My Darling Husband
by Kimberly Belle.
A home invasion. Jade and her two kids are taken hostage. Cam, her celebrity chef husband, must pay $734,296 in cash by 7 pm, or his family will be killed. But Cam doesn’t have that kind of money, especially since his flagship restaurant has just gone up in flames.
The Golden Couple
by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen.
Marissa and Matthew Bishop appear to be a golden couple, but their therapist, Avery, believes secrets are hidden behind that golden façade. And when she begins digging below the surface, things keep getting more complicated.
Not a Happy Family
by Shari Lapena.
Wealthy entrepreneur Fred Merton and his wife Sheila have been found brutally murdered in their elegant house in an exclusive enclave. Could one of their three grown children have killed them?
Finding Tessa
by Jaime Lynn Hendricks.
Jace’s wife Tessa is missing – and there’s broken glass and blood on the kitchen floor. Has somebody taken her, or is Jace to blame for what happened?
I Don’t Forgive You
by Aggie Blum Thompson.
Allie Ross flirts with a man at a suburban party. The next day he’s found dead, and she’s accused of his murder.
Local Woman Missing
by Mary Kubica.
Eleven years ago, a woman went missing. And shortly after, so did six-year-old Delilah and her mother. Now Delilah has been found. But it’s not clear what happened—or what is still unfolding.
The End of Her
by Shari Lapena.
Stephanie and Patrick are adjusting to life with their colicky twin babies – then a woman from Patrick’s past shows up and disrupts everything.
Confessions on the 7:45
by Lisa Unger
In a chance encounter on a commuter train, Selena tells a stranger that her husband is having an affair with their nanny. She thinks she’ll never see that stranger again. But she’s wrong.
To Tell You the Truth
by Gilly Macmillan. One night when Lucy was nine years old, her little brother disappeared. He was never found. Now she’s a famous author, and thinks those events are in the past. But she has secrets she’s never told anyone, and it seems others have their own agendas too.
One by One
by Ruth Ware. A luxury chalet. An opportunity of a lifetime. Until guests start to disappear…
Twelve people are at a corporate retreat in a remote Swiss ski chalet when an avalanche isolates them from the village below. In a plot reminiscent of Agatha Christie’s “And Then There Were None,” guests start dying, one by one.
Invisible Girl
by Lisa Jewell.
Seventeen-year-old Saffyre is obsessed with her former therapist, who never discovered her dark secret. Middle-aged Cate is wondering what’s happening with her marriage and her children. And thirtyish Owen, living in his aunt’s spare bedroom, has been suspended from his teaching position for inappropriate behavior with teenage girls. Then Saffyre disappears.
Conviction
by Denise Mina.
Anna loves listening to true crime podcasts, especially early in the morning. They give her something to think about besides the mundane tasks of looking after her family.
Then she realizes that one of the victims named in this podcast is someone she knew in another life. When she had a different name, and a story she wants to keep hidden.
My Lovely Wife
by Samantha Downing
“It didn’t start out as something bad. I still believe that.”
Millicent and her husband have found a way to spice up their marriage: murder. The first time was not planned. Nor was the second. But by then they were hooked. They need more victims.
The House We Grew Up In
by Lisa Jewell
A mother who’s become a compulsive hoarder. A daughter who moved to Australia and disappeared. A son who’s a bouncer in a brothel in Thailand. A father who’s living with his son’s former girlfriend. Cousins who’ve never met each other. What has happened to drive this family apart?
The Murder List
by Hank Phillippi Ryan
Harvard law student Rachel is married to Jack, the top defense attorney in Boston. She’s been offered a summer internship with Jack’s nemesis, the local District Attorney. Rachel figures she’ll learn the prosecutor’s tricks from the inside, positioning her perfectly to be Jack’s law partner when she graduates.
But Rachel confronts a dilemma. What’s more important: winning, or justice?
Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives
Edited by Sarah Weinman
This collection presents “an entire generation of female crime writers who have faded from view.”
First published between the early 1940s and the mid-1970s, these fourteen stories—passionate, suspenseful and even terrifying—present a group of authors who laid the groundwork for what’s now called domestic suspense.
Behind Every Lie
By Christina McDonald
If you can’t remember it, how do you prove you didn’t do it?
Eva’s in hospital. She was struck by lightning and has lost her memory. Her mother’s been murdered, and Eva can’t remember what happened after they had dinner the night before. And the police suspect her…