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922 past books matching Mystery
Dale Brown’s Executive Intent, a 4.4-star techno-thriller, throws Patrick McLanahan into a deadly contest of global dominance.
Executive Intent
Mystery · Thriller
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Dale Brown’s Executive Intent, a 4.4-star techno-thriller, throws Patrick McLanahan into a deadly contest of global dominance. As superpowers battle for control of space and sea, the fate of the world teeters on the edge. With cutting-edge weaponry, nonstop action, and international intrigue, this New York Times bestseller cements Brown as the master of military thrillers.
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When the balance of global power shifts into space and the seas, the world edges closer to war. A new generation of military technology promises dominance, but every superpower wants control. And one wrong move could ignite a conflict that consumes the planet.
Enter Patrick McLanahan, the battle-tested leader at the center of Dale Brown’s long-running techno-thriller series. As political tensions spiral and secret operations collide, Patrick must navigate rival nations, rogue strategies, and a terrifying arms race. The enemy is everywhere, above the skies, beneath the oceans, and hidden in plain sight.
In Executive Intent, New York Times bestselling author Dale Brown unleashes a high-octane thriller of near-future warfare, where technological supremacy is the prize and survival is the only goal.
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In 1960s California, lonely teenager Evie Boyd becomes captivated by a group of older girls and is drawn into a commune ruled by a charismatic leader.
The Girls
Mystery · Thriller · Psychological Thriller
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In 1960s California, lonely teenager Evie Boyd becomes captivated by a group of older girls and is drawn into a commune ruled by a charismatic leader. As her attachment to the enigmatic Suzanne deepens, Evie edges closer to an act of violence she cannot comprehend. The Girls is a widely acclaimed novel about longing, influence, and the dangerous search for connection.
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THE INSTANT BESTSELLER • An indelible portrait of girls, the women they become, and that moment in life when everything can go horribly wrong
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR, The Guardian, Entertainment Weekly, San Francisco Chronicle, Financial Times, Esquire, Newsweek, Vogue, Glamour, People, The Huffington Post, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Time Out, BookPage, Publishers Weekly, Slate
Northern California, during the violent end of the 1960s. At the start of summer, a lonely and thoughtful teenager, Evie Boyd, sees a group of girls in the park, and is immediately caught by their freedom, their careless dress, their dangerous aura of abandon. Soon, Evie is in thrall to Suzanne, a mesmerizing older girl, and is drawn into the circle of a soon-to-be infamous cult and the man who is its charismatic leader. Hidden in the hills, their sprawling ranch is eerie and run down, but to Evie, it is exotic, thrilling, charged—a place where she feels desperate to be accepted. As she spends more time away from her mother and the rhythms of her daily life, and as her obsession with Suzanne intensifies, Evie does not realize she is coming closer and closer to unthinkable violence.
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize • Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Award • Shortlisted for The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize • The New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • Emma Cline—One of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists
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Wall Street Journal bestselling author Kendra Elliot launches the Noelle Marshall series with Her First Mistake, a 4.5-star thriller with more than 14,000 reviews.
Her First Mistake
Mystery · Thriller · Suspense
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Wall Street Journal bestselling author Kendra Elliot launches the Noelle Marshall series with Her First Mistake, a 4.5-star thriller with more than 14,000 reviews. When her husband’s unsolved murder is reopened thirteen years later, detective Noelle must face buried secrets and lies. Twisty, suspenseful, and unforgettable, this series opener will keep readers up all night.
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Thirteen years ago, Assemblyman Derrick Bell was murdered in his home. His wife, Noelle Marshall, was left for dead. The crime was never solved. The whispers never stopped.
Now Noelle is a detective, and the FBI has reopened the case. Every new lead forces her to confront memories she buried—her abusive childhood, her troubled marriage, and the truth about the night Derrick died. He was not the man the world believed, but Noelle carries secrets of her own, secrets that could unravel everything.
As past and present collide, the investigation spirals into dangerous territory. Derrick’s murder was not just unsolved, it was unfinished. To stop the next victim from falling, Noelle must finally reveal what really happened that night.
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Ideal for readers who like historical whodunnits, queer sleuths, mansion murders, and secrets shaped by dangerous laws.
