Thrillers that play with your expectations are always going to be high on any list of mine. Mary Kubica's latest, She's Not Sorry, perfectly encapsulates this, where you're given a relatively normal situation to begin with. It's not high octane, crazy events happening at warp-speed, just an intriguing scenario where you know there must be more lying just below the surface. With a thorough examination of our own actions, Mary Kubica weaves together the tale as we try to understand in real time just why this nurse is so taken by her patient. A bonus point, as if it needed it, for the perfectly compelling, draw-you-in, cover art.
The instant New York Times bestseller that BookTok is calling “absolutely A-M-A-Z-I-N-G” (@hollylovesbooks1519) and “impossible to put down” (@kurryreads), from the author of Local Woman Missing and Just the Nicest Couple
Everyone has secrets, but not everyone has remorse…
A terrible accident.
Meghan Michaels is trying to find balance between being a single mom and working full time as an ICU nurse, when a patient named Caitlin arrives in her ward with a traumatic brain injury. They say she jumped from a bridge and plunged over twenty feet to the train tracks below.
Vera Kurian's sophomore novel, A Step Past Darkness, proves that the success of her debut was no fluke. Dynamically different, more of a tome than most thrillers are, and yet still a book that you compels you to keep going, just finish that one more chapter over and over again until you've completed the entire book. The dual timeline with a group of kids in the 90s and the counterpart adults coming back together in current day provided plenty of Millenial nostalgia, but not just the rose-tinted version. Her ability to describe the emotion of a scene sets Kurian apart from many others—you don't just feel like you're there with the characters, you're able to feel all the same emotions her ensemble cast does. A remarkably different tone than Never Saw Me Coming, but just as compelling, and a novel that sticks in your mind long after you've finished it.
SIX CLASSMATES. ONE TERRIFYING NIGHT. A MURDER TWENTY YEARS IN THE MAKING…
There’s something sinister under the surface of the idyllic, suburban town of Wesley Falls, and it’s not just the abandoned coal mine that lies beneath it. The summer of 1995 kicks off with a party in the mine where six high school students witness a horrifying crime that changes the course of their lives.
The six couldn’t be more different.
Maddy, a devout member of the local megachurch
Kelly, the bookworm next door
James, a cynical burnout
Casey, a loveable football player
Padma, the shy straight-A student
Jia,…
Every novel of Alex Finlay's makes me think of Harlan Coben's mastery of the domestic, close to home, thriller dripping with heart and emotion. If Something Happens To Me takes you on a wild ride, where years after his girlfriend is kidnapped our protagonist Ryan sees the man responsible and is sucked right back into the depths of combined hope and despair. I loved the way the seemingly disparate plots came together, and Finlay absolutely nailed the ending. He is a firm must-buy for me and I'd strongly encourage any readers of this to do the same.
From “one of the genre’s most exciting voices” (E! News) comes one of the year’s most-anticipated thrillers.
For the past five years, Ryan Richardson has relived that terrible night. The car door ripping open. The crushing blow to the head. The hands yanking him from the vehicle. His girlfriend Ali’s piercing scream as she is taken.
With no trace of Ali or the car, a cloud of suspicion hangs over Ryan. But with no proof and a good lawyer, he’s never charged, though that doesn’t matter to the podcasters and internet trolls. Now, Ryan has changed…
When Congressional staffer Ben Walsh receives this cryptic text from his wife he initially doesn't think much of it.
But while waiting to hear from her again, Ben discovers that the text came an hour before a shooting that occured along her daily running route. Veronica won't pick up her phone, and when she doesn't return home, he knows she is somehow involved.
If she isn't one of the victims, then where is she, and what did she know?
While Ben searches for his wife, he stumbles upon another violent death, with clear connections to the shooting. The police name Veronica as their main suspect, and when more evidence suggesting his wife's involvement appears, even Ben has to reconsider what he knows about her.
Unbeknownst to Ben, a killer from Veronica's past stalks his family, with his own reasons for wanting to find her. What Ben does know is his best chance at saving Veronica, and keeping her out of prison, is finding her and the truth before the police-or this killer-do. But what if the truth is even more deadly than he could imagine?
RUN is a psychological thriller full of twists and turns that questions if you ever outrun your past. From the mind of debut author Matthew Becker, find the truth behind a string of murders in a novel perfect for fans of David Baldacci, Alex Finlay, and Isabella Maldonado.
