Riley Sager kicks off fall’s thriller season with a gothic puzzle box: five mediums vanish from a Vermont commune in 1926, leaving only empty dresses and a diary behind. A century later, an actress cast to play one of the missing women starts noticing the story bending toward her own fate. It’s vintage Sager — atmospheric, twisty, and built to be read in one sitting.
Read the full story →Barstool’s “Pardon My Take” built an empire on sports takes and pure chaos — now hosts Dan Katz and Eric Sollenberger are turning a decade of bits into a book. Our review digs into whether the irreverence that works in podcast form survives the jump to the page.
Read more →Colleen Hoover’s psychological thriller keeps finding new readers years after its release. Our review breaks down why the premise — a novelist finishing a dead author’s series, armed with a manuscript that shouldn’t exist — still unsettles.
Read more →Karin Slaughter opens a new series with two teenage girls vanishing on a Fourth of July night in small-town Georgia. Our review calls it some of her most unsettling work yet — proof the “safe small town” premise never gets old in her hands.
Read more →- Theo of Golden by Allen Levi — a quiet, mysterious stranger with more generosity than a small Southern town knows what to do with.
- Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke — a tradwife influencer’s curated life becomes a literal trap in this entertaining debut thriller.
- Lights Out by Navessa Allen — a late-night, liquor-fueled text spirals into obsession in this dark romance.
| The Unknown |  Pardon My Book |  Yesteryear |
 Theo of Golden |  Verity |  We Are All Guilty Here |
 Lights Out |
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