Top new thriller books out today: 20 Jan 2026
Last updated:
20 Jan 2026
Today featuring new releases by Simone St. James, Alice Feeney, Sophie Hannah, Ashley Elston, May Cobb, Melissa Faliveno, Karen Winn, Malcolm Kempt, Lauren Schott and many more.
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A Box Full of Darkness by Simone St. James
Siblings return to the house they fled eighteen years before, called back by the ghost of their long-missing brother and his haunting request to come home.Strange things happen in Fell, New York: A mysterious drowning at the town’s roadside motel. The unexplained death of a young girl whose body is left by the railroad tracks...horror · mystery · suspense · ghosts · thriller · whodunit · paranormal · fiction · supernatural · vampires -
![My Husband's Wife by Alice Feeney]()
My Husband's Wife by Alice Feeney
The New York Times bestselling Queen of Twists is back with a psychological masterpiece that will leave you questioning everything you know about love, identity, and revenge.Eden Fox, an artist on the brink of her big break, sets off for a run before her first exhibition... -
![No One Would Do What the Lamberts Have Done by Sophie Hannah]()
No One Would Do What the Lamberts Have Done by Sophie Hannah
'The twist is perfection...fiction · family · psychological · cozy · thriller · slow-burn · suspense · ghosts · animals · literary-fiction -
![Anatomy of an Alibi by Ashley Elston]()
Anatomy of an Alibi by Ashley Elston
FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FIRST LIE WINSA tense, feverish thriller about two women’s lives that are forever intertwined when a murder threatens to expose them both.“Elston expertly unravels a web of secrets and lies. You won’t be able to put this excellent thriller down until the final shocking page... -
![All the Little Houses by May Cobb]()
All the Little Houses by May Cobb
Adults can behave badly too... It's the mid-1980s in the tiny town of Longview, Texas. Nellie Anderson, the beautiful daughter of the Anderson family dynasty, has burst onto the scene. She always gets what she wants. What she can't get for herself… well, that's what her mother is for...north-america · usa · texas · mystery · fiction · historical-fiction · suspense · thriller · female-mc · murder -
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![Hemlock by Melissa Faliveno]()
Hemlock by Melissa Faliveno
A woman haunted by a dark inheritance returns to the woods where her mother vanished, in this queer Gothic novel—a butch Black Swan. Sam, finally sober and stable with a cat and a long-term boyfriend in Brooklyn, returns alone to Hemlock, her family’s deteriorating cabin deep in the Wisconsin Northwoods, where her mother disappeared years before and never returned...horror · gothic · lgbtq · fiction · spooky · southern-gothic · thriller · mystery · psychological · literary-fiction -
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The Society by Karen Winn
Rumors about the Knox and its influence have swirled through Boston for centuries. While some believe the secret society is merely an elite social club, others are convinced it hides something more sinister...Vivian Lawrence was born into old-money Boston, but when her family fortune vanishes, so does her carefully curated life...fiction · suspense · psychological · thriller · female-mc · literary-fiction · contemporary · book · adult -
![A Gift Before Dying by Malcolm Kempt]()
A Gift Before Dying by Malcolm Kempt
In a hauntingly atmospheric novel set against the unforgiving landscape of the Arctic Circle, a disgraced police investigator discovers that his path to redemption is paved with ice—and blood...fiction · thriller · literary-fiction · crime · law-enforcement · police-procedural · ghosts · supernatural · book · adult -
![Very Slowly All at Once: A Novel by Lauren Schott]()
Very Slowly All at Once: A Novel by Lauren Schott
A propulsive and wickedly entertaining debut thriller for fans of Laura Dave and Ashley Elston that explores the dark underside of the American dream, about a couple whose financial problems are seemingly answered when they begin receiving growing sums of money from an unknown source . . . a windfall that will carry an unthinkable price...
