In The Other Mrs., Sadie has several problems. She left her dream job in a Chicago ER for a family practice on a rural island in Maine. Her husband’s sister died—perhaps by her own hand— leaving him a house, bank account, and her strange goth daughter Imogene to care for.Continue Reading
“If my kids had been with me, it wouldn’t have happened. I would have stayed in the minivan, doors locked, windows rolled up. Just like the 911 operator instructed.” Instead Cassie confronts a knife-wielding assassin, who warns her, “Let her die, and I’ll let you live.” When the man racesContinue Reading
Abby and Kate are The Wife and the Widow, respectively, in an exhilarating new thriller by the author of The Nowhere Child. What has happened to Kate’s husband, John? When he didn’t return from a business trip, Kate investigates. It appears John never went on the trip despite Skyping KateContinue Reading
In How Quickly She Disappears, Elisabeth’s life is haunted by her twin’s disappearance twenty years ago. In 1941, she is living in Alaska with her husband and daughter when a mysterious stranger says he knows where Jacqueline is now. After the stranger is arrested for murder, Elizabeth goes to elaborateContinue Reading
Leslie has a problem. Her sister, Robin, has overdosed on heroin at just the wrong time. Leslie needs Robin to claim her inheritance. But Robin is dead…under an assumed name. Could her new acquaintance, an aspiring actress and currently unemployed waitress, Mary, play her sister just long enough for themContinue Reading
White Oaks by Jill Hand Genre: Thriller “An ingeniously dark comic thriller about greed, gluttony and murder that is destined for the big screen.” –Best Thrillers Aimee Trapnell reluctantly leaves her apartment on Manhattan’s Central Park West to return to her childhood home in Georgia for her father’s ninetieth birthday.Continue Reading
What happens to Mean Girls and Pretty Little Liars when they grow up? They become concerned about their Reputation. “Good reputations land jobs, find you a spouse, earn you the right friends. But have a bad reputation—well. Here come the whispers. Here come the slammed doors. So it makes senseContinue Reading
“Socialite and husband dead in suicide pact. Teenage children missing; baby found alive.” The Family Upstairs is the story of that baby’s journey to discover her roots and what really happened that night. The baby, Libby, is now twenty-five years old and set to inherit the Chelsea mansion where theContinue Reading
It’s the day before her one-year wedding anniversary and Elise has a problem in the new gaslight-esque thriller, Poison Garden. When Elise arrives home one day early from a trip, she finds her husband, Kieran, in their marital bed with another woman. He swears it was a one-time fling, butContinue Reading
A mystery that meanders around with the pacing of a slice-of-life play (think Fences). I promise there is a crime involved eventually but it will take plenty of pages to get to it in This Little Dark Place. Daniel and Victoria are trying to have a baby. It is notContinue Reading
What is the worst thing that 911 operator Laurie can hear on the job? Her sixteen-year-old daughter calling in saying “Mama? Help me.” Welcome to the adrenaline-fueled ride of Stolen Things. And you are only in chapter two. The twists never let up in Stolen Things. It is an exhilaratingContinue Reading
Former mean girl Claire appears to have it all. Married to her high school sweetheart. Two mostly perfect sons. Law partnership with her best friend Julia. But revenge is a dish best served cold when someone she wronged in high school with The Perfect Lie returns twenty years later toContinue Reading
Twenty-five years ago Dixie’s entire family was murdered by her father with an axe. Her father then proceeded to cut his own throat leaving eighteen-month-old Dixie alive in her high chair. The Theme Music playing was Baby Blue by Badfinger, which is a break-up song about the singer’s girlfriend alsoContinue Reading
Phoebe Miller is hiding inside of a wine bottle inside her house for a number of reasons at the beginning of the Other Mrs. Miller. Phoebe’s father has recently died and left her his fortune. Unfortunately, his death has also triggered a very public outpouring of women accusing him ofContinue Reading
“The Best Lies are at least half true, she said, like it’s just a matter of mixing paint, two different colors swirling together until no one can tell where the truth ends and the lie begins, a new color emerging.” Remy is seventeen and has issues. Her family is constantlyContinue Reading
Why wait for Reese Witherspoon’s stamp of approval? If you don’t snap up this jaw-dropping domestic thriller immediately, that would be your First Mistake. Alice had the perfect marriage with Tom and their daughter, Sophie. They were starting an interior design company together. Then he died. Now, Alice is marriedContinue Reading