Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for September 15, 2026

Introducing Kate Threadgold. A heritage curator with a gift for uncovering the past—and a knack for finding dead bodies.

When a palaeontologist is found murdered at a historic English garden, the peaceful estate becomes a gruesome crime scene. The victim was restoring the Geological Gallery, but now a priceless prehistoric artifact is missing, and a clever killer is on the loose.

To solve the puzzle, Kate is forced into an uneasy alliance with DS Ryan Dee—her former lover. As her turbulent past collides with a deadly present, Kate must navigate historic secrets and modern lies.

With time running out until the gallery’s launch, can Kate and Ryan work together to stop a ruthless murderer from striking again? Or will one of them become the next piece of history buried at the estate?

A gripping, character-led British mystery perfect for fans of Elly Griffiths and Ann Cleeves.

When a secretive team picks up Pararescueman Evan Black to augment a quick reaction force, he’s told they’re recovering a top-secret satellite. He discovers the egg shaped object is no satellite – it’s a ship, one not made by human hands.
Recruited into the program tasked with recovering the craft and reverse engineering the technology, there is only one rule: Attempting to disclose the truth about alien visitations will cost your life.
His charismatic mentor justifies the violence as the lesser evil, protecting humanity from a reality too terrifying to accept.

But is he protecting humanity, or sacrificing his own?

Hannah Townes is a journalist investigating a brutal murder in the DC suburbs. Evidence vanishes. Witnesses disappear. As she unravels the mystery, every thread she pulls cinches the noose around her own neck.
Given an unthinkable order, Evan must decide who to believe. The wrong choice will either take an innocent woman’s life and bury the truth forever, or unleash a catastrophe on the entire planet.

For Liz, college is supposed to involve studies, expanded horizons, and flirting with guys—not your dad arriving on your doorstep saying he found a body back on the farm. And definitely not being enlisted to help track down those responsible to explain country manners. Journey along with Liz, as her dad pulls both of them toward finding a killer!

Dealing with heavy farm equipment is hard work, dangerous, even deadly. But when someone utilizes a combine for sinister intent, it can be downright murder. When the cops wrongfully arrest Harry’s hired hand, despite the troubled teenager’s iron-clad alibi, Harry takes it upon himself to correct their mistake—once again embroiling Liz and the rest of his family in tracking down a killer.

A missing woman is only the beginning. Investigative journalist Maya Caine uncovers a chilling pattern of disappearances that leads to a secret powerful people will kill to protect. The deeper she digs, the shorter her time becomes.

He wakes with no name, no memory, and no idea how he got there. Inside a vast white building, bells change the rules, corridors seem to shift, and the people in white take those who disappear. When a damaged cassette warns him not to trust the man who knows the building best, survival becomes a search for the truth. But every clue pulls him closer to a buried memory: a rainy street, a little girl in a red shoe, and a choice he can’t remember making. The Strangers in White is a psychological thriller about memory, guilt, and the lies we tell ourselves to survive.