Most Anticipated Thrillers of Fall 2024

Preparing for your fall TBR is nothing we take lightly. Requirements include your favorite hot beverage, the coziest sweatshirt you can find, and full preparation for spooky season to begin! If you’re looking for some great thrillers to dive into once fall approaches, look no further! Here are some of the most anticipated reads of this upcoming fall that will bring you straight into Christmas!

This Is Why We Lied by Karin Slaughter (8/20)

Will Trent and Sara Linton found the perfect place to spend their honeymoon getaway. McAlpine Lodge is a mountaintop lodge made for people to go and unplug. When the owner of McAlpine Lodge, Mercy McAlpine, is found dead, a storm blocks the one road to get access to the lodge. Will and Sara realize this means the murderer is on the mountain and they are trapped with the McAlpine family and other guests. When they realize everyone on the mountain is lying about something, they are on the hunt for a killer, and everyone is a suspect.

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Talking to Strangers by Fiona Barton (8/27)

Detective Elise King’s newest case is the murder of Karen Simmons, a woman Elise suspects could have been murdered by a man she met online. When the locals are divided, some believe Karen brought it on herself and others find themselves protesting for violence against women. One of the people invested in the case is the aggressive newsgatherer Kiki Nunn, who could advance in her career if she gets the scoop on Karen’s killer…and she’s willing to go against the killer in order to get what she wants.

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The Bachelorette Party by Sandra Block (9/3)

When Alex’s friends surprise her with a bachelorette weekend, she is shocked to find the theme is the 666 killer, a killer Alex is obsessed with. Alex and her friends are going to the house in the Catskills where the serial killer killed his first victim and wrote 666 on the walls in her blood. When a blizzard hits and Alex wakes up the next morning, her friends are gone and their sleeping bags are covered in blood. As Alex tries to figure out what happened, she relives her last interview with the 666 killer in which he claims the real killer is still out there.

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Zetas Till We Die by Amber and Danielle Brown (9/10)

Ten years ago, Priscilla and the Zeta Phi Zeta sorority lost one of their sorority sisters. Just days before their ten-year reunion, Lupe’s killer is released on a technicality. Regardless of the news, Priscilla and the Zetas have their wild party and reunite, and everything apparently goes off without a hitch. That is, until the next morning one of the sisters doesn’t return from the party and Priscilla begins to suspect there could be more to Lupe’s murder than anyone ever suspected.

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The Night We Lost Him by Laura Dave (9/17)

No one really knew who Liam Noone was. To the public, he was a self-made hotel mogul who was running from his past. His three ex-wives found him to be loving from a distance and the kind of man to keep all of his families separate. To his daughter, Nora, he loved her from afar until he fell to his death at his California coast home. When the authorities rule the accidental death, Nora and her estranged brother, Sam, vow to team up and put the pieces of Liam’s past together to find out what really happened to him. As the two look further and further into Liam’s history, they find a family secret that changes everything they thought they once knew.

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The Hitchcock Hotel by Stephanie Wrobel (9/24)

No other Hitchcock fan has anything on Alfred Smettle, who manages the Hitchcock Hotel. The Victorian house in the White Mountains is the perfect place dedicated to Alfred Hitchcock and Alfred is a perfect who features round-the-clock screenings, rooms filled with movie props, and even an aviary filled with fifty crows. With the hotel’s one year anniversary approaching, Alfred invites his former best friends from his college Film Club to celebrate. Although he hasn’t spoken to them in sixteen years, he hopes one of them can bring the ultimate gift. After all, no Hitchcock set is complete without a body.

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The Boyfriend by Freida McFadden (10/1)

After having terrible luck with dating in New York, Sydney Shaw believes she’s finally found the perfect boyfriend in a handsome doctor. Sydney’s dreams shatter when a young woman is found murdered and is the latest in a string of victims from a serial killer believed to date his victims before killing them. When Sydney fears that her new boyfriend could be this alleged serial killer, she fears she could be the next woman found brutally murdered.

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The Last One at the Wedding by Jason Rekulak (10/8)

Frank Szatowski hasn’t heard from his daughter in three years. When the phone rings and it’s Maggie, he is shocked. Even more surprising, Maggie is inviting him to her upcoming wedding and Frank believes this is the time to heal old wounds. Upon arrival at the secluded, private estate, Frank is shocked that Maggie is marrying Aidan Gardner, the son of a billionaire. Between Maggie not having the time to devote to Frank, Aidan being standoffish, and the locals being hostile, Frank worries about what Maggie could be marrying into and wants to save her at any cost.

