Trace of Evil by Alice Blanchard marks the series debut for rookie police detective Natalie Lockhart set in the eerie town of Burning Lake in Upstate New York. I’ve been a huge fan of Alice Blanchard since I read her smashing 2003 thriller The Breathtaker, and she just keeps getting better and better. Trace of…
Anything for You is Saul Black’s third novel in the Valerie Hart series, in which the San Francisco Homicide Detective must revisit her past to solve a gruesome murder. In my opinion, if you’ve read the first two books, you already understand that to know Valerie is to love her, even if she doesn’t think…
Violet by Scott Thomas is a horror novel about loss, grief, and the power of memories, where a recently widowed mother and her young daughter flee the memories of their past only to encounter even more nightmares. Scott Thomas’s 2017 debut, Kill Creek, was a fantastic book that was nominated for an Edgar Award. But his…
The Date by Louise Jensen is a gripping suspense novel where a woman’s date goes horribly wrong when she wakes up beaten and unable to remember anything about the night—or recognize her closest friends. I really enjoyed Louise Jensen’s 2017 novel The Surrogate, so I had high expectations for The Date. It starts with a…
The Whisper Man by Alex North is a multi-generational thriller about a father and son caught in the crosshairs of an investigation to catch a serial killer preying on a small town. It’s been 20 years since DI Pete Willis caught a killer that was responsible for the death of (at least) five little boys,…
In Max Manning’s The Victim, Gem Golding is ambushed by a stranger with a knife in an empty parking garage. Now part of the creep’s twisted game, Gem must choose—surrender or fight. If you love fast-paced thrillers and are looking for something a little different, The Victim may be just the thing to get you…
In Ann Aguirre’s The Third Mrs. Durst, an ambitious woman trapped in an abusive marriage attempts to flip the script and get away with murder. “I got on a bus when I was sixteen.” The beautiful Marlena Altizer left her addict mother, her younger half-siblings, and grinding poverty in rural Kentucky for a different life.…
Part mystery, part darkly comic coming-of-age story, The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone by Felicity McLean is a page-turning read with a dark, shimmering absence at its heart. Thirty-one-year-old Australian transplant Tikka Malloy is living an aimless life in Baltimore working at a lab and finding herself more and more distracted when she finds out her sister, Laura, has…
From New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong comes Wherever She Goes—a brand new psychological thriller about the lengths one woman will go to in order to save a child. Kelley Armstrong is one of the most versatile authors out there right now. She writes urban fantasy and fantasy, and with Wherever She Goes, she’s once…
The First Mistake by Sandie Jones is an addictively readable new domestic suspense about a wife, her husband, and the woman who is supposedly her best friend. I was blown away by Sandie Jones’ first book, The Other Woman. I’m a jaded reader that likes to think I’ve seen every twist there is, but I…
