Top new thriller books in January 2023
Last updated:
January 31, 2023
January 2023 featuring new releases by Brittany Pressley, Mary Kubica, Lucinda Berry, C.J. Tudor, Karissa Vacker, Stacy Willingham, Simone St. James, Ana Reyes, Lincoln Child, Douglas Preston, Rachel Hawkins, Janice Hallett, Peter May and many more.
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Just the Nicest Couple by Brittany Pressley, Mary Kubica, Gary Tiedemann
10 hours, 32 minutes A husband’s disappearance links two couples in this twisty thriller from New York Times bestselling author Mary KubicaJake 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...adult · audiobook · book · contemporary · crime · domestic-drama · family · fiction · friendship · psychological -
![Off the Deep End by Lucinda Berry]()
Off the Deep End by Lucinda Berry
From the bestselling author of The Best of Friends comes a heart-stopping psychological thriller about the shades of truth and the power of lies in the wake of one mother’s unspeakable loss.Therapist turned stay-at-home mom Jules Hart’s idyllic suburban life shatters when she crashes her car into an icy lake... -
![The Drift by C.J. Tudor]()
The Drift by C.J. Tudor
Three ordinary people risk everything for a chance at redemption in this audacious, utterly gripping novel of catastrophe and survival at the end of the world, from the acclaimed author of The Chalk Man Hannah awakens to carnage, all mangled metal and shattered glass...action-adventure · adult · apocalyptic · audiobook · book · contemporary · crime · dark · dystopia · epidemy -
![All the Dangerous Things by Karissa Vacker, Stacy Willingham]()
All the Dangerous Things by Karissa Vacker, Stacy Willingham
A totally gripping thriller about a desperate mother with a troubled past.One year ago, Isabelle Drake's life changed forever: her toddler son, Mason, was taken out of his crib in the middle of the night while she and her husband were asleep in the next room. With little evidence and few leads for the police to chase, the case quickly went cold... -
![Ghost 19 by Simone St. James]()
Ghost 19 by Simone St. James
A woman moves to a town where she becomes obsessed with watching the lives of her neighbors while stuck in a house that refuses to let her leave in this first ever short story from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Cold Cases. Is there something wrong with Ginette Cox? It’s what everyone seems to think...new-york-state · horror · mystery · fiction · audiobook · paranormal · historical-fiction · ghosts · historical · suspense -
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![The House in the Pines by Ana Reyes]()
The House in the Pines by Ana Reyes
A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICKArmed with only hazy memories, a woman who long ago witnessed her friend's sudden, mysterious death, and has since spent her life trying to forget, sets out to track down answers. What she uncovers, deep in the woods, is hardly to be believed...adult · audiobook · book · contemporary · crime · dark · female-mc · fiction · latinx-mc · mental-illness -
![The Cabinet of Dr. Leng by Lincoln Child, Douglas Preston]()
The Cabinet of Dr. Leng by Lincoln Child, Douglas Preston
Agent Pendergast faces his latest challenge in this next installment of the #1 NYT bestselling series by acclaimed authors Preston and Child, the second in the Leng Trilogy.Following the events of Bloodless, FBI Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast and Constance Greene return. Against all odds, Constance has found a way back to the place of her origins, New York City in the late 1800s...action-adventure · adult · audiobook · book · contemporary · crime · fiction · historical-fiction · horror · law-enforcement -
![The Villa by Rachel Hawkins]()
The Villa by Rachel Hawkins
From New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins comes a deliciously wicked gothic suspense, set at an Italian villa with a dark history, for fans of Lucy Foley and Ruth Ware.As kids, Emily and Chess were inseparable. But by their 30s, their bond has been strained by the demands of their adult lives... -
![The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels by Janice Hallett]()
The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels by Janice Hallett
Open the safe deposit box. Inside you will find research material for a true crime book. You must read the documents, then make a decision...mystery · crime · fiction · contemporary · murder · suspense · cults · fundamentalism · epistolary · thriller -
![A Winter Grave by Peter May]()
A Winter Grave by Peter May
It is the year 2051. Warnings of climate catastrophe have been ignored, and vast areas of the planet are under water, or uninhabitably hot. A quarter of the world's population has been displaced by hunger and flooding, and immigration wars are breaking out around the globe as refugees pour into neighboring countries... -
![The House of Wolves by James Patterson, Mike Lupica]()
