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921 past books matching Mystery
A sharp fit for readers drawn to psychological crime, family secrets, identity, and the consequences of uncovering the past.
Innocent Blood
Mystery
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Called “the peak of the art” by the London Times, Innocent Blood follows adopted Philippa Palfrey as she searches for her biological parents and discovers the truth about her origins, a long-ago murder, and a series of betrayals. It has a 4.0-star rating from more than 1,700 Amazon reviewers. A sharp fit for readers drawn to psychological crime, family secrets, identity, and the consequences of uncovering the past.
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From New York Times bestselling author of the Adam Dalgleish mystery series comes a "flawlessly crafted...profoundly, masterfully moving" (Cosmopolitan) stand-alone psychological crime novel that is "the peak of the art" (London Times).
Adopted as a child into a privileged family, Philippa Palfrey fantasizes that she is the daughter of an aristocrat and a parlor maid. When she begins searching for her biological parents, The terrifying truth about her origins and a long-ago murder is only the first in a series of shocking betrayals. Philippa quickly learns that those who delve into buried family secrets must be on guard when long-hidden horrors begin to stir.
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Ideal for readers looking for a claustrophobic psychological thriller built around captivity, mistrust, and a high-stakes escape.
The Girl in the Cellar
Horror · Mystery · Thriller · Psychological Thriller · Suspense
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A woman who believes she has been held in a cellar for nearly a year sees a chance to escape when another woman comes downstairs, only to realize the newcomer may be her captor’s wife and in danger too, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 800 Amazon reviewers. Ideal for readers looking for a claustrophobic psychological thriller built around captivity, mistrust, and a high-stakes escape.
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'Wow!!! Is all I can say about this absolutely outstanding book . . . I read it in 12 hours . . . I loved every paragraph, every sentence and every word of this masterpiece!' Reader review, 5 stars
I haven't seen sunlight in almost a year.
Or at least that's how long I think I have been down here. I can only eat when I have been good. I can only wash when he says so. Every day is the same. The darkness. The waiting. The fear when I hear his key turn in the lock and I know he is back.
Until...
One day, finally, someone else comes down the steps. It's a woman... I can't believe I am finally free.
But then I see the fear in her eyes. The bruises on her arms... the ring on her finger.
If this woman is his wife, she knows exactly what he is capable of.
I hear a noise upstairs.
He's home.
Our eyes meet.
If he finds her here, will he kill us both?
An absolutely unputdownable psychological thriller perfect for fans of Freida McFadden, Steena Holmes, John Marrs, Alice Feeney and Becca Day.
Readers can't get enough of THE GIRL IN THE CELLAR!
'HOLY COW!! It grabbed me like a vice from the first page and never let go!! I stayed up until 7am reading it because I just HAD to keep reading. Wrought with suspense and tension, there were times I didn't know who was the true villain. Great book!!' Reader review, 5 stars
'Um, I don't even know what to say about this one! WOW doesn't quite cover it. The turns keep coming and the twists at the end left my jaw on the floor. For fans of just about any thriller author, this one is a must read. Go, NOW.' Reader review, 5 stars
'INTENSE! Deadly game of claustrophobic cat and mouse between killer and his next victim - things get more and more entangled, who is on who's side . . . Edge of your seat for sure!' Reader review, 5 stars
'This book was phenomenal! I could not put it down. It was a cross between Frieda McFadden's writing and a little ofListen for the Lie by Amy Tintera.' Reader review, 5 stars
'You can't help the emotions reading this book! If you are fans of Freida McFadden or John Marrs, then this book is definitely right up your alley!' Reader review, 5 stars
'This book was a real page turner. I couldn't put it down it was so so good. Really hope to read another book by this author soon. A must read book brilliant.' Reader review, 5 stars
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A disgraced surgeon accepts a secretive job for an impossibly wealthy patient, then becomes the prime target when he vanishes under her care.
Gone Before Goodbye
Mystery · Thriller · Suspense
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A disgraced surgeon accepts a secretive job for an impossibly wealthy patient, then becomes the prime target when he vanishes under her care. Maggie McCabe is already rebuilding after personal and professional ruin when the disappearance traps her inside a conspiracy where discretion can be deadly. Gone Before Goodbye is a fast-moving suspense thriller driven by medical intrigue, global danger, and a protagonist forced to outrun the truth.
