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Parental Advisory Warning: Thrillers About Parenting

Enjoy these thrillers about the worries and anxieties of bringing home a new baby. *List created by Chelsea at out Antioch Branch*

Mid-Continent Public Library

11 items

  • Rachel finds herself the victim of a cruel Ponzi scheme - her daughter has been kidnapped and to save her life Rachel must kidnap another child and keep the chain going.
    Book, 2019New York : Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company, 2019. — F MCKINTY
  • Mia and Finn are finishing the remodel on their new home just in time to welcome their first child when they make a haunting discovery in the attic - suitcases full of bodies.
    Book, 2022Seattle : Thomas & Mercer, [2022] — F MARRS
  • Told in alternating perspectives between mother Suzette and her mute daughter Hanna, Suzette is trying to save her marriage from her daughter's psychologically manipulative schemes.
    Book, 2018New York : St. Martin's Press, 2018. — F STAGE
  • After the sudden death of their babysitter Blanka, mother Charlotte is convinced her daughter has been possessed by the dead woman.
    Book, 2025[New York] : Pamela Dorman Books/Viking, [2025] — F ECHLIN
  • Our story starts with new twin mom Lauren attempting to drown her babies in the river. We then flash back to their birth where Lauren is convinced an evil spirit is trying to possess them
    Book, 2019New York, NY : Crooked Lane, 2019. — F GOLDING
  • After giving birth to her first daughter, Megan finds herself in a state of delirium becoming more and more obsessed with a deceased author she is convinced is living in her house.
    Book, 2021New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021] — F FINE
  • A group of new moms embark on a baby-free girls night that ends in disaster when one of their babies is kidnapped from his crib.
    Book, 2018New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018] — F MOLLOY
  • Jess tries to keep her life together as she worries more and more each day that she will harm her child, and when baby Betsey ends up in the ER with injuries Jess's friends and husband begin to wonder if she did it.
    Book, 2020New York : Emily Bestler Books/Atria, 2020. — F VAUGHAN
  • Single-mom Libby is on vacation with her three-year-old son who is abducted by a woman claiming to be his real mom leading us down an adrenaline-fueled thrill ride.
    Book, 2019New York : Crown, [2019] — F BECK
  • When local daycare teacher Miss Ollie is found in the school, all eyes are on the four-year-olds she was teaching who have becoming bloodthirsty fiends.
    Book, 2023New York : Flatiron Books, 2023. — F BAKER
  • Convinced women in her family make unfit mothers, Blythe is determined not to have children - until her loving husbands changes her mind. Blythe feels no maternal pull with her daughter, so much so that she believes something is wrong with the child
    Book, 2021[New York] : Pamela Dorman Books/Viking, [2021] — F AUDRAIN