The Thrill List: New Reads That’ll Raise Your Pulse

17 Oct 2025

The Thrill List: New Reads That’ll Raise Your Pulse

Each book on this list delivers unforgettable tension, clever plotting, and emotional punch. You’ll finish one and immediately want to share it. This is your next reading streak.

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The Sinisterhood of Celebrity Psyclones: The Curious Case of the Swish Swiss Finishing School (The Prendergast of The Yard Casebooks)

by Em Thompson

Release Date: September 24, 2025

Wannabe detective Heather Prendergast is forced to put her ambitions on hold when she’s pressured into attending a Swiss finishing school for aristocratic young ladies. She soon discovers sinister forces at work—determined to finish her off—permanently. Part dark cozy crime, part satire, part Gothic horror.

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The Black Rose

by Frances Paul

Release Date: October 14, 2025

She was made to kill. He was never meant to be her target. But Axel Voss isn’t just a billionaire powerbroker—he’s temptation. One touch threatens to unravel everything she’s been trained to be. She is the weapon. He is the variable. And obsession may cost them both everything.

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A Bloody Banquet (Stone & Steele Mysteries Book 2)

by Gail Meath

Release Date: October 10, 2025

Now you see a murder—now you don’t. During the Golden Age of Hollywood, 1938, widowed fashion designer Vivian Steele reluctantly teams up with notorious playboy Preston Stone to stop a killer who has mastered the art of illusion—and set his sights on two Oscar-winning stars—an exciting, star-studded cozy thriller, perfect as a series or standalone.

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Betrayal of Trust (Brad Parker and Karen Richmond Medical Thrillers)

by Geoffrey M Cooper

Release Date: October 7, 2025

A clinical investigator’s murder is believed to be revenge for the harassment of female students until the murder of a second researcher forces detectives to consider other motives. When the killer strikes a third time, Professor Brad Parker thinks he’s figured it out and sets a trap for the killer, or does he fall into the killer’s trap instead?

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The Last One to Die

by Terri Greening

Release Date: October 14, 2025

Faron Chevalier, a wealthy young widow, tries to move on from her husband’s unsolved murder by retreating to a lakeside town where suspicion and danger lurk in the shadows of the wilderness. Gripping and suspenseful to the very end.

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The Tourists (Mac Dekker Book 2)

by Christopher Reich

Release Date: October 14, 2025

Retired special agent Mac Dekker travels to Paris to propose to Ava Attal, once Mossad’s deadliest operative. After too long, life is good. But before he can propose, Ava leaves the table to take an urgent call. And never returns. Mac launches a frantic search, spiraling through the city’s brightest and darkest places. People are lying, agents are dying, and he finds himself caught in the crosshairs of CIA shadows and enigmatic assassins while battling a wealthy, ruthless prince planning a truly terrifying act of violence.

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