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AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
In this unforgettable suspense novel that combines the storytelling talents of Academy Award-winning actor Reese Witherspoon and internationally bestselling author Harlan Coben, a woman is trapped in a deadly conspiracy—where uncovering the truth could cost her everything.
"Reese Witherspoon and Harlan Coben have delivered a winner. Gone Before Goodbye is a dynamic, riveting and twisty thriller—complete with a heroine that you’ll absolutely love." —Laura Dave, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Thing He Told Me
Maggie McCabe is teetering on the brink. A highly skilled and renowned Army combat surgeon, she has always lived life at the edge, where she could make the most impact. And it was all going to plan ... until it wasn’t. Upside down after a devastating series of tragedies leads to her medical license being revoked, Maggie has lost her purpose, but not her nerve or her passion. At her lowest point, she is thrown a lifeline by a former colleague, an elite plastic surgeon whose anonymous clientele demand the best care money can buy, as well as absolute discretion.
Halfway across the globe, sequestered in the lap of luxury and cutting-edge technology, one of the world’s most mysterious men requires unconventional medical assistance. Desperate, and one of the few surgeons in the world skilled enough to take this job, Maggie enters his realm of unspeakable opulence and fulfills her end of the agreement. But when the patient suddenly disappears while still under her care, Maggie must become a fugitive herself—or she will be the next one who is ... Gone Before Goodbye.
"A tour de force thriller that delivers a killer premise and thundering plot with serious emotional punch. Maggie is flawed, compelling and utterly real. Coben and Witherspoon are a dream team! " —Lucy Foley, New York Times bestselling author of The Guest List
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A good pick for readers who enjoy atmospheric police procedurals, troubled investigators, and murder cases rooted in law-enforcement secrets.
Among The Shadows
Mystery
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When a retired Portland, Maine, police officer is murdered, Detective Sergeant John Byron is assigned to investigate while his own personal and professional life is coming apart. A second suspicious death suggests the case reaches deeper into the department, putting Byron and his fellow detectives in danger. A good pick for readers who enjoy atmospheric police procedurals, troubled investigators, and murder cases rooted in law-enforcement secrets.
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"A first-rate novel. Suspenseful and highly entertaining." -- New York Times bestselling author Gayle Lynds
Fall in Portland, Maine usually arrives as a welcome respite from summer’s sweltering temperatures and, with the tourists gone, a return to normal life—usually. But when a retired cop is murdered, things heat up quickly, setting the city on edge.
Detective Sergeant John Byron, a second-generation cop, is tasked with investigating the case—at the very moment his life is unraveling. On the outs with his department’s upper echelon, separated from his wife, and feeling the strong pull of the bottle, Byron remains all business as he tries to solve the murder of one of their own. And when another ex-Portland PD officer dies under suspicious circumstances, he quickly realizes there’s much more to these cases than meets the eye. The closer Byron gets to the truth, the greater the danger for him and his fellow detectives.
This taut, atmospheric thriller will appeal to fans of Michael Connelly and John Sandford.
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A sharp fit for readers who like witty, darkly comic mysteries, unusual academic settings, and elaborate murder schemes.
Murder Your Employer
Mystery
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A New York Times bestseller called “fiendishly funny” by Booklist, Murder Your Employer takes readers inside the McMasters Conservatory, a secret school where students learn how to eliminate people they believe deserve it and must graduate by getting away with the perfect murder, with a 4.3-star rating from more than 5,300 Amazon reviewers. A sharp fit for readers who like witty, darkly comic mysteries, unusual academic settings, and elaborate murder schemes.
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A New York Times bestseller! From Edgar Award–winning novelist, playwright, and story-songwriter Rupert Holmes comes a diabolical thriller with a killer concept: The McMasters Conservatory for the Applied Arts, “a fantasy academy laid out like a combination of Hogwarts, Downton Abbey, and a White Lotus–style resort” (Los Angeles Times) dedicated to the art of murder where students study how best to “delete” their most deserving victim.
Who hasn’t wondered for a split second what the world would be like if a person who is the object of your affliction ceased to exist? But then you’ve probably never heard of The McMasters Conservatory, dedicated to the consummate execution of the homicidal arts. To gain admission, a student must have an ethical reason for erasing someone who deeply deserves a fate no worse (nor better) than death. The campus of this “Poison Ivy League” college—its location unknown to even those who study there—is where you might find yourself the practice target of a classmate…and where one’s mandatory graduation thesis is getting away with the perfect murder of someone whose death will make the world a much better place to live.
