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This will appeal to readers who want psychological suspense built around mistrust, marriage, secrets, and uncertainty about whom to believe.
The Senator’s Wife
Thriller · Psychological Thriller
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After marrying Senator Whit Montgomery, philanthropist Sloane Chase hires Athena Karras to help her recover from surgery. When Sloane’s health deteriorates, she begins questioning Athena’s interest in her husband, her foundation, and her past, with a 3.78-star average from more than 53,800 Goodreads ratings. This will appeal to readers who want psychological suspense built around mistrust, marriage, secrets, and uncertainty about whom to believe.
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A D.C. philanthropist suspects that her seemingly perfect employee is secretly plotting to steal her husband, her reputation—even her life—in this seductive novel of psychological suspense from the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Mrs. Parrish.
“A deadly cocktail of medical mystery, family drama, and psychological suspense.”—Chandler Baker, New York Times bestselling author of Whisper Network
In this town, anyone is replaceable. . . .
After a tragic chain of events led to the deaths of their spouses two years ago, D.C. philanthropist Sloane Chase and Senator Whit Montgomery are finally starting to move on. The horrifying ordeal drew them together, and now they’re ready to settle down again—with each other.
As Sloane returns to the world of White House dinners and political small talk, this time with her new husband, she’s also preparing for an upcoming hip replacement—the latest reminder of the lupus she’s managed since her twenties. With their hectic schedules, they decide that hiring a home health aide will give Sloane the support and independence she needs postsurgery. And they find the perfect fit in Athena Karras.
Seemingly a godsend, Athena tends to Sloane and even helps her run her charitable foundation. But Sloane slowly begins to deteriorate—a complication, Athena explains, of Sloane’s lupus. As weeks go by, Sloane becomes sicker, and her uncertainty quickly turns to paranoia as she begins to suspect the worst. Why is Athena asking her so many probing questions about her foundation—as well as about her past? And could Sloane be imagining the sultry looks between Athena and her new husband?
Riveting, fast-paced, and full of unbelievable twists, The Senator’s Wife is a psychological thriller that upends the private lives of those who walk the halls of power. Because when you have it all, you have everything to lose.
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A sharp fit for readers drawn to crime fiction that mixes assassins, mob trouble, Caribbean settings, and dark comedy.
Gone Bamboo
Mystery · Thriller · Spy Thriller
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Retired CIA-trained assassin Henry Denard and his wife Frances are enjoying life in the Caribbean until a botched hit comes back to haunt them. When the intended target enters witness protection on their island, Henry gets pulled into a mob conflict that threatens his quiet retirement, with a 3.59-star average from more than 2,500 Goodreads ratings. A sharp fit for readers drawn to crime fiction that mixes assassins, mob trouble, Caribbean settings, and dark comedy.
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A hilarious crime thriller by Anthony Bourdain, the New York Times bestselling author of Kitchen Confidential and host of Parts Unknown on CNN.
CIA-trained assassin Henry Denard is looking for the good life when he retires with his wife, Frances, to the Caribbean. He may have botched his last job a little--allowed Donnie Wicks, the guy Jimmy Pazz hired him to kill, to escape with his life--but Henry and Frances are determined to take it easy.
That is until Donnie agrees to testify against Jimmy Pazz, and gets relocated by the Federal Witness Protection Program to Saint Martin as well. Now Jimmy Pazz is after both men--the mobster, and the man who was supposed to kill him--and things in Henry's paradise are about to get a lot more complicated.
Written in Anthony Bourdain's signature style-raucous, funny, a bit vicious, and always fun-Gone Bamboo is a feast of murder, hitmen, and the hitwomen they love.
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This will appeal to readers who like psychological thrillers about revenge, vigilante justice, morally complicated choices, and characters pushed toward dangerous lines.
Hunter or Hunted
Mystery · Thriller · Noir
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When Gwen Kane's friend Delilah dies after trying to escape an abusive boyfriend, Gwen refuses to believe it was suicide and turns to Sebastian Everett for help planning a crime that could deliver the justice she wants. This will appeal to readers who like psychological thrillers about revenge, vigilante justice, morally complicated choices, and characters pushed toward dangerous lines.
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The last time Gwen Kane killed a man, it was to stay alive. This time, she's going looking.
For the first time in years, Gwen has something worth protecting. A job at the only café in Black Pines. A best friend stitching her life back together. A man who loves her enough to bury her secrets beside his own.
Then her friend Delilah turns up dead, and Gwen knows exactly who did it.
Sebastian doesn't want to help. He killed once for his own sister, and he'll carry that weight forever, but he keeps insisting what Gwen wants is different. That rage isn't justice. That loving her means pulling her back from the edge, not stepping over it beside her.
Gwen has spent her whole life being told to swallow her fury. She's done swallowing.
