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Twisty Psychological Suspense
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The Girl on the Train
by Paula Hawkins
Obsessively watching a breakfasting couple every day to escape the pain of her losses, Rachel witnesses a shocking event that inextricably entangles her in the lives of strangers.
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The Good Girl
by Mary Kubica
The daughter of a prominent Chicago judge and his socialite wife, inner-city art teacher Mia Dennett is taken hostage by her one-night stand, Colin Thatcher, who, instead of delivering her to his employers, hides her in a secluded cabin in rural Minnesota to keep her safe from harm. Kubica's debut thriller builds suspense steadily and will have readers guessing what's really going on until the final pages.
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The Kind Worth Killing
by Peter Swanson
Engaging in an intimate sharing of secrets with a mysterious woman on an airplane, an unhappily married businessman is tangled in a psychologically twisted game of cat-and-mouse involving a plot to kill the man's wife.
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Disclaimer
by Renee Knight
What if you realized the terrifying book you were reading was actually about you? Reading a mysterious novel that recounts in haunting detail the day she became the victim of a dark secret, documentary filmmaker Catherine Ravenscroft is forced to confront the past to prevent her world from falling apart. A good psychological thriller with unreliable narrators and lots of family drama.
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The Other Woman's House
by Sophie Hannah
Connie Bowskill sees a bloody, murdered woman in the virtual tour of an online real estate listing, but the images aren't there when she shows her husband in a new psychological thriller from the best-selling author of The Wrong Mother.
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The Pocket Wife
by Susan Crawford
When her neighbor, Celia, is brutally murdered, Dana Catrell—who, the last person to see Celia alive, suffers from a debilitating mania, the byproduct of her bipolar disorder—must clear her name before she descends into madness. .
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The Poison Tree
by Erin Kelly
Picking up Rex after a 10-year prison sentence for murder, Karen remembers the bohemian summer in 1990s London when their carefree romance and excesses became subject to a complicated family history and ended in violence.
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The Widow
by Fiona Barton
After Jean's husband dies, the community wants to know the real truth about the crime he was suspected of—but Jean has secrets of her own.
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Dark Suspense & Grievous Harm
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The Shining Girls
by Lauren Beukes
The sole survivor of a time-traveling serial killer who began his murder spree in Depression-era Chicago tries to hunt him down in 1989 along with help from an ex-homicide reporter in this new novel from the author of Moxyland.
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Night Film: a Novel
by Marisha Pessl
When the daughter of an enigmatic cult horror film director is found dead in an abandoned Manhattan warehouse, veteran investigative journalist Scott McGrath, disbelieving the official suicide ruling, probes into the strange circumstances of the young woman's death while being drawn into the director's eerie world.
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Room: a Novel
by Emma Donoghue
A 5-year-old narrates a riveting story about his life growing up in a single room where his mother aims to protect him from the man who has held her prisoner for seven years since she was a teenager.
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The Vanishers
by Heidi Julavits
A power struggle between a leading student at an elite institute for psychics and her jealous legendary mentor culminates in the student being forced to relive her mother's suicide during a brutal psychic attack that relegates her to a faceless job, from which she is recruited to track down a missing controversial artist.
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Until It's Over
by Nicci French
When a neighbor is found beaten to death after being involved in an accident with bike messenger Astrid Bell, Astrid and her roommates struggle against mounting terror and suspicion upon the discovery of yet another dead body.
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The Little Friend
by Donna Tartt
Growing up in a small Mississippi town in a family haunted by the murder of her brother, Robin, Harriet Cleve Dusfresnes lives in a world of her imagination, until, at the age of twelve, she decides to find Robin's murderer and exact her revenge. By the author of The Secret History.
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Security
by Stephen Amidon
The sleepy mountain community of Stoneleigh, Massachusetts, is turned upside-down by a local student's claims that she had been sexually assaulted by a wealthy resident, an accusation that prompts an investigation by security company head Edward Inman.
