Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for May 2, 2026

Life is not as peaceful as it seems in Ljubljana, the capital city of Slovenia – and the only place in the world where the embassies of Russia, Germany and the United States are neighbors on the same city block.
No one pays much attention to the privileged sons and daughters of the diplomats who work in the embassies. They have befriended Janez, a Slovenian high school student who’s been living alone since his father disappeared. And Bekim, the son of a cruel Albanian gangster.
When a Fourth of July party at the American embassy takes a wrong turn, the international friends stumble upon the top-secret chamber beneath the embassies. It is fully equipped for a covert action force. The only problem? There’s no money to pay for secret agents.
Now that they know the secret, Janez and the others are dispatched to find the treasure of King Zog, missing since World War II.

Category: Thrillers – Conspiracies

Upon moving into Winslow Manor, Claire is shocked to learn she’s the spitting image of the long-dead rose gardener who used to live there. Eerie meets emotion in the cozy small town of Oak Grove, where the past doesn’t stay buried, it blooms.

Category: Mystery – Cozy

The CIA and other western intelligence agencies receive a warning message from North Korea that one of their best agents and skilled assassin, Myong Chang, has gone missing in Europe with two of his counterparts. There is a fear that they’ve gone rogue. Leaders in western intelligence agencies across Europe are soon shot dead by an assassin. When an assassination takes place in Canada against the director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, CSIS, CIA realizes that the North Korean assassin has reached North America. When someone Dave McClure cares a great deal about is shot, hospitalized, and placed in intensive care, McClure is driven to hunt down and kill Myong Chang before more lives are lost.

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Nook

Category: Thrillers – Espionage

They trusted him with their secrets. Now they’re dead. Five women—strangled, staged with a signature so disturbing the LAPD won’t release it. He’s patient. Methodical. Always one step ahead. Detective John Brand must stop him before he kills again.

Category: Mystery – Traditional Detectives

As a mysterious pilot saved by operative Titus Black fears returning home, a journalist is nearly killed for asking questions, and a hidden network begins to surface. Across the globe, a kidnapped girl is drawn into a brutal system shaping something more dangerous than soldiers. As Black digs deeper, the truth emerges: this isn’t just a mission—it’s a conspiracy.

Category: Thrillers – Conspiracies