A funeral she wasn't invited to. A predator hiding behind a grieving boyfriend's face. A fifteen-year-old sister already looking at him the way Delilah once did. And a partner who can't decide whether he's saving Gwen or losing her to something neither of them will survive.
Because Evan isn't the first name on Gwen's list. He's only the first she's willing to say out loud.
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A strong match for readers who like YA horror fantasy, dangerous expeditions, body horror, survival, and monstrous underground worlds.
What Feeds Below
Fantasy · Teen + Young Adult · Thriller · Dark Fantasy
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Orphaned best friends Petra and Jade guide tourists into the Void, a massive chasm filled with monsters and carnivorous plants, until Jade disappears and Petra must descend deeper than ever to find her, with a 4.54-star average from more than 800 Goodreads ratings. A strong match for readers who like YA horror fantasy, dangerous expeditions, body horror, survival, and monstrous underground worlds.
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STARRED PUBLISHERS WEEKLY REVIEW: "Astounding, inventive."
STARRED KIRKUS REVIEW: "Lush and innovative worldbuilding, gruesome body horror . . . A nail-biting tale set in a beautifully rendered world of darkness and danger"
The darkness isn’t empty. It’s hungry.
At the edge of the City of the Void, a massive chasm extends miles into the earth, its treacherous terrain overrun with vicious monsters and carnivorous plants. For orphaned best friends Petra and Jade, guiding treasure-seeking tourists down into the Void is the only way to earn enough to pull themselves up out of the slums for good.
Petra prefers to play it safe and take jobs only in the Void’s upper levels, where the dangers are better understood, while Jade wants to risk a descent to the deepest and most mysterious Sixth Layer. Because the deeper they go, the better the payout, and the sooner their dreams can become reality. Their friendship is Petra’s whole world, and Jade’s approval means everything—so Petra agrees to do it Jade’s way.
When their job goes wrong and Jade is lost in the Void, Petra must plunge deeper than she’s ever dared to save her friend. But she doesn’t know the truth of the Void . . . or what really waits for her in its depths.
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Best for readers who like dark police procedurals, serial-killer investigations, copycat crimes, and tense cat-and-mouse thrillers.
The Jigsaw Man
Thriller · Suspense
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Detective Inspector Anjelica Henley returns to active duty and finds dismembered victims whose murders resemble the work of the imprisoned Jigsaw Killer, setting off a hunt for a copycat as the body count rises, with a 3.88-star average from more than 20,100 Goodreads ratings. Best for readers who like dark police procedurals, serial-killer investigations, copycat crimes, and tense cat-and-mouse thrillers.
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"A heart-pounding roller coaster ride."—Tami Hoag, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boy
*A Crime Reads Most Anticipated Book of 2021*
A serial killer and his copycat are locked in a violent game of cat and mouse. Can DI Anjelica Henley stop them before it’s too late?
On the day she returns to active duty with the Serial Crimes Unit, Detective Inspector Anjelica Henley is called to a crime scene. Dismembered body parts from two victims have been found by the river.
The modus operandi bears a striking resemblance to Peter Olivier, the notorious Jigsaw Killer, who has spent the past two years behind bars. When he learns that someone is co-opting his grisly signature—the arrangement of victims’ limbs in puzzle-piece shapes—he decides to take matters into his own hands.
As the body count rises, DI Anjelica Henley is faced with an unspeakable new threat. Can she apprehend the copycat killer before Olivier finds a way to get to him first? Or will she herself become the next victim?
Drawing on her experience as a criminal attorney, debut novelist Nadine Matheson delivers the page-turning crime novel of the year. Taut, vivid and addictively sinister, The Jigsaw Man will leave you breathless until the very last page.
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Best for readers who want dark fantasy adventure with parallel worlds, longtime characters, and connections to Stephen King’s Dark Tower universe.
Other Worlds Than These
Horror · Thriller · Suspense
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Jack Sawyer returns for the final Talisman novel, facing infected teenagers and the forces of the mysterious Gullet as threats from America-side and Mid-World put multiple worlds at risk. It has a 4.2-star average from more than 20 Goodreads ratings. Best for readers who want dark fantasy adventure with parallel worlds, longtime characters, and connections to Stephen King’s Dark Tower universe.
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Jack Sawyer, a beloved and enduring King protagonist, returns in the final book in the Talisman Trilogy, the #1 New York Times bestselling collaboration between “master craftsmen” (The Washington Post) Stephen King and Peter Straub.
“I wanted to go back to Mid-World, which was always the Territories by another name.” —Stephen King
This is Stephen King and Peter Straub’s epic and unforgettable finale to the Talisman Trilogy (including the novels Talisman and Black House) and a wrapping up of the fate of the worlds in King’s iconic, fiercely beloved Dark Tower epic. It is also a magnificent stand-alone novel, that will appeal to new readers, as well as to King’s Constant Readers.
