In The Good Detective, John McMahon introduces readers to Detective P.T. Marsh—a once-promising cop now spiraling after the loss of his wife and son. When Marsh steps in to rough up an abuser one night, he wakes up to find that same man dead—and himself the prime suspect in a murder investigation. As he digs…
Category: Thriller
Nothing Ever Happens Here
Seraphina Nova Glass delivers another thrilling, twist-filled mystery in Nothing Ever Happens Here, set in a deceptively quiet Minnesota town where the snow blankets secrets just as easily as streets. After surviving a brutal attack over a year ago, Shelby Dawson is finally starting to feel safe—until the threats return, and it becomes clear her…
Coram House
Coram House by Bailey Seybolt is a slow-burn mystery inspired loosely by the real-life horrors of St. Joseph Orphanage. Through a mixed media format and lyrical prose, Seybolt transports readers to a small town steeped in secrets and silence. The novel follows Alex, an outsider who becomes entangled in the town’s haunted past and troubling…
Famous Last Words
Gillian McAllister’s Famous Last Words is a tense and emotional thriller that explores how well we can ever truly know the people we love. On the longest day of the year, new mother Camilla prepares to return to work—until her husband, Luke, disappears, leaving behind only a note. As news of a hostage crisis breaks…
The Man Made of Smoke
In The Man Made of Smoke, Dan Garvie is a criminal profiler whose life has been shaped by a horrifying encounter with a serial killer in his childhood. When his estranged father dies under mysterious circumstances, Dan returns to his isolated island hometown, only to confront unsettling echoes of the past. As old traumas resurface…
We Are All Guilty Here
Karin Slaughter’s We Are All Guilty Here kicks off her brand-new North Falls series with a gripping dual-timeline thriller. The story begins with a haunting tragedy—two high school girls kidnapped and murdered in a tight-knit town. Over a decade later, Emmy Clifton, now acting Chief of Police, is pulled back into the chilling echoes of…
The Haunting of Room 904
I enjoyed The Haunting of Room 904—the story had a great premise and a solid dose of creep factor that kept me intrigued throughout. That said, I felt like certain parts could have used a bit more fine-tuning. There were a lot of moving pieces, and since I listened to the audiobook, it sometimes became…
Parents Weekend
I love a good Alex Finlay thriller and am always excited to jump into his page turners. It’s Parents Weekend at a small private college in Northern California. Five families wildly different families are gather for dinner, expecting their children to join—but the students never show up. Initially dismissed as typical college behavior, concern turns…
The Unlucky Ones
Hello, Transcriber was one of my very first books I read as a reviewer and so The Black Harbor series is always an automatic read for me. I’ve really enjoyed listening to most of the series and so I knew I had to listen to The Unlucky Ones, to keep the tradition alive. Our main…
This Book Will Bury Me
When Jane’s father dies unexpectedly, she escapes her grief by falling into the world of armchair detectives. Before long she’s so engrained within this community that she considers the small group of friends she’s made to be almost her family. When a mass killing occurs on a small campus in Idaho, Jane and her team,…