15 Vacation Thrillers in Time for Summer
If you’re like me, this last season of White Lotus left you thirsting for more vacation crime thrillers. Now that the weather’s opening up, and spring is blooming, we’re just a little way off from the high-traffic summer travel season. Until we can actually get away, here are fifteen vacation thrillers to escape into this spring. Let’s start off where they left off, in Italy, the best vacation spot for a mystery.
This fast-paced thriller is both a great read for a vacation and set during a vacation. Six college best friends of the most successful social media platform’s founder agree to go with him on an all-expenses-paid retreat to a luxurious tropical locale—and there’s only one catch: this weekend will be device-free. When the friends awake in his villa to find him gone, and a tablet in his place, they’re off to the races on a wild treasure hunt turned investigation.
Florence Darrow has always felt she was destined for greatness, but after a disastrous affair with her married boss, she starts to doubt herself. All that changes when she sets off for Morocco with her new boss, the celebrated but reclusive author Maud Dixon. Amidst the colorful streets of Marrakesh and the wind-swept beaches of the coast, Florence begins to feel she’s leading the sort of interesting, cosmopolitan life she deserves.
But when she wakes up in the hospital after a terrible car accident, with no memory of the previous night—and no sign of Maud—a dangerous idea begins to take form. . .
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Mary Kay McBrayer is the author of America’s First Female Serial Killer: Jane Toppan and the Making of a Monster. You can find her short works at Oxford American, Narratively, Mental Floss, and FANGORIA, among other publications. She co-hosts Everything Trying to Kill You, the comedy podcast that analyzes your favorite horror movies from the perspectives of women of color. Follow Mary Kay McBrayer on Instagram and Twitter, or check out her author site here.