It is the summer of 1939. A young Oxford don, Richard Myles, and his wife, Frances, are about to leave for their usual long vacation on the continent. At the request of a Foreign Office friend of Richard's, they agree to serve as messengers to a man involved in rescue work and anti-Nazi espionage, a man who now seems to have gone missing.
Their qualifications? Next to nothing except for Richard's superb memory and the fact that they look so very innocent. Across a continent on the brink of war, from Paris to Innsbruck and beyond, Richard and Frances travel ever deeper into danger.
Can they succeed? Will they return safely? Join them on this thrilling journey through the tense atmosphere of pre-war Europe.
From a #1 international bestselling author, a gothic, suspenseful tale in which a young widow inherits a Tuscan estate from a mysterious benefactor and finds herself thrust into the crosshairs of a dangerous conspiracy.
Lately, Julia Pritzker is beginning to think sheâs cursed. Sheâs lost her adoptive parents, then her husband is murdered. When she realizes that her horoscope essentially foretold his death, she begins to spiral. She fears her fate is written in the stars, not held in her own hands.
Then a letter arrives out of the blue, informing her that she has inherited a Tuscan villa and vineyard âbut her benefactor is a total stranger named Emilia Rossi. Julia has no information about her biological family, so she wonders if Rossi could be a blood relative. Bewildered, she heads to Tuscany for answers.
There, Julia is horrified to discover that Rossi was a paranoid recluse, who believed herself to be a descendant of Duchess Caterina Sforza, a legendary Renaissance ruler. Stunned by her uncanny resemblance to Rossi, and even to Caterina, Julia is further unnerved when she unearths eerie parallels between them, including an obsession with astrology.
Before long, Julia suspects sheâs being followed, and strange things begin to happen. Not even a chance meeting with a handsome Florentine can ease her troubled mind. When events turn deadly, Juliaâs harrowing struggle becomes a search for her identity, a race to save her sanity, and ultimately, a question of her very survival.
Twisty, transportive, and hauntingâthis is suspense with a passport.
Laura Dave continues Hannah Hall's pulse-pounding journey in the riveting sequel to the #1 New York Times bestselling blockbuster, The Last Thing He Told Me. This gripping, rich, and deeply evocative novel, The First Time I Saw Him, picks up right where the "genuinely moving" and "gripping" story left off, giving readers the eagerly awaited and thrilling sequel to Dave's global blockbuster.
After receiving a cryptic text from an unknown number saying, 'GET OUT OF THE HOUSE. NOW.', Hannah knows she and her daughter Bailey are in immediate danger. Her husband Owen, who vanished five years ago, has returned, and they must flee their Los Angeles home.
As they drive north along the Californian coast, Hannah grapples with questions of why Owen has come back now and who might be hunting them. Their journey takes them to Paris, a city filled with memories and potential threats, where they hope to find safety but also face looming dangers.
Acclaimed author Laura Dave delivers an adrenaline-fueled thriller you will never want to end.
When Walter Nash is recruited by the FBI to help bring down a global crime network, his life is turned completely upside down in this thrilling novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci.
Walter Nash is a sensitive, intelligent, and kindhearted man. He has a wife and a daughter and holds a very high-level position at Sybaritic Investments, where his innate skills and dogged tenacity have carried him to the top of the pyramid in his business career. Despite never going on grand adventures and always working too many hours, he enjoys a happy and upscale life with his family.
However, following his estranged Vietnam-veteran fatherâs funeral, Nash is unexpectedly approached by the FBI in the middle of the night. They have an important request: become their inside man to expose an enterprise that is laundering large sums of money through Sybaritic. At the top of this illegal operation is Victoria Steers, an international criminal mastermind that the FBI has been trying to bring down for years.
Nash has little choice but to accept the FBIâs demands and try to bring Steers and her partners to justice. But when Steers discovers that Nash is working with the FBI, she turns the tables on him in a way he never could have contemplated. This forces Nash to take the ultimate step both to survive and to exact his revenge: He must become the exact opposite of who he has always been.
And even that may not be enough.
Mallory Fontaine is a fraud. Though she comes from a long line of witches, the only magic she possesses is the ability to see ghosts, which is rarely as useful as one would think. She and her sister have maintained the family business, eking out a paltry living by selling fraudulent spells to gullible buyers and conducting tours of the infamous mansion where the first of the Saphir murders took place.