A Queer Case
Historical Fiction · LGBTQIA+ · Historical Mystery
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n 1929 London, bank clerk Selby Bigge moves between respectable daytime life and the city’s queer underworld until a murder at a Hampstead mansion gives him the mystery he has been longing for. Everyone has a motive, but solving the crime means risking exposure of the secret that could get him arrested. Ideal for readers who like historical whodunnits, queer sleuths, mansion murders, and secrets shaped by dangerous laws.
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A gripping 1920s-set whodunnit, this debut features a queer sleuth who must solve a murder in a mansion on London’s Hampstead Heath without revealing his sexuality, lest he be arrested as a criminal.
Nominated for the 2026 Crime Writers of America Dagger Award and winner of the 2026 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Mystery, the debut title of The Selby Bigge Mysteries series will leave readers eager for the next installment. Perfect for fans of Nicola Upson’s Josephine Tey novels.
London, 1929.
Selby Bigge is a bank clerk by day and a denizen of the capital’s queer underworld by night, but he yearns for a life that will take him away from his ledgers, loveless trysts and dreary bedsit in in which his every move is scrutinised by a nosy landlady. So when he meets Patrick, son of knight of the realm and banking millionaire Sir Lionel Duker, he is delighted to find himself catapulted into a world of dinners at The Ritz and birthday parties at his new friend’s family mansion on Hampstead Heath.
But money, it seems, can’t buy happiness. Sir Lionel is being slandered in the press, his new young wife Lucinda is being harassed by an embittered journalist and Patrick is worried he’ll lose his inheritance to his gold-digging stepmother. And when someone is found strangled on the billiards room floor after a party it doesn’t take long for Selby to realise everyone has a motive for murder.
Can Selby uncover the truth while keeping his own secrets buried?
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Best for readers who like YA romantic thrillers built around grief, guilt, forbidden attraction, and unsettling secrets.
Everything We Never Said
Mystery · Teen + Young Adult · Thriller · Dark Romance
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Months after the accident that killed her best friend, Ella returns to school and grows closer to Hayley’s boyfriend, Sawyer. When Hayley’s journal reveals troubling secrets about their relationship, Ella must question how well she knew them both, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 1,800 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who like YA romantic thrillers built around grief, guilt, forbidden attraction, and unsettling secrets.
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Dark romance, high stakes, and plot twists abound in this paperback original YA thriller that's perfect for fans of Colleen Hoover.
What you don't know can hurt you....
It’s been months since the accident that killed Ella’s best friend, Hayley, and Ella can’t stop blaming herself. Now Ella is back at school, and everywhere she looks are reminders of her best friend—including Sawyer, Hayley’s boyfriend. Little by little, they grow closer, until Ella realizes something horrifying . . .
She’s in love with her dead best friend’s boyfriend.
Racked with guilt, Ella turns to Hayley’s journal, hoping she’ll find something in the pages that will make her feel better about what’s happening. Instead, she discovers that Sawyer has secrets of his own and that his relationship with Hayley wasn’t as picture-perfect as it seemed.
Ella knows she should stay away but finds herself inextricably drawn to him—and scared of everything she never knew about him. Perhaps it’s his grief. Or maybe his desires, cut short by tragedy. Or could it be something twisted only Hayley knew about?
A dark, romantic thriller perfect for fans of Colleen Hoover and Laura Nowlin, Everything We Never Said explores the secrets in even the best of friendships and asks how well you ever know the ones you love.
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A witty, atmospheric fit for readers who enjoy Golden Age cozy mysteries, locked-room puzzles, ensemble suspects, and 1930s Scotland.
Only Murders in the Abbey
Historical Fiction · Mystery · Cozy Mystery · Historical Mystery
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During a Highland Ball at Loch Down Abbey, a guest is found dead inside the locked library, leaving housekeeper Mrs MacBain to sort through a crowded house of suspects, motives, and secrets before the killer strikes again, with a 4.0-star average from more than 900 Goodreads ratings. A witty, atmospheric fit for readers who enjoy Golden Age cozy mysteries, locked-room puzzles, ensemble suspects, and 1930s Scotland.
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A brilliantly twisty and deliciously witty Golden Age, locked-room murder mystery to transport you to 1930s Scotland. Perfect for fans of Agatha Christie, Richard Osman and Janice Hallett.
