Her memories of that night are never the same. They are both little girls, Unnur and her friend Freyja, alone on a black-sand Icelandic beach, the waves clutching at them. In one memory, Freyja ignores her pleas and walks into the sea. In another, Unnur yanks Freyja’s head underwater until…
Neil NyrenJuly 31, 2026
Murder By Design launches prolific #1 best-selling author, screenwriter and television producer Lee Goldberg’s latest quirky thriller/mystery series with the introduction of insurance investigator/detective Edison Bixby and his narrator-sidekick struggling actor and writer Wally Nash. The dialogue sizzles while delivering hilarity alongside a sensational murder cleverly disguised as an unfortunate…
Linda HitchcockJuly 30, 2026
July’s newest releases lean into the strange, the sinister and the wildly entertaining. Whether it’s haunted homes, supernatural road trips, snowbound slashers or stories where fiction turns deadly, this month’s spookiest releases prove that the most unforgettable summer vacations are the ones you might not survive.
Lindy RyanJuly 24, 2026
Clive Cussler books are synonymous with adventure, mostly at sea, but they are the epitome of thrilling stories well told. Cold Fire is the 22nd adventure of the NUMA Files series — yes, 22 books! Can you believe that? — Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala open at the climax of…
José H. BogránJuly 27, 2026
Alexandra Andrews’ much-lauded 2021 debut novel Who is Maud Dixon, published in twenty-eight languages, continues to impress. Acid-honed superb writing and a surprising plot have justified the skyscraper-high expectations for her second novel, The Fine Art of Lying. The two words “VENETIAN RED” spelled out in capital letters in the…
Linda HitchcockJuly 24, 2026
There are thrillers that ask you to race through the pages, adrenaline pumping through your veins, and there are thrillers that invite you to look twice at every clue, every conversation and every seemingly insignificant detail because it all matters. Day of Wrath by Otho Eskin belongs primarily in the…
BookTribJuly 14, 2026
Echoes of the Gene, the second installment in John H. Thomas's Chronos Files series, is a tightly wound techno-conspiracy thriller that expands its predecessor's world but never loses pace. Picking up the fallout from The Terminal Gene, this book plunges back into a shadow war between the Chronos organization, the…
BookTribJuly 17, 2026
Your spouse survives the accident. Everyone tells you how lucky you are. They're right. But the person who comes home isn't quite the person who left. Their memory is fractured. Their personality has shifted. Conversations that once flowed effortlessly now require patience. They may not remember the moments that shaped…
Dan UseltonJuly 22, 2026
There's a moment early in Icefall where an Alaska state trooper pulls open the door of a stranded Amazon delivery van and finds the driver catatonic, frozen in place with Sinatra still playing softly on the radio. It's a small, eerie image, and it tells you everything about what this…
BookTribJuly 14, 2026
Alessandra Ranelli has written a most unusual locked-room mystery that succeeds in titillating and amusing the reader and possibly even enticing confirmed armchair travelers to book a flight for an exploration of old Vienna, although perhaps booking a more conventional hotel.
Linda HitchcockJuly 6, 2026
June’s darkest releases are steeped in secrets — buried beneath pristine neighborhoods, hidden inside crumbling estates, whispered through old folklore, and lurking at the edge of apocalypse. From gothic fairy tales and supernatural thrillers to uncanny tech nightmares and twisted retellings, this month’s lineup proves that the things we refuse…
Lindy RyanJune 24, 2026
J. Mayberry's The Alpha Trace is an atmospheric and structurally inventive thriller that makes you uneasy about the world.
BookTribJune 10, 2026
What would happen if science discovered that death was not a mystery but a certainty — fixed, encoded and knowable down to the second? That is the premise at the heart of The Terminal Gene, John H. Thomas's techno-conspiracy thriller set in a near-future Boston. The answer Thomas delivers is…
BookTribJune 8, 2026
Missing Sister is a heart-pounding, edge-of-your-seat thriller that gets off to an explosive start right from the opening pages when a rookie woman police officer discovers that the victim in her first murder case investigation is a man she has long blamed for her sister’s death.
R.G. BelskyMarch 3, 2026