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One of Suspense Magazine's Best Debuts of 2021 "A sharp and deftly constructed suspense thriller that hooks the reader immediately and never lets go. . . . Fans of Gillian Flynn's GONE GIRL will love this debut novel"—The Florida Times-Union Jace and Tessa appear to be a young couple in love with nothing to hide. But looks can be deceiving. When Jace Montgomery comes home late from entertaining clients, he discovers that his wife Tessa is missing. There’s broken glass at the back door. Clumps of her hair. Blood. The cops in their small New Jersey town have him pegged as a suspect, especially after he explodes at a reporter during a press conference. Jace maintains his innocence despite t...
A Goodreads, SheReads, and Criminal Element Most Anticipated Thriller Is it better to believe a lovely lie or to know the horrible truth? 1999: The night of their senior picnic, Scarlett Russo and her best friend Pepper were involved in a car accident that left two of their classmates dead. Afterward, they lied to the police, protecting each other from the consequences. Then Pepper left town and Scarlett never heard from her again… Now: Twenty-two years later, Scarlett has buried that deadly incident deep in her mind and built a comfortable life for herself, working in a hotel on the west coast of Florida and raising her teenage son with her husband Vince. Her peace is disrupted, however, ...
The wife has vanished. The husband looks guilty. But nothing is as it seems. When the police arrive at James' home after he reports his wife missing, they’re immediately suspicious. The kitchen looks like a clear crime scene with broken glass and blood on the polished floors. His wife’s blood. But his wife, Tessa, is very much alive. Tessa has plans for her husband. She’s going to make him pay for the things he’s done and the secrets he’s kept. But only if her own dark past doesn’t catch up with her first. His Missing Wife is a gripping and twisty thriller in which nothing can be taken at face value. Fans of Lisa Jewell, Samantha Downing and Gillian Flynn will love this. His Miss...
An enthralling novel of secrets, second chances, and confronting the past by the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of When I'm Gone. After a series of devastating losses, Chicago journalist Hannah Williamson has landed in Senatobia, Mississippi, to care for her bedridden grandmother and endure grunt work at a small newspaper. But in cleaning out its archives, Hannah discovers a compelling distraction from her life: a series of rejected articles from the 1930s that illuminate a long-hidden mystery. The articles, penned by a young woman named Evelyn, are haunting accounts of first love, trauma, and surviving a mysterious shooting that left Evelyn paralyzed at the age of fourteen. The arti...
Two estranged sisters find that forgiveness never goes out of style when they inherit their mother’s vintage jackets, purses… and pearls of wisdom Estranged half-sisters Gabrielle Winslow and Lulu Quattro have only two things in common: mounds of debt and coils of unresolved enmity toward Bette Bradford, their controlling and imperious recently deceased mother. Gabrielle, the firstborn, was raised in relative luxury on Manhattan’s rarefied Upper East Side. Now, at fifty-five, her life as a Broadway costume designer married to a heralded Broadway producer has exploded in divorce. Lulu, who spent half her childhood under the tutelage of her working-class Brooklyn grandparents, is a griev...
“Eerie and sly, White Fox is a trap waiting to be sprung. I was completely enthralled.”—Rory Power, New York Times-bestselling author of Wilder Girls “A ghost story that will spook even the most hardened grown-ups.” —Entertainment Weekly After their world-famous actor mother disappeared under mysterious circumstances, Manon and Thaïs left their remote Mediterranean island home—sent away by their pharma-tech tycoon father. Opposites in every way, the sisters drifted apart in their grief. Yet their mother's unfinished story still haunts them both, and they can't put to rest the possibility that she is still alive. Lured home a decade later, Manon and Thaïs discover their mother’s legendary last work, long thought lost: White Fox, a screenplay filled with enigmatic metaphors. The clues in this dark fairytale draw them deep into the island's surreal society, into the twisted secrets hidden by their glittering family, to reveal the truth about their mother—and themselves. An Imprint Book
Alexa and Francis were wealthy executives who had everything, except for kids. When he tragically passed away, she gave up hope for being a mother? until she met Vick Miller, a simple family man, and a nearly perfect doppelganger of her husband.She pays him handsomely for his donations to produce a child who resembles her beloved husband. The offers grow more enticing and Vick's marriage begins to strain.Alexa wants his genes? his looks anyway. She is wealthy, attractive, powerful, and utterly obsessed.
Trust no one when your daughter goes missing. A remote cabin in the woods may hold some desperately needed answers, but time is ticking down to complete the ransom drop-off and save Melanie from the one person who wants her dead. Who is the real mastermind behind the abduction? - Fasten your seatbelt for a tense domestic thriller! -
Murderpalooza, the premier mystery and suspense writers conference, is meant to be an exciting celebration of the genre and its preeminent writers. But when bestselling author and industry favorite Kristin Bailey is found dead in her hotel room, her rival authors at the convention seem to be the prime suspects. Vicky Overton shares Kristin's agent and is hoping to raise her profile with the award she's up against Kristin for. Davis Walton is a hot-shot writer with his star-and ego-on the rise. Mike Brooks is a washed-up has-been planning his big comeback. And Suzanne Shih is a star-struck young writer desperate to break into the business. As an anonymous social media account taunts them to confess, the suspects find themselves turning to each other to help solve who is behind the shocking turn of events. But they must first decide if the killer is targeting them, or is one of them. The only thing they know for sure is that no one is better at both creating and solving a mystery than the people who write them for a living. Jaime Lynn Hendricks gives the reader a thrilling peek into the mystery writing world and those that inhabit it in this gripping suspense novel.
A tense psychological thriller about a mother who must keep watch at all times if she wants to keep her family safe—from USA TODAY and #1 national bestselling author Samantha M. Bailey. Wherever you go… she’ll be watching. Sarah Goldman, mother to six-year-old Jacob, is relieved to move across the country. She has a lot she wants to leave behind, especially Holly Monroe, the pretty twenty-two-year-old babysitter she and her husband, Daniel, hired to take care of their young son last summer. It started out as a perfect arrangement—Sarah had a childminder her son adored, and Holly found the mother figure she’d always wanted. But Sarah’s never been one to trust very easily, so she k...