'Mrs MacBain, thank god it's you.' Without another word, he grabbed her arm and pulled her into the room, locking the door behind them. Mrs MacBain turned around, clearly offended at being manhandled, but then gasped, 'Is that blood?'
Loch Down Abbey is full of guests for a Highland Ball. Including several uninvited members of the Inverkillen clan, the Abbey's former residents. Housekeeper Mrs MacBain thinks her biggest challenge will be finding suitable rooms for everyone and keeping the peace at cocktail hour.
Until the morning after the ball, when one of the guests is discovered inside the Abbey's library - as dead as a doornail.
Who would have had motive to want them dead? And how did they manage to commit their crime and escape while keeping the door locked from the inside?
With an Abbey full of suspects and secrets, it is down to Mrs MacBain to catch the killer before they strike again...
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Anne Frasier’s The Body Reader, winner of the Thriller Award for Best Paperback Original, has 4.5 out of 5 stars and more than 27,000 reviews.
The Body Reader
Mystery · Police Procedural
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Anne Frasier’s The Body Reader, winner of the Thriller Award for Best Paperback Original, has 4.5 out of 5 stars and more than 27,000 reviews. Detective Jude Fontaine, once held captive for three years, returns with the uncanny ability to read body language and only she can stop a killer preying on women. Dark, riveting, and unforgettable, this thriller grips from page one.
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Detective Jude Fontaine spent three years locked in an underground cell. Her only lifeline was studying the face of her sadistic captor every twitch, every glance, every flicker of thought. It was the skill that kept her alive.
Now free, Jude returns to Homicide with scars no one can see and an uncanny ability to read the living and the dead. Her colleagues doubt her sanity. Her new partner, Uriah Ashby, carries secrets of his own and doesn’t want her on the case.
But a brutal killer is targeting young women, and time is running out. To stop him, Jude must trust the instincts forged in captivity and prove that the madness which almost broke her may be the very thing that saves lives.
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Warren Ellis’s Crooked Little Vein is a filthy, fearless noir that blends Chandler’s grit with Palahniuk’s grotesque humor.
Crooked Little Vein
Mystery · Literary Fiction · Sci-Fi · Thriller
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Warren Ellis’s Crooked Little Vein is a filthy, fearless noir that blends Chandler’s grit with Palahniuk’s grotesque humor. With 4.2 out of 5 stars on Amazon, this cult classic follows burned-out PI Michael McGill as he’s hired to recover the secret U.S. Constitution, dragging him through America’s depraved underworld. Dark, satirical, and wickedly funny, it’s not for the faint of heart.
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"May be destined to become one of the great underground classics of the twenty-first century." —Lansing State Journal
Burned-out private dick Michael McGill needs to jump-start his career. What he gets instead is a cattle prod to the crotch. The president's heroin-addicted chief of staff wants McGill to find the Constitution—the real one the Founding Fathers secretly devised for the time of gravest crisis. And with God, civility, and Mom's homemade apple pie already dead or dying, that time is now. But McGill has a talent for stumbling into every imaginable depravity—and this case is driving him even deeper into America's darkest, dankest underbelly, toward obscenities that boggle even his mind.
"Combines the noir sensibilities of Raymond Chandler with the grotesqueness of Chuck Palahniuk's infamous short story 'Guts' and the acerbic social commentary of William S. Burroughs's Naked Lunch." —Chicago Tribune
"Laugh-out-loud funny . . . a deeply inventive look at the undercurrents beneath the mainstream popular culture." —Charlotte Observer
"Not for the faint of heart." —Entertainment Weekly
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Jeffrey Archer, the legendary author of Kane & Abel and the Clifton Chronicles, returns with Traitors Gate, a 4.3-star William Warwick thriller.
Traitors Gate
Mystery · Thriller
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Jeffrey Archer, the legendary author of Kane & Abel and the Clifton Chronicles, returns with Traitors Gate, a 4.3-star William Warwick thriller. With just 24 hours to prevent the heist of the century, Scotland Yard must stop a criminal genius targeting the Crown Jewels. Smart, tense, and utterly gripping, this bestseller cements Archer’s reputation as a master of suspense.
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The Tower of London. Impenetrable. Secure. Home to the Crown Jewels. Once a year, those priceless treasures leave their fortress for the State Opening of Parliament. Scotland Yard has always protected them flawlessly. Until now.
