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921 past books matching Mystery
A killer dies on the anniversary of a crime everyone thought was buried, and the evidence points somewhere impossible.
Blood Ties
Mystery · Police Procedural
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A killer dies on the anniversary of a crime everyone thought was buried, and the evidence points somewhere impossible. In Blood Ties, Ben Devlin investigates the murder of a man once imprisoned for killing his girlfriend, only to find traces of the dead woman’s blood at the new crime scene. This fits police procedural with its methodical investigation, emotional weight, and unsettling cold-case echoes.
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'A clever, engaging and beautifully crafted police procedural' Irish Independent
'Some of the very best crime fiction being written today' Lee Child on Bad Blood
How can a dead woman avenge herself on her killer twenty years after her murder?
This is the puzzle facing Ben Devlin in his latest case. He is called to the scene of a murder - a man has been stabbed to death in his rented room and when his identity is discovered Devlin feels a ghost walk over his grave as he knows the name Brooklyn Harris well. As a teenager, Harris beat his then-girlfriend Hannah Row to death, and then spent twelve years in prison for the murder.
As Devlin investigates the dead man's movements since his release it becomes apparent Harris has been grooming teenage girls online and then arranging to meet them. But his activities have been discovered by others, notably a vigilante, who goes straight to the top of Devlin's list of suspects... until he uncovers that Harris was killed on the anniversary of Hannah's death - just too big a coincidence in Devlin's books. So Hannah's family join the ever-growing list of suspects being interviewed by his team. And then forensics contact Devlin with the astounding news that blood found on Harris's body is a perfect match to that of Hannah Row's. Yet how can this be; the girl was murdered many years ago - and Devlin doesn't believe in ghosts.
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Grief and violence collide as a detective hunts a killer who leaves behind a chilling signature.
Hide
Mystery · Thriller · Suspense
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Grief and violence collide as a detective hunts a killer who leaves behind a chilling signature. In Hide, Harriet Foster takes on a serial murder case while struggling to earn trust on a new team and outrun the weight of her own loss. This is a dark, fast-moving police procedural with a hard-edged lead, mounting dread, and secrets that cut close to home.
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The closer she gets to the truth, the more dangerous her friend’s disappearance becomes.
Behind These Four Walls
Thriller · Mystery · Suspense
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The closer she gets to the truth, the more dangerous her friend’s disappearance becomes. In Behind These Four Walls, Isla infiltrates a wealthy family’s mansion to uncover what happened to Eden, only to find that every answer leads to another betrayal. This is a tense domestic thriller built on buried secrets, shifting loyalties, and the cost of chasing justice inside a family built to protect itself.
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From the author of Not What She Seems, Yasmin Angoe’s thriller explores revenge, morality, corruption, and wealth as a woman sets out to uncover the truth behind her friend’s disappearance and expose the powerful family behind it.
Isla Thorne had a rough start in life. Orphaned young, she spent her formative years in a group home where she met her best friend, Eden Galloway. At sixteen, they decide to run away to LA…but Eden never makes it.
It’s been ten years since Eden vanished. And Isla’s determined to find her.
She begins at the last place Eden visited: the Corrigan mansion in Virginia. Eden claimed to have unfinished business there. Posing as an aspiring journalist, Isla insinuates herself into the wealthy family’s home and begins searching for the truth.
The more she digs, the more Isla discovers Eden isn’t who she thought she was. Was she even a victim, or did Eden plan this all along? Desperate for answers and to keep her identity hidden, Isla finds an ally in one of the Corrigan sons. But as she wades deeper into this power-hungry family’s secrets and lies, she finds herself in the crosshairs of a bloodline that’s more lethal than loyal.
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It fits crime thriller readers who want a damaged investigator, coastal atmosphere, and a case shaped by both violence and personal trauma.
The Lines
Mystery · Police Procedural
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The sea offers no peace when a murder drags an already haunted detective back into danger. In The Lines, DS Liam Kilshaw returns to a rugged Cornish community where bodies, gang ties, and local suspicion keep tightening the pressure. It fits crime thriller readers who want a damaged investigator, coastal atmosphere, and a case shaped by both violence and personal trauma.
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Once you cross the wrong lines, there’s no turning back.
For DS Liam Kilshaw, a former marine who almost died on a mission gone wrong, returning to the sea was meant to help combat his PTSD. But when he’s called out with the lifeboat crew off the rugged Cornish coast at night, the dark danger of the waves comes crashing back. The body of a young man is floating in the water, and the zip-tie marks on his wrists show this is no tragic drowning—it’s murder.
