Scary-Good Summer Reads

"Suspense writing at its best."—HUFFINGTON POST. It was supposed to be the start of a pleasant weekend in London for master art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon and his wife, Chiara. But a deadly pair of bombings in Paris and Copenhagen has already...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Other Woman comes the first novel in the thrilling series featuring legendary assassin Gabriel Allon.Immersed in the quiet, meticulous life of an art restorer, former Israeli intelligence...

Using the steamy Mississippi climate to turn up the heat, this blazing courtroom drama will have you thinking and then rethinking how you feel about Stafford Lee Penney, the lawyer in question. This is a meticulously plotted mystery that never lets up...

Some doors are locked for a reason...While eleven-year-old Nora Davis was up in her bedroom doing homework, she had no idea her father was killing women in the basement.Until the day the police arrived at their front door.Decades later, Nora's father is...

Sugar and cream?Or a lethal dose of poison? The inventor of a powerful new explosive,Sir Claud Amory, is somewhat disconcerted when the chemical formula goes missing – the situation worsened by the knowledge that the thief is one of Sir...

Something of an outlier in the Christie canon, The Hollowboasts a far greater depth of characterisation than the Queen of Crime is usually given credit for, whilst the mystery element of the plot is chiefly subordinate to the protagonists’...

The Michael Bennett brand of thrillers faces a new deadly threat — a highly trained sniper. In typical Patterson style, this is an edge-of-your-seat thriller that will keep the pages turning.“Turn. Up. The. Heat” (New York Times) with...

For fans of Riley Sager, Grady Hendrix, movie buffs and Jimmy Juliano’s Dead Elevenplus some 90s nostalgia, we present to you Burn the Negative. Josh Winning wears his stabbed, bleeding heart on his sleeve with characters like Needle Man; a main...

Memory is a fascinating concept, and that fascination turns to terror thanks to Kiersten White’s Mister Magic, which tells the chilling story of a children’s TV program gone wrong. And underneath that terror is a bit of warmth not often found...

As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When the police arrive, they find only one of the children...

Retired detective Cal Hooper moves to a remote village in rural Ireland. His plans are to fix up the dilapidated cottage he's bought, to walk the mountains, to put his old police instincts to bed forever.Then a local boy appeals to him for help. His...

It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die.Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural...

Ruth Ware stopped us in our tracks with her 2015 debut In a Dark, Dark Wood. We’ve followed her step by step as if moving through foggy landscape, and now we’ve arrived at the door to her eighth book, Zero Days. Please knock. She’s...

A cat and mouse thriller set in Wyoming ... at an Airbnb ranch and told by Jeneva Rose? Yes please! This is the vacation we’re too nervous to go on but truly excited to read! Um. Do you have any internet access here?AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES...

Some friends—and friendships—are worth killing for in this dark, twisty suspense novel by national bestselling author Jesse Q. Sutanto.Jane is unhappy.  A struggling midlist writer whose novels barely command four figures, she feels...

Creating "true narrative magic" (The Washington Post) at every revelatory turn, Stephen King surpasses all expectation in the stunning final volume of his seven-part epic masterwork. Entwining stories and worlds from a vast and complex canvas, here is...

The fourth volume in the brilliant Dark Tower Series is “splendidly tense...rip-roaring” (Publishers Weekly)—a #1 national bestseller about an epic quest to save the universe.In Wizard and Glass, Stephen King is “at his most...

The third volume in the #1 nationally bestselling Dark Tower Series, involving the enigmatic Roland (the last gunfighter) and his ongoing quest for the Dark Tower, is “Stephen King at his best” (School Library Journal).Several months have...

The penultimate volume in the Dark Tower series, The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah, a #1 New York Times bestseller, is a pivotal installment in the epic saga.Set in a world of extraordinary circumstances, filled with stunning visual imagery and...

Wolves of the Calla is the thrilling fifth book in Stephen King’s Dark Tower series—a unique bestselling epic fantasy quest inspired many years ago by The Lord of the Rings.In the extraordinary fifth novel in Stephen King’s remarkable...