Start with high-confidence suspense books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Traitor’s Knot: Fourth Book of the Alliance of Light
Unknown author
Hostage in Havana
Noel Hynd
The Lineup
John Allen Nelson, Justine Eyre
Juror #3
James Patterson, Nancy Allen
The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes
Marcus Sakey
Enemy of the State
Kyle Mills, Vince Flynn
The Last Thing He Told Me
Laura Dave
The Stillwater Girls
Minka Kent
The Boys of Summer
Richard Cox
Lethal Affairs
Kim Baldwin, Xenia Alexiou
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates
Howard Pyle
The Sea Wolf
Jack London
The Riddle of the Sands
Eskrine Childres
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle
Cellars
John Shirley
The Sorbonne Affair
Mark Pryor
A Welcome Murder
Robin Yocum
Exquisite Corpse
Poppy Z. Brite, Joshua Saxon
The Body
Stephen King
Fade Away
Harlan Coben
