Thriller

Sulari Gentill’s follow-up to The Woman in the Library is an original and entertaining thriller that dives into the shadowy world of online conspiracy theorists.

Sulari Gentill’s follow-up to The Woman in the Library is an original and entertaining thriller that dives into the shadowy world of online conspiracy theorists.

In Daughter of Mine, Megan Miranda commits to her flirtation with gothic elements, embracing all things creepy, unexplainable and unreliable.

In Daughter of Mine, Megan Miranda commits to her flirtation with gothic elements, embracing all things creepy, unexplainable and unreliable.

J. Robert Lennon’s Hard Girls is an original, multilayered and quite engrossing thriller.

J. Robert Lennon’s Hard Girls is an original, multilayered and quite engrossing thriller.

Engagingly twisty with a memorable cast of characters, Jenny Hollander’s Everyone Who Can Forgive Me Is Dead explores the aftermath of a journalism school massacre.

Engagingly twisty with a memorable cast of characters, Jenny Hollander’s Everyone Who Can Forgive Me Is Dead explores the aftermath of a journalism school massacre.

A pop star is murdered at a remote rehab center in Cate Quinn’s deft and surprising The Clinic.

A pop star is murdered at a remote rehab center in Cate Quinn’s deft and surprising The Clinic.

Having written some of the most idiosyncratic and haunting classics of modern sci-fi (Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion), Dan Simmons has in recent years turned his attention to historical thrillers that may be more down to earth, but are no less chilling. Now, the author of The Terror and The Abominable will turn his attention to the high-pressure environment of America’s nuclear weapons program at the height of World War II. Paul Haber is a German physicist who was banished by the Nazis and lost his wife and child to the horrors of a concentration camp. But then a Nazi spy approaches Paul and asks him to turn traitor, as his family is actually alive.

Having written some of the most idiosyncratic and haunting classics of modern sci-fi (Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion), Dan Simmons has in recent years turned his attention to historical thrillers that may be more down to earth, but are no less chilling. Now, the author of The Terror and The Abominable will turn his attention […]

Ah, the allure of the prewar New York City apartment, an allure that has only grown stronger thanks to rage-inducing real estate prices. In Lisa Unger’s thriller, Rosie and Chad Lowen fall prey to a beautiful Big Apple building with murderous secrets beneath its floorboards, the latest of which is one of their neighbors mysteriously dying right after they move in.

Ah, the allure of the prewar New York City apartment, an allure that has only grown stronger thanks to rage-inducing real estate prices. In Lisa Unger’s thriller, Rosie and Chad Lowen fall prey to a beautiful Big Apple building with murderous secrets beneath its floorboards, the latest of which is one of their neighbors mysteriously […]

Dervla McTiernan is the connoisseur’s pick for smart, suspenseful thrillers, and her next novel sounds like another surefire winner. When a young couple’s vacation goes horribly wrong and only one of them comes home, both sets of parents go to war against each other in the public sphere. Add in the internet’s toxic, conspiratorial twist on true crime, and things quickly get combustible.

Dervla McTiernan is the connoisseur’s pick for smart, suspenseful thrillers, and her next novel sounds like another surefire winner. When a young couple’s vacation goes horribly wrong and only one of them comes home, both sets of parents go to war against each other in the public sphere. Add in the internet’s toxic, conspiratorial twist […]

Ever since “Mare of Easttown” aired and utterly riveted mystery fans everywhere, there’s been a wave of similar somewhat gloomy small town whodunits. Megan Miranda’s next thriller is a clever spin on the trend in that it centers on the daughter of a local detective, who returns to her childhood home after inheriting it and begins uncovering secrets that could explain her mother’s disappearance years earlier.

Ever since “Mare of Easttown” aired and utterly riveted mystery fans everywhere, there’s been a wave of similar somewhat gloomy small town whodunits. Megan Miranda’s next thriller is a clever spin on the trend in that it centers on the daughter of a local detective, who returns to her childhood home after inheriting it and […]

Alex Michaelides blends Greek mythology and Agatha Christie to tantalizing effect in The Fury, which centers a reclusive, extremely famous actor and her circle of friends—one of whom is murdered during a trip to the actor’s private Greek island.

Alex Michaelides blends Greek mythology and Agatha Christie to tantalizing effect in The Fury, which centers a reclusive, extremely famous actor and her circle of friends—one of whom is murdered during a trip to the actor’s private Greek island.

In The Heiressa novel of suspense set in the very-hot-right-now world of old money luxury—the twists, turns and betrayals just keep coming, all guided by Rachel Hawkins’ skilled hand.

In The Heiress—a novel of suspense set in the very-hot-right-now world of old money luxury—the twists, turns and betrayals just keep coming, all guided by Rachel Hawkins’ skilled hand.

A bigamist goes missing and one of her husbands is probably to blame in Adele Parks’ delightfully twisty thriller.

A bigamist goes missing and one of her husbands is probably to blame in Adele Parks’ delightfully twisty thriller.

A woman loses her memory and the only person she can trust is her twin sister in Abbott Kahler’s scary, tense and provocative debut thriller.

A woman loses her memory and the only person she can trust is her twin sister in Abbott Kahler’s scary, tense and provocative debut thriller.

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