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Break-neck Thrillers

Buckle up for these thrillers where the twists are sharp, the stakes are high, and the pace never lets up.

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  • From the author of the bestselling WAYWARD PINES trilogy, a brilliantly mind-bending SF thriller in which an ordinary man is kidnapped, knocked unconscious - and awakens in a world inexplicably different from the reality he thought he knew.
    Book, 2016New York : Crown/Archetype, 2016 — F SF CRO
  • Think you know the person you married? Think again…
    Book, 2021New York : Flatiron Books, 2021. — FIC FEE
  • The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman’s act of violence against her husband―and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive.
    Book, 2019New York : Celadon Books, 2019. — FIC MIC
  • On the outside they were the golden family with the perfect life. On the inside they built the perfect lie.
    Book, 2024New York : St. Martin's Press, 2024. — FIC PEK
  • Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house with a white picket fence and a garden, a fancy group of friends. The only catch: Evie Porter doesn't exist.
    Book, 2024New York : Pamela Dorman Books/Viking, 2024. — FIC ELS
  • From the bestselling author of The Party comes a "dark and wild ride of redemption, betrayal, and friendship" (Ashley Audrain, New York Times bestselling author of The Push) following a homeless woman fleeing a dangerous past—and the wealthy society…
    Book, 2023New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2023. — FIC HAR
  • Nina can never forgive Maggie for what she did. And she can never let her leave.
    Book, 2020Seattle : Thomas & Mercer, 2020. — FIC MAR
  • In this suspense novel, Detective Chelsey Calhoun’s life is turned upside down when she gets the call that Ellie Black, a girl who disappeared years earlier, has resurfaced in the woods of Washington state—but her reappearance leaves Chelsey with…
    Book, 2024New York : Simon & Schuster, 2024. — F MYS JEA
  • A twisted, unpredictable story." (HerCampus.com)
    Book, 2022New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2022. — FIC MCFA
  • When Cleo, a student at NYU, arrives late for dinner at her childhood home in Brooklyn, she finds food burning in the oven and no sign of her mother, Kat. Then Cleo discovers her mom's bloody shoe under the sofa. Something terrible has happened. But…
    Book, 2024New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024. — FICMcCr
  • Happily married Jen Brotherhood awakes on the morning of October 30, 2022, to find that her 18-year-old son, Todd, hasn't returned home. She goes to the front window and watches in horror as Todd pulls a knife and stabs an older man who's been…
    Book, 2022New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2022. — FIC MCAL
  • Satire meets slasher in this short, darkly funny hand grenade of a novel about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends.
    Book, 2018New York : Doubleday, [2018] — FICBrai
  • Cameron Bright's body is found in a remote part of his family's cattle ranch in western Australia; his car, which was stocked with supplies and in perfect working order, is parked nine kilometers away. With no sign of foul play, the police conclude…
    Book, FIC HAR
  • After the sudden death of his wife, Tom Kennedy believes a fresh start will help him and his young son Jake heal. A new beginning, a new house, a new town. Featherbank. But the town has a dark past.
    Book, 2019New York : Celadon Books, 2019. — FIC NOR
  • Reverend Jack Brooks is looking for a fresh start. Chapel Croft appears the perfect place, but the village has a dark and dangerous history - and the ghosts of its past refuse to stay buried.
    Book, 2021Toronto : Doubleday Canada, 2021. — FIC TUD
  • When Reykjavik detective Hulda -Hermannsdóttir is forced into early retirement to make way for a hot-shot new hire, she refuses to go without a fight. Her boss has already reassigned her active cases but allows her to work a cold case for her last…
    Book, 2018New York : Minotaur Books, 2018. — F MYS JON
  • From Chandler Baker, author of Whisper Network comes The Husbands, a novel that asks: to what lengths will a woman go for a little more help from her husband?
    Book, 2021New York : Flatiron Books, 2021. — FIC BAK
  • "Unravels a picture-perfect couple’s courtship and marriage in truly twisted—and jaw-dropping—fashion." (Elle magazine)
    Book, 2021New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2021. — F ROM HOO