One Last Secret is a compelling thriller with a great main character. As an escort, Dora has rules in place to keep her safe. However, after one traumatizing
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The Villa by Rachel Hawkins
The Villa is an absorbing and suspenseful gothic novel set in Italy. Emily, the author of a long-running book series, feels like her life is in a rut. Not only
Blackwater Falls by Ausma Zehanat Khan
Blackwater Falls introduces Detective Inaya Rahman in the first book of a new crime series. Inaya Rahman is part of the Community Response Unit of the
The Prisoner by B. A. Paris
The Prisoner begins with all the fraught tension you’d want in a thriller but quickly unravelled the longer it went on. The Prisoner opens with vicious men snat
Forget Me Not by Miranda Rijks
Forget Me Not has a slow start but gets progressively more gripping and twisty. Helen has pulled her life together since her husband Paul
The Bequest by Joanna Margaret
The Bequest is an atmospheric dark academia thriller, but it will not appeal to everyone. Isabel Henley just arrived in Scotland to begin her Ph.D. under the…
A Familiar Stranger by A. R. Torre
A Familiar Stranger is a bumpy ride to say the least. Lillian Smith lives a boring life; she repeatedly says so herself. Lillian used to write obituaries for…
The Darkness of Others by Cate Holahan
The Darkness of Others is a slow-burn thriller set in the early days of the pandemic in NYC. It opens with the gruesome death of a famed movie director.
The Guest House by Robin Morgan-Bentley
The Guest House is a compulsively readable thriller but veers into OTT territory for much of the book. Victoria and Jamie are spending a weekend away at a remot
The Last Girl to Die by Helen Fields
The Last Girl to Die is a chilling thriller set in a small town in Scotland. When sixteen-year-old Adriana Clark goes missing, her family hires a P.I…
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