Mystery & Thriller Books Coming in August
We’re well into the second half of 2021 now, and the new mystery, suspense, and thriller novels coming out each month are not slowing down in the slightest. Ready to get reading? August is one of the hottest months of the year, but we’ve got plenty of chilling mysteries & thrillers for you to pick up and enjoy this month. Here are 12 books coming out in August you’ll want to add to your TBR.
Blind Tiger is a suspense novel set in the year 1920 during the time of prohibition. Laurel Plummer is a widow who is looking for a fresh start when she meets Thatcher Hutton. Thatcher has just come home from fighting in WWI and has just jumped a train to escape a confrontation only to end up in this small town in Texas. When Thatcher and Laurel first meet, they're immediately drawn to each other. Then they find themselves on opposite sides of a moonshine war—not to mention a killer is on the loose. This novel is an unforgettable mix of romance, suspense, and historical fiction that you won't want to miss.
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Zoje Stage's latest mystery suspense novel Getaway is a wild and unforgettable story of survival. It all starts when three friends hike into the wilds of the Grand Canyon together. As they get deeper into the wilderness, they're certain they're being followed. Soon the friends realize that no matter how far they try to run, they can't leave the world behind, and they can't escape their secrets.
In James Patterson and J.D. Barker's latest suspense book The Noise, sixteen-year-old Tennant is checking rabbit traps with her eight-year-old sister Sophie when a strange vibration reaches them from the forest. The sound continues to get worse and becomes overwhelming. Their father snatches the two girls up and takes them to a storm cellar to escape from the noise. But it keeps getting louder...
Dog Island is a novel in translation by French author Philippe Claudel. The Dog Islands are so named because from overhead, they look like the shape of a dog. When the bodies of three young Black men wash up on the shore of one of the islands, the small community of people who live there agree that they must cover the deaths up to protect the tourism industry and avoid scandal. But then a detective arrives on the island, and he has a lot of questions.
Newlyweds Lina and Cain don’t make it out to their property on gorgeous Lake Tarawera as often as they’d like, so when Cain suggests they rent the house out to vacationers, Lina reluctantly agrees. While the home has been in her family for generations, they could use the extra money. And at first, Lina is amazed at how quickly guests line up, and at how much they’re willing to pay.
But both Lina and Cain have been keeping secrets, secrets that won’t be put off by fresh paint or a new alarm system. And someone has been watching them—their mundane tasks, their intimate moments. When a visit takes a deadly turn, Lina realizes someone out there knows something they shouldn’t…and that welcoming strangers into your home is playing a dangerous game.
When the bodies of two Indigenous women are found in the wilderness of northern California, it is only the latest horrific development in a string of similar crimes in the area. Despite all evidence to the contrary, officials rule the deaths isolated incidents, which soon join the ranks of countless other unsolved cases quickly dismissed by law enforcement.
In a town where too many injustices are tolerated or brushed under the rug, only a few people remain who refuse to let a killer walk free. But Private Investigator Sharon McCone is one of those few. She is hired by an organization called Crimes against Indigenous Sisters to go undercover in Meruk County—a community rife with secrets, lies, and corruption—to expose the truth.
In an isolated cabin in the freezing, treacherous woods, McCone must work quickly to unravel a mystery that is rooted in profound evil—before she becomes the killer’s next target.
When Ruth Turner walks into the Sheriff’s office in Jefferson County’s Port Townsend claiming her sister Ida Wheaton has been missing for over a month, Detective Megan Carpenter’s instincts tell her that she needs to do more than just file a report.
Racing over to Ida’s secluded farmhouse in the hills above Snow Creek, Megan finds Ida’s teenage children alone and frightened. She can’t help but notice there’s no TV. No video games. Nothing of the outside world. Something about the Wheaton family doesn’t add up and triggers a painful childhood memory for Megan – when one day, in a flash, both her parents were gone.
Then the body of a woman is discovered in an abandoned pickup truck close to the Wheatons’ home and Megan’s convinced the cases are connected.
If she has any chance of catching the killer, Megan must first unravel the secrets of the isolated Snow Creek community. But Megan has dark secrets of her own…
Hidden in the back of her closet is a box of tapes containing every single recording of her therapy sessions over thirteen years ago. Can she finally confront the past she’s spent years trying to block out? And will reliving her own painful story help her solve the complex case unravelling in the hills above Snow Creek before another innocent life is lost?
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