Page-Turners You'll Tear Through
Warning: These new books will keep you out of the pool, hiding under the beach umbrella and then up all night to finish. 
Original Content | July 03, 2012
Jo Nesbø
400 pages
Former-policeman Harry Hole returns to Oslo with one purpose: to find Gusto Hannsen's killer. The only problem? The murder is already solved, and the murderer—Oleg, the son of Harry's ex-lover—is behind bars. But Hole's intuition tells him Oleg is innocent.
Frank Tallis
386 pages
Vienna, 1903: Ida Rosenkranz, beloved young opera star, is found dead and Dr. Max Liebermann, a psychiatrist, is called in to assist his friend Detective Inspector Oskar Reinhardt in the investigation.
Alice LaPlante
320 pages
A literary thriller narrated by a surgeon suspected of killing her best friend. The twist: She has dementia and doesn't know if she did it.
Liza Klaussmann
368 pages
In this enthralling novel, two cousins, both dealing with husband issues, reunite at the family beach estate. But the discovery of a murdered girl makes for a less than relaxing vacation.
Laura Lippman
352 pages
You may not want to go home again, but sometimes you have no choice.
Mark Seal
336 pages
A tale of love, money, and one of the world's greatest cons.
Rosamund Lupton
336 pages
A British best-selling thriller comes stateside.
Erin Kelly
336 pages
Everything we love in a thriller—obsessive passion, haunting secrets, a shocking ending—is here, set among the creepily atmospheric ruins of a 16th-century English garden.
Carol Anshaw
272 pages
A wedding reception, a carful of drunken guests, a girl killed on the side of the road—so begins a novel spanning 25 years of a family's haunted life.
Heidi Julavits
304 pages
"This is not just a story about how you can become sick by knowing people. This is a story about how other people can become sick by knowing you," says Julie Severn, the young narrator of Heidi Julavits's new novel—one in which paranormal powers are taken as (somewhat) normal.
Joyce Carol Oates
448 pages
This chilling novel opens with a child left to die in a silty riverbed, a memory that no amount of later life success can erase.
Amanda Coe
256 pages
The girls in Amanda Coe's gripping and disturbing novel, What They Do in the Dark (Norton), are anything but sheltered. Set in a gritty Yorkshire town in the 1970s, the story's plot centers on the budding relationship—friendship would be too benign a word—between 10-year-old classmates Gemma and Pauline.
Jennifer Miller
384 pages
In this engrossing novel, a would-be journalist unearths scandalous secrets at her prep school with the help of a famous reporter's ghost.
Wiley Cash
320 pages
A literary thriller about a boy who tries to protect his autistic brother from religious zealotry.
William Boyd
368 pages
A man's passionate secret lover crying rape is just one of the plot twists in this smart novel set in Europe on the cusp of World War I.
Buzz Bissinger
256 pages
When his boy Zach was born, on one "suffocating" August day in 1983, Buzz Bissinger "just felt like walking away." The younger (by three minutes) of twins born 13 and a half weeks premature, Zach was severely mentally disabled, and his father, a journalist who would one day find fame with Friday Night Lights, could hardly handle it.
Hillary Jordan
352 pages
With a nod to The Scarlet Letter, this chilling futuristic novel is set in a punitive society where a convict's skin is color-coded according to her crime. Our heroine gets red, for murder.
Adam Johnson
464 pages
Set in North Korea, this literary thriller about a man who dares to seek freedom from the repressive regime is ambitious, violent, audacious—and stunningly good.
Corban Addison
384 pages
An American lawyer takes on ruthless traffickers in India to save two orphaned teenage sisters from prostitution. A pulse-revving novel with a serious message.
Nancy Bilyeau
416 pages
The spirited young nun at the center of Nancy Bilyeau's expansive novel of political treachery, The Crown, is the very definition of an accidental heroine.
Gillian Flynn
432 pages
A small-town melodrama.
J.I. Baker
336 pages
Marilyn Monroe is dead...by suicide. So why does all the evidence suggest that she was murdered?
Oliver Pötzsch
512 pages
If you enjoy an unlikely hero, look no further.
Richard Lloyd Parry
464 pages
A real-life tale of rape and murder.
Zoë Ferraris
368 pages
A new case for a favorite female forensics expert.
Therese Bohman
224 pages
Most thrillers conclude by exposing a killer. Drowned, on the other hand, ends with a larger, more upsetting truth: how we expose ourselves.
Ron Rash
272 pages
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