Recs if you like The Girls Before...

no matter what happens, there will be books with neon-text-on-a-dark-background covers and they will be thrillers.

This includes book that have either mystery or thrillers as a primary or secondary genre. If you have recommendations to add please comment and I'll happily add them 💕

I was falling OUT of love with thrillers until I found a niche that sang to my black millennial heart. These 5-star, adrenaline-inducing thrillers feel like they're written FOR women (usually by women). They enshrine or expose some aspect of the fem-experience and either champion or blatantly fail at modern feminism.

2026 Thriller Releases

No Escape: The Thrillers That Will Define 2026