The House of Wolves by James Patterson, Mike Lupica
Joe Wolf applies a cutthroat determination to his life’s work, from to building a California business empire to parenting three sons and a daughter. Kill or be killed. So when the patriarch takes a deadly cruise on San Francisco Bay, Joe Wolf’s bloodline becomes SFPD’s lifeline. Detective Ben Cantor trails the “pack of wolves” as the siblings vie for control of their legacy of power and assets...action-adventure · adult · audiobook · book · crime · female-mc · fiction · law-enforcement · murder · psychological -
![The Avenger by Mark Dawson]()
The Avenger by Mark Dawson
Isabella Rose and Michael Pope return for the next book in the million-selling series.Please note that the book will be released in Spring 2022, and not the date you'll see in the details below...action-adventure · adult · book · crime · espionage · fiction · military · political-intrigue · thriller -
![Hide by Tracy Clark]()
Hide by Tracy Clark
From acclaimed author Tracy Clark comes a page-turning mystery featuring hard-boiled Chicago detective Harriet Foster, who’s on the hunt for a serial killer with a deadly affinity for redheads.When a young red-haired woman is found brutally murdered in downtown Chicago, one detail stands out: the red lipstick encircling her wrists and ankles...adult · audiobook · book · contemporary · crime · drama · female-mc · fiction · law-enforcement · murder -
![The Devil's Ransom by Brad Taylor]()
The Devil's Ransom by Brad Taylor
In the latest explosive thriller from New York Times bestselling author and former special forces officer Brad Taylor, Pike Logan races to stop an insidious attack orchestrated by a man who knows America's most treasured secrets. Conducting a routine cover development trip to Tajikistan, Pike and Jennifer learn that Afghanistan has fallen, and there's a man on the run...action-adventure · adult · audiobook · book · fiction · military · mystery · political-intrigue · politics · suspense -
![Death Comes to Marlow by Robert Thorogood]()
Death Comes to Marlow by Robert Thorogood
It’s been an enjoyable and murder-free time for Judith, Suzie and Becks – AKA the Marlow Murder Club – since the events of last year. The most exciting thing on the horizon is the upcoming wedding of Marlow grandee, Sir Peter Bailey, to his nurse, Jenny Page. Sir Peter is having a party at his grand mansion on the river Thames the day before the wedding, and Judith and Co...adult · amateur-sleuth · audiobook · book · contemporary · cozy · crime · fiction · friendship · killer -
![The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff]()
The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
Geeta's no-good husband disappeared five years ago. She didn't kill him, but everyone thinks she did--no matter how much she protests. But she soon discovers that being known as a "self-made" widow has some surprising perks. No one messes with her, no one threatens her, and no one tries to control (ahem, marry) her... -
![Code 6 by James Grippando]()
Code 6 by James Grippando
Harper Lee Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author James Grippando returns with a bold new thriller that asks at what price do we open our lives to Big Data.Aspiring playwright, Kate Gamble, is struggling to launch a script she's been secretly researching her entire life, mostly at the family dinner table...adult · audiobook · book · crime · espionage · fiction · mystery · political-intrigue · politics · technothriller -
![Promise Boys by Nick Brooks]()
Promise Boys by Nick Brooks
A blockbuster, dark academia mystery about three teens of color who must investigate their principal’s murder to clear their own names―this page-turning thriller is perfect for fans of Karen McManus, Jason Reynolds, Angie Thomas, and Holly Jackson ."Thrilling, captivating, and blade-sharp." ―Karen M...mystery · young-adult · contemporary · fiction · audiobook · crime · suspense · realistic · high-school · poc-mc -
![The Lie in Our Marriage by Anna-Lou Weatherley]()
The Lie in Our Marriage by Anna-Lou Weatherley
On a warm spring evening, guests gather in a perfectly manicured garden to celebrate Maggie and Len’s twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. Maggie leans against the apple tree in the sprawling grounds of her beautiful home. She watches her fun-loving husband and darling children and her heart swells with pride...adult · book · crime · domestic-drama · drama · fiction · law-enforcement · mystery · police-procedural · psychological -
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![The Engagement by Samantha Hayes]()
The Engagement by Samantha Hayes
You thought you had escaped him. Until he proposed to your daughter.‘There’s someone I want you to meet,’ Belle says, as a man draws up to her side. He’s tall with dark hair and stubble on his square jaw. He’s dressed in expensive-looking clothes – tan trousers and a fitted navy shirt...adult · audiobook · book · contemporary · domestic-drama · family · female-mc · fiction · psychological · suspense -
