Summer is the season of a lot of lounging on the beach — the warm sand and the cool water. It is also the time for romance and reading. But, if romance is not what you looking for, there are amazing thrillers around the corner to get you hooked on. As this year a lot of us cannot go to the beach, lets me bring you 7 of the best thriller set on a beach which will have you flipping pages while breathing the warm air of the summers. Scroll down to check the list.

WE WERE LIARS by E. LOCKHART – We Were Liars focuses on the theme of self-acceptance, family morals, and the possibly-deadly consequences of one’s mistakes. It is centered on the wealthy, seemingly perfect Sinclair family, who spend every summer gathered on their private island. However, not every summer is the same—when something happens to Cadence during the summer of her fifteenth year, the four “Liars” re-emerge two years later to prompt Cadence to remember the incident.

THE LAST HOUSE GUEST by MEGAN MIRANDA – Littleport, Maine is like two separate towns: a vacation paradise for wealthy holidaymakers and a simple harbour community for the residents who serve them. Friendships between locals and visitors are unheard of – but that’s just what happened with Avery and Sadie. Each summer for a decade the girls are inseparable – until Sadie is found dead. When the police rule the death a suicide, Avery can’t help but feel there are those in the community, including a local detective and Sadie’s brother Parker, who blame her. Someone knows more than they’re saying, and Avery is intent on clearing her name before the facts get twisted against her.

GIRLS OF GLASS by BRIANNA LABUSKES – When the granddaughter of one of Florida’s most powerful judges disappears, it triggers a personal trauma for Detective Alice Garner. As a flood of painful memories comes rushing back, Alice sees herself in the guilt-ridden and emotionally fragile mother Charlotte Burke, who has become the target of a rush to judgment. But uncovering Charlotte’s past comes with a risk. For Alice’s own life is becoming entangled in the secrets and lies of the picture-perfect family—an image that is about to be shattered in so many unexpected ways.

SEARCHING FOR SYLVIE LEE by JEAN KWOK – A Chinese immigrant family when explores what happened to their eldest daughter, a series of family secrets emerge. Sylvie, older daughter of the Lee family, flies to the Netherlands for one final visit with her dying grandmother—and then vanishes. But what happened to Sylvie? Terrified yet determined, Amy retraces her sister’s movements, flying to the last place Sylvie was seen. But instead of simple answers, she discovers something much more valuable: the truth. Sylvie, the golden girl, kept painful secrets . . . secrets that will reveal more about Amy’s complicated family—and herself—than she ever could have imagined.

BIG LITTLE LIES by LIANE MORIARTY – A murder…A tragic accident…Or just parents behaving badly? What’s indisputable is that someone is dead. Madeline is a force to be reckoned with. Celeste is the kind of beautiful woman who makes the world stop and stare but she is paying a price for the illusion of perfection. New to town, single mom Jane is so young that another mother mistakes her for a nanny. She comes with a mysterious past and a sadness beyond her years. These three women are at different crossroads, but they will all wind up in the same shocking place.

THE WEIGHT OF WATER by ANITA SHREVE – A newspaper photographer, Jean, researches the lurid and sensational ax murder of two women in 1873 as an editorial tie-in with a brutal modern double murder. (Can you guess which one?) She discovers a cache of papers that appear to give an account of the murders by an eyewitness. The plot weaves between the narrative of the eyewitness and Jean’s private struggle with jealousies and suspicions as her marriage teeters. A rich, textured novel. 

A STRANGER ON THE BEACH by MICHELLE CAMPBELL – Caroline’s spectacular new beach house is built for hosting expensive parties and vacationing. Her husband is lying to her and everything in her life is upside down, so when the stranger, Aiden, shows up as a bartender at the same party where Caroline and her husband have a very public fight, it doesn’t seem like anything out of the ordinary. As her marriage collapses around her, Caroline turns to Aiden for comfort and revenge. After a desperate fling that means nothing to Caroline and everything to him, Aiden’s obsession with Caroline, her family, and her house grows more and more disturbing. And when Caroline’s husband goes missing, her life descends into a nightmare that leaves her accused of her own husband’s murder.

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