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921 past books matching Mystery
A retired lawyer returns to court to defend a friend accused of murder in Chasing Justice, the gripping ninth installment in the Matt Royal series.
Chasing Justice
Mystery
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A retired lawyer returns to court to defend a friend accused of murder in Chasing Justice, the gripping ninth installment in the Matt Royal series. Award-winning author H. Terrell Griffin blends courtroom suspense with Florida noir in this 4.5-star Amazon favorite. Fans of The Lincoln Lawyer will love Matt’s fight to untangle truth from power.
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Matt Royal swore he was done with courtrooms. That promise doesn't last long.
When Abby Lester, wife of Longboat Key’s police chief and Matt’s longtime friend, is charged with murder, he can’t say no. The victim was a corrupt local developer. The evidence? Overwhelming. And Abby? Innocent, or so Matt believes.
Forced out of retirement, Matt squares off against a ruthless prosecutor with an undefeated record. The deeper he digs, the messier things get. Sarasota’s elite, politicians, professors, and power brokers, are all hiding something, and none of it points to a clean-cut case.
Now Matt must outthink a legal prodigy, stay one step ahead of people who would rather see him silenced, and save a friend whose future is hanging by a thread.
Because this time, justice is personal.
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Perfect for fans of Clive Cussler and Carl Hiaasen, this 4.2-star Amazon favorite blends diving, boating, and biting humor with a conch-fried twist.
Wood’s Relic
Thriller · Mystery · Action Thriller
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Treasure, turf wars, and tropical chaos. Wood’s Relic by Steven Becker launches a 22-book thrill ride in the Florida Keys. Perfect for fans of Clive Cussler and Carl Hiaasen, this 4.2-star Amazon favorite blends diving, boating, and biting humor with a conch-fried twist. Start your Mac Travis obsession with the book that kicked it all off.
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Mac Travis went to the Florida Keys to disappear, but his new commercial diving job turned out to be more than he planned. An artifact discovered while working on a bridge pier quickly draws the attention of a real estate tycoon, a Jersey mobster, and twin Indian Chiefs all trying to open a casino in the pristine Keys. When his psycho ex-girlfriend tracks him down things get even more interesting. If you like Clive Cussler, Carl Hiaasen, Randy Wayne White, Tim Dorsey and John D. MacDonald check out this adventure thriller series. Features boating, diving, and fishing, flavored with a generous dose of Conch Republic counterculture.
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For readers who like beach-set psychological thrillers with old secrets and present-day danger.
The Beach Hut
Thriller · Mystery · Amateur Sleuths · Psychological Thriller
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Years after Matilda died on the Dorset rocks, Sophie returns to sell her family’s old beach hut and leave that summer behind. But evidence inside the hut suggests her friend’s death was no accident, and someone in the close-knit community wants the truth buried, with a 4.3-star rating from more than 1,900 Amazon reviewers. For readers who like beach-set psychological thrillers with old secrets and present-day danger.
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They told the police it was the perfect summer. They were lying.
August, 1997. Matilda is killed in a tragic accident on the Dorset rocks, leaving her best friend Sophie alone, wracked with guilt.
Decades later, Sophie is back for the first time since that terrible summer, to sell her family's old beach hut and bury the memories forever.
But on clearing out the hut, she finds evidence that Matilda's death was no accident. What really happened the night she died?
As Sophie edges closer to the truth, the past starts to close in on the present.
Because the close-knit community is still home to a killer, and they want Sophie gone.
An addictive and thrilling beach-set psychological thriller with a twist you will not see coming. Perfect for fans of Becca Day, Daniel Hurst and CL Taylor.
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A city already haunted by history tightens with fear as a ritualistic killer leaves bodies in forgotten churchyards.
Seeking The Dead
Mystery · Thriller
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A city already haunted by history tightens with fear as a ritualistic killer leaves bodies in forgotten churchyards. In Seeking the Dead, DI Joe Plantagenet investigates murders that pull Carmel Hennessy into his orbit through old tragedy, growing menace, and threats that feel disturbingly personal. It’s a moody crime novel shaped by serial killer tension, eerie atmosphere, and the possibility that something darker may be waiting at the edges.
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When Carmel Hennessy begins a new job in North Yorkshire, she finds the historic city of Eborby gripped by fear. A killer is on the prowl - a killer who binds and asphyxiates his victims before leaving their bodies in isolated churchyards. The press are calling him the Resurrection Man.
Tragic events from the past link Carmel with Detective Inspector Joe Plantagenet, who faces the task of finding the killer before more lives are lost. Joe's investigations lead him to a pub with a sinister history and he is forced to consider that the case may have occult connections.
Then Carmel becomes aware of a malevolent presence in her new flat and starts receiving mysterious threats . . .
Can Joe get into the mind of a ruthless killer, before Carmel becomes the next victim?
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A long-vanished serial killer resurfaces in Florida, drawing Matt Royal into a deadly game that reaches far beyond the local police force.
