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As grief, resentment, and old family wounds begin to surface, a murder in small-town New York forces one woman to confront everything she has tried to keep contained.
Once Upon a Lie
Psychological Thriller
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As grief, resentment, and old family wounds begin to surface, a murder in small-town New York forces one woman to confront everything she has tried to keep contained. In Once Upon a Lie, Maeve Conlon investigates her cousin’s death while trying to protect her vulnerable father from suspicion, uncovering buried secrets, domestic strain, and a sharp thread of revenge beneath the surface.
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"An excellent, edgy thriller" about a single mom turned amateur sleuth confronting "secrets, betrayals, stunning revelations. This book has it all" (Lisa Gardner, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Still See You Every Where).
Maeve Conlon's life is coming apart at the seams. Her bakery is barely making ends meet, and one of her daughters spends as much time grounded as the other does studying. Her ex-husband has a new wife, a new baby, and a look of pity for Maeve that's absolutely infuriating. Her father insists he's still independent, but he's slowly and obviously succumbing to Alzheimer's. And now, her cousin Sean Donovan has been found dead, sitting in his car in a public park in quiet Farringville, New York, shot through the head.
There was never much love lost between Maeve and Sean and she's not exactly devastated by his death, but suddenly the police are poking around asking the family questions. It's just one more hassle Maeve doesn't have time for, until she realizes that her father, whose memory and judgment are unreliable at best, is a suspect in the murder. Maeve is determined to clear his name, but is she prepared to cope with the dark memories and long-hidden secrets that doing so might dredge up?
"[A] riveting tale of ordinary cruelty and complicated heroism . . . All the characters are sharply drawn, particularly Maeve, whose dark humor and stoic attitude mask an unshakable moral core." —Publisher's Weekly, starred review
"A darkly powerful tale of family secrets, loss, and revenge." —Hank Philippi Ryan, USA Today–bestselling author of The House Guest
"A surprising, suspenseful and satisfying story." —Mary Jane Clark, New York Times–bestselling author of Dying for Mercy
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This psychological suspense novel is a strong fit for readers who want small-town menace, emotional damage, and a steadily deepening sense of unease.
Bad Things
Thriller · Psychological Thriller
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Grief does not stay buried in a town where old secrets seem to feed on loss. Bad Things follows John Henderson as a cryptic message pulls him back to the place where his son died, forcing him to confront a mystery tangled with local history, guilt, and growing dread. This psychological suspense novel is a strong fit for readers who want small-town menace, emotional damage, and a steadily deepening sense of unease.
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From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Intruders and The Straw Men comes a nerve-shattering story of guilt, rage, deadly secrets, and very, very . . . bad things
Three years ago, lawyer John Henderson watched his four-year-old son tumble from a jetty into the lake outside their Washington home. In a terrible instant, a life all too brief and innocent ended. But it wasn't drowning, the fall, or even some previously undetected internal defect that killed the little boy. Scott Henderson had simply, inexplicably . . . died.
Today, John is a different man—divorced, living a solitary existence in a beach house in Oregon, working as a waiter in a restaurant that caters to the summer crowd. Withdrawn from a life and past too painful to revisit, he touches no one and no one touches him. Then one night he receives a short and profoundly disturbing e-mail message from a stranger. It reads: I know what happened.
It's enough to pull John back to Black Ridge—the one place on earth he'd hoped never to return to—in search of answers to the mystery that shattered his world. In this small, isolated Pacific Northwest community, populated in large part by descendants of the original settlers, the shadows now seem even darker and more sinister than when tragedy first drove him away—and the wind whipping down out of the primal forest can chill a man to his soul. It seems that bad things have always happened in this town of generations-old secrets—and are happening still.
The deeper John digs into his own past, and into local history, the more danger he draws toward himself . . . and toward his estranged and helpless family. And though he doesn't know it, he's not the only one who's been called back to Black Ridge.
And that's a very bad thing . . .
A twisting, relentlessly thrilling, and consistently surprising novel of psychological suspense, Michael Marshall's Bad Things is a masterwork of chilling brilliance that will keep the reader guessing right to the final page. Bad things don't just happen to other people. They're waiting to happen to you, too.
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It fits readers who want psychological thrillers laced with obsession, unstable desire, and a romance shadowed by violence.
Shattered Minds
Mystery · Romance · Noir · Psychological Thriller · Romantic Suspense
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In Thornhaven, the search for one missing girl opens onto something far more violent and intimate. In Shattered Minds, Maeve Lockhart’s investigation into her friend’s disappearance draws her toward a veterinarian with a fractured inner life and a connection to the orphanage at the center of the town’s darkest secrets. It fits readers who want psychological thrillers laced with obsession, unstable desire, and a romance shadowed by violence.
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One body.
Two Minds.
An obsession that might bury her.
Maeve Lockhart has spent six months chasing shadows in Thornhaven, desperate to uncover the truth about her best friend Bethany’s disappearance. But her search no longer focuses on the past. It is tied to a string of violent murders, all connected to Thornhaven Orphanage, where it all began.
