Top new thriller books out this week: 3 Mar - 9 Mar 2024
Last updated:
March 9, 2024
This week featuring new releases by Tana French, Simone St. James, Loreth Anne White, Dervla McTiernan, Lisa Unger, Carola Lovering, Amy Tintera, Paulette Kennedy, Ali Lowe, Caroline Frost and many more.
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The Hunter by Tana French
It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die.Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace...mystery · fiction · crime · contemporary · thriller · audiobook · literary-fiction · law-enforcement · police-procedural · suspense -
Murder Road by Simone St. James
A young couple find themselves haunted by a string of gruesome murders committed along an old deserted road in this terrifying new novel.July 1995. April and Eddie have taken a wrong turn. They’re looking for the small resort town where they plan to spend their honeymoon. When they spot what appears to a lone hitchhiker along the deserted road, they stop to help... -
The Unquiet Bones by Loreth Anne White
A shocking discovery of human bones reopens an almost fifty-year-old cold case—and rips apart the lives of a group of friends—in a riveting novel by Loreth Anne White, the Amazon Charts and Washington Post bestselling author of The Maid’s Diary...mystery · fiction · suspense · crime · murder · audiobook · psychological · thriller · law-enforcement · police-procedural -
What Happened to Nina? by Dervla McTiernan
From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Murder Rule comes an emotional novel of suspense about two families pitted against each other—one seeking justice in the disappearance of their daughter, the other desperate to clear their son’s name.Nina and Simon are the perfect couple. Young, fun and deeply in love...mystery · fiction · suspense · crime · contemporary · psychological · drama · audiobook · family · thriller -
The New Couple in 5B by Lisa Unger
A couple inherits an apartment with a spine-tingling past in this binge-worthy thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six.Rosie and Chad Lowan are barely making ends meet in New York City when they receive life-changing news: Chad’s late uncle has left them his luxury apartment at the historic Windermere in glamorous Murray Hill...urban · new-york-state · mystery · fiction · horror · paranormal · suspense · thriller · audiobook · spooky -
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Bye, Baby by Carola Lovering
A missing baby. A fraught friendship. A secret that can never be told.On a brisk fall night in a New York apartment, 35-year-old Billie West hears terrified screams. It's her lifelong best friend Cassie Barnwell, one floor above, and she's just realized her infant daughter has gone missing... -
Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera
What if you thought you murdered your best friend? And if everyone else thought so too? And what if the truth doesn't matter?After Lucy is found wandering the streets, covered in her best friend Savvy’s blood, everyone thinks she is a murderer. Lucy and Savvy were the golden girls of their small Texas town: pretty, smart, and enviable...north-america · usa · texas · mystery · fiction · suspense · crime · female-author · thriller · female-mc -
The Devil and Mrs. Davenport by Paulette Kennedy
The bestselling author of The Witch of Tin Mountain and Parting the Veil mines the subtle horrors of 1950s America in a gripping novel about a woman under pressure—from the living and the dead. The first day of autumn brought the fever, and with the fever came the voices. Missouri, 1955...historical-fiction · horror · paranormal · fiction · suspense · ghosts · gothic · historical · mystery · audiobook -
The School Run by Ali Lowe
How far would you go to protect your children?For parents living in the beautiful coastal town of Pacific Pines, all their hopes and dreams are pinned on the outcome of the annual Gala Day hosted by St Ignatius Boys' School. To be accepted into the prestigious institution, their sons must battle it out, facing rigorous rounds of physical and mental tests...suspense · drama · fiction · domestic-drama · psychological · thriller · murder · crime · book · adult -
The Last Verse: A Novel by Caroline Frost
From the award-winning author of Shadows of Pecan Hollow comes The Last Verse , a gripping novel set in the country music world of 1970s Nashville about a struggling musician who writes a hit song that both promises her long-sought-after fame and implicates her in a heinous crime...historical-fiction · fiction · mystery · literary-fiction · suspense · female-mc · thriller · coming-of-age · crime · family -
Never Trust the Husband by Jessica Payne
You look so happy in your wedding photo, gazing at your perfect new husband, glass of champagne held high in a toast. You chose to ignore the warning signs, but he hid more than one secret from you. And now he’s gotten away with your murder…Every night I watch Benjamin and Gwyn in their gorgeous, glass-fronted Seattle home. Your ex-husband. Your best friend...north-america · usa · washington · urban · psychological · suspense · fiction · contemporary · thriller · family -
Ice Into Ashes by John Carson
Time is a healer….unless you’re the one doing the killing…DCI James Craig is heading home to Fife for a family funeral after the discovery of his wife's uncle's lifeless body at home, having fallen down the stairs. The incident was classified as a Sudden Death, attributing it to the man's advanced age and fragility. Case officially closed... -
Wolf at the Table by Adam Rapp
