Category: Suspense

  • On a Quiet Street

    On a Quiet Street

    Author: Carla KovachPublisher: BookoutureDate Published: January 15, 2024 You’ll read this book in one day! Well, one day if your day ends at 1:30 a.m. because you HAVE TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS! This was such a complex mystery, of identity, he said, she said, cheating husband, lying husbands, wives, and mothers! There was a stalker,…

  • The Fury

    The Fury

    Author: Alex MichaelidesPublisher: Celadon BooksDate Published: January 16, 2024 The setting: the story takes place on a private island off the coast of Mykonos, with flashbacks to home in London. While the island is only a couple of acres wide, it has a full-time caretaker, a ruins, and big estate. The Fury (Menos in Greek)…

  • The Mother-in-Law’s Secret

    The Mother-in-Law’s Secret

    Author: Melanie PricePublisher: WendleburyDate Published: December 26, 2023 Well, let’s just say everyone in this book has a secret! But who will be the first to reveal theirs? And what will the consequences be? This is a totally new tale of revenge and manipulation. Isabel wants her mother-in-law to like her, so that she can…

  • Make Her Pay

    Make Her Pay

    Author: Miranda RijksPublisher: Inkubator BooksDate Published: December 10, 2023 Leonie has it all. But for the past 10 years, she has not had a single night of good sleep. All because of the choices she made. No, wait. The choices her overbearing father made on her behalf. After getting the job, the apartment, and the…

  • The Girl Who Heard Maggots

    The Girl Who Heard Maggots

    Author: Abby DaviesPublisher: Apple Loft PressDate Published: December 5, 2023 Ivy has the best of intentions. She’s protective of her six-year-old charge Wren, and she likes her employer enough to dress up in a Victorian maid’s outfit.  She’s not too sure about the other inhabitants of the house.  Then there is the chauffeur, Maddock, who…

  • Casual Cruelties

    Casual Cruelties

    Author: Alison IrvingPublisher: Bloodhound BooksDate Published: November 3, 2023 While this book is classified as a domestic thriller, it read to me more like women’s fiction. A woman, going through a certain stage of her life, is constantly finding herself having to do what her husband wants.  Every day is filled with his constant little…

  • There Should Have Been Eight

    There Should Have Been Eight

    Author: Nalini SinghPublisher: Berkley Publishing GroupDate Published: November 21, 2023 For me, two things combined to make this a truly suspenseful book – the descriptions of the mansion, and Luna’s impending loss of vision. The author made me want to know about every twisting hallway and hidden room in this gothic family estate located across…

  • The Christmas Holiday

    The Christmas Holiday

    Author: Mikayla DavidsPublisher: IndieDate Published: December 2, 2023 Meet the in-laws. How awful can it be? Alicia has finally married the guy she’s been friends with benefits since college.  She had no idea his family were as wealthy as they are so when she’s invited to spend the Christmas holiday with them at their lodge…

  • The House Guest

    The House Guest

    Author: Alison JamesPublisher: BookoutureDate Published: November 1, 2023 Wow! I have been very stingy with my 5-star reviews but I’m happy that I found The House Guest well deserving of that rating! This is an intricate but fast-paced story with well-conceived characters that reel you in. Because of a trust that’s almost diabolical in the…

  • Gone Tonight

    Gone Tonight

    Author: Sarah PekkanenPublisher: St. Martin’s PressDate Published: August 1, 2023 Ruth takes a mother’s love to its extreme. She will do anything to protect her daughter Catherine from her past. Catherine is a dutiful daughter, bound at the hip to her single mother. So when Ruth is diagnosed with a fatal disease, Catherine at first…