Popular Thrillers

How one artist reshaped the sound, image, and ambition of popular music. Before Michael Jackson, white rock dominated radio, MTV, and the pages of mainstream music journalism. Black artists were often confined to segregated charts and second-class categories. And “pop” was still shorthand for disposable, bubblegum fluff. After Michael Jackson, pop became the umbrella for all of popular music—an expansive, genre-defying art form that could absorb rock, R&B, funk, disco, and soul. And a Black artist was crowned its undisputed king. In Michael Jackson and the Reinvention of Pop, ...

Welcome to the Lives of Five Naughty Wives! The long-awaited parody of the TV series is here, naughtier and nastier than the series…Delicious Housewives is the hottest book ever by #1 Best-Selling International Author Tamarias Tyree. Secrets, mystery-suspense and sexual shenanigans! One critic called it a “trashy, fun read!” ~ Names and personalities have been changed/altered in keeping with the parody, but the novel and its characters are still fun and sexy like their TV counterparts. These hot ladies enjoy lots of sexual adventures and an assortment of misadventures including ...

REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK | #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “This fast-paced read has everything you could want in a thriller: secret identities, a mysterious boss and a cat & mouse game that kept me guessing the whole way through.” —Reese Witherspoon Evie Porter has everything a nice Southern...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In the propulsive first novel from the author of The Missing Half and host of the #1 true crime podcast Crime Junkie, a journalist uncovers her hometown’s dark secrets when she becomes obsessed with the unsolved murder of her childhood neighbor—and the...

Uncovering her husband’s family secrets could cost her everything… Ally’s perfect marriage to Tim Hawthorne is crumbling under the weight of one trial after another. Forced to visit Tim’s mother on her secluded island off the coast of Maine, Ally uncovers a sinister secret: years ago, a member of the family was the prime suspect in a young woman’s disappearance from the same island. Now, history is repeating itself. Another woman has vanished without a trace. Ally digs into all the dark secrets of the Hawthorne family’s past, but what she discovers may cost her more than her ...

THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER “If you liked Gone Girl, you’ll like this.”—Stephen King Ten years ago, six friends went on vacation. One made it out alive…. In that instant, college student Quincy Carpenter became a member of a very exclusive club—a group of survivors the...

A heart-wrenching new novel from best-selling author Rebecca Yarros that examines the risks we take for love, the scars too deep to heal, and the endings we can't bring ourselves to see coming. 

THE GENERAL THEY COULDN'T LET COME HOME. December 9, 1945. Three weeks before flying home. A staff car on a quiet German road is struck by an Army truck at fifteen miles per hour. Everyone walks away except the passenger in the back. He had survived North Africa. Sicily. Normandy. The Bulge. Three years of open warfare and not one of the German divisions sent to stop him had managed it. A slow turn in a parking lot broke his neck. Twelve days later, Patton is dead. No autopsy requested. No investigation opened. No one asks about the leather ledger. No one asks about the congressional ...

From one of the most acclaimed and profound writers in the world of comics comes a thrilling and provocative exploration of humankind's great modern myth: the superhero. In this exhilarating work of a lifetime, Grant Morrison draws on art, science, mythology, and his own astonishing journeys through this shadow universe to provide the first true history of the superhero - why they matter, why they will always be with us, and what they tell us about who we are... and what we may yet become.

A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK A #1 New York Times bestseller, Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year, and soon to be a major motion picture, this unforgettable novel of love and strength in the face of war has enthralled a generation. With courage, grace, and powerful insight, bestselling author...

One of Granta's Best Young British Novelists 2023 “Eliza Clark’s writing embraces the socially unacceptable and wryly explores themes of gender, power, and violence.”—Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists 2023 “Chilling, clever, and unputdownable.”—Guardian From the author of...

Dying is simple. Coming back is when things get interesting. Ivy Wells never wanted to die. When she does, she thinks it's all over. It isn't. When the 30 year old mother of two wakes up as a 12 year old, she has to navigate her life all over again. And she remembers everything, including the serial killer who is terrorizing her small town. Over several lifetimes, Ivy battles to save herself, her friends, and even her own children from the vicious killer. Follow Ivy Wells in a desperate race through time as she tries to outwit the person that is killing her over and over. What would you do ...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! “Lapena’s books are addictive!”—Freida McFadden, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Housemaid “The most addictive book I've read in ages—so slick and disquieting and clever. Just brilliant.” —Lisa Jewell Another thrilling domestic suspense...

As the daughter of a drug dealer, Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents. It's safer to keep her mouth shut and stay out of sight. Struggling to raise her little brother, Donal, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible adult around. Obsessed with the constellations, she finds peace in the starry night sky above the fields behind her house until one night her stargazing causes an accident. After witnessing his motorcycle wreck, she forms an unusual friendship with one of her father's thugs, Kellen, a tattooed ex-con with a heart of gold.

An aimless young woman starts writing to an accused serial killer while he awaits trial and then, once he’s acquitted, decides to move in with him and take the investigation into her own hands in this dark and irresistibly compelling debut thriller. Recently ghosted and sick of watching her...

It's never too late to die and try again. Georgie Wells dies at 18. The first time she relives her life, she comes back at 13 years old, and has a mystery to solve: She's living with a family she has never met. Over several lifetimes, Georgie struggles in a desperate race through time to solve the mystery, and her own death, looking over her shoulder at every turn. Teens and adults alike will love this time travel thriller. Get your copy of this gripping time travel series. This is the fourth book in the Ivy Mystery Series. The Many Lives of Ivy Wells – Book 1 The Many Lives of Sam Wells ...

Pre-order The Nurse now! The gripping and totally addictive new thriller from Claire Allan. ‘AMAZING’ MARIAN KEYES ‘Chilling’ JANE CASEY ‘Riveting. Claire Allan’s best yet.’ JO SPAIN Not all secrets are meant to come out… Twenty-five years ago, on Halloween night, eight-year-old...

“The thriller of the summer.” —Today.com Set in the glamorous, competitive world of showjumping, a novel about the girls who ride, their cutthroat mothers, and a suspicious death at a horse show…from the author of Good Rich People When the nouveau riche Parker family moves to an...

Get ready for an adrenaline-fueled ride where love is the riskiest game of all. Recently retired from MI6, billionaire heiress Charli Cavendish seeks solace in a simpler life that doesn’t include espionage, danger, or even an association with Fitz, a former fellow agent who broke her heart. When Charli’s world is shattered by a devastating event, she's determined to unravel the truth and bring justice to the situation. Danger closes in as Charli tries to uncover the pieces of the complicated puzzle which include a deadly stalker and a candidate running for the Senate. To complicate ...

REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK! A summer in Greece for three best friends ends in the unthinkable when only two return home. . . . Ten years ago, after a sun-soaked summer spent in Greece, best friends Bess and Joni were cleared of having any involvement in their friend Evangeline’s death. But that...