Do you like stories about heists, long cons, or con artists? Were you obsessed with that Netflix TV series about Anna Delvey or Lucky by Marissa Stapley? Then you NEED to check out THE LONG CON!

At a luxurious resort in Vermont, Maggie, a florist and workaholic, falls into a vacation fling with former-boy-band member Jake and has to decide if their fun times will tranlate into a real-world relationship.

With Three Reasons for Revenge, Dervla McTiernan has written a riveting psychological thriller/police procedural set in Australia that will have readers and fans of Jane Harper and Tana French throwing their plans out the window to keep reading.

With Meet Me at the Seaside Cottages, author Jenny Colgan has written another feel-good story set in Scotland with big-hearted characters, small-town life, and vivid descriptions of Northern Scotland, from beaches to the turquoise sea to bluebells in the forest, at the “end of the world.”

Three sisters, one beach house reunion, and lots of love and family drama. Pack this one in your beach bag!

Undercover journalist Isobel is investigating the story of a missing woman as she pretends to be a patient at an isolated, eerie in-patient program for women in the woods of Sweden, at a clinic led by a charismatic, unethical psychologist.

If you want to read a book in search of a feeling, not just in search of the plot, then Nymph by Sofia Montrone just might be the perfect literary fiction novel to end this long, sad-girl summer.

Let’s Kiss and Tell is a fake-dating romance set in Southern California between Lucy, a sex and relationships writer, and Marsh, a news writer. Neither one believes in love until their fake dating starts to feel…dare I say it…kind of real.

If you want a romance with all the cute, swoony, and steamy feels of a contemporary romance combined with the fast-moving plot and thrillers or a mystery or thriller, then you NEED to pick up If Books Could Kill by debut author Kate Eberle.

If you need one last “summer book” to read by the beach, then you should pick up Beach Thriller by Jamie Day.

Aspiring writer Charlie is desperate for a new job when she steps foot on the Empress, a yacht full of social media influencers with too many secrets…

Set in Hollywood, Double Standard by Mallory Thomas is a contemporary romance with fake-dating and an actor/stunt double romance.

The Woman in the Villa is a riveting psychological thriller set at a vineyard in Italy as a powerful British family slowly unravels.

Just a Highland Fling has it all: this contemporary romance novel opens with a strangers-to lovers, one-night-stand starting in a cozy pub in Aberdeen, Scotland. The novel also features a runaway bride and a Scottish Highlands road trip, featuring a hot bagpiper/poetry professor.

A feminist, rage-fueled retelling of Psycho, set in upstate New York, is a psychological thriller and horror novel that is powered by the love of two sisters who will do anything to help each other.

A sliding doors love story that is sad, heartwarming, and creative…

Sparks fly when two strangers inherit a house in the Outer Banks. The only catch? They have to share the house for two months in the summer before they can decide to keep or sell.

A romance author who is heartbroken turns to instigating meet-cute moments to inspire her next book and (hopefully) restore her belief in love, but her best friend and sidekick on this journey, Lucas, might ACTUALLY be the person who inspires her to believe in love again…

Burnout Summer by Jenna Ramirez is for the lovers of the friends-to-lovers trope and those who are in the midst of their quarter-life crisis.

In this friends-to-lovers, second-chance romance, Katie and Tyler must ghostwrite a romance novel together, but they also need to face their dark past…serious themes and an interesting plot twist make this a unique contemporary romance.