Summer is on the way and if you’re ready to dive into some twisty and captivating mysteries and thrillers, we’ve got you covered. From dueling serial killers to gothic tales and dark academia, these are the thrillers you don’t want to miss out on this summer!

A Lovely Lie by Jaime Lynn Hendricks (5/28)

In 1999, best friends Scarlett and Pepper got into an accident that left two classmates dead, leaving them to lie to the police and never see each other again. Now, twenty-two years later, Scarlett is raising her teenage son with her husband in Florida and living a more peaceful life. When twenty-one-year old Zoey shows up at Scarlett’s claiming to be Pepper’s daughter, Zoey says Pepper is dead and provides a mysterious letter about the night that changed everything. With Zoey wanting to know everything about that night, Scarlett’s past is about to come back to haunt her.

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Do What Godmother Says by L.S. Stratton (6/11)

Shanice Pierce is finding herself single and out of a job in the same day. One day when cleaning out her grandmother’s house, Shanice comes across a painting she hasn’t seen in years and her grandmother says she can keep it. Shanice finds out that the artist was a Harlem Renaissance painter named Estelle Johnson, who was taken under the wing of Maude “Godmother” Bachmann, and had vanished shortly after Bachmann’s murder. The more Shanice learns about the past, she begins to fear she could be in danger herself.

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A Talent for Murder by Peter Swanson (6/11)

Martha thought he would be alone forever and was fine with it. As a librarian, she was surrounded by the books she loved. Then she met the charming Alan and was so taken by him that she said yes when he asked her to marry him. After a year of marriage, Martha notices a small blood streak on one of Alan’s shirts and soon enough, Martha finds that all of the cities that Alan has visited while traveling for work have an unsolved case of a murdered woman. With nowhere to go, she turns to the enigmatic Lily Kintner for help and Lily offers to try and meet Alan to see who he really is.

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What Fire Brings by Rachel Howzell Hall (6/11)

Bailey Meadows has just moved to the home of thriller author Jack Beckham as his writer-in-residence to help him hit the bestseller list. But that’s not the real reason Bailey is there. Bailey is looking for Sam Morris, a community leader who finds missing people, specifically those who have vanished in the canyon surrounding Beckham’s house. As Bailey learns more and more about the missing women, she wonders if these disappearances could be linked to decades old occurrences that happened at Jack Beckham’s house.

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The Housemaid is Watching by Freida McFadden (6/11)

Millie is back and this time she isn’t cleaning other people’s homes but moving into her own. When her new neighbor, Mrs. Lowell invites her over for dinner, Millie is greeted by the maid who gives her a chilly glare. Not only is the maid suspicious, but so is the new mysterious woman that Millie meets who warns her to be careful of her neighbors.

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Shadowheart by Meg Gardiner (6/18)

FBI Special Agent Cailtin Hendrix is back and this time she’s dealing with two serial killers. Efram Judah Goode draws eerie portraits of women he claims he killed and across the country, families seek answers in his drawings. In New York City, a nameless killer poses duct-taped bodies at the locations of Goode’s murders. Now, in order to stop the killings and put an end to two competing serial killers, Caitlin Hendrix has to find the connection between Goode and the Broken Heart Killer before it’s too late.

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Middle of the Night by Riley Sager (6/18)

Thirty years ago, ten-year-old Ethan Marsh and his best friend, Billy, slept in a tent in a peaceful New Jersey cul-de-sac. In the middle of the night, someone opened the tent and took Billy, only for him to never be seen again. Now, as an adult, Ethan is returning home. Shortly after his arrival, he is battling insomnia, notices someone lurking around the cul-de-sac at night, and feels like Billy is around. In order to get answers, Ethan plans on investigating Billy’s decades old disappearance on his own.

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Love Letters to a Serial Killer by Tasha Coryell (6/25)

Feeling lonely, single Hannah finds herself building friendships on a true-crime forum that’s main purpose is to solve the murders of four women in Atlanta. When the handsome lawyer, William, is arrested, Hannah writes him letters to get out her frustrations. The letters feel almost therapeutic to Hannah until William writes back and she finds herself obsessed with the case. When a fifth woman is found murdered, William is found not guilty and calls Hannah when he’s released. As the two fall into a relationship, Hannah continues her investigation to find out if her new partner really is a serial killer.

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The Haters by Robyn Harding (7/2)

Life couldn’t be better for Camryn Lane now that she has released her first novel after years of rejections. All of her peace comes crashing down when she receives a disturbing message from an unknown sender. Shortly after, Camryn checks out a popular book site and finds a one-star review that is so convincing that more and more negative reviews begin pouring in. When things take a turn from online and the harassment trickles into her personal life, Camryn vows to find out who is trying to take her down.

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It’s Elementary by Elise Bryant (7/9)

Mavis Miller has enough going on in her life, especially raising seven-year-old, Pearl. When the intimidating PTA president Trisha Holbrook convinces Mavis to join the PTA, she finds herself in charge of the new DEI committee. As one of the few Black parents of the school, Mavis tries to believe this is an opportunity for real change, but the first meeting leaves Trisha furious at the principal. When Mavis sees Trisha lugging cleaning supplies and black trash bags into her minivan and  the principal seemingly vanishes, Mavis takes it upon herself to find out what really happened that night.

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The Hollywood Assistant by May Cobb (7/9)

After feeling stuck in life, Cassidy Foster just got the deal of a lifetime being a personal assistant to the hot Hollywood couple, Marisol and Nate Sterling. All Cassidy has to do is run a few errands and the designer clothes, pool, and pay are at her fingertips. When Nate asks Cassidy to read some scripts he’s written, their professional relationship moves into something more and soon, she finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation when one of the Sterlings ends up dead.

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No Road Home by John Fram (7/23)

Toby Tucker has always tried to keep his son, Luca, safe from the bigotry of the world. When Toby ends up married to Alyssa Wright, the granddaughter of a famous televangelist, the trio makes a rip to the Wright family’s compound in Texas. Shortly after their arrival, Toby finds that the Wright family have some strange plans in mind for him and his son. When a storm hits and traps everyone on the compound and someone ends up dead, Toby is the main suspect and will stop at nothing to clear his name and protect his son.

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Society of Lies by Lauren Ling Brown (8/13)

Maya is returning to Princeton for her ten-year reunion and to attend her sister, Naomi’s graduation. When Maya receives the news that Naomi is dead, the police claim it was an accident but Maya thinks there’s way more to the story. As Maya puts the pieces together, she finds Naomi was involved in a social club on campus that Maya had also belonged to called the Sterling Club. Now, in order to find out what really happened to Naomi, Maya must confront her past as Naomi isn’t the first woman Maya knows that ended up dead.

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We Love the Nightlife by Rachel Koller Croft (8/20)

In 1979 in London, two women meet on a dance floor. Nicola is a vampire who is enamored by American Amber and offers an eternity of life together. All is seemingly well until fifty years later when Amber wants out from Nicola’s control but finds that others in her position have ended up dead.

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This Is Why We Lied by Karin Slaughter (8/20)

GBI Investigator Will Trent and medical examiner Sara Linton are back! This time, the newlyweds are at the McAlpine Lodge celebrating their honeymoon when a scream erupts in a homicide investigation. Mercy McAlpine is dead and a storm is approaching, forcing Will and Sara to look into the McAlpine family and their guests. Will and Sara find that solving this case could be difficult when everyone at the resort is lying about something.

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