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921 past books matching Mystery
In The Worst Kind, former scientist Celeste Cleary uses a troubling gift gained after a near-fatal accident to help the desperate and the missing.
The Worst Kind
Horror · Mystery
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In The Worst Kind, former scientist Celeste Cleary uses a troubling gift gained after a near-fatal accident to help the desperate and the missing. A letter about a vanished mother draws her into a case that feels unnervingly personal. Each clue pulls her closer to a hidden predator. With 4.7 stars, readers call it gripping and deeply atmospheric.
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Once a respected scientist, Celeste Cleary's life took a dark turn when an advice column she began on a whim morphed into a search for the missing and murdered.
Her days of research and logic are now a distant blur, overshadowed by her new, eerie ability to channel the dead—a gift, or curse, that invaded her life after a hit-and-run accident that nearly claimed her life. An accident she later learned was attempted murder.
One afternoon, a disturbing letter arrives at her advice column. A desperate young woman pleads for help to uncover the truth about her missing mother—a woman who seems to have vanished into thin air.
Driven by a haunting connection to the case, Celeste plunges into the search, unaware that every clue draws her closer to a ruthless killer. As she navigates the twisted maze of secrets and lies, she risks becoming the next target in a deadly game she never intended to play.
Don't miss this heart-pounding paranormal murder mystery.
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After fighting for the Confederacy, Paul Cable returns to Arizona hoping to rebuild his life—only to find Union brothers have taken over his land.
Last Stand at Saber River
Historical Fiction · Mystery · Historical Mystery · Historical Romance · Noir · Western
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After fighting for the Confederacy, Paul Cable returns to Arizona hoping to rebuild his life—only to find Union brothers have taken over his land. With no home for his family and no faith left in the law, Cable is forced into a final, deadly conflict. Elmore Leonard delivers a taut Western about justice, survival, and a man who refuses to surrender twice.
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A quiet haunted man, Paul Cable walked away from a lost cause hoping to pick up where he left off. But things have changed in Arizona since he first rode out to go fight for the Confederacy. Two brothers—Union men—have claimed his spread and they're not about to give it back, leaving Cable and his family no place to settle in peace. It seems this war is not yet over for Paul Cable. But no one's going to take away his land and his future—not with their laws, their lies, or their guns.
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This will appeal to readers who want cold-case suspense, forensic investigation, buried loyalties, and shifting suspicions.
The Unquiet Bones
Mystery · Amateur Sleuths
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When human bones are discovered beneath an old woodland chapel, homicide detective Jane Munro and forensic anthropologist Ella Quinn reopen the decades-old disappearance of Annalise Jansen, threatening the secrets of six former friends, with a 4.2-star average from more than 31,600 Goodreads ratings. This will appeal to readers who want cold-case suspense, forensic investigation, buried loyalties, and shifting suspicions.
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Aboard the Athos—part cruise ship, part research hub, part warship—librarian Ellis McFadden enjoys unexpected adventures alongside her vice admiral daughter.
Breathing Space
Mystery · Sci-Fi · Amateur Sleuths · Cozy Mystery
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Aboard the Athos—part cruise ship, part research hub, part warship—librarian Ellis McFadden enjoys unexpected adventures alongside her vice admiral daughter. But when a patron turns up dead and suspicion falls on her, Ellis must unravel a web of secrets with help from loyal friends and her android cat. A witty, stellar mystery that blends charm, suspense, and spacefaring intrigue.
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Step into the enigmatic world of the Athos—a vessel that blends the luxury of a cruise ship, the intrigue of a scientific research station, and the might of a military starship. Here, amidst the stars, you'll find Ellis McFadden, the ship’s head librarian, embarking on adventures she never anticipated this late in her career.
Even better that she gets to experience it all while in proximity to her daughter, who just happens to be the vice admiral. But life aboard the ship takes a darker turn when a library patron is found dead, and Ellis falls under suspicion.
With her reputation on the line, Ellis must navigate a labyrinth of secrets and lies. Armed with her wits, the loyalty of her eclectic friends, and her trusty android cat, she dives into a mystery that's as thrilling as the unexplored galaxies around her. Can she find the critical evidence to clear her name before the next jump into the unknown?
