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Failure Point by Rebecca Hodge

Tense, heartfelt, and relentlessly suspenseful. In Hodge’s latest, a disgraced security agent’s search for redemption leads her into a quiet town where danger hides beneath the surface of everyday life. Jordan Winthrop has never recovered from the protection detail that…
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Symphony of Lies by Maria Monday

A cerebral mystery with real emotional stakes… In Monday’s slow-burning European noir, buried secrets and personal history prove as dangerous as any crime. Swiss journalist Emma Bally expects little from the estate of a wealthy acquaintance. Instead, a mysterious bequest…
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The Weight of Cold Things: A Psychological Thriller by Lisa Towles

An elegant fusion of Arctic noir and psychological suspense… A Wyoming deputy sheriff’s search for her missing boss leads her into a deadly Arctic conspiracy in Towles’ haunting psychological thriller. After her husband vanishes in Alaska’s Beaufort Sea, Wyoming deputy…
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The Guardian: The Women of Strength, Courage, and Hope Series #4 by Jordan Standridge

Dark, immersive, and psychologically incisive… Standridge’s fourth installment in the Women of Strength, Courage, and Hope series takes readers on an emotionally charged journey through love, loss, and betrayal. Nearly twenty years after the presumed death of her first husband,…
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The Secret of Spirit Lake by Jane Haltmaier

A poignant, suspenseful, and beautifully layered coming-of-age story with a ghostly twist… In Haltmaier’s deeply atmospheric novel, a teenage girl uncovers the truth behind a haunting that spans generations. When fourteen-year-old Amy moves to a quiet lakeside town, she struggles…
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Floating in the Middle by Frances L Rivetti

Vivid, tense, and emotionally resonant… A reunion edges toward collapse in Rivetti’s atmospheric, climate-conscious drama. Seven former college friends reunite for a long weekend at a remote Northern California beach house perched on a crumbling cliff. With plans for coastal…
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Hazy Shade by Jim Lively

Tense, unsettling, and psychologically gripping. A Dallas defense attorney questions his sanity in Lively’s psychological legal thriller. A delayed retirement sparks tension with Simon Steed’s increasingly cold protégé, Shade Olson. But as disturbing events unfold nearby, his biggest question becomes:…
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Nevermore: Book Two of the Poetic Justice Series by Findlay Ward

Taut, atmospheric, and psychologically driven; a quiet thriller with bite. A disappearance on a remote island forces the past to surface—and refuse silence in Ward’s second entry in the Poetic Justice Series.Schoolteacher Rachael McKenzie convinces her abusive husband, Brandon, to…
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The ICE Murders (Brad Parker and Karen Richmond, Book 10) by Geoffrey M Cooper

Lean, tense, and politically charged; a page-turner. In the tenth entry in the Brad Parker and Karen Richmond series, Cooper takes readers on a tense, morally urgent investigation where political power, institutional secrecy, and murder collide.  Dr. Abina Owusu, a…
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Nevermore: Book Two of the Poetic Justice Series by Findlay Ward

Taut, atmospheric, and psychologically driven; a quiet thriller with bite. A disappearance on a remote island forces the past to surface—and refuse silence in Ward’s second entry in the Poetic Justice Series.Schoolteacher Rachael McKenzie convinces her abusive husband, Brandon, to…
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Tracking Ariana: A Dan Burnett Thriller by Larry Terhaar

A timely, tightly wound thriller of disappearance and power.  In this urgent political thriller, Terhaar explores what happens when due process quietly disappears. Detained despite her lawful status, Ariana Wilkinson is quietly transferred out of reach, leaving her husband, Colonel…
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Mortal Revenge by Ana Manwaring, Fernando León Torrens

Intense, harrowing, and profoundly gripping. Ana Manwaring and Fernando León Torrens deliver a taut, hard-hitting thriller that drops one man into a world where trust is dangerous and survival is never guaranteed. What should have been a simple visit home…
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Plausible in Parts by James Dunlop

A tense, intelligent thriller that balances razor-edged wit with moral depth. When a brutal crime pulls him back into Europe’s underworld, a battle-worn mercenary must confront betrayal, conscience, and the ghosts of his past in Dunlop’s taut thriller. When private…
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Fractured by Jason Melby

Grim, atmospheric, and impossible to put down. Steeped in dread, Melby’s latest is a gothic tale of grief, obsession, and the dangerous power of storytelling. Still reeling from personal tragedy, novelist Stu Harvey takes on the task of telling Simon…
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The Boutique Hotel by Melissa D. MacKinnon

A glamorous, twist-filled mystery brimming with romance, danger, and irresistible suspense. A determined travel agent sets out to unravel a chilling murder hidden beneath the glittering façade of the French Riviera in MacKinnon’s compelling novel. Sent to Nice to negotiate…
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Island Endgame by Rebecca Hodge

Taut, sharp-edged, and impossible to forget. Hodge delivers a chilling hostage drama where survival and redemption collide. Guilt-ridden over the drowning death of her nine-year-old nephew, Kenzie Adams leaves her city hospital job for what she hopes will be a…
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Fade In: A Thriller by Kyle Mills

A searing, cerebral, high-stakes knockout. Mills’s latest is a taut, cerebral thriller steeped in espionage and existential threat. A bullet to the chest should’ve ended ex–Navy SEAL Salam “Fade” al-Fayed. Instead, he wakes up paralyzed, forgotten, and offered a second…
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Reciprocity: A Third JD Cordell Action Thriller by D.C. Gilbert

A taut, morally complex story that hits with precision and heart. In Gilbert’s third JD Cordell novel, a team of former U.S. military operatives takes on a ruthless human trafficking network in the lawless underworld of Manila. When two young…
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Switch by Lisa Towles

A taut, high-intelligence thriller with real emotional teeth… A wounded ex-CIA operative learns that healing, like espionage, requires ruthless precision in Towles’s explosive finale in the E&A Investigations series. Still recovering from a hit-and-run and holed up in her family’s…
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The Night We Lost Him by Laura Dave

Dave’s latest novel sets up an enticing premise: two estranged half-siblings are thrown together to unravel the truth behind their father’s mysterious death. But what begins as a promising family drama with a hint of suspense soon loses its way.…