
If you enjoy the beguilingly unlikeable characters with hidden agendas in this suspenseful series, this list is for you.


Death in the Air by Ram Murali
Disgraced after being forced out of a high-profile job under mysterious circumstances, lawyer Ro Krishna seeks rejuvenation at a luxurious Indian spa, only to become entangled in a series of murders among the elite guests.

The Rich People Have Gone Away by Regina Porter
Waiting out the 2020 lockdown in their summer cottage, Theo Harper, when his pregnant wife Darla goes missing after a heated argument, becomes the prime suspect and as their families and friends come together to search for her, the past and present collide with startling consequences.

When his wife Victoria goes missing 72 hours before her multibillion-dollar startup is exposed as a massive fraud, Guy flees to a private Caribbean island where he drinks and drugs his way into oblivion, while Victoria, going off the grid, plots her comeback, confident she’ll prove everyone wrong—again.

A luxury house in France. A gathering of wealthy, reckless friends. And a woman on the run. Deep in the lavender fields of Provence, nine guests arrive at a luxury holiday home. They all know each other well, or at least they think they do. The only stranger is the young woman hired to do the catering. Over the course of their break, loyalties will be tested, secrets revealed, and tensions pushed to the point of no return.

Bad Summer People by Emma Rosenblum
Two Fire Island queen bees and their single friend who meant to spend summertime relaxing and gossiping discover a body face down off the side of the boardwalk and in addition to uncovering the murderer also reveal infidelity and backstabbing.

A Killing Cold by Kate Alice Marshall
When Theodora Scott visits her fiancé’s secluded family estate, she uncovers eerie ties to her forgotten childhood, unraveling a deadly secret the powerful Daltons will stop at nothing to protect, even if it puts her life at risk.

The Influencers by Anna-Marie McLemore
When influencer matriarch May Iverson’s husband is murdered and her mansion burned down, her five estranged daughters, each grappling with the fallout of their commodified childhoods, face mounting suspicions, public scrutiny and buried family secrets.

Mirror Made of Rain by Naheed Phiroze Patel
Noomi Wadia, a successful journalist in Mumbai, while partaking in a host of patriarchal wedding rituals at the behest of her new in-laws, realizes she is trapped in the same cycle of self-destructiveness as her mother and must battle her impulses or lose it all.

When a sex party brutally upends the lives of three old friends, they are sucked into the underbelly of a corrupt Nigerian underworld where they look for a way out of the trouble they’ve instigated amidst power, sexual violence, murder and betrayal, testing how far they’ll go to save each other—or themselves.

Succession meets Beware the Woman in this seductive, Gothic suspense novel about the dramatic downfall of one of America’s most affluent (and cursed) families, by the author of Take Me Apart.