Fatal Decree
Mystery · Thriller · Action Thriller · Historical Mystery
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A long-vanished serial killer resurfaces in Florida, drawing Matt Royal into a deadly game that reaches far beyond the local police force. Fatal Decree, book seven in the Matt Royal Mysteries, is a tightly woven thriller with 4.3 stars on Amazon. With drug cartels, government secrets, and a killer targeting someone close, this case is personal and explosive.
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Twelve years ago, a serial killer vanished without a trace. Now he’s back—this time in the quiet coastal town of Longboat Key.
When the first victim turns out to have ties to a shadowy government agency, retired attorney Matt Royal is pulled into a case that’s anything but local. His best friend Jock works for the agency. His girlfriend, detective J.D. Duncan, is leading the investigation. And the killer might be coming for her next.
As Guatemalan gang members and cartel operatives enter the picture, the case spirals into international territory. Secrets pile up. So do bodies.
Jock wants justice. The agency wants silence. And Matt just wants to keep J.D. alive.
Longboat Key is supposed to be paradise. But something ruthless has come ashore.
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Hollywood is burning, a freeway has collapsed, and a killer may be hiding in the flames.
Hidden in Smoke
Mystery · Thriller · Police Procedural
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Hollywood is burning, a freeway has collapsed, and a killer may be hiding in the flames. In Hidden in Smoke, Sharpe and Walker join forces with Eve Ronin in a pulse-pounding thriller from #1 New York Times bestseller Lee Goldberg. With 4.5 stars on Amazon, this explosive third installment packs arson, revenge, and nonstop twists into one hell of a case.
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A serial arsonist sets Hollywood ablaze in one terrifying night. Then a freeway fire cripples Los Angeles. For arson investigators Sharpe and Walker, what began as a hunt for a firebug becomes something far bigger—and far deadlier.
They need backup. Fast.
Enter homicide detectives Eve Ronin and Duncan Pavone. As the team chases leads across a scorched city, two investigations start to converge. What if the fires weren’t random? What if they’re connected to something darker?
When an old enemy resurfaces with a deadly plan, the detectives find themselves in a race against time. The city is burning. The clock is ticking. And someone wants to turn smoke into a smokescreen.
In a case built on secrets, no one is safe and nothing stays buried.
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Two girls vanish on the night of the fireworks, and a small town starts cracking under the weight of everything it thought it knew.
We Are All Guilty Here
Thriller · Police Procedural · Psychological Thriller · Suspense
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Two girls vanish on the night of the fireworks, and a small town starts cracking under the weight of everything it thought it knew. For Officer Emmy Clifton, the case is painfully personal, forcing her to confront guilt, buried secrets, and the possibility that the truth about these girls is darker than anyone imagined. We Are All Guilty Here delivers tense suspense, emotional fallout, and the kind of small-town mystery where everyone has something to hide.
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An instant #1 New York Times bestseller!
The first thrilling mystery in the new North Falls series from Karin Slaughter, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Girls and the Will Trent Series.
Welcome to North Falls—a small town where everyone knows everyone. Or so they think.
Until the night of the fireworks. When two teenage girls vanish, and the town ignites.
For Officer Emmy Clifton, it’s personal. She turned away when her best friend's daughter needed help—and now she must bring her home.
But as Emmy combs through the puzzle the girls left behind, she realizes she never really knew them. Nobody did.
Every teenage girl has secrets. But who would kill for them? And what else is the town hiding?
"Karin Slaughter's new series starts with a book that is a knock-out punch...My God. Sign me up for more." — Dervla McTiernan, #1 internationally bestselling author of What Happened to Nina?
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In this gripping historical mystery, cook-turned-investigator Kat Holloway races to unmask a blackmailer with royal connections.
A Silence in Belgrave Square
Mystery · Historical Mystery · Historical Romance
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In this gripping historical mystery, cook-turned-investigator Kat Holloway races to unmask a blackmailer with royal connections. With her partner Daniel undercover and political conspiracies brewing, time is running out. A Silence in Belgrave Square, book eight in the Below Stairs Mystery series, blends upstairs-downstairs drama, high society secrets, and danger in gaslit London. Fans of historical whodunits, take note.
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Victorian cook-turned-sleuth Kat Holloway is no stranger to scandal, but this case strikes closer than ever.
Her beloved Daniel McAdam is risking his life yet again, posing as a secretary to a suspicious viscount with ties to treasonous plots. One final mission, his superior claims, and Daniel’s dangerous debt will be cleared for good.
But secrets are everywhere. Kat’s friends are being blackmailed, forced to align with a political agenda that could upend the Crown itself. The deeper Kat digs, the clearer it becomes—this isn’t just about Daniel’s freedom. It’s about survival.
To protect the man she loves and the monarchy they both serve, Kat must untangle a web of lies spun at the highest levels of society.
If she fails, it won’t just be Daniel she loses.
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A crime-writing festival turns deadly when a celebrity author is found dead in a locked room.
