This month on BookTrib, Women's Fiction Writers Association shares a list of women’s fiction books with edge-of-your-seat suspense.
Women's Fiction Writers AssociationJuly 24, 2024
Picture this: Opening weekend at an incredibly posh hotel, The Manor, but everything is a farce. Nobody is who they say they are, everyone has secrets … even Tombe, the small town where all of this takes place. The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley paints a beautiful picture of an…
Lydia LefevreJune 24, 2024
The shocking murder of her boss — and the sudden disappearance of her sister — sends Portland paralegal Beth Ralston on a dangerous, dizzying quest to find answers that she may not be able to manage in Mary Keliikoa’s smart thriller, Don’t Ask, Don’t Follow. At a holiday office party…
Peggy KurkowskiJune 4, 2024
“There’s no rehabilitation in prison. You just become more of whatever landed you in there.” “That so? Then what did you become more of in there?” “A hunter.” Miami, 2016. Cuban-American Ignacio Guerra, 23, is home after three years in jail for assaulting a police informant who set him up…
Neil NyrenMay 31, 2024
“The war is over for you, but it has never ended for many of us here. We have buried the bodies, not the memories.” What We Buried (Simon & Schuster), the bestselling seventh Detective Ari Greene novel, by Canadian author Robert Rotenberg dives into two cold cases, dark family secrets,…
Megan BeauregardMay 30, 2024
Cheryl L. Reed is an author and journalist who has shadowed dark and mysterious characters — from cops to murder suspects, cloistered nuns to girls doing drugs. Her second novel, Map of My Escape, is a suspense about Riley Keene, a school shooting survivor turned anti-gun activist who accidentally shoots…
Cameron KimballMay 28, 2024
Caution! The Deepest Lake may keep you up at night compelled to read on to discover what happens next in this exciting, unpredictable suspense-filled thriller. A Journey from Travel Guides to Fiction Andromeda Romano-Lax is a former freelance journalist and travel writer of a dozen or more natural history and…
Linda HitchcockMay 28, 2024
Unless you’ve completely avoided political news since 2016 – yeah, I know it’s tempting – you’ve likely heard of James Comey, the former FBI director fired by President Donald Trump in 2017 for reasons that remain open to debate. Since then, Comey has found fresh pursuits, including that of thriller-mystery…
Dennis HetzelMay 23, 2024
A ghostwriting gig in the Hamptons becomes far more than a job in this sexy, atmospheric, and deliciously tense and spicy novel about love, fame, lies, and obsession. Bestselling author Swan Huntley’s latest novel, I Want You More (Zibby Books), is a whip-smart, page-turning summer read that reveals the glitz,…
BookTribMay 21, 2024
“… I can tell you that I have memories from as far back as Mesopotamia, Ancient Greece, Ancient Egypt, Rome, and so on. The memories are vague and unclear, making it difficult to create a timeline. I have memories of my kind being worshiped as gods at some ancient times…
Monique SnymanMay 16, 2024
There’s something terrifying about a stranger in a thriller. A mysterious figure with unknown motives and capabilities poses a serious threat to unsuspecting victims. But what about someone who isn’t a stranger, who you’ve grown up with, shared meals with, or revealed your darkest desires to? Can you really trust…
Megan BeauregardMay 13, 2024
Elle Marr was 11 years old when the small plane her father was piloting was forced to make a crash landing in the California mountains. Everyone on board survived — but, of course, the inherent trauma of such an experience lingered. Now, many years later, Marr revisits that past fear…
Dawn IusMay 6, 2024
The House on Biscayne Bay, published in April by Berkley/Penguin Random House, marks several milestones for Miami-based New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Chanel Cleeton. It’s her 18th published book (the first was in 2014) and her first Gothic. Biscayne Bay is on Florida’s east side at Miami. “I chose southern Florida…
Susan GoldenbergMay 2, 2024
“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” asks Percy Bysshe Shelley in “Ode to the West Wind.” And as May’s flowers begin to bloom in the last days of April’s showers, spring is indeed all around us. Green sprouts from bare branches! Blue smears across the sky! Pastels dot…
Lindy RyanApril 29, 2024
The Guest House weaves in and around the fast-paced tech startup landscape of the Bay Area in northern California, building to a perilous conclusion. A dynamic entrepreneur pursues her dream of launching a revolutionary speech recognition device but learns that the land of golden opportunity also holds a number of…
Michael FerryApril 18, 2024
You’re born with relatives, you choose your friends — but your neighbors? For better or worse, they simply turn up. And chances are, you’ve had a few undesirables living next door once or twice in your life. In Close to Death, Anthony Horowitz’s fifth book in his groundbreaking Detective Hawthorne…
Dawn IusApril 12, 2024