Your 34 Suspenseful Page-Turners for Summer Reading
This Riot Recommendation of suspenseful page-turners for summer reading is sponsored by Everything That Follows by Meg Little Reilly.
Three friends take their partying from bar to boat on a misty fall evening. Just as the weather deteriorates, one of them suddenly goes overboard. Is it an accident? The result of an unwanted advance? For fans of Megan Abbott and Chris Bohjalian comes a novel of moral complexity about friends who must choose between self-preservation and doing the right thing in the wake of a fatal boating accident. Set in the moody off-season of Martha’s Vineyard, Everything That Follows is a plunge into the dark waters of secrets and flexible morals. The truth becomes whatever we say it is…
I have to believe that summer is coming. There is no empirical evidence to support that belief as I get bundled up this mid-April morning, but I’m doing everything I can to keep hope alive. One day soon, I’ll be sitting by the pool, silently cursing the kids who are running on the deck and splashing water on my hardcover. What suspenseful page-turner will be in my hands? You offered your suggestions, and here are just some of them: Perfect Days by Raphael Montes Sunburn by Laura Lippman The Woman in the Window by A. J. Finn The Perfect Nanny by Leïla Slimani The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough A Stranger in the House by Shari LePena The Trespasser by Tana French The River at Night by Erica Ferencik The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen Among the Ruins by Ausma Zehanat Khan A Quiet Place by Seicho Matsumoto The Girls in the Garden by Lisa Jewell Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke The Vanishing Season by Joanna Schaffhausen If You Knew Her by Emily Elgar After Anna by Alex Lake Security by Gina Wohlsdorf The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine The Elizas by Sara Shepard The Kingdom by Fuminori Nakamura The Language of Secrets by Ausma Zehanet Khan All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage Evelyn, After by Victoria Helen Stone Bellevue Square by Michael Redhill Confessions by Kanae Minato Almost Missed You by Jessica Strawser Kill the Next One by Federico Axat Dear Mr. M. by Herman Koch Anatomy of a Scandal by Sarah Vaughan A Small Revolution by Jimin Han Everything You Want Me to Be by Mindy Mejia The Trophy Child by Paula Daly
Three friends take their partying from bar to boat on a misty fall evening. Just as the weather deteriorates, one of them suddenly goes overboard. Is it an accident? The result of an unwanted advance? For fans of Megan Abbott and Chris Bohjalian comes a novel of moral complexity about friends who must choose between self-preservation and doing the right thing in the wake of a fatal boating accident. Set in the moody off-season of Martha’s Vineyard, Everything That Follows is a plunge into the dark waters of secrets and flexible morals. The truth becomes whatever we say it is…
I have to believe that summer is coming. There is no empirical evidence to support that belief as I get bundled up this mid-April morning, but I’m doing everything I can to keep hope alive. One day soon, I’ll be sitting by the pool, silently cursing the kids who are running on the deck and splashing water on my hardcover. What suspenseful page-turner will be in my hands? You offered your suggestions, and here are just some of them: Perfect Days by Raphael Montes Sunburn by Laura Lippman The Woman in the Window by A. J. Finn The Perfect Nanny by Leïla Slimani The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough A Stranger in the House by Shari LePena The Trespasser by Tana French The River at Night by Erica Ferencik The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen Among the Ruins by Ausma Zehanat Khan A Quiet Place by Seicho Matsumoto The Girls in the Garden by Lisa Jewell Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke The Vanishing Season by Joanna Schaffhausen If You Knew Her by Emily Elgar After Anna by Alex Lake Security by Gina Wohlsdorf The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine The Elizas by Sara Shepard The Kingdom by Fuminori Nakamura The Language of Secrets by Ausma Zehanet Khan All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage Evelyn, After by Victoria Helen Stone Bellevue Square by Michael Redhill Confessions by Kanae Minato Almost Missed You by Jessica Strawser Kill the Next One by Federico Axat Dear Mr. M. by Herman Koch Anatomy of a Scandal by Sarah Vaughan A Small Revolution by Jimin Han Everything You Want Me to Be by Mindy Mejia The Trophy Child by Paula Daly