Laura McCluskey expertly melds modern crime procedural and ancient folklore in her eerie debut mystery, The Wolf Tree.
Laura McCluskey expertly melds modern crime procedural and ancient folklore in her eerie debut mystery, The Wolf Tree.
Laura McCluskey expertly melds modern crime procedural and ancient folklore in her eerie debut mystery, The Wolf Tree.
Astrid Dahl’s The Really Dead Wives of New Jersey, a murder mystery set on a Housewives-style reality show, effectively straddles the line between dark humor and genuine suspense.
Those who enjoy a spot of larceny with their afternoon tea will be enraptured with The Queen of Fives, Alex Hay’s Victorian con artist thriller.
The 40th installment of Jonathan Kellerman’s Delaware and Sturgis series, Open Season is fast-paced, suspense-laden and boasts a true surprise ending.
A locked-room mystery set on a literary cruise, Loose Lips will delight fans of tongue-in-cheek mysteries like Clue or Knives Out.
Haunting and Homicide is an entertaining start to a cozy mystery series set in New Orleans starring a ghost tour guide—who can actually see and speak to spirits.
Author Jakob Kerr’s Silicon Valley background lends a glamorous, galling and sometimes humorous authenticity to his debut mystery, Dead Money.
Midcentury sleuth Lillian Pentecost has been framed for murder, and only her assistant, Will Parker, can save her in Stephen Spotswood’s latest noir.
Jeffery Deaver’s Colter Shaw series—which also now serves as the source material for Tracker, a hit TV show on CBS—follows the titular character as he searches for missing people and, inevitably, stumbles upon a crime he must put right. For his fifth adventure, Colter travels to Northern California to find a family that’s lost in the rising floodwaters as a nearby levee fails.
Harlan Coben’s extensive backlist has proved fertile ground for Netflix in recent years, with adaptations of the thriller master’s effortlessly engaging novels frequently becoming the most watched shows on the platform. Fool Me Once, based on Coben’s novel of the same name, was an enormous hit, and so the ever-savvy Coben has penned a sequel of sorts: Nobody’s Fool, which follows former detective Sami Kierce of Fool Me Once as he investigates a mystery from his past.
Andrea Bartz’s thrillers are marvelous marriages of ripped-from-the-headlines plots and nuanced character work, the perfect read to while away a day by the pool or on a blanket in a park. So The Last Ferry Out had a near-guaranteed spot on our summer reading list, even before we heard its juicy premise: A woman travels to the island paradise where her fiancée died to find closure, and befriends a charming group of expats. But then one of the expats vanishes—right after saying he knows the truth about what happened to her fiancée.
We loved both of Julie Clark’s two previous novels, The Last Flight and The Lies I Tell, both of which were international bestsellers. So we can’t wait to get our hands on The Ghostwriter, which follows Olivia, the titular character, as she prepares for her most challenging job yet: writing her father’s last book. A legendary horror writer who was suspected of killing his siblings, Olivia’s father is finally ready to reveal the truth.
The mad genius who penned Behind Her Eyes, a book whose twists will go down as some of the most go-for-broke and shocking reveals in suspense history, returns with a gothic, haunted house thriller that sounds right up her alley. After nearly dying in an accident, Londoner Emily moves with her husband to a beautiful, remote estate in Dartmoor. Things start to go wrong immediately—fires going out, books falling from the shelves, a terrible presence in one of the rooms—but only when Emily is alone.
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