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A Disappearance in Fiji
by Nilima Rao
A young Indian police sergeant in 1914 is sent on assignment in Fiji as punishment for a humiliating mistake where he investigates the kidnapping of a sugarcane plantation worker and confronts the brutal realities of racism and indentured working conditions.
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All the Sinners Bleed
by S. A. Cosby
Former FBI agent Titus Crown returns to his hometown and decides to run for sheriff to fight a bigoted police force and must trust his instincts when a serial killer appears to be hiding in plain sight. 250,000 first printing.
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Sing Her Down
by Ivy Pochoda
When an expected reprieve frees them both from an Arizona women's prison, Diosmary Sandoval's fixation on her former cellmate Florida Baum turns into a dangerous obsession, resulting in a deadly cat-and-mouse chase from Arizona to the desolate streets of Los Angeles.
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For You and Only You
by Caroline Kepnes
Ready to write a book, Joe Goldberg joins an acclaimed literary author in a tight-knit writing fellowship at Harvard where he meets Wonder, who may be his literary soulmate, in the fourth novel of the series following You Love Me.
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The Eden Test
by Adam Sternbergh
Signing them up for The Eden Test, a week-long getaway for couples in need of a fresh start, Daisy, a slyly talented actress with her own secrets, and her husband, Craig, as the lies and revelations pile up, are forced to go to the ultimate extreme to save their marriage... and themselves.
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Mastering the Art of French Murder
by Colleen Cambridge
While staying in post-World War II Paris with her grandfather, Tabitha Knight becomes friends with her neighbor and fellow American, Julia Child, and must clear both their names when a woman they both knew is murdered with a knife from Julia's kitchen and a note from Tabitha in her pocket.
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The White Lady
by Jacqueline Winspear
A former wartime operative and trained killer, Elinor White, settling in Kent, England, keeps to herself until the powerful Mackie crime family threatens her neighbors and former wartime colleagues, who know the truth about what happened in 1944, help free her from her past.
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You Know Her
by Meagan Jennett
Becoming friends with Sophie Braam, Officer Nora Martin, new to the unwelcoming Bellair Police Department, begins to suspect something's not quite right with the unnerving, enigmatic bartender and discovers she's the serial killer terrorizing their small town, but wonders if anyone will believe her.
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The writing retreat : a novel
by Julia Bartz
While attending a month-long writing retreat at the estate of a feminist horror writer who issues a life-changing challenge, Alex, determined to win this seemingly impossible contest, ignores the strange happenings around her until the disappearance of a fellow writer leads her on a desperate search for the truth.
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It's One of Us
by J. T. Ellison
A successful interior designer who keeps failing in her quest to conceive is shocked when she learns that a suspect in a recent murder investigation is her husband's son from a long-ago donation to a sperm bank.
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The House in the Pines
by Ana Reyes
Seven years after the mysterious death of her best friend, Aubrey, Maya comes across a recent YouTube video in which a young woman dies in front of the same man Aubrey did, leading her back to a New England cabin to finally uncover a truth that could save her.
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Better the Blood
by Michael Bennett
Hana Westerman, a Maori detective juggling career pressures, single motherhood and endemic prejudice investigates two ritualistic murders that have a chilling connection to the execution of a Maori chief during the bloody British colonization of New Zealand 160 years prior.
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A Dangerous Business
by Jane Smiley
A 1851 Monterey widow working at a brothel investigates when the dead bodies of young women start appearing on the outskirts of town in the new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres.
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A Mother Would Know
by Amber Garza
A woman living alone in a Victorian house asks her moody son to move home and begins to question how well she knows him when a local woman is murdered and the neighbors instantly suspect him.
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White Horse
by Erika T. Wurth
A gritty, vibrant debut novel about an Indigenous woman who must face her past when she discovers a bracelet haunted by her mothers spirit.
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Before You Knew My Name
by Jacqueline Bublitz
A psychological suspense novel about two young women who have recently moved to New York City: Alice, who is brutally murdered, and Ruby, who finds Alice and investigates her death.
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Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six
by Lisa Unger
While staying at an isolated luxury cabin in the woods with her brother, their spouses and another couple, Hannah finds their dream weekend turning into nightmare when someone comes looking to exact a payback for deeds long buried, exposing the secrets and lies between them all.
