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

Waitress-turned-baker Daisy McGovern is busy transforming her Virginia diner into a pastry shop when a robbery ends with a dead thief and a chef’s knife in his chest. With the sheriff away and a suspicious deputy in charge, Daisy must juggle geocachers, moonshine-brewing brothers, and a high-stakes wedding cake commission to find the killer herself. 

From secret nip joints to Appalachian peaks, she is soon pulled into a dangerous game of cat and mouse where her bakery holds the key to a second murder. Daisy must unmask the culprit before she becomes the next victim in this charming, moonshine-soaked mystery.

When the "High Church" clique at Westonbury Cathedral is upended by the appointment of an intolerant new dean, the clash of religious factions quickly escalates to actual homicide. 

Desperate to restore order, the gentle Bishop Elworthy recruits the redoubtable Baroness Troutbeck and her unofficial troubleshooter, Robert Amiss, to navigate the camp lady chapels and hidden scandals of the palace. 

Together with the observant cat Plutarch, they must determine if a fresh clerical corpse is the result of a tragic suicide or a calculated murder before the next body falls.

Florida attorney Lillian Belle Cleary likes her life organized, her food organic, and her swamplands free of dead bodies—a wish shattered by a trio of corpses and a murdered partner. 

While the cops eye her with suspicion, clean-freak Lilly is forced to clean up a messy conspiracy involving a psychic client, a Nazi neighbor, and an array of suspects. 

As she uncovers the root connecting the casualties, a relentless human predator moves in, turning her investigation into a fight for survival.

In the paranoia-fueled atmosphere of 1973 Washington, D.C., reporter Ray Hartley investigates the suspicious death of his friend, a Senate staffer who feared he was marked for elimination following the Watergate scandal. 

Ray attempts to track down a missing, incriminating tape that the victim promised to turn over to journalist Bob Woodward, but finds himself caught in a dangerous web of political corruption, hidden cameras, and threats.

With more murders piling up, Ray is left to uncover the truth behind the tape before he becomes the next casualty of a White House cover-up.

Forced from her bustling career to a remote Thai village, crime reporter Jimm Juree fears her life is over until a long-buried van of skeletons and a brutal temple murder ignite her investigative instincts. 

Alongside her delightfully eccentric family—including a silent grandfather and a bodybuilding brother—Jimm must navigate rural secrets and mysterious killings to land the story of a lifetime. 

When a ritualistic slaughter at Stonehenge coincides with his father’s mysterious suicide, estranged archaeologist Gideon Chase inherits a cryptic letter that pulls him into a lethal conspiracy. Gideon sets out to decipher ancient codes to expose a secret society that has protected the monument’s blood-soaked history for millennia.

As the summer solstice approaches, they race to stop a charismatic cult leader from completing a final, terrifying sacrifice intended to unlock the stones' ultimate power.

In the fourth book of the Alex Reynolds mystery series, Alex reluctantly volunteers for the Senate campaign of a progressive politician. With his partner Peter, Alex jokes about the incessant bomb threats that circulate in Chicago, until a bomb actually explodes and kills the campaign manager. 

Desperate for answers, Alex and Peter turn to Alex’s unwilling mother to help them get to the bottom of the mysterious act of terror. 

When Fever Devilin is killed by an intruder, an emergency medical team races to revive him. After a months-long coma, Fever awakes with two known truths: he’s been dreaming about the legendary Paris 20’s cafe scene, and his almost-murderer was after a blue tin box that held a photo of Fever believes to be an angel. 

Struggling to recover, Fever is consumed with tracking down his would-be killer, while there’s still time.