Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for May 30, 2026

In 1931, during its maiden voyage, the British Airship Goliath mysteriously disappears without a trace. Hidden deep inside is a secret that could change the world.

Present day, in The Philippines, an attempted kidnapping draws historian Jennifer March and former soldier Ryan Mitchell into a deadly race to find the Goliath before a mysterious figure who threatens to topple governments and the lives of millions. From Alaska, to West Africa to Iceland the hunt for the truth is on.

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Category: Thrillers – Conspiracies

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.

Category: Thrillers – Espionage

A staged disappearance. A real abduction. And the girl she never stopped searching for.

Private investigator Sloane Merritt has built her career on finding missing persons—a calling born from devastating failure. Twenty years ago, her childhood best friend Eden Pike vanished without a trace. Two decades later, Sloane is still searching for answers.

When 25-year-old influencer Marley Quinn goes missing after posting about a luxury brand partnership, Sloane expects another routine case. A desperate family. A digital trail. A girl who made a bad decision and needs to be found.

But Marley’s disappearance was supposed to be fake—a three-day publicity stunt to boost her struggling social media career. The con becomes terrifyingly real when Marley vanishes from her safe house, leaving behind only blood and signs of forced entry.

As Sloane races to find her, the case takes a disturbing turn. The person who recruited Marley used the name EdenSeeker88—a username that can’t be coincidence. Someone knows about Sloane’s past. Someone is using Eden’s case as a blueprint. And someone has been targeting vulnerable young women for longer than anyone realized.

Now Sloane must untangle a web of manipulation, fake identities, and buried secrets before Marley becomes another girl who never comes home. But the closer she gets to the truth, the more she realizes this case might finally answer the question that’s haunted her for twenty years:

What really happened to Eden Pike?

The first pulse-pounding thriller in the Sloane Merritt series—follow Atlanta’s most relentless PI as she tracks down the missing, uncovers deadly secrets, and races against time in cases where every second counts.

Category: Mystery – Private Investigators

He dazzled the crowd. Then vanished. Was it one last trick—or something far more sinister?

When a beloved magician vanishes after a children’s birthday party, private investigator Sloane Merritt is pulled into a new case that feels anything but festive. A single father has disappeared without warning—his young daughter left waiting.

As Sloane searches for answers, she uncovers a man with two identities, a past he’s been running from, and someone who may be closing in. What begins as a missing persons case spirals into something more dangerous—where guilt is layered, and protection can look a lot like betrayal.

Meanwhile, a cold thread from Sloane’s own life pulls tighter. A demolished school. A forgotten name. And a quiet lead that might bring her one step closer to the truth about Eden Pike.

With the clock ticking and loyalties shifting, Sloane is forced to confront the line between

A 3-book boxed set. Lobbyist Sandy Dalton solves mysteries in the complex landscape of a working legislature. A state senator dies in his office turning the legislative world upside down. An active dairy farmer drowns in his own livestock waste lagoon. Sandy manipulates the legislative process to flush out the killer of a powerful corporate CEO.

Category: Mystery – Traditional Detectives

A year ago, after a mental breakdown, ex-homicide detective Frank Langer was placed on medical leave from the squad he was once hand-picked to lead. Now he spends his days drinking and chain-smoking, and his nights waking up screaming from a horrific recurring nightmare. Then one day, by chance, he stumbles on a conspiracy to kidnap children.

Category: Thrillers – Conspiracies

After being gravely wounded during her grandfather’s assassination, young Lea grew up in the shadows, hidden beneath layers of anonymity. Now an adult, the new life she built for herself is threatened by her father’s political ambitions, and sets her two identities on a collision course towards an explosive revelation with deadly consequences.

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Category: Thrillers – Conspiracies

Ever said, “I wish I could go there,” when looking at a picture? What if you could?

Allister McClamroch has the inexplicable ability to transport himself into photographs. When his best friend is murdered, Allister uses his photo-jumping talent to avenge him but it’s increasingly difficult to keep his secret and he’s forced to make hard choices. Now with the help of two unlikely friends, Allister must face the killer if he wants justice.

One photo is more important to him than anything else, and he risks his life protecting it, but a chance encounter will change his destiny forever.

Category: Mystery – Series

Allister possesses the impossible ability to step inside photographs and film. After avenging his best friend’s murder alongside Mila, he believes the worst is over.
His illusion is shattered when he is pulled into a federal investigation. A chilling pattern emerges: emergency responders are vanishing, deaths are disguised as destiny, and a growing movement believes suffering is sacred.
At the center is Grace, a quiet girl who channels the dead and inspires fanatical devotion. Her followers, The Waymakers, are convinced that death is not an enemy but a path to clear.
As Allister pushes deeper into corrupted recordings and broken realities, lines blur between justice and mercy. With the nation teetering on the edge of catastrophe, Allister must decide what kind of man he is willing to become.
The Waymakers is a dark supernatural thriller about grief, belief, and who makes the way.