Twisted Psychological Thriller

Every family has secrets, and on the hottest day of the year, the truth is about to come out. As a tragedy unfolds behind closed doors, the dawn chorus is split by the wail of sirens. And one by one the families who tried so hard to welcome the Wests begin to realise: Hogarth Street will never be the same again.

A hidden identity. A violent past. A killer who knows her better than she knows herself. I live by routines. Locked doors. Controlled schedules. Predictable days. Five years ago, I survived a violent attack while working as a real estate agent in Augusta. I escaped a man who should have been just another client—and I ran. I changed my name. I moved states. I rebuilt my life in Nashville, one listing at a time. I don’t talk about the past. I don’t revisit old memories. I tell myself survival was enough. Then a client is murdered at one of my properties. Then a colleague vanishes. Then ...

Framed for murder. Surrounded by women with secrets. I’ve spent my whole life becoming someone else. A new name. A polished history. A flawless facade—all carefully constructed to earn me a place in Magnolia Estates, the most exclusive neighborhood in Mississippi. Joining the Magnolia Estates book club feels like the final seal of approval. These women are everything I’ve pretended to be: wealthy, elegant, untouchable. But perfection is exhausting. And every woman in that room is hiding something. Betsey Hartwell watches me like she knows who I really am. Margot Spencer’s designer ...

One reckless choice. One secret he can’t escape. Spencer Malloy thought he could get away with it—just one bad decision to solve a problem he couldn’t fix on his own, but the people who came looking for what he took had other plans for him. What started as a way out has turned into blackmail, dangerous jobs, and a woman who won’t let him go. Each demand pulls him further from the man he used to be—and closer to losing everything that still matters. His marriage is unraveling. His family is slipping through his fingers, and every choice he makes to protect them only buries him ...

After an affair wrecks their marriage, Dan and Miranda Kelly attempt to escape with their young daughter to the remote lake town of Pinewood, Kansas. It’s a new start, a chance to heal and begin a new chapter of their lives. More importantly, it’s an opportunity to forget Abby, the woman who nearly destroyed their family. Unfortunately, Dan and Miranda soon discover that past mistakes cannot be avoided so easily. Shortly after beginning their new life in Pinewood, Dan begins to receive harassing messages from Abby, warning him that she will not be easily forgotten. What begins as ...

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU LIED? The first lie: MONSTERS DON’T EXIST. When the body of a man is discovered in the Boston Common, Martina finds herself entering a horrific nightmare. She discovers evidence of the unimaginable: the resurgence of ancient methods of persecution being carried out by a Puritan-indoctrinated serial killer who believes the devil walks among us. The second lie: YOU WOULD KNOW A MONSTER IF YOU SAW ONE. After the first victim is dismissed as gang-related, Martina fears there is more to the murder than meets the eye. Her instincts are soon proven correct when another...

She hired the perfect helper. Now she's a stranger in her own home. Claire Thompson is drowning—between her freelance career and two young children, exhaustion has become her default state. When she and her detached husband Mark hire Annika Jensen, a beautiful Danish au pair who seems impossibly competent, Claire finally thinks she can breathe again. At first, Annika is everything they hoped for. The house runs smoothly. The children adore her. For the first time in years, Claire feels like she might survive motherhood. But small things begin to feel wrong. A coffee cup moved. A door left...

A gripping domestic thriller about the dark side of social media fame Becca Hart has it all: 1.2 million Instagram followers, lucrative brand deals, and a picture-perfect family. Every strawberry-picking trip, every bedtime routine, every milestone is content—and her daughter Emma is the star. But Emma doesn't want to smile anymore. Her cheeks hurt. The "phone people" are always watching. Then, during a livestream at a local farm, Emma vanishes. One moment she's holding her brother's hand. The next, she's gone—and nearly ten thousand people watched it happen in real time. As the ...

Hannah doesn’t remember her life before Peter. And in this quiet Victorian neighborhood, that’s exactly how he wants it. The house is charming. The marriage seems perfect. The neighbors are polite in a way that feels rehearsed. But inside this carefully controlled world, one thing stands out—the locked upstairs room Peter insists she never open. He tells her it’s a utility space with dangerous wiring. He tells her her memory loss comes from “a traumatic past” she’s not ready to face. He tells her she’s safe now, that he’s the only one she can trust. But the late-night ...

She thought moving to a small town would keep her safe. She was wrong. School nurse Delilah Morrison chose Millbrook, Wisconsin for its quiet streets and friendly faces—the perfect place to escape her dark past. Eight years ago, a stalker named Calvin Reeves turned her life into a nightmare, culminating in a terrifying home invasion that left her forever changed. His chilling words still haunt her: that she was his "sunshine," and their story wasn't over—no matter how far she ran or how much time passed. Now she has a fresh start, a new job, and even a loving boyfriend in deputy sheriff...