It’s not the first suspicious death to shock the tight-knit community: the identical discovery of a young woman with connections to a county lines drugs gang leads Kilshaw to suspect the killings must be linked. But as the brooding Cornish coast and whispered local rumours fold darkly around him, he starts to feel he can’t trust the water or anyone in town.
As the bodies keep coming, he must confront a sinister gangland underworld as well as his own demons—before tragedy strikes even closer to home.
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It fits readers who want romantic suspense and crime thrillers driven by damaged investigators, institutional rot, and partnerships forged under pressure.
Violent Echoes
Mystery · Thriller
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In a town where the official story comes too fast, trust becomes its own kind of risk. In Violent Echoes, FBI agents Jackson Brooks and Willow Banks are thrown together by a brutal double murder that exposes corruption, grief, and a conspiracy reaching far beyond a quiet Alabama community. It fits readers who want romantic suspense and crime thrillers driven by damaged investigators, institutional rot, and partnerships forged under pressure.
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Two agents. A treasonous conspiracy. No one to trust but each other.
FBI Special Agent Jackson Brooks thought he could leave the darkness behind. After walking away from the Violent Crimes Against Children task force, he retreated to Florence, Alabama, hoping for peace. But when two people are executed at a local restaurant, Jackson is pulled back into a world he thought he’d escaped.
FBI Special Agent Willow Banks has one last chance to make things right. Haunted by her partner’s death, she’s determined to save the K9 her late partner left behind—an unruly dog the Bureau has given up on. Sent to Jackson for help evaluating the animal, Willow’s visit takes an unexpected turn when the quiet Alabama town erupts in violence.
With a corrupt police force eager to pin the murders on a homeless man, Jackson and Willow must confront their demons and trust each other to uncover the truth. Because in Florence, the real monsters aren’t always hiding in the shadows—they’re standing in plain sight.
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It fits readers who want psychological thrillers laced with obsession, unstable desire, and a romance shadowed by violence.
Shattered Minds
Mystery · Romance · Noir · Psychological Thriller · Romantic Suspense
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In Thornhaven, the search for one missing girl opens onto something far more violent and intimate. In Shattered Minds, Maeve Lockhart’s investigation into her friend’s disappearance draws her toward a veterinarian with a fractured inner life and a connection to the orphanage at the center of the town’s darkest secrets. It fits readers who want psychological thrillers laced with obsession, unstable desire, and a romance shadowed by violence.
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One body.
Two Minds.
An obsession that might bury her.
Maeve Lockhart has spent six months chasing shadows in Thornhaven, desperate to uncover the truth about her best friend Bethany’s disappearance. But her search no longer focuses on the past. It is tied to a string of violent murders, all connected to Thornhaven Orphanage, where it all began.
Caleb Blackwood keeps his distance, clinging to the quiet life he has built as a small-town veterinarian. But Caleb has a secret, one he does not fully understand, and when Maeve starts asking questions, his fragile control begins to crumble. Asher, the darker side of him, emerges, and he is impossible to contain.
When Maeve receives a chilling package signed by A, her investigation takes a dangerous turn. The deeper she digs, the more she is forced to confront not only Thornhaven’s secrets, but the growing darkness within herself. Her connection to Caleb threatens to unravel everything, and the truth she uncovers may cost her far more than her sanity.
As the lines between victim and villain blur, Maeve must decide: Can she trust Caleb to help her, or is he the very reason she will not make it out alive?
Shattered Minds is a dark, romantic psychological thriller exploring the thin line between love and obsession, trust, and the price of the truth.
For fans of psychological tension, pitch-black characters, and romance steeped in danger, Amanda Kade’s gripping novel will keep you turning pages.
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Justice gets messier when every road leads back to the place that made you.
Bluebird, Bluebird
Mystery · Thriller
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Justice gets messier when every road leads back to the place that made you. In Bluebird, Bluebird, Texas Ranger Darren Mathews heads into a small East Texas town where the murders of a Black lawyer and a white local woman threaten to ignite long-buried tensions. This crime novel blends racial unrest, personal reckoning, and Southern noir atmosphere into a tense investigation with real emotional weight.
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A "heartbreakingly resonant" thriller about the explosive intersection of love, race, and justice from a writer and producer of the Emmy-winning Fox TV show Empire (USA Today).
"In Bluebird, Bluebird Attica Locke had both mastered the thriller and exceeded it."-Ann Patchett
When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules -- a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger, knows all too well. Deeply ambivalent about growing up black in the lone star state, he was the first in his family to get as far away from Texas as he could. Until duty called him home.
When his allegiance to his roots puts his job in jeopardy, he travels up Highway 59 to the small town of Lark, where two murders -- a black lawyer from Chicago and a local white woman -- have stirred up a hornet's nest of resentment. Darren must solve the crimes -- and save himself in the process -- before Lark's long-simmering racial fault lines erupt. From a writer and producer of the Emmy winning Fox TV show Empire, Bluebird, Bluebird is a rural noir suffused with the unique music, color, and nuance of East Texas.