Other Worlds Than These is the story of Jack Sawyer, whom readers first met when he was twelve, crossing America and “the territories” to save his mother’s life, and met again in Black House, where Jack faces a child killer and the Crimson King (among other evils). In Other Worlds Than These, Jack must stop a rampaging gang of infected teenagers from America-side, and the forces of the mysterious Gullet at the edge of Mid-World, before it destroys our world and all worlds. Jack is older now; his Ka-tet (echoing the world of Roland) is fraying; and his task, nearly impossible.
Magnificent, riveting, full of heart, and humor, Other Worlds Than These is a spectacular, propulsive adventure, and features thirty-six exclusive black-and-white illustrations by artist Gabriel Rodriguez. The title instantly announces to readers who already know these other worlds that King has returned to them. Other Worlds Than These will appeal to new King readers and his Constant Readers.
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Ideal for readers looking for a YA thriller that mixes survival competition, murder mystery, isolation, and questions of trust.
We Won’t All Survive
Teen + Young Adult · Thriller · Suspense
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Mercy Gray, hailed as a hero after surviving a mall shooting, joins a survivalist reality show for the prize money that could help her family. But the contestants arrive to an empty off-grid set, the gates close behind them, and one of them turns up dead, with a 3.6-star average from more than 8,600 Goodreads ratings. Ideal for readers looking for a YA thriller that mixes survival competition, murder mystery, isolation, and questions of trust.
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From the bestselling author of I Am Still Alive comes a new nail-biter that's part survival story, part murder mystery, and all thriller—perfect for fans of Karen McManus and Holly Jackson!
Two years ago, Mercy Gray was hailed as a hero for saving lives during a mall shooting. She still carries souvenirs from that day: the fragment of a bullet lodged in her back, a mountain of medical debt, and guilt for ignoring her sister’s warnings that the sweet boy next door was anything but.
So when billionaire turned TV host Damien Dare recruits Mercy to compete on his new survivalist reality show, she can’t turn down a chance at the whopping cash prize that could send her sister to college. But when she and the other contestants arrive at the off-grid location, something isn’t right. The set is empty. The gates close without warning, trapping them inside. And then one of them turns up dead. What appeared at first to be a tragic accident quickly transforms as more contestants start dropping like flies. With time and resources running low, surviving this show takes on a whole new meaning. Mercy must figure out who to trust. Before she’s next.
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A good pick for readers who want a crime thriller centered on a detective with a personal stake in the case.
Kiss the Girls
Thriller
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Detective Alex Cross investigates his niece’s disappearance as he pursues kidnappers and killers. A good pick for readers who want a crime thriller centered on a detective with a personal stake in the case.
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First came the stunning number-one bestseller. Now comes the scariest, most unforgettable novel in several years. In Los Angeles, a reporter investigating a series of murders is killed. In Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a beautiful medical intern suddenly disappears. Washington D.C.'s Alex Cross is back to solve the most baffling and terrifying murder case ever. Two clever pattern killers are collaborating, cooperating, competing- and they are working coast to coast.
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Ideal for readers looking for mystery thrillers with a sardonic detective, a double murder, and secrets tied to a government research facility.
Plum Island
Mystery · Medical Thriller
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A #1 New York Times bestseller, wounded NYPD homicide detective John Corey is recuperating on Long Island when a couple he knows, both Plum Island scientists, are murdered and he is pulled into the investigation, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 16,200 Amazon reviewers. Ideal for readers looking for mystery thrillers with a sardonic detective, a double murder, and secrets tied to a government research facility.
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
CELEBRATING THE 20th ANNIVERSARY WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR
Wounded in the line of duty, NYPD homicide detective John Corey convalesces in the Long Island township of Southold, home to farmers, fishermen -- and at least one killer. Tom and Judy Gordon, a young, attractive couple Corey knows, have been found on their patio, each with a bullet in the head. The local police chief, Sylvester Maxwell, wants Corey's big-city expertise, but Maxwell gets more than he bargained for.
John Corey doesn't like mysteries, which is why he likes to solve them. His investigations lead him into the lore, legends, and ancient secrets of northern Long Island -- more deadly and more dangerous than he could ever have imagined. During his journey of discovery, he meets two remarkable women, Detective Beth Penrose and Mayflower descendant Emma Whitestone, both of whom change his life irrevocably. Ultimately, through his understanding of the murders, John Corey comes to understand himself.
Fast-paced and atmospheric, marked by entrancing characters, incandescent storytelling, and brilliant comic touches, Plum Island is Nelson DeMille at his thrill-inducing best.
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This will appeal to readers who want dark police procedurals, psychological suspense, violent crimes, and complicated personal connections.
