Archives de catégorie : Crime & Thrillers

THE MOUSE d’Amy Talley

A comedic thriller about an office worker who’s determined to kill her insufferable coworker, only to discover he might be an infamous murderer himself.

THE MOUSE
by Amy Talley
Minotaur Books/St. Martin’s, January 2028

Margaret Ingraham is an introverted, hyper-meticulous thirty-year-old administrative assistant who wants nothing more than to be left in peace. But when the office golden boy, Patrick McMahon, targets her job for AI replacement, then steals her apple slice, something inside Margaret snaps. She makes a calculated decision: Patrick must die.

Margaret’s initial murder attempts—such as leaving a peanut butter muffin on her desk for the allegedly-allergic Patrick to find—are unsuccessful, but as she zeroes in on her target, she begins to notice some suspicious behavior. Soon, she realizes that, beyond being a public nuisance, Patrick might just be the Silver Lake Strangler, a serial killer who has been menacing local women.

Unfortunately, Margaret can’t go to the police. With a past tainted by a mother who cried wolf and Margaret’s own failed homicide attempts, she’s anything but a reliable witness. Instead, she engages Patrick in a dangerous game of cat and mouse, using anonymity and her underestimated persona to out-maneuver a killer. Margaret must risk her safety, her sanity, and the emotional stability she’s fought so hard for to stop the murderer and maybe, for the first time in her life, become the hero of her own story.

“Deftly plotted and deliciously unpredictable, THE MOUSE is everything you want in a thriller. This one is a wild ride from start to finish!”—Ashley Elston, #1 New York Times bestselling author of First Lie Wins

Amy Talley is a USA Today bestselling author of over thirty novels (under the name Liz Talley). She has been nominated for both RWA’s Golden Heart and Rita awards. She has had three novels in the Amazon First Reads program and two Amazon “Best Books of the Month” in Romance. Amy is a member of The Author’s Guild, Novelists Inc, and Your Book Escape.

POOL SERVICE de Nick Waters

Jackie Collins meets Carl Hiassen in this sexy summer thriller about a pool boy given a chance to exact revenge on the billionaire developer that stole his family’s home.

POOL SERVICE
by Nick Waters
Simon & Schuster, Summer 2027
(via Harvey Klinger)

Jack “Patch” Patchett is a thirty-something, second generation pool boy born and bred along the remote banks of the Loxahatchee River in Jupiter, Florida. Patch doesn’t just balance pH and chlorine levels for the rich; his ’services’ extend beyond the backyards and into the bedrooms of his female clientele. These McMansions are part of the wealthy developments that forced out local families like Patch’s, and threaten the natural order of the river’s habitat, but despite it all, Patch is content with his laid-back lifestyle and bolstered by an immoveable sense of belonging and pride in his community.

When he receives a call from Vivian, the wife of Harlan Wilde, the billionaire who evicted his family and kept their idyllic piece of land for himself, Patch can’t resist a glimpse of the property’s transformation. Patch feels a pull to home, and an overwhelming chemistry with the glamorous Vivian, who seems to have stepped out of a classic Hollywood film.

As their steamy affair heats up, and Patch develops a taste for the finer things in life, Vivian and Patch concoct a plan for murder that will test the limits of Patch’s moral code, and strain his relationships with Lola, his childhood love, and the cranky yet lovable Herschel, who owns the rundown motel where Patch lives. A hilarious, titillating adventure that also explores capitalism’s impact on nature and the thorny realities of the American dream, Nick Waters’ exhilarating debut is quite simply, the most fun you’ll have all summer.

Nick Waters graduated from Stanford with a B.S. in Engineering and Film Studies and an M.A. in communication; while there, he was a member of the varsity swim team and competed at the USA Olympic Trials. Afterwards, he relocated to LA where he’s produced, directed, and written screenplays. With POOL SERVICE, he begins a whole new career as an exciting new novelist.

THE NOT-SO-GOOD GIRL d’Ildy Modrovich

A debut psychological thriller exploring what happens when the quintessential “good girl” decides to break bad, by celebrated television writer and showrunner Ildy Modrovich.

THE NOT-SO-GOOD GIRL
by Ildy Modrovich
Grand Central, June 2027
(via DeFiore and Company)

Meet Ferris McKenna: the kind of woman who says ‘excuse me’ to automatic doors, has lied to her husband on more than one occasion that ‘yes, that’s the spot’ and would inevitably end up being the designated driver at her own birthday celebration. Ferris has spent her life being overlooked and underestimated – until she meets Zara, a woman trapped in an abusive marriage. When Ferris gets pulled into a dangerous plan to help her new friend escape, she discovers that being too nice can make you both the perfect ally and the perfect target. As bodies start dropping and loyalties shift, Ferris must decide how far she’s willing to go when pushed to her breaking point – and whether she can trust anyone, including herself.

