Twisted Thrillers

A time to mourn. A gruesome find. A race for the truth. After her husband and son are killed in a tragic car accident, Carolyn goes to stay with her mother in a quiet, rural town. She hopes the break will help her cope with her loss. Soon, Carolyn discovers that the small town holds unforgivable secrets. One she stumbles upon when she discovers the body of a young boy down a well – only to find he has disappeared when she returns with the police. The local residents, including Carolyn’s mother, doubt her discovery and blame it on her current state of mind. Rumours begin to spread. With ...

Private investigator Hailey Arquette’s job to locate a woman’s fiancée is complicated when she succeeds. The problem—he is now a spirit who can’t identify his killer. FBI agent Trenton Briner has his hands full. His long time psychic friend has taken on a mouthy sidekick, a teenager with no caution and no sense of vulnerability. He knows there’s more to both young women, but can’t define their unique abilities, until he catches the teen red-handed. Hailey knows the crime scene evidence doesn’t add up. Animal fur, a human and cougar’s tracks beside the victim, and a ...

USA TODAY and #1 AMAZON bestselling author Jeremy Bates presents the complete collection of the award-winning Midnight Book Club short novels. With fast-paced plots and stunning twists, these stories offer close to 1,000 pages of heart-racing suspense, action, and terror from one of today's most exciting voices in horror. Black Canyon Twelve-year-old Brian Garrett embarks on a weekend camping trip in Colorado’s Black Canyon of the Gunnison, hoping to reconnect with his distant parents. But when his father suffers a brutal accident deep in the chasm, survival takes a sinister turn. Over ...

Our daughter’s birthday party was supposed to be perfect. Our townhouse has never looked better. The decorations were extravagant but tasteful. The cake had three delicious tiers. But I didn’t account for a dead body discovered on our perfectly manicured lawns… Tyler claims he had nothing to do with it. We both know he can't remember anything about that morning. Now Detective Rynn is circling. She’s adamant that something sinister is lurking within our beautiful home. And she’s right.

Three years ago Toni's five-year-old daughter, Evie, disappeared after leaving school. The police have never been able to find her. There were no witnesses, no CCTV, no trace. But Toni believes her daughter is alive. And as she begins to silently piece together her memories, the full story of the past begins to reveal itself - and a devastating truth. Toni's mind is trapped in a world of silence. Her only chance to save herself is to manage the impossible: she must find a way to make herself heard. She must find her daughter.

When private investigator Matthew Hill picks up the call from his wife, Sally, his world comes crashing down. Their eight-year-old daughter, Amelie, is missing. One second, she was there, the next, she was gone. It’s the very nightmare they’ve been dreading. Long ago, Matthew left the force after a woman blamed him for her son’s death, promising that he too would one day feel her pain. It’s a threat that’s hung over his family ever since, and now it’s Amelie’s picture on the news.

Boney Creek is a dying town where not a lot happens. The perfect solution for married couple Addie and Toby who are escaping their own personal tragedy. But a quiet and simple life is not exactly possible with so many recent, strange deaths. Seven locals, all gone too soon. That’s the nature of tragic accidents. And in a town this small, there’s no room for too many questions. But Addie isn’t so sure.

Evelyn Grace Harlow thrives on order and predictability, living a quiet life as a small-town librarian. But her carefully curated world is shattered when she stumbles upon a hidden section of the library - a labyrinth of glowing shelves holding books unlike any she’s ever seen. Each book bears a name, including one that stops her cold: her own. When Evelyn opens her book, she discovers it doesn’t just tell her story it rewrites it, revealing her deepest thoughts, fears, and desires in unnerving detail. Drawn deeper into the mysterious room, she meets Alaric, a man with piercing silver ...

Love is messy, revenge is messier, and nothing is ever as it seems. With enough suspense to keep you up at night, this tale of heartbreak and madness will have you gasping, and double checking your Tinder matches, Because when it comes to love, Zoey's about to learn the line between devotion and destruction is dangerously thin.

For every predator, there’s a hunter… and on The Murder Exchange, every kill is streamed for the darkest kind of entertainment. Alex Craves the Rush. A broken man living on the fringes, he’s addicted to fear—the kind that claws at your chest and makes your pulse race. When he discovers The Murder Exchange, a website on the dark web where death is for sale and murder is entertainment, he’s hooked. Autumn Is chaos wrapped in beauty. When she collides with Alex, they become partners in crime, hunting the untouchable men who believe they’re above consequence. Together, they turn ...

