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Sometimes a story has the power to take hold of you and never let you go. These gripping psychological thrillers will have you enraptured, second-guessing everything you thought was real, and reading late into the night. Don’t say we didn’t warn you!

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    Gone Girl

    by Gillian Flynn

    On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick’s clever and beautiful wife disappears. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn’t doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife’s head, but passages from Amy’s diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist could have put anyone dangerously on edge. Under mounting pressure from the police and the media, the town golden boy parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he’s definitely bitter — but is he really a killer?
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    The Note

    by Alafair Burke

    A suspenseful story about a vacation in the Hamptons that goes terribly wrong for three friends with a complicated history. The Note is a page-turner of the highest order from one of our greatest contemporary suspense writers.
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    The Silent Wife

    by A. S. A. Harrison

    Jodi and Todd are at a bad place in their marriage. Much is at stake, including the affluent life they lead in their beautiful waterfront condo in Chicago, as she, the killer, and he, the victim, rush haplessly toward the main event. He is a committed cheater. She lives and breathes denial. He exists in dual worlds. She likes to settle scores. He decides to play for keeps. She has nothing left to lose … Told in alternating voices, The Silent Wife is about a marriage in the throes of dissolution, a couple headed for catastrophe, and promises that won’t be kept. The Silent Wife ensnares the reader from page one and does not let go.
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    The Push: A GMA Book Club Pick

    by Ashley Audrain

    A tense, page-turning psychological drama about the making and breaking of a family — and a woman whose experience of motherhood is nothing at all what she hoped for — and everything she feared. For fans of Verity and We Need to Talk About Kevin, The Push is a tour de force you will read in a sitting, an utterly immersive novel that will challenge everything you think you know about motherhood, about what we owe our children, and what it feels like when women are not believed.
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    Nightwatching

    by Tracy Sierra

    Home alone with her young children during a blizzard, a mother tucks her son back into bed in the middle of the night. She hears a noise — old houses are always making some kind of noise. But this sound is disturbingly familiar: It’s the tread of footsteps, unusually heavy and slow, coming up the stairs … Should she search for a weapon or attempt escape? But then she catches a glimpse of him. That face. That voice. And at once she knows her situation is even more dire than she’d feared, because she knows exactly who he is — and what he wants.
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    One of Our Kind

    by Nicola Yoon

    Jasmyn and King Williams move their family to the planned Black utopia of Liberty, California. Jasmyn expected to find liberals and social justice activists striving for racial equality, but Liberty residents seem more focused on booking spa treatments and ignoring the world’s troubles. Then Jasmyn discovers a terrible secret about Liberty and its founders … Will the truth destroy her world in ways she never could have imagined? Thrilling with insightful social commentary, One of Our Kind explores the ways in which freedom is complicated by the presumptions we make about ourselves and each other.
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    The Good Son

    by You-Jeong Jeong

    Who can you trust if you can’t trust yourself? Early one morning, twenty-six-year-old Yu-jin wakes up to find his mother’s murdered body lying in their stylish Seoul duplex. He can’t remember much about the night before; having suffered from seizures for most of his life, Yu-jin often has trouble with his memory. All he has is a faint impression of his mother calling his name. But was she calling for help? Or begging for her life? A shocking and addictive psychological thriller, The Good Son explores the mysteries of mind and memory, and the twisted relationship between a mother and son, with incredible urgency by the #1 bestselling novelist known as “Korea’s Stephen King.”
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    The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, Ripley’s Game

    by Patricia Highsmith

    Suave, agreeable, and completely amoral, Patricia Highsmith’s hero, the inimitable Tom Ripley, stops at nothing – not even murder – to accomplish his goals. In achieving for himself the opulent life that he was denied as a child, Ripley shows himself to be a master of illusion and manipulation and a disturbingly sympathetic combination of genius and psychopath. As Highsmith navigates the mesmerizing tangle of Ripley’s deadly and sinister games, she turns the mystery genre inside out and takes us into the mind of a man utterly indifferent to evil.
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    My Sweet Girl

    by Amanda Jayatissa

    Paloma thought her perfect life would begin once she was adopted and made it to America, but she’s about to find out that no matter how far you run, your past always catches up to you …
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    She Didn’t See It Coming

    by Shari Lapena

    The gripping new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door. When a beloved wife and mother disappears, a luxurious condo building transforms into a potential crime scene, and the investigation begins: Can the detectives find her before it’s too late? With every minute that passes – and as questions swirl around their community – the couple’s past seems a little less perfect, their condominium less safe, their friends, neighbors and relatives no longer quite so reliable …
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    The House in the Pines: Reese’s Book Club

    by Ana Reyes

    Armed with only hazy memories, a woman who long ago witnessed her friend’s sudden, mysterious death, and has since spent her life trying to forget, sets out to track down answers. What she uncovers, deep in the woods, is hardly to be believed …
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    Claire, Darling

    by Callie Kazumi

    She’s been ghosted. But she won’t be forgotten. When Claire drops off a surprise anniversary lunch for her fiancé, Noah, the receptionist tells her that no one with Noah’s name works there. Now, Noah isn’t picking up her calls. Her texts go unanswered. It turns out Noah has a different life … one with a beautiful girlfriend, a beautiful house. Claire was never really in the picture. Desperate to speak to Noah and convince him to return to their dream life, Claire plunges into a nightmarish journey of obsession that submerges her deeper and deeper into the murky waters of her own past.
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    While We Were Burning

    by Sara Koffi

    Parasite meets Such a Fun Age in a scorching debut that is as heartbreaking as it is thrilling, examining the intersection of race, class, and female friendship, and the devastating consequences of everyday actions.
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    The Widow

    by Fiona Barton

    There’s a lot Jean hasn’t said over the years about the crime her husband was suspected of committing. She was too busy being the perfect wife, standing by her man. Now her husband is dead, and there’s no reason to stay quiet. She can tell them that there were secrets. There always are in a marriage. The truth — that’s all anyone wants. But the one lesson Jean has learned in the last few years is that she can make people believe anything …
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    Don’t Open Your Eyes

    by Liv Constantine

    In this twisted psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling co-author of the Reese’s Book Club pick The Last Mrs. Parrish, a woman is tormented by nightmarish visions of her future — and then they start to come true.
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    The Girl on the Train

    by Paula Hawkins

    Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She’s even started to feel like she knows them. Their life — as she sees it — is perfect. Then she sees something shocking … Unable to keep it to herself, Rachel goes to the police. But is she really as unreliable as they say? Soon she is deeply entangled not only in the investigation but in the lives of everyone involved. Has she done more harm than good?
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