Mallory is a self-proclaimed expert on Count Bastien Saphir - otherwise known as Monsieur Le Bleu - who brutally killed three of his wives more than a century ago. But she never expected to meet Bastien's great-grandson and heir to the Saphir estate. Armand is handsome, wealthy, and convinced that the Fontaine Sisters are as talented as they claim. The perfect mark. When he offers Mallory a large sum of money to rid his ancestral home of Le Bleu's ghost, she canât resist. A paid vacation at Armandâs country manor? Itâs practically a dream come true, never mind the ghosts of murdered wives and the monsters that are as common as household pests.
But when murder again comes to the House Saphir, Mallory finds herself at the center of the investigationâand she is almost certain the killer is mortal. If she has any hope of cashing in on the payment she was promised, sheâll have to solve the murder and banish the ghost, all while upholding the illusion of witchcraft.
But that all sounds relatively easy compared to her biggest challenge: learning to trust her heart. Especially when the person her heart wants the most might be a murderer himself.
Gone Before Goodbye combines the storytelling talents of Reese Witherspoon and Harlan Coben into one masterpiece of suspense fiction. This unforgettable story features an indomitable woman, trapped in a conspiracy she helped create but canât understand. Her harrowing search for the truth could expose a conspiracy woven throughout the exclusive world of the global ultra eliteâbut at an unfathomable cost to Maggie herself.
Maggie McCabe is teetering on the brink. A highly skilled and renowned Army combat surgeon, she has always lived life at the edge, where she could make the most impact. It was all going to planâŠuntil it wasnât. Upside down after a devastating series of tragedies leads to her medical license being revoked, Maggie has lost her purpose, but not her nerve or her passion.
At her lowest point, she is thrown a lifeline by a former colleague, an elite plastic surgeon whose anonymous clientele demand the best care money can buy, as well as absolute discretion. Halfway across the globe, sequestered in the lap of luxury and cutting-edge technology, one of the worldâs most mysterious men requires unconventional medical assistance.
Desperate and one of the few surgeons in the world skilled enough to take this job, Maggie enters his realm of unspeakable opulence and fulfills her end of the agreement. But when the patient suddenly disappears while still under her care, Maggie must become a fugitive herselfâor she will be the next one who isâŠ
Remain is a one-of-a-kind novel that grapples with the supernatural mysteries of life, death, and human connectionâan unprecedented collaboration between the globally bestselling author of love stories like The Notebook and the renowned writer and director of blockbuster thrillers like The Sixth Sense.
When New York architect Tate Donovan arrives in Cape Cod to design his best friendâs summer home, he is hoping to make a fresh start. Recently discharged from an upscale psychiatric facility where he was treated for acute depression, he is still wrestling with the pain of losing his beloved sister. Sylviaâs deathbed revelationâthat she can see spirits who are still tethered to the living world, a gift that runs in their familyâsits uneasily with Tate, who struggles to believe in more than what reason can explain.
But when he takes up residence at a historic bed-and-breakfast on the Cape, he encounters a beautiful young woman named Wren who will challenge every assumption he has about his logical and controlled world.
Tate and Wren find themselves forging an immediate connection, one that neither has ever experienced before. But Tate gradually discovers that below the surface of Wrenâs idyllic small-town life, hatred, jealousy, and greed are festering, threatening their fragile relationship just as it begins to blossom. Tate realizes that in order to free Wren from an increasingly desperate fate, he will need to unearth the truth about her past before time runs out... a quest that will make him doubt whether we can ever believe the stories we tell about ourselves, and the laws that govern our existence.
Loveâwhile transformativeâcan sometimes be frightening. A story about the power of transcendent emotion, Remain asks us all: Can love set us free not only from our greatest sorrows, but even from the boundaries of life and death?
There's someone at your front door - should you let them in? Find out in a riveting new thriller from global sensation and #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Housemaid, Freida McFadden!
Who knows what the storm will blow in... Casey's cabin in the wilderness is not built for a hurricane. Her roof shakes, the lights flicker, and the tree outside her front door sways ominously in the wind. But she's a lot more worried about the girl she discovers lurking outside her kitchen window.
She's young. She's alone. And she's covered in blood.