Prepare for an education you’ll never forget. A “fiendishly funny” (Booklist) mix of witty wordplay, breathtaking twists and genuine intrigue, Murder Your Employer will gain you admission into a wholly original world, cocooned within the most entertaining book about well-intentioned would-be murderers you’ll ever read.
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A strong match for readers who like British police procedurals, determined detectives, multiple murder investigations, and twist-driven crime thrillers.
THE COMPLETE NEW FOREST THRILLERS BOOKS 1-5
Mystery · Noir
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Detective Chief Inspector Jeff Temple and DS Angelica Metcalfe investigate five deadly cases across Hampshire and the New Forest, including a murder tied to a winning lottery ticket, a fatal conspiracy, a motorway sniper, a buried secret, and the suspicious death of an online activist, with a 4.6-star rating from 14 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers who like British police procedurals, determined detectives, multiple murder investigations, and twist-driven crime thrillers.
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GET ALL *FIVE* BRITISH CRIME THRILLERS FULL OF BREATHTAKING TWISTS AND UNFORGETTABLE CHARACTERS.
Set in Hampshire and the New Forest, meet five killers who think they are untouchable and one dogged detective who never lets go.
Perfect for fans of Joy Ellis, Peter James, LJ Ross, Angela Marsons and Mark Billingham.
MEET THE DETECTIVE:
Detective Chief Inspector Jeff Temple has spent his career staring down the worst of human nature. He heads up Hampshire's Major Investigations Team from Southampton, where the pretty villages and the deep shadows of the New Forest hide more than anyone would like to admit. Temple is a widower, sharp and unshowy, a man who long ago poured himself into the job. He follows the evidence wherever it leads. Even when he would rather it led somewhere else. Backing him up is his equally tenacious sergeant, DS Angelica 'Angel' Metcalfe.
IN THIS UNPUTDOWNABLE FIVE-BOOK BOX SET:
BOOK 1: ROLLOVER
Danny drives out to his friend’s secluded cottage in the New Forest to congratulate him on his lottery win, but finds Vince lying on the floor in a pool of blood. The killer sets his eyes on Danny and his family as the next victims – it’s clear that someone will do anything to get their hands on the winning ticket.
BOOK 2: URBAN MYTH
An American family arrives at a peaceful holiday home in the New Forest. A few days earlier, a young woman was stabbed to death nearby. They don’t know it yet, but the family has been lured here and Temple races to uncover a sickening trade in death before it claims its next victims.
BOOK 3: RANDOM TARGETS
A sniper in the shadows is shooting at random cars on the motorway, causing carnage. As the death toll rises, Temple must find their identity and motive before more bodies pile up.
BOOK 4: DYING WISH
A dying man begs his assistant to burn down his house. He is desperate to take a terrible secret to the grave. But some secrets refuse to stay buried and Temple and his team are bound to uncover the truth.
BOOK 5: THE BLOGGER
Beth comes home to find the dead body of her fiancé. He was a powerful online activist and wasn’t short of enemies. Now he is dead, and it looks like suicide. But Temple knows better. Somebody wanted him silenced.
GET THE *COMPLETE* SERIES OF GRIPPING CRIME THRILLERS IN ONE GREAT-VALUE BOX SET.
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A good pick for readers who like private-eye mysteries, Oxford settings, recurring investigators, and multi-book British crime series.
The Oxford Detective Mysteries Books 1-4
Mystery · Amateur Sleuths
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This four-book British crime collection follows Doug Mullen, an ex-army private investigator working in and around Oxford. The first case begins when he finds a body in the Thames, knows the victim, and becomes caught between a murder investigation, police suspicion, and a dangerous killer. A good pick for readers who like private-eye mysteries, Oxford settings, recurring investigators, and multi-book British crime series.
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GET FOUR ADDICTIVE BRITISH CRIME MYSTERIES SET IN OXFORD IN ONE COMPLETE GREAT-VALUE BOX SET
‘Deliciously thrilling and wildly unpredictable.’ Oxford Today
Perfect for fans of Faith Martin, Colin Dexter, Joy Ellis, Ruth Rendell and LJ Ross.
