new era, one rebuilt from the ashes of climate catastrophe. Her parents were heroes of The Great Transition, the movement that stopped the planet from collapsing. But when her mother is accused in a shocking assassination and vanishes without a trace, Emi’s faith in their perfect world fractures.
Together with her father, Emi journeys from Greenland to the drowned ruins of New York City in search of the truth. Each discovery pulls her deeper into her family’s past and the choices that changed humanity’s fate.
The Great Transition by Nick Fuller Googins is a visionary climate thriller with 4.2 stars on Amazon and 3.8 on Goodreads.
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In a quiet Nebraska town, Makani Young’s new life unravels when classmates start dying in gruesome murders.
There’s Someone Inside Your House
Mystery · Romance · Teen + Young Adult · Thriller
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In a quiet Nebraska town, Makani Young’s new life unravels when classmates start dying in gruesome murders. As the killer draws near, her secrets may be the key to surviving the terror. A New York Times bestseller and Netflix feature film, Stephanie Perkins’s There’s Someone Inside Your House is a tense, shocking story of fear and survival.
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Makani Young hoped a fresh start in small-town Nebraska would silence the ghosts of her past. Living with her grandmother, she tries to blend in, make friends, and forget what she left behind. But when her classmates begin dying one by one in increasingly brutal murders, safety becomes a memory and trust a deadly risk.
As the killings grow closer to home, Makani must face both the secrets that drove her to Nebraska and the nightmare stalking her now. Everyone has something to hide, and someone knows hers.
A New York Times bestseller and Netflix feature film, There’s Someone Inside Your House by Stephanie Perkins is a chilling, fast-paced thriller of secrets, survival, and teenage terror.
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When a woman is found dead and her brother-in-law goes missing, investigator Seth Harding and his wife, Carly, must race the cold and a killer to save their…
Tracks of Her Tears
Mystery · Romance · Police Procedural
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When a woman is found dead and her brother-in-law goes missing, investigator Seth Harding and his wife, Carly, must race the cold and a killer to save their family. Tracks of Her Tears delivers winter suspense and emotional stakes from Melinda Leigh, praised with 4.2 stars on Amazon and 4.1 on Goodreads.
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A frozen town. A missing man. A family caught in the storm.
County investigator Seth Harding plans a quiet Christmas with his wife, Carly, and their family in Solitude, Oregon. But when a woman is found dead and her young child left alone, the season’s peace shatters. The victim was dating Seth’s brother-in-law, who has now vanished without a trace.
As a rare deep freeze grips the town, Seth and Carly struggle to protect the child while searching for answers buried under ice and fear. Each clue brings them closer to a truth that could destroy what is left of their family.
With 4.2 stars on Amazon and 4.1 on Goodreads, Tracks of Her Tears is a chilling holiday suspense from bestselling author Melinda Leigh.
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Love Her Darkly begins with a body at the bottom of a ravine and a seaside vacation that curdles into fear.
Love Her Darkly
Thriller · Horror · Mystery
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Love Her Darkly begins with a body at the bottom of a ravine and a seaside vacation that curdles into fear. When college student Ellie vanishes during spring break, Detective Avery Stinson uncovers a case that keeps shifting beneath her feet. This psychological thriller blends obsession, desire, and escalating violence into a tense cat-and-mouse investigation.
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The body lies at the bottom of the ravine. Slack face pointed into the heavens. Dead eyes staring up at nothing. Tufts of grass stab upward from the dirt around the head like a green halo.
The dumped corpse is found just next to the Sea Spray Motel. After its discovery, all hell breaks loose.
The guests of the Sea Spray find their vacations forcefully interrupted. Fun in the sun turns to blood on the beach. A wide cast of colorful characters gets thrown into the fray, into danger.
But one guest gets it worse than the others.
College student Ellie lied to her parents and snuck away on spring break, thinking she was going on the perfect vacation. Instead she finds herself drawn deeper and deeper into a nightmare.
Taken. Trapped. Alone.
Meanwhile, Detective Avery Stinson works the case, follows the clues deeper and deeper into danger.
But the nature of the danger keeps twisting, the explanation for the crimes keeps morphing. Like shadows shifting and rippling, eluding understanding.
And the biggest shock comes at the end.
Love and danger. Sex and violence. The heart wants what the heart wants.
It's The White Lotus crossed with Natural Born Killers. Love Her Darkly is a gripping, heart-pounding thriller perfect for fans of Freida McFadden, Karin Slaughter, and Noelle Ihli.
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A private investigator and a disgraced cop search for the truth behind a fatal shooting that exposes the deep wounds of a divided city.
Right as Rain
Mystery
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A private investigator and a disgraced cop search for the truth behind a fatal shooting that exposes the deep wounds of a divided city. Right as Rain blends crime, conscience, and redemption in George Pelecanos’s acclaimed series opener, praised with 4.2 stars on Amazon and 3.9 on Goodreads.
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One cop pulled the trigger. Another wants to know why.
In the uneasy heart of Washington D.C., former officer Derek Strange makes a living chasing the truth others would rather forget. When he is hired to investigate the fatal shooting of a Black policeman by a white cop, the case forces him to confront the city’s buried anger and the force’s unspoken divisions.
At the center stands Terry Quinn, the man who fired the shot and lost his badge. When Strange and Quinn join forces, their uneasy alliance leads them through a world of street corners ruled by dealers, loyalty, and silence.
From acclaimed author George Pelecanos, Right as Rain is a powerful, unflinching crime novel with 4.2 stars on Amazon and 3.9 on Goodreads.