A missing husband. A reality dating experiment. A marriage built by an algorithm. I wake up to find my husband gone. Not my real husband. My algorithmic husband. The man I was matched with on a high-stakes reality dating show, where strangers marry at first meeting, live together for thirty days, and compete for life-changing prize money—all under constant surveillance. Jonas wasn’t supposed to disappear. Not without a goodbye. Not after the vows. Not after the intimacy that felt uncomfortably real. Production claims he quit. No explanation. No warning. No contact. Just a vanished groom...

"I thought this job would be the perfect escape. A winter alone at an empty lodge in remote Montana—just me, the snow, and the silence. No past to haunt me, no secrets to unravel. But this silence isn't peaceful; it's heavy, dark, and watching. There are noises at night—soft footsteps, whispers of movement when no one should be there. Rachel, the manager, seems nice enough. Yet behind her smiles, I sense lies. Secrets. Like she's waiting, watching for me to reveal something. Like she knows my past, knows why I'm really here. Something is dangerously wrong at the lodge, and I'm starting ...

She watched a killer hunt. The people she trusted were hiding everything. I haven’t left my apartment in two years. Not since the night I watched my best friend get attacked—and no one believed me. Not since the police dismissed my testimony because I’d been drinking. Not since Claire disappeared from my life, and I blamed myself for not saving her. Now I watch the world through a webcam feed of the Gullhaven Boardwalk. It’s safer this way. Predictable. I catalog the regulars—Jogger Jim, Bench Betty, Phone Guy. I know their patterns. I understand their routines. Then she appears. ...

"One of the most unnerving and intelligent psychological thrillers you will read this year. Utterly unputdownable." WELCOME TO THE GLASS HOUSE. From the outside, the home is an architectural marvel in the quiet town of Willowbrook. Walls of glass. Open spaces. No secrets. From the inside, it is a prison. And Claire Montgomery is not its owner. She is its warden. After an unspeakable act of violence shattered her family, Claire’s life has become a suffocating routine of surveillance. She checks locked drawers. She tracks screen time. She counts every breath. She is desperately trying to ...

He attacks women in their homes. Then he has dinner with them. Detective Lily Hart is brilliant, sarcastic and running on fumes. Insomnia and sleeping pills blur her nights into hallucinations, but when a predator known as The BFF Killer strikes again, dragging her into a case that echoes the darkest chapter of her own past. One survivor tells the story: The blindfolded dinner. The only clue is a lizard tattoo. When Lily’s partner is murdered while protecting her, everything changes. The deeper she digs, the more the lines between justice and obsession disappear. Because he isn’t just ...

At midnight, three women meet in a locked restaurant. By morning, one of them could be blamed for murder. Mara, Tamsin, and Noelle share one thing in common: the same dangerously charming ex… and a trail of secrets they were never meant to connect. What begins as a confrontation spirals into a psychological trap where evidence can be planted, truths can be twisted, and silence is a weapon. As the night unravels, it becomes clear this isn’t revenge. It’s a performance. One carefully staged to decide who controls the narrative when the truth finally comes out. Because loving him ...

A MUDDY BOOT. A DEAD HUSBAND. A NIGHTMARE THAT WON'T END. Claire knows she killed her husband. Not with a gun or a knife, but with five cruel words spoken in a kitchen doorway. Everyone calls it a suicide, but Claire knows the truth. Her penance is silence, solitude, and the heavy weight of the secret she keeps. Until the morning the boot appears. It’s sitting center-stage on her porch. Muddy. Worn. Pointed at the door. It is identical to the one David was wearing the night he died. The same boot Claire buried in a sealed bin three years ago. Suddenly, Claire's quiet mourning is shattered...

When a single bullet misses its mark, it triggers a deadly chain reaction that threatens to expose the darkest secrets of a powerful political dynasty. Governor Jeffrey Riley will stop at nothing to secure his re-election — and eliminate the man having an affair with his wife. Enter Broderick, a disgraced ex-marine turned hitman, tasked with a seemingly straightforward assignment. But when his bullet finds the Governor's wife instead of her lover, Broderick becomes the state's most wanted man — and the only person who knows too much.

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I survived a crime we swore to bury. Now someone is killing us to make sure the truth stays dead. The phone call comes at midnight, shattering ten years of carefully constructed silence. Jilly is dead. Murdered—just like the others. I haven’t spoken to any of them since we scattered after college. Since that night, when blood soaked into carpets and our lives split into before and after. We made a pact back then—to stay away, to let the past rot in silence. But promises don’t matter when someone starts hunting the survivors. Now we’re all back in Miami. Five women bound by trauma,...