Suspense in a variety of flavors is in ready supply next month. What will you choose?
Go To My Grave, by Catriona McPherson. MacPherson, whose 2016 novel Quiet Neighbors was short-listed for an Agatha award, is back to thrill readers with a chilling Gothic stand-alone. The Breakers is an old bed and breakfast that stands along a remote stretch of beach in Galloway. Donna Weaver has put everything into restoring it and now it will house its first guests since the renovation. The group of estranged cousins soon realize that they've stayed here before, decades earlier, and that the pact they made about what happened that holiday, that they would take the secret of it to their graves, appears to have been broken. Amid the cozy surroundings, someone may end this vacation in their grave... If you like your psychological thrillers haunting and twisted, this is for you.
The Spite Game, by Anna Snoekstra. Snoekstra (Little Secrets, Only Daughter) brings readers the ultimate tale of revenge. Ava was bullied in high school, her trust turned against her most cruelly by the meanest of girls. She knows she needs to move on, and she will...just as soon as she's had her revenge. Bringing them down one by one is deeply satisfying and she saves the ringleader, Mel, for last. But Mel knows Ava's game, and she's willing to play it to the very bitter end. For fans of The Last Mrs. Parrish, I think this would be most enjoyable.
Family Trust, by Kathy Wang. Wang's debut has critics making some obvious connections to Kevin Kwan's Crazy Rich Asians, which makes sense, but Family Trust is less about the Huang family's obvious wealth and more about the family relationships. Family patriarch Stanley Huang is terminally ill. He's claimed for years that he's worth a small fortune, but as the end nears and the dysfunctional family gathers, tensions are running high. Where do loyalties lie? What will life look like after Stanley passes? And is any one of them telling the others the truth about their lives and motives? Expect your friends and neighbors to be talking about this one.
The Fallen Architect, by Charles Belfoure. Architect and author Belfoure, author of facinating historical novels like The Paris Architect and House of Thieves, takes us to London in 1900, where at the newly opened Britannia Empire Theater, a balcony collapses during a performance, killing 14 people and injuring dozens more. The theater's architect, Douglas Layton, takes the blame, labeled The Butcher of the West End, and is sentenced to prison time. Upon his release five years later, he finds work under an assumed name, but his past dogs him at every step. Can he ever be free? Belfoure's eye for detail is uncanny.
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