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920 past books matching Mystery
Some threats come from the present, and some wait in the dark for the past to catch up.
Whispers in the Dark
Mystery · Paranormal Romance · Romantic Suspense · Suspense
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Some threats come from the present, and some wait in the dark for the past to catch up. After surviving a serial killer case that made her a target, Darby Shepard must rely on a man who feels unsettlingly familiar as danger closes in. Whispers in the Dark blends romantic suspense, buried history, and escalating menace into a story driven by memory, trust, and secrets that refuse to stay buried.
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After helping the police track a serial killer brutalizing her sleepy Louisiana town, Darby Shepard made headlines that put her life on the line. Now, the only man she can trust to keep her safe is the enigmatic, inexplicably familiar Aidan Tanner who seems to know Darby as well as she knows herself. She knows this man--like a whisper in the dark that she can't quite grasp. As the danger escalates around them, the dark secrets from that past fight to resurface.
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This one is a good fit for readers who want a sharp police procedural with high stakes, familiar series chemistry, and a mystery rooted in secrets that refuse…
Big Jack
Mystery · Romance · Police Procedural
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Big Jack follows Eve Dallas into a deadly hunt for missing diamonds tied to an old heist that never stopped causing damage. Set in a futuristic New York where advanced tech meets old-fashioned greed, the story blends murder, danger, and a fast-moving investigation. This one is a good fit for readers who want a sharp police procedural with high stakes, familiar series chemistry, and a mystery rooted in secrets that refuse to stay buried.
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Lieutenant Eve Dallas's search for a precious fortune leads her into untold danger in this thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb.
In New York City in 2059, someone is pursuing missing gems from a decades-old heist...someone who’s willing to kill for them. Sharp-witted and sexy, Detective Lieutenant Eve Dallas is used to traveling in the shadowy corners outside the law. And in a future where crime meets cutting-edge technology, she will attempt to track down the diamonds once and for all—and stop the danger and death that has surrounded them for years.
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Big Jack was previously published in Remember When
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This is a strong fit for readers who like literary thrillers with a dark atmosphere, unsettling mysteries, and a constant sense that something is wrong just beneath the…
Night Film
Thriller · Horror · Mystery · Psychological Thriller
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Night Film follows a disgraced investigative journalist into the orbit of a dead young woman, a vanished cult director, and a world that feels more cursed the deeper he goes. As Scott McGrath digs into Ashley Cordova’s death, the line between obsession, performance, and something genuinely sinister starts to blur. This is a strong fit for readers who like literary thrillers with a dark atmosphere, unsettling mysteries, and a constant sense that something is wrong just beneath the surface.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A hair-raising mystery that’s equal parts family drama, horror movie, and jigsaw puzzle. . . . It’s impossible to look away.”— People (four stars)
“Maniacally clever . . . like an M.C. Escher nightmare about Edgar Allan Poe . . . You’ll miss your subway stop, let dinner burn, and start sleeping with the lights on.”—The Washington Post
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, Cosmopolitan, Kirkus Reviews, BookPage
On a damp October night, beautiful young Ashley Cordova is found dead in an abandoned warehouse in lower Manhattan. Though her death is ruled a suicide, veteran investigative journalist Scott McGrath suspects otherwise. As he probes the strange circumstances surrounding Ashley’s life and death, McGrath comes face-to-face with the legacy of her father: the legendary, reclusive cult-horror-film director Stanislas Cordova—a man who hasn’t been seen in public for more than thirty years.
For McGrath, another death connected to this seemingly cursed family dynasty seems more than just a coincidence. Though much has been written about Cordova’s dark and unsettling films, very little is known about the man himself. Driven by revenge, curiosity, and a need for the truth, McGrath, with the aid of two strangers, is drawn deeper and deeper into Cordova’s eerie, hypnotic world.
The last time he got close to exposing the director, McGrath lost his marriage and his career. This time, he might lose even more.
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Trespasser drops Maine game warden Mike Bowditch into a disappearance that looks wrong from the start and only gets darker the deeper he digs.
Trespasser
Mystery · Detective Fiction
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Trespasser drops Maine game warden Mike Bowditch into a disappearance that looks wrong from the start and only gets darker the deeper he digs. What begins as a missing woman case turns into a brutal tangle of old secrets, possible wrongful conviction, and the kind of investigation that makes powerful people very nervous. This mystery brings sharp suspense, small-town tension, and a hero who refuses to leave bad answers alone.