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It fits readers who want moody island crime, procedural tension, and tightly held community secrets.
Fatal Isles
Mystery
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A brutal murder lands in a place where everyone knows everyone, and that makes every secret harder to hide. In Fatal Isles, Detective Inspector Karen Eiken Hornby returns to Doggerland only to find herself tied to her boss’s dead ex-wife and a case that reaches into the island’s past. It fits readers who want moody island crime, procedural tension, and tightly held community secrets.
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SUNDAY TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH
FEATURED IN THE TIMES' BEST CRIME BOOKS ROUND-UP
WINNER OF THE PETRONA AWARD 2022
A remote island. A brutal murder. A secret hidden in the past . . .
In the middle of the North Sea, between the UK and Denmark, lies the beautiful and rugged island nation of Doggerland.
Detective Inspector Karen Eiken Hornby has returned to the main island, Heimö, after many years in London and has worked hard to become one of the few female police officers in Doggerland.
So, when she wakes up in a hotel room next to her boss, Jounas Smeed, she knows she's made a big mistake. But things are about to get worse: later that day, Jounas's ex-wife is found brutally murdered. And Karen is the only one who can give him an alibi.
The news sends shockwaves through the tight-knit island community, and with no leads and no obvious motive for the murder, Karen struggles to find the killer in a race against time.
Soon she starts to suspect that the truth might lie in Doggerland's history. And the deeper she digs, the clearer it becomes that even small islands can hide deadly secrets . . .
'This first novel in a proposed trilogy has terrific characters as well as effectively inventing a new
genre, Anglo-Nordic noir' JOAN SMITH, SUNDAY TIMES
'A cracking police procedural set in a richly described isolated island community' IRISH INDEPENDENT
'A suspenseful and intriguing story that combines the best of British crime writing tradition with Nordic noir. Doggerland is a unique and alluring universe that I can't wait to revisit' CAMILLA GREBE
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In a future where memories can be bought, altered, and weaponized, even private grief becomes dangerous.
These Memories Do Not Belong to Us
Dystopian · Mystery · Thriller
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In a future where memories can be bought, altered, and weaponized, even private grief becomes dangerous. In These Memories Do Not Belong to Us, a son inherits a cache of forbidden memories that could expose the machinery of an empire built on control and erasure. This dystopian novel blends speculative technology, political repression, and a sweeping fight over truth, history, and who gets to own the past.
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Best Book of 2025 by Electric Literature, PEN America, Debutiful • Top First Novel of 2025 by Booklist • Spotify Editors’ Pick • Longlisted for the Goodreads Choice Award in Science Fiction
"Ma’s These Memories Do Not Belong to Us brilliantly inventive weaves worlds around a central question: What happens when technology enables a totalitarian government to break into the last private frontiers of the internal mind? Chilling, poignant, and uncomfortably timely, Ma’s braided memory dispatches explore a future in which the shifting concepts of safety, loyalty, and truth lead nowhere except condemnation." — Tessa Hulls, author of Pulitzer Prize-winner Feeding Ghosts
For fans of Cloud Atlas and The Power, a hauntingly beautiful and prescient debut set in a future where a renamed China is the sole global superpower.
When I was a boy, my mother used to tell me stories of a world before memories could be shared between strangers…
In a far-off future ruled by the Qin Empire, every citizen is fitted with a Mindbank, an intracranial device capable of recording and transmitting memories between minds. This technology gives birth to Memory Capitalism, where anyone with means can relive the life experiences of others. It also unleashes opportunities for manipulation: memories can be edited, marketed, and even corrupted for personal gain.
After the sudden passing of his mother, an unnamed narrator inherits a collection of banned memories from her Mindbank so dangerous that even possessing them places his freedom in jeopardy. Traversing genres, empires, and millennia, they are tales of sumo wrestlers and social activists and armless swimmers and watchmakers, struggling amid the backdrop of Qin’s ascent toward global dominance. Determined to release his mother's memories to the world before they are destroyed forever, the narrator will risk everything—even if the cost is his own life.
Powerful and provocative, These Memories Do Not Belong to Us masterfully explores how governments and media manipulate history to control the collective imagination. It forces us to see beyond the sheen of convenient truths and to unearth real stories of sacrifice and love that refuse to be eradicated.
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A brutal murder in an isolated town forces a man who studies violent minds to step back into darkness he hoped to leave behind.
