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 . . .
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.
It is June 21, the longest day of the year, and the life of new mother Camilla is about to change forever. After months of maternity leave, she will drop off her infant daughter at daycare for the first time and return to her job as a literary agent. Finally.
But when she wakes, her husband Luke isnât there, and in his place is a cryptic note.
Then it starts. Breaking news: A hostage situation is developing in London. The police tell her Luke is involvedâbut he isn't a hostage. Her husbandâdoting father, eternal optimistâis the gunman.
Something in the Walls is a spine-chilling tale that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
When the Johnson family moves into their dream home, they never expected it to turn into a nightmare. Strange noises, eerie shadows, and unexplainable events haunt their everyday life.
Will they uncover the secrets hidden within the walls, or will they fall victim to the sinister presence lurking in the shadows?
Join Daisy Pearce on this thrilling journey filled with suspense, mystery, and a touch of the supernatural.
When the real game begins, who will make it to the count of 10? Charismatic daredevil and extreme adventurer Maverick Dillan invites you to the ultimate game of hide-and-seek. But as the players gather on Falcao Island, the event quickly spirals into a chilling test of survival.
A storm rages as a deadly threat stalks the contestants, turning the challenge into something far more sinister than the social media stunt it was intended to be.
Enter Adele, a single mother with a fierce determination to protect her children at all costs. When she begins the game, she unwittingly enters a twisted web of deception and intrigue. Can she maneuver through the treacherous storm and the relentless competition and get home to her family?
In a ruthless battle for survival where the stakes are higher than ever, the blurry line between the virtual and the real proves that the only person we can trust is ourselves.
When renowned anonymous author J. R. Alastor hires former aspiring writer Mila del AngĂ©l to host a writing retreat at his private manor off the coast of Maine, she jumps at the chanceâparticularly since she has an ax to grind with one of the invitees. The guest list? Six thriller authors, all masters of deceit, misdirection, and mayhem.
Alastor and Mila have masterminded a week of games, trope-fueled riddles, and maybe a jump scare or twoâthe perfect cover for Mila to plot a murder of her own. But when a guest turns up deadâand itâs not the murder she plannedâMila finds herself trapped in a different narrative altogether.
With a storm cutting off the island, and the body count rising, Mila must outwit a killer who knows literally every trick in the book.
Scythe & Sparrow is an exhilarating tale where circus motorcycle performer Rose meets the lonely small-town doctor Fionn. Their paths cross after a night of murderous adventure goes awry, leading to unexpected bonds and thrilling escapades.
A woman invited to her wealthy fiancĂ©âs family retreat realizes they are hiding a terrible secretâand that sheâs been there before.
A whirlwind romance. When Theodora Scott met Connorâwealthy, charming, and a member of the powerful Dalton familyâshe fell in love in an instant. Six months later, heâs brought her to Idlewood, his familyâs isolated winter retreat, to win over his skeptical relatives.
Stay away from Connor Dalton. Theo has tried to ignore the threatening messages on her phone, but she canât ignore the footprints in the snow outside the cabin window or the strange sense of familiarity she has about this place. Then, in a disused cabin, Theo finds something impossible: a photo of herself as a child. A photo taken at Idlewood.
Iâve been here before. Theo has almost no recollection of her earliest years, but now she begins to piece together the fragments of her memories. Someone here has a shocking secret that they will do anything to keep hidden, and Theo is in terrible danger. Because the Daltons do not lose, and discovering what happened at Idlewood may cost Theo everything.
For fans of Jordan Peeleâs films, Stranger Things, and The Other Black Girl, Listen To Your Sister is a laugh-out-loud, deeply terrifying, and big-hearted speculative horror novel from electrifying debut talent Neena Viel.
Twenty-five year old Calla Williams is struggling since becoming guardian to her brother, Jamie. Calla is overwhelmed and tired of being the one who makes sacrifices to keep the family together. Jamie, full of good-natured sixteen-year-old recklessness, is usually off fighting for what matters to him or getting into mischief, often at the same time. Dre, their brother, promised he would help raise Jamieâbut now the ink is dry on the paperwork and in classic middle-child fashion, heâs off doing his own thing. And through it all, The Nightmare never stops haunting Calla: recurring images of her brothers dying that she is powerless to stop.