The girl won't explain where she came from, or loosen her grip on the knife in her right hand. And when Casey makes a disturbing discovery in the middle of the night, things take a turn for the worse.
The girl has a dark secret. One she'll kill to keep. And if Casey gets too close to the truth, she may not live to see the morning.
In this taut, deadly tale of survival and desperation, #1 New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden explores how far one girl will go to save herself.
It starts with a class in an old movie theatre.
Folklore 517: Local Legends and Urban Myths, taught by a woman called the Professor. Most students believe the Professor's stories are just fiction. There isn't a man in Hollywood who you can call to find out the time you'll die. There's not a haunted hotel bar in Los Angeles that the devil likes to frequent. There's no such thing as magic.
But... most students don't have the same tragic past as Holland St. James. Now a graduate student, Holland is hoping to use her thesis to rewrite her past by proving that some of the most infamous deaths in old Hollywood were actually murders committed by the devil. She has no idea that this quest will lead her into a deadly world of century-old secrets and unimaginable lies and onto the path of two very dangerous men, both of whom are willing to do whatever it takes to find a magic that will either forever alter Holland's life or completely destroy it.
Alchemy of Secrets is the first adult novel from global fantasy phenomenon Stephanie Garber, the multimillion-copy bestselling author of the Caraval and Once Upon a Broken Heart series.
She has won the games of the gods, but can she stand against the titans?
Lyra may have survived the Crucible, but now she faces an even more dangerous testâa deadly race against time begins in Tartarus. Trapped in humanity's worst pit stop, she must square off against monsters who make the gods look merciful.
Titans, twisted by centuries of rage and ruin, are sealed behind seven ancient locks. And guess what? Lyra is the key. To escape, she'll have to survive every horrifying trial they throw at her. To win, she might have to become something the gods never saw coming.
Oh, and Hades? He's about to break every rule the gods ever wrote. Because to save Lyra...the god of death will burn the world. But if she breaks free? So do the Titans. And the world won't just sufferâit'll beg for the end.
The games continue in the thrilling and highly anticipated follow-up to the bestselling The Games Gods Play. Welcome to Tartarus!
The Hallmarked Man is a gripping addition to the Cormoran Strike series. A dismembered corpse is discovered in the vault of a silver shop. Initially thought to be a convicted armed robber, not everyone agrees. Decima Mullins is among those who disagree and seeks the help of private detective Cormoran Strike, convinced that the body is her boyfriend, the father of her newborn, who mysteriously disappeared.
As Strike and his partner Robin Ellacott delve deeper, the case becomes a labyrinth of twists and turns. The silver shop, located beside the Freemasons' Hall, specializes in Masonic silverware. It becomes evident that there are more missing men who could fit the profile of the body found.
Strike faces personal turmoil as well, as Robin seems increasingly committed to her boyfriend, Ryan Murphy, while his own feelings for her grow stronger.
This wonderfully complex novel takes Strike and Robin's story to a thrilling new level, making The Hallmarked Man an unmissable read for fans of this unique series.
The worldâs most celebrated thriller writer returns with his most stunning novel yetâa propulsive, twisty, thought-provoking masterpiece that will entertain readers as only Dan Brown can do.
Robert Langdon, esteemed professor of symbology, travels to Prague to attend a groundbreaking lecture by Katherine Solomonâa prominent noetic scientist with whom he has recently begun a relationship. Katherine is on the verge of publishing an explosive book that contains startling discoveries about the nature of human consciousness and threatens to disrupt centuries of established belief.
But a brutal murder catapults the trip into chaos, and Katherine suddenly disappears along with her manuscript. Langdon finds himself targeted by a powerful organization and hunted by a chilling assailant sprung from Pragueâs most ancient mythology. As the plot expands into London and New York, Langdon desperately searches for Katherine . . . and for answers.
In a thrilling race through the dual worlds of futuristic science and mystical lore, he uncovers a shocking truth about a secret project that will forever change the way we think about the human mind.
A pulse-pounding new Southern thriller from the author of the runaway bestseller A Flicker in the Dark.
Twenty-two years ago, Claire Campbellâs older sister, Natalie, disappeared shortly after her eighteenth birthday. Days later, her blood was found in a car, a man was arrested, and the case was swiftly closed. In the decades since, Claire has attempted to forget her traumatic past by moving to the city and climbing the ranks as an investigative journalist... until an unexpected call from her father forces her to come back home and face it all anew.
