Fiction - Thrillers - Domestic

or seventeen years, Evelyn Mercer has been known as the perfect wife.Her husband, Daniel, is wealthy, charming, and admired throughout their lakeside community. Their marriage appears flawless. Then Daniel disappears.His car is discovered beside the frozen lake. His phone and wallet are still inside....

Someone is watching. Someone is waiting. Someone wants to destroy you.Nothing matters more to Lorelai than creating the perfect Christmas. The house must look beautiful, the food must be spectacular and everything must be magical for her family.But this year, things won't go to...

A building crammed full of junk. A man in the woods watches her. Does this forest hide a fresh start or a dark nightmare?Francesca longs for her own piece of paradise and buys a suspiciously cheap waterfront house. But it comes packed with a...

She seems too good to be true... When Meg meets Tina, it's like the most perfect meeting of minds. Their friendship feels naturally joyful - like they've had a space waiting in their lives for each other. And, with both being survivors of the...

When wealthy Hamptons mothers start to vanish without a trace, the remaining mothers realize something has gone very wrong in their perfect neighborhood. Evelyn Allen never asked to live in the Hamptons. She didn't grow up as part of the country club set and...

She just wanted a distraction from her marriage. She didn't expect to fall for a serial killer. Jess Langford is thirty-seven, invisible, and married to a man who initiates sex like it's a calendar reminder. Then Nate Calloway walks into a PTA meeting -...

When Kirsty and Ryan broke up, Kirsty didn't just lose the man she loved. She lost the life she'd built around him. The future they'd promised each other. But now he's left her for Charlotte. Again. The woman his family always preferred. And Kirsty...

A perfect family.One late-night message.And a secret that has been waiting seven years to destroy them.Aryan Sharma has everything he ever wanted - a loving wife, a four-year-old son, parents living under the same roof, and a quiet life in Faridabad. Until a stranger's...

An old woman watched him from the shadows when he was a child.Nobody else could see her.Years later, she returns in his dreams.As reality begins to blur with nightmare, a dark mystery unfolds-one connected to forgotten memories, family secrets, and a promise that refuses...

In Meadow Creek, the perfect neighbor isn't who you think. Jessica Hayes, a 36-year-old piano teacher, radiates 1990s-style suburban friendliness, but behind her polished facade lurk a calculating mind and a growing obsession with her new, seemingly happy neighbor, Sarah Miller. Yet, Jessica harbors...

She thought her past was buried. She was wrong.Claire Miller is fighting to hold her family together. Between three daughters, crushing debt, and the wreckage of her husband's crimes, the illusion of the perfect life is long gone. She tells herself she can still...

A dead radio hobbyist.A woman at the bottom of a staircase.A care home with locked service corridors.And a low mechanical hum that always starts before someone disappears from sight.When Gerd Meisel is found dead in his garage, the first explanation is simple: accident. But...

WAR - ON - DRUGS[ A minor novel thriller. ]In the turbulent summer of 2016, as multiple American states push forward with marijuana legalization, a powerful black-market empire continues to thrive in the shadows. Its elusive leader - known only as the White Whale...

In his latest case, the unconventional Basel private investigator Lukas "Luki" Keller finds himself in Balsthal in the canton of Solothurn. What was disguised as the official accidental death of the universally popular historian Hans-Peter Bloch - an apparent fall from the historically significant...

Twelve years ago, Michael Skylar was accused of stealing from the company he built - framed by the brother-in-law who wanted it more than he ever admitted. By the time the truth caught up with the lie, Michael was behind bars, and his sister...

Mara Voss left Ashford Falls at twenty-two and swore she'd never go back.Ten years later, her sister Elise is dead - drowned in the lake behind their childhood home, the sheriff says, in a tragic accident. Mara knows better. Elise could read that water...

Emily Carter returns to her childhood home after burying her mother, hoping to settle the estate and move on with her life. Three days later, her phone rings.The caller ID shows her mother's name.The voicemail is unmistakably her voice.At first, Emily believes it's a...

THE POOLSIDE GUEST "Welcome to the family," Mrs. Sterling says as I slide my hands into my crisp uniform. But I already know the rules. I work tirelessly to ensure everything is flawless for the wealthy elite who lounge under the blistering sun of...

A dead woman. A borrowed name. And the hotel room where her sister was last seen alive.Ten months after her younger sister Elena vanished, investigative journalist Mara Voss has run out of leads and almost out of hope.Then a woman is found dead in...

Leah restores damaged photographs for a living. She notices what other people miss: a shifted edge, a faint stain, a surface beginning to separate.Her own life is just as carefully ordered. Every mug is angled. Every chair is aligned. Every Wednesday, her best friend...

The house on Alder Road has been empty for eight years, and everyone in Port Aldridge agrees on one thing: nobody wants to be the one who goes inside first.When the Bellhaven Group moves to demolish the abandoned Hartwell house for a new marina...

When Priya Nair's mother dies, the instructions are strange from the start: the ashes must not go into the sea. Standing in the courtyard of the family's ancestral home on the Konkan coast, holding a sealed clay pot in the monsoon heat, Priya does...

She wanted to be number one. She just didn't expect someone to die for it. When bestselling thriller author Camille Price is found murdered in her bedroom, the literary world is stunned. Less than twenty-four hours later, Zoey Black wakes up to find her...

He said three words: "I don't love you."What he didn't say was who he loved instead - or what she was hiding.Claire Bennett had twenty years, a house, a family, and a husband who stirred his coffee the same way every single morning. Then...

Josephine Calder came home to bury her twin sister. She did not come home to find out Piper might still be alive.A year after Piper's death was ruled an accidental drowning, Joss returns to the family winery for a memorial she never wanted to...