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Heartbroken: a Novel
by Lisa Unger
While Kate pens an evocative historical novel based on tragic diary entries written by her aunt and grandmother, her neighbor, Emily, flees a volatile relationship to an island in an Adirondacks lake where she, Kate and the island's owner, Birdie, face respective histories and painful consequences.
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In the Woods
by Tana French
Twenty years after witnessing the violent disappearances of two companions from their small Dublin suburb, detective Rob Ryan investigates a chillingly similar murder that takes place in the same wooded area, a case that forces him to piece together his traumatic memories.
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Still Missing
by Chevy Stevens
Captured by a psychopath posing as an interested house buyer, realtor Annie spends a brutally traumatic year in captivity in a remote mountain cabin and recounts her experiences and dramatic escape to her therapist while agonizing over the ongoing police search for her captor.
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Fractured
by Karin Slaughter
Accustomed to betrayal and violence after years of a brutal marriage, Gailyn Campano reaches her breaking point when she returns home to find an intruder holding her daughter hostage and somehow finds the strength to eliminate the threat, permanently, leaving Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent Will Trent to unravel the case. He is sure that another teenage girl is missing, and that a killer is on the loose.
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The Neighbor
by Lisa Gardner
In the wake of a wife and mother's disappearance from her suburban home, an ensuing police investigation focuses on the missing woman's husband, whose suspicious behavior reveals cracks in their seemingly idyllic family life.
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Await Your Reply: a Novel
by Dan Chaon
While Miles pursues elusive letters and clues in a perpetual search for his missing twin, Ryan struggles with the discovery that he is adopted, and Lucy finds her daring escape from her hometown posing unexpectedly dangerous consequences.
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Speaking in Tongues
by Jeffery Deaver
The disappearance of his teenage daughter pits prosecutor Tate Collier against Aaron Matthews, a Harvard-educated psychiatrist consumed with revenge.
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Keeper of the Keys
by Perri O'Shaughnessy
The disappearance of his wife, Leigh, sends obsessive and brilliant architect Ray Jackson on a quest to discover the truth about the incident and how it could be linked to his peripatetic childhood, while Leigh's best friend launches an investigation into Ray that hints at dark secrets from his past.
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A Reliable Wife: a Novel
by Robert Goolrick
Ralph Truitt, a wealthy businessman with a troubled past who lives in a remote nineteenth-century Wisconsin town, has advertised for a reliable wife; and his ad is answered by Catherine Land, a woman who makes every effort to hide her own dark secrets.
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The Dinner: a Novel
by Herman Koch
Meeting at a fashionable Amsterdam restaurant for dinner, two couples move from small talk to the wrenching shared challenge of their teenage sons' shattering act of violence that has triggered a police investigation and revealed the extent to which each family will go to protect those they love, in a U.S. release of an international best-seller.
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One of Us
by Tawni O'Dell
From the New York Times bestselling author of Back Roads comes a fast-paced literary thriller about a forensic psychologist forced to face his own demons after discovering his small hometown terrorized by a serial killer. In this masterfully told psychological thriller in the vein of Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl, the past and present collide to put Lost Creek's long-lived ghosts to bed"
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Drowned
by Therese Bohman
In the Swedish countryside during the summer, a woman becomes enamored with her older sister's husband, a charming-yet-violent writer.
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Before I Go to Sleep: a Novel
by S. J. Watson
Without her husband's knowledge, Christine, whose memory is damaged by a long-ago accident, is treated by a neurologist who helps her to remember her former self through journal entries until inconsistencies begin to emerge, raising disturbing questions.
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The Breaker
by Minette Walters
The investigation into the brutal rape and murder of a young woman yields many baffling puzzles--such as why the woman's little daughter, a witness to the crime, was allowed to survive--and suspects, including the victim's husband and a handsome young actor who lied about his relationship with her.
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I Heard That Song Before
by Mary Higgins Clark
Marrying the son of her father's wealthy employer, twenty-eight-year-old gardener's daughter Kay Lansing becomes increasingly disturbed by the suspicion surrounding her husband, Peter, in regard to the mysterious deaths of his first wife and a high-school senior.
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