Thriller

One relentlessly hot summer, six children explore the scorched wheat fields that enclose their tiny Italian village. When the gang find a dilapidated farmhouse, nine-year-old Michele Amitrano makes a discovery so momentous that he dare not tell a soul. It is a secret that...

Natalie operates on one absolute rule: there is no such thing as a good job. Strangled by student debt, unpaid dental bills, and a dead-end gig listening to workplace horror stories at a call center, she’s barely scraping by, until a flyer at a...

In this gripping fusion of psychological horror and sharp social commentary, Stephen Graham Jones delivers a haunting exploration of heritage, guilt, and survival. Four American Indian men are bound together by a tragic, violent incident from their youth—a decision made years ago that they...

To the residents of Sacajawea, Washington, the beloved estate left behind by Angela Toussaint’s grandmother was always known as the "Good House." But that warm reputation shattered in a single summer when a sudden, devastating tragedy inside its walls altered the Toussaint family forever....

Three teenage friends. One brutal murder. And a high-stakes Edinburgh courtroom turned modern-day witch trial in this dark, twisting thriller from international bestseller Harriet Tyce. When eighteen-year-old Christian Shaw is found dead in a local park, the city is shaken to its core. The...

Sam is excited for a rare extended visit—looking forward to cozy nights with just the two of them, drinking boxed wine, and calling out the murderer on television long before the characters figure it out. But stepping inside, she quickly realizes home isn’t what...

Susan Ryeland Series #3 Susan Ryeland thought she was finished with mysteries. Back in England and working as a freelance editor, she reluctantly accepts a job editing Pünd's Last Case, a new novel featuring the beloved detective Atticus Pünd. Its author, Eliot Crace, is...

Susan Ryeland Series #2 Susan Ryeland thought she had left mysteries behind. Now retired from publishing, she runs a small hotel on a Greek island with her longtime boyfriend, Andreas. But paradise has proved less idyllic than expected, and Susan is beginning to wonder...

The Underneath follows Kay Ward, a former journalist struggling with the constraints of motherhood. Along with her husband and two children, she rents a quaint Vermont farmhouse for the summer. The idea is to disconnect from their work-based lifestyle―that had her doggedly pursuing a...

A century after five women mysteriously disappeared from a remote Vermont island, the haunting legend of New Avalon comes back to life when actress Marin Keane arrives to film a movie about the unsolved case. Once home to a commune of spiritual mediums, the...

A We Solve Murders Mystery Amy, Rosie, and Steve are back on the case—and this time, the stakes are higher than ever. When a body is discovered at dawn on the steps of an Italian villa, accompanied by a chilling message from an unknown...

Today should be the happiest day of my life. In just a few hours, I'm supposed to marry the man of my dreams. But someone is determined to make sure I never reach the altar. As the threats grow closer and the truth begins...

Naomi thought she had the perfect life: a loving husband, a beautiful home, and a family straight out of a fairy tale. But everything falls apart when her husband suddenly leaves her for a younger woman, cuts her off financially, and hires top divorce...

Set in 1950s rural Ireland, The Drowned follows Detective Inspector Strafford and pathologist Quirke as they investigate the disappearance of a woman believed to have drowned at sea. What begins as a troubling missing-person case soon uncovers long-buried secrets with lasting consequences for everyone...

Mitch McDeere has worked hard to get where he is: third in his class at Harvard Law. Aggressively recruited by all the top firms, and initially headed for Wall Street, Mitch surprises everyone by joining Bendini, Lambert & Locke, a very private, very rich...

On a cold night in the remote Irish village of Ardnakelty, a girl goes missing. Sweet, loving Rachel Holohan was about to be engaged to the son of the local big shot. Instead, she’s dead in the river. In a close-knit small town, a...

At art school, Enka is instantly captivated by Mathilde—brilliant, original, and impossible to ignore. As Enka struggles to prove herself in a fiercely competitive world, she throws everything into their friendship. But as Mathilde’s success grows, so does the distance between them. Then comes...

