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Megan Miranda, bestselling author of All the Missing Girls has said that "The River at Night is both a haunting, twisting thrill-ride through the Maine wilderness, and a story of friendship, humanity, and the will to survive. Terrifyingly real and impossible to put down.“
Learn more about Erica Ferencik’s The River at Night!
From New York Times bestselling author of the “twisty-mystery” (Vulture) novel In a Dark, Dark Wood, comes The Woman in Cabin 10, an equally suspenseful and haunting novel from Ruth Ware—this time, set at sea.
“If you love thrillers, you know what I’m talking about. While some books are meant to be savored, others are meant to keep you up long after you should have dozed off. Some books are meant to be re-read again and again with thorough analysis, while thrillers are often about the excitement of that first read.”
Happy Friday, Bookworms! Here’s what the team at Simon & Schuster Canada is reading.
Alexandra, Marketing Assistant: A.J. Banner’s The
Twilight Wife is a psychological suspense thriller that will leave you
reassessing who you can trust when you don’t even know who you are. Since winter finally seems to have found Toronto, it’s the perfect read for a weekend spent curled up inside!
Holley, Publicity Assistant: Feminist Fight Club by Jessica Bennett is an insightful guide full of so many great tips to help anyone feel empowered. It’s a great girl power read that promotes self-confidence and inner strength. Very enjoyable read and a great thing to talk about!
Female-Driven Urban Fantasy: A Reading List
Fans of the genre know that the best urban fantasy novels contain a mix of adventure, paranormal, romance, suspense, and (of course) fantasy. The novels below have all that and much more. Check out the list for some essential reads featuring female leads.
Owl and the City of Angels/Kristi Charish
Hailed as a modern-day “Indiana Jane”, antiquities thief Owl must head to one of the most volatile regions of the world to break into a heavily guarded archaeological site. Why, you ask? To stop the resurrection of an undead army set on the invasion of Los Angeles. Duh.
Perfect for fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Indiana Jones, Owl and the City of Angels has it all—adventure, drama, fantasy, and sass.
The Drafter/Kim Harrison
Detroit 2030. Double-crossed by the person she loved and betrayed by the covert government organization that trained her to use her body as a weapon, Peri Reed is a renegade on the run. She is a drafter, possessed of a rare, invaluable skill for altering time, yet destined to forget both the history she changed and the history she rewrote. When Peri discovers her name is on a list of corrupt operatives, she realizes that her own life has been manipulated by the agency.
The Bourne Identity meets Minority Report in this first highly anticipated installment in #1 New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison’s new suspense trilogy.
Dreams of Shreds and Tatters/ Amanda Downum
When Liz Drake’s best friend vanishes, nothing can stop her nightmares. Driven by the certainty he needs her help, she crosses a continent to search for him. This is Lovecraftian urban fantasy, but with all the worst excesses taken out.
Summer is the season for adrenaline pumping thrillers and brain teasing mysteries. We are certain you will never feel safe again after reading your way through this roundup:
Finders Keepers by Stephen King
King returns to the theme of what can go wrong when an author meets their number one fan in this blood chilling novel that is perfect for reading with a flashlight under your covers. Finders Keepers explores the consequences of idolization, the depths of obsession, and power of literature to shape lives for good… or for evil.
Kick Lannigan has a very particular set of skills. Abducted at five years old and trained as a marksman, lock picker, escape artist and bomb maker by her captor life never really went back to normal after her release. Spending most of her life training to keep safe, Kick is pulled into danger once more when someone starts abducting kids and a mysterious former weapons dealer wants Kick to track them down.
Homicide detective Alexandra “Hemi” Hemingway is caught in the middle of New York City’s blistering heat wave and the deadly designs of one sadistic serial killer. This book will throw twist after twist at you and have you looking over your shoulder and friends and strangers alike.
Ghost whispering Inspector Ricardo Ramirez is back and this time he is confronted with a string of murdered prostitutes from Cuba to Canada. A body of a woman in a Northern Ontario First Nations Reserve is found with the same MO. Can Ramirez hunt down this international killer?
A Good Killing by Allison Leotta
This legal thriller explores how deep the bonds of sisterhood can go. Prosecutor Anna Curtis returns to her hometown to support her sister Jody who is being accused of murdering their old high school coach, a local hero. As she investigates the charges Anna doesn’t expect to uncover a web of lies running so deep there might be no one in town she can trust, especially not Jody.
The Butcher by Jennifer Hiller
When Max discovers the one thing his grandfather is trying to outrun will he go to the police or take matters into his own hands? The Butcher has it all: grisly family secrets, ramshackle Victorian houses, the darkest of humour, and a delve deep inside the psyche of a killer. Morbid fascination and masterful storytelling will keep you turning pages long into the night.
Waiting on Wednesday: The Hand That Feeds You by A.J. Rich
We CANNOT wait for this new novel from acclaimed literary writers Amy Hempel and Montreal-born Jill Ciment writing as A.J. Rich!
Morgan Russell, thirty, comes home to her apartment in Brooklyn to a gruesome scene: her fiancé Bennett brutally killed, and her dogs covered in blood.
Distraught and bewildered, Morgan’s grieving process is interrupted when she learns the authorities have no records of her fiancé. After doing some investigating of her own, Morgan discovers that Bennett was not the man he said he was and that the grisly murder at her apartment may just have been the start.
ALSO, what makes this story even more intriguing is that the novel is inspired by the writers’ friend and author Kathy Rich who was involved in a similar situation—a man who proposed marriaged but turned out not to be who he said he was.
Perfect for fans of
- Before I Go To Sleep by S.J. Watson
- Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
- The Bullet by Mary Louise Kelly
The Hand That Feeds You comes out July 7th, 2015.
Two words: The bullet.
That’s all it takes to shatter Caroline Cashion’s life.
After an MRI, she learns she has a bullet lodged at the base of her skull. It makes no sense: she has never been shot. She has no entry wound. No scar.
Read an excerpt from Mary Louise Kelly’s The Bullet, a chilling novel of heart-pounding suspense.
No one reads the fine print. Maybe it’s time you should.
The good news is that the USA is finally out of debt. The bad news is that they were bought out by Valor National Bank, and debtors are the new big game, thanks to a tricky little clause hidden deep in the fine print of a credit card application. What’s the clause? You don’t pay, you die.
This fantastic new YA novel from Delilah S. Dawson offers a scary glimpse at a reality just steps away from ours. Read an excerpt (x).