Suspense

Discover newly released suspense releases.
Updated October 5, 2025
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The Secret of Secrets
Dan Brown
Paper Book
Robert Langdon is back in the long-awaited new race-against-time thriller from the global bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons. Accompanying celebrated academic, Katherine Solomon, to a lecture she's been invited to give in Prague, Robert...
Don't Let Him In
Lisa Jewell
Paper Book
PREPARE TO BE HOOKED BY THE GRIPPING NEW THRILLER FROM SUNDAY TIMES AND MULTI-MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER LISA JEWELL. * AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER * 'Gripping. Shocking. Masterful.' FREIDA McFADDEN 'A thrilling chilling work of...
The Death of Us
Abigail Dean
Paper Book
This is a story of murder. This is a story of love. This is a story of survival. This is the most unforgettable thriller of the year. _________________________ '[a] mesmerising blend of crime and romance' Sunday Times, Pick of the Month 'A superbly imagined,...
The Compound
Aisling Rawle
Paper Book
** A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK ** 'Lord of the Flies meets Love Island - dark, thrilling, and delightfully twisted' LOUISE O'NEILL 'So gripping and propulsive that it beats reality TV at its own game. Why watch TV when Aisling Rawle does it better?' TORREY PETERS 'THIS is...
The Crash
Freida McFadden
Paper Book
A brand new psychological thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden! The nightmare she's running from is nothing compared to where she's headed. Tegan is eight months pregnant, alone, and desperately wants to put her crumbling...
Havoc: A Novel
Christopher Bollen
Paper Book
The New York Times' #1 Thriller of 2024 'Highsmithian... highly readable, twisty and shrewd' HANYA YANAGIHARA (on Instagram), author of A Little Life 'Atmospheric, diabolical fun' LUCY FOLEY, author of The Midnight Feast 'Disturbingly enjoyable' EMMA HEALEY, author of...
With a Vengeance
Riley Sager
One train. No stops. A deadly game of survival and revenge. 'A locked room thriller at its best! Nonstop suspense with twists and turns that will leave your head spinning' FREIDA MCFADDEN 'Sager wields a deft hand in bringing all the elements together...
Nobody's Hero
M. W. Craven
Paper Book
Midnight Black
Mark Greaney
Paper Book
With his lover imprisoned in a Russian gulag, the Gray Man will stop at nothing to free her in this latest entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. A winter sunrise over the great plains of Russia is no cause for celebration. The temperature barely rises above...
The Man Made of Smoke: A Novel
Alex North
Paper Book
YOU SAW IT. YOU WERE TOO SCARED TO ACT. BUT NOW IT'S COMING FOR YOU... From the mind behind the international bestseller The Whisper Man comes a new nightmare 'The Man Made of Smoke was in equal parts terrifying, creepy, thrilling and moving' Marnie...
Famous Last Words
Gillian McAllister
Paper Book
THE GRIPPING NEW NOVEL FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF INTERNATIONAL PHENOMENON WRONG PLACE, WRONG TIME 'Famous Last Words blindsided me with twists and surprises that had me gasping... A brilliant, brilliant book' Jodi Picoult 'What an...
The Blue Hour
Paula Hawkins
Paper Book
**WINNER of Good Housekeeping UK's GH GOOD BOOKS Collection** 'Vivid, extremely tense, unnervingly unputdownable. This is a superb, powerful read.' Independent 'Undoubtedly Hawkins' best novel yet' Observer *****
The Business Trip
Jessie Garcia
'Wow . . . non-stop twists and turns' Freida McFadden, internationally bestselling author of The Housemaid 'Stunning, accomplished, addictive' B.A. Paris, bestselling author of Behind Closed Doors 'First-class thriller writing' Sarah Pearse, bestselling...
Making a Killing
Cara Hunter
Paper Book
*Contains an exclusive Adam Fawley short story* From the Sunday Times bestselling author of the Tiktok sensation MURDER IN THE FAMILY and the DI Adam Fawley series comes a brand new gripping crime thriller about a figure from the past... You thought she was dead.<...
