Realistic Fiction Suspense

A nuclear disaster strikes Europe… …but inside the cutting-edge thorium reactor, everything appears normal. No system failures. No containment breach. Not a single malfunction. Yet - hospitals overflow with radiation victims. Wildlife drops dead in forests. Trees wither and decay for miles. Something is poisoning the land—something no sensor can detect. Something that shouldn't exist. When the IAEA sends specialist investigator Jonathan Beck to the scene, he faces an impossible paradox. The reactor is clean. The science says it's safe. But people are dying. He isn't alone in the hunt....

A New York Times Bestseller 2026 Audie Award Nominee “This suspenseful YA thriller is yet another testament to Jackson’s talent.”—ELLE New York Times bestselling author Tiffany D. Jackson delivers another stunning, ripped-from-the-headlines thriller, following a freshman girl whose...

When PFC Virginia Hornet—a loner with deep trust issues—joins the Army, she believes it will be a stepping stone: earn her college money, serve her time, and get out. But the greatest danger she faces isn’t the nuclear missiles she’s assigned to guard at NATO 23. It’s something far closer, and far deadlier. As Hornet fights to survive in a hostile unit, she makes a choice that could destroy her career: an illegal affair with an officer. Soon, the pressure mounts—bullets fly in her direction, bodies begin to fall, and keeping her head down is no longer an option. Caught in the ...

The world ended in silence. The fight for what’s left will not. Ten months after the collapse, teenager Annie’s world has shattered, and with it, everything she once believed about monsters. They don’t always lurk in shadows. Sometimes they wear uniforms. Sometimes they wear the faces of those you love. In the ruins of Sydney, Annie finds an unlikely ally in Jude—a half-infected boy marked by virus and twisted science. His strange, dangerous abilities make him both a threat and their best hope. But the line between abomination and saviour is thinner than either imagined. Haunted by ...

Justice Has a Price. Dupree is Willing to Pay It When Dupree’s new corporate bosses cross the line, he refuses to look the other way—and suddenly finds himself out of a job, and in the middle of something far more dangerous than workplace politics. A frightened young woman needs help. A powerful company wants silence. And White Owl, once a quiet mountain town, is starting to show cracks no one wants to admit are there. As pressure mounts and tempers rise, Dupree is forced to choose: walk away, or stand up against people who believe they’re untouchable. A gripping blend of legal ...

“A page-turner par excellence, written with unobtrusive brilliance, [and] full of sharply observed lines . . . The Death of Us lives up to the hype.” —Stephen King “The Death of Us is astonishingly good—Abigail Dean’s the real thing.” —Mick Herron, bestselling author of Slow...

The Promises of Yesterday Fractured Reality – Book Three Some promises bind us. Others break us. Only one can save him. Madeline is fighting to hold Binoomeal together. But when a long-buried family secret surfaces, her world begins to crack—and she’s pregnant, alone, and running out of time. Far from home, Michael walks a dangerous path of vengeance and rescue. Each step drags him deeper into the shadows of his past... and closer to a future he may not survive. The virus wasn’t an accident. The General’s final plan is unfolding. And the truth could destroy everything. As old ...

When the CEO of the world’s leading artificial intelligence company is found murdered in his home, former Army CID officer Valerie Marks is thrust into her first case as a homicide detective. Valerie has a gift for reading people, a gift that has never failed her before. But that gift is put to the test when her instincts point her to an impossible suspect—an AI born from a secret venture with the Pentagon known as Project Nomad. To learn the truth, Valerie must team up with two men she doesn’t trust.

In the tradition of Jordan Peele and Tiffany Jackson’s The Weight of Blood, a YA thriller about a Black teen whose fight for survival forces a small southern vacation town to face its dark history of racial violence. When sixteen-year-old Naomi Ward and her family head to a secluded cabin in...

A "propulsive page-turner" (Alyssa Cole) and "thriller not to be missed" (Michael Connelly) from the award-winning author of Like a Sister, in which a woman thinks she’s waking up to a romantic vacation—only to find a body in her rental home and her boyfriend gone. The truth is never skin...

A high-school slasher with a lethal twist, perfect for fans of Holly Jackson! The students at Morton Academy are high-achievers, selected based on academic excellence. So when a series of murders target the school's best and brightest, the pressure is on. Failure is fatal... At the historic...

Enroll in this boarding school thriller about a group of prep school elites who would kill to get into the college of their dreams...literally. "The Plastics meet the Heathers in this murder mystery about ruthless Ivy League ambition." -Kirkus Reviews "Twisty and thrilling...boarding school...

Two years ago, the murder of a neighbor tore three best friends apart--now the killer is going to walk free and the ex-friends are going to have to face the past--and each other--in another twisty thriller from the New York Times bestselling co-author of The Agathas. Grace, Henry, and Ally grew...

Two cities. Seven choices. Fourteen lives that will never be the same. In London and New York, ordinary people face moments that seem small — a decision at work, a stranger asking for help, a door unlocked at the wrong time, an opportunity that feels too good to refuse. But every moment carries a consequence. In The Distance Between Good and Evil, fourteen gripping thriller stories unfold in mirrored pairs. Each challenge is lived twice — once in London, once in New York — with two radically different outcomes. One choice leads toward survival, justice, or redemption. The other ...

Secrets don't die. It’s the first week of senior year at Meadowbrook Academy. For Amy and her best friend Sarah, that means late-night parties at the boathouse, bike rides through their sleepy Connecticut town, and the crisp beginning of a New England fall. Then tragedy strikes: Sarah and her...

A Crime Reads Best Book of the Year! "A wildly fun and thrilling read in this age of digital theft, Ruth Run introduces us to an irresistible heroine and, in Elizabeth Kaufman, a scintillating new voice in contemporary fiction." —Maria Semple, author of Where’d You Go, Bernadette and Today...

The new homecoming queen is dead . . . and she's not the first unsolved murder at Seaview High. From the critically acclaimed author of The Ivies comes a nonstop YA thriller about a decades-old mystery, a copycat killer, and the teen who will stop at nothing to uncover the truth. "Utterly savage...

BREAKTHROUGH: A Tanja Storm Thriller How far would you go for the truth, when the truth may have already taken everything from you? Tanja Storm believes she is simply closing a chapter. Sorting through her late husband’s belongings, preparing to move on. But when she discovers a hidden USB drive among Michael’s effects, doubt takes hold. Encrypted files. Secret meetings. And details that do not match the official police report. What was ruled an accident begins to look like something far darker. Drawn into an undercover investigation she never intended to pursue, Tanja uncovers a buried...

He built a new life—then one moment shattered it. Life in White Owl finally feels steady for Dupree. His law practice is thriving, his marriage to Dara is strong, and for the first time in years, peace seems possible. Then a Dupree’s daughter Andee, steps off a bus with a suitcase and a shaky smile. Trying to help her rebuild becomes harder as the town around him starts to shift. A desperate client insists he’s been framed. Old resentments flare in places Dupree never expected. And beneath White Owl’s quiet streets, trouble begins to move—slow, steady, and unseen. Then one ...

Can she have the man of her dreams and the life she's always wanted? It's love at first sight when head pastry chef Brendan Pope meets private investigator Harley Banks at the Serenity Inn in Jubilee, KY. Harley is staying there for her latest investigation. But unknown to them both, Harley has...