Brazier, Eliza Jane. It Had To Be You. Berkley. Jul. 2024. 384p. ISBN 9780593438923. $29. THRILLER

Eva and Jonathan, two assassins with a hit job on each other, crisscross Western Europe, hooking up on a sleeper train leaving Florence for Paris and bumping into each other at Versailles. It is all so inconvenient, and lust-filled, and flirty, and fun. But their mutual hit jobs are not the only high stakes in this reimagining of the romantic suspense genre.

Cobb, May. The Hollywood Assistant. Berkley. Jul. 2024. 416p. ISBN 9780593546826. $29. SUSPENSE

The author of A Likeable Woman, with a Starz series adaptation greenlit for The Hunting Wives, returns with a psychological suspense novel inspired by films such as Body Double and Fatal Attraction. Cassidy thinks she has landed her dream job as personal assistant to a high-powered Hollywood couple. But she just might have been hired to be the ideal murder suspect.

Copeland, Johanna. Our Kind of Game. Harper. Jul. 2024. 304p. ISBN 9780063329683. $30. THRILLER

Garnering a 100K-copy first printing for her debut, Copeland offers a twisty domestic thriller. In 2019, Stella Parker is happily raising her kids in the posh suburbs. Then her neighbor Gwen shows up, claiming to know things from Stella’s past. Back in 1987, Julie Waits wants out, away from the dangerous men her mother attracts. How Stella and Julie are connected will shock readers.

Cranor, Eli. Broiler. Soho Crime. Jul. 2024. 336p. ISBN 9781641295901. $27.95. THRILLER

Edgar Award winner Cranor offers a tense noir thriller that traces the fate and choices of an undocumented Mexican American couple and the white manager of a poultry-packing plant. Fired to make a point, Edwin Saucedo vows revenge, only to trigger a chain of unexpected events that reveal the rusted edges of the American Dream, privilege, and power.

Day, Jamie. One Big Happy Family. St. Martin’s. Jul. 2024. 368p. ISBN 9781250283207. $29. SUSPENSE

The follow-up to Day’s buzzy debut, The Block Party, gets a 150K-copy first printing. Family dynamics, a woman on the run, and a chambermaid who needs to keep her job—no matter what—are on the guest register of the Precipice Hotel, set on the rocky coast of Maine. There is a hurricane approaching, which is probably the least of the dangers.

Easter Collins, Sarah. Things Don’t Break on Their Own. Crown. Jul. 2024. 272p. ISBN 9780593798331. $28. SUSPENSE

Easter Collins’s debut unfolds at a dinner party. Four couples, and heavy secrets, gather to dine. The guests include ex-lovers, strangers, and old friends. Told through alternating perspectives, there is a backstory on the menu, about a girl who disappeared decades ago, the sister who was left broken-hearted, and the truth that could now break them all.

Goodman, Carol. Return to Wyldcliffe Heights. Morrow. Jul. 2024. 320p. ISBN 9780063265288. pap. $18.99. THRILLER

Mary Higgins Clark Award winner Goodman offers a modern gothic where book editor Agnes Corey is hired by the reclusive Veronica St. Clair to transcribe the sequel to her hit novel. But all is not as it seems—on the crumbling estate or in the story itself. Agnes gets pulled deeply into the dangerous chasm between fact and fiction, present and past. With a 75K-copy first printing.

Lapena, Shari. What Have You Done? Pamela Dorman. Jul. 2024. 320p. ISBN 9780593489963. $30. THRILLER

Best seller Lapena (Everyone Here Is Lying) offers another of her addictive domestic suspense novels. This one is set tiny Fairhill, VT, where nothing much happens, and everyone knows everyone. Until one morning when the body of Diana Brewer is found in a field. Now she is a ghost who haunts the town, as everyone becomes a suspect.

McCreight, Kimberly. Like Mother, Like Daughter. Knopf. Jul. 2024. 320p. ISBN 9780593536421. $28. SUSPENSE

The Edgar- and Anthony-nominated McCreight (Reconstructing Amelia) spins out a mother-daughter suspense thriller. Cleo, somewhat estranged from her seemingly on-top-of-it-all mom Kat, comes to dinner to find burning food in the oven and one bloody shoe. It turns out that Kat’s facade is paper thin. She knows, far better than Cleo, that danger is engulfing their world.