With the entire summer now looming aheadâa summer spent with nothing to do in her childhood home, with her estranged motherâClaire decides on a whim to accept a seasonal job at Galloway Farm, a muscadine vineyard in coastal South Carolina less than an hour away from where she grew up. At first glance, Galloway is an idyllic escape for Claire. A scenic retreat full of slow-paced nostalgia, as well as a place where her sister seemed truly happy in that last summer before she vanished, it feels like the perfect plan to pass the time.
However, as soon as Claire starts to settle in, she stumbles across an old diary written by one of the vineyard's owners, and what at first seems like a story of young rebellion and love turns into something much more sinister as it begins to describe details of various unsolved crimes. As the days stretch on, Claire finds herself becoming more and more secluded as she starts to obsess over the diary's contents... as well as the lingering feeling that her own sister's disappearance may be somehow tied to it all.
Galloway was supposed to be a place to help her move forward, but instead, Claire quickly finds herself immersed in her own dark and dangerous past.
In seven days Jet Mason will be dead.
Jet is the daughter of one of the wealthiest families in Woodstock, Vermont. Twenty-seven years old, and back living with her parents, she's still waiting for her life to begin. I'll do it later, she always says. She has time.
Until Halloween night, when she is violently attacked by an unseen intruder, suffering a catastrophic head injury. Doctors are certain that within a week, the injury will trigger a deadly aneurysm.
Jet never thought of herself as having enemies. But now she looks at everyone in a new light: her family, her former best friend turned sister-in-law, her ex-boyfriend.
She has at most seven days, and as her condition deteriorates, she has only her childhood friend Billy for help. But nevertheless, she's absolutely determined to finally finish something:
Jet is going to solve her own murder.
She didnât see it coming . . .
But one of us did.
Bryden and Sam have it all - thriving careers, a smart apartment in a luxury condominium, supportive friends, and a cherished daughter. The perfect life for the perfect couple.
Then Sam receives a call at his office. Bryden â working from home that day - has failed to collect their daughter from daycare.
Arriving home with their little girl, he finds his wifeâs car in the underground garage. Upstairs in their apartment, her laptop is open on the table, her cell phone nearby, her keys in their usual place in the hall.
Except Bryden is nowhere to be seen. Itâs as if she just walked out.
How can she have disappeared from her own home? And did she even leave the building at all?
With every minute that passes â and as questions swirl around their community â Bryden and Samâs past seems a little less perfect, their condominium less safe, their friends, neighbors, and relatives no longer quite so reliable . . .
Set at a summer rental on the Chesapeake Bay, this is a riveting family drama about moral responsibility in the age of artificial intelligence, from the bestselling author of the "wise and addictive" (New York Times) The Gifted School.
When the Cassidy-Shawsâ autonomous minivan collides with an oncoming car, seventeen-year-old Charlie is in the driverâs seat, with his father, Noah, riding shotgun. In the back seat, tweens Alice and Izzy are on their phones, while their mother, Lorelei, a world leader in the field of artificial intelligence, is absorbed in her work. Yet each family member harbors a secret that implicates them in the accident.
During a weeklong recuperation on the Chesapeake Bay, the family confronts the excruciating moral dilemmas triggered by the crash. Noah tries to hold the family together as a seemingly routine police investigation jeopardizes Charlieâs future. Alice and Izzy turn strangely furtive. And Loreleiâs odd behavior tugs at Noahâs suspicions that there is a darker truth behind the incidentâsuspicions heightened by the sudden intrusion of Daniel Monet, a tech mogul whose mysterious history with Lorelei hints at betrayal. When Charlie falls for Monetâs teenaged daughter, the stakes are raised even higher in this propulsive family drama that is also a fascinating exploration of the moral responsibility and ethical consequences of AI.
Culpability explores a world newly shaped by chatbots, autonomous cars, drones, and other nonhuman forces in ways that are thrilling, challenging, and unimaginably provocative.
In this follow-up to #1 New York Times bestselling author Ruth Wareâs multi-million copy mega-hit The Woman in Cabin 10, Lo Blacklock returns to attend the opening of a luxury hotel, only to find herself in a white-knuckled race across Europe.
