New Book Club Thrillers That Will Leave You Guessing

By Emily Hoang

For your next book club, consider picking one of these thrillers that’s going to generate tons of discussion and keep everyone on the edge of their seats. With propulsive plots and inquisitive characters, the truth will reveal itself and these characters will need to learn to trust in themselves if they want to survive.

The Hospital

by Leslie Wolfe

In this psychological thriller, Emma wakes up from a hospital knowing only her name and that someone tried to kill her. Her husband has his hand around his new girlfriend, telling Emma they’ve been divorced for three years. As she pieces together her memory, she starts seeing the lies that contradict what she remembers. Despite everyone telling her of her broken memory, she knows to only trust herself to uncover the truth.

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Night Watcher

by Daphne Woolsoncroft

Nola had a chance encounter with the Hiding Man, a notorious serial killer in the Pacific Northwest, when she was a child. Since then, she’s been traumatized and never spoke of her experience. Now, she has installed security cameras outside her home and hosts Night Watch, a popular radio call-in show her father used to run. She unexpectedly gets a call that convinces her that the Hiding Man has resurfaced and is coming for her. As the police’s indifference to her concerns become clearer, Nola takes matters into her own hands to uncover the monster behind the Hiding Man.

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The First Gentleman

by James Patterson

by Bill Clinton

Patterson and Clinton are back with another thriller full of twists and turns. America has a new president and her husband’s on trial for murder. A pair of investigative journalists set out to find the answer to the burning mystery around the NFL star-turned-political spouse.

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The Unraveling of Julia

by Lisa Scottoline

Julia Pritzker lost her adoptive parents then her husband is murdered, shortly after. She believes she’s cursed and spirals when she realizes her horoscope essentially foretold his death. Her luck seems to reverse when she gets a letter informing her she has inherited a Tuscan villa and vineyard. In Tuscany, she hopes for answers about who her benefactor, Emilia Rossi, is. Rossi was a paranoid recluse who believed she was a descendent of the Duchess Caterina Sforza. As Julia finds eerie parallels between the women, including an obsession with astrology, she struggles to search for her identity and save her sanity.

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She Didn't See It Coming

Shari Lapena

Bryden and Sam are the perfect couple: thriving careers, a luxury apartment, and a cherisher daughter. Everything unravels when Sam receives a call that Bryden failed to pick up their daughter from daycare. When they get home, he finds evidence of his wife’s presence, minus Bryden herself. Questions swirl around their friends and home, making everything seem a little less perfect with every passing minute.

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Wild Dark Shore

Charlotte McConaghy

Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny island near Antarctica. It’s home to the world’s largest seed bank and used to be full of researchers. With the rising sea levels, the Salt family is its final inhabitants. Things change when a woman washes ashore. Rowan has her own secrets of why she’s on the island. When she finds sabotaged radios and a freshly dug grave, she realizes Dominic also holds secrets of his own. They’ll need to decide if they can trust each other to protect the world’s last seeds before it’s too late.

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Whispers of Dead Girls

Marlee Bush

After ten years, Ren Taylor finds herself back at her old high school for a new job. She can’t seem to escape her past—her murdered teenage sister is still immortalized in town. She meets charming Bryson Lewis, the physics teacher, and becomes suspicious when she notices his close relationship with one of his students. She worries about history repeating itself and will do what she must to save her.

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Everyone Is Lying to You

Jo Piazza

Lizzie and Bex were college best friends, until Bex vanishes after graduation. Fifteen years later, Bex is now Rebecca Sommers, a “traditional” Instagram influencer with her five children and handsome husband, Gray. Lizzie is a struggling magazine writer. Bex reaches out to Lizzie out of the blue, with a career-making proposition, an exclusive interview and invitation to MomBomb, the high profile influencing conference. At the conference, Bex disappears and Gray is brutally murdered on their ranch. Lizzie is plunged into the cutthroat world of social media and must learn who her old friend has become to save her life.

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You Belong Here

Megan Miranda

Beckett Bowery never thought she’d return to Wyatt Valley, a college town in the Virginia mountains. Her parents taught at the college. Tragedy strikes during her senior year, ending with two local men dead and her roommate on the run. Two decades later, her daughter, Delilah, secretly applies to Wyatt College and earns a full scholarship, forcing Beckett to return home and face her past.

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Emily Hoang is a writer and editor, who is obsessed with haunted houses, ghosts, and dreams. More info can be found on her website.

New Book Club Thrillers That Will Leave You Guessing

The Hospital

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Night Watcher

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The First Gentleman

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The Unraveling of Julia

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She Didn't See It Coming

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Wild Dark Shore

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Whispers of Dead Girls

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Everyone Is Lying to You

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You Belong Here

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