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For readers who like beach-set psychological thrillers with old secrets and present-day danger.
The Beach Hut
Thriller · Mystery · Amateur Sleuths · Psychological Thriller
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Years after Matilda died on the Dorset rocks, Sophie returns to sell her family’s old beach hut and leave that summer behind. But evidence inside the hut suggests her friend’s death was no accident, and someone in the close-knit community wants the truth buried, with a 4.3-star rating from more than 1,900 Amazon reviewers. For readers who like beach-set psychological thrillers with old secrets and present-day danger.
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They told the police it was the perfect summer. They were lying.
August, 1997. Matilda is killed in a tragic accident on the Dorset rocks, leaving her best friend Sophie alone, wracked with guilt.
Decades later, Sophie is back for the first time since that terrible summer, to sell her family's old beach hut and bury the memories forever.
But on clearing out the hut, she finds evidence that Matilda's death was no accident. What really happened the night she died?
As Sophie edges closer to the truth, the past starts to close in on the present.
Because the close-knit community is still home to a killer, and they want Sophie gone.
An addictive and thrilling beach-set psychological thriller with a twist you will not see coming. Perfect for fans of Becca Day, Daniel Hurst and CL Taylor.
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A city already haunted by history tightens with fear as a ritualistic killer leaves bodies in forgotten churchyards.
Seeking The Dead
Mystery · Thriller
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A city already haunted by history tightens with fear as a ritualistic killer leaves bodies in forgotten churchyards. In Seeking the Dead, DI Joe Plantagenet investigates murders that pull Carmel Hennessy into his orbit through old tragedy, growing menace, and threats that feel disturbingly personal. It’s a moody crime novel shaped by serial killer tension, eerie atmosphere, and the possibility that something darker may be waiting at the edges.
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When Carmel Hennessy begins a new job in North Yorkshire, she finds the historic city of Eborby gripped by fear. A killer is on the prowl - a killer who binds and asphyxiates his victims before leaving their bodies in isolated churchyards. The press are calling him the Resurrection Man.
Tragic events from the past link Carmel with Detective Inspector Joe Plantagenet, who faces the task of finding the killer before more lives are lost. Joe's investigations lead him to a pub with a sinister history and he is forced to consider that the case may have occult connections.
Then Carmel becomes aware of a malevolent presence in her new flat and starts receiving mysterious threats . . .
Can Joe get into the mind of a ruthless killer, before Carmel becomes the next victim?
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A fall.
The House Beyond the Dunes
Thriller · Romance · Psychological Thriller
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A fall. A death. A memory that won’t come back. In The House Beyond the Dunes, Lane returns to the beach cottage where her boyfriend died, only to find more questions and someone watching. With 4.3 stars on Amazon, Mary Burton delivers a chilling psychological thriller full of buried secrets, missing women, and a heroine running out of time.
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A tragic accident or something more sinister? A woman’s buried memories put her life at risk in a novel of shattering psychological suspense by New York Times bestselling author Mary Burton.
Lane McCord wakes up in a hospital having survived a near-fatal fall at a North Carolina beach cottage. Her boyfriend, Kyle, wasn’t so lucky. A senseless tragedy on their first romantic getaway. All Lane remembers is lying at the bottom of the stairs in Kyle’s pooling blood.
Confused and grieving, Lane plans to return to the cottage, collect her personal belongings, and get out. Until a winter rainstorm leaves her stranded and vulnerable, but not alone. A concerned neighbor, who claims he heard a violent argument before the accident, has come out of the storm. So has a suspicious detective on the trail of a missing woman, whose diary deepens the mystery—and raises more questions that fill Lane with dread.
How well did she know Kyle? How well does she know herself? What really happened at the cottage on the beach? And when the answers come, who can Lane trust to get out of this waking nightmare alive?
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A long-vanished serial killer resurfaces in Florida, drawing Matt Royal into a deadly game that reaches far beyond the local police force.
Fatal Decree
Mystery · Thriller · Action Thriller · Historical Mystery
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A long-vanished serial killer resurfaces in Florida, drawing Matt Royal into a deadly game that reaches far beyond the local police force. Fatal Decree, book seven in the Matt Royal Mysteries, is a tightly woven thriller with 4.3 stars on Amazon. With drug cartels, government secrets, and a killer targeting someone close, this case is personal and explosive.
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Twelve years ago, a serial killer vanished without a trace. Now he’s back—this time in the quiet coastal town of Longboat Key.
When the first victim turns out to have ties to a shadowy government agency, retired attorney Matt Royal is pulled into a case that’s anything but local. His best friend Jock works for the agency. His girlfriend, detective J.D. Duncan, is leading the investigation. And the killer might be coming for her next.
