Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for May 7, 2026

Baker Sage Holloway didn’t plan to solve a murder. But when her employee becomes the prime suspect, she and her mysterious black cat Shadow start digging into secrets that powerful people will kill to keep buried. In Crescent Harbor, the scones are fresh and the secrets run deadly. Book 1 of 5 — complete series available now. ALWAYS FREE!

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Category: Mystery – Cozy

Every mistake she’d ever made was in a locked drawer. He had the key.

Megan Whitaker designed the perfect life—every room curated, every detail intentional, right down to the blue mug her husband brings her each morning with her coffee.

Except this morning, the mug is gray.

And Ryan swears it’s always been gray.

At first, it’s small things.

An appointment she never misses—missed.
A thermostat she didn’t adjust.
A conversation that doesn’t sound quite the same the second time she hears it.

Then the new neighbor starts asking questions no one in Laurel Cove wants to answer.

Questions about Megan’s marriage.
About the woman who lived in her house before.
About details Megan is certain she never shared.

Details Claire somehow knows anyway.

As the cracks in Megan’s carefully designed life begin to widen, she starts to realize something far more unsettling—

Nothing in her world is accidental.

Not the routines.
Not the silence.
Not even the version of herself she’s been allowed to become.

And the man who built her perfect life…

may not be keeping her safe.

He may be keeping her exactly where he wants her.

In Laurel Cove, the houses are beautiful, the neighbors are watching, and the most dangerous person in your life is the one who takes care of everything.

The first book in a gripping domestic thriller series where one neighborhood hides six different kinds of darkness.

Category: Thrillers – Psychological

On May Day, a world-famous fantasy author shows up to launch the new occult bookstore in the magical town of Vardo, Oklahoma. When murder mars the celebration, psychic mortician Perrie Spock undertakes the body and finds evidence of the Fae in her yard. Can these psychic clues lead her to the killer?

Category: Mystery – Cozy

When a murder mystery–themed fashion show turns deadly, bridal boutique owner and cozy mystery writer Maddie Bell and her daughter, Jenna, find themselves sleuthing once again. While planning Hemlock, North Carolina’s annual Fourth of July charity runway event, the show’s hometown star—bestselling author Kellen Corsi—is found dead.

The crime is staged to mirror a murder from the novel that launched Kellen’s career, sending shockwaves through the tight-knit town she once called home. As a former member of the Hemlock Homicide Heroines, Kellen’s past is tangled with people who knew her long before fame—and not all of them were happy about her success.

With suspects piling up faster than designer knockoffs, Maddie and Jenna must uncover who had a grudge strong enough to kill.

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Category: Mystery – Cozy

INTERNATIONAL CRIME THRILLER – It was meant to be a quick trip to Rome. Tour the sculpture foundry. Meet the cardinals. Close a deal with the Vatican. No one expected Marty Schott and Bo Bishop to spark a mob war between the Naples mafia and the Russian Vory — or to become trapped in the crossfire. When their partner Natalya is kidnapped, the stakes jump from financial to fatal, and what began as negotiation becomes a fight to stay alive. Power, ambition, and criminal interests collide from Italy to Russia and beyond, forcing Marty and Bo to navigate a world where every move has a cost and every mistake has teeth. “Packed with cat-and-mouse games … everything readers could want in a thriller.” — Midwest Book Review. WINNER — CIPA EVVY Gold Medal, Thrillers & Suspense.

Category: Thrillers – Crime

When Carrie Brinkley loses her job and boyfriend during the opening weeks of the pandemic, she’s determined to take a solo, two-month, cross-country bicycle trip from Virginia Beach to Mendocino, California. Yet dangers lurk that she’d never anticipated. Something deadly stalks her—something much too human.

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Category: Thrillers – Crime