![The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis]()
The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis
A sensational new novel from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and Imperial Bedrooms that tracks a group of privileged Los Angeles high school friends as a serial killer strikes across the city...21st-century · adult · audiobook · book · classics · coming-of-age · contemporary · crime · dark · dark-academia -
![Going Dark by Melissa de la Cruz]()
Going Dark by Melissa de la Cruz
“An intense rollercoaster of a thriller and a searing indictment of which victims get our attention and sympathy...mystery · young-adult · fiction · contemporary · suspense · crime · new-adult · thriller · revenge · realistic -
![You Must Remember This by Kat Rosenfield]()
You Must Remember This by Kat Rosenfield
A Knives Out-style whodunnit with a twist of Taylor Jenkins Reid, You Must Remember This is an immersive Gothic mystery, with a long-ago love affair, icy death, and a rich family gone bad, from Kat Rosenfield, the acclaimed author of No One Will Miss Her.On Christmas Eve, eighty-five-year-old Miriam Gardiner walks onto the vast frozen river behind her home...adult · amateur-sleuth · audiobook · book · contemporary · crime · family · female-mc · fiction · gothic -
![Everybody Knows by Jordan Harper]()
Everybody Knows by Jordan Harper
Everybody Knows is a propulsive LA crime thriller about Mae Pruett, a "black-bag publicist" - she doesn't get the good news out, she keeps the bad news in – who works for “The Beast,” her name for the loose collection of lawyers, publicists and private security firms who protect and serve the wealthy and depraved of Los Angeles... -
![The Doctor’s Wife by Daniel Hurst]()
The Doctor’s Wife by Daniel Hurst
He thinks his secret is safe. But she knows the truth…My husband is a doctor. He’s smart and charming and everybody trusts him. Except me.On the surface, it looks like I have it all – the perfect marriage, the perfect husband, the perfect life. But it’s far from the truth.Doctor Drew Devlin is not the respectable figure he makes out to be... -
![Reef Road by Deborah Goodrich Royce]()
Reef Road by Deborah Goodrich Royce
When a severed hand washes ashore in the wealthy enclave of Palm Beach, Florida, the lives of two women—a lonely writer obsessed with the unsolved murder of her mother’s best friend and a panicked wife whose husband has disappeared with their children—collide as the world shutters in the pandemic lockdown of 2020.A young woman’s life seems perfect until her family goes missing...adult · audiobook · book · contemporary · crime · fiction · literary-fiction · murder · mystery · psychological -
![The Social Climber by Amanda Pellegrino]()
The Social Climber by Amanda Pellegrino
ELIZA BENNETT IS NOT YOUR NORMAL BRIDE…For Eliza Bennett, all her planning and scheming for her dream wedding is about to pay off. She’s girlbossed her way into an elite Manhattan lifestyle, including a high-powered job in PR and an engagement to Graham Walker, a high-society Yale graduate from a prominent blue-blooded family...adult · audiobook · book · coming-of-age · contemporary · domestic-drama · fiction · slow-burn · suspense · thriller -
![The Blue Bar by Damyanti Biswas]()
The Blue Bar by Damyanti Biswas
On the dark streets of Mumbai, the paths of a missing dancer, a serial killer, and an inspector with a haunted past converge in an evocative thriller about lost love and murderous obsession.After years of dancing in Mumbai’s bars, Tara Mondal was desperate for a new start. So when a client offered her a life-changing payout to indulge a harmless, if odd, fantasy, she accepted... -
![The Book Spy by Alan Hlad]()
The Book Spy by Alan Hlad
Perfect for fans of Kate Quinn, Marie Benedict, and Pam Jenoff and inspired by true stories of the heroic librarian spies of WWII, the new book from the internationally bestselling author of Churchill’s Secret Messenger transports readers from the New York Public Library to Portugal’s city of espionage in a thrilling, riveting tale.An American librarian. A Portuguese bookseller...20th-century · adult · book · drama · espionage · family · female-mc · fiction · historical · historical-fiction -
![The Black Queen by Jumata Emill]()
The Black Queen by Jumata Emill
Nova Albright was going to be the first Black homecoming queen at Lovett High--but now she's dead. Murdered on coronation night. Fans of One of Us Is Lying and The Other Black Girl will love this unputdownable thriller.Nova Albright, the first Black homecoming queen at Lovett High, is dead...young-adult · mystery · contemporary · lgbtq · horror · audiobook · fiction · wlw · thriller · crime -
![Locust Lane by Stephen Amidon]()
Locust Lane by Stephen Amidon
