Boo...scared you!

There's nothing like a good thriller for some exciting summer reading.  These page turners will keep you on the edge of your beach chair.   

Ladies first...These three female authors have just published books that won't disappoint.   Scottish writer, Morag Joss, has produced a psychological thriller as her seventh novel, Among the Missing, that involves mistaken identities.   As a result of a bridge collapse, the lives of three strangers become intertwined and they find that they all have secrets from the past.  M.J. McGrath's first novel, White Heat, is a tense thriller set in a barren Arctic landscape.  Edie Kiglatuk, a half Inuit female, makes a living as a guide for hunting expeditions on remote Ellesmere Island.  When the local council of elders tries to cover up a murder that took place during one of her tours, she becomes involved in solving the crime.  Never Knowing, by Chevy Stevens, relates the chilling tale of an adopted woman who identifies her birth parents.  Sara Gallagher is extremely dismayed when she learns that her real father was a convicted serial killer.

And now for the gentlemen...Each of these three male authors return with books that are their second in a series.  Retired NYPD detective, Dave Gurney, returns in, Shut Your Eyes Tight, by John Verdon, to solve the macabre murder of a bride on her wedding day.  Things get even uglier when the criminal targets Gurney's family.  In Very Bad Men, by Harry Dolan, David Loogan, who is the editor of a mystery magazine, is back.  After an anonymous manuscript arrives at his office that begins "I Killed Henry Kormoran", the bodies start to pile up.  Loogan helps his lover, Police Detective Elizabeth Waishkey, try to identify the author of the document who is the perpetrator of the homicides.  Maine game warden, Mark Bowditch, appears again in Trespasser, by Paul Doiron.  A woman is killed and the crime is similar to one committed a year earlier, but the murderer is in jail.  Bowditch follows his instincts in a hunt through the wilderness for the real culprit to make sure there isn't a serial killer on the loose.

The Department of Missing Persons...In The End of Everything, author Meg Abbot, explores the lives of two teenage girlfriends, Lizzie and Evie, who are inseparable, that is until Evie disappears.  During the search for her abducted friend, Lizzie uncovers secrets that jar her and make her wonder if she ever really knew Evie at all.  You Believers, by Jane Bradley, enters the nightmarish world of a mother who is searching for her missing daughter.  The characters involved in the horrific crime take turns narrating this tale set in the South.

Hope these books will thrill you to pieces!  Have you read any good suspense novels this summer?