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921 past books matching Mystery
Sun, Sand, Murder turns a quiet island posting into a murder case with a victim who may not exist.
Sun, Sand, Murder
Mystery · Police Procedural
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Sun, Sand, Murder turns a quiet island posting into a murder case with a victim who may not exist. Teddy Creque, the only police presence on Anegada, finds a biologist shot dead on a remote beach, then uncovers a missing identity that makes the case stranger than expected. This is island-set mystery fiction with a warm voice, local color, and a puzzle built around secrets beneath the surface.
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Written with a wry, witty narrative voice and a plot full of twists and turns, John Keyse-Walker's Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award-winning debut is a pure delight.
As a Special Constable, Teddy Creque is the only police presence on the remote, sun-drenched island of Anegada, nestled in the heart of the British Virgin Islands. In all his years on the job, Teddy has never considered the possibility that he might have to address an actual crime on his peaceful island. That is, until he receives a hysterical call about a dead man on the beach.
Indeed, Teddy is shocked to discover Paul Kelliher, a biologist who traveled to the island every winter for research, lying dead on the sands of the island's most remote beach, killed by a single shot to the head. And when the BVI's "real police" task Teddy with informing Kelliher's nearest kin of his death, Teddy makes an even more surprising discovery: there's no record that Paul Kelliher ever existed.
Suddenly Teddy's routine life is thrown into tumult as he tries to track a killer—against his boss's wishes—while balancing his complicated family life, three other jobs, and the colorful characters populating the island around him.
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Some secrets stay buried until the bodies surface.
Journey’s Terror
Mystery
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Some secrets stay buried until the bodies surface. When teenagers discover a mass grave in an abandoned coal mine, FBI Special Agent Journey Russo enters an investigation shaped by ritualized violence, old trauma, and a killer whose pattern stretches across years. Journey’s Terror is a dark FBI mystery built on forensic dread, personal stakes, and a race to stop more deaths.
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Secrets never rest in peace.
Haunted by a past that refuses to rest, FBI Special Agent Journey Russo faces a darkness deeper than any before. The discovery of a mass grave in an abandoned coal mine by two teenagers and their loyal dog pulls her back into the shadows she’s fought so hard to escape.
Beneath the earth, madness reigns.
What lies in the mine’s heartrending silence is a tableau of terror—bodies distorted and intertwined in a gruesome embrace. Forensic analysis unveils a chilling pattern of death that stretches across the years. This nightmare, borne not of a cult’s madness but of a singularly depraved mind, propels Journey on a quest for justice as relentless as it is personal.
As the investigation spirals into a race against an unseen clock, Journey confronts a puzzle that defies logic. How did one assailant overpower so many, and why the distinct cruelty? The discovery of new victims adds urgency to their hunt. But as each clue is unearthed, Journey edges closer to darkness, risking more than just her life.
Journey’s Terror, book two of the exciting new Journey Russo series by bestselling author Mary Stone challenges the very notion of safety in love’s embrace. Thinking of having a romantic getaway? Think again.
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A remote island death begins as an accident but refuses to stay buried as unease spreads through the tight-knit community.
The Scattering Murders
Mystery · Detective Fiction · Police Procedural
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A remote island death begins as an accident but refuses to stay buried as unease spreads through the tight-knit community. In The Scattering Murders, Inspector Torquil McKinnon investigates a farmer’s suspicious end alongside a missing woman tied to the island’s secrets. This police procedural delivers atmospheric tension, layered motives, and a mystery shaped by isolation and mistrust.
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Follow Detective Inspector McKinnon in another thrilling case! Perfect for fans of Ian Rankin, Stuart MacBride, L J Ross and Faith Martin.
When missing turns to murder…
West Uist, Scotland
Local farmer Hector MacFarlane has been found dead, trampled by his own cattle.
A well-liked man in the community, at first there is no suspicion surrounding his death.
But when an urn containing some of his ashes is found broken and defiled, doubt starts to creep in.
And when a man arrives on the island looking for a missing woman, Detective Inspector Torquil McKinnon soon finds himself with more than one mystery to solve.
With thick mist shrouding the remote island in gloom and rumours circulating about the death of the farmer, Torquil finds it increasingly difficult to get answers.
Is there a connection between the dead man and the missing woman? Could anyone else be in danger?
And is the local community once more under threat…?
THE SCATTERING MURDERS is the eighth crime thriller in the detective series featuring Inspector Torquil McKinnon: an action-packed police procedural full of suspense.
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A final reckoning closes in as past choices and hidden alliances collide with deadly consequences.
Tyler’s Rule
Mystery · Romance
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A final reckoning closes in as past choices and hidden alliances collide with deadly consequences. In Tyler’s Rule, tensions within the Skeleton Crew reach their breaking point, forcing Tyler to confront the truth behind loyalty, love, and survival. This dark romance murder mystery blends emotional intensity with escalating danger as the trilogy builds toward its decisive end.
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This is the final instalment in the Skeleton Crew dark romance murder mystery trilogy. More information to be revealed!
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A storm-lashed sleeper train becomes the starting point for a mystery that follows its passengers all the way to Cornwall’s windswept coast.