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The Reaping follows forensic scientist Harry Steinbeck and agent Evangeline Reed as a new murder links to a decades-old family massacre.
The Reaping
Mystery · Police Procedural
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The Reaping follows forensic scientist Harry Steinbeck and agent Evangeline Reed as a new murder links to a decades-old family massacre. When children in Alku begin to disappear, the case forces Harry to confront the trauma of his sister’s abduction. With 4.4 stars on Amazon and over 12,000 Goodreads ratings, this thriller delivers chilling, character-driven suspense.
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By-the-book forensic scientist Harry Steinbeck and rogue BCA agent Van Reed must catch a cold-case killer who’s returned to abduct a small town’s children one by one in this heart-stopping novel from the Edgar Award–nominated author of Unspeakable Things.
In 1998 an Alku, Minnesota, family of five was brutally murdered in their sleep. The event shook the insulated community but, without any solid leads, was relegated to the cold case files, where it moldered for twenty-five years. Until today.
Agent Harry Steinbeck hoped never to return to the northland, a place that holds terrible memories of his sister’s abduction. But when a recent homicide is connected to Alku’s unsolved mass murder, he and cold case agent Evangeline Reed have no choice but to investigate.
The case grows impossibly darker as, one by one, the children of Alku begin disappearing. And Harry and Van can’t shake the sensation that someone is watching every move they make.
As an elusive killer’s trail leads to a truth more sinister than either imagined, Harry knows there’s only one way to crack this case: he must finally face the secrets of his own past—even if doing so will cost him everything.
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Dreading Darkness follows FBI Special Agent Bailey Flynn as she investigates the disappearance of a detective’s daughter and discovers two teenagers left in an abandoned car, one already…
Dreading Darkness
Mystery · Thriller
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Dreading Darkness follows FBI Special Agent Bailey Flynn as she investigates the disappearance of a detective’s daughter and discovers two teenagers left in an abandoned car, one already embalmed. Evidence points to a former gravedigger with a brutal past, now on the run. With 4.6 stars on Amazon and strong Goodreads ratings, this entry delivers tense, atmospheric suspense.
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A Murderer Works Under the Cover of Darkness, Turning Flesh and Blood into Ashes and Bones
When the daughter of a local detective goes missing from her home in Belle Harbor, Florida, FBI Special Agent Bailey Flynn joins the search and makes a gruesome discovery. Two dead teenagers have been dumped in an abandoned car near Summerset Park. One of the bodies has already been embalmed.
After Bailey uncovers evidence linking the shocking crime scene to a former gravedigger with a gruesome criminal past, she learns that the suspect is already on the run and that another young woman has also gone missing.
Determined to find the madman behind the abductions before it’s too late, Bailey follows a trail of death and destruction into the terrifying trap of a greed-fueled killer who will stop at nothing to get what he wants.
Book Five in the new FBI mystery thriller series by Melinda Woodhall, author of the addictive Bridget Bishop FBI Mystery Thriller Series and the Veronica Lee Thriller Series.
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A sharp fit for readers who like humorous Golden Age-style mysteries, upstairs-downstairs secrets, and country house murder plots.
Loch Down Abbey
Mystery · Historical Mystery
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Loch Down Abbey is a 1930s Scottish cozy mystery about a locked-down country house, a suspicious death, and Mrs MacBain, the head housekeeper who starts digging when the inspector calls it an accident, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 1,700 Amazon reviewers. A sharp fit for readers who like humorous Golden Age-style mysteries, upstairs-downstairs secrets, and country house murder plots.
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'A sharp and absolutely hilarious spoof of the country house murder mystery... The whodunnit is a fun one... Such a fantastic read. I laughed out loud reading this many times, never more so than at the very end of the epilogue. Terrific stuff' Reader review
It's the 1930s and a mysterious illness is spreading over Scotland. But the noble and ancient family of Inverkillen, residents of Loch Down Abbey, are much more concerned with dwindling toilet roll supplies and who will look after the children now that Nanny has regretfully (and most inconveniently) departed this life.
Then Lord Inverkillen, Earl and head of the family, is found dead in mysterious circumstances.
