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 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.
We adored Deanna Raybourn’s Killers of a Certain Age and cannot wait to be reunited with Billie, Helen, Mary Alice and Natalie, four accomplished assassins in their 60s. Having settled their beef with the secret organization that employs them, the Museum, the women are called into action to stop a mole within the Museum’s ranks who seems to have teamed up with an Eastern European gangster.
Chris Pavone’s classy, insightful thrillers are as interested in the inner workings of their characters as they are in feats of derring-do, and his next book is rightfully being called his “most ambitious book yet.” A one-day-in-the-city type of story, The Doorman hinges upon Chicky Diaz, the titular guardian of New York City’s Bohemia apartment building, but broadens its scope to encompass all the citizens of the Bohemia, from the penthouse inhabitants to the other staff members. As racial tensions erupt in the city after the police kill an unarmed Black man, all of them will be affected—and not all of them will survive.
The queen of “thrillers you can also discuss with your book club” is back with this high-stakes suspense novel about a game of hide-and-seek that turns murderous. Single mother Adele is participating in an extreme version of the childhood classic on an island as part of a mass social media stunt. But a storm is brewing, someone seems to be stalking the contestants and Adele will have to fight her way through layers of intrigue and hidden motives to make it out alive.
Christopher Bollen’s creepy and snarky suspense novel Havoc tracks a dangerously escalating feud between an 81-year-old woman and a little boy.
Robert Harris’ Precipice dramatizes a real-life scandal: On the eve of World War I, the British prime minister engaged in a national security-jeopardizing love affair.
Former CIA analyst David McCloskey’s expertise is clear on every page of his espionage thriller The Seventh Floor.
Jesse Q. Sutanto pulls back the curtain on the world of mom-fluencers in her unforgettable, brilliantly executed thriller You Will Never Be Me.
Fans of Gone Girl or the Ted Bundy-inspired film “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile” will enjoy this thriller. Marcie Bowers, an everyday attorney and mother, struggles with the possibility that her husband is a killer.
If you haven’t had the pleasure of experiencing the eerie beauty of western Washington in person, Mark Frost and David Lynch’s Twin Peaks TV series will just about transport you there. Fans of the series will revel in this companion FBI dossier.
The Night of Baba Yaga features all the elements you could hope for from a crime thriller set in the Land of the Rising Sun.
Joseph Kanon’s artful and compelling new thriller transports readers to 1930s Shanghai, the only city to let in Jewish refugees without a visa.
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