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In Paul Doiron's riveting follow-up to his Edgar Award–nominated novel, The Poacher's Son, Maine game warden Mike Bowditch's quest to find a missing woman leads him through a forest of lies in search of a killer who may have gotten away with murder once before.
While on patrol one foggy March evening, Bowditch receives a call for help. A woman has reportedly struck a deer on a lonely coast road. When the game warden arrives on the scene, he finds blood in the road—but both the driver and the deer have vanished. And the state trooper assigned to the accident appears strangely unconcerned.
The details of the disappearance seem eerily familiar. Seven years earlier, a jury convicted lobsterman Erland Jefferts of the rape and murder of a wealthy college student and sentenced him to life in prison. For all but his most fanatical defenders, justice was served. But when the missing woman is found brutalized in a manner that suggests Jefferts may have been framed, Bowditch receives an ominous warning from state prosecutors to stop asking questions.
For Bowditch, whose own life was recently shattered by a horrific act of violence, doing nothing is not an option. His clandestine investigation reopens old wounds between Maine locals and rich summer residents and puts both his own life and that of the woman he loves in jeopardy. As he closes in on his quarry, he suddenly discovers how dangerous his opponents are, and how far they will go to prevent him from bringing a killer to justice.
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In White Rabbit, Rufus Holt is pulled into a deadly overnight search for the truth when he finds his sister covered in blood beside her murdered boyfriend.
White Rabbit
Mystery · LGBTQIA+ · Teen + Young Adult · Gay Romance
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In White Rabbit, Rufus Holt is pulled into a deadly overnight search for the truth when he finds his sister covered in blood beside her murdered boyfriend. Forced to rely on the ex-boyfriend who broke his heart, Rufus must untangle secrets, lies, and shifting loyalties before the night turns even more dangerous. This is a fast-paced YA mystery with emotional tension, family conflict, and high-stakes suspense.
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Caleb Roehrig, author of Last Seen Leaving, delivers another spellbinding YA murder mystery in White Rabbit.
Rufus Holt is having the worst night of his life. It begins with the reappearance of his ex-boyfriend, Sebastian—the guy who stomped his heart out like a spent cigarette. Just as Rufus is getting ready to move on, Sebastian turns up out of the blue, saying they need to "talk." Things couldn't get worse, right?
Then Rufus gets a call from his sister April, begging for help. He and Sebastian find her, drenched in blood and holding a knife beside the dead body of her boyfriend, Fox Whitney.
April swears she didn't kill Fox. Rufus knows her too well to believe she's telling him the whole truth, but April has something he needs. Her price is his help. Now, with no one to trust but the boy he wants to hate yet can't stop loving, Rufus has one night to clear his sister's name . . . or die trying.
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A skeptical small-town cop and a man who can read an object’s past make a messy but very useful team in A Touch of Murder.
A Touch of Murder
LGBTQIA+ · Mystery
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A skeptical small-town cop and a man who can read an object’s past make a messy but very useful team in A Touch of Murder. Barret thinks Adam is a fraud until Adam’s visions start lining up a little too well with the evidence in a missing woman’s case. This paranormal mystery mixes murder investigation, reluctant trust, and a slow shift from suspicion to something much more personal.
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Officer Barret Whitestone loves the small town of Hidden Falls. After all, he grew up there. He takes his job of protecting the people seriously, and so when a case brings him to Touched, he's sure he has just met the biggest fraud and charlatan in town. With a murder case to solve, he doesn't have time to waste with someone he's sure is taking advantage of a grieving family.
Adam is a psychometric—a person who has the rare ability to sense an object's history through touch. But unlike most others with his gift, he can't turn the ability off. He's used to people not believing him, but when it comes to murder, he knows he can help identify a killer.
With pressure from the town, Barret humors Adam. At first, he's convinced he's wasting time and energy, but when what Adam tells him starts to match with the evidence, he can't help but believe there may be something to Adam's ability.
Forced to put their differences aside, the two slowly piece together what happened to a missing woman. Navigating through a confusing case while searching for evidence that can be used in court, they're both determined to bring a killer to justice and learn to trust each other along the way.
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It fits thriller readers who want arson, buried secrets, old wounds, and romantic tension inside a fast-moving investigation.
