Top new thriller books in August 2024
Last updated:
August 31, 2024
August 2024 featuring new releases by Sarah Pekkanen, Lucinda Berry, A.R. Torre, Freida McFadden, Abigail Rose-Marie, Kathy Reichs, William Kent Krueger, Will Dean, Laurie Elizabeth Flynn, Anna Downes and many more.
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House of Glass by Sarah Pekkanen
On the outside they were the golden family with the perfect life. On the inside they built the perfect lie.A young nanny who plunged to her death, or was she pushed? A nine-year-old girl who collects sharp objects and refuses to speak. A lawyer whose job it is to uncover who in the family is a victim and who is a murderer...mystery · fiction · suspense · psychological · contemporary · family · crime · thriller · audiobook · murder -
If You Tell a Lie by Lucinda Berry
Bestselling author Lucinda Berry serves up a haunting thriller about four friends sworn to secrecy over the events of one fateful summer—and the dark truths that threaten to erupt years later.They never considered how his wife might react, or that by the end of the summer a man would be dead. But Blakely always got her way, and the others followed her lead—even when they knew it was dead wrong... -
The Last Party by A.R. Torre
A loving mother. A notorious murderer. They both have reasons to hide their secrets in a novel of escalating shock and suspense by New York Times bestselling author A. R. Torre.Perla Wultz lives with her husband, Grant, and their precious daughter, Sophie, in a gated Pasadena community. Affluent, sociable, and accomplished, Perla plays the part of loving wife and mother to perfection...mystery · psychological · suspense · fiction · audiobook · crime · contemporary · horror · thriller · murder -
The Widow's Husband's Secret Lie by Freida McFadden
My husband is dead.I attended his funeral. I watched his casket be lowered six feet into the ground. (Actually, it may have been only five feet, but that still seems like more than enough.) And then we ate an array of finger sandwiches and deviled eggs and miniature beef wellingtons that cost more than my first car.My point is, Grant is gone... -
The Moonflowers by Abigail Rose-Marie
In a powerful and poignant novel, an artist unravels her mysterious family history and its generations of women who depended on each other to survive.Tig Costello has arrived in Darren, Kentucky, commissioned to paint a portrait honoring her grandfather Benjamin. His contributions to the rural Appalachian town and his unimpeachable war service have made him a local hero...historical-fiction · fiction · mystery · historical · rural · literary-fiction · family · audiobook · crime · murder -
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Fire and Bones by Kathy Reichs
It’s never easy working fire scenes, Tempe thinks. Called to Washington, DC, to analyze the victims of a building set ablaze amid mysterious circumstances, she sees all her misgivings justified. The building site is in Foggy Bottom, a neighborhood with a colorful past and present, and the property’s ownership becomes even more suspicious when Tempe delves into its past... -
Spirit Crossing by William Kent Krueger
A disappearance and a dead body put Cork O’Connor’s family in the crosshairs of a killer in the twentieth book in the New York Times bestselling series from William Kent Krueger, “a master storyteller at the top of his game” (Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author).The disappearance of a local politician’s teenaged daughter is major news in Minnesota...mystery · fiction · historical-fiction · indigenous-mc · crime · law-enforcement · police-procedural · suspense · outdoors · murder -
The Chamber by Will Dean
And Then There Were None meets The Last Breath in this tense and suspenseful locked-room thriller that takes place inside a hyperbaric chamber from the author of the “brilliant, twisted, and oh so clever” (Chris Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author) novel The Last Thing to Burn.Six experienced saturation divers are locked inside a hyperbaric chamber... -
Till Death Do Us Part by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn
The author of The Girls Are All So Nice Here returns with a thriller set in the vineyards of Napa Valley that asks: what happens when the husband you thought died years ago shows up alive?Ten years ago, June’s beloved husband drowned on their honeymoon, his body never found. Now, a decade later, June is finally ready to move on...fiction · suspense · contemporary · season-summer · thriller · womens-fiction · psychological · crime · family · coming-of-age -
Red River Road by Anna Downes
Anna Downes's extraordinary next thriller follows a woman desperate to discover what happened to her sister on a solo road trip through the Australian outback.Katy Sweeney is determined to find her sister. A year earlier, just three weeks into a solo vanlife trip, free-spirited Phoebe vanished without a trace on Western Australia’s remote and achingly beautiful Coral Coast...mystery · fiction · suspense · contemporary · crime · thriller · law-enforcement · female-mc · family · psychological -
Arkangel by James Rollins
