Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for May 28, 2026

50-something pet sitter Penelope Standing has life figured out. Then she arrives to walk a dog — and finds his owner dead. While the police work to uncover the victim’s past, Penelope investigates on her own. More than one person had a motive for murder. But only one is coming after Penelope… “Greatest couple since Nick and Nora Charles.”

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Category: Mystery – African American

Papyrologist and modern-day manifestation of the Delphic oracle, Lisa Emmer, and her 10-year-old protege, Felix, race to save the world from a rogue archbishop at the Vatican who is intent on overturning the world order and wreaking havoc with the balance of Nature, in an unholy attempt to bring people back to the Church.

Category: Mystery – Women Sleuths

Ophelia Harris, a former CIA analyst, has been trying hard to stay under the radar. What seems like a lifetime ago, she disappeared from the sandbox after a raid on an insurgent money laundering operation went terribly wrong. Every operator on the team was killed save one.

Ophelia escaped. And she got away with two suitcases filled with cash.

Gerhard Mueller runs Grendel Security Group and is Ophelia’s former employer. He knows a traitor set up the ambush and he believes he knows who that traitor is. He wants Harris found – and he wants her dead.

Austin Medford, a former Army Ranger, is sitting at an airport lounge when he runs into a woman he’s seen before. A woman running from trouble.
Soon Harris and Medford find themselves being brutally hunted by forces known and unknown trying to take them off the board.

The rules of the game are simple – run, fight, or die.

Category: Thrillers – Military

Some cold cases expose killers. Others expose the corruption protecting them. Detective Gus Freeman and his Crime Review Team return to face their darkest investigations yet, where every breakthrough drags them deeper into betrayal, violence, and secrets buried inside the police itself. In Deadly Formula, the murder of Dr Ian McGuire leads Gus to a vanished research trail, deadly overdoses, and a drug network shielded by insiders—until the case turns personal with the abduction of one of their own. In Final Deal, the disappearance of DI Suzie Ferris forces the team into a ruthless hunt tied to a disgraced undercover cop and a cover-up deep within the force. In Barking Mad, a shelved road rage case draws Gus into gang killings, fugitives, and internal scandals threatening to destroy everything from within, while the fractures in his own life become impossible to ignore.

Category: Thrillers – Crime

When an EMP plunges Charleston into silence, paramedic Lisa fights to save lives as the city unravels. With Dylan at her side, every step toward her family’s farm means facing looters, violence, and impossible choices. Survival demands more than skill, it demands sacrifice.

Category: Thrillers – Military

Some legacies don’t die. They’re inherited. Delaney Calloway makes history disappear. Clean. Controlled. Gone. Until her past resurfaces. Called back to the family estate, she’s named sole heir to a brutal legacy. Trapped inside, she realizes survival may mean facing one truth: She is not as innocent as she thought.

Category: Thrillers – Psychological

Find Audrey Murphy. She’ll know what to do.

Those were my mama’s final words to me. A cryptic message that led me from the beaches of Florida to a quaint, coastal village in the south of Ireland. All to track down a woman I’ve never heard of who, supposedly, has answers to questions I never even knew I had.

But as I sit outside the crumbling ruins of an ancient castle, working up the courage to go to Audrey’s house, I see something. Or at least, I think I do. Out of the mist, a woman dressed in white materializes. She seems to need my help. Then, as quickly as she appeared, she vanishes. Like a ghost. Maybe my grief-stricken mind was just playing tricks on me.

Or maybe not…

Before long, the little village is buzzing with news of a brutal murder. And, as the only witness to the crime, I find myself squarely in the killer’s crosshairs. Which means I’ll have to get to the truth of what happened…or the next obituary in the local paper could just be my own.

Category: Mystery – Cozy