Book Club Picks & Thrillers We Love
Handpicked reads from our book club - dark, twisty, and impossible to put down.
Book Club Pick
A Perfect Mother - Miranda Smith
What happens when the people you trust most are hiding the biggest secrets?
A Perfect Mother is a fast-paced domestic thriller packed with secrets, lies, betrayal, and plenty of twists. As the story unfolds, nothing is quite what it seems—and just when you think you’ve figured out what’s really going on, another revelation changes everything.
It’s an easy, bingeable read with lots to talk about, making it perfect for our next book club discussion.
October New Releases
The Witch — Freida McFadden | October 6
A secluded family estate. A woman executed for witchcraft centuries ago. And a past that may not be quite as dead as everyone thinks.
When Julia retreats to her family’s old Massachusetts estate, strange things begin happening—and the deeper she digs into the property’s history, the more disturbing the connection becomes between her own family and a woman accused of witchcraft in 1692.
Family secrets, psychological suspense, dual timelines, and just enough is this actually happening? energy to make us suspicious of absolutely everyone.
Please Enjoy Your Stay — Tara Goedjen | October 13
A glamorous European castle sounds like the perfect escape… until you realize some families would do anything to keep their secrets buried.
A true-crime journalist arrives at an extravagant castle and quickly discovers that behind the beautiful setting is something much darker. Toxic relationships, old secrets, suspicious behavior—and a family whose version of the truth may be the biggest mystery of all.
Think luxury getaway meets something is very, very wrong here.
One of Us Must Die — Zelly Ruskin | October 20
Every family has secrets. This family may have secrets worth killing for.
Behind closed doors, old grudges, buried truths, and complicated relationships begin colliding—and someone may be willing to go much further than anyone expected to keep the past from coming out.
The Therapist — Nicole Trope | October 20
A therapist is supposed to uncover her patients’ secrets. But what happens when one of those secrets gets a little too close to home?
When a new patient walks into her office, something immediately feels off. Her story doesn’t quite add up. Her face seems strangely familiar. And the more the therapist tries to understand who this woman really is, the more unsettling things become.
Because sometimes the person sitting across from you knows far more about your life than they should.
Another Name for Red — Amber Blaeser-Wardzala | October 13
Her sister is missing. The police don’t have answers. And waiting around for someone else to find the truth is no longer an option.
When a young Anishinaabe woman disappears, her sister refuses to let her become just another forgotten missing-person case. She begins searching for answers herself, uncovering secrets and putting herself directly in the path of danger.
But finding out what happened to her sister may mean confronting truths about her family, her community—and just how far someone is willing to go to keep the past buried.
The House Built on Alligator Bones — Sophia Huneycutt | October
Long-lost wealthy relatives. A sprawling Gilded Age mansion in Florida. And an inheritance that comes with a history nobody seems eager to explain.
After her mother’s death, a woman discovers a branch of her family she barely knew existed and enters their strange, privileged world. But the deeper she gets into the family—and the house—the clearer it becomes that all that wealth was built on something much darker.
Southern Gothic, family secrets, money, obsession, and a house we already know we should probably NOT enter.
Which one are you reaching for first?
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