Burn You Twice
Mystery · Romance
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A fire from the past pulls a homicide detective back to the town she fled and into secrets that never stayed buried. In Burn You Twice, Joan Mason returns to Missoula when the man tied to her trauma is released from prison, only to find another deadly blaze and a history far more dangerous than she remembers. It fits thriller readers who want arson, buried secrets, old wounds, and romantic tension inside a fast-moving investigation.
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Fire can destroy the past. It can also uncover secrets in this novel of searing suspense by New York Times bestselling author Mary Burton.
Ten years ago as an undergrad, Joan Mason escaped an arsonist’s fire. Shaken, she fled the small collegiate Montana town, leaving behind friends and not looking back. Now a Philadelphia homicide detective, Joan’s trying to put her traumas to rest. It’s not easy. Elijah Weston, the classmate who torched her house, is out of prison and returning to Missoula. Gut instinct tells Joan he’ll strike again. To stop him, she must return to the past as well. To face not only the man she fears but Detective Gideon Bailey, too. The man she loved and left behind.
When a local woman dies tragically in another fire, it can’t be a coincidence. Can it be Elijah? He has a solid alibi for the night of the blaze. Reunited by the tragedy, Joan and Gideon have their doubts. So does Gideon’s sister, Ann—Joan’s old college roommate.
The investigation draws Joan and Gideon together, but it also sends them down a dangerous path—into a troubling history that Joan, Elijah, and Ann all share. As more lives go up in flames in Missoula, this town’s secrets are just beginning to rise from the ashes.
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A school reunion is bad enough without your best friend’s remains turning up under the demolition site.
The Reunion
Mystery · Thriller
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A school reunion is bad enough without your best friend’s remains turning up under the demolition site. In The Reunion, police officer Jennie Whitmore returns to White Cross Academy hoping to survive one miserable night of old ghosts and worse people, only to discover that Hannah, the friend she thought vanished decades ago, was murdered instead. What follows is a tense, twisty investigation tangled up with buried secrets, personal history, and someone who would very much like Jennie to stop digging.
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A skull looks up at Jennie from the trench, but it's not the chalk-white bone and grimacing teeth that send her reeling. It's the heart-shaped gold pendant, its delicate chain snapped in two. The necklace Hannah never took off. It can't be Hannah. But it is.
When Jennie Whitmore arrives at her school reunion, she immediately regrets her decision. Why would she choose to surround herself with people who were never nice to her? Who still aren't, even now she's a police officer? The only person who truly looked out for her all those years ago was charming, beautiful Hannah. Until the day she disappeared.
Jennie is ready to finally put White Cross Academy behind her, the old school building demolished the morning after the party. But with the demolition comes a call: a teenage girl's remains have been found on the grounds.
The instant drop in Jennie's gut tells her that the remains might be Hannah's, but when she's called in to examine them, the truth becomes undeniable. Hannah didn't run away and abandon Jennie thirty years ago; in fact, she never left White Cross at all.
Suddenly, Jennie has a murder to solve. The murder of her best friend. But can she do so before her colleagues discover just how closely connected she is to the victim? Before a mystery stalker makes good on his threats to silence her for good?
The Reunion is a gripping mystery perfect for fans of THE SANATORIUM, Lucy Foley, and Ruth Kelly.
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A murder at a luxury ski lodge turns a Swedish mountain getaway into something far colder and more dangerous in Hidden in Memories.
Hidden in Memories
Mystery
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A murder at a luxury ski lodge turns a Swedish mountain getaway into something far colder and more dangerous in Hidden in Memories. When a hated developer is killed, a second body turns up, and a child vanishes, detectives Hanna Ahlander and Daniel Lindskog are pulled into a case full of secrets, power plays, and old wounds that refuse to stay buried. This one has snowy atmosphere, layered suspects, and the kind of tension that keeps tightening chapter after chapter.
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NOW A NETFLIX SERIES
BOOKBEAT’S SWEDISH CRIME AUTHOR OF THE YEAR
The slaying of a hotel developer in the Swedish mountains casts a shadow over a blissful vacation paradise in a chilling novel of suspense by the acclaimed author of Hidden in Shadows.
On Easter weekend, a guest at a luxury ski lodge in Åre is stabbed to death in her plush suite. She’s Charlotte Wretlind, a property developer who planned to restore a nearby mountain hotel to its long-gone glory days. It was not a random attack. It was an act of pure aggression leveled against a woman with plenty of enemies.
