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A New York Times' best thriller of the year! From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Murder Rule comes an emotional novel of suspense about two families at war. Nina and Simon are the perfect couple. Young, fun and deeply in love. Until they leave for a weekend at his family’s...

The Other Black Girl meets Midsommar in this spine-chilling, propulsive psychological adult debut from highly acclaimed author Vincent Tirado, in which a married couple moves into a gated “community” that slowly creeps into a pervasive dread akin to the social horror of Jordan Peele and...

Detective Eira Sjodin, introduced in the electrifying Swedish crime thriller We Know You Remember, races to solve a disappearance that hits chillingly close to home in the second book in the High Coast series, hailed by People as “Nordic noir at its best.” In the small mining town of...

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...

“A spellbinding literary thriller packed with psychological suspense and profound questions about motherhood, trauma and how death illuminates life.”—Amy Tan, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and Where the Past Begins “Barbara Graham is a literary alchemist. What Jonah Knew not...

Mags Barkworth still suffers the effects of a life-changing tragedy over a decade ago. She knows her husband loves her. She knows he would never do anything to hurt her, or their daughter. But what if the voice in her head, the one she's pushed away with therapy and anti-depressants, is telling the truth? What if it's all a lie? When Tam, their daughter, draws an uncannily detailed picture of a place she's never been, Mags's life starts to unravel. But even in her most paranoid moment, Mags could never have guessed the secret she is destined to uncover.

Zwei Seelen im Einklang mit dem Meer: die neue, berührende Liebesgeschichte von Kindle-#1-Bestsellerautorin Mila Olsen. Können die weiß schäumende Weite des Ozeans und das Sternfunkeln darüber eine Seele heilen? Auf der Flucht vor ihrem gewalttätigen Ehemann Tyrone versteckt sich die junge Emery im Küstenort Pine Cape. Eine vorübergehende Bleibe findet sie bei dem zurückgezogen lebenden Sawyer. Doch auch wenn ihr der stille Fremde gefällt: Sie will sich auf gar keinen Fall verlieben und bleibt auf Distanz.

Charlize hat alles zurückgelassen, von dem sie dachte, es wäre ihre Zukunft: ihren Job, ihre Wohnung, ihren Verlobten. Nur ihren Brautstrauß und die gefühlt dreiundzwanzig Schichten Tüll ihres Kleides hat sie mitgenommen nach Oak Harbor. Den Ort, der vor zehn Jahren das erste Zuhause war, das sie kannte. 431 Tage hat sie hier verbracht, bis ein schreckliches Ereignis das kleine Städtchen erschütterte. Jetzt ist sie zurück, obwohl Charlie sich geschworen hatte, nie wieder zurückzukehren. Und sie trifft gleich auf den Jungen, dessen Herz sie mitgenommen hat, als sie damals gegangen ist.

Carly und ihre kleine Schwester Jen sind unterwegs - allein und zu Fuß. Etwas Furchtbares ist passiert. Etwas, das Carlys Glauben an die Menschheit zerstört hat und sie zwingt, die Verantwortung für sie beide zu übernehmen. Sie weiß, sie brauchen Hilfe. Aber sie hat Angst, dass sie und ihre Schwester getrennt werden. Sie haben nur einander. Carly will mit Jen zu der einzigen Person zurück, der sie vertrauen konnte - ihrem Stiefvater.

Er ist zehn Jahre alt und lebt im Keller. Ein Brand hat seine Familie entstellt. Seit seine Schwester ein Baby bekommen hat, verhalten sich alle besonders merkwürdig. Und was hat es mit dem "Grillen-Mann" auf sich, der nachts auf ihn lauert? Die einzigen Lichtblicke des Jungen sind ein winziger, durch das Kellerfenster einfallender Sonnenstrahl und ein paar Glühwürmchen, die er im Glas hält. Ihr Leuchten gibt ihm die Kraft das düstere Leben zu ertragen und von einer besseren Zukunft zu träumen. Doch alle Türen sind verschlossen.

Ein schicksalhafter Sommer, der fatale Lügen und lang gehütete Geheimnisse ans Licht bringt. Bis jetzt war Sycamore Glen die perfekte amerikanische Kleinstadt-Idylle: behütete Kinder, Familien, die sich ihr ganzes Leben lang kennen, freundliche Nachbarn, die sich gegenseitig helfen. Doch als der Sommer anbricht, bekommt die schöne Fassade plötzlich Risse. Erst verschwindet ein kleines Mädchen spurlos. Dann ertrinkt um ein Haar vor den Augen aller ein Junge im Pool, dem Mittelpunkt des sonst so heiteren Gemeinschaftslebens.

Neighbors are shocked when Harold Pardee reports his wife dead. No one even knew the eccentric TV repairman was married. Within hours, horrible rumors spread about what that poor woman must have endured for 30 years. Until the Pardees' carefully guarded world is exposed. New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Haigh delivers an endearing short story about our misguided perception of strangers, the nature of love, and the need for secrets.

While renovating her Victorian home, Ana Clementine finds an ornate door buried under forty years of earth. Once she restores it to the attic, she starts hearing whispers, her loving husband has become a stranger, and her baby daughter learns a chilling new word. Maybe Ana has unlocked the house’s secrets. Or maybe she’s becoming just a little unhinged herself.

Actor and sex worker Nats is experienced at putting on a show. However, her new gig supplying intimate whispers for growgirls takes her to a place darker and lonelier than she could have ever imagined. The lab-grown dolls can respond to pleasure or pain; their synthetic heads contain only the simplest AI to prevent any pesky robo sex doll uprisings. But just because growgirls don’t have a brain, doesn’t mean they don’t have a voice...

Ellen has a lot to be thankful for. Her fiancé, Troy, is perfectly sweet. Her childhood friend Tanya, despite her edgier taste in men, is like a sister to Ellen: her closest friend—and rival. So familiar and yet, over the years, so many secrets between them. For Ellen, what lies ahead is a series of choices that will add up to a life she never could have imagined.

During an eco-friendly cleanup at the beach, Ange finds something horrifying in the brush. The sickening, heartbreaking evidence of an irreversibly changing earth triggers dread about the future for her daughter. But as reasoned worries slide into paranoia, reality itself begins to untether. For Ange, there may be no stepping back from the destructive darkness of her sleepless nights.

Thirty-four years ago, on October 31, poor Hannah Talbott took part in a scavenger hunt gone violently wrong. The mean girls made sure of it. To this day, for a haunted local mother, the most unsettling Halloween costume of all is an urban legend they call Hannah-Beast. It’s a reminder of the past she can’t forget. Especially tonight when it’s come back, so close to home.

Eve has a fake ID, a .38, and a violent lover receding in the rearview mirror. He’ll never find her at the isolated motel, and its kindly manager is happy to ease her fears. But if Eve is the only guest, whom does she keep hearing on the other side of the wall? Eve won’t get a good night’s rest until she finds out.

Poison-tongued film critic Reginald Wright is known for his creative insults and intolerance for the garbage culture, insufferable rudeness, and thoughtless racism of predictably common people. Now, against his better judgment, and with a marriage in crisis, he’s attempting a getaway in the Poconos that quickly fulfills his every low expectation. In fact, it’s becoming a nightmare. And that’s just what Reginald needs to wake up.

Forty years ago, triplets Miriam, Louise, and Edward were swept up in a case of rural mass hysteria. Coerced into fabricating unspeakable lies about their first-grade teacher and her adult son, they were complicit in destroying two lives. Ever since, they have believed they are being followed by a presence still seeking retribution for their childhood sins. Unless their guilty consciences are conjuring as many monsters as their innocent minds once did.