The Lying Man
Thriller · Police Procedural
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A crime-writing festival turns deadly when a celebrity author is found dead in a locked room. DS Kat Ballantyne suspects foul play—and she’s rarely wrong. Packed with literary twists, sharp character work, and a heroine who sees through the lies, The Lying Man has 4.4 stars on Amazon and proves murder never takes a holiday. Book 4 in a gripping procedural series.
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Detective Sergeant Kat Ballantyne just wanted a quiet weekend at a crime-writing festival. What she got instead was a locked-room murder and a very public corpse.
The victim? A bestselling crime novelist with a talent for making enemies.
What looks like natural causes to most sets off Kat’s internal alarm. Something’s wrong—too tidy, too convenient. As she digs deeper, she uncovers cutthroat rivalries, secret affairs, and literary grudges stacked high as the to-be-read pile.
Every suspect has a motive. Every alibi has a crack.
But this case isn’t just about finding the killer. It’s about asking the bigger question: when justice and morality don’t align, which one wins?
Kat’s instincts tell her she’s close. But the truth? That’s another story entirely.
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With 4.1 stars on Amazon, this explosive thriller is perfect for fans of hard-edged action and righteous revenge.
Houston Attack
Mystery
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Chained. Beaten. Undercover. In Houston Attack, James Hawker infiltrates a brutal trafficking ring from the inside. This gritty fifth installment in Randy Wayne White’s Hawker series delivers raw vigilante justice with a pulse-pounding mission through the Texas underworld. With 4.1 stars on Amazon, this explosive thriller is perfect for fans of hard-edged action and righteous revenge.
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Former Chicago cop James Hawker delivers justice his way—fast, brutal, and without permission.
Now deep undercover, Hawker finds himself drunk, dirty, and chained in the back of a truck filled with desperate immigrants. Captured by human traffickers and headed toward Houston, this is exactly where he wants to be.
His mission: infiltrate the smuggling ring, dismantle their operation, and make sure none of them walk away clean. With each mile north, the stakes rise. The traffickers think he’s just another victim. They’re about to learn otherwise.
Houston Attack is the fifth explosive entry in the Hawker series by New York Times bestselling author Randy Wayne White. Gritty, relentless, and razor-sharp, this vigilante thriller pulls no punches in the fight for justice.
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A chilling twist on a beloved classic, After Oz reimagines Dorothy’s return from Oz as a descent into 19th-century madness.
After Oz
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Mystery · Thriller · Historical Mystery
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A chilling twist on a beloved classic, After Oz reimagines Dorothy’s return from Oz as a descent into 19th-century madness. Gordon McAlpine delivers a literary thriller with echoes of The Yellow Wallpaper and Alias Grace. With 4.3 out of 5 stars on Amazon, this dark retelling is equal parts haunting, heart-wrenching, and impossible to put down.
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Kansas, 1896. When a tornado hits, eleven-year-old Dorothy Gale vanishes—only to return four days later with a wild story of a magical land and a murdered witch.
Her community calls it blasphemy. Her family calls in the authorities. And when a local woman turns up dead, Dorothy is blamed and sent to the Topeka Insane Asylum.
Enter Dr. Evelyn Grace Wilford, a young psychologist determined to understand Dorothy’s story. But what begins as a professional inquiry becomes a dangerous unraveling of secrets—both within the asylum and the town itself.
Is Dorothy delusional, or did something otherworldly follow her back from Oz?
Blending historical fiction with a haunting twist on a beloved tale, After Oz asks a chilling question: what if Dorothy never left Kansas at all?
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With 4.4 stars on Amazon and Stephen King’s stamp of approval, this gripping saga is perfect for fans of sweeping, high-stakes storytelling.
The Passage
Dystopian · Mystery · Sci-Fi · Thriller · Post-Apocalyptic
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A viral experiment gone wrong. A quiet girl who may be the key to saving the world. The Passage, the bestselling first book in Justin Cronin's acclaimed trilogy, blends post-apocalyptic horror, epic fantasy, and literary depth. With 4.4 stars on Amazon and Stephen King’s stamp of approval, this gripping saga is perfect for fans of sweeping, high-stakes storytelling.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This thrilling novel kicks off what Stephen King calls “a trilogy that will stand as one of the great achievements in American fantasy fiction.”
“It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born.”
An epic and gripping tale of catastrophe and survival,The Passage is the story of Amy—abandoned by her mother at the age of six, pursued and then imprisoned by the shadowy figures behind a government experiment of apocalyptic proportions. But Special Agent Brad Wolgast, the lawman sent to track her down, is disarmed by the curiously quiet girl and risks everything to save her. As the experiment goes nightmarishly wrong, Wolgast secures her escape—but he can’t stop society’s collapse. And as Amy walks alone, across miles and decades, into a future dark with violence and despair, she is filled with the mysterious and terrifying knowledge that only she has the power to save the ruined world.
Look for the entire Passage trilogy:
THE PASSAGE | THE TWELVE | THE CITY OF MIRRORS
Praise for The Passage
NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST NOVELS OF THE YEAR BY TIME AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • Esquire • U.S. News & World Report • NPR/On Point • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • BookPage • Library Journal
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