Get out your beach totes, it’s time for some spine-tingling stories coming this summer. From domestic suspense to chilling cold cases to tales of stalkers, there are so many fantastic thrillers on the horizon! Prepare your TBR, you’ll be busy from Memorial Day to Labor Day with this season’s best thrillers!
The Tenant by Freida McFadden (5/6)
Blake Porter had it all until he’s unexpectedly fired from this job. Struggling to make the mortgage payments on his brownstone he shares with his fiancée, he may need to rent a room out to a stranger to make ends meet. When he meets seemingly normal Whitney, he thinks she would be the perfect choice to rent the room to. Shortly after, things seem off and now Blake believes that danger hast just moved into his home.
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The Missing Half by Ashley Flowers (5/6)
Nicole “Nic” Monroe is twenty-four-years-old and has felt stuck in life since her sister, Kasey, vanished seven years ago. She lives in the same small apartment, works the same job she’s had since high school, and just got a DWI. When Kasey disappeared, her car was found a hundred miles from home with the driver’s door open and no clues as to where she could be. The only connection was a woman named Jules Connor who disappeared the same way a few weeks earlier. Even though both cases went cold, Nic finally has some hope when Jules’ sister, Jenna, comes into her life and the two vow to team up to find out what really happened to their sisters.
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One in Four by Lucinda Berry (5/13)
Dr. Laurel Harlow has worked for years as a chemical dependency counselor and now she’s about to do a reality TV show as a favor to a friend. The plot of the show is to feature a mansion full of former child stars who are looking to turn their lives around and face their demons with substances. When one of the stars is found dead, the investigation threatens to expose everyone’s secrets, including the one Laurel has been working so hard to keep hidden. As Laurel searches for a killer, she has flashbacks where she confronts her past and everything she’s tried so hard to leave behind.
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Their Double Lives by Jaime Lynn Hendricks (5/20)
Kim Valva is a waitress who is struggling to make ends meet after her boyfriend recently cheated on her. Now her dog, Murphy, needs a life-saving surgery and Kim doesn’t have enough money to afford it. When a mysterious person known as The Stranger contacts Kim, they offer her enough money and more for Murphy’s surgery if she puts a pill in a member’s drink. When the member dies, Kim gets the money. When the target is none other than Kim’s first love and ex-boyfriend from high school, the tables turn when his new girlfriend is the one who dies. Now, Kim is more confused than ever and finds herself dealing with The Stranger while trying to piece together who is after who and what her next move should be.
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The Last Ferry Out by Andrea Bartz (5/20)
Isla Colel is an island that was once a busy tourist spot and has since been ravaged by a hurricane. Only a few people are left on the island and the once daily ferry now only runs once a week. Abby is visiting the island for the first time since a tragic accident killed her fiancé, Eszter. While Abby befriends some of the locals, one in particular says he knows the truth about Eszter’s death, but then soon vanishes before he can tell Abby the truth. The more that Abby looks into things on her own, the more she uncovers lies, secrets, and deceit that make her believe one of the locals left on the island could be Eszter’s killer.
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Whispers of Dead Girls by Marlee Bush (5/27)
It’s been almost a decade since Ren Taylor’s teenage sister was murdered. Now, Ren works at her old high school where she can’t escape the memories of her sister and is reminded of the scandal that ruined her childhood and killed her sister. When Ren notices a handsome teacher named Bryson Lewis, she feels he can’t be trusted. As Ren begins to see him in a close relationship with a student that is eerily similar to her murdered sister, she refuses to let history repeat itself.
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Sister, Butcher, Sister by KD Aldyn (6/3)
The Rowling sisters seem relatable from the outside looking in with their partners and families. Lurking underneath the surface are dark secrets the sisters are trying to hide. When the oldest sister, Kate, comes home to buy their late grandfather’s home, their secrets are in danger of being exposed. Does she have visions from her past she can’t remember? Will Aurora act out from her sisters choices? Will Peggy ever move on from the memories of the past? Then there’s SHE. SHE is a serial killer responsible for the murders that have devastated the coastal community, the ones that will force the Rowlings to reveal their deepest and darkest secrets.
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So Happy Together by Olivia Worley (6/3)
Aspiring playwright, Jane, is a twenty-four-year-old who is unlucky in love in New York City. Thinking her luck is about to turn around when she meets a man named Colin, Jane is devastated when Colin dumps her after a few dates. When Colin begins dating the stunning Zoe, Jane refuses to believe that Colin isn’t the one for her; she just has to prove it. When Jane sneaks into Colin’s apartment, she makes a discovery so shocking that it will entangle all three of them in a dangerous game involving secrets, lies, and murder.
