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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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A sharp fit for readers drawn to historical conspiracy thrillers, WWII secrets, international investigations, and morally complicated questions of justice.
The Final Reckoning
Mystery · Thriller · Political Thriller · Spy Thriller
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The Final Reckoning begins with a fatal shooting at the United Nations that pulls lawyer Tom Byrne into a decades-old quest for justice connected to Holocaust survivors and wartime vengeance. A sharp fit for readers drawn to historical conspiracy thrillers, WWII secrets, international investigations, and morally complicated questions of justice.
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"The biggest challenger to Dan Brown's crown." —Mirror (UK)
When a man's death at the United Nations turns out to be more than just an accidental shooting, unsuspecting Tom Byrne is plunged headlong into a deadly world of hidden fellowships, unforgivable crimes, and a 60-year quest for justice. From Sam Bourne—the #1 international bestselling author of The Righteous Men and The Last Testament—comes this fast-paced, gripping, and provocative thriller exposing the last great mystery of the Second World War. Perfect for fans of Raymond Khoury, Jo Nesbø, and James Rollins, Bourne's The Final Solution is a tense and twisting tale of Nazi soldiers and Jewish Avengers, based on the true story of WWII survivors taking vengeance for the Holocaust into their own hands.
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Best for readers who like dark thrillers built around desperation, food, wealth, moral compromise, and increasingly disturbing choices.
Greedy
Horror · Thriller · Psychological Thriller
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“A deliciously twisted thriller that blends culinary obsession with moral horror” by Dua Lipa’s Service95, gambling addict Ed Cook takes a lucrative job posing as private chef to reclusive billionaire Hazeline Yamamoto after his debts put his family in danger, with a 3.8-star average from more than 2,500 Goodreads ratings. Best for readers who like dark thrillers built around desperation, food, wealth, moral compromise, and increasingly disturbing choices.
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“A deliciously twisted thriller that blends culinary obsession with moral horror . . . This novel savors excess, class, and complicity . . . and leaves you squirming.”—Dua Lipa’s Service95
What would you do for a seat at the table?
They will kill me soon, Edward Cook thinks. And when the Yakuza are unable to collect what he owes, Ed realizes, theyʼll go after his wife and child next. Broke, desperate, and unemployed, he stumbles upon an unusual ad: Chef wanted! Private chef for a high-profile businesswoman. One million yen per day.
Ed accepts the job. He hasnʼt earned any Michelin stars, but he knows his way around a kitchen. Leaving his life in Tokyo behind, he departs for an opulent estate in the mountains owned by the enigmatic and reclusive Hazeline Yamamoto, a disgraced socialite with a predatorʼs smile and an exacting palate. Hazelineʼs world is one of taste, connoisseurship, and experimentation—she is a certified gourmand. But when you can afford filet mignon for every meal, you begin to seek out the strange and forbidden.
The closer Ed gets to Hazeline and the brighter future that she promises—if he remains loyal—the nearer he is to realizing the chilling truth about her altruism. In this shadow world of unimaginable wealth, there are worse monsters than two-bit gangsters. The wind blowing through Hazeline’s home carries the sound of screaming, and Ed finds himself feeding all kinds of beasts.
Perfect for fans of Parasite and The Menu—enticing as a starter, meaty as a main dish, and full of satisfying just-desserts—Greedy is a suspenseful poison-pen note to classism and an ode to Japanese cuisine, a horror-tinged thriller unsuitable for vegetarians but full of shocking delights for every reader.
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A sharp fit for readers drawn to literary suspense, shifting perspectives, family dynamics, and questions shaped by public judgment.
Good People
Thriller · Psychological Thriller
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Good People by Patmeena Sabit: A national bestseller called “A stunning read” by Khaled Hosseini, this novel follows the Sharaf family, Afghan refugees who built a prosperous life in Northern Virginia before a private tragedy thrusts them into the court of public opinion, with a 4.2-star average from more than 48,000 Goodreads ratings. A sharp fit for readers drawn to literary suspense, shifting perspectives, family dynamics, and questions shaped by public judgment.
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“A thrilling tour de force of a novel. I’ll be recommending this book to everyone.”—ANN PATCHETT
“[A] gorgeous and powerful debut.”—TOMMY ORANGE, The New York Times
“A stunning read.”—KHALED HOSSEINI
“Utterly addictive, Good People will have everyone talking.”—PAULA HAWKINS “Brilliant, original, compelling storytelling.”—ELIN HILDERBRAND
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In a haunting debut novel that reads like true crime, told through a kaleidoscope of perspectives, a private tragedy thrusts one family into the court of public opinion as the media—and their own community—dissect every aspect of their lives.
