Domestic Fiction Thriller

It seems like everything should be fine. So why isn't it? In the aftermath, Becca struggles to pick up the pieces, feeling like things should be easier. After all, they won. Didn't they? Then why are the nightmares back? And why can't she shake this nagging feeling that something is still out there, watching her, and biding its time to end this dance once and for all?

She’s the person I want to be. Sorcha Hannon, survivor of a devastating affair. She’s found the healing and hope I desperately need to find for myself. And now that Sorcha and I are friends, I am no longer alone. Instead of days hiding away from the world, I have someone to talk to. I feel as if I finally belong. There’s just one small catch. Sorcha Hannon isn’t just a new friend to me, and she certainly isn’t a stranger. In fact, I know the ins and outs of her life, and her marriage, almost as well as she does. But if she finds out who I really am, I’ll lose everything.

Du dachtest, ein GPS-Tracker liefert Antworten – doch er stößt dich in finstere Abgründe Digital, emotional und hoch raffiniert: Dieser Psychothriller ist Domestic Noir vom Feinsten von Bestseller-Autorin Ursula Poznanski. Ein spannender Technologie-Thriller um ein altes Haus, eine Frau mit Handicap und ein digitales Katz-und-Maus-Spiel zwischen Wahrheit und Wahnsinn. Gefangen im eigenen Haus: Bei einem Unfall verliert die junge Innenarchitektin Viola Decker ein Bein – und plötzlich besteht ihre Welt nur noch aus Hindernissen.

A dark secret. A deadly obsession. No place to hide. Max Hunter, my boyfriend, booked the beautiful boat house on the Norfolk Broads as a surprise autumn break. A week away to heal after a fraught few months following my father’s death. A chance to put the lies and secrets behind us and to start afresh. But in the silence it feels like someone is out there. Watching, waiting and taunting me.

I’ve been keeping a secret. From my colleagues, my friends and most importantly, my husband - who knows nothing of my past life. Twenty years ago, at college, a boy became obsessed with me. Craig Lane believed he could make me love him back if he just tried harder. When I rejected him, he did something so horrifying, it’s the stuff of nightmares. All my nightmares. Now I’ve been informed by Victim Support Services, that boy - now a man - has been released from prison. The news terrifies me. Am I safe? Or does Craig still carry the same obsession he did when we were seventeen? I don’t know.

"Behutsam fuhr sie mit ihren Fingern über den nackten Körper. Es war wie ein Zwang. Schon seit Stunden rief sie sich immer wieder zur Ordnung, befahl sich, ihn aus ihren Gedanken zu verbannen, ihn einfach zu ignorieren. Aber, so sehr sie es auch versuchte, es gelang ihr nicht. Ganz im Gegenteil schien ihr Verlangen, diesen Körper zu berühren, mit jedem Moment intensiver zu werden." In der ostfriesischen Stadt Emden wird der junge Musiklehrer Raffael Winter ermordet.

I tell myself that Max couldn’t kill anyone. He’s a family man now, different to who he was before. Even so, I should go to the police right away. But I can’t. Because if I do, I’m scared they’ll start to suspect me. How much do I really know about the girl in room 12? And if the truth comes out, how far will I go to protect my precious family?

On Saturday morning, Cora Maxwell finds her teenage son’s clothes covered in blood. A small town torn apart by a horrific hate crime. An investigative reporter hell-bent on finding the truth. A mother’s worst nightmare. What really happened to the Reyes boy? In the heart-stopping and timely suspense novel Secrets Mothers Keep, widow and mother Cora Maxwell faces the hardest decision of her life. In a world where there are few second chances, do you grant one to your child? And if so...what is the cost?

Louise has had to watch her husband, Andrew, start a new family in the four years since he left her. The ‘other woman’ is now his wife - but Louise isn’t ready to let Caz enjoy the life that was once hers or to let go of the man she still loves. As Louise starts to dig into Caz’s past, the two women’s pretence of civility starts to slip. But in trying to undermine each other, they discover more about the man they both married. And when Andrew is murdered at a family party, both women are found standing over the body. It’s always the wife. But which one?

The pretty market town of Sterndale is a close-knit community where everyone thinks they know everyone else. But at a lavish summer wedding, a local celebrity is discovered slumped in the gardens, the victim of a violent assault that leads to a murder investigation. As the police search for answers, suspicion and paranoia build and the lives of the locals are turned upside down. Secrets that lurk beneath the pristine façade of Sterndale come to light as detectives close in on the truth.