Impostor
Thriller · Mystery · Police Procedural · Psychological Thriller
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A brutal murder in an isolated town forces a man who studies violent minds to step back into darkness he hoped to leave behind. In Impostor, psychologist Alexander Gregory is drawn into a small-town investigation where fear spreads quickly and the killer may be hiding in plain sight. This psychological thriller pairs an eerie setting with criminal profiling, suspicion, and inward unease.
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From internationally bestselling author LJ Ross comes a tense, atmospheric thriller that explores how far we'll go to understand—and survive—the darkness around us.
There's a killer inside all of us…
In the remote hills of western Ireland, fear spreads as the locals struggle to make sense of a killer who is seemingly one of their own...
Dr. Alexander Gregory, a psychologist recovering from the collapse of a high-profile criminal profiling unit, wants nothing more than a quiet life to finally sit and think things through. But his rare ability to understand the minds of violent offenders makes him hard to ignore—especially when a small town is shaken by a brutal murder. Reluctantly pulled into the case, Gregory finds himself confronting not only a cunning predator, but the darker corners of his own mind.
From internationally bestselling author LJ Ross comes a tense, atmospheric thriller that explores how far we'll go to understand—and survive—the darkness around us.
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The world has collapsed into cold silence, but one woman still moves through its ruins with discipline, grit, and a fragile sense of purpose.
Far North
Dystopian · Mystery · Thriller
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The world has collapsed into cold silence, but one woman still moves through its ruins with discipline, grit, and a fragile sense of purpose. In Far North, a sheriff in a failed frontier city sets out after signs of life beyond the wasteland and finds brutality, mystery, and the faint possibility of redemption. This is literary dystopian fiction at its starkest and most hopeful.
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Far North is a 2009 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.
My father had an expression for a thing that turned out bad. He'd say it had gone west. But going west always sounded pretty good to me. After all, westwards is the path of the sun. And through as much history as I know of, people have moved west to settle and find freedom. But our world had gone north, truly gone north, and just how far north I was beginning to learn.
Out on the frontier of a failed state, Makepeace—sheriff and perhaps last citizen—patrols a city's ruins, salvaging books but keeping the guns in good repair.
Into this cold land comes shocking evidence that life might be flourishing elsewhere: a refugee emerges from the vast emptiness of forest, whose existence inspires Makepeace to reconnect with human society and take to the road, armed with rough humor and an unlikely ration of optimism.
What Makepeace finds is a world unraveling: stockaded villages enforcing an uncertain justice and hidden work camps laboring to harness the little-understood technologies of a vanished civilization. But Makepeace's journey—rife with danger—also leads to an unexpected redemption.
Far North takes the reader on a quest through an unforgettable arctic landscape, from humanity's origins to its possible end. Haunting, spare, yet stubbornly hopeful, the novel is suffused with an ecstatic awareness of the world's fragility and beauty, and its ability to recover from our worst trespasses.
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Going home means reopening the kind of violence that never really stayed in the past.
Every Sweet Thing Is Bitter
LGBTQIA+ · Mystery · Thriller · Suspense
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Going home means reopening the kind of violence that never really stayed in the past. In Every Sweet Thing Is Bitter, Providence Byrd returns after her mother’s disappearance believing her abusive father is responsible, only to find herself caught between revenge, family fracture, and the possibility of redemption. This suspense-driven literary novel explores inherited harm, sisterhood, and the brutal difficulty of choosing healing over vengeance.
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A woman with a violent past gets a chance at redemption in this upmarket suspense debut, perfect for fans of Lisa Taddeo and Tiffany McDaniel.
Thirteen years ago, Providence Byrd threw the family car in reverse and ran over her mother. Even though her mother survived, that single instant of teenage madness made Providence a felon and irrevocably altered her life. When her mother disappears years later under suspicious circumstances, Providence tells herself that returning home is her chance to find closure after a prolonged estrangement from her family. Never mind that this is only half of the truth: she’s also returning to finally confront her abusive father, Tom Byrd. Nothing can stamp out Providence’s certainty that he is guilty of whatever terrible thing has happened to her mother.
As the search unfolds, Providence is haunted by the wounds of her past, none of which cut as deep as the distance between her and her younger sisters. Harmony and Grace are both uniquely scarred by her attempted matricide, and both have their own idea of what reconciliations might look like – if reconciling is even possible. Harmony urges Providence to make their father pay for his sins; Grace begs her to end the cycle of violence that has haunted their family for generations. As her thirst for vengeance collides with her desire to heal her relationships with her sisters, Providence must decide which she values more: revenge or redemption.
Sharp and poignant, Every Sweet Thing Is Bitter is a stunning novel that eschews picture-perfect endings and dares to tell a story about a resilient queer woman and her relentless determination to persevere.
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