ONE OF THE NEW YORKER’S BEST BOOKS OF 2026 SO FAR
Zorah Sharaf could do no wrong. Zorah Sharaf brought shame upon her family. What’s the truth? Depends on who you ask.
The Sharaf family is the picture of success. Prosperous, rich, happy. They came to this country as refugees with nothing more than the clothes on their backs. And now, after years of hard work, they live in the most exclusive neighborhood, their growing family attending the most prestigious schools. Zorah, the eldest daughter, is the apple of her father’s eye.
When an unthinkable tragedy strikes, everyone is left reeling. There is talk that behind closed doors the Sharafs’ happy household was anything but. Did the Sharaf family achieve the American dream? Or was the image of the model immigrant family just a façade?
Like a literary game of ping-pong, Good People compels the reader to reconsider what might have happened even on the previous page. It’s a riveting, provocative story of family—sisters, brothers, mothers, fathers, and the communities that claim us as family in difficult times.
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Ideal for readers who enjoy atmospheric psychological suspense, isolated settings, and buried secrets.
Buried in the Woods Below
Thriller · Psychological Thriller
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Called “gripping, tense, and absolutely unputdownable” by Noelle W. Ihli, this thriller from USA Today bestselling author Daniel G. Miller follows Charlotte back to the island where tragedy shattered her life eighteen years ago. Threatening notes, whispered ghost stories, and new deaths suggest someone lured her home for a reason. Ideal for readers who enjoy atmospheric psychological suspense, isolated settings, and buried secrets.
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Perfect for fans of Freida McFadden's The Housemaid, Riley Sager's The Only One Left and Alice Feeney's My Husband's Wife, this addictive psychological suspense-thriller is a must-read for anyone who loves dark secrets, isolated settings, and jaw-dropping twists.
SOME MEMORIES WERE NEVER MEANT TO STAY BURIED.
When Charlotte Hoffman's picture-perfect career implodes overnight, she retreats to the one place she swore she'd never return: Big Island, Minnesota. Home to her childhood best friend, Olivia Parker, and the place where her life first fell apart.
Eighteen years ago, tragedy struck, and Charlotte's blamed herself for that bloody night ever since. Now she's back, staying with the Parkers in their isolated lakeside home, surrounded by dark woods shrouded in mist and the decaying remains of a long-abandoned amusement park.
But something isn't right.
The Parkers' young twin girls whisper about ghosts in the trees. Threatening notes appear on doors. An old carousel screams in the wind. And every night the island claims another victim.
As Charlotte wades ever-deeper into danger, she can't shake the feeling that someone brought her back to the isolated island for a reason.
Someone who wants to finish what was started all those years ago.
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This will appeal to readers who want forensic suspense, conspiracies, and high-stakes psychological thrillers.
The Face of Deception
Thriller · Psychological Thriller
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Called “fast-paced, nonstop, clever” by USA Today, The Face of Deception introduces forensic sculptor Eve Duncan, who is hired by billionaire John Logan to reconstruct a skull whose identity powerful people want buried. It has a 4.5-star rating from more than 3,400 Amazon reviewers. This will appeal to readers who want forensic suspense, conspiracies, and high-stakes psychological thrillers.
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In this “fast-paced, nonstop, clever” (USA Today) novel, #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen introduces her most popular character ever: forensic sculptor Eve Duncan.
“Johansen keeps her story moving at breakneck speed.”—Chicago Daily Sun
An unidentified skull. A trail of shocking secrets. And a woman whose hands could reveal the terrifying truth.
After her beloved daughter vanishes, Eve Duncan survives by immersing herself in her work. The best in her elite field at rebuilding faces from fragments of skull bones, she helps to put a name to a face, to identify missing children. It is Eve’s way of coming to terms with her personal nightmare. But more terror lies ahead when she accepts a job from billionaire John Logan. Beneath Eve’s gifted hands, a face begins to emerge from the skull he has given her to reconstruct—a face that no one was ever meant to see.
Now Eve is trapped in a web of murder and deceit as powerful enemies rush to cover up the truth, determined that their secrets go to the grave—even if Eve gets buried with them.
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Ideal for readers looking for a claustrophobic psychological thriller built around captivity, mistrust, and a high-stakes escape.