From the #1 New York Times master of international thrillers comes the story of a global hunt across the top of world, pitting nation against nation, as ancient myths of a lost continent prove all too real. The execution of a Vatican archivist within the shadow of the Kremlin exposes a conspiracy going back three centuries—to the bloody era of the Russian Tsars...fiction · mystery · action-adventure · thriller · historical · suspense · military · supernatural · political-intrigue · ghosts -
The Guilty One by Kiersten Modglin
Your husband was involved in a fatal accident.One horrific sentence, delivered in an impersonal phone call, changes Celine Thompson’s life in a second. But when she’s asked to identify his body, what she discovers sends everything she thought she knew about her life crashing down.This man is not my husband... -
Dear Hanna by Zoje Stage
Zoje Stage delivers another knockout with a blood-chilling follow-up to international sensation Baby Teeth, taking readers back into the unsteady world of a young sociopath who’s all grown up.Hanna is no stranger to dark thoughts: as a young child, she tried to murder her own mother. But that was more than sixteen years ago...horror · fiction · suspense · female-author · psychological · thriller · medical · murder · crime · book -
Worst Case Scenario by T.J. Newman
Following her explosive debut thriller Falling and its harrowing follow-up Drowning, #1 internationally bestselling author T.J. Newman is back with Worst Case Scenario...north-america · usa · minnesota · suspense · thriller · fiction · audiobook · contemporary · action-adventure · book -
You Will Never Be Me by Jesse Q. Sutanto
When cracks start forming in an influencer’s curated life, she finds out that jealousy is just as viral as a video in this riveting suspense novel by bestselling author Jesse Q. Sutanto. Influencer Meredith Lee didn't teach Aspen Palmer how to blossom on social media just to be ditched as soon as Aspen became big...fiction · suspense · contemporary · thriller · stalking · psychological · female-mc · crime · book · adult -
Then Things Went Dark by Bea Fitzgerald
Six people land on a desert island ready to make their reality show debut. The contestants are suitably glamorous and dramatic—and also hungry to prove themselves. The stakes are high, and with millions of viewers watching, losing is not an option. But three weeks and eighteen episodes later, five of the six contestants sit in a Portuguese police station, none of them winners...mystery · fiction · lgbtq · audiobook · crime · murder · contemporary · thriller · young-adult · season-summer -
Not What She Seems by Yasmin Angoe
She left home as the local pariah at twenty-two, but when a family tragedy brings her back, she must confront her tortured past—and a new danger in town that no one seems to understand but her.After years of self-exile, Jacinda “Jac” Brodie is back in Brook Haven, South Carolina. But the small cliffside town no longer feels like home... -
Blood Like Mine by Stuart Neville
STAY ON THE MOVE. STAY OUT OF SIGHT.In LA Times Book Prizewinner Stuart Neville’s daring foray into horror fiction, a mother takes desperate measures to protect her daughter in a sinister, blood-chilling highway pursuit across the American West.On a snowy December night, single mother Rebecca Carter drives her van into a snowbank to avoid hitting an elk on a desolate mountain highway...north-america · usa · colorado · horror · mystery · fiction · suspense · crime · thriller · law-enforcement -
The Madness by Dawn Kurtagich
Beware what waits in the shadows…With one unexpected email from her estranged best friend, Lucy, Mina Murray’s carefully curated life is turned upside down. Leaving behind her psychiatric practice in London, along with her routine and the calm it brings, she returns to the windswept shores of Wales...horror · fiction · vampires · retellings · monsters · supernatural · psychological · thriller · suspense · female-mc -
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I Need You to Read This by Jessa Maxwell
The author of the “clever, atmospheric, and creepy” (Andrea Bartz, New York Times bestselling author) The Golden Spoon returns with a sly and addictive new mystery about an advice columnist searching for answers about her predecessor’s murder.Alex Marks’s move to New York City is supposed to be a fresh start...fiction · suspense · murder · killer · season-summer · psychological · thriller · crime · book · adult -
Deeper Than the Dead by Debra Webb
Someone’s found the skeleton in the closet, and it’s not the only one. Wall Street Journal bestselling author Debra Webb presents an emotional new mystery. Crime analyst and newly disgraced deputy police chief Vera Boyett doesn’t visit home often, and she certainly doesn’t venture back into the cave on her family land...mystery · fiction · crime · law-enforcement · police-procedural · female-mc · thriller · murder · investigator · family -
The Rich People Have Gone Away by Regina Porter
A diverse group of New Yorkers are brought together by the search for a missing woman in this kaleidoscopic novel of betrayal, race and human connection from the critically acclaimed author of The Travelers.Brooklyn, 2020. Theo Harper and his pregnant wife, Darla, head upstate to their summer cottage to wait out the lockdown...fiction · contemporary · poc-author · mystery · family · literary-fiction · psychological · thriller · humor · comedy -