THE NOT-SO-GOOD GIRL is Gone Girl meets Big Little Lies with the dark humor and edge of You, the kind of compulsive, binge-worthy read designed to keep you up way past your bedtime, perfect for book clubs with bite and readers who love their psychological thrillers served with a side of snark. As a television writer and showrunner, Modrovich always loved creating characters who straddle the line between good and evil, from Californication’s Hank Moody to Tulsa King’s Dwight Manfredi, to the devil himself in Netflix’s Lucifer. THE NOT-SO-GOOD GIRL, her debut psychological thriller explores what happens when the quintessential “good girl” decides to break bad.

Ildy Modrovich spent more than two decades as a television writer and showrunner, producing and developing series for Netflix, Amazon, Showtime, Paramount+, Fox, CBS and ABC. Under her six-season leadership, Lucifer became the number one streamed show of 2021, remains one of the most watched series of all time for Netflix and earned a People’s Choice Award. Prior to her TV career, she fronted a rock band for more than ten years in the LA club scene – where she learned that winning over any audience, whether they’re holding a beer or a book, means giving them something they didn’t see coming.

OPPO de Christopher Beha

From National Book Award–longlisted Christopher Beha, a gripping, twisty novel that pulls back the curtain on who really tips the needle of politics and updates the great political thrillers of the past—those from Graham Greene, John LeCarré, and Robert Stone—for our own fractured, tumultuous era.

OPPO
by Christopher Beha
Tin House, May 2027
(via The Gernert Company)

When tech billionaire Romulus Rice buys the Washington Star, the paper’s journalists celebrate, thinking they will finally have the resources to compete with the new media giants and return the Star to its glory days. With a lawless president—Rice’s fellow tech oligarch, Mario Adrian—having seized power through questionable means, the country has never needed their work more. But Rice installs a former tabloid hack with a worryingly friendly relationship to the president as the paper’s new editor, and the staff is left with a choice: stick around to fight the good fight, or jump from a sinking ship.

One of the Star’s hottest young reporters, Keith Reece, chooses to jump—joining a prominent opposition research firm run by former Star reporter Tony Greenstone. His colleague—and work wife—Colleen McDormand stays behind, becoming the paper’s White House correspondent. From their different perches, Colleen and Keith each stumble on a dramatic conspiracy that will ultimately implicate not just President Adrian but also Greenstone and Rice. As they tussle professionally and personally, the pair comes to question how much they can trust each other—or anyone else.

Taking place over the course of a single, crucial election season, OPPO builds toward a startling climax in which Colleen and Keith are both forced to question who and what they’ve been working for all along, and whether they are rebuilding their world . . . or destroying it.

« Oppo is everything a political thriller needs to be: smart, sharp, and incisive—without being cynical. I couldn’t put it down.” —Gillian Flynn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Gone Girl

“Cannily conceived and fetchingly populated, Beha’s Oppo is a subversive delight. Our politics and news media have given us little thrill of late—but this wonderfully plotted novel is an exception!” —Pulitzer Prize–winning author Ayad Akhtar

Christopher Beha is the author of two memoirs, The Whole Five Feet and Why I Am Not an Atheist, and three previous novels, Arts & Entertainments, What Happened to Sophie Wilder, and The Index of Self-Destructive Acts, longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award.

HEART OF GLASS de Jennifer Hillier

A serial killer recants his long-ago confession regarding a small-town high school girl—and her then-best friends are forced to confront what really happened that night and what’s happening now.

HEART OF GLASS
by Jennifer Hillier
Minotaur/St. Martin’s Press, August 2026

Twenty-five years ago in Seaside, Washington, a charming drifter named Sam met three inseparable teenage girls at the local amusement park. Days later, one of them was found dead, her body surfacing in a flooded cranberry bog not far from where she was murdered.

Barb and Nicolette were shocked to learn that the man they all met at Wonderland was the Carnival Killer. After he’s arrested for the murders of five young women – one of whom was their best friend, Lorelei – Nicolette moved to the city to pursue her dreams of being famous. Barb stayed behind in Seaside, eventually becoming a reporter for the local paper. Their past safely behind them, they’ve both moved on with their lives.

But when the Carnival Killer recants his confession and a new body washes ashore on the eve of Wonderland’s grand reopening, the secrets that Barb and Nicolette have worked so hard to bury begin to resurface, threatening to destroy everything in their carefully constructed lives.

Instant New York Times bestseller

« Jennifer Hillier is the master of suspense. » —Freida McFadden

« Amazing dialogue, complex characters and a dazzling plot. Never has betrayal seemed so fascinating. . . No one maps the valley of fear that exists in the hearts of her characters better than Jennifer Hillier. She doesn’t just write thrillers, she creates epics that take you beyond the event horizon where what we think we know breaks down and we just hold on for dear life. Not to be missed! » ―S.A Cosby

« Hillier delivers another knockout thriller with compulsively readable prose and sly, subtle twists. A must-read. » —Booklist (starred review)

Jennifer Hillier was born and raised in Toronto, Canada, and lived in the Seattle area for years before returning home to Toronto, where she now lives with her family.