As Guatemalan gang members and cartel operatives enter the picture, the case spirals into international territory. Secrets pile up. So do bodies.
Jock wants justice. The agency wants silence. And Matt just wants to keep J.D. alive.
Longboat Key is supposed to be paradise. But something ruthless has come ashore.
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In 1925, three climbers ascend Mount Everest to uncover the truth behind a series of mysterious disappearances.
The Abominable
Thriller · Horror
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In 1925, three climbers ascend Mount Everest to uncover the truth behind a series of mysterious disappearances. As the air thins and the shadows close in, they realize something else is hunting them on the mountain. Dan Simmons’s The Abominable is a gripping historical thriller of survival, obsession, and the dark mysteries of Everest.
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High on the slopes of Mount Everest, something waits in the snow.
In 1925, three climbers—an English war veteran, a French mountain guide, and an idealistic American—set out to uncover the truth behind the disappearances of George Mallory, Sandy Irvine, and a missing young aristocrat. Funded by the boy’s grieving mother, their expedition becomes a desperate search for answers in the world’s most dangerous place.
As they climb into the thin air, strange signs appear in the snow and an unseen presence stalks them through the night. Survival becomes a race against something colder and far more sinister than the mountain itself.
Dan Simmons’s The Abominable is a chilling historical thriller of endurance, obsession, and the secrets buried on the roof of the world.
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Twisty, paranoid, and completely addictive, this is the next must-read for fans of Black Mirror, The One, and high-stakes conspiracy thrillers.
The Minders
Psychological Fiction · Sci-Fi · Techno-Thriller
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With 4.3 stars on Amazon, The Minders is John Marrs’ pulse-pounding near-future thriller where five people carry classified secrets in their DNA. But one of them isn’t who they seem. Twisty, paranoid, and completely addictive, this is the next must-read for fans of Black Mirror, The One, and high-stakes conspiracy thrillers.
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What if the government’s biggest secrets were locked inside your head?
In a future where data is too dangerous to store digitally, five strangers are chosen for a radical solution: have classified intel encoded into their DNA. As newly minted “Minders,” they each carry the nation’s most explosive truths—off the grid, untraceable, and walking targets.
Given new identities and a fresh start, they’re promised safety and purpose. But each of them harbors secrets of their own—and one among them can’t be trusted.
From the bestselling author of The One, The Minders is a fast-paced, paranoia-fueled thriller that asks how far you'd go to protect what you know—and who you really are when no one else is watching.
Because when everyone’s a secret, who’s keeping score?
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An influencer retreat on a remote island turns blood-soaked when guests start disappearing and dark legends prove disturbingly real.
How Bad Things Can Get
Thriller · Horror
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An influencer retreat on a remote island turns blood-soaked when guests start disappearing and dark legends prove disturbingly real. How Bad Things Can Get is a survival horror from Darcy Coates with 4.4 stars on Amazon, blending cult trauma, buried secrets, and a tropical nightmare that won’t stay in the past. Not everyone will make it off Prosperity Island alive.
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It was supposed to be five days of sun-soaked games and influencer-driven debauchery. Instead, paradise turned into something far more sinister.
Ruth didn’t come to Prosperity Island for fun. She came to stay invisible. The only survivor of a cult that made headlines decades ago, she knows how quickly utopia can become a nightmare.
Now, party guests are vanishing. Strange symbols mark the sand. And the legend that gave the island its name feels more like a warning than a myth.
Ruth has spent her life outrunning the past. But this island knows who she is. And it’s not finished with her yet.
As the bonfires burn and the bodies pile up, the real game begins.
Survival isn’t about winning. It’s about escaping the story you were never meant to survive.
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Hollywood is burning, a freeway has collapsed, and a killer may be hiding in the flames.
Hidden in Smoke
Mystery · Thriller · Police Procedural
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Hollywood is burning, a freeway has collapsed, and a killer may be hiding in the flames. In Hidden in Smoke, Sharpe and Walker join forces with Eve Ronin in a pulse-pounding thriller from #1 New York Times bestseller Lee Goldberg. With 4.5 stars on Amazon, this explosive third installment packs arson, revenge, and nonstop twists into one hell of a case.
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A serial arsonist sets Hollywood ablaze in one terrifying night. Then a freeway fire cripples Los Angeles. For arson investigators Sharpe and Walker, what began as a hunt for a firebug becomes something far bigger—and far deadlier.
They need backup. Fast.
Enter homicide detectives Eve Ronin and Duncan Pavone. As the team chases leads across a scorched city, two investigations start to converge. What if the fires weren’t random? What if they’re connected to something darker?
When an old enemy resurfaces with a deadly plan, the detectives find themselves in a race against time. The city is burning. The clock is ticking. And someone wants to turn smoke into a smokescreen.
