Book Reviews

by Freida McFadden

Millie is desperate for a fresh start. When she lands a job as a live-in housemaid for the wealthy Winchester family, it seems too good to be true — and it is. Her new employer Nina is demanding and erratic, the house hides something sinister, and Millie's own past is catching up with her. The Housemaid delivers jaw-dropping twists in a story about power, class, and the lengths women go to survive.

by Colleen Hoover

Struggling writer Lowen Ashby is hired to complete the remaining books in a bestselling thriller series after its author, Verity Crawford, is left incapacitated. While staying at the Crawford home, Lowen discovers a manuscript that Verity clearly never intended anyone to read — a disturbing autobiography that reveals horrifying truths about the woman behind the books. And then there's Jeremy, Verity's devoted husband, who Lowen is falling for despite herself.

by Riley Sager

Twenty-five years ago, Maggie Holt's family fled the house known as Baneberry Hall after her father claimed it was haunted. He wrote a bestselling memoir about their terrifying experience — but Maggie, who was only five at the time, remembers none of it. When she inherits the house, she's determined to renovate and sell it, certain that her father's book was pure fabrication. But as she begins to uncover what really happened in Baneberry Hall, the line between fiction and truth begins to blur.

by Sarah Pearse

Detective Elin Warner arrives at a luxury hotel converted from an old sanatorium expecting a tense family weekend, not a fresh body and a missing fiancee. Sarah Pearse turns the alpine setting into a pressure cooker of suspicion, memory, and dread in a thriller that feels equal parts wintry getaway and locked-room nightmare.

by Jennifer McMahon

Alison agrees to take in the mother who abused her as a child after hearing she only has weeks left to live. What should be a final act of reluctant grace turns into something far stranger and more dangerous, as Jennifer McMahon threads family trauma, possession horror, and wintery dread into one unsettling package.

by A. M. Walker

Emily is preparing for her wedding while quietly circling murder, and Rooted in Silence leans all the way into that contradiction. A. M. Walker builds the story as a dark, descriptive slow burn full of unease, polished surfaces, and the feeling that beauty is hiding something venomous.

by Elizam Rose

Mila Taylor has built her reputation on solving cold cases, but the murder of a bookstore owner with no obvious suspect forces her into a new investigation tangled up with her own family history. Elizam Rose delivers a compact crime thriller that moves quickly without skimping on twists.

by Riley Sager

At a summer camp shadowed by the disappearance of three girls, Riley Sager builds a thriller full of lake water unease, campfire-story tension, and secrets that refuse to stay buried. It is nostalgic in the creepiest possible way and knows exactly how to deliver a final punch.

by Reid the Faceless Detective

One haunted detective, four dead women, and a case that refuses to stay professional. Liar leans into crime-noir grit, tragic characters, and multiple points of view to build a thriller that gets darker as it gets more personal.

by Tana French

When detectives investigate the murder of a young girl in the woods, the case collides with the lead detective's own childhood trauma from the same place. Tana French blends police work, memory, and emotional fracture into a mystery that feels as psychologically sharp as it is procedural.

by Alice Feeney

Daisy Darker brings the classic locked-room family mystery vibe into a modern twist-heavy thriller. Alice Feeney uses a closed-circle setup and a steady stream of suspicion to create a whodunnit that is easy to devour when you want momentum back in your reading life.

by James E. Michels

Under The Paint mixes domestic crime tension with a heavier dose of spice than a traditional thriller. It follows a trio of characters moving toward collision, balancing relationship heat with the pull of wanting to know exactly how everything ends.

by Tana French

When a murdered woman turns out to be Cassie Maddox's near-perfect double, she is pulled into an undercover investigation that requires her to step inside the dead woman's life. The Likeness builds its suspense through identity, intimacy, and the constant fear of being found out.

by Alice Feeney

Amber wakes in a coma, unable to move or speak, but fully aware that something is very wrong. Alice Feeney turns that locked-in perspective into a psychological thriller built on instability, shifting truths, and the pleasure of never feeling fully settled.

by Alice Feeney

Beautiful Ugly carries the polished, deceptive surface that Alice Feeney does so well. It is the kind of thriller that pulls you in with style and keeps you reading with the promise that every elegant detail might be hiding something rotten.

by Amy Tintera

A murder case, a messy public narrative, and a podcast ready to drag everything back into the light. Listen for the Lie has the kind of talky, true-crime-adjacent setup that turns reader curiosity into momentum almost instantly.