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Such a Bad Influence. By Olivia Muenter. June 2024. 336p. Quirk, $24.99 (9781683694014); e-book (9781683694021). In her debut, Muenter confronts influencer culture and the world of social media. Told from [...]

One Big Happy Family. By Jamie Day. July 2024. 368p. St. Martin's, $29 (9781250283207); e-book (9781250283276). Day's sophomore novel (after The Block Party, 2023) is an Agatha Christie-style locked-room mystery [...]

She's Not Sorry. By Mary Kubica. Apr. 2024. 329p. Park Row, $30 (9780778308065); e-book (9780369746948). Kubica's ninth thriller (after Just the Nicest Couple, 2023) is twisty, addictive, and bingeable. In [...]

The Resort. By Sara Ochs. Feb. 2024. 384p. Sourcebooks/Landmark, $26.99 (9781728279558); e-book (9781728279565). Welcome to paradise, indeed. Och's debut vacation thriller is set on the idyllic and remote island of [...]

Two Dead Wives. By Adele Parks. Dec. 2023. 368p. MIRA, paper, $18.99 (9780778333579); e-book (9780369732880). Parks' sequel to Woman Last Seen (2021) is an atmospheric domestic-suspense thriller that takes place [...]

Death of a Bookseller. By Alice Slater. Apr. 2023. 368p. Penzler/Scarlet, $26.95 (9781613163771). Brogan Roach is a bookseller and true-crime junkie who enjoys listening to her favorite podcast, The Murder [...]

Young Rich Widows. By Vanessa Lillie and others. Apr. 2024. 352p. Sourcebooks/Landmark, paper, $16.99 (9781728294018); e-book (9781728294025). Young Rich Wives is a fun, campy thriller that will have readers laughing [...]

The Housemate. By Sarah Bailey. Mar. 2023.400p. Polis, $27.99 (9781951709969); e-book (9781957957265). Australian Bailey, best-selling author of the Gemma Woodstock trilogy--The Dark Lake (2017), Into the Night (2018), and Where [...]

The Bachelorette Party. By Carissa Ann Lynch. Nov. 2023. 352p. One More Chapter, paper, $18.99 (9780008551438); e-book (9780008551421). Get ready to travel to the French Quarter for a wild weekend. [...]

Five Bad Deeds. By Caz Frear. Dec. 2023. 352p. Harper, $30 (9780063091108); paper, $18.99 (9780063091115); e-book (9780063091122). What will a mother do to protect her daughter? Ellen and Adam Walsh [...]

It Takes Monsters. By Mandy McHugh. Oct. 2023. 312p. Scarlet, paper, $17.95 (9781613164440). McHugh's dark, disturbing, and twisty sophomore thriller (after Chloe Cates Is Missing, 2022) features rich and privileged [...]

The Girls Who Disappeared. By Claire Douglas. Jan. 2023.384P. Harper, paper, $17.99 (9780063277410); e-book (9780063277434). What would you do to protect the ones you love? That's the question posed in [...]

What the Neighbors Saw. By Melissa Adelman. June 2023.304p. Minotaur, $28 (9781250876560); e-book (9781250876577). Appearances can be deceiving! In Adelman's domestic suspense debut, Alexis and Sam are ready to move [...]

* The Swell. By Allie Reynolds. July 2022.368p. Putnam, $27 (9780593187876); e-book, $14.99 (9780593187883). Surf's up! Reynolds (Shiver, 2021) swaps snowboards for surfboards in her second novel. Kenna Ward takes [...]

The Drowning Sea. By Sarah Stewart Taylor. June 2022. 352p. Minotaur, $27.99 (9781250826657); e-book, $14.99 (9781250826664). The Maggie D'arcy detective series continues with this third installment. After resigning from her [...]

The Lying Club. By Annie Ward. Mar. 2022. 352p. Park Row, $16.99 (9780778389408); e-book, $12.99 (9781488073939). Ward, author of Beautiful Bad (2019), returns with a dark and disturbing sophomore thriller. [...]

It Ends at Midnight. By Harriet Tyce. Feb. 2023. 320p. Sourcebooks/Landmark, $27.99 (9781728263847); e-book (9781728263861). As the clock strikes midnight on New Year's Eve, two partygoers are found dead, impaled [...]

* What Lies in the Woods. By Kate Alice Marshall. Jan. 2023.336p. Flatiron, $28.99 (9781250859884); e-book (9781250859907). In her debut adult thriller, YA and middle-grade author Marshall explores the complicated [...]

The Innocent One. By Lisa Ballantyne. Nov. 2022.352P. Pegasus, $26.95 (9781639362547); e-book, $11.99 (9781639362554). In Ballantyne's follow-up to the critically acclaimed The Guilty One (2012), 10 years have passed since [...]

The Only Child. By Kayte Nunn. Sept. 2022. 312p. Penzler/Scarlet, $26.95 (9781613163429). Following The Last Reunion (2021), Nunn explores the theme of abandonment in this Gothic-infused thriller set on an [...]

Murder on the Vine. By Camilla Trinchieri. Sept. 2022. 336p. Soho, $27.95 (9781641293662); e-book, $14.99 (9781641293679) Trinchieri's Tuscan Mystery series continues with this third installment, following The Bitter Taste of [...]

One of the Girls. By Lucy Clarke. June 2022.432p. Putnam, $27 (9780593422649). Lexi, a former dancer and newbie yoga instructor, is finally ready to settle down and get married. What [...]

Adult BooksThe Other MothersKatherine Faulkner (Gallery Books)Choose your friends wisely! Tasha needs to jump start her journalism career, so when a nanny turns up dead in a neighboring community, she begins to investigate. She enrolls her son in school and becomes friendly with the other mothers. Exploring class and motherhood, this clever, twisty plot alternates between the nanny's past and Tasha's present narration of events.—Jayme Oldham, Highland Park Public Library, IL NoveList read-alike: Mother of All Secrets by Kathleen WilletPHOTO (COLOR)Jayme Oldham, Highland Park Public Library, IL [Extracted from the article]