Suspense

Discover newly released suspense releases.
Updated February 17, 2026
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The Secret of Secrets
Dan Brown
Paper Book
INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * THE NEW ROBERT LANGDON THRILLER FROM THE ICONIC AUTHOR OF THE DA VINCI CODE "A master of the brainy, twisty thriller. . . . The Secret of Secrets is perhaps his most ambitious undertaking yet: a dense thriller that is...
Ward D
Freida McFadden
Paper Book
Medical student Amy Brenner is spending the night on a locked psychiatric ward. Amy has been dreading her evening working on Ward D, the hospital's inpatient mental health unit. There are very specific reasons why she never wanted to do this required overnight rotation. Reasons nobody...
Don't Let Him In
Lisa Jewell
Paper Book
INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell, three women are connected by one man in this "shocking" (Freida McFadden, #1 New York Times bestselling author) thriller. He's the perfect man....
Too Old for This
Samantha Downing
Paper Book
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Equal parts hilarious and disturbing, Too Old for This kept me glued to the pages from beginning to end!" --#1 New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden A retired serial killer's quiet life is upended by an...
Forget Me Not
Stacy Willingham
Paper Book
A pulse-pounding new Southern thriller from the author of the runaway bestseller A Flicker in the Dark. Twenty-two years ago, Claire Campbell's older sister, Natalie, disappeared shortly after her eighteenth birthday. Days later, her blood was found in a car, a man was...
The Perfect Divorce
Jeneva Rose
A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A USA TODAY BESTSELLER From the author of the multimillion-copy bestselling thriller The Perfect Marriage Till death do us part. Yours. Not Mine. It's been eleven years since high-powered attorney Sarah Morgan defended her husband, Adam,...
The Unraveling of Julia
Lisa Scottoline
Paper Book
A young widow inherits a mysterious Tuscan estate and finds herself thrust into a dangerous conspiracy--twisty and transportive, this is suspense with a passport.    "A compelling thriller with excellent twists!" --Karin Slaughter, New York Times...
The Doorman
Chris Pavone
Paper Book
Named one of the Best Thrillers and a Notable Book of 2025 by the New York Times A pulse-pounding novel of class, privilege, sex, and murder, from the New York Times bestselling author of Two Nights in Lisbon and The Expats. ...
All This Could Be Yours: A Novel
Hank Phillippi Ryan
"Engrossing--with a twist that left me reeling!" --Freida McFadden, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Housemaid Is a debut author's blockbuster bestseller about to ruin her life? A glamorous book tour becomes a deadly cat...
Julie Chan Is Dead
Liann Zhang
INSTANT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER One of NPR's Books We Love for 2025 For fans of Bunny and Yellowface, this razor-sharp debut thriller blends biting satire with chilling suspense, as a young woman steps into her deceased twin's influencer life--only to...
One Small Mistake
Dandy Smith
Audiobook
The Compound
Aisling Rawle
Paper Book
GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK Nothing to lose. Everything to gain. Winner takes all. "Every bit as addictive as your favorite guilty pleasure binge-watch, but with all the substance of a literary classic."--Oprah Daily ...
A Box Full of Darkness
Simone St. James
"From the book's chillingly creepy setting, which previously appeared in The Sun Down Motel (2020), to a nerve-jangling plot that effectively borrows from a mix of genres to the writing itself, which shimmers with a dazzlingly sharp sense of wit, everything about St. James' latest is done...
The Locked Ward
Sarah Pekkanen
Paper Book
New from Sarah Pekkanen, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of House of Glass and co-author of The Wife Between Us. A shocking psychological thriller about the complex bonds of sisterhood―and what happens when they are stretched to the breaking point, The...
The Dark Maestro
Brendan Slocumb
Paper Book
His cello made him famous. His father made him a target. "In this perfectly crafted thriller, Slocumb acts as the master conductor, bringing together a twisty plot and gorgeously wrought characters." -The Boston Globe Curtis Wilson is a cello prodigy, growing...
Nobody's Hero
M. W. Craven
Paper Book
"Exhilarating and darkly comic. . . Craven effectively mixes the unvarnished brutality and high body count of Lee Child with the black humor of Mick Herron. . . A must read." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) "This high-body-count romp is told with such...
Untouchable (A Joe DeMarco Thriller Book 18)
Mike Lawson
It Happened on the Lake
Lisa Jackson
In an intense, twisty, Hitchcockian standalone spin on Rear Window from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson, a woman returns to the Oregon town where a nightmare unfolded 20 years ago--and is waiting to engulf her again. For fans of J.T. Ellison, Paula Hawkins, Karin...
The Other Sister
Jessica R. Patch
Saltwater
Katy Hays
Paper Book
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Cloisters comes a slow-burn psychological drama about an opulent family that unravels when a decades-old crime resurfaces. "Full of chills and darkness."--Oprah Daily "Fans of family...
The Beijing Betrayal
Joel C. Rosenberg
Paper Book
Can Marcus Ryker and his team of elite operatives stop a secret plot to unleash the most devastating sneak attack on the U.S. and her allies in history--before millions of Americans die? In the pulse-pounding final installment of the Marcus Ryker series, the leaders of Communist...
Killer Potential
Hannah Deitch
Paper Book
"Fierce, fun, wild, and enraging." --Chris Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author of All the Colors of the Dark "A real joy to read . . . Killer Potential earns Deitch a spot on the 'new novelists to watch' list." --...
Kill Your Darlings
Peter Swanson
Paper Book
"A dazzlingly clever murder mystery, told backwards, asking the question: why would this loving wife murder her husband?"--Gillian McAllister, New York Times bestselling author of Famous Last Words and Wrong Place Wrong Time From the ...
The Death Mask
Iris Johansen
Paper Book
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen comes a new thriller starring Eve Duncan as she races against time to protect her beloved family from a merciless killer.    World-renowned forensic sculptor Eve Duncan's skills frequently make...
Edge of Honor
Brad Thor
Paper Book
INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER #1 New York Times bestselling author Brad Thor returns with an exhilarating new Scot Harvath thriller. After six months abroad, America's top spy returns to a new administration, a new set of global priorities...
The Bachelorette Party
Camilla Sten
Paper Book
Scream meets The Guest List in this wickedly compelling and compulsively page-turning thriller of friendship and murder from the author of The Lost Village, Camilla Sten. On a remote island nestled off the coast of Sweden, four friends--Tilly, Anna, Linnea...
Our Last Resort: A Novel
Clémence Michallon
A USA TODAY BESTSELLER * From the bestselling author of The Quiet Tenant comes an immersive new suspense novel: Fifteen years ago, Frida and her brother escaped a cult. Now her brother is the prime suspect in a murder investigation--and it isn't the first time. "The...
Penitence
Kristin Koval
Friends and Liars
Kit Frick
Paper Book
From "edge-of-your-seat suspense" (Booklist) author Kit Frick comes an insidious thriller about four estranged friends trapped in a powerful family's deadly games at a luxe estate in the Italian countryside. It's been five years since heiress Clare Monroe tragically...
Going Home in the Dark
Dean Koontz
Paper Book
When hometown horrors come back to haunt, friendship is salvation in a novel about childhood fears and buried secrets by #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense Dean Koontz. As kids, outcasts Rebecca, Bobby, Spencer, and Ernie were inseparable friends in the idyllic...

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