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THE ONLY ONE LEFT BY RILEY SAGER

9/5/2023

The Only One Left is one of my favorite books of 2023. This one keeps coming with the twists and I couldn't think straight after reading it! Riley Sager slayed this gothic thriller!

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: June 20, 2023
Genre: Thriller
Series: None
Pages: 398 pages
Format: Hardcover Source: Book of the Month Box

Bestselling author Riley Sager returns with a Gothic chiller about a young caregiver assigned to work for a woman accused of a Lizzie Borden-like massacre decades earlier.

At seventeen, Lenora Hope
Hung her sister with a rope

Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Other than her denial after the killings, she has never spoken publicly about that night, nor has she set foot outside Hope’s End, the cliffside mansion where the massacre occurred.

Stabbed her father with a knife
Took her mother’s happy life

DARK CORNERS BY MEGAN GOLDIN

8/16/2023

Megan Goldin is one of my favorite thriller authors! Her books are always top notch and exciting. I can't get enough. While I do recommend reading The Night Swim before this one I honestly can stand alone.

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: August 8, 2023
Genre: Thriller
Series: Rachel Krall series #2
Pages: 347 pages
Format: Hardcover Source: Book of the Month Box

Rachel Krall, the true crime podcaster star of Megan Goldin’s acclaimed The Night Swim, returns to search for a popular influencer who disappears after visiting a suspected serial killer.

Terence Bailey is about to be released from prison for breaking and entering, though investigators have long suspected him in the murders of six women. As his release date approaches, Bailey gets a surprise visit from Maddison Logan, a hot, young influencer with a huge social media following. Hours later, Maddison disappears, and police suspect she’s been kidnapped—or worse. Is Maddison’s disappearance connected to her visit to Bailey? And why was she visiting him in the first place?

When they hit a wall in the investigation, the FBI reluctantly asks for Rachel Krall’s help in finding the missing influencer. Maddison seems to only exist on social media; she has no family, no friends,

THE BLOCK PARTY BY JAMIE DAY

8/12/2023

The Block Party by Jamie Day is a solid suburban thriller. I really enjoyed reading this one and am looking forward to many more books by the author in the future. Wait until you read the twist!

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: July 18, 2023
Genre: Suburban Drama and Thriller
Series: None.
Pages: 367 pages
Format: eBook Source: St. Martins Press

"Like a firecracker on a hot summer night . . . If you like my novels, you’ll love THE BLOCK PARTY.” ―Elin Hilderbrand, #1 Bestselling author of THE HOTEL NANTUCKET

This summer, meet your neighbors.

The residents of the exclusive cul-de-sac on Alton Road are entangled in a web of secrets and scandal utterly unknown to the outside world, and even to each other.

On the night of the annual Summer block party, there has been a murder.

But, who did it and why takes readers back one year earlier, as rivalries and betrayals unfold—discovering that the real danger lies within their own block and nothing—and no one—is ever as it seems.

SHE STARTED IT BY SIAN GILBERT

7/20/2023

She Started It is a Juicy summer thriller about one woman who is hellbent on revenge. This book does deal with difficult topics but it's such a thrilling read!

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: June 13, 2023
Genre: Thriller (Getaway/Summer/Revenge)
Series: None.
Pages: 347 pages
Format: Hardcover Source: BOTM Box

A hot, twisty summer debut thriller about a Caribbean bachelorette party that takes a sinister turn. It’s Lord of the Flies meets And Then There Were None...but with Instagram and too much prosecco.
The party of a lifetime is nothing like what they expected...

Annabel, Esther, Tanya, and Chloe are best friends—or were, as children. Despite drifting apart in adulthood, shared secrets have kept them bonded for better or worse, even as their childhood dreams haven’t quite turned out as they’d hoped. Then one day they receive a wholly unexpected—but not entirely unwelcome—invitation from another old friend. Poppy Greer has invited them all to her extravagant bachelorette party: a first-class plane ticket to three days of white sand, cocktails, and relaxation on a luxe private island in the Bahamas.

None of them has spoken to Poppy in years. But Poppy’s Instagram pics shows that the girl they used to consider the

A LIKEABLE WOMAN BY MAY COBB

7/11/2023

When a woman returns home for a friends vow renewal, she ends up searching for answers about her late mother's death. Little does she know how close the murder is to home.

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: July 11, 2023
Genre: Thriller
Series: None.
Pages: 381 pages
Format: eBook Source: Berkeley Publishing

Kira’s back in her affluent hometown for the first time in years and determined to unravel the secrets of her mother’s death--hidden in the unpublished memoir she left behind-- even if it kills her. . . .

After her troublemaker mother’s mysterious death, Kira fled her wealthy Texas town and never looked back. Now, decades later, Kira is invited to an old frenemy’s vow renewal celebration Though she is reluctant to go, there are things pulling her home. . . like chilled wine and days spent by the pool . . . like sexy Jack, her childhood crush. But more important are the urgent texts from her grandmother, who says she has something for Kira. Something related to her mother’s death, something that make it look an awful lot like murder.

When her grandmother gives Kira a memoir that her mother had been working on before she died, Kira is drawn into the past and all

THE WRITING RETREAT BY JULIA BARTZ

3/10/2023

This book was kind of a mess. It wasn't bad per se but the author wrote it in such a way that it felt like two different books written by two different people. Had she stuck to one direction it would have been a better read for me.

