Category: Thriller/Mystery
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Dark Matter by Blake Crouch: Content Warnings
Jason Dessen is walking home through the chilly Chicago streets one night, looking forward to a quiet evening in front of the fireplace with his wife, Daniela, and their son, Charlie—when his reality shatters. “Are you happy with your life?” Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the…
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Fantasticland by Mike Bockoven: Content Warnings
Synopsis: Since the 1970s, FantasticLand has been the theme park where “Fun is Guaranteed!” But when a hurricane ravages the Florida coast and isolates the park, the employees find it anything but fun. Five weeks later, the authorities who rescue the survivors encounter a scene of horror. Photos soon emerge…
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Juniper Bean Resorts to Murder by Gracie Ruth Mitchell: Content Warnings
Synopsis: Juniper Bean has big plans for her writing career. Swoony kisses, sigh-inducing happily ever afters—she’s going to write them all. There’s just one problem: she can’t seem to stop killing off her main characters. After accepting that a genre change is in order, Juniper sets out to do some…
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Enola Holmes – The Case of the Missing Marquess by Nancy Springer: Content Warnings
Synopsis: When Enola Holmes, the much younger sister of detective Sherlock Holmes, discovers her mother has disappeared—on her 14th birthday nonetheless—she knows she alone can find her. Disguising herself as a grieving widow, Enola sets out to the heart of London to uncover her mother’s whereabouts—but not even the last…
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The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman: Content Warnings
Synopsis: In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved killings. But when a local property developer shows up dead, ‘The Thursday Murder Club’ find themselves in the middle of their first live case. The four friends, Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron, might…
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Everyone in My Family has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson: Content Warnings
Synopsis: Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than once. I’m not trying to be dramatic, but it is the truth. Some of us are good, others are bad, and some just unfortunate. I’m Ernest Cunningham. Call me Ern or Ernie.…
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Never Lie by Freida McFadden: Content Warnings
Synopsis: Newlyweds Tricia and Ethan are searching for the house of their dreams. But when they visit the remote manor that once belonged to Dr. Adrienne Hale, a renowned psychiatrist who vanished without a trace four years earlier, a violent winter storm traps them at the estate… with no chance of escape until the…
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The Cellar by Natasha Preston: Content Warnings
Synopsis: Summer is trapped in a cellar with the man who took her–and three other girls: Rose, Poppy, and Violet. His perfect flowers. His family. But flowers can’t survive long cut off from the sun, and time is running out… What To Expect: The Cellar written by Natasha Preston is…
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Symphony of Secret by Brendan Slocumb: Content Warnings
Synopsis: Bern Hendricks has just received the call of a lifetime. As one of the world’s preeminent experts on the famed twentieth-century composer Frederick Delaney, Bern knows everything there is to know about the man behind the music. When Mallory Roberts, a board member of the distinguished Delaney Foundation and…
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The Vanishing At Castle Moreau by Jaime Jo Wright: Content Warnings
Synopsis: In 1865, orphaned Daisy Francois takes a position as housemaid at a midwestern Wisconsin castle and finds that the reclusive and eccentric Gothic authoress inside hides more than the harrowing tales in her novels. With women disappearing from the area and a legend that seems to parallel these eerie…