The Summer Guests
Tess Gerritsen
Paper Book
The Summer Guests is the exhilarating and gripping new thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author of The Spy Coast. 'The Thursday Murder Club on steroids' SAGA Magazine THE MARTINI CLUB ISN'T OPEN TO EVERYONE . . . ...
Exit Strategy
Lee Child
Paper Book
'If there is a more iconic character in modern fiction than Jack Reacher, I'd like to meet them.' DAILY MIRROR THE 2025 JACK REACHER THRILLER Jack Reacher will make three stops today. Not all of them were planned for. First - a Baltimore coffee...
Forget Me Not
Stacy Willingham
Don't miss the gripping new thriller from the author of A FLICKER IN THE DARK about a woman searching for answers to her sister's disappearance decades ago 'Absolutely riveting. Simmering tension and genuine shocks make Forget Me Not a thriller I'll remember for a long, long...
Too Old for This
Samantha Downing
It's never too late to teach an old woman new murders...A razor-sharp, edge-of-your-seat new thriller from Sunday Times bestseller Samantha Downing 'Sharp, sly and darkly hilarious' i -- You'd never guess Lottie Jones had...
Defense Protocol
Brian Andrews
Paper Book
Pre-order the next, nail-biting Jack Ryan thriller, TOM CLANCY EXECUTIVE POWER, now! __________ Jack Ryan returns in a blockbuster new novel of action, thrills and intrigue in the No.1 bestselling world created by master storyteller Tom Clancy.
The Collaborators
Michael Idov
Paper Book
A brilliant young intelligence officer and a troubled heiress stumble into a global conspiracy that pits present-day Russia against the CIA in this electrifying, globetrotting spy thriller.   Combining realistic thrills with sophisticated spycraft and witty dialogue, The...
The Oligarch's Daughter
Joseph Finder
'The Firm on steroids.' LINWOOD BARCLAY 'Hands down his best ever.' STEPHEN KING 'This is Finder at his finest... As good as it gets.' LEE CHILD THE PAST CAN FIND YOU ANYWHERE Paul Brightman is a man on the run, living under...
Kill Your Darlings
Peter Swanson
SOON TO BE A MAJOR FILM STARRING JULIA ROBERTS FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'A dazzlingly clever murder mystery, told backwards.' GILLIAN McALLISTER 'Deliciously dark.' JOHN MARRS 'Exhilarating' DANYA KUKAFKA
Clever Little Thing: A Novel
Helena Echlin
Paper Book
A MOTHER KNOWS HER CHILD BEST. DOESN'T SHE? 'Brilliant and creepy, I wolfed it down! One of my favourite reads of 2025' LISA JEWELL Charlotte's daughter, Stella, is sensitive and brilliant - perhaps even a genius - but after the sudden death of her...
When the Wolf Comes Home
Nat Cassidy
One night, Jess, a struggling actress, finds a five-year-old runaway hiding in the bushes outside her apartment. After a violent, bloody encounter with the boy's father, she and the boy find themselves running for their lives. As they attempt to evade the boy's increasingly desperate...
So Far Gone
Jess Walter
Paper Book
National Bestseller "A warm, funny, loving novel. . . . It's an American original."--Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of Tom Lake "Searing and sublime ... Walter is a slyly adept social critic, and has clearly invested his...
The Woman in Suite 11
Ruth Ware
Paradise comes at a price . . . The stunning mountain views. The beautiful shore of Lake Geneva. The terrified woman held in the suite belonging to the hotel's millionaire owner. Lo Blacklock's all-expenses paid trip to a luxury Swiss chateau should have been the...
A Reluctant Spy
David Goodman
Paper Book
RIGHT PLACE. RIGHT TIME. WRONG MAN. 'Engrossing...ingenious...Goodman combines traditional elements - the nods to Buchan, Fleming and le Carré - with the topicality of 2020s technology and the threat from Russia' SUNDAY TIMES, THRILLERS OF THE MONTH 'A...

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