What if the man everyone buried was never truly gone? There is no body at Kate Morgan's husband's funeral. Only flowers, condolences, and the smiling photograph of a man the world believes is dead. For six years, Kate has carried the guilt of her...

She wore my sister's hair the same way.That's the first thing I noticed when they brought her into the courtroom.For six months, Sarah Mitchell lived in my sister's guesthouse. Slept in her sheets. Tended the roses she'd planted. Made herself indispensable to my brother-in-law...

How well do you know the person you married?You share a bed. A home. A life. But do you know what they're truly capable of?I never thought I'd be a widow at twenty-six. They haven't even dredged him out of the ocean yet, but...

THE HEROA burning house.A trapped child.And a homeless stranger willing to risk everything.When a devastating fire erupts in the middle of a quiet afternoon, Dream...a forgotten man living on the streets-rushes into the flames to save a little girl trapped upstairs. His act of...

When love becomes obsession, trust turns into betrayal, and secrets are buried beneath layers of lies, every choice comes with a price. Daniel Walker seemed to have everything: a successful career, a loving wife, and dreams of a peaceful future. But after a devastating...

Sandra thought escaping her husband would save her life. She was wrong.When Sandra flees a violent marriage, she leaves behind everything she once called home. No plans. No guarantees. No safe place to run.What she does not know is that her husband, Nuel, a...

In the village of Kalinagar, people fear two things more than death-the temple belland the secrets hidden behind closed doors.Every Tuesday night, the bell rings.And by morning, someone is dead.As terror spreads through the rain-soaked village, whispers begin to surround Maya - a mysterious...

Some truths a town would rather not believe. On a gray autumn morning, the billionaire Charlie Ahlberg is found dead beneath the balcony of his own great hall. His young wife - the only other person in the house - sits beside the body,...

In Philadelphia, secrets do not stay buried forever. When Mello disappears, Detectives Jake Ryans and Hilary Wells step into a case that feels bigger than a missing man from the moment it opens. What begins as whispers around Drake's Place quickly turns into something...

Emma's marriage had gone quiet in all the wrong ways - so when a charming stranger turned up at her local bar, she invited him home for dinner, hoping for nothing more than a spark of something new.But Lucas isn't who he says he...

For generations, the people of Marlborough lived with rivers, storms, and the restless sea. They understood risk.But nothing prepared them for this.When a once-in-a-lifetime atmospheric river stalls over the top of the South Island, the sky doesn't just rain-it unleashes a relentless wall of...

He didn't mean to kill her. He chose not to save her.Liam lives for the quiet. He has spent his marriage trying to manage the noise of his wife, Ava-the half-finished projects, the spilled wine, the sprawling, unpredictable human mess of her. He just...

Lisa has lived a quiet life with her only son, Brian. One day, Brian brings home a new girlfriend, Marie, and Lisa has suspicions that she may not be the best choice for him and is attempting to derail his plans for the future....

The sweetest things are the most dangerous.Susan Crane grew up in foster homes, group homes, and borrowed bedrooms that were never intended to keep her. By fourteen, she understood the rules better than the adults around her: trust gets you hurt, attachment gets you...

The story follows Rösli, a reclusive, aging Basel police officer. He suffers from a painful knee, which he constantly cools with a wet towel. His refuge is the "Harmonie" tavern, where he is silently served white wine and cheese tart.Author: Lucian VexISBN-13: 9798198031753Publisher: Independently...

A daughter with the right name. A mother with the wrong memory. A dead baby no one was supposed to ask about.Eighteen years ago, six daughters were born during the storm that nearly swallowed Briar Lake.At least, that is the story everyone agreed to...

Connie meets Ben at a club.The interaction begins in the noise of the room-between people moving, drinks being poured, and conversations breaking and reforming.For Connie, interactions end the moment they stop. When she turns away, she is finished. When she stops responding, the exchange...

From the outside Victor and Veronica's marriage looks stable. A successful man. A maintained home. A routine that appears orderly and intact.Inside it, Victor sets the terms of that order.What gets discussed. What gets accounted for. What gets questioned-and what doesn't.Veronica learns how to...

Six years ago, Elena Vossman committed the perfect crime. In the quiet, affluent suburb of Willow Creek, she built the perfect life: a loving husband, a beautiful eight-year-old daughter, and a pristine home behind a white picket fence. Everyone believes her sister Claire's death...

Book DescriptionThe house doesn't mold you. It reveals who you already were.In the shadow of a perfect mansion, perfection is a death sentence and more, comes with a chilling psychological thriller that explores the dark side of obsession and the high price of a...

One Room. Three Queens. Steady Drama.University life was supposed to mean passing exams, splitting rent, surviving bad boyfriends, and laughing through the chaos. For Georgina, April, and Loveth, their shared apartment is more than a room-it is a refuge of loyalty, gossip, sharp tongues,...

Six daughters were born during the storm. Only five were supposed to be remembered.Eighteen years ago, a violent April storm knocked out power across Briar Lake. Inside Thorne Memorial Hospital, six prominent women gave birth while thunder shook the windows and the town's most...

I gave him my name, my silence, and my place in a life that was never truly mine. I stood beside him as he built his empire, watching him rise while I slowly disappeared into the background he never questioned.Then one day, he ended...

Christopher Cross thought his life was boring. Until the night he met Kitty March. She was young and beautiful, and everything his lonely miserable world wasn't. She saw something in him, something no one else ever had: a man worth wanting. But Kitty has...

Megan's son was abducted three years ago. Today, he's coming home.The boy looks right. He knows enough to convince the police and everyone who wants the story to be over.Megan tries to believe it, but the details don't fit.His habits are wrong. His memories...