Psychological Suspense Novels You Won’t Be Able to Put Down

The Family is an exciting new thriller about a mother in a desperate situation. After the sudden death of her husband, Laura is struggling to make it, both emotionally and financially. So when a community organization called Oak Leaf Organics offers Laura and her teenage daughter Tilly a home, Laura is more than happy to take them up on their offer. But shortly after the two settle into their new home with their new “family,” strange things start happening. And when someone dies under suspicious circumstances, Laura is ready to pack up their things and leave. Tilly, however, refuses to leave because she is so deeply wrapped up in the world of the family and completely enamored with the group’s leader Alex. Will Laura be able to uncover the truth about this organization and save her daughter before it’s too late?

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Central Park is a strange and unpredictable thriller from bestselling French author Guillaume Musso. Alice, a well-respected Parisian police officers wakes up on a park bench handcuffed to another person. She has no idea how she got there, no idea who this stranger is beside her, and she’s got someone else’s blood on her shirt. Was she drugged or kidnapped? Whose blood is on her shirt? Over the course of the next twenty-four hours, Alice, with the help of Gabriel—the stranger musician who was handcuffed beside her—will try to uncover what happened to her.

If you love a psychological thriller with lots of interesting character development, Who is Maud Dixon? will absolutely thrill you. Florence Darrow is working at the bottom tier of a publishing company, but she has dreams of being a famous author one day. Then by chance, Florence stumbles into what she thinks will be a dream job: working as an assistant for the famous novelist Maud Dixon, an author so enigmatic that no one knows her true identity. Florence soon finds herself swept up in Maud Dixon’s world, soaking up all the sage advice the author has to give about writing and life in general. But everything changes when Florence wakes up in the hospital after a car accident. With no sign of Maud Dixon anywhere, she sees an opportunity. Why return to her own life, when she could take on Maud’s, bestselling novels and all?

Michael Koryta is back with another electrifying new mystery suspense novel you won’t be able to put down. In Never Far Away, a mother looks to reconnect with her children after a trial tears their family apart. Ten years ago, Nina Morgan’s car was found on the side of the road, abandoned and bloodstained. And while her body was never found, all evidence pointed to a probable murder. Nina’s disappearance left her infant children in the care of her father for the next decade. But the truth of what happened with Nina is even stranger: having witnessed a gruesome crime, Nina was forced to flee her home and start life as a new person in order to protect her family. She never expected that she’d be able to see them again, but when tragedy strikes, Nina’s children are brought back into her life, and back into danger’s way.

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