We are all capable of murder, given the right circumstances and the wrong reasons. But what truly defines a murderer is what comes next—the choices made in the critical moments immediately following the act. Parker Grant, a young therapist in Atlanta, has built his life around control: a meticulously organized home, a carefully curated image, and a career dedicated to helping others untangle their chaos. But when an attractive client from couples therapy is killed in his own condo, Parker’s world begins to crumble. A mysterious package arrives at his office—a bloodied watch and ...

Dr. Christopher Kellan spends his days at Loveland Psychiatric Hospital, overseeing a unit known as Alpha Twelve, home to the most deranged and psychotic killers imaginable. His newest patient, Donny Ray Smith, is accused of murdering ten young girls and making their bodies disappear. But during his first encounter with Donny, Christopher finds something else unsettling: the man looks familiar.

You don't chase the spiral. You survive it long enough, and it starts chasing something inside you. Detective Addison Carrow is used to blood. She's cataloged it, crawled through it, bathed in the aftermath of its patterns. But the man who taught her the language of violence—the one who stitched murder into shape like poetry—is gone. Vale has vanished. Or dissolved. Or maybe he was never real to begin with. Except the bodies haven’t stopped. Now they’re quieter. Meaner. Someone is killing with intention, with ritual, with a fluency that only one person should possess. Addison knows ...

New York Times best-selling author Mary Jo Putney weaves a romantic tale into a courtroom thriller, prompting Booklist to hail, “Move over John Grisham.” High-powered corporate attorney Val Covington knows she should avoid mysterious guys like Rob Smith. But when Rob helps her in a frantic race against the clock to save a man wrongfully sent to death row, Val unearths long-buried secrets - and discovers an unexpected passion.

Alice and Seth are a perfect love story: the handsome doctor and his beautiful fiancée. They’re wealthy, well liked and made for each other—the envy of all their friends. Alice can’t wait for the day of their dream wedding. But when she arrives at the altar, she doesn’t recognise the man waiting to marry her. When this stranger insists he’s Seth, her husband-to-be, the entire congregation seems to agree. Even her parents try to persuade Alice to go through with the wedding.

In the pristine facade of her perfect marriage, Nina’s life is beginning to crack. When she discovers a series of disturbing videos on her husband David’s computer—videos of her being watched as she sleeps—Nina is thrust into a nightmare she can’t explain. The footage is invasive, but it’s the shadowy figure in the doorway that sends chills down her spine. As she digs deeper, Nina begins to uncover a tangled web of lies, control, and surveillance, but the more she learns, the more she questions everything she thought she knew about her husband—and herself. At the same time, ...

From the hallucinatory noir novella Go Deep to the twisted short stories "Necessary Women" and "Remmy Rothstein Toes the Line", this collection showcases the New York Times best-selling author's dark humor, limitless imagination, and masterly command of voice and character.

A crumbling marriage. A remote inn. A room that doesn’t forget. Lena and Marcus check into the Everpine Inn hoping to fix what’s broken between them. But when Lena wakes up the next morning, Marcus is gone—and the front desk insists he was never there. Her name is on the registry. His isn’t. His clothes, his suitcase, even his scent—vanished. Room 43 has secrets. What begins as a desperate search for her missing husband spirals into a psychological nightmare. The room shifts. Her memories blur. And when Lena meets a woman who looks exactly like her—living her life inside the inn...

The Blood Test – A Psychological Thriller That Will Keep You Guessing When Olivia takes her son Henry for a routine checkup, the last thing she expects is a blood test result that doesn’t make sense. She and her husband, Noah, conceived Henry through IVF—but the numbers don’t add up. With a nagging suspicion that won’t let her go, Olivia digs deeper, uncovering a series of unsettling coincidences. Then she meets Margo, another mother at Henry’s preschool, whose daughter looks eerily like him. The two women bond over their shared experience with the same fertility doctor—Dr. ...

Writer Karen Walker knows more than most about murderers. Her first love went on to become The Bagman, a notorious serial killer now locked away for life in a maximum-security prison. Karen has spent her life running from the weight of having loved him, defended him and, ultimately, leading the police to his door. But now, ten years later, just as she’s about to publish her account of his crimes, a young woman is abducted in horribly familiar circumstances.