As the murder spreads panic among tourists and Åre residents alike, Detective Inspectors Hanna Ahlander and Daniel Lindskog face a shady staff, a dogged press, and multiple suspects. But the case takes a turn when a cleaning woman from the lodge is found strangled to death in the woods—and Charlotte’s son goes missing.
Hanna and Daniel plunge into a winding investigation tangled with damaged relationships, corrupt power players, betrayal, and, for Daniel, a personal struggle to process the memories of a painful past. As more troubling questions arise, one thing is certain: Åre’s killing season has only just begun.
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It fits suspense readers who want serial killer intrigue, fast-moving investigations, and a sharp heroine caught in a deeply personal case.
Go Back
Mystery · Amateur Sleuths · Detective Fiction
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An FBI analyst investigating ritualized murders tied to the Ten Commandments begins to fear the killer’s message may be turning toward her. In Go Back, Kate Valentine follows a trail of cryptic deaths and fractured family secrets as she hunts a mastermind hiding behind duty, punishment, and control. It fits suspense readers who want serial killer intrigue, fast-moving investigations, and a sharp heroine caught in a deeply personal case.
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When FBI analyst Kate Valentine hunts an elusive mastermind who leaves a cryptic trail based on the Ten Commandments, she soon realizes he may just be targeting her.
When estranged relatives begin dying with cryptic messages of familial duty, Kate Valentine navigates the tangled webs of broken families to catch a disciple of an enigmatic mastermind who orchestrates murder by the Ten Commandments.
GO BACK is the fifth book in a long-anticipated new series by #1 bestseller and USA Today bestselling author Blake Pierce, whose bestseller Once Gone (a free download) has received over 7,000 five star ratings and reviews. The series begins with GO HOME (Book #1).
The Kate Valentine mystery series immerses readers in a riveting suspense filled with unexpected turns. It showcases a brilliant female lead who outwits her adversaries and is sure to win over readers with her charm. Fans of Melinda Leigh, Lisa Regan, and Lee Child are sure to fall in love.
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It fits action thriller readers who want high-pressure missions, nonstop momentum, and a hero thrown into explosive danger with no room for error.
Maximum Havoc
Mystery · Thriller · Political Thriller
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An elite operative races to stop a rogue unit from turning the New York subway into a battlefield during the height of rush hour. In Maximum Havoc, Grant Valor faces a fast-moving threat where every tunnel, station, and second pushes the city closer to disaster. It fits action thriller readers who want high-pressure missions, nonstop momentum, and a hero thrown into explosive danger with no room for error.
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“Thriller writing at its best.” --Midwest Book Review (Any Means Necessary)
From the #1 bestselling and USA Today bestselling author Jack Mars (with over 10,000 five-star reviews) comes a riveting new action thriller series. When the world comes under threat, an elite international team is called in, designed to handle the highest of stakes and led by former Army Ranger Grant Valor.
In MAXIMUM HAVOC (Book #11), as rush hour transforms into a high-speed game of cat and mouse, Grant Valor faces his most explosive mission yet: stopping a rogue unit from transforming the New York subway into a war zone. With every tunnel rigged and adversaries at every station, can Valor save a city on the edge?
The Grant Valor series delivers an explosive and monumental thrill-ride, brimming with twists that will shock and awe you at every turn. With a band of unforgettable characters whose gripping saga will compel you to devour pages deep into the twilight hours, fans of Brad Thor, Tom Clancy, and Vince Flynn are sure to fall in love.
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It fits literary historical fiction readers who want an intimate, haunting novel about fate, choice, and whether a single life can alter catastrophe.
Life After Life
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Mystery · Thriller
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Death arrives before memory can settle, and each return carries Ursula Todd into another version of the same century shadowed by war. In Life After Life, Ursula lives and dies through shifting possibilities as history closes in around her. It fits literary historical fiction readers who want an intimate, haunting novel about fate, choice, and whether a single life can alter catastrophe.
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What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies, repeatedly, in a variety of ways, while the young century marches on towards its second cataclysmic world war. Does Ursula's apparently infinite number of lives give her the power to save the world from its inevitable destiny? And if she can -- will she? Darkly comic, startlingly poignant, and utterly original: this is Kate Atkinson at her absolute best.
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