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The Favor
by Nicci French
When she agrees to pick up an ex-boyfriend at the train station, Jude is shocked when the police show up instead of him and, realizing she knows nothing about the man he's become, becomes entangled in his life as she tries to uncover the truth.
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The Family Game
by Catherine Steadman
After getting engaged to Edward Holbeck, the heir to an extremely powerful family, Harriet is drawn into their lavish world that soon takes a nightmarish turn when Edwards father confesses a grisly crime to her, setting in motion a deadly game to test her loyalty.
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The Butcher and the Wren
by Alaina Urquhart
In the Louisiana bayou, forensic pathologist Dr. Wren Muller is sucked into an all-consuming cat-and-mouse game with a methodical killer with a penchant for medical experimentation who is getting more brazen by the day.
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All Good People Here
by Ashley Flowers
Twenty years after a fellow 6-year-old was abducted and murdered, Margot returns to Wakarusa, Indiana, and is shocked when another child similarly goes missing, in the debut novel from the host of the popular true crime podcast, Crime Junkie.
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Reputation
by Sarah Vaughan
A politician constantly under fire, Emma, lobbying for a new law to protect women and girls from online bullying, is pushed to the limit when a body is found in her house, and will do anything to protect her reputation and family no matter what the cost.
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Just Like Home
by Sarah Gailey
Called back home by her mother, Vera must not only face the love she had for her serial-killer father, but also confront the secrets yet undiscovered in the foundations of the notorious Crowder house, finding out just how deep the rot goes.
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The Last to Vanish
by Megan Miranda
When a journalist investigating a string of unsolved disappearances goes missing, Abigail Lovett, the manager of The Passage Inn in the North Carolina mountain town of Cutters Pass, decides to investigate and discovers how little she knows about her coworkers, neighbors and even those closest to her.
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Last Call at the Nightingale
by Katharine Schellman
In 1824 New York, Vivian, whose days are filled with drudgery, escapes to the Nightingale, a secret dance club, until a dead body and police raid traps her between the city's wealthy and New York's underground, where lives of the poor are considered disposable, including Vivians own.
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Rock of Ages
by Timothy Hallinan
Los Angeles burglar and off-the-books detective to the felonious, Junior Bender is hired by Irwin Dressler to find out who is using his Rock of Ages tour to steal his money.
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Blood Sugar
by Sascha Rothchild
Although she did kill three people, an animal-loving Miami therapist with a successful practice is accused of murdering her husband, who she actually did not kill, in a new novel from an Emmy-nominated screenwriter of GLOW and The Bold Type.
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The Shadow House
by Anna Downes
Seeking refuge in the rural community of Pine Ridge, single mother Alex uncovers hidden secrets in her new home that sets off a chain of events that places her family in danger as she confronts the mysteries held in Pine Ridge.
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The Sacred Bridge
by Anne Hillerman
Sergeant Jim Chee, after visiting the sacred Rainbow bridge, investigates the death of a Navajo artist, putting his own life at risk, while Officer Bernadette Manuelito searches for the killer of a hitchhiker connected to a Navajo Nation cannabis enterprise.
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Give Unto Others
by Donna Leon
As a favor Brunetti investigates the accountant son-in-law of his mothers friend after he alarmed the family by suggesting they might be in danger because of his line of work in the latest novel of the series following Transient Desires.
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The Book of Cold Cases
by Simone St. James
When Shea Collins, who runs a true crime website, the Book of Cold Cases, gets a chance to interview Beth Greer, an infamous woman acquitted of two cold case slayings, she senses something isn't right and wonders if she is in the presence of a manipulative murderer.
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The Club
by Ellery Lloyd
| Envisioned as a luxurious home-away from-home for Very Important People, The Home Group is a collection of celebrity members clubs dotted across the globe where the rich and famous can party hard and then crash out in its five-star suites, far from the prying eyes of fans and the media. But behind the scenes, tensions are at breaking point. As tempers fray and behavior worsens, as things get more sinister by the hour and the body count piles up, some of Home's members begin to wish they'd never RSVP'd at all. |
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The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections
by Eva Jurczyk
Working in the rare books department of a large university, Liesl Weiss discovers that a priceless book has gone missing as well as the librarian, and, investigating both disappearances, learns a shocking truth that shakes the very foundation on which she has built her life.