The inspector declares it an accident but Mrs MacBain, the head housekeeper, isn't so convinced. As no one is allowed in or out because of the illness, the residents of the house - both upstairs and downstairs - are the only suspects. With the Earl's own family too busy doing what can only be described as nothing, she decides to do some digging - in between chores, of course - and in doing so uncovers a whole host of long-hidden secrets, lies and betrayals that will alter the dynamics of the household for ever.
Perfect for fans of Downton Abbey, Agatha Christie and Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club, Loch Down Abbey is a playful, humorous mystery that will keep you glued to the page!
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Archaeologist Libby Snow returns to Scotland’s rugged Ullaness headland, hoping to uncover the truth behind an eighth-century legend passed down through her family.
Women of the Dunes
Literary Fiction · Historical Fiction · Historical Mystery · Historical Thriller
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Archaeologist Libby Snow returns to Scotland’s rugged Ullaness headland, hoping to uncover the truth behind an eighth-century legend passed down through her family. When storms expose a century-old body, her excavation reveals echoes of a maid named Ellen, a Norsewoman named Ulla, and a cycle of love and violence that still shapes the Sturrock estate. A haunting mystery from Sarah Maine.
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A beautifully told and intriguing mystery about two generations of Scottish women united by blood, an obsession with the past, and a long-hidden body, from the author of The House Between Tides.
Libby Snow has always felt the pull of Ullaness, a headland on Scotland’s sea-lashed western coast where a legend has taken root. At its center is Ulla, an eighth-century Norsewoman whose uncertain fate was entangled with two warring brothers and a man who sought to save her. Libby first heard the stories from her grandmother, who had learned it from her own forebear, Ellen, a maid at Sturrock House.
The Sturrocks have owned the land where Ulla dwelled for generations, and now Libby, an archaeologist, has their permission to excavate a mysterious mound, which she hopes will cast light on the legend’s truth. But before she can begin, storms reveal the unexpected: the century-old bones of an unidentified man. The discovery triggers Libby’s memories of family stories about Ellen, of her strange obsession with Ulla, and of her violent past at Sturrock House.
As Libby digs deeper, she unravels a recurring story of love, tragedy, and threads that bind the past to the present. And as she learns more of Rodri Sturrock, the landowner’s brother, she realizes these forces are still at work, and that she has her own role to play in Ulla’s dark legend.
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Three foster sisters believed they had escaped the strict and unpredictable woman who raised them.
Darling Girls
Mystery · Thriller
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Three foster sisters believed they had escaped the strict and unpredictable woman who raised them. But when a body is found beneath their childhood home, Jessica, Norah, and Alicia are pulled back into the past they fear most. A tense story of loyalty, trauma, and truth from New York Times bestselling author Sally Hepworth, with 4.2 stars and a Goodreads Choice nomination.
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SISTERS, SECRETS, LOVE, AND MURDER... Sally Hepworth’s novel Darling Girls has it all.
For as long as they can remember, Jessica, Norah, and Alicia have been told how lucky they are. As young girls they were rescued from family tragedies and raised by a loving foster mother, Miss Fairchild, on an idyllic farming estate and given an elusive second chance at a happy family life.
But their childhood wasn’t the fairy tale everyone thinks it was. Miss Fairchild had rules. Miss Fairchild could be unpredictable. And Miss Fairchild was never, ever to be crossed. In a moment of desperation, the three broke away from Miss Fairchild and thought they were free. Even though they never saw her again, she was always somewhere in the shadows of their minds. When a body is discovered under the home they grew up in, the foster sisters find themselves thrust into the spotlight as key witnesses. Or are they prime suspects?
A thrilling page-turner of sisterhood, secrets, love, and murder by New York Times bestselling author Sally Hepworth.
“Sally Hepworth writes characters you love.” —LIANE MORIARTY, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF APPLES NEVER FALL
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This is a strong fit for readers who like cold-case mysteries with isolated settings, emotional weight, and a creeping sense that the truth has been hidden on purpose.
Cold Island
Mystery · Police Procedural
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A child’s remains surface on Nantucket thirty-five years after the murder, and the most unsettling part is that no boy from that time was ever reported missing. Detective Tommy Kelly arrives to investigate and quickly finds himself up against a community that has spent decades keeping its secrets buried. Partnered with local detective Jo Harris, he starts pulling at threads tied to old violence, old silence, and a past the island would rather leave untouched. This is a strong fit for readers who like cold-case mysteries with isolated settings, emotional weight, and a creeping sense that the truth has been hidden on purpose.