Caleb Blackwood keeps his distance, clinging to the quiet life he has built as a small-town veterinarian. But Caleb has a secret, one he does not fully understand, and when Maeve starts asking questions, his fragile control begins to crumble. Asher, the darker side of him, emerges, and he is impossible to contain.
When Maeve receives a chilling package signed by A, her investigation takes a dangerous turn. The deeper she digs, the more she is forced to confront not only Thornhaven’s secrets, but the growing darkness within herself. Her connection to Caleb threatens to unravel everything, and the truth she uncovers may cost her far more than her sanity.
As the lines between victim and villain blur, Maeve must decide: Can she trust Caleb to help her, or is he the very reason she will not make it out alive?
Shattered Minds is a dark, romantic psychological thriller exploring the thin line between love and obsession, trust, and the price of the truth.
For fans of psychological tension, pitch-black characters, and romance steeped in danger, Amanda Kade’s gripping novel will keep you turning pages.
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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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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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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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This is a strong fit for readers who like literary thrillers with a dark atmosphere, unsettling mysteries, and a constant sense that something is wrong just beneath the…
Night Film
Thriller · Horror · Mystery · Psychological Thriller
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Night Film follows a disgraced investigative journalist into the orbit of a dead young woman, a vanished cult director, and a world that feels more cursed the deeper he goes. As Scott McGrath digs into Ashley Cordova’s death, the line between obsession, performance, and something genuinely sinister starts to blur. This is a strong fit for readers who like literary thrillers with a dark atmosphere, unsettling mysteries, and a constant sense that something is wrong just beneath the surface.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A hair-raising mystery that’s equal parts family drama, horror movie, and jigsaw puzzle. . . . It’s impossible to look away.”— People (four stars)
“Maniacally clever . . . like an M.C. Escher nightmare about Edgar Allan Poe . . . You’ll miss your subway stop, let dinner burn, and start sleeping with the lights on.”—The Washington Post
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, Cosmopolitan, Kirkus Reviews, BookPage
On a damp October night, beautiful young Ashley Cordova is found dead in an abandoned warehouse in lower Manhattan. Though her death is ruled a suicide, veteran investigative journalist Scott McGrath suspects otherwise. As he probes the strange circumstances surrounding Ashley’s life and death, McGrath comes face-to-face with the legacy of her father: the legendary, reclusive cult-horror-film director Stanislas Cordova—a man who hasn’t been seen in public for more than thirty years.
For McGrath, another death connected to this seemingly cursed family dynasty seems more than just a coincidence. Though much has been written about Cordova’s dark and unsettling films, very little is known about the man himself. Driven by revenge, curiosity, and a need for the truth, McGrath, with the aid of two strangers, is drawn deeper and deeper into Cordova’s eerie, hypnotic world.
The last time he got close to exposing the director, McGrath lost his marriage and his career. This time, he might lose even more.
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A missing girl, a silent survivor, and a town that never stopped feeding on its own tragedy make We Are All the Same in the Dark feel tense…
We Are All the Same in the Dark
Thriller · Psychological Thriller
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A missing girl, a silent survivor, and a town that never stopped feeding on its own tragedy make We Are All the Same in the Dark feel tense from the first page. When a mysterious girl is found years after Trumanell Branson’s disappearance, young cop Odette Tucker is pulled back into the cold case that shaped her life. What follows is an atmospheric thriller full of buried secrets, old wounds, and the kind of truth this town was never built to survive.
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PEOPLE PICK • OPTIONED BY SISTER PICTURES FOR TELEVISION • The discovery of a girl abandoned by the side of the road threatens to unearth the long-buried secrets of a Texas town’s legendary cold case in this superb, atmospheric novel from the internationally bestselling author of Black-Eyed Susans
“If you only read one thriller this year, let it be this one. Psychologically absorbing, original and atmospheric. I could not turn the pages fast enough.”—Elin Hilderbrand, #1 New York Times bestselling author of 28 Summers
It’s been a decade since Trumanell Branson disappeared, leaving only a bloody handprint behind. Her pretty face still hangs like a watchful queen on the posters on the walls of the town’s Baptist church, the police station, and in the high school. They all promise the same thing: We will find you. Meanwhile, Tru’s brother, Wyatt, lives as a pariah in the desolation of the old family house, cleared of wrongdoing by the police but tried and sentenced in the court of public opinion and in a new documentary about the crime.
When Wyatt finds a lost girl dumped in a field of dandelions, making silent wishes, he believes she is a sign. The town’s youngest cop, Odette Tucker, believes she is a catalyst that will ignite a seething town still waiting for its own missing girl to come home. But Odette can’t look away. She shares a wound that won’t close with the mute, one-eyed mystery girl. And she is haunted by her own history with the missing Tru.
Desperate to solve both cases, Odette fights to save the lost girl in the present and to dig up the shocking truth about a fateful night in the past—the night her friend disappeared, the night that inspired her to become a cop, the night that wrote them all a role in the town’s dark, violent mythology.
In this twisty psychological thriller, Julia Heaberlin paints unforgettable portraits of a woman and a girl who redefine perceptions of physical beauty and strength.