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Good Rich People
by Eliza Jane Brazier
A wealthy couple who invite successful entrepreneurs to live in their guesthouse and then conspire to ruin their life for sport meet their match when Demi, a woman who took over another person’s identity, moves in.
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Devil House
by John Darnielle
A true crime writer with one aging success moves into “The Devil House” where a notorious pair of murders took place in the 1980s and discovers an unexpected puzzle that leads him back into his own work.
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The Appeal
by Janice Hallett
When the cast of a local theater group raises money for an experimental treatment for the director’s granddaughter, who has a rare form of cancer, one member raises her concerns, creating tensions within the community, which leads to murder.
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Twenty Years Later
by Charlie Donlea
Asked by Victoria Ford’s sister to prove Victoria’s innocence in the murder of her married lover 20 years ago before she died on 9/11, Avery Mason, host of American Events, delves into her twisted private life only to discover that someone is more interested in Avery’s secret past.
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Jane Austen's Lost Letters
by Jane K. Cleland
When she comes into the possession of two previously unknown letters by Jane Austen, antiques appraiser Josie Prescott, as she sets out to authenticate these letters, learns that someone is willing to kill to keep her from finding out the truth.
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The House of Ashes
by Stuart Neville
In the wake of her nervous breakdown, Sara Keane’s husband moves them to his native Northern Ireland for a fresh start where she soon discovers that their house has a terrible history her abusive husband never intended for her to discover.
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Grave Reservations
by Cherie Priest
A psychic with scattershot, inconsistent abilities, Leda Foley, joins forces with a Seattle PD detective, Grady Merritt, whom she accidentally saved from a doomed flight, to solve a cold case and catch a killer.
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My Sweet Girl
by Amanda Jayatissa
When the man who knows her darkest secret is murdered, Paloma is afraid that this is all somehow tangled up in the desperate actions she took to escape Sri Lanka so many years ago and wonders if her secret died with him—or if she is in greater danger.
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Nice Girls
by Catherine Dang
Returning home after being kicked out of college, Mary becomes obsessed with the disappearance of a rising social media star—and her former best friend—and, as hatred consumes her, discovers a link to another missing person opens up old wounds.
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Murder Most Fair
by Anna Lee Huber
When her beloved Great-Aunt Ilse arrives on her doorstep, leaving war-ravaged Germany behind, former Secret Service agent Verity Kent soon discovers that danger has followed Ilse when ant-Germen sentiment is taken to murderous lengths.
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My Heart is a Chainsaw
by Stephen Graham Jones
Protected by horror movies—especially the ones where the masked killer seeks revenge on a world that wronged them—Jade Daniels, an angry, half-Indian outcast, pulls us into her dark mind when blood actually starts to spill into the waters of Indian lake.
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Not a Happy Family
by Shari Lapeña
When their parents are brutally murdered the night after Easter dinner, three siblings, who stand to inherit millions, are devastated but also wonder if one of them is capable of murder or if a stranger was responsible for tearing this not-so-happy family apart.
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The Final Girl Support Group
by Grady Hendrix
A real-life “final girl”— the one girl always left standing at the end of a horror movie — Lynette Tarkington, who survived a massacre 22 years ago, along with five other final girls, works to overcome her past until someone becomes determined to take their lives apart again, piece by piece.
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Long Bright River
by Liz Moore
A policewoman races to find her missing sister, a homeless addict, amid a vicious killing spree in a Philadelphia neighborhood, in a story that alternates between the investigation and memories of their shared childhood.
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Hairpin Bridge
by Taylor Adams
Not accepting that her estranged twin sister committed suicide, Lena Nguyen interviews the highway patrolman who allegedly discovered her body, but who is mentioned by name in the last text her sister ever sent.
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The Quiet Boy
by Ben H. Winters
From the best-selling author of Underground Airlines and Golden State comes a sweeping legal thriller that follows a 16-year-old who suffers from a neurological condition that has frozen him in time—and the team of lawyers, doctors, and detectives who are desperate to wake him up.
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The Hunting Wives
by May K. Cobb
Moving to a small Texas town, Sophie O’Neill is immediately drawn to socialite Margot Banks who invites her into a secret clique called the Hunting Wives, with which she becomes obsessed until she finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation with no way out.