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When the remains of a young murder victim on Nantucket Island are discovered after thirty-five years, a detective begins to unearth the dark secrets of a community gone silent.
Massachusetts State Police detective Tommy Kelly is called to Nantucket Island, where a boy’s skeletal remains have been discovered at a construction site—interred for thirty-five years. The crime is especially gutting for Tommy, the father of two boys. It’s also the beginning of a grim mystery. Because no child during that period was even reported missing.
Tommy is partnered with Nantucket PD’s best detective, Jo Harris, who first chafes at the idea of a mainlander encroaching on her territory. And their work together is only raising more troubling questions. Then a possible link is found to the decades-old case of a serial killer—a vigilantly hidden part of the past that this tight-knit community would prefer to forget and never speak of again.
The secrets in their silence are so shocking they soon pull Tommy into a very dark place. Suddenly, offseason on Nantucket has never felt so cold, so isolating, or so dangerous.
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A good pick for readers who like wilderness-set crime thrillers, family secrets, police investigations, and K-9 partnerships.
In Cold Blood
Thriller · Mystery
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From international bestselling author Jack Hunt, In Cold Blood follows homicide investigator Noah Sutherland as he returns to the Adirondacks after his identical twin is murdered and uncovers deadly secrets in a tight-lipped ski resort town, with a 4.5-star rating from more than 4,100 Amazon reviewers. A good pick for readers who like wilderness-set crime thrillers, family secrets, police investigations, and K-9 partnerships.
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His identical twin was murdered, now they want him dead.
From International Bestselling Author Jack Hunt comes a page-turning, suspense-filled mystery thriller set in the Adirondacks of Upstate New York.
After a highly decorated police officer is found brutally murdered in the ski resort town of High Peaks, the State Bureau of Criminal Investigation steps in. Upon hearing the news, homicide investigator Noah Sutherland returns to his hometown in the Adirondacks, believing his brother's death to be more than just a cold, methodical ambush.
Every town has secrets.
Amidst millions of acres of wilderness where one mistake can be deadly, Sutherland and his slain brothers K-9, Axel - both distressed by loss – soon bond. As they pursue the violent and ruthless through the high peaks, he uncovers the truth behind the shocking crime and the secrets of a tight-lipped community.
Every family has a past.
With the clock ticking, Sutherland must choose between his family’s safety or risking it all to seek justice for his brother. But will the uncanny resemblance to the slain, accompanied by the assistance of an intelligent dog be helpful, or will it prove fatal?
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This one works for thriller readers who like locked-room energy, multiple perspectives, and a premise that feels equal parts sinister and impossible.
Seven Reasons to Murder Your Dinner Guests
Mystery · Amateur Sleuths
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Seven strangers leave a dinner party with cards predicting the exact age they’ll die, which feels creepy but still easy enough to dismiss as a bad prank. Then one of them dies right on schedule. As the deaths begin to stack up, the surviving guests are forced to figure out who set them up and why before their own numbers come due. This one works for thriller readers who like locked-room energy, multiple perspectives, and a premise that feels equal parts sinister and impossible.
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"Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None gets a wicked update." —Publishers Weekly
Three courses. Seven guests. One card.
It's a deadly evening they'll never forget.
Seven strangers meet for an anonymously hosted dinner party. As the evening winds down, seven cards appear, one in front of each of the guests. On the card is a number – the age at which they will die. Thinking it an elaborate prank, the guests disperse into the night, hoping to forget the morbid evening forever.
Two weeks later, one of them is dead at exactly the age the card predicted.
It must be a coincidence. But as more guests die, each one dead at the same age as their card, it soon becomes clear that something much more sinister is afoot. Now, it's up to the quickly dwindling group to figure out who (or what) was behind that fateful dinner party, before their numbers catch up with them.
Told from the perspectives of each of the seven guests, Seven Reasons to Murder Your Dinner Guests is a spellbinding and mysterious exploration of mortality, begging the question: how would you live your life if you knew your number was up?
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