27 New Thrillers You Need to Have on Your Radar This Summer

Jennifer Donaldson's Lies You Never Told Me will give you Fatal Attraction and Pretty Little Liars vibes as it weaves a twisted story about the unforeseen consequences two high school students — Gabe and Elyse — face when they fall in love with the wrong people.

Out May 29.

Bill Clinton and James Patterson's The President Is Missing is a realistic political thriller that takes place over the course of three tense days, during which rumors of cyberterror and espionage threaten to dismantle the US democracy as a whole — especially once the president himself disappears.

Out June 4.

In Still Lives, Maria Hummel serves up a delightfully twisted story about an avant-garde, feminist artist who disappears on the night her latest exhibit — which is a collection of self-portraits where she's dressed as famous, murdered women — and the art gallery editor who sets out to find out where she is.

Out June 5.

Emily Giffin's irresistible All We Ever Wanted will sink its teeth into you immediately and refuse to let go until the novel's thrilling conclusion. Giffin's latest novel follows the entangled lives of three troubled people — a wealthy Nashville housewife, a struggling single dad, and his teenage daughter — and explores how one fateful night changes the course of their worlds forever.

Out June 26.

B.A. Paris is back with another twisted psychological thriller. In Bring Me Back, Finn and Layla are a young and in-love couple enjoying their vacation when Layla suddenly vanishes. Ten years later, Finn has finally found love again, but he can't shake the feeling that his new fiancée — Layla's sister — is hiding something sinister.

Out June 19.

What would happen if everyone at your lavish Nantucket wedding was suddenly a murder suspect? That's what Elin Hilderbrand imagines in The Perfect Couple, which is yet another page-turner from the queen of Summer reads. Also, keep your eyes peeled for appearances from The Castaways, Beautiful Day, and A Summer Affair in The Perfect Couple.

Out June 19.

Remember that Cameron Diaz rom-com The Other Woman, where three women team up to take down the man who's wronged them all? Well, Jo Jakeman's The Exes' Revenge is like that, only way darker (and with less shirtless Taylor Kinney, unfortunately): when Imogen's messy divorce to her abusive husband, Phillip, pushes her to the edge, she ends up uniting with his ex-wife and new girlfriend to take revenge. Hell hath no fury like THREE women scorned.

Out Sept. 11

Somebody's Daughter, by David Bell, takes place over the course of one fateful night when Michael discovers that his ex-wife, Erica, has been hiding a 10-year-old daughter from him all along — and now she's missing. Together they journey down a dangerous path to find their daughter, uncovering painful secrets along the way.

Out July 10.

Award-winning author Hank Phillippi Ryan no doubt draws inspiration from her career as an investigative reporter in Trust Me, which explores the unlikely — and potentially sinister — relationship that blossoms between a grieving journalist and an accused murderer who insists she's innocent. What results is a tense cat and mouse game bubbling over with psychological suspense.

Out Aug. 28.

All These Beautiful Strangers begins with a chilling premise: Grace Fairchild, the beautiful wife of a real estate mogul, vanishes without a trace from their lake house, leaving behind her young daughter, Charlie, to pick up the pieces. Ten years later, Charlie is desperate to escape her family's dark legacy and joining her school's elite secret society. The hazing process involves participating in a "diabolical high-stakes scavenger hunt" that threatens to destroy the life she's worked so hard to piece back together since her mother's disappearance, putting everything she holds dear at risk.

Out July 10.

Number one New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva is back with another spy thriller, The Other Woman, which expertly blends themes of espionage, love, and betrayal. The story centers around Gabriel Allon, an assassin working as the chief of Israel's secret intelligence service, as he attempts to unravel a conspiracy involving Russia's KGB and a mole with the power to bring the world crashing down.

Out July 17.

In the electrifying Double Blind, Iris and Roy Johansen introduce us to Kendra Michaels, a formerly blind woman who now uses her heightened powers of observation to help law enforcement agencies solve cases. Unfortunately, the latest case is one that hits close to home for Kendra . . . literally: a young woman is murdered a few blocks from Kendra's condo while carrying an envelope with her name on it, with a clue for who a mysterious killer plans on abducting next inside. Can Kendra stop them before it's too late?

Out July 17.

Ellison Cooper's Caged is perfect for anyone who finds themselves watching Criminal Minds reruns every weekend. The mesmerizing novel tracks FBI neuroscientist Sayer Altair as she tries to solve the heinous murder of a senator's daughter before the killer, who might be closer than Sayer realizes, claims another victim.

Out July 10.

Nora Watts, who was first introduced in The Lost Ones, returns in Sheena Kamal's It All Falls Down as she tries to unpack a mystery surrounding the violent death of her father years earlier — was it truly a suicide, as she's always believed, or something more?

Out July 3.