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Arsenic and Adobo
by Mia P. Manansala
Returning home to help save her Tita Rosie’s failing restaurant, Lila Macapagal is shocked when her ex-boyfriend, a notoriously nasty food critic, dies suddenly, moments after they had a confrontation, leaving her the only suspect.
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Before She Disappeared
by Lisa Gardner
Investigating the cold-case disappearance of a Haitian teen in a gritty Boston neighborhood, Frankie Elkin navigates resident and police resistance as well as the challenges of her own sobriety before risking her life to uncover the truth.
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Children of Chicago
by Cynthia Pelayo
When the Pied Piper returns, leaving his special calling card on the bodies of his brutally murdered victims, Detective Lauren Medina is torn between protecting the city she has sworn to keep safe and keeping a promise she made long ago to him.
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The Conductors
by Nicole Glover
Having used her wits and magic to help dozens of slaves escape, a former Underground Railroad conductor settles down among the Black elite of Philadelphia with her husband, where they investigate cases that white authorities refuse.
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And Now She's Gone
by Rachel Howzell Hall
When a desperate family implores her to track down a woman who may not want to be found, Grayson Sykes unravels violent secrets that embroil her in an increasingly dangerous game of cat and mouse.
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All the Colors of Night
by Jayne Ann Krentz
A sequel to The Vanishing finds a young man with rare crystal-energy abilities partnering with a disgraced paranormal artifacts finder to track down a mysterious relic that may be tied to a parent’s sudden coma.
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The House on Vesper Sands
by Paraic O'Donnell
A Victorian-inspired supernatural mystery by the award-winning author of The Maker of Swans follows the experiences of a Cambridge dropout and his savvy detective partner, who connect a paramour’s disappearance to a bizarre suicide.
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The Mystery of Mrs. Christie
by Marie Benedict
December 1926: England unleashes the largest manhunt in its history. The object of the search is not an escaped convict or a war criminal, but the missing wife of a WWI hero, up-and-coming mystery author Agatha Christie. When her car is found wrecked, empty, and abandoned near a natural spring, the country is in a frenzy. Eleven days later, Agatha reappears, claiming amnesia. She provides no answers for her disappearance. That is...until she writes a very strange book about a missing woman, a murderous husband, and a plan to expose the truth. What role did her unfaithful husband play? And what was he not telling investigators? The mystery of Mrs. Christie explores one strong woman's successful endeavor to take her history into her own hands.
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The Ancestor
by Danielle Trussoni
Inheriting a noble title, money and a castle in Italy, Alberta “Bert” Monte believes this sudden windfall is a dream come true until she arrives in Italy and unravels a dark legacy of ancestral treasures that is in her very genes.
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Dead to Her
by Sarah Pinborough
Navigating her new husband’s complicated social circle and wandering eye, a mistress-turned-wife becomes ruthless when her husband begins an affair with his boss’s own second wife.
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When No One is Watching
by Alyssa Cole
Finding unexpected support from a new friend while collecting stories from her rapidly vanishing Brooklyn community, Sydney uncovers sinister truths about a regional gentrification project and why her neighbors are moving away.
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The Body Double
by Emily Beyda
Hired as the body double of a famous but troubled celebrity, a small-town girl diligently mimics her Hollywood doppelgñger in public appearances before encountering sinister questions about the star’s mental collapse.
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Behind Every Lie
by Christina McDonald
Awakening in the hospital with no memory at the same time her mother is found murdered, Eva visits her childhood home for answers, only to find herself targeted by a killer who guards dangerous secrets.
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After All I've Done
by Mina Hardy
Experiencing recurring nightmares of an accident she cannot remember, Diana bonds with newcomer Cole before her unraveling memories force her to make an unthinkable choice.
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The Nightworkers
by Brian Selfon
A man from a Brooklyn family of money launderers questions the trustworthiness of his closest associates in the violent aftermath of a runner’s death and the disappearance of $250,000 in stolen funds.
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The Aosawa Murders
by Riku Onda
In the 1960s, 17 people die of cyanide poisoning at a large party at the Aosawas, owners of a prominent clinic in an ancient castle city on the coast of the Sea of Japan. The only survivor is their teenage daughter Hisako, blind, beautiful, admired by all, but soon suspected of masterminding the crime.