In a case built on secrets, no one is safe and nothing stays buried.
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One year after an EMP devastated the U.S., the survivors of Black Mountain face a new threat: a tyrannical regime posing as salvation.
One Year After
Post-Apocalyptic · Techno-Thriller
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One year after an EMP devastated the U.S., the survivors of Black Mountain face a new threat: a tyrannical regime posing as salvation. In One Year After, the gripping sequel to One Second After, John Matherson must fight not just for survival, but for liberty. With 4.5 stars on Amazon, this post-apocalyptic thriller raises chilling questions about power and control.
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A year has passed since the electromagnetic pulse attack crippled the United States. In Black Mountain, North Carolina, survivors are rebuilding slowly. Electricity flickers. Medicine is scarce. Hope is fragile but alive.
Then a new threat arrives.
A federal administrator claims the government is back. With him comes the promise of order, but also a mandate. The town’s young people will be drafted into the so-called Army of National Recovery and sent far from home to fight battles they do not understand.
John Matherson led his people through the worst year of their lives. Now he must decide whether to submit to the New Regime or rise against it.
In a world where freedom is fading and survival is never guaranteed, resistance might be the only path forward.
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When a young mother disappears and her husband swears he knows nothing, Detective D. D. Warren digs into the picture-perfect illusion they built.
The Neighbor
Thriller
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When a young mother disappears and her husband swears he knows nothing, Detective D. D. Warren digs into the picture-perfect illusion they built. The Neighbor, book three in Lisa Gardner’s bestselling series, delivers explosive secrets, a ticking clock, and 4.4 stars on Amazon. If you love twisty thrillers with razor-sharp detectives, this one will keep you guessing.
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A young mother vanishes from her South Boston home. The front door was unlocked. Her daughter is still inside. Her husband says he has no idea what happened.
Detective D. D. Warren has heard that before.
To the outside world, the Jones family seems picture-perfect. But when D.D. steps into their home, her instincts scream that something is wrong. Jason Jones is too calm, too clean, too quick to retreat. And he is hiding something.
With a child’s life in the balance and a missing woman the entire city is hunting, D.D. has to navigate a media circus, a husband with secrets, and a timeline that keeps getting shorter.
The perfect family may be a façade. And behind closed doors, the truth might be deadly.
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In Rabbits—a 4.4-star mind-bender from Terry Miles—the world is the board, reality is the prize, and the game might just be killing its players.
Rabbits
Thriller · Techno-Thriller
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In Rabbits—a 4.4-star mind-bender from Terry Miles—the world is the board, reality is the prize, and the game might just be killing its players. A cult hit praised by The Wall Street Journal, this alt-reality thriller blends Black Mirror paranoia with podcast-style mystery. Once the eleventh round begins, there’s no turning back.
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It starts with a number. 4:44 p.m. 44 unread emails. 44,444 on your odometer. Coincidence—or the edge of something deeper?
Rabbits is a secretive, reality-bending game that’s played across decades, hidden in plain sight. Most people don’t know it exists. Some believe it controls everything. And when players lose, they die.
K has spent years trying to find a way in. Then a rumored past winner appears with a warning: something is wrong, and if K doesn’t fix it before the eleventh round begins, reality itself could collapse.
Now Scarpio is missing. And Rabbits has begun again.
Tense, trippy, and impossible to put down, Rabbits is a high-stakes techno-thriller for fans of Black Mirror, House of Leaves, and conspiracy theories that feel just a little too real.
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Twins.
The Locked Ward
Thriller · Psychological Thriller
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Twins. Trauma. One locked inside a psychiatric ward, the other forced to uncover the truth. In The Locked Ward, Sarah Pekkanen weaves a haunting psychological thriller about a high-society murder, twisted sisterhood, and secrets so dark they’re almost unspeakable. An editors’ pick with 4.6 stars on Amazon, this one asks: what if the person begging you to help is the one you should fear?
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Georgia Cartwright is beautiful, beloved, and behind locked doors. Accused of killing her sister—the biological daughter of the wealthy family that adopted her—Georgia is now confined to a psychiatric institution for the criminally insane.
Her twin, Amanda, hasn’t spoken to her in years. But when Georgia whispers, “I didn’t do it,” Amanda can’t walk away.
What begins as a reluctant visit turns into a twisted investigation. Inside the eerie hospital, secrets fester, and trust decays. Amanda doesn’t know if Georgia is a victim of a powerful, corrupt family or a master manipulator who’s luring her deeper into madness.
Either way, the truth lies in the one place no one wants to go.
Some doors in the Locked Ward should never be opened. Amanda might not have a choice.
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