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Home Before Dark Author: Riley Sager Subgenres: Psychological Thriller, Horror, Suspense
Twenty-five years ago, Maggie Holt and her parents, Ewan and Jess, moved into Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods. They spent three weeks there before fleeing in the dead of night, an ordeal Ewan later recounted in a book called House of Horrors. Today, Maggie is a restorer of old homes and too young to remember anything mentioned in her father’s book. When Maggie inherits Baneberry Hall, she returns to renovate the place. But her homecoming is anything but warm. As Maggie experiences strange occurrences straight out of her father’s book, she starts to believe that what he wrote was more fact than fiction.
The Guest List Author: Lucy Foley Subgenres: Murder Mystery, Whodunit, Suspense
On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one. It’s a wedding for a magazine: the designer dress, the remote location, the luxe party favors. Every detail has been expertly planned but as the champagne is popped, resentments and petty jealousies begin to mingle with the reminiscences and well wishes. The groomsmen begin the drinking game from their school days. The bridesmaid not so accidentally ruins her dress. The bride’s oldest (male) friend gives an uncomfortably caring toast. And then someone turns up dead. Who didn’t wish the happy couple well and why?
When No One is Watching Author: Alyssa Cole Subgenres: Psychological Thriller, Suspense
Sydney Green is Brooklyn born and raised, but her beloved neighborhood seems to change every time she blinks. Condos are sprouting like weeds, FOR SALE signs are popping up overnight, and the neighbors she’s known all her life are disappearing. To hold onto her community’s past and present, Sydney channels her frustration into a walking tour and finds an unlikely and unwanted assistant in one of the new arrivals to the block—her neighbor Theo. But Sydney and Theo’s deep dive into history quickly becomes a dizzying descent into paranoia and fear. Their neighbors may not have moved to the suburbs after all, and the push to revitalize the community may be more deadly than advertised. The Eighth Detective Author: Alex Pavesi Subgenres: Detective Novel, Suspense
There are rules for murder mysteries. Grant McAllister, a professor of mathematics, once sat down and worked them all out – calculating the different orders and possibilities of a mystery into seven perfect detective stories he quietly published. Thirty years later Julia Hart, a sharp, ambitious editor knocks on Grant’s door. Julia wishes to republish his book, and together they must revisit those old stories: an author hiding from his past, and an editor, keen to understand it. But there are things that don’t add up. Inconsistencies that a sharp-eyed editor begins to suspect are more than mistakes. They may be clues, and Julia finds herself with a mystery of her own to solve.
The Night Swim Author: Megan Goldin Subgenres: Legal Thriller, Whodunit
After the first season of her true crime podcast became an overnight sensation and set an innocent man free, Rachel Krall is now a household name. One day she finds a note on her car windshield, addressed to her, begging for help. The small town of Neapolis is being torn apart by a devastating rape trial. The town’s golden boy has been accused of raping the beloved granddaughter of the police chief. Rachel throws herself into investigating―but the mysterious letters keep showing up in unexpected places. Officially, Jenny Stills tragically drowned 25 years ago, but the letters insist she was murdered―and when Rachel starts asking questions, nobody seems to want to answer.
The Push Author: Ashley Audrain Subgenres: Psychological Thriller, Mystery Drama, Suspense
Blythe Connor is determined that she will be the warm, comforting mother to her new baby Violet that she herself never had. But in the thick of motherhood’s exhausting early days, Blythe becomes convinced that something is wrong with her daughter―she doesn’t behave like most children do. Or is it all in Blythe’s head? Her husband, Fox, says she’s imagining things. Then their son Sam is born―and with him, Blythe has the blissful connection she’d always imagined with her child. Even Violet seems to love her little brother. But when life as they know it is changed in an instant, the devastating fall-out forces Blythe to face the truth.
Long Bright River Author: Liz Moore Subgenres: Murder Mystery, Police Procedural, Whodunit
In a Philadelphia neighborhood rocked by the opioid crisis, two once-inseparable sisters find themselves at odds. One, Kacey, lives on the streets in the vise of addiction. The other, Mickey, walks those same blocks on her police beat. They don't speak anymore, but Mickey never stops worrying about her sibling. Then Kacey disappears, suddenly, at the same time that a mysterious string of murders begins in Mickey's district, and Mickey becomes dangerously obsessed with finding the culprit―and her sister―before it's too late.