When Jamieâs actions at a protest spiral out of control, the siblings must go on the run. Taking refuge in a remote cabin that looks like it belongs on a slasher movie poster rather than an AirBNB, the siblings now face a new threat where their livesâand realityâhang in the balance. Their sister always warned them about her nightmares. They really should have listened.
A spine-tingling standalone novel by bestselling author TJ Kluneâa supernatural road-trip thriller featuring an extraordinary young girl and her two unlikely protectors on the run from cultists and the government. There's nothing more human than a broken heart.
In the spring of 1995, Nate Cartwright has lost everything: his parents are dead, his only brother wants nothing to do with him, and he's been fired from his job as a journalist in Washington, DC. With nothing left to lose, he returns to his family's summer cabin outside the small mountain town of Roseland, Oregon, to try and find some sense of direction. The cabin should be empty. It's not.
Inside is a man named Alex. And with him is an extraordinary ten-year-old girl who calls herself Artemis Darth Vader. Artemis, who isn't exactly as she appears.
Soon it becomes clear that Nate must make a choice: let himself drown in the memories of his past, or fight for a future he never thought possible. Because the girl is special. And forces are descending upon them who want nothing more than to control her.
The million-copy bestselling Queen of Twists Alice Feeney returns with a gripping and deliciously dark thriller about marriage...
... and revenge.
Author Grady Green is having the worst best day of his life.
Grady calls his wife to share some exciting news as she is driving home. He hears Abby slam on the brakes, get out of the car, then nothing. When he eventually finds her car by the cliff edge, the headlights are on, the driver door is open, her phone is still there... but his wife has disappeared.
A year later, Grady is still overcome with grief and desperate to know what happened to Abby. He canât sleep, and he canât write, so he travels to a tiny Scottish island to try to get his life back on track. Then he sees the impossible â a woman who looks exactly like his missing wife.
Wives think their husbands will change but they donât.
Husbands think their wives wonât change but they do.
The nightmare sheâs running from is nothing compared to where sheâs headed.
Tegan is eight months pregnant, alone, and desperately wants to put her crumbling life in the rearview mirror. So she hits the road, planning to stay with her brother until she can figure out her next move. But she doesnât realize sheâs heading straight into a blizzard.
She never arrives at her destination.
Stranded in rural Maine with a dead car and broken ankle, Tegan worries sheâs made a terrible mistake. Then a miracle happens: she is rescued by a couple who offers her a room in their warm cabin until the snow clears.
But something isnât right. Tegan believed she was waiting out the storm, but as time ticks by, she comes to realize she is in grave danger. This safe haven isnât what she thought it was, and staying here may have been her most deadly mistake yet.
And now she must do whatever it takes to save herselfâand her unborn child.
A gut-wrenching story of motherhood, survival, and twisted expectations, #1 New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden delivers a snowbound thriller that will chill you to the bone.
Darby Kane, author of the #1 international bestseller Pretty Little Wife, returns with another twisty domestic thriller about a wife wondering who tried to kill her husband twice before finally succeeding⊠because that was supposed to be her job.
Dr. Richmond Dougherty is a renowned pediatric surgeon, an infamous tragedy survivor, and a national hero. Heâs also very deadâthanks to a fall down the stairs. His neighbors angrily point a finger at the newest Ms. Dougherty, Addison. The sudden marriage to the mysterious young woman only lasted ninety-seven days, and heâd had two suspicious âaccidentsâ during that time. Now Addison is a very rich widow.
As law enforcement starts to circle in on Addison and people in town become increasingly hostile, sides are chosen with Kathryn, Richmondâs high school sweetheart, wife number one, and the mother of his children, leading the fray. Despite rising tensions, Addison is even more driven to forge ahead on the path she charted years agoâŠ
Determined at all costs to unravel Richmondâs legacy, she soon becomes a targetâwith a shocking note left on her bedroom: You will pay. But it will take a lot more than faceless threats to stop Addison. Her plan to marry Richmond then ruin him may have been derailed by his unexpected death, but sheâs not done with him yet.
Told in alternating timelines, The Lake of Lost Girls is a haunting novel that will thrill fans of All Good People Here and We Are All the Same in the Dark.
Using suspenseful podcast clips to weave a twisty tale of a missing student and her sister who is desperate for answers, The Lake of Lost Girls is perfect for fans of I Have Some Questions for You.