George Stroud is a hard-drinking, sharp-tongued writer for a powerful New York media empire modeled on Time, Inc. One evening, before heading home to his wife in the suburbs, he has a drink with Pauline—the beautiful girlfriend of his boss, Earl Janoth. One thing...

Superintendent Battle, 2. Gerry Wade is well known among his friends for his legendary ability to sleep through anything. During a weekend gathering at a country house, a group of fellow young guests decides to tease him by placing eight alarm clocks in his...

Ten years ago, Lila Devlin had it all: A-list fame, a movie-star husband, and a baby daughter she adored. When Josie was kidnapped from their home and never seen again, Lila’s perfect image shattered. Branded an Unfit Mother by the media and hounded by...

Miss Marple Mysteries, 7. For a brief moment, the two trains ran side by side. In that suspended instant, Elspeth McGillicuddy looked out of her carriage window and saw a terrifying scene unfold—a man’s hands tightening around a woman’s throat. Helplessly she watched as...

Miss Marple Mysteries, 4. The quiet village of Chipping Cleghorn is thrown into a frenzy of curiosity when the local Gazette publishes a strange notice: “A murder is announced and will take place on Friday, October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6:30 p.m.” Is it...

Time twists. Reality slips. And nothing—especially the people closest to us—stays quite the same. In this haunting, dreamlike collection, a couple trapped in a house deep in the woods begins aging at a terrifying pace while their toddler remains untouched. A weary office worker...

In the summer of 1970, fifteen-year-old Fern is sent to Wellwood House—a secluded home for unwed pregnant girls—where silence, shame, and strict rules define daily life. Stripped of their names and autonomy, the girls are expected to give birth and disappear quietly. But when...

Former college football standout Scott Fenney has clawed his way to the top at the powerful Dallas law firm Ford Stevens. But his upward trajectory falters when he’s assigned the defense of Shawanda Jones, a heroin-addicted sex worker accused of murdering Clark McCall—the reckless...

A Lisbeth Salander Novel. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Series. Lisbeth Salander lies in critical condition in a Swedish hospital, a bullet lodged in her head. But even as she fights to survive, another battle looms: if she recovers, she will face trial...

In this scorching crime hook-up, number one bestseller Ian Rankin and Scottish crime-writing legend William McIlvanney join forces for the first ever case of DI Laidlaw, Glasgow’s original gritty detective. Lawyer Bobby Carter did a lot of work for the wrong type of people....

When writer Ben Mears returns to Jerusalem’s Lot to confront memories of his childhood, he discovers that a sinister presence has taken hold: a mysterious newcomer, Kurt Barlow, is revealed to be a vampire, and the townspeople are falling victim to his growing influence....

Book One of the Shetland Island Mysteries Basis for the hit series "Shetland" now airing on PBS. On a bitter January morning, the island of Shetland lies silent under heavy snow. As Fran Hunter walks home, a jolt of color in the white landscape...

Within the quiet walls of the Appleseed Rectory, a gorgeous five-bedroom, three-story home in rural England, anything goes: the drugs are consumed with gusto, the booze flows like water, and the sex is near constant and deliciously debauched. When six uppity twenty-somethings gather at...

In this gripping and atmospheric thriller reminiscent of Agatha Christie, a luxury cruise turns chillingly claustrophobic when one woman witnesses a crime no one else believes occurred. Lo Blacklock, a travel journalist, has just landed the assignment of a lifetime: a week aboard the...

One sweltering postwar summer in rural Warwickshire, Dr. Faraday—a country physician and son of a maid—answers a call to the crumbling Hundreds Hall. Once a grand Georgian estate, the house now wears its decay openly: stonework splitting, gardens strangled by weeds, the stable-yard clock...