The Girl in the Cellar
Horror · Mystery · Thriller · Psychological Thriller · Suspense
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A woman who believes she has been held in a cellar for nearly a year sees a chance to escape when another woman comes downstairs, only to realize the newcomer may be her captor’s wife and in danger too, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 800 Amazon reviewers. Ideal for readers looking for a claustrophobic psychological thriller built around captivity, mistrust, and a high-stakes escape.
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'Wow!!! Is all I can say about this absolutely outstanding book . . . I read it in 12 hours . . . I loved every paragraph, every sentence and every word of this masterpiece!' Reader review, 5 stars
I haven't seen sunlight in almost a year.
Or at least that's how long I think I have been down here. I can only eat when I have been good. I can only wash when he says so. Every day is the same. The darkness. The waiting. The fear when I hear his key turn in the lock and I know he is back.
Until...
One day, finally, someone else comes down the steps. It's a woman... I can't believe I am finally free.
But then I see the fear in her eyes. The bruises on her arms... the ring on her finger.
If this woman is his wife, she knows exactly what he is capable of.
I hear a noise upstairs.
He's home.
Our eyes meet.
If he finds her here, will he kill us both?
An absolutely unputdownable psychological thriller perfect for fans of Freida McFadden, Steena Holmes, John Marrs, Alice Feeney and Becca Day.
Readers can't get enough of THE GIRL IN THE CELLAR!
'HOLY COW!! It grabbed me like a vice from the first page and never let go!! I stayed up until 7am reading it because I just HAD to keep reading. Wrought with suspense and tension, there were times I didn't know who was the true villain. Great book!!' Reader review, 5 stars
'Um, I don't even know what to say about this one! WOW doesn't quite cover it. The turns keep coming and the twists at the end left my jaw on the floor. For fans of just about any thriller author, this one is a must read. Go, NOW.' Reader review, 5 stars
'INTENSE! Deadly game of claustrophobic cat and mouse between killer and his next victim - things get more and more entangled, who is on who's side . . . Edge of your seat for sure!' Reader review, 5 stars
'This book was phenomenal! I could not put it down. It was a cross between Frieda McFadden's writing and a little ofListen for the Lie by Amy Tintera.' Reader review, 5 stars
'You can't help the emotions reading this book! If you are fans of Freida McFadden or John Marrs, then this book is definitely right up your alley!' Reader review, 5 stars
'This book was a real page turner. I couldn't put it down it was so so good. Really hope to read another book by this author soon. A must read book brilliant.' Reader review, 5 stars
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A disgraced surgeon accepts a secretive job for an impossibly wealthy patient, then becomes the prime target when he vanishes under her care.
Gone Before Goodbye
Mystery · Thriller · Suspense
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A disgraced surgeon accepts a secretive job for an impossibly wealthy patient, then becomes the prime target when he vanishes under her care. Maggie McCabe is already rebuilding after personal and professional ruin when the disappearance traps her inside a conspiracy where discretion can be deadly. Gone Before Goodbye is a fast-moving suspense thriller driven by medical intrigue, global danger, and a protagonist forced to outrun the truth.
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AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
In this unforgettable suspense novel that combines the storytelling talents of Academy Award-winning actor Reese Witherspoon and internationally bestselling author Harlan Coben, a woman is trapped in a deadly conspiracy—where uncovering the truth could cost her everything.
"Reese Witherspoon and Harlan Coben have delivered a winner. Gone Before Goodbye is a dynamic, riveting and twisty thriller—complete with a heroine that you’ll absolutely love." —Laura Dave, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Thing He Told Me
Maggie McCabe is teetering on the brink. A highly skilled and renowned Army combat surgeon, she has always lived life at the edge, where she could make the most impact. And it was all going to plan ... until it wasn’t. Upside down after a devastating series of tragedies leads to her medical license being revoked, Maggie has lost her purpose, but not her nerve or her passion. At her lowest point, she is thrown a lifeline by a former colleague, an elite plastic surgeon whose anonymous clientele demand the best care money can buy, as well as absolute discretion.
Halfway across the globe, sequestered in the lap of luxury and cutting-edge technology, one of the world’s most mysterious men requires unconventional medical assistance. Desperate, and one of the few surgeons in the world skilled enough to take this job, Maggie enters his realm of unspeakable opulence and fulfills her end of the agreement. But when the patient suddenly disappears while still under her care, Maggie must become a fugitive herself—or she will be the next one who is ... Gone Before Goodbye.