Detective William Warwick faces the most dangerous case of his career when a brilliant criminal mastermind sets his sights on the ultimate prize. With an insider feeding him secrets, the heist of the century seems unstoppable.
Warwick and his elite squad race against the clock through London’s streets, knowing that one mistake could mean catastrophic failure and international humiliation.
From Jeffrey Archer, master storyteller and author of Kane & Abel, comes a razor-sharp thriller where twenty-four hours will decide history, and only one side can win.
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Michael Connelly’s The Lincoln Lawyer launched the iconic series behind Netflix’s #1 show.
The Lincoln Lawyer
Mystery
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Michael Connelly’s The Lincoln Lawyer launched the iconic series behind Netflix’s #1 show. With 4.6 out of 5 stars and over 250,000 Goodreads ratings, this bestselling legal thriller follows defense attorney Mickey Haller as a dream case spirals into a deadly fight for his life. Razor-sharp, suspenseful, and impossible to put down, this is courtroom drama at its finest.
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Mickey Haller is a criminal defense attorney who runs his practice from the backseat of a Lincoln Town Car. From bikers to drug dealers, his clients are as messy as Los Angeles itself. For Mickey, guilt and innocence are secondary. The real game is negotiation, manipulation, and sometimes justice.
When a Beverly Hills playboy is charged with assault, Mickey lands what looks like a franchise case. The kind that pays big and promises prestige. At first, it seems like his easiest win in years. Then someone close to him ends up dead.
Suddenly, the courtroom isn’t just about his client’s future. It’s about his survival. To beat a predator this ruthless, Mickey must use every trick he knows before the law delivers his own death sentence.
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Perfect for fans of British murder mysteries, this gripping case is only the beginning.
Aspire to Die
Mystery · Police Procedural
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With 4.3 out of 5 stars and over 10,000 ratings, Aspire to Die launches M S Morris’s acclaimed Oxford-set Bridget Hart series. When a student is brutally murdered inside the university’s elite walls, a newly promoted detective must untangle secrets of privilege, lust, and ambition. Perfect for fans of British murder mysteries, this gripping case is only the beginning.
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Lust. Ambition. Murder.
When a beautiful, wealthy student is found dead in her room in Oxford’s most prestigious college, Detective Inspector Bridget Hart is called to investigate. The murdered girl appeared to have no enemies, yet was killed in a brutal and bloody assault.
Haunted and driven by her own personal tragedy, newly promoted DI Bridget Hart has a lot to prove as she leads her first murder case. Her investigation uncovers a tangled web of lies, lust and ambition, and brings her into conflict with powerful interests.
But no one can be above suspicion within the closed and claustrophobic confines of an Oxford college, where students and academics live and work side by side, and a ruthless killer waits to strike again.
Set amongst the dreaming spires of Oxford University, the Bridget Hart series is perfect for fans of Elly Griffiths, JR Ellis, Faith Martin and classic British murder mysteries.
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With 4.4 out of 5 stars on Amazon, this chilling tale of murder, corruption, and survival in 18th-century Stockholm is perfect for fans of The Alienist and richly…
The Wolf and the Watchman
Historical Fiction · Historical Mystery · Historical Thriller
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Niklas Natt och Dag’s The Wolf and the Watchman is a #1 international bestseller hailed as “the best historical thriller I’ve read in twenty years” (A.J. Finn). With 4.4 out of 5 stars on Amazon, this chilling tale of murder, corruption, and survival in 18th-century Stockholm is perfect for fans of The Alienist and richly atmospheric crime fiction.
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Stockholm, 1793. A mutilated corpse rises from the rancid waters of the Larder, a grotesque puzzle that could unravel the city itself. With the monarchy collapsing and whispers of conspiracy everywhere, the investigation falls to Cecil Winge, a brilliant lawyer whose health is failing, and Mikel Cardell, a cynical watchman drowning his past in drink.
Together, they descend into Stockholm’s underworld: thieves’ dens, brothels, workhouses, and palaces alike, where corruption festers behind every door. Each clue peels back another layer of the city’s rot, revealing lives destroyed by greed, cruelty, and desperation.
Time is running out—for Winge’s body, for Cardell’s soul, and for justice itself. This is no simple murder. It is Stockholm laid bare, in all its blood, brilliance, and ruin.
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