It's 1998, and female students are going missing at Southern State University in North Carolina. But freshman Jessica Fadley, once a bright and responsible student, is going through her own struggles. Just as her life seems to be careening dangerously out of control, she suddenly disappears.
Twenty-four years later, Jessica's sister Lindsey is desperately searching for answers and uses the momentum of a new chart-topping true crime podcast, Ten Seconds to Vanish, that focuses on the cold cases, to guide her own investigation. Soon, interest reaches fever pitch when the bodies of the long-missing women begin turning up at a local lake, which leads Lindsey down a disturbing road of discovery.
In the present, one sister seeks to untangle a complicated web of lies.
In the past, the other descends ever deeper into a darkness that will lead to her ultimate fate.
This propulsive and chilling suspense is a sharp examination of sisterhood and the culture of true crime.
Jessica Goodman meets The Agathas in this taut, twisty YA thriller set in the glittering world of Mardi Gras in New Orleans, where secretsâand bodiesânever stay buried.
For the New Orleans elite, the Les Masques Ball is sure to be the social event of the seasonâif they can avoid another dead Queen. When debutante Margot Landry was found dead the morning after her reign at last yearâs ball, it was a tragedy, but not a shocking one. Margot was a wild child with a self-destructive streak, nothing like this yearâs Queen, Lily LeBlanc. With a perfectly poised debutante on the throne, everything is going according to planâŠuntil the ball is hijacked by a mysterious figure in a Jester costume.
That night, Lily sends a text to three of the Maids on her royal courtâher best friend, Vivian; her boyfriend's sister, Piper; and April, her former frenemyâasking them all to meet the next morning. But Lily never shows up.
On the surface, these three debutantes donât have anything in common except their exclusive private school and their ties to Les Masques. But soon, they realize why Lily brought them together: something dark is lurking beneath the glamorous surface of the debutante world, and it might be the reason she disappeared. And the further the girls dig, the more they begin to suspect that Margot's death may not have been an accidentâand that Lily may be next.
When the Jester starts threatening to expose their own secrets, this unlikely trio must team up to uncover the monsters behind the Mardi Gras masksâbefore theyâre left with another dead debutante.
Framed is a compelling work of non-fiction by #1 bestselling author John Grisham and Centurion Ministries Founder Jim McCloskey. This book shares ten harrowing true stories of wrongful convictions, offering an inside look at the injustice faced by victims of the United States criminal justice system.
A fundamental principle of our legal system is the presumption of innocence. However, once someone is found guilty, there is very little room to prove doubt. Framed shares ten true stories of men who were innocent but found guilty. These men sacrificed friends, families, wives, and decades of their lives to prison while the guilty parties remained free.
In each story, John Grisham and Jim McCloskey recount the dramatic, hard-fought battles for exoneration. They examine what leads to wrongful convictions in the first place, including racism, misconduct, flawed testimony, and a corrupt court system that makes them difficult to reverse.
Told with page-turning suspense as only John Grisham can deliver, Framed is a story of overcoming adversity when the battle seems lost, and the deck is stacked against you.
LAPD Detective RenĂ©e Ballard tracks a terrifying serial rapist whose trail has gone cold, with the help of the newest volunteer to the Open-Unsolved Unit: Patrol Officer Maddie Bosch, Harryâs daughter.
RenĂ©e Ballard and the LAPDâs Open-Unsolved Unit get a hot shot DNA connection between a recently arrested man and a serial rapist and murderer who went quiet twenty years ago. The arrested man is only twenty-three, so the genetic link must be familial. It is his father who was the Pillowcase Rapist, responsible for a five-year reign of terror in the city of angels. But when Ballard and her team move in on their suspect, they encounter a baffling web of secrets and legal hurdles.
Meanwhile, Ballardâs badge, gun, and ID are stolenâa theft she canât report without giving her enemies in the department the ammunition they need to end her career as a detective. She works the burglary alone, but her solo mission leads her into greater danger than she anticipates. She has no choice but to go outside the department for help, and that leads her to the door of Harry Bosch.
Finally, Ballard takes on a new volunteer to the cold case unit. Boschâs daughter Maddie wants to supplement her work as a patrol officer on the night beat by investigating cases with Ballard. But RenĂ©e soon learns that Maddie has an ulterior motive for getting access to the cityâs library of lost souls.