Although James A. McLaughlin's Bearskin might make you swear off camping for the rest of your life, it's spectacular enough to make the loss of any future forest-based vacations worth it. The compelling novel will assault all five senses as it drags you into the life of Rice Moore, who escaped dangerous Mexican drug cartels by finding a job protecting a remote forest preserve in Virginia. When a run-in with bear poachers threatens to blow up his new life, Rice partners with a scientist in hopes of saving everyone (yes, including the bears).

Out Jun 12.

Megan Abbott, the Edgar Award-winning author of Dare Me, brings us a novel about a complicated (and possibly fatal) friendship between two competitive women in Give Me Your Hand. When Kit and Diane meet in high school chemistry class they forge an unlikely friendship, but before long their bond is derailed when Diane shares a shocking secret. Years later, Kit is completely blindsided when the friend she thought she escaped from forever not only reappears in her life, but is also gunning for Kit's job.

Out July 17.

Weirdly enough, Catherine Steadman's novel about a vacation gone very, very wrong ends up being the perfect beach read. Something in the Water transports us to the crystal clear oceans of Bora Bora, where a couple's tropical honeymoon takes a devastating turn when they spot something deeply disturbing on a scuba diving outing. Should they speak up, or let it go? Unreliable characters and a plot packed with twists will keep you guessing until the final, thrilling page.

Out June 5.

R.O. Kwon's The Incendiaries will make you dizzy with its powerful prose as it introduces us to a grief-stricken Korean-American student at an elite American university who finds herself drawn into acts of domestic terrorism by an extremist religious cult. When she disappears following a deadly bombing, another student who's in love with her, Will, devotes his life to finding out where she is. Although The Incendiaries isn't a breezy beach read, its heartbreaking and gut-wrenching meditations on the extremes human beings will push themselves to when they lose the thing they love most will stick with you long after you finish.

Out July 31.

The twists in The Good Son, written by You-Jeong Jeong, pack such a powerful punch that you'll repeatedly be left with your jaw hanging open as you read (seriously). The did-he-or-didn't-he thriller serves up similarities to The Bad Seed as it unravels the mystery of the death of a woman who may or may not have been viciously murdered by her own son, Yu-jin. The catch? He has barely any memories of the night his mother died in their home, despite being there the whole time. Yu-jin races to sift through the unreliable memories floating around his own head, which all seem to point toward a tragic, deeply disturbing conclusion.

Out June 5.

Hidden by Kelli Clare is a gripping romantic thriller about a small-town art teacher whose dashing new boyfriend might be the same man who murdered her sister and grandmother. If you weren't scared of Tinder already . . .

Out June 5.

Lisa Jewell's Watching You takes the idea of obsession to chilling heights when a woman moves home after four years abroad and finds herself enthralled with an older man next door. As her crush becomes all-consuming, she's eventually forced to confront a terrifying question: what if she's not the only one who's obsessed?

Out July 12.

You's Caroline Kepnes has another hypnotic thriller for you to get your hands on. In Providence, Chloe and Jon's friendship is so intense that they're unquestionably soulmates, but that all changes when Jon is kidnapped and disappears for four years. When he miraculously returns with no memory of his time away, he discovers he now possesses powers that present a horrifying threat to the ones he loves. In an effort to protect them, he runs away, only to find himself connected to a mysterious serial killer taking peoples' lives in Providence, RI.

Out June 19.

OK, OK — Stephen King's The Body technically isn't a new novel — it originally debuted as a novella within the iconic horror writer's 1982 short-story collection Different Seasons, and it was later adapted into the 1986 classic Stand by Me. But this is the first time the timeless coming-of-age tale has been available on its own, and it's the perfect excuse for you to get lost yet again in the life-changing adventure of Gordie, Chris, Teddy, and Vern as they try to find the dead body of a missing child from a nearby town.

Out June 5.

Tara Isabella Burton's Social Creature is getting comparisons to novels like Gone Girl for good reason. The gritty thriller mixes the glitz and glamour of NYC with the darkness of murder, jealousy, and a lethal friendship between two young women.

Out June 5.

If you're psyche hasn't been completely shattered by The Handmaid's Tale, might I suggest Christina Dalcher's Vox? The dystopian thriller imagines a horrifying version of America where women are only allowed to speak 100 words a day. For Dr. Jean McClellan, the country's top linguist, she refuses to let the government's restrictive rule go on without a fight, and begins to put a plan into action that could not only cost her her voice, but also her life.

Out Aug. 21

Nina Laurin's psychological suspense thrill ride, What My Sister Knew, will have you ripping through its pages at warp speed as you dig for the truth about a fateful event that drove two twin siblings apart.

Out June 19.

In Our House, Louise Candlish feeds us this suspenseful story piece by piece in the form of podcast excerpts, flashbacks, and a Word document written by someone who may or may not be reliable. The novel tracks well-off working mom Fiona Lawson, who comes home one day to find strangers moving into her house and her children missing. From then on she discovers that her estranged husband, Bram, has more secrets than she ever could've imagined.

Out Aug. 7.