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The Perfect Couple by Jackie Kabler

A thoroughly engrossing thriller… Kabler’s insubstantial yet entertaining thriller tells the story of a woman whose husband goes missing soon after moving to a new city. Gemma and Danny, the happily married couple, have just moved to Bristol to start…
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The New Husband by D.J. Palmer

A page-turner but not without faults… After her husband mysteriously disappears without a trace, Nina is devastated to learn about his double life. With their finances dwindling fast, Nina has no intention to look for another man. But when Simon…
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Roses Are Red by Miranda Rijks

A gripping thriller… After suffering heartbreak in her marriage, Lydia Palmer is preparing for divorce. When Adam suddenly dies, Lydia enters the world of online dating on insistence of her friends and meets the dashing, gentle Patrick. It doesn’t take…
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Perfect Little Children by Sophie Hannah

  Highly gripping but not without flaws… In her latest psychological thriller, Hannah examines the power of money and the question of how far a person would go to maintain a perfect facade. It has been twelve years since Beth…
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Magpie by Sophie Draper

  Dark and engrossing… Draper’s dark psychological thriller takes the reader on a suspenseful journey as a woman sifts through the lies and deceits of her broken marriage to learns about her missing eighteen-year-old son. Claire is trying to unravel…
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Strangers She Knows by Christina Dodd

  Thoroughly entertaining… The thrilling latest from Dodd, the last of the Cape Charade series, takes Kellen, Max and their ten-year-old daughter Rae to an isolated island to escape a serial killer. After murder of the Cape Charade undertaker Arthur…
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Lock Me In by Kate Simants

  A slow-burning, engrossing thriller… At surface, Ellie Power seems to have a normal life; she has a stable home, a loving mother, a nice boyfriend. But she suffers from dissociative identity disorder; her alter ego takes over occasionally and…
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Paranoid by Lisa Jackson

  A quick airplane read… Twenty years after Rachel Gaston accidentally killed her brother, Luke Hollander, during a teenage game with her friends after someone replaced her toy gun with a real one, someone from the past returns to haunt…
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Lying Next to Me by Gregg Olsen

  Intense, suspenseful, and an engrossing read… Adam and Sophie Warner are holidaying for the Memorial Day weekend to unwind and to fill the gaps seeping in their relationship. A stranger kidnaps Sophie on the first morning of their trip…
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The Mother-in-Law by Sally Hepworth

  A riveting pace and a set of intriguing characters help keep the pages turning… Lucy, who lost her mother at a young age and hoped to find a mother in her mother-in-law, is met with disappointment after she meets…
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Mother Knows Best by Kira Peikoff

  A thrilling ride… To avoid passing on a mitochondrial genetic mutation to her second child that killed her first-born in the past, Claire Abram undergoes an illegal, experimental genetic procedure during her in-vitro fertilization. Before she could give birth…
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The Stranger Inside by Laura Benedict

  Absorbing narrative with inconvincible ending… Kimber Hannon returns home after four days of vacation in the Lake of the Ozarks, to find that the key to her home doesn’t work. Apparently, the next-door neighbor has rented the place to…
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Never Tell by Lisa Gardner

Full of ingenious twists, Never Tell fails to deliver a shocking, realistic, and jaw-dropping finale, but it succeeds in serving up suspense at a frantic pace… When Sgt. Detective D. D. Warren breaks into the home of pregnant math teacher…
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Star Marque Rising by Shami Stovall

Tightly written, succinct, stunning, and at times moving, Star Marque Rising is a fascinating read… Clevon Demarco, a genetically modified human with his brilliant combat skills, is a small-time thug and has only one dream in his life: to leave…
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Make Your Bones by L. D. Bloodworth

  A speedy, dark romantic thriller with a suitably chilling ending… Wren Bouchard arrives in scenic mountain town of Valley Spring, Colorado after fleeing a life of abuse and torture and found herself instantly drawn to the mysterious and handsome,…
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Cold Cold Heart by Tami Haog

A typical Haog with plenty of twists and turns… Cold Cold Heart picks up where Tami Hoag’s 2013 thriller, The 9th Girl, left off. TV reporter Dana Nolan is back after she was captured by Doc Holiday, a serial killer…
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Beautiful Bad by Annie Ward

Brilliantly plotted, thoroughly convincing, Beautiful Bad is an enthralling read… Maddie falls in love with Ian overseas where she’s writing a travel guide and he is working with the British Military. It takes years before they finally get married and…