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A safe new neighborhood becomes dangerous when the person offering help has her own reasons for getting close.
The Psychopath Next Door
Thriller · Mystery · Suspense
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A safe new neighborhood becomes dangerous when the person offering help has her own reasons for getting close. In The Psychopath Next Door, Ethan and Emma trust Fiona with their daughter, Rose, only to discover that kindness can hide revenge. This psychological thriller fits readers drawn to domestic suspense, dangerous neighbors, manipulation, and children caught in adult secrets.
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In this mesmerising thriller from the bestselling author of Keep Her Secret, a family’s fresh start is just the beginning of their nightmare…
Ethan Dove’s family has moved to a new home in a safe community, and it’s exactly the fresh start they need. Not only is his marriage to Emma hanging by a thread, but his son, Dylan, and twelve-year-old daughter, Rose, deserve to have a happy childhood.
After Rose is bullied by the boys across the road, Ethan is relieved when the woman who lives next door steps in. Fiona Smith has come into their lives at just the right moment, and when she offers to look after Rose during the school holidays, Ethan and Emma can’t believe their luck.
Which is exactly what Fiona wants. Because, far from being the perfect neighbour, Fiona is the last person you should trust with your child. With a vicious plot for revenge, Fiona is happy to train Rose to be her accomplice, especially when she begins to suspect that Rose might not be as innocent as she appears…
The Psychopath Next Door is a gripping and twisted psychological suspense thriller set in the terrifying world of Mark Edwards’s bestselling The Magpies universe.
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This will appeal to readers who enjoy young adult mysteries involving cold cases, school secrets, strained friendships, and amateur investigation.
Nothing More to Tell
Mystery · Teen + Young Adult · Thriller · Suspense
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A New York Times bestseller, Nothing More to Tell follows Brynn as she returns to Saint Ambrose School and investigates the unsolved murder of her favorite teacher for a true-crime internship. Her former best friend, Tripp, helped protect the students who found the body, but his statement to police was a lie, with a 4.3-star rating from more than 3,600 Amazon reviewers. This will appeal to readers who enjoy young adult mysteries involving cold cases, school secrets, strained friendships, and amateur investigation.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the critically acclaimed author of One of Us Is Lying comes a new page-turning mystery. Be sure to keep your friends close . . . and your secrets closer.
Four years ago, Brynn left Saint Ambrose School following the shocking murder of her favorite teacher—a story that made headlines after the teacher’s body was found by three Saint Ambrose students in the woods behind their school. The case was never solved. Now that Brynn is moving home and starting her dream internship at a true-crime show, she’s determined to find out what really happened.
The kids who found Mr. Larkin are her way in, and her ex–best friend, Tripp Talbot, was one of them. Without his account of events, the other two kids might have gone down for Mr. Larkin’s murder—but instead, thanks to Tripp, they're now at the top of the Saint Ambrose social pyramid. Tripp’s friends have never forgotten what Tripp did for them that day, and neither has he. Just like he hasn’t forgotten that everything he told the police was a lie.
Digging into the past is bound to shake up the present, and when Brynn begins to investigate what happened in the woods that day, she uncovers secrets that might change everything—about Saint Ambrose, about Mr. Larkin, and about her ex-best friend, Tripp Talbot.
Four years ago someone got away with murder. More terrifying is that they might be closer than anyone thinks.
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A murdered friend.
Hard Lights
Mystery · Thriller · Action Thriller
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A murdered friend. A missing daughter. A city built on secrets. When Jon Reznick lands in Los Angeles, he’s not chasing justice, he’s chasing revenge. Beneath the Hollywood lights, a cartel war brews and time is running out. Hard Lights by J. B. Turner delivers relentless action and grit. 4.6 stars on Amazon with over 5,500 reviews.
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Jon Reznick doesn’t do hesitation, especially when someone he loves ends up dead. When his old Special Forces teammate Angel Ramos is found tortured and dumped in a Los Angeles alley, Reznick heads west with one mission: find the men who did it and make them pay. But Angel’s daughter has vanished into Hollywood’s underworld, and every clue drags Reznick deeper into a city rotting beneath its neon shine. From backroom deals to cartel crosshairs, Reznick’s enemies multiply fast, and this time, vengeance might not be enough to keep him alive.
Hard Lights delivers J. B. Turner’s trademark intensity, explosive action, high stakes, and a hero who never quits. 4.6 stars on Amazon with more than 5,500 reviews from readers who can’t get enough of this series.
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On the eve of her billion-dollar company’s IPO, Rita Burch falls from her balcony and wakes in a coma, able to watch detectives uncover her secrets.
Idaho Fall
Mystery · Thriller · Medical Thriller
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On the eve of her billion-dollar company’s IPO, Rita Burch falls from her balcony and wakes in a coma, able to watch detectives uncover her secrets. In Idaho Fall, D.J. Maughan crafts a sharp, eerie whodunit that asks what’s worth living for. Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars on Amazon, it’s the twist you won’t see coming.
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Rita Burch has everything, money, fame, and a billion-dollar company about to go public. Then she plunges from her penthouse balcony and wakes in a hospital, trapped in a coma while her body fights to survive. But Rita isn’t gone. She can see, hear, and follow the detectives investigating her “accident.” As they uncover secrets buried in her glossy empire,
Rita discovers truths about herself she never wanted to face. Was it an accident, or something far darker? And if she wakes, can she live with what she’s learned?
A twisty, inventive whodunit that blurs the line between life and death.
4.3 out of 5 stars on Amazon. A clever, haunting mystery that keeps readers guessing to the last page.
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