Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for May 23, 2026

He’s been MIA since 1969, and his granddaughter is going to bring him home before her Gran’s mind forgets him.
The Broken Hallelujah is a national award-winning novel and #1 audiobook that travels in time over 50 years. Join Martin and his team in the steamy jungles of Vietnam and scheme with Robin in her Houston garden with her feisty Gran and the unlikely team she finds to bring him home. It takes a musical band of Vietnam Vets, a hunky photojournalist, some Vietnam refugees, and even her ex-husband to help uncover the conspiracy that left Martin buried in a field in Southeast Asia. Can Robin bring her grandfather home to the honor he deserves and heal her grandmother’s heart before her mind can no longer remember? It’s a race against the mental ravages of time and the bureaucracy of two former warring nations.

A cursed Outback opal. An iconic train journey. One fatal adventure. When journalist Jack Rogan helps an Aboriginal friend investigate a mine discovery, he and virtuoso Sophie Ritter are hunted by a ruthless bikie gang. Clashing with Dreamtime lore and deadly greed on the famous Ghan rail line, they must race against time to survive.

Category: Mystery – Historical

For fans of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Firm. Sally Raines is brilliant, deaf, and reads people with uncanny precision. When she and her partners uncover a deadly cover-up inside a D.C. investment firm, the men protecting it come for them. Three women with complicated pasts. One empire that needs to fall.

Category: Thrillers – Crime

A body or two… A construction site… A killer—or killers?
Cristi Lennox thought her historic building renovation turned luxury condos would breathe new life into Silver Creek. Instead, human remains are discovered beneath the foundation—and a second body turns up the very next day. Are the deaths connected, or is more than one killer hiding in the shadows?
As whispers ripple through town, old rivalries reignite and new lies take shape. Every blueprint hides a clue. Every neighbor hides a secret. And someone is desperate to keep the past buried.
Mayor Alex Dandridge works to steady the town while Sheriff Dalton follows the evidence. And Murphy, Cristi’s loyal golden retriever, never misses a scent—or a secret.
A small town. Many suspects. Hidden truths unearthed beneath decades of deceit. Cristi must solve the case before she becomes the next body buried at the condos.

Category: Mystery – Cozy

In this house, love and betrayal sleep side by side…

Olivia Hanson’s husband, Lucas, is her rock; charming and successful, he offers her safety, security and the life she always dreamed of. In return, Olivia is a picture-perfect housewife, smiling and supportive. Until she meets Lucas’s new colleague, Natalie, and sees the flash of hatred in her eyes.

Olivia only wants to clear up the misunderstanding. But when she befriends Natalie, secrets come tumbling out that expose the ugly side of Olivia’s beautiful marriage and she realizes there is another young woman caught up in Lucas’s lies. Olivia learned long ago that her husband is no saint, but he’s about to discover that neither is she…

Category: Thrillers – Psychological

A serial killer. A telepathic bond. And the one woman who survived him.

Former detective Jill Jacobs walked away from the Makeup Artist once — barely. She rebuilt her life, buried the connection she’d had to that twisted mind, and swore she was done.

Then the bodies start turning up again.

Detectives Daniels and Remalla need her to do the unthinkable: go back inside the mind of a monster who never stopped watching. The telepathic bond that nearly destroyed her is the only lead they have. But the moment she opens that door, he’ll feel it.
And he’s been waiting.

As Jill works alongside the detectives and finds herself drawn to one of them, the Makeup Artist is already moving. He didn’t just obsess over her. He planned for her return.

First Cut is Book One in the Family or Foe Saga — a four-part psychological thriller where the paranormal and the criminal collide, and the hunter and the hunted are never who you think.

Category: Mystery – Series

Her husband is dead. She’s the prime suspect. And the stranger watching from the shadows already knows the truth.

When Madison Vickers finds her husband murdered in their bed, Detectives Daniels and Remalla have every reason to look at her. She swears she’s innocent — but her past mistakes and desperate need to be believed are working against her.

Then there’s the man who watches her. Speaks to her in whispers. Moves objects with his mind. He holds the secrets of her past. And he’s not done revealing them.

As suspects multiply and the people around her prove to have their own dark motives, Madison realizes that who killed her husband and who this stranger is may be the same question.

When the truth surfaces, she won’t just face a killer — she’ll face who she really is.

Second Slice is Book Two in the Family or Foe Saga, featuring Detectives Daniels and Remalla.

When Kayla Macintyre discovers her twin sister Ashley brutally murdered, grief quickly gives way to terror—because Kayla was the real target. A case of mistaken identity fools the police into thinking she’s the one who died, and Kayla seizes the chance to disappear into her sister’s glamorous life as a supermodel. It’s a dangerous gamble for a tech-savvy, adrenaline-chasing computer repair specialist with zero fashion sense.

Category: Thrillers – Psychological

Theo Holmes, a descendant of Sherlock, is called in by the San Diego and Las Vegas police departments when similar homicides occur in each city. Assisted by Delaney Watson and a beautiful AI robot, Holmes’ team tackles contradictory DNA evidence and a bizarre link to Elvis. A psychological thriller filled with unique characters and plot twists.

Category: Mystery – Private Investigators

A drunk, washed-up pilot. America in turmoil in the wake of unprecedented disasters. How long until both are pushed beyond the breaking point? If you like thrilling action, gripping quests, and stories of growth through tragedy, then you’ll love Austin Chambers’ tense thrill-ride. A Cascadia Fallen Spinoff.

Category: Thrillers – Military