You know the ones… the books where every character is acting suspicious, everyone seems to have a secret, and you spend the entire story changing your mind about who did it. These twisty mysteries and thrillers had me side-eyeing absolutely everyone,...
Title: Please Enjoy Your Stay
Author: Tara Goedjen
Genre: Thriller / Gothic / Paranormal
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Pub Date: October 13, 2026
📖 S E T U P
Mia returns to a remote luxury hotel in the Austrian Alps a decade after her cousin’s death.
She’s work...
Please Enjoy Your Stay | Book by Tara Goedjen - Simon & Schuster
Title: How to Kill a Crime Writer
Author: Sarah Lotz
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Rating: 5.00 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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After her mother—famous crime writer Annie Morrissey—dies in what’s ruled an accident, Niamh retreats to her countryside cottage to griev...
How to Kill a Crime Writer by Sarah Lotz
This was such a lighthearted funny book, it was a delight to read! The characters were wonderful, I love them all - it’s similar vibes to Marlow or Thursday murders but this one seems much more witty and some parts were hilarious. It was so easy to r...
I'm Not the Only Murderer in My Retirement Home
Just finished She Didn’t See It Coming and WOW this was chaotic in the most entertaining way 👀🔥
Told completely in present tense, the story feels urgent from page one (even if it took me a second to adjust to the style). The cast is HUGE — missing...
She Didn't See It Coming: A Novel by Shari Lapena
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📚 The Silent Appeal by Janice Hallett🗓️ Pub Date: Aug 25, 2026
Janice Hallett just gets me 😌✨
Give me unreliable narrators, messy group dynamics, secrets, lies, and a mystery told through emails/texts/WhatsApp messages?? IMMEDIATELY ...
The Silent Appeal | Book by Janice Hallett - Simon & Schuster
📖 Just One Bite by Miranda Rijks
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This book completely hooked me from page one and I flew through it in just over a day! 😱📚
The story feels incredibly relevant with how much of our lives are lived online now. Social media, online hate, dee...
Miranda Rijks: Books & Biography - Amazon
📖 The Dog Park Murders
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🗓️ Pub Date: August 25, 2026
Thank you to Harlequin, the author, and NetGalley for the ARC! 💜
🐶🔎 This was such a fun, cozy read! If you love small-town mysteries with a little romance mixed in, definitely ...
The Dog Park Murders: Cozy Mystery Romance
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🚨 This one officially got me out of my thriller slump!! 🤯📚
Holy moly… this book was SO GOOD. I finished it in just 2 days because I honestly could not put it down. This debut had me completely hooked from start to finish. 🔥
I listened ...
Nasty Little Secrets: A Novel - Gabbie Hanks
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🖤🌰 The Chestnut Man absolutely lived up to the hype! If you love creepy, twisty thrillers, this one delivers. 😱🔪 There were so many twists and turns that I never wanted to put it down.
I know some readers felt the 516 pages were too long,...
The Chestnut Man: A Novel - Sveistrup
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ALL. THE. STARS. 🤯🔪📖✨
This book absolutely tickled me! 🤭 It was everything I want in a locked-room murder mystery, and that ENDING?! 😱😱 I literally gasped!!
A group of mystery authors gathers at a beautifully renovated Catholic mon...
How to Write a Murder by Jessica Brody
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Okay, I LOVED this one. 🖤 The Quiet Over Ashcombe is one of those books that sneaks up on you, and before I knew it I was completely invested in this town, these characters, and figuring out what the heck was going on. 👀😂
First of all...
The Quiet Over Ashcombe
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This was such a brilliant mystery. 🔍 I loved the setting, the era, and the dark atmosphere that hung over the entire story. There was this constant sense of danger and impending doom surrounding the mysterious deaths, and it added so much ...
Behold A Virgin - Peter Swirski
Oh this one was so much fun. 5 ✨
I loved Juliette in this one—major girl power energy keeping Ernest in check 👏 I’ve been waiting on this book for a while, and it was exactly what I needed.
This series always delivers: a quirky cast of characters...
Everyone in This Bank Is a Thief: A Novel
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This book had me saying… WHAT did I just read??
When Mara suddenly reappears in Lexi’s life after sixteen years, asking for help, Lexi doesn’t hesitate. Their past may be complicated, but some friendships feel impossible to walk away fro...
Danielle Girard: books, biography, latest update
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Janice Hallett does it again. The Killer Question is an inventive, clever mystery set around a rundown riverside pub where the landlords have mysteriously disappeared. When their nephew pitches the case as a true-crime documentary, the story u...
The Killer Question: A Novel - Janice Hallett
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Janice Hallett does it again. The Killer Question is an inventive, clever mystery set around a rundown riverside pub where the landlords have mysteriously disappeared. When their nephew pitches the case as a true-crime documentary, the story u...
None of This Is True: A Novel - Kindle
Okay but HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER absolutely ate 😭🔪📖✨
A murder mystery… with a BOOK INSIDE THE BOOK that’s literally a guide on how to get away with murder?? Immediate yes. The concept alone had me hooked.
Detective Inspector Samantha Hansen ...
How to Get Away with Murder: A Novel
Ashley Elston’s newest release were sky high… and somehow it still delivered. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Yes — 5 stars. 🔥 @ashleyelston
I picked this one up from Book of the Month and I’m so glad I did. 🙌 It immediately shot to the top of my stack — and once I start...
Anatomy of an Alibi: A Novel - Ashley Elston
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🛥️☀️ A luxury yacht, a missing passenger, and a main character who isn’t sure if she can trust her own instincts? I was hooked!
Mel is grieving the loss of her best friend and feels completely stuck in life when she’s invited on a luxury yach...
Let's Not Go Overboard Here: A Novel
Okay, THIS is how you do an unreliable narrator. 👏
Normally, the drunk, messy, can-we-believe-anything-she’s-saying? narrator gets an immediate hard eye roll from me. 🙄 Like… here we go again. But My Sweet Girl pulled it off PERFECTLY.
This was c...
My Sweet Girl - Jayatissa, Amanda: Books
Quinn escapes one dangerous cult… only to end up somewhere that might not be much safer. 👀
This was CREEPY. Unsettling. And constantly had me wondering what the hell was actually going on. 😬 Every time I thought I had something figured out, I star...
Nicole M. King: books, biography, latest update
A little bit of a slow burn at first, but once this picked up, I was HOOKED. 😳📖
Twisty, turny, spooky, and genuinely unsettling. The woven timelines kept me guessing, and this actually gave me CHILLS — which doesn’t happen often! 👻🖤
I loved the...
Home Before Dark: A Novel - Sager, Riley: Books
This was SUCH a fun thriller. 😱🔪
Fast-paced, chilling, and suspenseful from beginning to end. I was completely hooked and genuinely on the edge of my seat trying to figure out where this was going.
Set during the rainy season in Portland, Oregon,...
Night Watcher - Woolsoncroft, Daphne: Books
A retirement home slasher??? Honestly, I was SOLD. 🔪👵
This was SO much fun. Rose and the rest of the older characters were funny, clever, stubborn, and absolutely not ready to sit around waiting to die. 😂 Rose especially made such a great final g...