Picture this. A hot summer day. You, sprawled out on a blanket under the big oak tree. A slight summer breeze wafting through the neighbors peony’s bringing just a hint of their scent your way. Your favorite drink to your left, a bag of munchies to your right. What could possibly make this moment better? I’ll tell you— a fantastic new read to dive head first into! Here are 7 of the Hottest Psychological Thrillers that you might want to add to your TBR.
Too Late
Too Late by COHO
Colleen Hoover, I guess she’s got her own acronym now. COHO
A psychological suspense novel of obsession and dangerous love. The new, updated edition of Too Late from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Verity.
Trying to pay for her brothers care, Sloan gets tangled up with Asa Jackson, a notorious drug trafficker who develops an unsettling obsession with her.
Can an undercover DEA agent hot on Asa’s trail, help untangle the mess Sloan has gotten herself into before it’s too late?
Holly
Holly by Stephen King
Okay… so this one won’t actually be available to read until September—unless you happen to be one of the lucky ones who get an ARC— but there is so much hype surrounding it, I had to include it on this list. Available for Pre-Order Now!
For you King fans—You have met Holly Gibney in Mr. Mercedes, Finders Keepers and in the Outsider. Now she premieres in her own Novel, Holly.
When Penny Dahl calls the Finders Keepers detective agency hoping for help locating her missing daughter, Holly is reluctant to accept the case. Her partner, Pete, has Covid. Her (very complicated) mother has just died. And Holly is meant to be on leave. But something in Penny Dahl’s desperate voice makes it impossible for Holly to turn her down.
Mere blocks from where Bonnie Dahl disappeared live Professors Rodney and Emily Harris. They are the picture of bourgeois respectability: married octogenarians, devoted to each other, and semi-retired lifelong academics. But they are harboring an unholy secret in the basement of their well-kept, book-lined home, one that may be related to Bonnie’s disappearance. And it will prove nearly impossible to discover what they are up to: they are savvy, they are patient, and they are ruthless.
Holly must summon all her formidable talents to outthink and outmaneuver the shockingly twisted professors in this chilling new masterwork from Stephen King. (Via Amazon)
The Inmate
The Inmate by Freida McFadden
Full of so many crazy twists and turns that you will feel like you are driving on Mulholland Drive!
After recently moving back to her hometown, Brooke Sullivan has trouble finding work.
Resigning to take a Job at the Raker Penitentiary, Brooke comes face to face with her old boyfriend—Shane Nelson—an inmate, currently serving life without the possibility of parole.
Brooke doesn’t tell her employer that she knows the inmate or that she, in fact, is the one who put him there. Nor does she mention that he happens to be the father of her son.
The more she gets to know Shane behind bars, the more she fears that she may have made a mistake and that the real murderer is possibly still out there.
With a peek inside of both the mind of the murderer and the victim, this is one thrill ride you will want to buckle up for!
Also available for free on Kindle Unlimited!
Wrong Place Wrong Time
Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister
This is a Reese’s Book Club Pick and quoted of being “One of the best books she ever read” by Lisa Jewell
How far would you go to protect your son?
Wrong Place Wrong Time tells the story of a mother who must move backward through time to prevent her son from shattering their lives forever.
Zero Days
Zero Days by Ruth Ware
From the Author of It Girl and The Woman in Cabin 10 comes her brand-new novel Zero Days
The New York Times bestselling “new Agatha Christie” (Air Mail) Ruth Ware returns with this adrenaline-fueled thriller that combines Mr. and Mrs. Smith with The Fugitive about a woman in a race against time to clear her name and find her husband’s murderer.
Hired by companies to break into buildings and hack security systems, Jack and her husband, Gabe, are the best penetration specialists in the business. But after a routine assignment goes horribly wrong, Jack arrives home to find her husband dead. To add to her horror, the police are closing in on their suspect—her.
Suddenly on the run and quickly running out of options, Jack must decide who she can trust as she circles closer to the real killer in this unputdownable and heart-pounding mystery from an author whose “propulsive prose keeps readers on the hook and refuses to let anyone off until all has been revealed” (Shelf Awareness). (Via Amazon)
Cross Down
Cross Down by James Patterson and Brendan Dubois
This installment of the Alex Cross series is told from his partner and best friend, John Sampson’s point of view.
Okay… So initially I was caught off guard from this being told by someone other than Alex Cross. However, by the end of the first chapter, I was hooked.
With Alex down and out, the world literally rests on John Sampson’s shoulders. He is tasked with protecting everyone, Alex, Alex’s family, his daughter, Willow and even the President of the United States. While trying to stop a major terrorist attack that could change history.
At the advice of his longtime friend and colleague, Ned Mahoney, John is unable to trust anyone. Not even Ned.
Can John stop these attacks in time?
Don’t Let Her Stay
Don’t Let Her Stay by Nicola Sanders
I think a good book is supposed to make you feel and this book does just that!
From irritation at the characters, because they aren’t acting like you think they should, to the fear that they may act like you think they will, this book explores the psychological family dynamics where someone is just not quite right.
Richard’s daughter Chloe was none too pleased about her father remarrying. In fact, she wanted nothing to do with him for two years.
With the arrival of her new baby sister, Evie, Chole comes to stay with the new family and help out. Now nothing is okay.
Also available for free on Kindle Unlimited
If you haven’t already, you can get this book here on Amazon. Or get it for free when you sign up for a free trial from Audible.
Until next time, stay brash, stay bookish and stay true to you!
