Discounted for May 2026: Riveting Mystery and Thriller Books You Don't Want to Miss!

High above El Paso, two neighbors of completely differing ideologies seemingly co-exist—for now. Raymond Dwight is a ruthless millionaire, while Leslie Young is a socialist, despising the one percent with a passion. 

When novelist Asa Baker arrives at Young’s in search of some secluded writing time, he immediately senses tension. Not long after, Young is found dead, with a strange branding on his cheek. That’s when Baker calls in backup: the hardened cop Jerry Burke will know what to do. 

Jaysmith is a hit man, praised for his ability to always get the long shot. But there’s a first time for everything, when he miraculously misses his target. 

Now is a good time as ever for retirement, and Jaysmith decides to move to the Lake District with the beautiful Anya Wilson and her son.

Hoping, for once and for all, to hang up his M1, Jaysmith runs into a problem. The man he was hired to kill is Anya’s father—and his handlers won’t let him off the hook until he finishes the job. 

Standing along the Hudson River, Augie Dubbins is the sole witness to tragedy when a young woman tosses her baby, and then herself, into the water. 

As a street urchin, Augie decides to make a few bucks off the incident and shares the story with a writer named Edgar Allan Poe. 

Shortly after the duo joins forces, they discover another body under similar circumstances—and realize they just might have a murderer on their hands. 

Daisy McGovern has just lost her home and husband—and with nowhere else to go, she returns to southwestern Virginia to live with her mom in an old inn. 

The owner of the inn, Aunt Emily, decides to bring some life into the sleepy town and throws a party for her friends and neighbors. But what starts in good fun ends in a disaster when a winter storm sweeps in, sending a bookshelf crashing down onto a guest. 

Was it an accident, or was it murder? With no way to reach the outside world, Daisy must try on the role of detective for the night. 

Barry Clayton leaves the Charlotte police to take up a new profession: funeral home manager. In the quiet Appalachian mountains, he predicts to find some much-needed peace and quiet—but boy, is he wrong.

When moving a grave, which should be a routine procedure, he discovers a skeleton with a bullet hole through the skull—on top of the main occupation. Even worse, he finds a photo of his girlfriend, Susan Miller, with the murdered man. 

Teaming up with his friend, Sheriff Tommy Lee Wadkins, Barry hopes to clear Susan’s name—and find the real culprit. 

California University mathematics instructor Pat O’Shea wakes up in a run-down bungalow—a place he has never been before. An old woman is holding him captive, for unknown reasons, and it seems the only way Pat’s getting out of there is in a body bag.

His wife, Annabel, is unsatisfied with the police’s investigation into his disappearance and decides to take matters into her own hands. Following a strange path of clues and secrets, she’ll do whatever it takes to bring Pat home. 

After a lifelong career on the silver screen, Charlotte Graham is heading off on her next adventure: a trip with her stepdaughter to northwest China. 

But, arriving in Dunhuang, Charlotte doesn’t experience the oasis she was promised—but rather a brutal murder. It’ll be up to her to piece together the evidence and find the killer. 

Emperor Justinian cannot make sense of what’s happening: why are sheep in an Egyptian village, slitting their own throats? He puts John, his Lord Chamberlain, on the case. 

At the pilgrimage destination, he’ll run into a host of characters and suspects: from a flamboyant landowner to an irate beekeeper.