Chilling Reads for Hot Days

Have you heard of Summerween? Starting with an episode of "Gravity Falls" where they celebrated Halloween in the summer, it's become a more general term. We like to find our chills in the pages of a book (naturally), so we've got some suggested titles:

Also thrilling — and chilling — is the recent list from the New York Times of the 50 Best Thriller Books of the 21st Century, as voted on by 291 crime novelists, editors, booksellers, librarians and other book lovers. We don't have every title in every format, but we've got a lot of them!

Prefer to see what we've got only in our digital collection? You can find the list on the Libby app or check it out here.

And if you REALLY want to expand your horizons in crime fiction, take a look at our Once Upon A Crime, Anytime collection on Libby. You can browse almost 500 titles that are available without waitlists or holds. They include classics and recent releases, and books from just about every part of the crime genre, including thrillers, espionage, cozy, and more. This collection gets updated every quarter so you'll always have new choices.