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

After being stood up at the altar, Melissa more than deserves a getaway. She decides to mend her broken heart in a luxury hotel on Paradise Island in the Bahamas. 

There are two things that catch Melissa’s eye at the Atlantis: a charming bad boy and a diamond encrusted gold seashell. The only problem is that her bad boy may be willing to go to the greatest lengths to get the shell for himself. 

When Pasadena socialite Syndney Everett’s esteemed show horse, Hush Puppy, dies under suspicious circumstances, it is up to junior lawyer Jack MacTaggart to handle the insurance claim and bring Ms. Everett solace. 

But in the worlds of litigation and show jumping, no one is to be trusted. When the case takes a turn, Jack finds himself tangled in a plot of blackmail and murder where he is both suspect and probable victim. 

As the Great War reaches its final bloody battles of 1918, Detective Inspector Ernest Hardcastle of the Metropolitan Police is called in to investigate the case of a body pulled from the Thames. 

The case is complicated by the victim’s attractive widow Mavis Parker and Hardcastle soon finds that all of the victims seem to know one another. When the Special Branch intervenes, everything really gets mixed up. 

When the lead singer of the world’s most popular boy band, Boys4U, is found murdered backstage at the last show of their sold out tour, Chicago Police Detectives Paul Turner and Buck Fenwick are on the case. 

But as they dig into the case, the detectives find that behind the wholesome and attractive facade of the band they find dark secrets that could lead to more deaths if they don’t find and stop the killer. 

Roller-skating rink owner Rebecca Robbins must get to the bottom of the murder of roller derby girl Sherlene-n-Mean who was electrocuted in the dunk tank. The only thing is, Rebecca was the one who was supposed to have taken the seat in the tank. 

Who was the intended victim? Could someone hate Sherlene-n-Mean enough to want her killed, maybe even her own father?

And why are people suddenly acting shady? Rebecca must answer these questions to find the killer and stay alive. 

One morning, private investigator Maya Mallick witnesses two women set themselves ablaze. Even worse, she recognizes one of them as her friend’s sister, a Tibetan-American scientist. 

She is told by an onlooker that they performed this act in protest of the Chinese occupation of Tibet, but Maya is suspicious there’s more than meets the eye. Could the woman she knows really have wanted to die this way?

When a Yorkshire biographer is killed, DI Tom Richmonds finds his investigation leading to the Denshaw family. Years earlier, young Beth Denshaw was kidnapped and murdered. 

Although Beth’s mother confessed to the murder, Richmonds still has suspicions her stepfather was really responsible. Now his investigation into the family after the recent murder draws up new clues about the past and the family’s secrets. 

Professor Gurth Haffmeyer has convinced everyone that British Secret Service agent Patrick Dawlish is a traitor trading government secrets when the real traitor is Haffmeyer himself. 

When Dawlish travels to the American Pacific Northwest to get Haffmeyer to come clean, he finds the professor dead and the only lead to finding the killer is Haffmeyer’s wife, who happens to want Dawlish dead.