Murder on the Cornish Train
Mystery · Detective Fiction
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A storm-lashed sleeper train becomes the starting point for a mystery that follows its passengers all the way to Cornwall’s windswept coast. In Murder on the Cornish Train, Jeff suspects a vanished traveler and a body on the beach are connected. This British cosy mystery pairs classic train intrigue with seaside atmosphere, hidden motives, and amateur sleuthing.
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One missing passenger. One dead body. Is it murder on the Cornish train?
It is a dark and stormy night when Jeff boards the Cornish sleeper train at Paddington station.
As they make their way down the dark British coast, waves crash over the carriages and the wheels rattle in the gale.
Arriving in Cornwall the next morning, Jeff discovers one passenger has vanished into thin air.
The next day, another is found dead on a windswept beach.
Jeff can't accept these are coincidences.
Could he hold the clue to catch the killer who boarded the Cornish train?
A totally gripping and page-turning British cosy mystery set on the misty coastline of Cornwall. Fans of Janice Hallett, Murder on the Orient Express and Tom Hindle will be hooked from the very first page.
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Riptide turns a centuries-old pirate treasure into a deadly modern expedition.
Riptide
Mystery · Thriller · Action Thriller · Suspense
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Riptide turns a centuries-old pirate treasure into a deadly modern expedition. When a recovery team targets a booby-trapped island off the coast of Maine, technology fails, bodies fall, and the buried labyrinth proves far more dangerous than legend promised. This action thriller blends historical mystery, treasure-hunt suspense, and survival under pressure.
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A captivating action and adventure thriller from bestselling duo, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.
In 1695, a notorious English pirate buried his bounty in a maze of booby-trapped tunnels on an island off the coast of Maine. In three hundred years, no one has breached this cursed and rocky fortress.
Now, a treasure hunter and his high-tech, million-dollar recovery team embark on the perfect operation to unlock the labyrinth's mysteries.
First the computers fail. The then crewmen begin to die. The island has guarded its secrets for centuries, and it isn't letting them go without a fight.
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The Last Sister begins with a closed murder case that refuses to stay buried.
The Last Sister
Mystery · Thriller · Suspense
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The Last Sister begins with a closed murder case that refuses to stay buried. When a new killing echoes the night Emily Mills found her father dead, FBI agent Zander Wells uncovers a town shaped by silence, suspicion, and family secrets. This suspense novel blends small-town darkness, sisterhood, and a past with unfinished business.
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An Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestseller.
Three sisters’ secrets collide in a shocking novel of suspense by the bestselling author of the Mercy Kilpatrick series.
Twenty years ago Emily Mills’s father was murdered, and she found his body hanging in the backyard. Her younger sister, Madison, claims she was asleep in her room. Her older sister, Tara, claims she was out with friends. The tragedy drove their mother to suicide and Tara to leave town forever. The killer was caught. The case closed.
Ever since, Emily and Madison have tried to forget what happened that night—until an eerily similar murder brings it all back. It also brings FBI special agent Zander Wells to the Oregon logging town. As eager as he is to solve the brutal double slaying, he is just as intrigued with the mystery of Emily’s and her sisters’ past.
When more blood is shed, Zander suspects there’s a secret buried in this town no one wants unearthed. Is it something Emily and Madison don’t know? Or aren’t telling? And Tara? Maybe Emily can’t bear to find her. Because when Tara disappeared, she took a secret of her own with her.
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This police procedural thriller fits readers who want constant escalation, hidden motives, and danger that cuts close to home.
Trust No One
Mystery · Suspense
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A missing pregnant woman and a double homicide pull one detective into a case that keeps turning darker the closer she gets to the truth. In Trust No One, Kerri Devlin balances a collapsing personal life, a volatile new partner, and an investigation tangled with powerful secrets. This police procedural thriller fits readers who want constant escalation, hidden motives, and danger that cuts close to home.
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An Amazon Charts bestseller.
A double homicide and a missing woman lead a detective to unearth disturbing secrets in this gripping thriller from USA Today bestselling author Debra Webb.
It’s the worst possible time for Detective Kerri Devlin to be involved in an all-consuming double-homicide case. She’s locked in a bitter struggle with her ex-husband and teenage daughter, and her reckless new partner is anything but trustworthy.
Still, she has a job to do: there’s a killer at large, and a pregnant woman has gone missing. Once Devlin and her partner get to work, they quickly unearth secrets involving Birmingham’s most esteemed citizens. Each new layer of the investigation brings Devlin closer to the killer and the missing woman, who starts looking more like a suspect than a victim.
But just as answers come into view, the case twists, expands, and slithers into Devlin’s personal life. There’s a much more sinister game at work, one she doesn’t even know she’s playing—and she must unravel the truth once and for all to stop the killer before she loses everything.
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A messy past turns dangerous when a woman becomes the prime suspect in her ex’s new wife’s murder.
Murder on Hollywood Beach
Mystery
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A messy past turns dangerous when a woman becomes the prime suspect in her ex’s new wife’s murder. Amanda retreats to a quiet beach town to rebuild her life, but suspicion follows her, forcing her into an amateur investigation that blends personal stakes, coastal atmosphere, and a rising sense of danger as the truth closes in.
