Discounted for August 2025: Riveting Mystery and Thriller Books You Don't Want to Miss!

Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock's older brother, and his assistant Sydney Silchester flee summertime London to the beautiful English countryside. But, of course, mystery follows.

When a dead man is found in the backyard of their rented home, with a hairpin stuck through his heart, Mycroft doesn't believe it could have been a suicide. 

Now Mycroft and Sydney must follow clues deep into the dark side of Victorian England. As mystery continues to mount, the pair will venture where Sherlock and Watson never dared to go.

In the heat of the summer of 1841, five New Yorkers are brutally murdered. It's up to High Constable Jacob Hays, the city's first detective and the likeable narrator of this story, to find the killer and get justice for the dead. 

His investigation will take him into the darker corners of New York City where, over the course of multiple years, he will come face to face with gang wars, graverobbers, and clues hidden in the poems of hopeless romantic Edgar Allan Poe. 

When Jonas Wergeland, a famous TV documentary producer, returns from the World's Fair in Seville, he finds his wife dead on their living room floor. As Jonas embarks on a quest for his wife's killer, he is forced to confront the events of his own life that have led him to this point. 

Jonas will have to face near-death experiences, self-reflection, and his own infidelity in this portrait of an artist crossing Scandinavia to find justice and redemption.

Magician Valentine Hill has no legal existence due to her mother, a skilled con-artist, withholding Valetnine's real age birth place, and father's identity. Now, Valentine has been searching for years to find her mother and learn who she is. 

Forced to San Francisco, Valentine encounters her mother along with a criminal socialite, a killer car mechanic, and a gangster cab driver. When a friendly FBI agent is killer, Valentine must use her knowledge of magic and grifting to help put the criminals, and her mother, away for good. 

Jake Pace wakes up on a dungeon floor with no knowledge of the last 24 hours. For weeks the Big Bang murders had been stumping every government officer but Jake had just received a tip that could lead to the killer.

When the police found him, he was asleep next to a dead victim with a laser pistol in his hand. 

As the Big Bang killer continues his rampage on the outside, Jake must escape his wrongful imprisonment in an escapable prison, as only he can bring the murderer to justice. 

An author decides to spend a month in Eyam as a research break. One morning, she goes for a walk around the village and doesn't return. Everyone assumes she is working in solitude on her novel within her cottage. Until her husband contacts her and gets no response. 

When her husband arrives in Eyam, the author's cottage is found deserted. This begins the hunt for the woman no one knew was lost. As DI Carl Heaton joins the case, bodies start turning up. 

A thriller short story for renowned author R.L. Stine! Former convicts Wayne Mullet and Leon Maloney are working at a retirement home for chimpanzees in the Louisiana woods. The job isn't great, but it's better than prison. 

Leon can't stand the job anymore. When his resentment gets the better of him, Leon pays the ultimate price. Wayne wanted to keep his job but now he's the one left looking guilty… in front of a roomful of witnesses. 

Dr. Anthony Brooke has been called upon to spy for the British Crown in the Great War. When his mission becomes compromised, a colleague uses his dying words to tell Anthony, “There’s a spy in England… Frankie’s letter. Read Frankie’s letter….” 

With the German army after him, Anthony must find out who Frankie is and track down the truth. He is led to the seemingly innocent estate of a British publishing magnate, where he finds a world of spies, treachery, and terrorists.