When the invitation to attend the press opening of a luxury Swiss hotelâowned by reclusive billionaire Marcus Leidmannâarrives, itâs like the answer to a prayer. Three years after the birth of her youngest child, Lo Blacklock is ready to reestablish her journalism career, but post-pandemic travel journalism is a very different landscape from the one she left ten years ago.
The chateau on the shores of Lake Geneva is everything Loâs ever dreamed of, and she hopes she can snag an interview with Marcus. Unfortunately, he proves to be even more difficult to pin down than his reputation suggests. When Lo gets a late-night call asking her to come to Marcusâs hotel room, she agrees despite her own misgivings. Sheâs greeted, however, by a woman claiming to be Marcusâs mistress, and in life-or-death jeopardy.
What follows is a thrilling cat-and-mouse pursuit across Europe, forcing Lo to ask herself just how much sheâs willing to sacrifice to save this womanâŠand if she can even trust her?
Annabelle has everything sheâs ever wanted. A devoted husband, two wonderful daughters, and a career she loves. She couldnât be happier. So why is she suddenly plagued by disturbing dreams of a future where she hates her husband and her daughtersâ lives are at risk? At first, she chalks the dreams up to an overactive imagination. But when details from her dreams, details she couldnât possibly have predicted, begin to materialize, she realizes these arenât just dreams but rather premonitions of a terrifying future. They all point to a singular choice, an unknown moment that holds Annabelleâs life in the balance.
Then Annabelle has a dream that her daughter, Scarlett, is in immediate danger. Someone wants Scarlett dead and Annabelle has no idea who or why. Suddenly, every choice she makes is fraught with peril, with no inkling of which move could bring this terrifying vision to life. As her present life starts to collide with the future in her dreams, she wrestles with how much control she really has over her destiny and whether or not she can change what is meant to be.
One train. No stops. A deadly game of survival and revenge.
In 1942, six people destroyed Anna Matheson's family. Twelve years later, she's ready for retribution.
Under false pretenses, Anna has lured those responsible for her family's downfall onto a luxury train from Philadelphia to Chicago, an overnight journey of fourteen hours. Her goal? Confront the people who've wronged her, get them to confess their crimes, and deliver them into the hands of authorities waiting at the end of the line. Justice will at last be served.
But Anna's plan is quickly derailed by the murder of one of the passengers. As the train barrels through the night, it becomes clear that someone else on board is enacting their own form of revengeâand that they won't stop until everyone else is dead.
With time running out before the train reaches its destination, Anna is forced to hunt the killer in their midst while protecting the people she hates the most. In order to destroy her enemies, she must first save themâeven though it means putting her own life at risk.
Santo Domingo de la Calzada, 1532.
London, 1837.
Boston, 2019.
Three young women, their bodies planted in the same soil, their stories tangling like roots.
One grows high, and one grows deep, and one grows wild.
And all of them grow teeth.
King of Ashes by S. A. Cosby is a gripping Godfather-inspired Southern crime epic intertwined with dazzling family drama.
When the eldest son, Roman Carruthers, is summoned home after his fatherâs car accident, he finds his younger brother, Dante, in debt to dangerous criminals and his sister, Neveah, exhausted from holding the familyâand the family businessâtogether. Neveah and their father, who run the Carruthers Crematorium in the run-down central Virginia town of Jefferson Run, see death up close every day. But mortality draws even closer when it becomes clear that the crash that landed their father in a coma was no accident and Danteâs recklessness has placed them all in real danger.
Roman, a financial whiz with a head for numbers and a talent for making his clients rich, has some money to help buy his brother out of trouble. But in his work with wannabe tough guys, heâs forgotten that there are real gangsters out there. As his bargaining chips go up in smoke, Roman realizes that he has only one thing left to offer to save himself, and his own particular set of skills.
Roman begins his work for the criminals while Neveah tries to uncover the long-ago mystery of what happened to their mother, who disappeared when they were teenagers. But Roman is far less of a pushover than the gangsters realize. He is willing to do anything to save his family. Anything.
Because everything burns.
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, craggy island nestled off the coast of Sweden, four friendsâTilly, Anna, Linnea, and Evelinaâmeet every year. Best friends since childhood, the idea is to drink beer, dance by the water, and shake off the weight of life's expectations. The location of the island is a secret to everyone but them. One night of reckless fun and secret-sharing, and then they return to their normal lives.
