Suspense

Discover newly released suspense releases.
Updated April 17, 2024
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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...
The Secret
Lee Child
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Don't miss the hit streaming series Reacher!    A string of mysterious deaths. A long-classified mission. A young MP with nothing to lose. 1992. All across the United States respectable, upstanding citizens...
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 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." --...
THE QUIET TENANT
Michallon, Clemence
NATIONAL BEST SELLER * A NEW YORK TIMES BEST CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR * 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...
How Can I Help You
Laura Sims
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR The New York Times Book Review * Publishers Weekly * CrimeReads * Book Riot A LibraryReads Pick The lives of two librarians become dangerously intertwined in this razor-sharp exploration of human nature and the lure of artistic...
Identity
Nora Roberts
The #1 New York Times-bestselling author's terrifying next thriller about one man's ice-cold malice, and one woman's fight to reclaim her life. Former Army brat Morgan Albright has finally planted roots in a friendly neighborhood near Baltimore. Her friend and roommate...
The Spy Coast
Tess Gerritsen
A retired CIA operative in small-town Maine tackles the ghosts of her past in this fresh take on the spy thriller from New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen. Former spy Maggie Bird came to the seaside village of Purity, Maine, eager to put the past behind her after...
Code Red
Vince Flynn
Mitch Rapp makes a mortal enemy of Russia in this high-octane and "ripped straight from next week's headlines" (The Real Book Spy) installment in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. Mitch Rapp hates owing anyone a favor--especially when it's the world's most...
THE COLLECTOR
Silva, Daniel
#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...
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 Heiress
Rachel Hawkins
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A January Indie Next Pick and LibraryReads Pick "The reigning queen of the Gothic thriller." --Entertainment Weekly THERE'S NOTHING AS GOOD AS THE RICH GONE BAD. When Ruby McTavish...
Cross Down
James Patterson
In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Alex Cross is gravely injured and 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...
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...
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." -...
The Engagement Party
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....
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...
Bright Young Women
Jessica Knoll
Don't miss this "breakneck thriller" examining "our culture's obsession with serial killers and true crime" (Harper's Bazaar) following two women on the pursuit of justice against all odds. "A fascinating look at true crime and tabloid culture that's as thoughtful as it is gripping" (...
Resurrection Walk
Michael Connelly
INSPIRATION FOR THE ORIGINAL SERIES THE LINCOLN LAWYER - THE #1 TV SHOW ON NETFLIX 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...
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...
Judgment Prey
John Sandford
Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers team up to crack an unsolvable case in this thrilling new novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford. Alex Sand was spending the evening at home playing basketball with his two young sons when all three were shot in cold...
The Housemaid
Freida McFadden
Don't miss the New York Times and USA Today bestseller and addictive psychological thriller with a jaw-dropping twist that's burning up Instagram and TikTok--Freida McFadden's The Housemaid is perfect for fans of Ruth Ware, Lisa Jewell, and Verity.
The Secret Hours
Mick Herron
A gripping spy thriller from the bestselling author of Slow Horses, about a disastrous MI5 mission in Cold War Berlin--an absolute must-read for Slough House fans. Set in the MI5 world of Slow Horses, now an Apple Original series from Apple TV+ starring Gary...
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. ...
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...
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 "astoundingly great" (Gillian Flynn, #1 New York Times bestselling author) and scientifically...
She Started It
Sian Gilbert
A hot, twisty summer debut thriller about a Caribbean bachelorette party that takes a sinister turn. It's Lord of the Flies meets And Then There Were None...but with Instagram and too much prosecco. The party of a lifetime is nothing like what they expected... Annabel...
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...
Dark Ride: A Thriller
Lou Berney
FINALIST FOR THE LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE! 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...
AFTER THAT NIGHT: A WILL TRENT THRILLER
Slaughter, Karin
WATCH WILL TRENT ON ABC! New York Times Bestseller GBI investigator Will Trent and medical examiner Sara Linton are back in this electrifying thriller from bestselling author Karin Slaughter. "Enter the world of Karin Slaughter. Just be forewarned, there's no going back." -...
The traitor : a novel /
Glass, Ava,
British spy Emma Makepeace goes undercover on a Russian oligarch's superyacht, where she's one wrong move away from a watery grave, in this electrifying thriller from the author of Alias Emma. "Delivers everything fans of spy fiction could want: an absorbing plot,...
THE WHISPERS
Audrain, Ashley
"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...
BEWARE THE WOMAN
Abbott, Megan
An NPR Best Book of the Year By the "master of thinly veiled secrets often kept by women who rage underneath their delicate exteriors" (Kirkus Reviews), Beware the Woman is Megan Abbott at the height of her game. Honey, I just want you to have...
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...
Betrayal: A Robin Lockwood Novel
Phillip Margolin
In Phillip Margolin's Betrayal, attorney Robin Lockwood finds herself defending her old nemesis in a multiple murder case with too many suspects, where success might cost her own life. Robin Lockwood is now a prominent defense attorney in Portland, Oregon but a decade...
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 9TH MAN
Berry, Steve
From New York Times bestselling author of the Cotton Malone series comes a thrilling, action-packed historical adventure that sends Luke Daniels on an international manhunt for the truth about the assassination of President John Kennedy. Luke...
What Never Happened: A Thriller
HALL RACHEL HOWZELL
It's murder in paradise as a woman uncovers a host of secrets off the rocky California coast in a gripping novel of suspense by New York Times bestselling author Rachel Howzell Hall. Colette "Coco" Weber has relocated to her Catalina Island home, where, twenty years before,...
After Death
Dean Koontz
A modern-day Lazarus is humanity's last hope in a breathtaking novel about the absolute powers of good and evil by Dean Koontz, the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense. Michael Mace, head of security at a top-secret research facility, opens his eyes in a...
Out of Nowhere
Sandra Brown
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown comes an emotional thriller where the lives of a young mother and a high-rolling consultant collide under devastating circumstances--culminating in a desperate manhunt that will change their futures forever.  ...
Lethal range /
Steck, Ryan,
Robert Ludlum's the Bourne defiance /
Freeman, Brian,
Someone's killing Treadstone agents and Jason Bourne may be next on the list in this latest electrifying entry in Robert Ludlum's #1 New York Times bestselling series.   From the glacial waters of Alaska to a sexy nightclub in the Bahamas, Treadstone agents are being...
All the Sinners Bleed
S.A. Cosby
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * USA Today Bestseller * Washington Post's The Twelve Best Thrillers of the Year * TIME's 100 Must Read Books of the Year * Goodreads Choice Award Nominee * USA Today's Best Reviewed Books of the Year * BookPage's Best...
The Lie Maker
Linwood Barclay
In this twisty, fast-paced thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Find You First and Take Your Breath Away, a man desperately tries to track down his father--who was taken into witness protection years ago--before his enemies can get to him. Your...
Edenville: A Novel
Sam Rebelein
"[A]n essential read for horror enthusiasts." --Booklist An unsettling, immersive, and wildly entertaining debut novel from "a major new talent!" (R.L. Stine), for fans of Paul Tremblay and Stephen Graham Jones. "[A] delightfully gooey blend of gothic, cosmic, folk and body horror...

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