The Corrections meets We Need to Talk About Kevin in this harrowing, epic family saga from Pulitzer Prize finalist playwright Adam Rapp. It's August in Elmira, a small town in upstate New York, and the year is 1951...fiction · mystery · historical-fiction · family · thriller · dark · whodunit · literary-fiction · 20th-century · historical -
The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer Croft
From the International Booker Prize-winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, an utterly beguiling novel about eight translators and their search for a world-renowned author who goes missing in a primeval Polish forest.Eight translators arrive at a house in a primeval Polish forest on the border of Belarus...fiction · mystery · literary-fiction · contemporary · 21st-century · outdoors · audiobook · female-author · thriller · suspense -
Covert Action by David Bruns, J.R. Olson
Following their military defeat in the Battle of Taiwan, China opens a new front in the struggle for geopolitical supremacy.As China's Belt and Road Initiative brings together the final pieces of a 1000-mile rail and road connection between China and Tehran, a series of terrorist attacks rock the fractious states of Central Asia...politics · fiction · action-adventure · war · espionage · thriller · military · political-intrigue · violent-conflict · book -
The Center by Saul Herzog
New York, two years agoLance Spector is doing something he shouldn't be. He's sleeping with his handler. Here are all the reasons that can go so wrong. Set two years before the events of Book 1, The Center gives a shocking view of how far the Russians are willing to go to get kompromat on a trained assassin...vigilante · justice · thriller · pulp · financial · organized-crime · terrorism · assassinations · politics · conspiracies -
Treasure in the Keys by Matthew Rief
The prospect of hidden riches can bring out the best… and worst in its seekers. It can drive men mad. It can drive men to kill.While visiting the hallowed battlefields of Normandy, former Navy SEAL Logan Dodge and his family make an extraordinary discovery... -
Tipping Point: The Crossing by John O'Brien
With war threatening large on the Korean Peninsula, two massive convoys have departed Chinese ports. Dubbed the Northern and Southern invasion fleets, this collection of warships, landing vessels, and merchant ships are aimed straight at the island nation of Taiwan.First though, they must cross the Taiwanese Strait...military · war · politics · technothriller · thriller · political-intrigue · fiction · action-adventure · violent-conflict · book -
Bonsai by Sandy Nicolson
They know him by his nickname only. That is about all they know about Bonsai. To most people, he is a complete nobody.The strange guy that runs the gas station on the edge of town. The town being Salinas in the valley. It's a dinosaur of a gas station, slipping in all ways into the ground, a symbol of a bygone time, like him. History.But this is not the full story... -
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Bucharest Unbound: A Cold War espionage thriller by Richard Wake
ALEX KOVACS IS BACK, DESPERATELY TRYING NOT TO BITE THE HAND THAT FEEDS HIM.Or, rather, the hand that feeds his bosses.Bucharest Unbound is the 12th book in a series that has earned more than 15,000 5-star reviews. In it, Alex has been sent to Bucharest, Romania...historical-fiction · espionage · thriller · political-intrigue · fiction · historical · book · adult -
Rogue of the North: A Short Arbedenion Tale by J.E. Feldman
Rogue prefers his quiet life in the mountains. He takes the occasional contracted job to put food on the table. Hunters have been disappearing or turning up dead lately and Rogue is determined to find the source. When he's offered a hunting job with a reward that seems too good to be true, he cautiously accepts.With his white bear companion, they set off... -
The Terrified Prince: Second Edition by Peter D. Weiler
This was the description for the original version of The Terrified this heart-warming fairytale, young Prince Alan is beset by many fears and anxieties. Not only does he suffer from OCD, he is afraid of almost enclosed spaces, the cold, the heat, rain, noise, smells, and animals... -
Nonesuch Man: an illustrated novel by Steven Elkins
Winter 1962. A child is discovered in the frozen Oregon woods. Mute and feral, wandering lost, naked and near death. He is brought to a psychiatric hospital for evaluation. A routine physical exam reveals anomalies. The boy has all his secondary teeth. He's already showing signs of puberty. Unheard of for a four-year old. And a bungled blood test fails to identify another abnormality... -
Everybody Has Secrets by Terrence Degree
After playing in the last basketball game of the tournament in downtown Seattle, Thomas Williamson and Deshawn Spielman plan to get something to eat before heading back to the hotel to meet curfew. However, they become sidetracked when they meet a young woman walking to a party. That decision becomes deadly when police shoot the two young men, believing they are robbery suspects... -
Wrath of the Dark Wizard by Alex Leroy
Something has been missing from the lives of Harry, Lucas, and Ariana. Almost like a period of time has gone missing from their minds. When a series of unfortunate events suddenly throw the trio of friends into a mystical world of adventure and danger, they, with the guidance of a newfound mentor, have to face a higher, ancient power... -
Good Men: Hard Times by C W Broesamle
What if the world ended as you know it today, could you do the hard right when the easy wrong seems the choice?This apocalyptic tale is torn straight from current headlines of our time. The US stock markets have a terrible day, the economy is a mess right now, and it only takes a small nudge to fall apart...