Thrillers (Fiction)

  • Rubbernecker : Rubbernecker, book 1

    Creator

    Bauer, Belinda

    Abstract

    A medical student with Asperger’s is drawn into a deadly mystery in this unique crime thriller from the CWA Gold Dagger Award–winning author. Winner of the 2014 Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award, Rubbernecker is a gripping thriller about a medical student who begins to suspect that something strange is going on in the cadaver lab. “The dead can’t speak to us,” Professor Madoc had said. But that was a lie. The body Patrick Fort is examining in anatomy class is trying to tell him all kinds of things.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    London

    Bantam Press

    Not specified
  • Ruin road

    Creator

    Giles, Lamar

    Abstract

    "My twin, Lamar, is a phenomenal innovative storyteller... A true king!" —Tiffany D. Jackson, New York Times bestselling author of Grown and The Weight of Blood. Sometimes a little fear is a good thing... Cade Webster lives between worlds. He's a standout football star at the right school but lives in the wrong neighborhood—if you let his classmates tell it. Everywhere but home, people are afraid of him for one reason or another. Afraid he's too big, too fast, too ambitious, too Black.

    Audience
    Adolescent
    Publisher (Source)

    [S.I.]

    Scholastic Inc.

    Not specified
  • Shutter : Rita Todacheene, book 1

    Creator

    Emerson, Ramona

    Abstract

    Longlisted for the National Book Award This blood-chilling debut set in New Mexico’s Navajo Nation is equal parts gripping crime thriller, supernatural horror, and poignant portrayal of coming of age on the reservation. "A haunting thriller, written with exquisite suspense . . . This is a story that won't let you go long after you finish, and you won't want it to end even as you can't stop reading to find out how it does." —Tommy Orange, author of There There Rita Todacheene is a forensic photographer working for the Albuquerque police force.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Soho Press

    Not specified
  • Sick puppy : Skink, book 4

    Creator

    Hiaasen, Carl

    Abstract

    Brilliantly twisted entertainment wrapped around a powerful ecological plea—from the New York Times bestselling author of Squeeze Me . When Palmer Stoat notices the black pickup truck following him on the highway, he fears his precious Range Rover is about to be carjacked. But Twilly Spree, the man tailing Stoat, has vengeance, not sport-utility vehicles, on his mind. Idealistic, independently wealthy and pathologically short-tempered, Twilly has dedicated himself to saving Florida's wilderness from runaway destruction.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [Place of publication not identified]

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

    Not specified
  • Signed sealed dead

    Creator

    Murphy, Cynthia

    Abstract

    From the author of the BookTok sensation Win Lose Kill Die, comes an explosive mystery about a teenager whose true-crime obsession hits a little too close to home when she begins receiving cryptic messages after moving into a new house. "Deliciously twisted fun!"—Karen M. McManus, #1 New York Times bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying. When true-crime obsessed Paige, along with her family, move across the Atlantic to her father's eerie hometown, it's not long before she uncovers the town's dark history—a string of unsolved murders and disappearances in the 90s.

    Audience
    Adolescent
    Publisher (Source)

    [S.l.]

    Random House Children's Books

    Not specified
  • Silent sister

    Creator

    Davidhizar, Megan

    Abstract

    The must-read suspense novel of the summer about a mysterious sister's disappearance, her biggest betrayal, and a deadly truth screaming to come out. Two sisters went missing on their class trip—Grace, the outgoing athlete who is friends with just about everyone, and Maddy, the wallflower wilting in her sister’s shadow who'd rather absorb herself in her journal than talk to her classmates. But when Grace is found—injured, with no memory of what happened—everybody thinks she’s lying. It’s hard not to look guilty with Maddy’s blood on her clothes.

    Audience
    Adolescent
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Delacorte Press

    Not specified
  • Silver nitrate

    Creator

    Moreno-Garcia, Silvia

    Abstract

    National Bestseller • From the author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic comes a fabulous meld of Mexican horror movies and Nazi occultism: a dark thriller about the curse that haunts a legendary lost film—and awakens one woman’s hidden powers. “No one punctures the skin of reality to reveal the lurking, sinister magic beneath better than Silvia Moreno-Garcia.”—Kiersten White, author of Hide. Locus Award Finalist • A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Tordotcom, Polygon, CrimeReads, BookPage, Book Riot.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Del Rey

    Not specified
  • Sisters of the lost nation

    Creator

    Medina, Nick

    Abstract

    Named a Most Anticipated Book by Barnes and Noble • BuzzFeed • GoodReads • Book Riot • CrimeReads • Ms. Magazine • SheReads • Amazon Editor's Pick • Tor.com • and more! A young Native girl's hunt for answers about the women mysteriously disappearing from her tribe's reservation leads her to delve into the myths and stories of her people, all while being haunted herself, in this atmospheric and stunningly poignant debut. Anna Horn is always looking over her shoulder.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Berkley

    Not specified
  • Spells for forgetting

    Creator

    Young, Adrienne

    Abstract

    National Bestseller • “Lush with secrets, magic, and a past that won’t stay where it belongs, this novel is (quite fittingly) spellbinding.”—Jodi Picoult, author of Wish You Were Here. A deeply atmospheric story about ancestral magic, an unsolved murder, and a second chance at true love. One of the Best Books of the Year: She Reads. Emery Blackwood’s life changed forever the night her best friend was found dead and the love of her life, August Salt, was accused of murdering her.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Delacorte Press

    Not specified
  • Star island : Skink, book 6

    Creator

    Hiaasen, Carl

    Abstract

    A hilarious spin on life in the celebrity fast lane from “Florida’s most entertainingly indignant social critic” (The New York Times Book Review) and the national bestselling author of Squeeze Me. Meet twenty-two-year-old Cherry Pye (née Cheryl Bunterman), a pop star since she was fourteen—and about to attempt a comeback from her latest drug-and-alcohol disaster. Now meet Cherry again: in the person of her “undercover stunt double,” Ann DeLusia. Ann portrays Cherry whenever the singer is too “indisposed”—meaning wasted—to go out in public.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Alfred A. Knopf

    Not specified