Gerald's Game
Handcuffed to a bed after her husband dies, Jessie Burlingame faces thirst, a stray dog, and buried memories over 28 hours.
2,940-word summary · 13 min read
Tag: suspense
226 books with this tag.
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Den of Vipers
Handed to the four Vipers over her father's debt, Roxy fights to hold her ground in their guarded house and busy club in this long 2020 dark romance.
4,247-word summary · 19 min read
Billy Summers
A hitman takes one last job in Red Bluff, poses as a writer, and runs when the setup turns on him.
2,882-word summary · 13 min read
Watching You
A new wife in Bristol fixates on a charismatic neighbor while a teen boy logs every move before a murder.
2,363-word summary · 11 min read
The Rainmaker
Broke rookie Rudy Baylor sues an insurer over a denied transplant and faces Leo Drummond at trial.
3,040-word summary · 14 min read
The Guardian
Widowed at twenty-five, Julie Barenson leans on a Great Dane named Singer, then dates two men and learns one of them is a killer.
2,221-word summary · 10 min read
The Good Daughter
Twenty eight years after a home invasion shattered her family, a lawyer witnesses a school shooting that reopens old wounds.
2,505-word summary · 11 min read
Not a Happy Family
After a bitter Easter dinner, Fred and Sheila Merton are found dead and their three adult children each hold a motive.
3,764-word summary · 17 min read
Night Shift
King's first story collection moves from haunted mills to killer cornfields, twenty early tales where ordinary places turn evil.
2,488-word summary · 11 min read
Listen for the Lie
Lucy Chase cannot remember the night her best friend Savvy died in Plumpton, Texas, until a true crime podcast pulls her back.
2,160-word summary · 10 min read
Flock
Nineteen-year-old Cecelia trades a year in Triple Falls for her mother future and falls for two men hiding the Ravenhood secret.
2,997-word summary · 13 min read
The Wives
A woman who sees her husband only on Thursdays tracks down his other wives and learns her marriage is not what she believed.
2,454-word summary · 11 min read
The Kind Worth Killing
A plane seat chat about murder becomes a pact, then a game where no one tells the full truth.
2,080-word summary · 9 min read
The Golden Couple
A cheating wife, a watchful husband, and a rule-breaking therapist collide in a marriage repair that hides stalking, a vanished woman, and a murder plot.
2,677-word summary · 12 min read
Something in the Water
Honeymoon divers find a bag of cash and diamonds at sea, then lie until lies cost more.
1,943-word summary · 9 min read
Final Girls
A survivor of a cabin massacre tries to live normally until another Final Girl dies and a second one shows up at her door.
2,176-word summary · 10 min read
Daisy Darker
A family gathers on a tidal island for an 80th birthday and someone starts killing to a nursery rhyme.
1,917-word summary · 9 min read
Sometimes I Lie
Radio host Amber wakes in a coma, able to hear but not move. Her husband may not love her, and three timelines close in.
2,399-word summary · 11 min read
Lock Every Door
Broke Jules apartment sits at the Bartholomew where another sitter vanished.
2,224-word summary · 10 min read
Ward D
A med student hides her own psych past while working a locked night shift where meds vanish and doors open.
2,042-word summary · 9 min read
The Night She Disappeared
Two teen moms vanish one night, and two years later a writer finds notes in the woods.
1,993-word summary · 9 min read
The It Girl
Ten years after April murder at Oxford, new claims of innocence force pregnant Hannah to rethink friends.
2,015-word summary · 9 min read
The Good Girl
Taken from a bar, Mia vanishes into a snowy cabin winter while police read absences.
2,017-word summary · 9 min read