Ten years later. Ever since she was a teenager, Tessa Nilsson has been consumed by the story of four friends who disappeared on their annual trip to a remote island together. As her true crime fervor turned into a wildly popular podcast, Tessa urgently covered Swedenâs most gruesome cases, but could never find the answers behind what happened to these women who disappeared, leaving a few maddening clues but no concrete answers. Now Tessaâs podcast has crashed and burned, any chance she had at uncovering the truth vanishing with it.
Anneliese is Tessaâs best friend, and before she walks down the aisle, she wants to have a bachelorette party. The Baltic Vinyasa, a sleek, sophisticated yoga retreat on a small island off the coastâone with such similar characteristics to the tragedy years ago that it raises the hair on Tessaâs neck. The idea is to drink gallons of cava, do sunrise yoga, and get in their last chance to bond with the bride. Tessa will not pass this up. Itâs her last chance to find out what happened to the four women, once and for all.
And itâs someone elseâs last chance to get revenge.
The new electrifying thriller from the New York Times bestseller and master of the shock ending.
Chicky Diaz is everyone's favourite doorman at the Bohemia, New York City's world-famous home of celebrities, financiers, and the cultural elite. In the basement staff room, the life-and-death stakes of daily life are hardly news to the primarily Black and Latino hospitality. So, when the NYPD fatally shoots an unarmed Black man and the streets swell with both protestors and counter protestors, the staff's concerns are less about the building or its residents and more about their survival â and what justice will look like.
As tensions escalate, Chicky mans the line between the turbulence outside and the oblivious residents living within. But Chicky has his own problems, the kind that have led him to carry a gun on tonight's shift for the first time in thirty years. Because tonight, someone is going to die.
A piercing portrait of the way we live now that is also a finely-honed thriller of ticking-clock suspense, The Doorman is about class and privilege in a city poised to boil over, and the ever-starker divisions testing everything New York City likes to believe about itself.
Dan Garvieâs life has been haunted by the crime he witnessed as a childânarrowly escaping an encounter with a notorious serial killer. He has dedicated his life since to becoming a criminal profiler, eager to seek justice for innocent victims.
So when his father passes away under suspicious circumstances, Dan revisits his small island community, determined to uncover the truth about his death. Is it possible that the monster he remembers from his childhood nightmares has returned after all these years?
With his signature shock and suspense, Alex North brings us The Man Made of Smoke. In turn emotional, introspective, and utterly terrifying, this is a story of fathers and sons, shadows and secrets, and the fight we all face to escape the trauma of the past.
The Manor of Dreams is a haunting novel that delves deep into the secrets hidden within a crumbling mansion once owned by a former Hollywood starlet. This thrilling tale weaves the intertwined fates of two Chinese American families vying to inherit the estate, amidst whispers of long-buried truths.
"They say what you donât know canât hurt you. But silence can be deadly."
Vivian Yin, the first Chinese actress to win an Oscar, rose to fame in the eighties but chose to live out her later years in seclusion. After her death, her family gathers for the reading of her will, expecting to inherit her sprawling Southern California garden estate. However, due to an unexpected change in the will, the house is left to another family, returning after decades of estrangement.
In a bid to claim their inheritance, both families move into the mansion, where they are soon confronted by grief, paranoia, and a more sinister, vengeful presence than they could have imagined. Will they uncover the painful truth about the last summer they spent in the house, or will their secrets remain buried forever?
Told in dual timelines and spanning three generations, The Manor of Dreams is brimming with romance, betrayal, ambition, and sacrifice. This gothic family drama explores the true cost of the American dream and the decay that can set in when roots are neglected.
Thereâs no place like homeâŠ
Blake Porter is riding high, until he's not. Fired abruptly from his job as a VP of marketing and unable to make the mortgage payments on the new brownstone that he shares with his fiancée, he's desperate to make ends meet.
Enter Whitney. Beautiful, charming, down-to-earth, and looking for a room to rent. She's exactly what Blake's looking for. Or is she?
Because something isn't quite right. The neighbors start treating Blake differently. The smell of decay permeates his home, no matter how hard he scrubs. Strange noises jar him awake in the middle of the night. And soon Blake fears someone knows his darkest secrets...