MEET DOUG MULLEN:
An ex-army loner in his forties, he has reinvented himself as a private investigator in Oxford. Dry-witted, self-deprecating and forever short of money, he is the man people turn to when the police won’t take them seriously. He has a soldier’s instinct not to freeze in a crisis, a stubborn moral code and a compulsion to help the needy and rescue the lost.
THE SETTING:
Oxford is a modern city centred around its famous medieval university. It buzzes with tourists drawn to the dreaming spires and punts on the river. But it's also a city of contradictions: bookshops and food banks, libraries and drop-in centres, faith and atheism, all side by side. A city where anyone could be murdered. And anyone could be the murderer.
BOOK 1: DEAD IN THE WATER
On an early-morning run, Doug Mullen drags a body from the Thames. He is hired to find out how the man died. The deeper he digs, it becomes clear someone wants the truth to stay at the bottom of the river — even if that means putting Mullen there too . . .
BOOK 2: WHITE LIES, DEADLY LIES
Mullen pulls a mother and daughter from a motorway pile-up and within hours the crash is all over the news. But someone watching sees a face they were certain had vanished forever. Now a buried secret is fighting its way into the light, and the people who know it are starting to die.
BOOK 3: DEAD IN OXFORD
When Mullen hears that someone from his past has died, he’s drawn into a complicated case that brings up questions he refuses to keep buried. Then he comes home to find his house ablaze and the woman he loves trapped inside. Someone has been watching him and wants him to suffer.
BOOK 4: THE OXFORD MURDERS
A young woman turns up dead in a ditch outside the city. Then another woman vanishes from a pub. Mullen had met them both just before they vanished. He must now hunt down the predator and prove his own innocence before the killer strikes again.
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A strong match for readers drawn to traditional detective mysteries, isolated settings, methodical investigations, and complex suspects.
The Beautiful Mystery
Mystery
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Part of Louise Penny’s New York Times bestselling Chief Inspector Gamache series, this mystery sends Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir to a secluded Quebec monastery after its renowned choir director is murdered. Inside the cloistered community, they uncover discord beneath the monks’ peaceful life and celebrated ancient chants, with a 4.5-star rating from more than 29,100 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers drawn to traditional detective mysteries, isolated settings, methodical investigations, and complex suspects.
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A good pick for readers who like political thrillers, intelligence operations, international investigations, and nuclear-security stakes.
Pinnacle Event
Mystery · Thriller · Techno-Thriller
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Five murders on three continents reveal that five nuclear weapons have been sold on the black market, sending intelligence expert Ray Bowman on a global search before the 2016 presidential election, with a 3.7-star average from more than 300 Goodreads ratings. A good pick for readers who like political thrillers, intelligence operations, international investigations, and nuclear-security stakes.
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"A fast-moving international thriller . . . exciting and all-too plausible" from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Sting of the Drone (Kirkus Reviews).
With the 2016 presidential election just weeks away, five simultaneous murders on three continents lead to an investigation revealing the recent black-market sale of five nuclear weapons. But who bought them? And what is their intended target?
Washington fears the bombs are timed to explode in major American cities before the election. They call on intelligence expert Ray Bowman to prevent the attack. With the help of a Mossad agent and a female South African intelligence officer, he follows a trail across the world to track down the missing nukes. Along the way, he discovers that the people who now control the bombs intend to do something much more devastating than expected, something that will make nuking a few cities look like a mild attack.
Drawing on his decades of experience at the highest levels of national security, Richard A. Clarke's Pinnacle Event—the Pentagon code for a nuclear threat—is a gripping international thriller told from the rare vantage point of a true Washington insider.
"Clarke delivers an edge-of-your-seat race across the planet that keeps you guessing until the very end." ―Kyle Mills, New York Times–bestselling author
"Clarke combine[s] real-life intelligence details with . . . narrative drive . . . will please political geeks and actions fans." ―Booklist
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With a 4.0-star rating from more than 160 Amazon reviewers, this is a strong match for readers drawn to maritime adventure, polar expeditions, technical sailing detail, and obsession-driven…
Isvik
Mystery
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Called “Great Britain’s leading adventure novelist” by the Financial Times, Hammond Innes sends Scotsman Iain Ward and wood-preservation expert Peter Kettil into Antarctic waters in search of a centuries-old ghost ship trapped in the ice. With a 4.0-star rating from more than 160 Amazon reviewers, this is a strong match for readers drawn to maritime adventure, polar expeditions, technical sailing detail, and obsession-driven mysteries.
