If you've ever stayed up until 3 a.m. listening to a true crime podcast, these books deserve a spot on your TBR. Podcast thrillers take everything we love about true crime—cold cases, shocking secrets, unreliable witnesses, and obsessive investigators—and turn it into fiction that's impossible to put down. Continue to discover 7 of the best podcast thrillers to binge-read.
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Books That Made Me Stay Up Until 3 AM – Thriller Edition
You know a thriller is doing its job when you glance at the clock expecting it to be 10 PM and somehow it's already 3 AM. These are the books that completely hijacked my reading schedule. Whether it was shocking twists, relentless suspense, creepy atmospheres, or characters I couldn't stop thinking about, every one of these books kept me turning pages long after I should have been asleep. Click to get discover some fantastic book recs!!
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I Said Run by Britney King ~ New Thriller Book Recommendation
I Said Run by Britney King Genre: Psychological Thriller, Mystery, Fiction Published: March 2024 Rating: 4/5 About the Book In the heart-chilling seclusion of a distant cabin, immerse yourself in a psychological journey so intense it’ll have you burning the midnight oil. Meet Eve, a wealthy heiress seeking the simplicity of a tranquil life in a country town, savoring the bliss of newlywed joy. But the idyllic beginning takes a dark twist when she is caught in the sinister web of a stranger named Jenkins. Trapped in his home, surrounded by eerie reminders of Jenkins’s late wife, taxidermied deer heads bear silent witness as Eve and others become pawns in…
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Book Recommendation – The Hike | Lucy Clarke
Wish you were here? Think again . . . Maggie, Liz, Helena & Joni. Old friends bound by history, adventures, old secrets. And now, bound by murder. They lace up their hiking boots for the adventure of a lifetime in the Norwegian wilderness: a place of towering mountains, glass-like lakes, log cabins and forests stolen from a fairytale. It’s the perfect place to lose yourself – until a broken body is found at the bottom of a ravine. Somewhere out there, someone knows exactly why a woman has died. And in this deep, dark wilderness, there’s a killer on the trail . . .
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Book Recommendations – New Thrillers 2023
Anticipated Thrillers 2023.
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#BlogTour Book Review – I Will Miss You Tomorrow | Heine Bakkeid
Fresh out of prison and a stint in a psychiatric hospital, disgraced ex-policeman Thorkild Aske only wants to lose himself in drugged dreams of his beloved Frei. Wild, unknowable Frei. The woman he loved. The woman he has lost forever. Yet when Frei’s young cousin goes missing off the Norwegian coast and Thorkild is called in by the family to help find him, dead or alive, Thorkild cannot refuse. He owes them this. Tormented by his past, Thorkild soon finds himself deep in treacherous waters. He’s lost his reputation – will he now lose his life?
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#BlogTour Book Review – See Them Run (Detective Clare Mackay #1) ~ Marion Todd
In a famous Scottish town, someone is bent on murder – but why? On the night of a wedding celebration, one guest meets a grisly end when he’s killed in a hit-and-run. A card bearing the number ‘5’ has been placed on the victim’s chest. DI Clare Mackay, who recently moved from Glasgow to join the St Andrews force, leads the investigation. The following night another victim is struck down and a number ‘4’ card is at the scene. Clare and her team realise they’re against the clock to find a killer stalking the streets of the picturesque Scottish town and bent on carrying out three more murders. To prevent further…
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Book review – One Night Gone ~ Tara Laskowski
A dual-narrative suspense novel about a recent divorcee housesitting in a wealthy beach town who becomes obsessed with the mysterious disappearance of a teenage girl there decades before—but the truth might not be the most shocking part of all. Part electric coming-of-age story and part breathtaking mystery, One Night Gone is an atmospheric novel about power, privilege, and sisterhood from Agatha Award-winner Tara Laskowski. One sultry summer, Maureen Haddaway arrives in the wealthy town of Opal Beach to start her life anew—to achieve her destiny. There, she finds herself lured by the promise of friendship, love, starry skies, and wild parties. But Maureen’s new life just might be too good…
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Book Review – The Six ~ Luca Veste
Six friends trapped by one dark secret. It was supposed to be our last weekend away as friends, before marriage and respectability beckoned. But what happened that Saturday changed everything. In the middle of the night, someone died. The six of us promised each other we would not tell anyone about the body we buried. But now the pact has been broken. And the killing has started again... Who knows what we did? And what price will we pay?
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Book Review – The Chestnut Man ~ Søren Sveistrup
The heart-pounding debut from the creator of the hit Scandinavian television show The Killing. If you find one, he’s already found you. A psychopath is terrorizing Copenhagen. His calling card is a “chestnut man”—a handmade doll made of matchsticks and two chestnuts—which he leaves at each bloody crime scene.
