https://pithybooks.com/tags/suspense/ Latest Pithy Books summaries tagged “suspense”. en Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:12:09 GMT https://pithybooks.com/books/1st-to-die/ https://pithybooks.com/books/1st-to-die/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Lindsay, Claire, Cindy and Jill hunt a honeymoon killer terrorizing San Francisco. https://pithybooks.com/books/before-i-go-to-sleep/ https://pithybooks.com/books/before-i-go-to-sleep/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Christine wakes each day with no memory, and her secret journal reveals her husband lies. https://pithybooks.com/books/hidden-pictures/ https://pithybooks.com/books/hidden-pictures/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nanny Mallory sees Teddy drawings predict a murder in New Jersey. https://pithybooks.com/books/in-a-dark-dark-wood/ https://pithybooks.com/books/in-a-dark-dark-wood/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Writer Nora joins hen party Clare in glass house where a murder happens. https://pithybooks.com/books/mr-mercedes/ https://pithybooks.com/books/mr-mercedes/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Retired Hodges hunts Mercedes killer Brady Hartsfield concert plot. https://pithybooks.com/books/red-dragon/ https://pithybooks.com/books/red-dragon/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Graham consults Lecter to catch Tooth Fairy Dolarhyde. https://pithybooks.com/books/safe-haven/ https://pithybooks.com/books/safe-haven/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Katie hides in Southport from a violent husband and falls for widower Alex. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-coworker/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-coworker/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT When odd accountant Dawn vanishes, star salesperson Natalie becomes the prime suspect in a tense office thriller with turtles, lies and revenge. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-last-mrs-parrish/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-last-mrs-parrish/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT A con artist targets a rich wife, then the marriage game turns with a hidden past. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-locked-door/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-locked-door/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Surgeon Nora Davis hides serial killer father while patients die. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-maidens/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-maidens/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Therapist Mariana hunts Cambridge professor Edward Fosca after a Maidens murder. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-only-one-left/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-only-one-left/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Caregiver Kit tends mute Lenora Hope accused of 1929 family murders. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-push/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-push/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Blythe fears daughter Violet is dangerous while husband Fox doubts her. https://pithybooks.com/books/hunting-adeline/ https://pithybooks.com/books/hunting-adeline/ Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Trafficked and caged, Adeline fights back while Zade tears the underworld apart to find her. https://pithybooks.com/books/into-the-water/ https://pithybooks.com/books/into-the-water/ Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT A drowning pool, eleven narrators, and sisters divided in Hawkins's murky second thriller. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-lost-apothecary/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-lost-apothecary/ Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT A hidden 1791 apothecary poisons cruel men, and two centuries later an historian uncovers her trail. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-wife-between-us/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-wife-between-us/ Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT A jealous ex-wife stalks her replacement, but nothing in this marriage is what it seems. https://pithybooks.com/books/a-flicker-in-the-dark/ https://pithybooks.com/books/a-flicker-in-the-dark/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Psychologist Chloe Davis faces copycat disappearances in Baton Rouge twenty years after her father confessed to murders. https://pithybooks.com/books/along-came-a-spider/ https://pithybooks.com/books/along-came-a-spider/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Detective Alex Cross hunts Gary Soneji after two children vanish from a Washington school and a Lindbergh echo grows. https://pithybooks.com/books/nine-perfect-strangers/ https://pithybooks.com/books/nine-perfect-strangers/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nine guests enter Tranquillum House for ten days while director Masha hides smoothies and motives.