Every month's pick (or picks), in one place.
Colleen Hoover
Struggling writer Lowen Ashleigh is hired to finish a bestselling series for Verity Crawford, who can no longer write it herself. Holed up in the Crawford house, Lowen finds an unpublished manuscript that reads less like fiction and more like a confession. Twisted, unsettling, and impossible to put down — bring your theories about that ending.
Brynne Weaver
True-crime fanatics descend on Cape Carnage looking for answers about a dead serial killer, and Nolan finds himself managing the chaos while quietly investigating the missing people he already knows aren’t coming back. The more secrets he unearths, the closer his own past creeps up on Harper — dark, funny, and romantic suspense in equal measure. Book two of the Seasons of Carnage trilogy.
Alice Feeney
When a woman is murdered in the small English town of Blackdown, reporter Anna Andrews is reluctant to take the case — and Detective Jack Harper, her ex, becomes a suspect in his own investigation. Told from alternating points of view (his, hers, and the killer’s), it’s a twisty psychological thriller where nobody’s story quite adds up.
Laura Griffin
A defense attorney with a target on her back, a killer she helped put away now out for revenge, and a bodyguard who takes “personal protection” very personally. Romantic suspense that earns the suspense half. Pour something strong.
Ali Hazelwood
Fake dating in a STEM lab with a grumpy professor who is definitely not falling for his fake girlfriend. Our palate cleanser this month — the darkness meter is on vacation, the spice is not. For science, obviously.