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Snow
by John Banville
Investigating the murder of a 1957 County Wexford priest, Detective Inspector St. John Strafford navigates harsh winter weather and the community’s culture of silence to expose an aristocratic family’s dangerous secrets.
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Little Secrets
by Jennifer Hillier
A year after the disappearance of her son, Marin, a shadow of herself, hires a P.I. to pick up where the police left off, only to discover that her husband is having an affair with a younger woman, which is a problem Marin wants to fix by any means necessary.
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The Dark Corners of the Night
by Meg Gardiner
Hunting a serial killer who has been murdering parents in front of their children, FBI behavioral analyst Caitlin Hendrix discovers that the killer holds a devastating secret from Caitlin’s own past.
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The Bright Lands
by John Fram
Reluctantly returning to his small hometown when his star football player brother goes missing, a disgraced older sibling reconnects with the local sheriff, who begins to suspect former classmates in her search for her own missing brother.
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A Burning
by Megha Majumdar
An opportunistic gym teacher and a starry-eyed misfit find the realization of their ambitions tied to the downfall of an innocent Muslim girl who has been wrongly implicated in a terrorist attack.
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The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
by Grady Hendrix
When her hectic but predictable life is upended by a vicious attack by an elderly local, Patricia unexpectedly bonds with a well-read neighbor who her senile mother-in-law claims to have known herself when she was a girl.
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Give Me Your Hand
by Megan E. Abbott
Distancing herself from an intense best friend who inspired her scientific ambitions before divulging a life-changing secret, Kit competes for a dream research job and finds herself in a dangerous game of cat and mouse.
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My Sister, The Serial Killer
by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Realizing that her beautiful, beloved younger sister has murdered yet another boyfriend, an embittered Nigerian woman works to direct suspicion away from the family, until a handsome doctor she fancies asks for her sister's number.
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Origin : a novel
by Dan Brown
After an event at which futurist Edmond Kirsch is to announce a groundbreaking discovery erupts into chaos, Robert Langdon rushes to Barcelona to locate a cryptic password that will reveal Kirsch's secret before it is lost forever.
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Little Deaths
by Emma Flint
A gripping suspense tale set in 1960s New York and inspired by true events follows the investigation of a cocktail waitress whose two young children have been brutally murdered and a rookie tabloid reporter who would uncover the truth.
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An Anonymous girl
by Greer Hendricks
Participating in a psychology study under the mysterious Dr. Shields, Jessica endures intense, invasive sessions and oppressive behavioral restrictions before she begins to lose her grasp on reality. Reprint. A #1 New York Times best-seller. AB. K. LJ. NYT. PW.
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The Family Upstairs
by Lisa Jewell
Inheriting an abandoned mansion on the banks of the Thames in London’s fashionable Chelsea neighborhood, 25-year-old Libby Jones is soon on a collision course with her birth family’s past that is linked to long-ago murders.
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Bluebird, Bluebird
by Attica Locke
Forced by duty to return to his racially divided East Texas hometown, an African-American Texas Ranger risks his job and reputation to investigate a highly charged double-murder case involving a black Chicago lawyer and a local white woman.
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The Silent Patient
by Alex Michaelides
A therapist becomes dangerously obsessed with uncovering the truth about what prompted his client, an artist who refuses to speak, to murder her husband in a way that triggers mass public speculation.
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Where the Crawdads Sing
by Delia Owens
Viewed with suspicion in the aftermath of a tragedy, a beautiful hermit who has survived for years in a marsh becomes targeted by unthinkable forces.
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The Perfect Nanny
by Leïla Slimani
A U.S. release of an award-winning best-seller from Morocco follows the relationship between a working French-Moroccan couple and their too-good-to-be-true nanny, whose devotion to their children spirals into a psychologically charged cycle of jealousies, resentments and violence.
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The Long Drop
by Denise Mina
Centered around the “trial of the century” in Glasgow in 1950, the innocence and guilt of those involved is explored, starting with Peter Manuel who has been found guilty of a string of murders, starting with the Watt family, and is waiting to die by hanging.
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Six Four
by Hideo Yokoyama
A Tokyo press officer attached to the cold case of a 7-year-old's abduction 14 years earlier investigates a disturbing anomaly only to be stymied by an unimaginable discovery.
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