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It’s Not the End of the World by Jonathan Parks-Ramage (6/3)
It’s 2044 and the world is falling apart. From wildfires eating up California to violent right-wing militias, and authoritarianism are destroying the country, the only person who does not seem phased by this is Mason Daunt. Mason is safe in his Los Angeles mansion and ignoring the outside world. Now, he and his partner, Yunho Kim, are throwing a huge baby shower to celebrate their baby on the way. When a potentially apocalyptic event hits Los Angeles on the day of their party, they refuse to cancel. As Mason is out running errands he finds himself unexpectedly in the middle of the chaos, threatening everything he knows and loves.
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King of Ashes by S.A. Cosby (6/10)
Roman Carruthers is coming home to support his two younger siblings after their father gets in a car accident. His brother, Dante, is in debt with dangerous criminals, and his sister, Neveah, is doing all she can to keep the family together while she assisted their father with the family-owned Carruthers Crematorium. Now home, Roman finds his father’s car accident was not an accident at all and it was Dante who brought danger knocking on the family’s front door. With nothing left to do, Roman begins to work for the dangerous criminals as a bargaining tool as Neveah starts to uncover the truth about their mother’s disappearance when they were teenagers.
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Someone Knows by Vi Keeland (6/17)
Elizabeth is a college English professor who teaches a creative writing seminar. When she reads the first chapter of The Reckoning, she finds this story all too familiar. A story about a high school senior having an affair with a teacher. The girl in the story was Elizabeth’s best friend, Jocelyn, and the professor is dead. Elizabeth knows all of this as she’s the one who killed the professor. Now Elizabeth fears her secret is about to be exposed because apparently, someone knows what she did twenty years ago.
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Don’t Open Your Eyes by Liv Constantine (6/17)
Annabelle Reynolds has the perfect life including a husband and two daughters. When she begins to have disturbing dreams that she hates her husband and her daughters are in danger, she believes they are just a fluke. When certain details begin to show up in real life that she couldn’t imagine, she begins to believe these are not dreams but premonitions. When Annabelle dreams her daughter, Scarlett, is in danger and someone wants her dead, her life and visions begin to collide.
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A Happy Marriage by A.R. Torre (6/24)
Dinah Marino and Dr. Joe Marino have a loving marriage that appears perfect. While both are grateful for one another, the LA homicide detective and her psychiatrist husband are hiding secrets from one another. When a missing woman who is connected to one of Dinah’s cases ends up admitted to the hospital, the case threatens to shatter their home life and marriage as their pasts begin to catch up to them.
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Whispers of the Lake by Shanora Williams (6/24)
Rose Howard is an investigative reporter who is holding on by a thread now that her marriage is on the rocks. When she finds out that her former best friend and travel blogger, Eve Castillo, is not responding to anyone from the North Carolina cottage she’s traveled to, Rose heads to the small town of Sage Hill. Even though Eve crossed lines that the two can never come back from, Rose still does care. When Rose finds out that Eve is gone without her passport or purse, allegedly on a trip abroad, she knows something is wrong. If Rose doesn’t get to the bottom of what’s really happening in Sage Hill, will she be the next in danger?
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Don’t Let Him In by Lisa Jewell (6/24)
After her husband’s unexpected death, Nina thinks she’s found love again in Nick Radcliffe, a handsome charmer. If you ask Nina’s adult daughter, Ash, she thinks something is off with Nick and soon finds something unsettling about his past. Meanwhile, Martha is a florist with an infant daughter and a husband named Alistair. But something is off with Alistair and Martha knows it. Alistair is always taking trips for work and is gone for days at a time. Soon, something will erupt that will intertwine the lives of Nina, Martha, and Ash that proves the past never stays buried.
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Happy Wife by Meredith Lavender and Kendall Shores (6/24)
Nora Davies is a twenty-eight-year-old who is trying to survive on her income at a country club in Winter Park, Florida where she doesn’t feel like she fits in amongst the coastal elite. All of that changes when she meets forty-six-year-old lawyer, Will Somerset, who is recently divorced. In a whirlwind romance, the two fall in love and get married. Their happy life is shattered when Will disappears the morning after his birthday party and Nora is left devastated and wondering one thing: where is Will?