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A killer driven by prophecy and pain moves toward a final act of destruction that could unfold on an international stage.
Final Crossing
Mystery · Thriller
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A killer driven by prophecy and pain moves toward a final act of destruction that could unfold on an international stage. When Jonas Osborne recognizes the man behind the escalating violence, he joins forces with a psychic criminologist to stop him, setting up a dark, high-stakes thriller built on obsession, trauma, and a looming final reckoning.
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Rudiger doesn't kill because he wants to. He kills because he needs to. When the sadistic Preacherman stole the last bit of Rudiger's already troubled childhood soul, Rudiger lost himself forever. He has committed atrocities even he cannot explain in his quest for the End of Days, a release from his pain by finding and crucifying The One.
Jonas Osborne, an Army Ranger and Senatorial Chief of Staff, recognizes Rudiger’s disturbing capacity based on a terrifying firefight in Somalia almost two decades earlier. Now Jonas—and the beautiful psychic criminologist he’s enlisted to predict Rudiger’s next brutal attack—become targets. Only on the biggest international stage—a summit for Middle East peace talks—will Jonas and Rudiger meet again for one final confrontation.
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Vanishing in the Haight blends 1978 San Francisco atmosphere, personal damage, and hard-boiled suspense as Colleen Hayes hunts a long-buried killer while trying to reclaim her own life,…
Vanishing in the Haight
Mystery
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A cold case pulls an ex-con private investigator back into a city still haunted by the wreckage of the Summer of Love. Vanishing in the Haight blends 1978 San Francisco atmosphere, personal damage, and hard-boiled suspense as Colleen Hayes hunts a long-buried killer while trying to reclaim her own life, making it a strong fit for readers who want mystery with grit and emotional depth.
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USA Today best-selling author
An ex-con traces a victim’s clues to set a cold case ablaze
Between fending off a lecherous parole officer and trying to get by in 1978 San Francisco, private investigator Colleen Hayes struggles to put her life back together so she can reconnect with her runaway teenage daughter. Then her life changes dramatically. She accepts a case from wealthy, retired industrialist Edward Copeland. The old man is desperate to solve the brutal murder of his daughter, a murder that took place in Golden Gate Park eleven years earlier—during the Summer of Love. The case has since gone cold, her murderer never found. Now, in his final days, Copeland hires Colleen to find his daughter’s killer in hopes he might die in peace.
Colleen understands what it means to take a life—she spent a decade in prison for killing her ex. Battling her own demons, she immerses herself in San Francisco’s underbelly, where police corruption is rampant. Her investigation turns deadly as she pries for information, yet there is little to go on. However, a song on the radio makes her wonder—did the murdered girl leave any clues that others may have missed?
Perfect for fans of Elmore Leonard and Gillian Flynn
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This fits readers who want suspense with heart, character growth, and real emotional weight.
Dark Ride
Thriller · Mystery
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A drifting young man stumbles into a situation that demands more courage than he knows he has in Dark Ride, a literary thriller driven by danger and moral urgency. When Hardly Reed realizes two children are being abused, he cannot look away, even as his search for proof pulls him toward violent criminals and impossible choices. This fits readers who want suspense with heart, character growth, and real emotional weight.
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FINALIST FOR THE LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE!
From Lou Berney, the acclaimed, multi award-winning author of November Road and The Long and Faraway Gone, comes a Dark Ride
Sometimes the person you least expect is just the hero you need
Twenty-one-year-old Hardy “Hardly” Reed—good-natured, easygoing, usually stoned—is drifting through life. A minimum-wage scare actor at an amusement park, he avoids unnecessary effort and unrealistic ambitions.
Then one day he notices two children, around six or seven, sitting all alone on a bench. Hardly checks if they’re okay and sees injuries on both children. Someone is hurting these kids.
He reports the incident to Child Protective Service.
That should be the end of it. After all, Hardly's not even good at looking out for himself so the last thing he wants to do is look out for anyone else. But he's haunted by the two kids, his heart breaking for them. And the more research he does the less he trusts that Child Protective Services —understaffed and overworked—will do anything about it.
That leaves…Hardly. He is probably the last person you’d ever want to count on. But those two kids have nobody else but him. Hardly has to do what's right and help them.
For the first time in his life, Hardly decides to fight for something. This might be the one point in his entire life, he realizes, that is the entire point of his life. He will help those kids.
At first, trying to gather evidence that will force the proper authorities to intervene, Hardly is a total disaster. Gradually, with assistance from unexpected allies, he develops investigative skills and discovers he’s smarter and more capable than he ever imagined.
But Hardly also discovers that the situation is more dangerous than he ever expected. The abusive father who has been hurting these children isn’t just a lawyer—he also runs a violent drug-dealing operation. The mother claims she wants to escape with the kids—but Hardly isn't sure he can trust her.
Faced with a different version of himself than he has ever known, Hardly refuses to give up. But his commitment to saving these kids from further harm might end up getting the kids, and Hardly himself, killed.
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