Nightwatching is best suited for the thriller reader with nerves of steel—while rarely violent, it is a truly scary book.
Nightwatching is best suited for the thriller reader with nerves of steel—while rarely violent, it is a truly scary book.
Mystery & Suspense
Jonathan Kellerman’s The Ghost Orchid is another excellent addition to a series full of excellent editions.
Jonathan Kellerman’s The Ghost Orchid is another excellent addition to a series full of excellent editions.
The Busy Body is reminiscent of Agatha Christie and Knives Out, both in the unlikeliness of the mystery and the cleverness of its solution.
The Busy Body is reminiscent of Agatha Christie and Knives Out, both in the unlikeliness of the mystery and the cleverness of its solution.
Author Mariah Fredericks turns Gilded Age author Edith Wharton into a detective in this absorbing historical mystery.
Author Mariah Fredericks turns Gilded Age author Edith Wharton into a detective in this absorbing historical mystery.
Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect is a delightful locked-room mystery that is rife with references to classic detective fiction.
Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect is a delightful locked-room mystery that is rife with references to classic detective fiction.
Speaking of formally impressive, Janice Hallett is back with another uniquely structured mystery. This time around, she’s combining the email format of her debut (The Appeal) with the audio transcriptions of her sophomore novel (The Twyford Code) to track the process of true crime author Amanda Bailey. Amanda is attempting to write the definite book on the Alperton Angels doomsday cult, and through the emails she sends and the interviews she conducts, it becomes clear that the case is not nearly as cut and dried as she first assumed.
Speaking of formally impressive, Janice Hallett is back with another uniquely structured mystery. This time around, she’s combining the email format of her debut (The Appeal) with the audio transcriptions of her sophomore novel (The Twyford Code) to track the…
You’ve never read anything like Stuart Turton’s post-apocalyptic mystery, the aptly titled The Last Murder at the End of the World.
You’ve never read anything like Stuart Turton’s post-apocalyptic mystery, the aptly titled The Last Murder at the End of the World.
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.
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…
Gillian Flynn’s new mystery & suspense imprint got off to a great start last year with Scorched Grace, poet Margot Douaihy’s debut mystery starring a queer and very punk New Orleans nun named Sister Holiday. Delightfully, this sequel sees Sister Holiday teaming up with Magnolia Riveaux, the fire inspector assigned to Scorched Grace’s arson spree, to form a new detective agency. Their first case? Figuring out who murdered a priest, all while extreme rains threaten to flood the city.
Gillian Flynn’s new mystery & suspense imprint got off to a great start last year with Scorched Grace, poet Margot Douaihy’s debut mystery starring a queer and very punk New Orleans nun named Sister Holiday. Delightfully, this sequel sees Sister Holiday teaming up with…
It’s been five years since Flynn’s debut thriller, The Woman in the Window, was seemingly everywhere. In the time since, a sadly abysmal film adaptation was released and a scandalous New Yorker article investigated his past, but now a sophomore novel is finally in sight. Billed as “part Knives Out, part Agatha Christie,” End of Story centers on mystery novelist Sebastian Trapp, who invites Nicky Hunter, an expert on detective fiction, to his luxurious home to help draft his memoirs. But while there, Nicky becomes obsessed with solving the mysterious disappearance of Sebastian’s first wife and son.
It’s been five years since Flynn's debut thriller, The Woman in the Window, was seemingly everywhere. In the time since, a sadly abysmal film adaptation was released and a scandalous New Yorker article investigated his past, but now a sophomore novel is finally…
Beloved, critically acclaimed romance author Alyssa Cole made her thriller debut with 2020’s When No One Is Watching, and now she returns with another creative and suspenseful premise: Kenetria Nash has dissociative identity disorder and is a caretaker for a historic home on an isolated island. When a surprise visit from the members of the home’s trust ends in murder, Ken and her alternate personalities have to find the killer to clear their name.
Beloved, critically acclaimed romance author Alyssa Cole made her thriller debut with 2020’s When No One Is Watching, and now she returns with another creative and suspenseful premise: Kenetria Nash has dissociative identity disorder and is a caretaker for a historic home on an…
Think Jurassic Park, but with woolly mammoths. Megabestselling author Douglas Preston (he of Preston & Child fame) is setting his latest thriller in an exclusive resort in Colorado where prehistoric beasts roam free. Come for the mammoth, stay for the giant ground sloth.
Think Jurassic Park, but with woolly mammoths. Megabestselling author Douglas Preston (he of Preston & Child fame) is setting his latest thriller in an exclusive resort in Colorado where prehistoric beasts roam free. Come for the mammoth, stay for the giant ground sloth.
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