Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for August 2, 2026

High in the Himalayas, a climbing team vanishes inside a remote crater. Years later, Dr. Steve Remmick is summoned to a secret research site built in the same frozen bowl of rock. What should be a routine investigation into an ancient microorganism quickly turns into something far darker. Staff are falling ill with symptoms no one can explain. Systems fail without cause. Security grows hostile. And sabotage begins to tear the facility apart from within. As Remmick digs deeper—collecting samples, interviewing patients, and navigating hidden levels—he realizes the truth has nothing to do with the organism he was told to study. Something beneath the ice is waking, and it threatens far more than the people trapped inside.

Theo Holmes, a direct descendant of Sherlock, is called in to help the San Diego and Las Vegas police departments when eerily similar homicides by euthanasia pop up in both cities. Working with PAM, a beautiful AI robot, and Delaney Watson, Holmes’ team realizes they face contradictory DNA evidence and bizarre connections to Elvis Presley.

Category: Mystery – Traditional Detectives

When black-ops veteran Kyle Payne’s mentor dies in a crash, Payne smells a setup.
This was no accident – he was taken out.
Payne launches his own investigation with DEA agent Lara Medina. Together, they uncover a ruthless cartel looking to turn the town into the center of their drug empire.
But the criminals have no idea who they’re up against.

Category: Thrillers – Crime

Burlington’s underworld had rules. A new gang rewrites them in blood. When a brutal gang shatters a decades-old truce, a covert team of detectives must stop the bloodshed—before Burlington becomes a battleground.

Category: Thrillers – Crime

In 1978, a mysterious nine-year-old girl turns up in a small, Midwestern farming town. Malnourished and weak, Sunny claims she has no last name, no family, and that she doesn’t attend school. With limited resources, the local police try in earnest to uncover the child’s identity, but with no national database for missing children, the investigation quickly hits a dead end.
Sunny ran away to flee a sick and deranged woman whom she refers to as “the witch.” Her background is complicated, and she is terrified of being sent back to where she came from. Her reluctance to discuss her past creates a shroud of mystery that both fascinates and puzzles the townspeople. It seems everyone wants to know the enigmatic little girl, but Sunny is interested in only one thing: finding the father she never met.

Category: Thrillers – Psychological

Everyone loves her sister. Until the truth begins to surface. As decades of lies unravel, Natasha discovers that some family secrets were buried for a reason—and someone will do anything to keep them that way.

Category: Thrillers – Psychological