Suspense

Discover newly released suspense releases.
Updated November 24, 2023
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None of This Is True
Lisa Jewell
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the #1 New York Times bestselling author known for her "superb pacing, twisted characters, and captivating prose" (BuzzFeed), Lisa Jewell returns with a scintillating new psychological thriller about a woman who finds...
Drowning: The Rescue of Flight 1421
T. J. Newman
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM WARNER BROTHERS PICTURES * "Reads like Apollo 13 underwater." --Don Winslow * "Masterful." --Patricia Cornwell * "A stunningly vivid tour de force!" Gripping. Shocking." --Brad Thor Flight...
The Secret
Lee Child
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The gripping new Jack Reacher thriller from Lee Child and Andrew Child   A string of mysterious deaths. A long-classified mission. A young MP with nothing to lose. 1992. All across the United States respectable,...
How Can I Help You
Laura Sims
The lives of two librarians become dangerously intertwined in this razor-sharp exploration of human nature and the lure of artistic obsession. No one knows Margo's real name. Her colleagues and patrons at a small-town public library know only her middle-aged normalcy,...
The Quiet Tenant: A novel
Clemence Michallon
NATIONAL BEST SELLER * ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED NOVELS OF 2023 * GMA BUZZ PICK * "A bravura feat of storytelling...daring and completely satisfying." --James Patterson, #1 best-selling author A PULSE-POUNDING PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER ABOUT A SERIAL KILLER NARRATED BY THOSE CLOSEST...
The Only One Left
Riley Sager
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Named a summer book to watch by The Washington Post, Boston Globe, USA Today, Oprah, Paste, Country Living, Good Housekeeping, and Nerd Daily "Propulsive ... a dizzying Gothic whodunit." --...
Zero Days
Ruth Ware
The New York Times bestselling "new Agatha Christie" (Air Mail) Ruth Ware returns with this adrenaline-fueled thriller that combines Mr. and Mrs. Smith with The Fugitive about a woman in a race against time to clear her name and find her husband's murderer. ...
The Manor House: A Novel
Gilly McMillan
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Nanny and What She Knew comes the terrifying story of what can happen after all your dreams come true Be careful what you wish for... Childhood sweethearts Nicole and Tom are a normal, loving couple-...
Malibu Burning
Lee Goldberg
For a professional criminal and a relentless arson investigator, fear and revenge spread like wildfire in an incendiary thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Goldberg. Hell comes to Southern California every October. It rides in on searing Santa Ana winds that...
Obsessed
James Patterson
In this startling psychological thriller, a killer is targeting young women in New York City and is obsessed with Michael Bennett's daughter.   A killer is obsessed... with Detective Michael Bennett's oldest daughter.  ...
The Last Word
Taylor Adams
After posting a negative review of a horror novel, a woman staying at an isolated beach house begins to wonder if the author is a little touchy--or very, very dangerous--in this pulse-pounding novel of psychological suspense and terror from the critically acclaimed author of No Exit and...
Birnam Wood
Eleanor Catton
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, Time, The Financial Times, The Chicago Public Library, Kirkus A Notable Book of the Year at The Washington PostA...
Gone Tonight
Sarah Pekkanen
"I'm a huge fan of Sarah Pekkanen's books, and GONE TONIGHT is her best yet." --Colleen Hoover "Jaw-dropping. Layered. Triumphant." - The New York Times When Ruth Sterling was a teenager, she slipped away one night, desperate to escape an abusive home...
I Will Find You
Harlan Coben
Five years ago, an innocent man began a life sentence for murdering his own son. Today he found out his son is still alive.   David Burroughs was once a devoted father to his three-year-old son Matthew, living a dream life just a short drive away from the...
Code Red
Vince Flynn
Mitch Rapp returns to make a mortal enemy of Russia in this high-octane and up-to-the-minute installment in the #1 New York Times bestselling series from "one of the best thriller writers on the planet" (The Real Book Spy). Mitch Rapp hates owing anyone a favor-...
The Last One: A Novel
Will Dean
An unputdownable locked-room thriller about family, trust, and survival from the acclaimed author of the "utterly thrilling" (Lisa Jewell, #1 New York Times bestselling author) First Born. When Caz steps onboard the exclusive cruise liner RMS Atlantica...
Delicate Condition
Danielle Valentine
Hush little baby, don't say a word... A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK! As seen in People, Vanity Fair, Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, Shondaland, Goodreads, and more! ...Mama's going to show you the horrors she's endured. Anna Alcott is desperate to have a family....
The Collector
Daniel Silva
#1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva delivers another stunning thriller in his action-packed tale of high stakes international intrigue. Legendary art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon joins forces with a brilliant and beautiful master-thief to track down the world's...
Dark Ride: A Thriller
Lou Berney
From Lou Berney, the acclaimed, multi award-winning author of November Road and The Long and Faraway Gone, comes a Dark Ride Sometimes the person you least expect is just the hero you need Twenty-one-year-old Hardy "Hardly" Reed--good-natured, easygoing, usually stoned--is drifting...
The Coworker
Freida McFadden
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER "Don't start a Freida McFadden book late at night. You won't be able to put it down!"-- Natalie Barelli, bestselling author of Unforgivable Two women. An office filled with secrets. One terrible crime that can't be taken back. ...
North of Nowhere
Allison Brennan
New York Times bestseller Allison Brennan's latest standalone is an unputdownable race to the dramatic finish. After five years in hiding from their murderous father, the day Kristen and Ryan McIntyre have been dreading has arrived: Boyd McIntyre, head of a Los Angeles...
