Five
by Ilona Bannister.
Five people are waiting at a suburban London train station. The next train is due in five minutes. When the train arrives, one of these people will die.
A mother, a child, a businessman, an old woman, a gambler.
Some are strangers to each other, some are not. These five lives are on collision.
But we don’t learn till the end of the book who will die, or how. In the meantime, there’s a lot to learn about these five people, and the author takes us on quite a roller coaster of tension while we wait to find out what unfolds.
We Are All Guilty Here
by Karin Slaughter.
When two teenage girls go missing, Officer Emmy Clifton is on the team looking for them. She’s afraid she’s responsible: one of the girls, her best friend’s daughter, tried to talk to her the night before but she refused to listen.
Both girls turn up dead. The investigation reveals some truly disturbing details, and a man is convicted of their murder.
Twelve years later, his conviction has been undermined and he is out on parole. And another girl is missing. Emmy and her team go back to square one on their investigation.
Two Dead Wives
by Adele Parks.
The UK is in pandemic lockdown, and Kylie Gillingham is missing. Is she dead? No body has been found, but there’s no sign of her alive, either.
A complication: Kylie had two husbands, two identities, as Leigh Fletcher and Kai Jannsen. Police discovered she was kept prisoner in an empty apartment after she disappeared. But when they showed up there, the apartment was empty.
Did one of her husbands, on discovering her deceit, abduct, punish and then kill her?
Exiles
by Jane Harper.
A young mother disappeared a year ago, abandoning her baby at an outdoor festival. Aaron Falk was one of the last people to see her. Did she commit suicide or go into hiding? The third book in Jane Harper’s trilogy featuring Australian Federal Police officer Falk.
The Favor
by Nicci French.
Jude Winter is a successful doctor, with an upcoming wedding. Then Liam shows up; he was her first love, back when they were teenagers. He asks her for a favor; she agrees. Then everythiing goes wrong.
The Cage
by Bonnie Kistler.
Two women enter an elevator at the 30th floor. As they descend, the power goes out and they are trapped in the dark. When the elevator finally opens on the ground floor, one of the women is dead. She’s been shot. Was it suicide or murder?
The Golden Couple
by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen.
Marissa and Matthew Bishop appear to be a golden couple, but their therapist, Avery, believes secrets are hidden behind that golden façade. And when she begins digging below the surface, things keep getting more complicated.
The Other Passenger
by Louise Candlish.
Jamie and Kit have been commuting to downtown London by Thames river bus for months, when Kit disappears. Police question Jamie: another passenger witnessed them fighting the last time they travelled together. Who was that passenger, and what did they see?
Last Girl Ghosted
by Lisa Unger.
She met him on a dating app, but he didn’t just want a quick hookup. She falls in love, and when he says he wants to ask her something at dinner, she is anticipating…what? Not that he would stand her up and disappear.
Catch Her When She Falls
by Allison Buccola.
Ten years ago, my boyfriend killed my best friend.
He’s been in jail ever since. But is that really what happened? Micah’s memories of that night are murky, but she’s struggling to remember.
Black-Eyed Susans
Tessa can’t remember 32 hours of her life: the hours during which she was abducted by a serial killer and left for dead. Now a man is about to be executed for the crime, but is he actually innocent?
House of Correction
by Nicci French.
What if a person accused of murder has to investigate the crime from inside prison? And fires her lawyer so has to conduct her own defense in court? Especially if she’s undisciplined and prone to offensive outbursts?
Confessions on the 7:45
by Lisa Unger
In a chance encounter on a commuter train, Selena tells a stranger that her husband is having an affair with their nanny. She thinks she’ll never see that stranger again. But she’s wrong.
One by One
by Ruth Ware. A luxury chalet. An opportunity of a lifetime. Until guests start to disappear…
Twelve people are at a corporate retreat in a remote Swiss ski chalet when an avalanche isolates them from the village below. In a plot reminiscent of Agatha Christie’s “And Then There Were None,” guests start dying, one by one.
You Are Not Alone
by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen
Shay keeps track of all kinds of statistics in her Data Book. And maybe the numbers don’t lie, but it seems almost everyone around her is lying. To save her life Shay has to figure out their hidden agendas.
The Lying Room
by Nicci French
Neve, a married mother-of-three, has embarked on a clandestine affair with her boss. When she arrives at his flat one morning she discovers his dead body: he has been murdered. Frantic, she decides she has to remove all evidence of her presence to prevent the affair from becoming known. In this standalone novel, from the writing duo who brought us the Frieda Klein series, things go from bad to worse as events spiral out of control.
The Truth Behind the Lie
by Sara Lövestam
Saw your ad. Need your help right away to find my little girl who disappeared last Monday, near the Globe Arena Center. Can’t call the police. Will pay well.
Kouplan—an Iranian refugee in Stockholm—has no credentials as a PI, but is an expert in living under the radar. Pernilla is desperate but has her own reasons for not contacting the authorities.