Rating: ★★★
Release Date: February 21, 2023
Genre: Thriller
Series: None.
Pages: 319 pages
Format: Hardcover Source: Book of the Month box

The Plot meets Please Join Us in this psychological suspense debut about a young author at an exclusive writer’s retreat that descends into a nightmare.

Alex has all but given up on her dreams of becoming a published author when she receives a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: attend an exclusive, month-long writing retreat at the estate of feminist horror writer Roza Vallo. Even the knowledge that Wren, her former best friend and current rival, is attending doesn’t dampen her excitement.

But when the attendees arrive, Roza drops a bombshell—they must all complete an entire novel from scratch during the next month, and the author of the best one will receive a life-changing seven-figure publishing deal. Determined to win this seemingly impossible contest, Alex buckles down and tries to ignore the

THE BOOK OF COLD CASES BY SIMONE ST. JAMES

3/2/2023

You can't go wrong with a Simone St. James book. Not only are they creepy but they have the best twists and turns that you don't see coming. This one was excellent!

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: March 15, 2022
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
Series: None.
Pages: 350 pages
Format: Hardcover Source: Book of the Month box.

A true crime blogger gets more than she bargained for while interviewing the woman acquitted of two cold case slayings in this chilling new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Sun Down Motel.

In 1977, Claire Lake, Oregon, was shaken by the Lady Killer Murders: Two men, seemingly randomly, were murdered with the same gun, with strange notes left behind. Beth Greer was the perfect suspect—a rich, eccentric twenty-three-year-old woman, seen fleeing one of the crimes. But she was acquitted, and she retreated to the isolation of her mansion.

Oregon, 2017. Shea Collins is a receptionist, but by night, she runs a true crime website, the Book of Cold Cases—a passion fueled by the attempted abduction she escaped as a child. When she meets Beth by chance, Shea asks her for an interview. To Shea’s surprise, Beth says yes.

WHAT LIES IN THE WOODS BY KATE ALICE MARSHALL

2/9/2023

What Lies in the Woods is a solid thriller but I don't feel like it was as dark and clever as it's been made out to be. It reminded me too much of A Flicker in the Dark.

Rating: ★★★
Release Date: January 17, 2023
Genre: Thriller
Series: None.
Pages: 326 pages
Format: Hardcover Source: Book of the Month box.

They were eleven when they sent a killer to prison. They were heroes . . . but they were liars.

Kate Alice Marshall's What Lies in the Woods is a thrilling novel about friendship, secrets, betrayal, and lies - and having the courage to face the past.

Naomi Shaw used to believe in magic. Twenty-two years ago, she and her two best friends, Cassidy and Olivia, spent the summer roaming the woods, imagining a world of ceremony and wonder. They called it the Goddess Game. The summer ended suddenly when Naomi was attacked. Miraculously, she survived her seventeen stab wounds and lived to identify the man who had hurt her. The girls’ testimony put away a serial killer, wanted for murdering six women. They were heroes.

And they were liars.

THE DRIFT BY C.J. TUDOR

1/30/2023

If you're in the mood for a chilling, high octane thriller then look no further! The Drift is the book for you. This is scary, intense, and a thrilling ride! I highly recommend it.

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: January 31, 2023
Genre: Thriller. Apocalyptic.
Series: None.
Pages: 337 pages
Format: eBook Source: Publisher

Hannah awakens to carnage, all mangled metal and shattered glass. Evacuated from a secluded boarding school during a snowstorm, her coach careered off the road, trapping her with a handful of survivors. They’ll need to work together to escape—with their sanity and secrets intact.

Meg awakens to a gentle rocking. She’s in a cable car stranded high above snowy mountains, with five strangers and no memory of how they got on board. They are heading to a place known only as “The Retreat,” but as the temperature drops and tensions mount, Meg realizes they may not all make it there alive.

Carter is gazing out the window of an isolated ski chalet that he and his companions call home. As their generator begins to waver in the storm, something hiding in the chalet’s depths threatens to escape, and their fragile bonds will be tested when the power finally fails—for good.

JUST THE NICEST COUPLE BY MARY KUBICA

1/21/2023

Mary Kubica writes amazing domestic thrillers and this one was just as good as the last one! I love when couples behave badly and that's what you get in Just the Nicest Couple!

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: January 10, 2023
Genre: Domestic Thriller
Series: None.
Pages: 324 pages
Format: eBook Source: Publisher

A husband’s disappearance inextricably links two couples in this twisty thriller from New York Times bestselling author Mary Kubica

Two couples, two close friends, one missing husband…

Jake Hayes is missing. This much is certain. At first, his wife, Nina, thinks he is blowing off steam at a friend’s house after their heated fight the night before. But then a day goes by. Two days. Five. And Jake is still nowhere to be found.

Lily Scott, Nina’s friend and coworker, thinks she may have been the last to see Jake before he went missing. After Lily confesses everything to her husband, Christian, the two decide that nobody can find out what happened leading up to Jake’s disappearance, especially not Nina. But Nina is out there looking for her husband, and she won’t stop until the truth is discovered.

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