Newman, T.J. Extinction. Little, Brown. Jul. 2024. 400p. ISBN 9780316576796. $30. SUSPENSE

Newman’s debut, Falling, was a phenom, and is being adapted by Universal Pictures. Her third novel (after the best-selling Drowning) is being positioned as a change of pace from her earlier work. It focuses on an apocalyptic event—an airplane crash into a nuclear reactor—and one woman’s resilience. With a 150K-copy first printing.

Parker, T. Jefferson. Desperation Reef. Forge. Jul. 2024. 320p. ISBN 9781250907882. $28.99. THRILLER

Multi-Edgar Award–winning and best-selling Parker sets his newest thriller in the world of big-wave surfing. Jen Stonebreaker has not competed since her husband died trying to win the Monsters of the Mavericks. Now she and her adult twin sons will face those same waves, but rushing towards them are even more dangerous waters, in the form of the enemies that her sons attract. With a 100K-copy first printing.

Patterson, James & Mike Lupica. Hard to Kill. Little, Brown. (Jane Smith, Bk. 2). Jul. 2024. 400p. ISBN 9780316569910. $32. THRILLER

The second in the “Jane Smith” series sees attorney Smith facing double foes—a terminal diagnosis and assassins. Pulling her deeper and deeper into the mire is her client Rob Jacobson, who has been accused of killing yet another family. Jane investigates, with the expected speedy twists that Patterson and Lupica deliver. With a 300K-copy first printing.

Silva, Daniel. Untitled Silva Novel 2024. Harper. Jul. 2024. 480p. ISBN 9780063384200. $32. THRILLER

Best-selling Silva returns with a new book for beach-read season. The publisher is keeping everything—title, plot, whether it’s another of Silva’s beloved Gabriel Allon titles—under wraps. Just expect a 500K-copy first printing and Silva’s usual blend of great plotting, thoughtful and appealing lead characters, and a well-developed frame detail.

Steadman, Catherine. Look In the Mirror. Ballantine. Jul. 2024. 272p. ISBN 9780593725764. pap. $18. SUSPENSE

The author of the blockbuster debut Something in the Water offers her fifth novel, a suspense thriller about two women. Nina inherits a vacation home in the British Virgin Islands from her beloved father. Maria, a nanny for the super-rich, is waiting for the kids to show up. The only house rule? Don’t go into the basement.

Youers, Rio. The Bang-Bang Sisters. Morrow. Jul. 2024. 400p. ISBN 9780063311800. $32. THRILLER

Oft garnering award attention, Youers delivers a blend of music-inflected action thriller and crime novel featuring Brea, Jessie, and Flo who rock more than a stage—they also assassinate criminals who have gotten away with their crimes. The tables are turned, however, when a criminal pits them against each other in a deadly game that only one can survive.

Forthcoming Series Titles

Cameron, Marc. Bad River. Kensington. (Arliss Cutter, Bk. 6). Jul. 2024. 432p. ISBN 9781496737632. $28. THRILLER

Coulter, Catherine. Flashpoint. Morrow. (FBI Thrillers, Bk. 27). Jul. 2024. 400p. ISBN 9780063283091. $30. THRILLER

Freeman, Brian. Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Shadow. Putnam. (Jason Bourne, Bk. 19). Jul. 2024. 384p. ISBN 9780593716458. $30. THRILLER

Kirsanow, Peter. W.E.B. Griffin Zero Option. Putnam. (Men at War, Bk. 9). Jul. 2024. 384p. ISBN 9780399171222. $30. THRILLER

Pearse, Sarah. The Wilds. Pamela Dorman: Viking. (Detective Elin Warner, Bk. 3). Jul. 2024. 368p. ISBN 9780593654040. $30. SUSPENSE

Robotham, Michael. Storm Child. Scribner. (Cyrus Haven, Bk. 4). Jul. 2024. 336p. ISBN 9781668030998. $28. THRILLER