The 3 Best Thrillers Reese's Book Club Has Ever Recommended

With multiple New York Times best-sellers under her belt (In a Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, etc.), Ruth Ware is a veritable master of suspense. In her 2017 book The Lying Game, it's a cool June morning and a woman is walking her dog in the idyllic coastal village near the English Channel. Before she can stop him, the dog charges into the water and retrieves something sinister. The next morning, three women in and around London—Fatima, Thea, and Isabel—receive the text from Kate, the fourth friend in their formerly inseparable clique. It reads, “I need you.” When the four girls were best friends at a nearby boarding school, they were notorious for playing the Lying Game, telling lies at every turn to both fellow boarders and faculty. Their game had consequences: All four were expelled in their final year of school under mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of the school’s eccentric art teacher (who also happened to be Kate’s father). As it turns out, the four women know more about the dog's discovery that cool summer morning than they should...

Suspense lovers will hang on every word of Lucy Foley’s (The Paris Apartment) atmospheric thriller about a wedding gone wrong. On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate the marriage of a handsome and charming television star and a smart and ambitious magazine publisher. Everything is lovely, until the Champagne is popped and resentments and jealousies bubble to the surface. Then, someone turns up dead, and perhaps unsurprisingly, everyone in attendance is hiding a secret. As one Amazon reviewer puts it, "Quick moving, twists and human characters well done. You won't be disappointed. A touch of Irish local makes this escapist heaven."

This page-turner begins with a woman named Hannah, who is madly in love with Owen, her husband of one year, and determined to build a relationship with his teenager, Bailey. Despite the tension, the blended family is a fairly happy, low-drama one. That is, until Hannah receives a note from Owen saying “Protect her,” before he vanishes into thin air. Then, Bailey finds a bag full of cash in her locker—the same day the FBI raids her dad’s software startup on suspicion of fraud. The twists and turns, suspenseful as they are, take a back seat to the budding relationship between stepmother and stepdaughter. Hannah and Bailey’s path to defining their roles in relation to one another comes at an unfortunate time, but it’s a solid reminder that mother-daughter bonds (or stepmother-stepdaughter, as it were) don’t always fit into the cookie-cutter Gilmore Girls fantasy.