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Sunburned by Katherine Wood (7/1)
Audrey Collet and Tyson broke up a decade ago, but now he’s back. Someone is blackmailing Tyson and if Audrey doesn’t help him find out who it is, he will expose the secrets she entrusted him with. When a foot is found in the Everglades, Tyson is quick to remind Audrey that she has a connection to it’s owner. Now at his home in St. Barth’s, Audrey finds that each person staying at Tyson’s estate has their own reason to wish him harm. When Tyson’s birthday bash turns deadly, Audrey finds herself trapped on a yacht with seven people, one of which is not only a blackmailer, but a murderer.
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Fog and Fury by Rachel Howzell Hall (7/1)
After ten years working for the LAPD, Sonny Rush has moved to Haven, California, with her elderly mother and is going to work for her godfather’s PI company. Sonny’s first case is to locate a missing goldendoodle donning a Versace collar. After forty eight hours, now Sonny has reunited with her ex, one of the wealthiest men in town. When the body of a teenaged boy is found along a hiking trail, she finds that Haven is hiding deadly secrets.
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Night Watcher by Daphne Woolsoncroft (7/8)
Nola Strate is trying to move on in her adult life from the experience of encountering a serial killer named The Hiding Man when she was a child. Now, Nola has security cameras outside of her home in Oregon, hasn’t spoken of the experience, and hosts “Night Watch”, a popular radio show her father once ran. But Nola believes she’s being stalked. When a live caller has a run-in with an intruder, the caller’s description is eerily similar to The Hiding Man and now, Nola thinks he’s coming after her.
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Our Last Resort by Clemence Michallon (7/8)
Frida and Gabriel have grown apart in the last few years after an unspeakable tragedy. Arriving at the Ara Hotel in the secluded Utah desert, the couple hopes to reconnect with one another. When the dead body of a young woman who was on vacation at the hotel with her much older husband is discovered, the prime suspect is Gabriel. Now, Frida is revisiting past memories in which they escaped a cult in Upstate New York as the evidence against Gabriel becomes stronger and stronger.
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She Didn’t See It Coming by Shari Lapena (7/29)
Bryden and Sam are the perfect couple with the perfect life, including an apartment in a luxury condominium that they live in with their young daughter. When Sam receives a call one day that Bryden has failed to pick up their daughter from daycare, he arrives home to find that everything in the apartment appears to look normal, but Bryden has completely vanished. Sam begins to wonder if Bryden even left the building or if their condo is really that safe to begin with.
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We Are All Guilty Here by Karin Slaughter (8/12)
North Falls is the kind of town where everyone knows everyone…or do they? The big night of the fireworks, two local teenage girls vanish and the town is in an uproar. Officer Emmy Clifton takes this case to heart as she wasn’t able to be there for her best friend’s daughter when she needed her the most and now she will stop at nothing to find her. As Emmy’s investigation goes underway, she realizes the girls have secrets that someone would kill for, but that could bring the entire town down with them.
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Too Old for This by Samantha Downing (8/12)
It’s been decades since Lottie Jones changed her name and escaped to a small town, leaving her life of crime in the past. Now, Lottie engages in bingo and gossip for excitement. When an investigative journalist, Plum Dixon, is knocking on Lottie’s door to dig into Lottie’s past, she can’t let Plum know about her involvement with some unsolved cases. When someone else knocks on her door, Lottie realizes murder isn’t what it used to be.
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One Dark Night by Hannah Richell (8/19)
On Halloween, a group of teenagers meet in the woods near a local road rumored to be haunted by the ghost of a murdered girl. That night, one student ends up dead. School guidance counselor, Rachel, notices her daughter, Ellie, has been acting strange ever since. Her ex-husband and detective, Ben, investigating the death is concerned for Ellie’s safety. What Rachel and Ben don’t know is Ellie is hiding a secret from them and neither one of them know where she was that night.
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Forget Me Not by Stacy Willingham (8/26)
It’s been twenty-two years since Claire Campbell’s older sister, Natalie, disappeared after her eighteenth birthday. Although her blood was found in a car, a man was arrested, and the case was closed, Claire has had a hard time moving on from the past. Now working as an investigative journalist, Claire is returning home after a call from her father. Accepting a seasonal job for the summer at a vineyard called Galloway Farm, this is the place her sister seemed happy to be before her disappearance. Shortly after she begins working there, Claire finds an old diary that appears to be a young love story but the further the entries go, they describe unsolved crimes and now Claire wonders if this diary is connected to Natalie’s disappearance.
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These all look and sound absolutely amazing!!!!