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

The so-called Ribbon Killer has struck again, leaving victims badly beaten and strangled with a luggage tag hanging from a ribbon around their necks. Washington, D.C., homicide detective Robert Miller arrives at the scene, the same upscale neighborhood he’s been called to for the past eight months. 

When Miller discovers that none of the victims’ identities are real, he wonders if they could have been under witness protection, leading him to covert operations in Latin America and a suspect who is an expert CIA assassin. 

Overwhelmed by the volume of committed knife crimes, Scenes of Crime Officer Maya Barton wonders if the teenage victims are as innocent as they appear. 

Watching Maya from afar is a threatening figure from her past, and a struggling Maya has very little memory of her childhood trauma, except for fleeting flashbacks. Maya tries to break through her memory using a therapeutic technique, but can she find the truth before time runs out?

When Karin fell for a high-flying wheeler-dealer, she never expected things to go so badly. John is gone, along with the drug-filled parties and endless flows of cash, and they’ve been replaced with cut telephone lines, cut heat, and cut cash. Karin is only left with the mansion John bought for her and his daughter. 

John’s shady legacy will soon catch up to her as the authorities hone in on organized crime, and over the course of a few days, Karin must do drastic things to take back what’s rightfully hers. 

When hit man Hal Good murders Big Sid Sedlacek for skimming money from the mob, and Good is brought into the station as a possible witness, he swaps IDs with a drunk and bolts out of there before Detective Sergeant Mulheisen can interrogate him.

Mulheisen’s dealing with the return of an old flame who's now married to a smug computer entrepreneur who surrounds himself with some very dangerous mobsters. And when those mobsters start getting murdered, Mulheisen understands Big Sid’s daughter to be on a rampage of revenge. 

After an explosive European romantic rendezvous, socialite Pauline Cook returns to Chicago. Her finances are drained, and her best friend and cat have mysteriously disappeared. Even though Whitney Armstrong’s husband is offering a generous reward for his wife’s return, Pauline can’t help but find his grief suspicious 

A turn in the mystery leads Pauline halfway around the world to Thailand, despite a psychic’s warning of terrible disaster lying ahead. 

Amanda Boulder and her beautiful musical skills need a good publicist, and with her family as the only thing standing in the way of a successful career, Hilary Quayle is decidedly up for the job. 

Hilary tasks her assistant, Gene, to find the family of bluegrass musicians who have been touring for eight decades as they travel to Nashville and the Grand Ole Opry. But before Amanda’s solo career can threaten the family business, she’s murdered onstage at the Opry via poison. When Hilary gets to Nashville, she’ll have to learn all about the murderous Southern hospitality. 

What Charlie Greene, a Hollywood literary agent and single mother, expects to be a routine client meeting with New Age author Jack Monroe in foggy Moot Point, Oregon, has much more waiting for him. Found under the wheels of Charlie’s Toyota, making him the prime suspect, is local gossip, Georgette Glick. 

Upon discovering that Glick was shot instead of run over, Charlie is off the hook, but many questions are left unanswered. Charlie Greene teams up with Sheriff Bennett, whose interest in her seems much more than professional, to unmask the killer among the town’s eccentrics. 

Dante’s latest assignment from The Company, a nebulous security organization, takes him to his old neighborhood in San Francisco’s North Beach. After attending his estranged father’s funeral, Dante finds himself involved with a dangerous past, one that involves his ex-fiancée, his duplicitous family, and his former colleagues from the San Francisco Police Department. 

On top of everything else, Dante is being tracked down by a detective, Frank Ying, dying to know Dante’s darkest secrets. Between his own secrets and The Company’s, Dante has a sinister journey ahead.