The Kept Woman
Thriller · Police Procedural
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Will Trent investigates the murder of an ex-cop at an abandoned Atlanta construction site, where bloody evidence points to a second victim who has disappeared and a case tied to his own troubled past, with a 4.6-star rating from more than 29,600 Amazon reviewers. This will appeal to readers who want dark police procedurals, psychological suspense, violent crimes, and complicated personal connections.
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“Part True Detective, part The Girl on the Train. All parts gripping.” — TheSkimm
From #1 New York Times bestselling author, Karin Slaughter, comes an electrifying, emotionally complex crime thriller that plunges GBI Inspector Will Trent into the darkest depths of a mystery that just might destroy him.
Husbands and wives. Mothers and daughters. The past and the future.
Secrets bind them. And secrets can destroy them.
With the discovery of a murder at an abandoned construction site in Atlanta, Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation is brought in on a case that becomes much more dangerous when the dead man is identified as an ex-cop.
Studying the body, Sara Linton—the GBI’s newest medical examiner and Will’s lover—realizes that the extensive blood loss didn't belong to the corpse. Sure enough, bloody footprints leading away from the scene indicate there is another victim—a missing woman—who has vanished . . . and who will die soon if she isn’t found.
Will is already compromised, because the site belongs to the city’s most popular citizen: a wealthy, powerful, and politically connected athlete protected by the world’s most expensive lawyers—a man who’s already gotten away with rape, despite Will’s exhaustive efforts to put him away.
But the worst is yet to come. Evidence soon links Will’s troubled past to the case, threatening to expose the secrets and lies that bind them . . . and the consequences will tear through his life with the force of a tornado, wreaking havoc for Will and everyone around him, including his colleagues, family, friends—and even the suspects he pursues.
Relentlessly suspenseful and furiously paced, peopled with conflicted, fallible characters who leap from the page, The Kept Woman is a seamless blend of twisty police procedural and ingenious psychological thriller — a searing, unforgettable novel of love, loss, and redemption.
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Boston private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro take a case involving a psychiatrist threatened by the Irish mob, only to become caught in a series of violent…
Darkness, Take My Hand
Thriller
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Boston private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro take a case involving a psychiatrist threatened by the Irish mob, only to become caught in a series of violent murders connected to long-buried secrets, with a 4.2-star average from more than 33,800 Goodreads ratings. Readers drawn to dark crime fiction should find plenty to like in its private-eye investigation, Boston setting, serial-killer case, and noir atmosphere.
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Master of new noir Dennis Lehane magnificently evokes the dignity and savagery of working-class Boston in Darkness, Take My Hand, a terrifying tale of redemption.
In this gripping psychological thriller, Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro’s latest client is a prominent Boston psychiatrist, running scared from a vengeful Irish mob. The private investigators know about cold-blooded retribution. Born and bred on the mean streets of blue-collar Dorchester, they’ve seen the darkness that lives in the hearts of the unfortunate.
But an evil for which even they are unprepared is about to strike, as secrets that have long lain dormant erupt, setting off a hunt for a serial killer that will stain everything — including the truth.
With razor-sharp dialogue and penetrating prose, Darkness, Take My Hand is another superior entry in his acclaimed private investigator series from the author of Mystic River; Gone, Baby, Gone; and Shutter Island.
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Best for readers who like near-future science fiction thrillers built around hacking, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and questions of identity.
All That We See or Seem
Literary Fiction · Sci-Fi · Psychological Fiction · Techno-Thriller
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All That We See or Seem follows former teenage hacker Julia Z as she risks her carefully hidden life to help find a kidnapped artist who creates shared dreams using AI. Best for readers who like near-future science fiction thrillers built around hacking, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and questions of identity.
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From Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award–winning author Ken Liu, the first in a high-stakes sci-fi thriller series following an infamous hacker as she attempts to unravel a virtual reality mystery in the near future.
Julia Z, a young woman who gained notoriety at 14 as the “orphan hacker,” is trying to live a life of digital obscurity in a Boston suburb.
But when a lawyer named Piers barges into her life after his famous artist wife, Elli, was kidnapped by dangerous criminals, Julia decides she must help Piers and Elli. Nor step away from the challenge of this digital puzzle. Elli is an onierofex, a dream artist, who can weave the dreams of an audience together through a shared virtual landscape, live, in a concert-like experience by tapping into each attendee’s waking dream and providing an emotionally resonant and narrative experience. While attendees’ dreams are anonymous, Julia discovers that Elli was also providing a one-on-one dream experience for the head of an international criminal enterprise, and he’s demanding his dreams in return for Elli.
Unraveling the real and unreal will lead Julia on an adventure that will take her across the country and deep into the shadows of her psyche in this fresh “marvel from a perennially innovative author” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
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