Danger lives right at home, and by the time Blake realizes it, it'll be far too late. The trap is already set.
#1 New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden knocks at your door with a gripping story of revenge, privilege, and secrets turned sourâŠ
In this explosive horror novel, a woman is haunted by inner trauma, hungry ghosts, and a serial killer as she confronts the brutal violence experienced by East Asians during the pandemic.
Cora Zeng is a crime scene cleaner, washing away the remains of brutal murders and suicides in Chinatown. But none of that seems so terrible when sheâs already witnessed the most horrific thing possible: her sister, Delilah, being pushed in front of a train.
Before fleeing the scene, the murderer shouted two words: bat eater.
The bloody messes donât really bother Coraâsheâs more bothered by the germs on the subway railing, the bare hands of a stranger, the hidden viruses in every corner, and the bite marks on her coffee table. Ever since Delilah was killed in front of her, Cora canât be sure what's real and whatâs in her head.
She pushes away all feelings and ignores the advice of her aunt to prepare for the Hungry Ghost Festival, when the gates of hell open. But she can't ignore the dread in her stomach as she keeps finding bat carcasses at crime scenes, or the scary fact that all her recent cleanups have been the bodies of East Asian women.
As Cora will soon learn, you canât just ignore hungry ghosts.
For fans of Stephen Graham Jones and Gretchen Felker-Martin, Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng is a wildly original, darkly humorous, and subversive contemporary novel from a striking new voice in horror.
In this razor-sharp, diabolical debut thriller, a young woman steps into her deceased twinâs influencer life, only to discover dark secrets hidden behind her social media façade.
Julie Chan has nothing. Her twin sister has everything. Except a pulse.
Julie Chan, a supermarket cashier with nothing to lose, finds herself thrust into the glamorous yet perilous world of her late twin sister, Chloe VanHuusen, a popular influencer. Separated at a young age, the identical twins were polar opposites and rarely spoke, except for one viral video that Chloe initiated (Finding My Long-Lost Twin And Buying Her A House #EMOTIONAL). When Julie discovers Chloeâs lifeless body under mysterious circumstances, she seizes the chance to live the life sheâs always envied.
Transforming into Chloe is easier than expected. Julie effortlessly adopts Chloeâs luxurious influencer life, complete with designer clothes, a meticulous skincare routine, and millions of adoring followers. However, Julie soon realizes that Chloeâs seemingly picture-perfect life was anything but.
Haunted by Chloeâs untimely death and struggling to fit into the privileged influencer circle, Julie faces mounting challenges during a weeklong island retreat with Chloeâs exclusive group of influencer friends. As events spiral out of control, Julie uncovers the sinister forces that may have led to her sisterâs demise and realizes she might be the next target.
A group of friends investigates the mystery of a strange staircase in the woods in this mesmerizing horror novel.
Five high school friends are bonded by an oath to protect one another no matter what.
Then, on a camping trip in the middle of the forest, they find something: a mysterious staircase to nowhere.
One friend walks upâand never comes back down. Then the staircase disappears.
Twenty years later, the staircase has reappeared. Now the group returns to find the lost boyâand what lies beyond the staircase in the woods.
From the author of the multimillion-copy bestselling thriller The Perfect Marriage
Till death do us part. Yours. Not Mine.
Itâs been eleven years since high-powered attorney Sarah Morgan defended her husband, Adam, against the charge of murdering his mistress. Sarah has long since moved on, starting a family with her new husband, Bob Miller, and changing careers. Her life is back to being exactly how she always wanted ⊠or is it?
After discovering Bob engaged in a one-night stand, Sarah wastes no time filing for divorce. However, amid their ugly separation, new DNA evidence is uncovered in the case against Adam, forcing the police to reopen the investigation and putting Sarah right back in the spotlight. Everyone wants to know what really happened, most of all former deputy Marcus Hudson, who is hell-bent on finding the truth.
But when the woman Bob slept with is reported missing, he and Sarah start to fight dirty, and a high-stakes game of cat and mouse ensues. Filled with page-turning suspense and Jeneva Roseâs signature twists and turns, this book will have readers wondering: Can Bob and Sarah achieve the perfect divorce? Or will it be ââtil death do us partâ?
When a daring art heist takes place at the Regency Grand, Mollyâs life is threatened. The question is whoâs out to get her, and why? Long-buried secrets will be revealed in this intriguing and heartwarming novel.