An English couple’s idyllic vacation takes a dark and unexpected turn in this haunting novel from Booker Prize winner and bestselling author Ian McEwan. While exploring a nameless, foreign city, Mary and Colin meet Robert, a magnetic and mysterious older man eager to share his...

What if you were told the exact moment you'd die? Would it change how you lived? On her twenty-eighth birthday, Allegra Patel—a cheerful flight attendant used to smoothing turbulence in the sky—faces a far more unnerving kind of disruption. During a frustrating delay, a...

A gripping and timely thriller that delves into the complexities of class, privilege and the undercurrents of societal unrest. Set against the backdrop of a city on the brink of chaos, the novel follows Chicky Diaz, a doorman at the Bohemia, New York's most...

It’s the summer of 1964, and recent college graduates Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear read the writing on the wall and enlist to serve in the Vietnam War. As they catch a few final waves in California before reporting for duty, a sudden...

A savage, electrifying climate thriller that skewers the ultra-wealthy, explodes queer family dynamics, and asks what hope looks like when the world is burning—literally. It’s 2044, and America is barely holding together. But Mason Daunt, nestled in luxury in a gated Los Angeles mansion,...

Ray Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably priced furniture, making a decent life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents on Striver's Row don't approve of him or their cramped apartment...

The Hunt Is On and the Police Are Running Out of Time. Two young women are missing, their only connection a party they both attended, hosted by a notorious real-estate magnate. When one of the women is found murdered, the police discover an unusual...

A poisoned chocolate. A stolen dress. An elusive catburglar. Drag’s not just dramatic, it’s deadly.By day, Joe is a hotel accountant, invisibly sitting behind their desk and playing by the rules. By night, donned in sequins, they take to the stage as Misty Divine,...

It begins in an unnamed city nicknamed “the Fairest”, it is distinguished by many things from the river fair to the mountains that split the municipality in half; its theaters and many museums; the Morgue Ship; and, like all cities, but maybe especially so,...

Chances are, if you’re a target of Billy Summers, two immutable truths apply: You’ll never even know what hit you, and you’re really getting what you deserve. He’s a killer for hire and the best in the business—but he’ll do the job only if...

A simple job turns deadly when Mary Wandwalker, novice detective, is hired to chaperone a young American, Rhiannon, to the Oxford University Summer School on the ancient Celts. Worried by a rhetoric of blood sacrifice, Mary and her operatives, Caroline, and Anna, attend a...

Legendary spy and art restorer Gabriel Allon has at long last severed ties with Israeli intelligence and settled quietly in Venice, the only place where he has ever truly known peace. His beautiful wife, Chiara, has taken over the day-to-day management of the Tiepolo...

In a country called Town, a doctor named Su is found dead in an abandoned car. There is only one place the police intend to look for her suspected killer: the Saha Estates. Controlled by a secretive organization of ministers, Town is the safest,...

Reacher had no idea where he was. No idea how he had gotten there. But someone must have brought him. And shackled him. And whoever had done those things was going to rue the day. That was for damn sure. Jack Reacher wakes up alone,...

Emily and her best friend Kristen are on the adventure of a lifetime—trekking through the mountains of Chile on their annual reunion trip. But the dream getaway takes a deadly turn when Emily returns to their hotel room to find a bloody scene and...

In this family, everyone is keeping secrets—even the dead. Brecken Hill in upstate New York is an expensive place to live. You have to be rich to have a house there, and Fred and Sheila Merton certainly are rich. But even all their money...

It's rarely a quiet day for the Thursday Murder Club. Shocking news reaches them—an old friend has been killed, and a dangerous package he was protecting has gone missing. The gang's search leads them into the antiques business, where the tricks of the trade are...

A shrinking oasis in the Sahara Desert; a stolen US Army drone; an uninhabited Japanese island; and one country’s secret stash of deadly chemical poisons: all these play roles in a relentlessly escalating crisis. Struggling to prevent the outbreak of world war are a young...