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All Our Wars by Stephanie Vasquez (10/22)

Sofia De Luna has been living a quiet life in Chicago and staying away from the cartel violence she was raised in. When her narco father’s retirement brings back memories of her mother’s murder twelve years ago, her peace is interrupted. Now, Sofia’s brothers and cousins ​​are questioning her desire to get more answers about her mother’s murder and acceptance of the family. Meanwhile, Andres Herrera, the ex-sicario who was accused of Sofia’s mother’s murder hopes that his first love, Sofia, can keep the trick between cartels so he can finally leave the drug business for good.

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The Blue Hour by Paula Hawkins (10/29)

Eris is an island with only one house and one way out that is unreachable from the Scottish mainland for twelve hours each day. It’s previous resident was a famous artist named Vanessa whose husband disappeared twenty years ago. Now, it is home to Grace, a woman content with being isolated. When a shocking discovery is made at a London art gallery, a visitor comes to the island and the secrets buried on Eris threaten to rise to the surface.

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This Girl’s a Killer by Emma C. Wells (10/29)

Cordelia Black loves killing men. Sure, during the day she’s a pharma rep with the best wardrobe, but by night she’s what the news would consider a “serial killer” who rids South Louisiana of men that think they’ve got the upper hand over the justice system. When Cordelia’s best friend begins to date a man who Cordelia feels could be her next target, things get messy.

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Leave the Girls Behind by Jacquline Bublitz (10/29)

Ruth-Ann Baker is a bartender and college dropout who has been obsessed with true crime since a friend of hers was murdered by a suspected serial killer twelve years ago. Ruth-Ann still thinks of the long dead alleged serial killer, Ethan Oswald, but when another young girl goes missing in the same town, Ruth-Ann finds evidence that suggests that Oswald was not working alone. Now, she’s determined to find his partner and finds herself intertwined with three different women and one of them might hold the key to unfolding this mystery.

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A Very Bad Thing by JT Ellison (11/1)

Novelist Columbia Jones is at the peak of her career with her books being hit after hit and a much-anticipated movie tie-in on its way. Things take a turn when Columbia spots someone in a crowd on the final night of her book tour and they pass out. The next morning, Columbia is found dead in a pool of blood. What seems like a complete mystery at first spirals into a deadly game for her daughter, Darian, when details come out about her mother’s questionable past. Now, Darian and the police are finding there were a lot of people who had a motive to kill Columbia.

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You Can’t Hurt Me by Emma Cook (11/5)

Eva Reid is the woman who can feel no pain. From a papercut to childbirth, Eva won’t feel a thing and the whole world knows who she is, including scientist Dr. Nate Reid, who happens to be her husband. When Eva is found dead inside her home, ruthless journalist Anna Tate becomes obsessed with the case, including her tumultuous relationship with Nate and how Eva used to be his patient. When Nate decides to write a book about Eva, Anna takes this chance to insert herself into his home to uncover whatever Nate and Eva were hiding.

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The Close-Up by Pip Drysdale (12/3)

Zoe Ann Weiss moved to Los Angeles to pursue a writing career and thought her future looked bright. After Zach, bartender and aspiring actor ghosts her, Zoe’s debut thriller novel fails, she has the worst writer’s block. Fast forward three years and Zach is famous instead of Zoe. When Zoe’s dead-end job at a flower shop sends her out on a delivery, she is surprised when Zach answers the door. After the two begin secretly dating, her writers block disappears, and she wonders if Zach could be her muse. Things turn sinister when photos leak and Zoe becomes virally famous overnight. While her debut novel and name skyrocket into fame, an obsessed stalker begins to reenact events from her book.

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What the Wife Knew by Darby Kane (12/10)

When Dr. Richmond Dougherty – infamous tragedy survivor and who some would consider a national hero – falls down his stairs to his death, his neighbors immediately point their fingers at his new wife, Addison. With Addison being an extremely wealthy widow now after less than a hundred days of marriage, law enforcement is homing in on Addison along with Richmond’s first wife, Kathryn. When someone leaves a note on her bedroom wall stating, “You will pay,” Addison is barely phased. After all, his death wasn’t planned, but Addison is far from done with Richmond.

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