"A tour de force thriller that delivers a killer premise and thundering plot with serious emotional punch. Maggie is flawed, compelling and utterly real. Coben and Witherspoon are a dream team! " —Lucy Foley, New York Times bestselling author of The Guest List
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Ideal for readers looking for claustrophobic psychological thrillers about captivity, surveillance, survival, and escape.
The Last Thing to Burn
Thriller · Psychological Thriller
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A woman held captive on an isolated farm is watched and punished by the man who calls himself her husband and calls her Jane, a name that is not hers. With an unborn child and another captive now at risk, the need to escape becomes even more urgent. Ideal for readers looking for claustrophobic psychological thrillers about captivity, surveillance, survival, and escape.
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“Immediate, intense, gripping, taut, terrifying, moving, and brilliant.” —Lisa Jewell, #1 New York Times bestselling author
“Brilliantly written...terrifying.” —Ruth Ware, #1 New York Times bestselling author
A woman being held captive is willing to risk everything to save herself, her unborn child, and her captor’s latest victim in this “intense, dark, and utterly chilling” (Jennifer Hillier, author of Jar of Hearts) thriller in the tradition of Misery and Room.
On an isolated farm in the United Kingdom, a woman is trapped by the monster who kidnapped her seven years ago. When she discovers she is pregnant, she resolves to protect her child, no matter the cost, and starts to meticulously plot her escape. But when another woman is brought into the fold on the farm, her plans go awry. Can she save herself, her child, and this innocent woman at the same time? Or is she doomed to spend the remainder of her life as a captive?
Intense, dark, and utterly gripping The Last Thing to Burn “explores the resilience of the human spirit, even in the face of unfathomable evil. This harrowing journey is one worth taking” (Publishers Weekly).
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Ideal for readers looking for atmospheric village mysteries with many suspects, buried secrets, and police-procedural tension.
The Last Party
Thriller
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Patricia Cornwell calls it “Wicked fun, devilishly clever, with echoes of Agatha Christie.” The Last Party opens after a New Year’s Eve celebration ends with Rhys Lloyd dead in a freezing lake. DC Ffion Morgan must investigate a Welsh village full of neighbors, friends, and family with reasons to want him dead. Ideal for readers looking for atmospheric village mysteries with many suspects, buried secrets, and police-procedural tension.
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"Wicked fun, devilishly clever, with echoes of Agatha Christie." —Patricia Cornwell, #1 New York Times bestselling author
At midnight, one of them is dead. By morning, all of them are suspects.
It's the party to end all parties….but not everyone is here to celebrate.
On New Year's Eve, Rhys Lloyd has a house full of guests. His vacation homes on Mirror Lake are a success, and he's generously invited the village to drink champagne with their wealthy new neighbors.
But by midnight, Rhys will be floating dead in the freezing waters of the lake.
On New Year's Day, Ffion Morgan has a village full of suspects. The tiny community is her home, so the suspects are her neighbors, friends and family—and Ffion has her own secrets to protect.
With a lie uncovered at every turn, soon the question isn't who wanted Rhys dead…but who finally killed him.
In a village with this many secrets, murder is just the beginning.
"Brilliant, so atmospheric....I fell in love with the courageous, complicated detective Ffion Morgan and I think readers will too." —Ruth Ware, New York Times bestselling author of The It Girl
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A good pick for readers who like historical spy thrillers built around wartime intelligence, pursuit, and undercover intrigue.
Prince of Spies
Historical Fiction · Thriller · Historical Thriller · Political Thriller · War Fiction · World War 2
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Young detective Richard Prince hunts a German spy who comes ashore on a Lincolnshire beach in 1942, pulling him into a WWII espionage case, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 4,000 Amazon reviewers. A good pick for readers who like historical spy thrillers built around wartime intelligence, pursuit, and undercover intrigue.
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Find the truth; risk everything. A gripping WWII spy novel full of intrigue and peril from a modern master.
1942: A German spy comes ashore on a desolate stretch of Lincolnshire beach. But he is hunted down by a young detective, Richard Prince. The secret services have need of a man like him...
In occupied Europe, Denmark is a hotbed of problems for British intelligence. Rumours of a war-ending weapon being developed by the Germans are rife.
Sent to Copenhagen, Prince is soon caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse. Dodging Gestapo agents, SS muscle and the danger of betrayal, his survival and the war effort hangs in the balance.
Gripping and intense, Prince of Spies is the first in a new espionage series that will delight fans of Alan Furst, Philip Kerr and John le Carr.
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