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

Former defense attorney Mick Ward just wants a quiet life after his latest drug-fueled collapse that left him divorced, disbarred, and broke. 

But when Mick finds the dead body of his friend Elliot's past criminal rival on his property, and there's a gun planted in Elliot's house, Mick has no choice but to get involved. Elliot is running for Portland's city council and is a vocal Black Lives Matter activist who suspects vengeful cops to be the culprits targeting him. 

With Mick disbarred from practicing law, he will have to go to great lengths to help his friend.

Years ago, five angry people flipped the car of a criminally negligent driver after he ran down a church lady in Dorchester, leaving him completely brain-damaged and disfigured. 

More recently, a playboy lawyer has plunged from the roof of a Boston hotel, and a Rhode Island strip club owner has been found dead. Both men were seen with the same woman who left behind a mysterious trail of filterless cigarettes, purple lipstick, and French perfume, and both men were members of the so-called Dorchester Five. 

Now, homicide cop Marina Papanikitas has a hunch that these murders might just be the beginning of one femme fatale's vengeful rampage. 

Amid the whir of city life, a young woman from Harlem is drawn into Manhattan's darkly glamorous underworld and hired as an assassin for its most dangerous denizens.

Ten years later, even though Phyllis LeBlanc has given up her old life, the man she loved, and even her own dreams, the ghosts from her past still haunt her. 

When history shows up on her doorstep and threatens the people she loves, Phyllis will have to make a harrowing choice before it’s too late.

Sister Mary Helen is sinfully good at snooping through the San Francisco fog. So when a fellow OWL (Older Woman's League) member disappears, police assume Erma left of her own accord, and Sister feels a Higher Authority urging her to investigate. 

Investigations lead Sister to find a gold medal entangled in Erma's bedsprings and a cryptic clue pointing toward a Byzantine Madonna. By the time Police Inspector Kate Murphy joins the hunt, the sharp-eyed nun's unauthorized sleuthing has drawn her to the Mission District and into a dangerous brush with death.

Reintroduce yourself to characters seen in Rockstar Games' interactive crime thriller L.A. Noire with this exciting anthology of 1940s Hollywood murder, deception, and mystery. 

Explore the lives of actresses desperate for the Hollywood spotlight, and new spins on familiar cases from the game through tales of emotionally torn protagonists, corrupt schemers, and their ill-fated victims.

Featuring original short fiction by Megan Abbott, Lawrence Block, Joe Lansdale, Joyce Carol Oates, Francine Prose, Jonathan Santlofer, Duane Swierczynski, and Andrew Vachss, this collection will appeal to suspense and gamer fans everywhere.

For centuries, Thistlewood Manor has been a beacon of the British aristocracy in rural England and home to the Montagu family. But 1928 is a new age for women's rights, and free-spirited Eliza Montagu has left her family to live in London as an artist. 

After Eliza is summoned home to help her family run their ailing business, she stays and wonders if she and her childhood best friend Oliver might ever fulfill their unrequited love. 

Eliza's big wedding day has finally come, but a shocking twist leaves someone dead and all fingers pointing towards the bride-to-be. Can she crack the case and tie the knot for good? 

Brody Ellis needs cash and a lot of luck to buy his sister Molly's medication. He desperately robs a convenience store, but bumps into someone and loses his wallet on the way out.

When Blair Maya calls with Ellis's wallet, she offers him a deal in exchange. Brody must steal her late mother's diamonds from her evil stepmom, but Brody instead finds a brutal crime scene, a security camera, and realizes he's been framed. Blair calls again and says the police won't get the footage, but her infamous mobster father will exact his own kind of revenge. 

So, Brody and Molly go on the run and realize they've become pawns in someone else's twisted game, someone they're all too familiar with. 

Joy killed Adam Gordon for what he did to her sister, Grace. Now Adam can’t harm anyone ever again, and her sister can be free.

But when someone who knows what Joy did starts threatening to out her as a cold-blooded murderer if she doesn't reveal her seemingly mundane town's scandalous secrets, Joy spirals out of control as the demands escalate. 

Finding herself falling for Adam's half-brother, Joy must unmask her blackmailer before the truth is exposed once and for all.