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…
In I Know Who You Are, Alice Feeney proves that she is a master of brilliantly complicated plots and killer twists that will keep you guessing until the final page. Unreliable narrators are hugely popular right now, and Alice Feeney puts a neat twist on the trope with Aimee Sinclair. Aimee is a London-based film actress…
Murder Lo Mein by Vivien Chien is the third in the tasty Noodle Shop Mystery series. Everyone agrees that the food at Ho-Lee Noodle House is delicious—unless it happens to be deadly . . . Murder Lo Mein is the third book in Vivien Chien’s delightful series featuring reluctant noodle shop manager Lana Lee, and…
In Christi Daughtery’s A Beautiful Corpse, a young woman is found murdered, and all three suspects are men who once claimed to love her. With a familiar yet dangerous face watching her every move, Harper must unravel this mystery before it’s too late. A Beautiful Corpse is the second book in Daugherty’s series to feature Savannah…
