7 Spring Thrillers Perfect for Your Next Book Club Read
If you’re up for selecting your book club’s next read, give this list of spring thrillers a look!
This is the sixth novel of Renee Ballard and Harry Bosch, so you may want to make sure your book club has read the others in the series before selecting this one. Still: when the LAPD makes a DNA connection between a recent arrest and the cold case of the Pillowcase Rapist, they realize it must be a familial connection. The recent arrest is twenty-four, and the Pillowcase Rapist went quiet 20 years ago. They move to investigate, but then Ballard’s badge, gun, and ID are stolen, which she can’t report without facing a demotion or termination. As danger closes in around her, she recruits Harry Bosch, and his now-patrol officer daughter, Maddie, to help. But Maddie may have a different motive for working the case.
The Sawbrooks are a family of smugglers and bootleggers living on the lakes of Michigan. They’ve known every nook and cranny of the border between the US and Canada for generations, but now their family money is exhausted. The family patriarch is dying from cancer, and the family itself is falling apart as the eldest daughter works to federally protect the land against the family’s will, the middle son struggles with Veteran alcoholism, and the youngest daughter is committing arson for insurance money… and that boat she set fire to wasn’t empty.
The Pool sisters have recently opened up their own PI enterprise when they get news that their Aunt Ruth’s death years ago was not the suicide listed on her death certificate. Ruth had represented a chemist developing a synthetic opioid, and when he realized he would lose his case, he released the drug on the street. Now the Pools have to bring justice to their deceased aunt and take down the chemist himself.
Right after Briar Thorne’s mother dies in her family’s Chicago southside Greystone mansion, she starts witnessing the ghosts. She convinces herself that the hauntings are manifestations of grief, but when she researches the serial killer in the area, a stranger tells her that her hauntings are not dreams, but clues. She has to put them together to put the ghosts to rest and stop the killer, and if she doesn’t do it soon, it might cost her her life.
If you love a nonlinear narrative—or a narrative with two plots decades apart, this one is a good fit for you and your club. We start in 2011 when Nicole gets a visit from a writer asking about a 1980s British rock band. Nicole is unnerved by the visit, and just after she sends the reporter on her way, she learns that her daughter has been picked up from school by a nonexistent aunt—that is, she’s been kidnapped. When we flash back, we learn that Nicole was a bartender during the band’s heyday, and her younger, sixteen-year-old sister was one step away from being their diehard groupie.
This novel follows unlikely protagonists: four senior citizen women assassins get suddenly summoned back into the elite organization, the Museum. An Eastern European gangster has started murdering agents who got in the way of their criminal ambition, and now the foursome has to both root out the mole and hunt down the gangster.
When her twin brother, Johnny, is killed in a tragic accident, James knows he’s gone before she gets the call. She goes to the secluded California town to settle his affairs and face down her former love interest in the process, but as she learns more about her brother, James realizes their connection isn’t really gone, even if Johnny is. He was hiding something, and she’s compelled to discover the truth, and then she has to decide whether to reveal it.
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