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Must Read Thrillers of the Summer

Looking for your next great beach read this summer? Check out some of these amazing standout mystery and thrillers by best-selling and debut authors. These books cover a variety of tropes, from vacations gone wrong, memory loss, family drama, grifters to cults and beyond. There is sure to be something for everyone!

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  • A horrible accident is just the start to one family’s vacation on a remote Australian island that has them running for their lives.
    Book, 2022New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2022. — FIC McKin
  • The follow up to best-selling Reese Book Club pick's The santitorium sees the return of Detective Elin Warner as she's called to investigate when dead bodies start turning up at an eco-wellness retreat on a remote island off the English coast.
    Book, 2022New York : Pamela Dorman Books/Viking, [2022] — FIC Pears
  • An incredible cat and mouse game between a veteran con artist and the journalist trying to expose her.
    Book, 2022Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Landmark, [2022] — FIC Clark
  • Ocean’s eleven meets Fast and the furious in this fast-paced art heist story featuring a group of Asian college friends who steal Chinese artifacts from around the world.
    Book, 2022[New York] : Tiny Reparations Books, [2022] — FIC Li
  • An edge of your seat suspenseful psychological murder mystery featuring a woman who forgets everything after she goes to sleep and is on the run from both the police who think she killed a man and the actual killer.
    Book, 2022New York : St. Martin's Press, 2022. — FIC Goldi
  • A standout Canadian debut about a woman who wakes up in the woods with no memory of how she got there and tries to piece together her last few days with help from her brother and a policewoman.
    Book, 2022Toronto, ON : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2022. — FIC Wong
  • A dark thriller about a woman seeking justice for her dead college friend and the vow she makes to destroy the cult her friend was involved with. Perfect for fans of true-crime podcasts and the psychology of cults.
    Book, 2022Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Landmark, [2022]
  • Things get deadly when bodies start turning up among a private group of surfers living on a remote island off the Australian coast.
    Book, 2022New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2022] — FIC Reyno
  • A psychologist starts to fear for her life when one of her patients goes missing and her files start disappearing in this twisty, unputdownable thriller.
    Book, 2022New York : Minotaur Books, 2022. — FIC Jones
  • A reunion turns deadly when a gathering to celebrate Daisy Darker's 80th birthday sees family members trapped on a remote island while someone starts killing people off one by one.
    Book, 2022New York : Flatiron Books, 2022. — FIC Feene
  • A lawyer whose life and career is on the rocks gets invited to an exclusive retreat by an elite (and anonymous) women's "networking" group that her husband fears could be a cult.
    Book, 2022Toronto, Ontario : Simon & Schuster Canada, 2022. — FIC McKen
  • Book, 2022New York : Scribner, 2022. — FIC Miran
  • Book, 2022New York, NY : Scout Press, 2022. — FIC Ware
  • Book, 2022New York : Atria Books, 2022. — FIC Jewel
  • Book, 2022New York, NY : MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022. — FIC Pavon
  • Book, 2022New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022] — FIC Mille
  • Book, 2022Toronto, Ontario : Graydon House, [2022] — FIC Fishe
  • Book, 2022New York : Random House, [2022] — FIC Brown