Pulling a batch of my husband’s favorite golden oatmeal cookies from the oven, I smile to hear my daughter Phoebe playing in the treehouse outside. I was once so close to losing everything, but since I married handsome Jackson, I have a perfect life. Jackson might tell me what to wear, but he just likes to buy me nice things. He says I don’t need a job, and why would I want one? I can spend all day taking care of Phoebe and running errands in the fancy car Jackson gave me—he knows everywhere I go. But my whole world shatters when I find out Jackson is a liar.

Still in shock after the tragic death of husband Richie, Cassie Macreddin hopes that her new home, historic Hindon House, is the place where she can heal her pain and hide her secrets. But Hindon House has secrets of its own. Cassie soon realises that not everyone is pleased at her arrival and that someone is actively trying to make her leave Hindon House…but who? And why? As events escalate, Cassie must fight to save her home…and maybe even her life.

The Housemaid’s Revolt reimagines the domestic thriller as a political act. Beneath the surface of servitude and civility, it uncovers a world built on invisible labor, quiet endurance, and the myth of gratitude. The housemaid is no longer a background figure—she becomes a philosopher of survival, observing the architecture of power from inside its walls. Her revolt is not an explosion but an awakening: the decision to stop cleaning up the messes of others, to stop mistaking obedience for goodness.

Adam and Heather weren't related—or so they were told—but they didn't believe what their adoptive parents said. Growing up in a small town, they knew instinctively they were brother and sister. Thirty years later, a DNA test confirmed they were right. With time on their hands in 2020, the siblings hire genealogist Karen Copperfield to unravel the mystery that has shaped their lives: the identity of their birth parents. Nothing they have found out themselves adds up.

Подрабатывая официанткой на светском приеме, Самира Уайлдер знакомится с Роландом Грэмом, известным гольфистом. Стремительный роман, переезд в другой штат, венчание — и вот Самира уже хозяйка роскошного особняка и жена успешного спортсмена. Ее предшественница погибла при загадочных обстоятельствах, и не утихают слухи, что на тот свет она отправилась не без помощи мужа. Самира находит дневники прежней жены Грэма и с каждой страницей все яснее понимает: она совсем не знает человека, которому столь поспешно сказала «да».

Ураган с прекрасным именем «Селеста» вот-вот обрушится на идиллическую Флориду, и Дэвисы вынуждены укрыться в своем доме рядом с океаном. Но их планам не суждено сбыться: чужая лодка причаливает к их участку, три незнакомца просят укрытия, и Дэвисы не могут им отказать. По мере того как ураган набирает мощь, растет и напряжение в доме. Подорванное доверие, давние скелеты в шкафу и, главное, странное чувство, что не все выберутся отсюда живыми, — все это держит в напряжении, не позволяя отвлечься от книги ни на минуту.

Джоди нанимает сиделку для ухода за своими стареющими родителями — и теперь коварная Элиз незаметно прибирает к рукам жизнь своих подопечных. Все начинается невинно: то сиделка примеряет драгоценности матери, то слегка флиртует с отцом, но, вынужденная молча наблюдать за действиями Элиз, Джоди понимает — она столкнулась с опасной соперницей.

One year ago, Captain Jake Mahegan led a Delta Force team into Afghanistan to capture an American traitor working for the Taliban. The mission ended in tragedy. The team was infiltrated and decimated by a bomb. An enemy prisoner was killed. Mahegan was dismissed from service - dishonored forever.

On the darkest night of Monroe Perry’s life, her husband leaves her for another woman. This mysterious woman, Jenna, causes Monroe to question everything she thought she knew about her life, her family, and her marriage. Forced to face a life, and a love, full of lies and deceit—Monroe vows to exact revenge on the woman who caused her entire world to crumble around her.

On a mission to learn about her enigmatic past, Lennon understands one thing: the truth lies at Nine Pines. But as the whispers and rumors surrounding the inn’s history pique her curiosity, the allure of the mystery still haunting the place draws her in. In a small town where gossip is traded as currency, Lennon’s instincts about whom to trust will be put to the ultimate test as she seeks the truth about where she came from and just what secrets the old inn is hiding. Miles away, Ingrid’s husband is lying. At least his cryptic behavior would suggest he is.