Molly Grayâs life is about to change in ways she could never have imagined. As the esteemed Head Maid and recently promoted Special Events Manager of the Regency Grand Hotel, good things are just around the corner, including her marriage to her beloved fiancĂ©, Juan Manuel, only two months away.
But Mollyâs entire existence is upended when a film crew descends upon the hotel to shoot the hit reality TV show Hidden Treasures, starring popular art appraisers Brown and Beagle. On a whim, Molly brings in a shoebox containing a few of her granâs old things for appraisal, and much to everyone's surprise, one item turns out to be a rare and priceless treasure. Instantly, Molly is both a multi-millionaire and a media sensationâthe worldâs rags-to-riches darlingâuntil the priceless piece vanishes from the hotel in the boldest, brashest antiquities heist in recent memory.
The key to the mystery lies in the past, in a long-forgotten diary written by Mollyâs gran. For the first time ever, Molly learns about Granâs true-to-life fairytale, a young girl to the manor born, the only child of a wealthy magnate. But when Gran falls head over heels in love with a young man her parents deem below her station, her life is thrown into turmoil. As fate would have it, the greatest love of Granâs life is someone Molly knows quite wellâŠ
Together with her friends, Molly combs the past and the present to catch the thief before looming threats against her become real.
A spirited heist caper and an epic love story, The Maidâs Secret is a spellbinding whodunnit that will capture and warm your heart.
Rabbit Moon is a captivating family drama set in the vibrant city of Shanghai, where a fractured American family confronts its complicated past.
Four years after their bitter divorce, Claire and Aaron Litvak receive a phone call no parent is prepared for: their 22-year-old daughter, Lindsey, teaching English in China during a college gap year, has been critically injured in a hit-and-run accident. At a Shanghai hospital, they wait anxiously at her bedside, hoping for the best and preparing for the worst.
The accident unveils a deeper fissure within the family, revealing the shocking event that ended the Litvaks' marriage and turned Lindsey against them. Estranged from her parents, Lindsey has confided only in her younger sister, Grace, who was adopted as an infant from China. As Claire and Aaron navigate the bustling, cosmopolitan streets of Shanghai, the newly prosperous "miracle city," they face troubling questions about Lindsey's life there, where nothing is quite as it seems.
With her trademark psychological acuity, Jennifer Haigh delivers a taut, suspenseful story about family, secret lives, and the unbreakable bond between two sistersâthe fabled red thread that ties them together across time and space.
In the latest thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford, Lucas Davenport is tasked with his most treacherous case yet.
In 1992, Sarah Lingate is found dead below the cliffs of Capri, leaving behind her three-year-old daughter, Helen. Despite suspicions that the old-money Lingates are involved, Sarahâs death is ruled an accident, and every year the family returns to prove itâs true.
But on the thirtieth anniversary of Sarahâs death, the Lingates arrive at the villa to find a surprise waiting for themâthe necklace Sarah was wearing the night she died.
The long-awaited new novel from the author of global sensation Tender Is the Flesh: a thrilling work of literary horror about a woman cloistered in a secretive, violent religious order, while outside the world has fallen into chaos.
From her cell in a mysterious convent, a woman writes the story of her life in whatever she can findâdiscarded ink, dirt, and even her own blood. A lower member of the Sacred Sisterhood, deemed an unworthy, she dreams of ascending to the ranks of the Enlightened at the center of the convent and of pleasing the foreboding Superior Sister. Outside, the world is plagued by catastropheâcities are submerged underwater, electricity and the internet are nonexistent, and bands of survivors fight and forage in a cruel, barren landscape. Inside, the narrator is controlled, punished, but safe.
But when a stranger makes her way past the convent walls, joining the ranks of the unworthy, she forces the narrator to consider her long-buried pastâand what she may be overlooking about the Enlightened. As the two women grow closer, the narrator is increasingly haunted by questions about her own past, the environmental future, and her present life inside the convent. How did she get to the Sacred Sisterhood? Why canât she remember her life before? And what really happens when a woman is chosen as one of the Enlightened?
A searing, dystopian tale about climate crisis, ideological extremism, and the tidal pull of our most violent, exploitative instincts, this is another unforgettable novel from a master of feminist horror.