Domestic Thrillers

On a warm spring evening, guests gather in a perfectly manicured garden to celebrate Maggie and Len’s twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. But as the joyful party atmosphere disappears into the night, close by, the lifeless body of a young woman is pulled from a river....

Two girls vanished. A woman buried alive. Between two crimes lie decades of secrets yet to be unearthed in a pulse-pounding novel by the Edgar Award-nominated author of Unspeakable Things....

Two women. An office filled with secrets. One terrible crime that can't be taken back. Dawn Schiff is strange....

Cat panics when she sees a photofit of a murder suspect flash up on the news. It looks exactly like her, and to make matters worse, the victim is her childhood best friend, Charlie....

Eve has a good life. She wakes up each day, kisses her husband Nate, and heads off to teach math at the local high school. All is as it should be. Except… Last year, Caseham High was rocked by a scandal involving a student-teacher affair, with one student, Addie, at its center....

Cultural shifts of the late twentieth century reveal dark secrets at an elite prep school, in this posthumously discovered novel by the author of Our Crowd.

Tess Strebel can’t recognize her own face. She can’t recognize her home. Her bedroom is unfamiliar. And she can’t remember the handsome stranger lying next to her in bed. A stranger who claims he’s her husband....

Nina can never forgive Maggie for what she did. And she can never let her leave. They say every house has its secrets, and the house that Maggie and Nina have shared for so long is no different. Except that these secrets are not buried in the past....

Six teens murdered. A suspect behind bars. A desperate father. In a case this shadowy, the truth is easy to hide....

Victoria Barnett has it all: a great career as a nurse practitioner, a handsome and loving husband, a beautiful home in the suburbs, and a plan to fill it with children. Life is perfect—or so it seems....

A stranger has infiltrated your family…and now he’s taking over....

One fateful encounter upends the lives of two women in this tense domestic thriller, a modern spin on Alfred Hitchcock’s Strangers On A Train that flips the script on race and gender politics....

In this thrilling novel from bestselling author John Marrs, a young couple’s house hides terrible secrets—and not all of them are confined to the past....

Amy is fiercely independent, with a high-powered career, a flat of her own and tight-knit friendships. But as she approaches her 30th birthday, she can’t help but rue the one thing she doesn’t have—a relationship....

The author of What Lies in the Woods returns with a novel about three sisters, two murders, and too many secrets to count....

Christopher and Hannah are a happily married surgeon and nurse with picture-perfect lives. All that’s missing is a child....

A sweet sapphic romance takes a deadly dark turn in this sharp-as-a-knife novella with the slow build menace of Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber—from a New York Times-bestselling author hailed by Chuck Wendig as "a storyteller working at the top of her class."

Two brothers. One accused of a horrific crime. The other chasing a golden future. And an attorney navigating between both....

Shay Miller wants to find love, but it eludes her. She wants to be fulfilled, but her job is a dead end. She wants to belong, but her life is increasingly lonely. Until Shay meets the Moore sisters. Cassandra and Jane live a life of glamorous perfection, and always get what they desire.... 

I’d stay in Ballyholme, Northern Ireland, to decide whether to forgive my cheating husband, Ryan. Ciara, my new best friend, would stay in our London home, free of charge, until I made up my mind. But now I learn Ciara has evidence…evidence that my husband has committed murder....

 The survivors of The Other Side of Midnight come back for one last round of play in this compelling sequel set in post-war Europe. Catherine Douglas, victim of tragedy and amnesia, is taken in by the world's richest man, Greek shipping tycoon Constantin Demiris....

Grace Evans, an overworked New Yorker looking for a total escape from her busy life, books an Airbnb on a ranch in the middle of Wyoming. When she arrives at the idyllic getaway, she’s pleased to find that the owner is a handsome man by the name of Calvin Wells....

Stephen Amidon’s Locust Lane is a taut and utterly propulsive story about the search for justice and the fault lines of power and influence in a seemingly idyllic town....

When the dead body of a famous fund manager, Anant Kapoor, is found in his house, it isn't hard for the police to pin the murder on his wife. She has no alibi, and she is the direct beneficiary of his death....

Welcome to the neighborhood. Watch your husband, watch your friends, and watch your back....

Das Geheimnis kann dich zerstören - und alles, was du liebst. Nachdem Becca von ihrem Mann verlassen wurde, nimmt sie einen weiteren Job in einem Restaurant an, um über die Runden zu kommen. Während sie nachts arbeitet, sind ihre Kinder Rosie und Alex alleine zu Hause. Dann trifft Becca auf Maddy, der es noch viel schlechter geht. Maddy hat alles verloren und etwas so traumatisches erlebt, dass sie nicht darüber sprechen kann. Und Becca beschließt, Maddy zu helfen. Je mehr sie allerdings Maddy in ihr Leben lässt, desto mehr Unstimmigkeiten fallen ihr auf.

When local college student, Jaden Pierce, disappears one night playing "Manhunt in the Woods" with his fraternity brothers, Nicole, an empathetic stay-at-home mom living a blissful life, joins the search party. Combing through the wooded area, Nicole unearths her son Kyle's license and withholds this potential piece of evidence. She trusts him, but a sliver of doubt festers below the surface, thanks to one unresolved incident from middle school and his shady pastime.

Grace was one paycheck from becoming a single mother-to-be on the streets, until she's offered the job of a lifetime: live-in maid for millionaires Naomi and Jack Hamilton. Grace doesn't belong in the Hamiltons' luxurious world of privilege, wealth, and power, but she willingly cleans the messes they make.