Praise for We Are All the Same in the Dark
“This chilling tale of buried sins is relentlessly unpredictable.”—The Times (South Africa)
“[Julia] Heaberlin knows how to build to a truly shocking twist, how to break a reader’s heart and then begin mending it. ‘What’s coming is always unimaginable,’ Odette’s one-time therapist tells her, ‘and by that, I mean just that. It cannot be imagined. What’s coming never acts or behaves the way we think it will.’ That’s true for this novel, too.”—The Dallas Morning News
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It fits thriller readers who want sister drama, unreliable perceptions, buried trauma, and dark psychological tension.
The Secrets of Us
Thriller · Psychological Thriller
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When one sister is committed after trying to kill her husband, the other starts digging and uncovers a past that was never really buried. In The Secrets of Us, Krystal is determined to protect Nichole, but the closer she gets to the truth, the more their shared history threatens everything they built. It fits thriller readers who want sister drama, unreliable perceptions, buried trauma, and dark psychological tension.
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Dangerously addictive, The Secrets of Us is a pulse-pounding exploration of a disturbed psyche and the bond between two sisters desperate to escape a troubled past.
Foster sisters Krystal and Nichole have always been there for each other, so when Nichole is committed to a psychiatric hospital after trying to kill her husband, Krystal drops everything to defend her.
Scarred by a hard upbringing, Nichole and Krystal managed to construct comfortable lives for themselves. Krystal became a respected lawyer, and Nichole was happily married to an architect—until Nichole starts raving that her husband isn’t her husband, believing that he’s an imposter.
Driven by fierce loyalty, Krystal starts asking questions, but she’s not sure she can bear the answers. Her investigation leads to the sisters’ dark shared past…to a horrible tragedy and a well-guarded lie that cemented their sisterly bond.
But that lie can’t kill the truth—the battered, gasping, clawing truth that’s coming for them both. Now Krystal and Nichole must both fight for the lives they’ve built before they’re consumed by the one they left behind.
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Becky Watson has spent her life learning that secrets keep you alive, but Her First Lie takes that lesson somewhere far darker when she becomes a college freshman…
Her First Lie
Thriller · Psychological Thriller
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Becky Watson has spent her life learning that secrets keep you alive, but Her First Lie takes that lesson somewhere far darker when she becomes a college freshman hiding a newborn daughter and a past that refuses to stay buried. When her estranged grandmother steps in with promises of safety, Becky is pulled into a twisted family legacy where love, survival, and control are tangled beyond recognition. Dark, tense, and deeply unsettling, this thriller goes straight for the nerves.
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In this chilling prequel to The Perfect Child, USA Today bestselling author Lucinda Berry plunges readers into the dark origins of a family’s secrets, where good intentions pave the road to unspeakable acts and a mother’s love might be the deadliest inheritance of all.
Becky Watson learned early that trust is a weapon and secrets are survival. From foster homes to abandoned backroads, she and her childhood confidant Orion have buried more than just memories. Now, as a college freshman, Becky’s harboring her most dangerous secret yet: her newborn daughter, Janie.
Desperation drives Becky to contact her estranged grandmother, Lillian. She swoops in like a guardian angel, but her salvation comes with a poisoned price tag. Behind Lillian’s nurturing facade lurks a web of generational secrets. As buried truths claw their way to the surface, Becky faces an impossible choice: sacrifice her daughter or herself to break a twisted family legacy.
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Sydney Green has watched her Brooklyn neighborhood change piece by piece, but in When No One Is Watching, gentrification starts to feel a lot more sinister than rising…
When No One Is Watching
Thriller · Historical Thriller · Psychological Thriller
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Sydney Green has watched her Brooklyn neighborhood change piece by piece, but in When No One Is Watching, gentrification starts to feel a lot more sinister than rising rents and shiny condos. As neighbors disappear and the truth grows harder to pin down, Sydney and the man next door spiral into a tense, paranoid search for what is really happening on their block. Sharp, unsettling, and packed with social commentary, this psychological thriller knows exactly how to make your skin crawl.
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An instant NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY BESTSELLER!
"I was knocked over by the momentum of an intense psychological thriller that doesn’t let go until the final page. This is a terrific read." – Alafair Burke, New York Times bestselling author
*A Marie Claire Book Club Pick*
Rear Window meets Get Out in this gripping psychological thriller from a critically acclaimed and New York Times Notable author, a suspenseful novel of social commentary where the gentrification of a Brooklyn neighborhood takes on a sinister new meaning…
Sydney Green is Brooklyn born and raised, but her beloved neighborhood seems to change every time she blinks. Condos are sprouting like weeds, FOR SALE signs are popping up overnight, and the neighbors she’s known all her life are disappearing. To hold onto her community’s past and present, Sydney channels her frustration into a walking tour and finds an unlikely and unwanted assistant in one of the new arrivals to the block—her neighbor Theo.
But Sydney and Theo’s deep dive into history quickly becomes a dizzying descent into paranoia and fear. Their neighbors may not have moved to the suburbs after all, and the push to revitalize the community may be more deadly than advertised.
When does coincidence become conspiracy? Where do people go when gentrification pushes them out? Can Sydney and Theo trust each other—or themselves—long enough to find out before they too disappear?
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