For fans of Mystic River by Dennis Lehane and Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng, Stephen Amidon’s Locust Lane is a taut and utterly propulsive story about the search for justice and the fault lines of power and influence in a seemingly idyllic town. Can anyone be trusted?On the surface, Emerson, Massachusetts, is just like any other affluent New England suburb...adult · audiobook · book · contemporary · crime · domestic-drama · family · fiction · literary-fiction · murder -
![I Eat Men Like Air by Alice Berman]()
I Eat Men Like Air by Alice Berman
A ferocious and compelling mystery-drama for the #MeToo era in the vein of The Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica KnollWith the snow falling fast on a New Hampshire mansion, seven 20-somethings assemble to celebrate an upcoming marriage in a debaucherous weekend that will change their lives irrevocably...adult · audiobook · book · breakup · cheating · contemporary · crime · domestic-drama · drama · female-author -
![The Things We Do To Our Friends by Heather Darwent]()
The Things We Do To Our Friends by Heather Darwent
A dark, intoxicating, compulsive tale of feminist revenge, toxic friendships, and deadly secretsClare arrives at the University of Edinburgh with a secret. This is her chance for a blank slate – to finally become who she was meant to be.And then she meets Tabitha.Tabitha is charismatic, beautiful and intimidatingly rich...adult · audiobook · book · british-isles · contemporary · dark-academia · europe · female-author · female-mc · fiction -
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![No One Knows Us Here by Rebecca Kelley]()
No One Knows Us Here by Rebecca Kelley
In this gripping novel about obsession, control, and self-preservation, a woman desperate to provide a new life for her sister enters a compromising arrangement with an entitled tech billionaire.Rosemary Rabourne is already struggling to pay the bills when her recently orphaned half sister, Wendy, shows up at her door...adult · book · contemporary · domestic-drama · family · female-mc · fiction · mystery · psychological · suspense -
![I'll Never Tell by Philippa East]()
I'll Never Tell by Philippa East
Gripping new suspense from the author of Little White Lies 'A tense, cat and mouse tale . . . a compelling read' Catherine Cooper, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Chateau'Had me gripped from start to finish. So original and clever' Lesley Kara, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Apartment Upstairs'Wow! What a book! I couldn't read it fast enough...adult · audiobook · book · contemporary · crime · domestic-drama · family · female-mc · fiction · murder -
![My Father's House by Joseph O'Connor]()
My Father's House by Joseph O'Connor
September 1943: German forces occupy Rome. Gestapo boss Obersturmbannführer Paul Hauptman rules with terror. Hunger is widespread. Rumors fester. The war’s outcome is far from certain.Diplomats, refugees, and escaped Allied prisoners flee for protection into Vatican City, at one fifth of a square mile the world’s smallest state, a neutral, independent country within Rome...20th-century · adult · audiobook · book · europe · fiction · historical · historical-fiction · italy · literary-fiction -
![What Lies in the Woods by Kate Alice Marshall]()
What Lies in the Woods by Kate Alice Marshall
They were eleven when they sent a killer to prison . . .They were heroes . . . but they were liars.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...audiobook · book · contemporary · crime · dark · female-author · female-mc · fiction · friendship · horror -
![The Hunter by Jennifer Herrera]()
The Hunter by Jennifer Herrera
A riveting atmospheric suspense debut that explores the dark side of a small town and asks: How can we uncover the truth when we are lying to ourselves?After reckless behavior costs NYPD detective Leigh O’Donnell her job and her marriage, three suspicious drownings in her hometown cause her to return to Copper Falls, Ohio in the hopes that solving a triple homicide just might get her life back...adult · book · crime · female-mc · fiction · law-enforcement · murder · psychological · suspense · thriller -
![Live Your Best Lie by Jessie Weaver]()
Live Your Best Lie by Jessie Weaver
Sometimes the prettiest Instagram feeds hide the darkest—and bloodiest—secrets. Social media influencer Summer Cartwright leads a charmed life: millions of followers, the trendiest designer and vintage clothing in her closet, a newly minted book deal, the coolest friends, and until recently, the hottest boyfriend at her über elite prep school...young-adult · contemporary · fiction · audiobook · murder · suspense · thriller · horror · multi-pov · crime -
![Trust Only Me by McGarvey Black]()
Trust Only Me by McGarvey Black
From her home office in rural Connecticut, self-published thriller author Jillian Samuels dreams of writing a bestseller.Her tall, dark and handsome chef husband Teddy, and her BFF, Natalie, a glamorous PR woman always in six-inch heels, cheer Jillian on when her new book, The Soul Collector, is accepted by a New York agent.By night, she writes about serial killers...