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A Scotsman and his crew search the ice for a ghost ship off the frozen coast of Antarctica in this chilling adventure novel.
Isvik has been swallowed by the ice. It sits on the lip of Antarctica, its masts severed, its helmsman frozen to the wheel. Two hundred years old—at least—it's an impossible vessel, a ghost ship, and before its secrets are revealed, it will cause more men to die . . .
The description of Isvik is found in the pocket of a scientist whose plane crashed on the Antarctic ice shelf. No one can be sure of the ship's location—or if it even exists—but wealthy Scotsman Iain Ward is determined to find it. So desperate for adventure he's willing to die for it, Ward funds an expedition to search for the craft. When Peter Kettil joins the trek to test his mettle against the terrors of Antarctica, the sailor and expert in the preservation of wood will see firsthand just how deadly obsession can be.
A high-seas adventure story in the tradition of Ice Station Zebra, Isvik explores the horrible mysteries that lie beneath Antarctica's eternal ice.
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Ideal for readers looking for Southern Gothic suspense that mixes gritty danger, strange characters, and black comedy.
Gone South
Mystery
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Vietnam veteran Dan Lambert is broke, ill from Agent Orange exposure, and on the run after killing a man in a moment of fear. In the Louisiana bayous, he joins Arden Halliday, who is searching for a legendary faith healer, with a 4.0-star average from more than 8,100 Goodreads ratings. Ideal for readers looking for Southern Gothic suspense that mixes gritty danger, strange characters, and black comedy.
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A veteran’s moment of rage leads to a chase through the bayou in this tale of “jackhammer suspense” by the New York Times–bestselling author of Swan Song (Kirkus Reviews).
Two decades after he finished serving his country in the jungles of Southeast Asia, Dan Lambert still pays the price. As he hustles for construction work in the heat of a brutal Louisiana summer, Dan tries to ignore the pounding in his head—a constant reminder of the Agent Orange–caused leukemia which will soon end his life. And now the bank wants to repossess his truck. His attempt to reason with the loan officer does not get him far. Dan loses himself in rage, and for a moment is back in the jungle again. When he comes out of his bloodlust, he has shot the banker through the chest. There is nothing to do but run. On his trail are two peculiar bounty hunters: a onetime Siamese twin and a heavyset Elvis impersonator. To save his own life, Dan is going to have to remember why it was worth living in the first place.
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Ideal for readers looking for YA mysteries with puzzles, reality-show tension, sabotage, and a closed-circle murder investigation.
The Escape Game
Mystery · Romance · Teen + Young Adult · Thriller
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A #1 New York Times bestseller called “An absolute winner—sharp, suspenseful, and so much fun” by Karen M. McManus, this young adult mystery sends four contestants into a televised escape-room competition one season after Alicia Angelos was murdered on set. Alicia’s sister Sierra enters seeking justice, but clues to the killer put every contestant in danger, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 300 Amazon reviewers. Ideal for readers looking for YA mysteries with puzzles, reality-show tension, sabotage, and a closed-circle murder investigation.
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An unforgettable young adult murder mystery set in an escape-room themed game show filled with sabotage, betrayal, and puzzles to die for.
“An absolute winner—sharp, suspenseful, and so much fun.” —Karen M. McManus, #1 New York Times bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying
It’s all fun and games until someone ends up dead.
Six months ago, season four of The Escape Game ended in horror when contestant Alicia Angelos was found murdered on set.
Now season five is underway, and new contestants are ready to put their skills to the test solving the show's trickiest escape rooms. There's Adi, the cryptographer; Carter, the math whiz; Beck, the wannabe game master; and . . . Sierra Angelos, the girl who got away with her sister’s murder. Or so everyone believes.
But Sierra’s not just here to win. She’s here for justice.
When the contestants begin uncovering clues that hint at the identity of Alicia’s true killer, it becomes clear that the stakes aren’t high just in this competition—they’re deadly. If these teens want to win—and survive—the game, they must solve the biggest mystery of all: who killed Alicia Angelos?
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Marissa Meyer and rising star Tamara Moss comes a twisty thrill-ride that will take readers on an exhilarating hunt to uncover secrets, conspiracy, and cold-blooded murder.
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