Dangerous Women (Secret Lives, 2)
Mark De Castrique
"A bewitching political thriller."- Publishers Weekly, Starred Review "Ethel looks like Marple but acts like Marlow." -Kirkus Reviews In a case deciding the future of clean energy, everything hinges on how the chief justice of Supreme Court will lean....
Simply Lies
David Baldacci
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The 6:20 Man comes a twisting new psychological thriller in which two women--one a former detective, the other a dangerous con artist--go head-to-head in an electrifying game of cat and mouse.
The Whispers
Ashley Audrain
"Expertly, subtly and powerfully rendered....[The Whispers] delivers a sucker-punch ending you'll have to read twice to believe."--The New York Times Book Review "[An] electrifying...razor-sharp page-turner." --Carley Fortune, #1 New York Times bestselling...
Whalefall
Daniel Kraus
A USA TODAY BESTSELLER Named a Best Book of 2023 by Book Riot, Shelf Awareness, and NPR The Martian meets 127 Hours in this "powerfully humane" (Owen King, New York Times bestselling author) and...
The Girl in the Eagle's Talons
Karin Smirnoff
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER * #1 INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER * Lisbeth Salander returns, in a trailblazing new installment to the best-selling Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series * Also known as the Millennium series "Lisbeth Salander is back--and maybe better than ever. Karin...
The Stranger Upstairs
Lisa M. Matlin
Most people wouldn't buy an infamous murder house to renovate for fun . . . but Sarah Slade is not most people. "This debut novel deftly explores our shadows-the dark parts of ourselves we don't want others to see. I couldn't stop reading."-Julia Bartz, New York Times...
In a Quiet Town: A Novel
Amber Garza
"Turn[ing] a familiar suburban setting into a deliciously chilling landscape... Garza once again proves she's a master of twisted relationships." --Ashley Winstead, author of In My Dreams I Hold a Knife In this chilling new novel, a woman discovers that her estranged daughter is...
Resurrection Walk
Michael Connelly
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly: Lincoln Lawyer Mickey Haller enlists the help of his half-brother, Harry Bosch, to prove the innocence of a woman convicted of killing her husband. Defense attorney Mickey Haller is back, taking the long shot cases,...
Going Zero: A Novel
Anthony McCarten
TWO HOURS TO VANISH. ONE CHANCE TO ESCAPE. ZERO ALTERNATIVES. Ten Americans have been carefully selected to Beta test a ground-breaking piece of spyware. FUSION can track anyone on earth. But does it work? For one contestant, an unassuming Boston librarian named...
The Only Survivors
Megan Miranda
From the New York Times bestselling author of All the Missing Girls and "master of suspense, Megan Miranda" (Mary Kubica, New York Times bestselling author of The Good Girl), a thrilling mystery about a group of former classmates who reunite to mark the tenth...
The Intern: A Novel
Michele Campbell
A young Harvard law student falls under the spell of a charismatic judge in this timely and thrilling novel about class, ambition, family and murder. Madison Rivera lands the internship of a lifetime working for Judge Kathryn Conroy. But Madison has a secret that could destroy...
The Libyan Diversion
Joel C. Rosenberg
From New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weeklybestselling author Joel C. Rosenberg comes the fifth military and international political thriller in the Marcus Ryker series.The world's most wanted terrorist is dead.Marcus Ryker recommended the drone strike...
Moscow X
David McCloskey
A daring CIA operation threatens chaos in the Kremlin. But can Langley trust the Russian at its center? CIA officers Sia and Max enter Russia under commercial cover to recruit Vladimir Putin's moneyman. Sia works for a London law firm that conceals the wealth of the superrich. Max's...
The Engagement Party: A Novel
Darby Kane
And Then There Were None meets I Know What You Did Last Summer in #1 international bestseller Darby Kane's latest gripping and twisty thriller set on a private island in Maine where secrets piled upon secrets and lies upon lies are all revealed in one fateful weekend....
What We Kept to Ourselves: A Novel
Nancy Jooyoun Kim
This timely and surprising novel about a family's search for answers following the disappearance of their mother from the New York Times bestselling author Nancy Jooyoun Kim explores "immigration, identity, love, and loss. A gorgeous, thrilling read" (Jean Kwok, New York Times...
Dark Angel
John Sandford
Letty Davenport, the tough-as-nails adopted daughter of Lucas Davenport, takes on an undercover assignment that brings her across the country and into the crosshairs of a dangerous group of hackers. Letty Davenport's days working a desk job at are behind her. Her previous actions...
When I'm Dead
Hannah Morrissey
One girl murdered...another one missing...and a medical examiner desperate to uncover the truth in When I'm Dead, the latest Black Harbor mystery by acclaimed author Hannah Morrissey. On a bone-chilling October night, Medical Examiner Rowan Winthorp investigates the...
Cross Down
James Patterson
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Alex Cross is gravely injured. Only his partner and friend John Sampson can keep him safe . . . and get justice. For the first time, John Sampson is on his own.    The...
Everyone Here Is Lying
Shari Lapeña
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Another thrilling domestic suspense novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door "The most addictive book I've read in ages--so slick and disquieting and clever. Just brilliant." -...
Dead Fall
Brad Thor
Lethal operative Scot Harvath is dispatched to avenge the killing of American citizens abroad in #1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author Brad Thor's new pulse-pounding thriller. In the war-ravaged borderlands of Ukraine, a Russian mercenary...

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