thrillers (fiction)

When travel journalist and mountaineer Nick Grevers awakens from a coma, he is horrified to learn his climbing partner, Augustin, is missing and presumed dead, and he himself has suffered extensive injuries. He claims amnesia, but he remembers everything than happened on Maudit, a remote and scarcely documented peak in the Swiss Alps. He begins to question his sanity as he starts to believe that he was changed on the mountain, and his boyfriend Sam tries to piece together what really happened on Maudit.

Half-blind, isolated, broken, and disillusioned, LeAnne Hogan used to be a rising military star in Afghanistan. Now a final blow comes in the form of the death of Marci, her hospital roommate. Compelled to find closure for her death, LeAnne travels to Marci's hometown only to find that Marci's eight-year-old daughter has vanished. Then LeAnne finds herself "adopted" by the town's dark, strong, inscrutable stray dog, and together woman and dog set out to find the missing child.

Harriet "Hal" Westaway receives a mysterious letter bequeathing her an inheritance from a grandmother who has been dead for decades. She thinks it's a mistake, but maybe her tarot card-reading skills could help her get the funds anyway so she travels to Trepassen, an English countryside estate, where Mrs. Westaway's family has come to claim their bequest. Hal quickly realizes that there is something very wrong about the situation and the inheritance, and she could be in real danger.

As the only survivor of Denver's notorious "Reaper" serial murders, FBI Special Agent Kendall Beck, commits herself to getting justice for the victims every time. But her next case hits too close to home when her best friend and roommate, Gwen Tavich, is found dead floating in a nearby lake. Kendall joins forces with Denver detective Adam Taylor to find the killer, but it soon becomes clear that Gwen was hiding a lot of secrets and Kendall didn't know her nearly as well as she thought she did. As more bodies begin to pile up, Kendall realizes the Reaper is back, and she is the only one who can stop them.

Edie works for the Elysian Society, a secretive service that allows grieving clients to contact their lost loved ones. Edie dresses like the deceased, then swallows a pill called "lotus" to summon their departed minds into hers and let her own mind sink into the background. She tries not to become emotionally involved with her clients, but her latest, Patrick Braddock, and his departed wife Sylvia, become too interesting, and attractive, for her to stay away, and soon, Edie's quiet life begins unraveling as she uses lotus pills to summon Sylvia more, and Sylvia starts taking over.

Zoe Maisey, a seventeen-year-old genius musical prodigy, once served time in juvie for her part in an accident that left three of her classmates dead. Now she and her mother, Maria, have made a new life for themselves, and Maria has made Zoe swear never to reveal her past, not even to her new step-dad. On the night of Zoe's first recital in years, Maria ends up dead, and in the aftermath everyone, including Zoe herself, has to figure out just what they missed that might have prevented it.

Abi Knight learns that her seventeen-year-old daughter, Olivia, has been discovered after falling off a bridge. Olivia is brain dead, but Abi also learns that Olivia is pregnant and is being kept on life support for the sake of the baby. Noticing bruises on Olivia?s wrist, Abi thinks that something sinister may have happened despite the police ruling the fall an accident. She begins to investigate while also dealing with complex layers of grief. Told in alternating perspectives from the last few months of Olivia's life and Abi's search for the truth.

Nordic language linguistics expert Valerie Chesterfield is still reeling from the death of her climate scientist brother Andy, when she accepts a call from Andy's research partner Wyatt to assist him with an improbable case. Wyatt's found a girl trapped in ice, who thaws out alive and appears to be from an ancient culture. As Valerie tries to communicate with the girl, she makes an unexplained connection with her and must uncover the truth of Wyatt's research to help her.

Seventeen-year-old Farrah Turner is a Black girl who schemes her way into her Black best friend Cherish Whitman's White, wealthy, adoptive family. Cherish's loving family spoils her, but soon Farrah can see that something isn't right in the Whitman house. Strange things begin happening to Farrah and she senses that she isn't in control anymore. So Farrah sets a plan into motion to finally reveal what is really going on.

"What do the queen bee, star athlete, valedictorian, stoner, loner, and music geek all have in common? They were all invited to a scholarship dinner, only to discover it's a trap. Someone has locked them into a room with a bomb, a syringe filled with poison, and a note saying they have an hour to pick someone to kill--or else everyone dies"--Provided by publisher.