Daddy's Possession by B.J. Alpha
This book is a dark, steamy romance book based on a Nanny/Boss relationship.Please check my website for a full list of tropes and content... -
Society of Lies by Lauren Ling Brown
When a young woman is found dead on her college campus, her sister doesn't believe it was an accident—and her search for answers leads her closer to home than she ever would have imagined in this thrilling debut novel from an exciting new talent...north-america · usa · new-jersey · mystery · fiction · crime · suspense · university · dark-academia · thriller -
Run, Rabbit, Run by Juniper Hartmann, Lillith Haven
"First thoughts, I need more… more of everything. This felt like such a tease I literally could not put this down start to finish in less than two hours, would have been less if I didn’t have other obligations." - @cmyk.bibliophile on InstagramBarbara "Bunny" Townsend is a gifted student, dedicated athlete, trauma survivor...And now, helpless prey...kidnapping · steamy · mental-illness · sexual-assault · thriller · romantic-love · contemporary · fiction · bdsm · book -
The Rule of Three by Sam Ripley
The Whisper Man meets the paranoia of The Blair Witch Project in this terrifying suspense thriller about an urban legend coming true.That’s the one. That’s the girl who’s going to die.I didn’t believe in the Rule of Three. Not at first. It was just one of those urban myths you hear about all the time. A story my boyfriend told me about a girl cursed by the number three...horror · mystery · fiction · thriller · mental-illness · season-autumn · crime · murder · witches-wizards · psychological -
The Body Next Door by Maia Chance
They buried their secrets, but not deep enough…Hannah McCollough’s life is far from perfect, but you’d never know it by looking at her. Instead, you’d see a beautiful young mother wholly devoted to her two children and a docile wife utterly besotted with her self-made millionaire husband, Allan. You’d see the designer clothes she wears, the luxury car she drives, the dewy-eyed au pair she employs... -
Breaking the Girl by Eva Marks
Falling in love with her was wrong. But that’s nothing compared to what I’m about to do… I’m a walking contradiction.Renowned psychiatrist. Devoted single father. A seemingly good man. But underneath it all? I’m a monster.I’ve always kept my inner darkness in check. Until now. Until her. Leighton is my daughter’s best friend. She’s young. Innocent. But I can’t stay away.Neither can she... -
Eye of the Beholder by Emma Bamford
Inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s classic thriller Vertigo , the author of the “subtle and ominous” (Lee Child) debut Deep Water returns with a wholly original and sinister novel about the beauty industry, a ghostwriter, and the reappearance of the lover she thought was dead.When Maddy Wight is hired to ghostwrite the memoir of world-renowned cosmetic surgeon Dr...mystery · fiction · horror · retellings · mental-illness · psychological · thriller · suspense · supernatural · literary-fiction -
Only the Guilty Survive by Kate Robards
A podcaster digs into strange connections between a cult’s mass suicide and the murder of a local beauty queen in this twisty psychological thriller about true crime culture, perfect for fans of Riley Sager and Lisa Jewell. The mass suicide of a cult known as The Flock sent shockwaves through the small rural town of Iola, Michigan...fiction · thriller · audiobook · psychological · suspense · amateur-sleuth · murder · crime · book · adult -
The Plus One by S.C. Lalli
White Lotus meets The Guest List in international bestselling author S. C. Lalli’s next thrilling novel, where two business moguls were set to be married in the biggest event of the year—until they’re both found murdered the day before the wedding—and a social outsider must unravel the mystery before her own hidden agenda is revealed...fiction · suspense · thriller · psychological · murder · female-mc · cozy · historical · book · adult -
Better Left Buried by Mary E. Roach
Lucy Preston just wants to go on vacation. The beach-swimsuit-sleeping-in kind. Not the impromptu stop in a creepy small town at the edge of the forest kind. But being the daughter of a famous private detective means that sometimes, your beach vacay goes off the rails a bit...mystery · young-adult · wlw · lgbtq · horror · contemporary · crime · romantic-love · lesbian-mc · fiction -
A Spectre is Haunting Greentree by Carson Winter
REAP WHAT YOU SOWIn the wake of a series of panic attacks, isolated and introverted Carina takes a friend up on an go to Greentree, Oregon, escape her abusive ex, and start a new life.But upon arrival, the town is stranger than Carina could have ever imagined.For one, they still have a video store. For two, everyone is rich... -
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Tom Clancy Shadow State by M.P. Woodward
Surviving a helicopter crash in the Vietnamese Highlands is only the start of the challenges facing Jack Ryan, Jr., in the latest propulsive thriller of this #1 New York Times bestselling series.The vibrant economy of the new Vietnam is a shiny lure for Western capital. Companies are racing to uncover ideal opportunities...suspense · war · military · historical · fiction · thriller · violent-conflict · action-adventure · book · adult