Lena just moved to Mandalay Close. She needed a new start, since her boyfriend cheated her out of the happy-ever-after she’d believed they were always going to share. But on the day Lena moves in, letters begin to arrive for all her new neighbours. Letters that promise to expose everyone’s deepest, darkest secrets. Every house has received one - except for Lena’s. Someone clearly wants to implicate her, to ruin her new life and turn everyone against her. She’s made an enemy, but who, and why?

On the surface, Alice is exactly where she should be in life: she's just given birth to a beautiful baby girl; her ever-charming husband - an academic whose area of study is conveniently her own Mohawk culture - is nothing but supportive; and they've moved into a home in a wealthy neighborhood. But strange things have started happening. Alice finds herself hearing voices she can't explain and speaking with things that should not be talking back to her, all while her neighbours' passive aggression begins to morph into something far more threatening...

Vom Schein, Sein und Wegsehen: Der verschlafene Ort Cwmcysgod in Wales birgt viele Geheimnisse. Da wären zwei Jungen, die aus Langeweile Feuer legen, ein alter Herr, der an Demenz leidet oder die Frau vom Dorfladen, die heimlich Drogen verkauft. Und dann gibt es noch Rosalind Bone, von allen im Dorf immer nur auf ihre Schönheit reduziert. Dass jedoch Rosalinds Schönheit ihr schon früh zum Verhängnis wurde und sie eine tragische Geschichte in sich trägt, ahnt niemand. Rosalind ist schon lange aus Cwmcysgod verschwunden - angeblich, um ein neues Leben in der Stadt zu führen.

Carol, eine geschiedene Lehrerin, hätte nie gedacht, dass sie sich nochmal verliebt. Bis sie Declan begegnet. Für beide ist es die große Liebe, nach wenigen Monaten zieht sie zu ihm in sein Haus. In der irischen Kleinstadt tuschelt man über das Paar, und auch Sally und Kilian, Declans Kinder, lehnen die neue Frau an der Seite ihres Vaters ab. Doch das schweißt die beiden nur noch mehr zusammen. Dann wird Declan dement. Die Krankheit verschlechtert sich rapide, er kommt in ein Pflegeheim. Sally und Kilian beschließen, das Haus zum Verkauf anzubieten, das ihm so wichtig war und für Carol zum Zuhause geworden ist.

Never trust a stranger… But late at night and trapped in the middle of nowhere during a terrible snowstorm, Tibby and Walker have no choice. With roads shutting down and cell towers out, running into each other and deciding to travel together could either be their saving grace or worst mistake. When they’re forced to take an unexpected detour and seek refuge in a roadside motel, the storm quickly becomes the least of their worries.

When Cassie Hunt learns that her beloved Aunt Aggie is dying, she rushes back home to be with her during her final days. For as long as Cassie can remember Aggie has spoken about the forgotten world that exists just below their feet, in the tunnels and catacombs of the mysterious Sand House. But on her deathbed, Aggie reveals a terrible secret that she’s buried as deep as the tunnels beneath the old house, and when excavation work begins on the site, Cassie is the only one who can help keep the truth hidden.

Charlotte has it all: the successful career, the loving family. But, secretly, she is dangerously bored of her rigid and structured life. Bianka is a free spirit, always the life and soul. When she and Charlotte meet, it feels like fate – Bianka is exactly the person that Charlotte needs. When they escape to Ibiza for a girls’ trip, home is soon forgotten. Charlotte dives head first into a life that is looser, wilder. But the holiday soon spirals out of control with fatal consequences – someone doesn’t return home.

The letterbox clatters and sitting on the mat is a piece of paper, in black and white, with everything needed to blow Anna’s perfect life apart. A baby scan photo. Anna and Jon have been trying for a baby with no success, so after years of disappointment, this feels like a kick in the teeth. Who sent it? And why?

Ein Traumurlaub, der zum Albtraum wird: Vier Freunde brechen mit dem Campervan Richtung Italien auf. Doch nach einer Übernachtung auf dem Campingplatz "Waldesruh" sind sie nur noch zu dritt. Die junge Medizinstudentin Sophia kehrt von einem Spaziergang nicht zurück. Was ist in jener Nacht passiert? Wieso musste Sophia sterben? Sophias Freunde und die anderen Camper behaupten, nichts mitbekommen zu haben. Doch Kommissarin Karla Sommerfeld spürt, dass mehr Wahrheit im Schweigen der Befragten liegt als in ihren Worten.

Nunca se sabe qué más puede ocurrir en Redes (A Coruña) para que tengamos que volver... LAS ALMAS HERIDAS SABEN RECONOCERSE. Zoe y Mario viajan al pueblo costero de Redes, A Coruña, con la intención de pasar una semana romántica de desconexión y sanar las heridas. O eso es lo que Zoe cree. Ella aún tiene la esperanza de recuperar lo que fueron tras el accidente que marcó sus vidas, pero Mario se muestra más indiferente y distante, hasta que a las pocas horas de llegar a Redes desaparece sin dejar rastro.

In a small, isolated town on the North Norfolk coast, Fran's life is unravelling. As she fills her days cleaning the caravan park she owns, she is preoccupied by worry — about the behavior of her son, the growing absence of her husband and the strained relationship with her sister. Her one source of solace is slipping out to the beach early in the morning, to watch the birds.

Located in bucolic Connecticut, the Crittenden School has long held a venerable reputation as one of New England's premier preparatory schools. However, times are changing, and that change is coming to Crittenden. In the midst of social upheaval, the headmaster's wife, Clarissa Spotswood, is thrust into faculty and student intrigues-a role for which she is woefully unprepared.