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Plausible in Parts by James Dunlop

A tense, intelligent thriller that balances razor-edged wit with moral depth. When a brutal crime pulls him back into Europe’s underworld, a battle-worn mercenary must confront betrayal, conscience, and the ghosts of his past in Dunlop’s taut thriller. When private…
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The Boutique Hotel by Melissa D. MacKinnon

A glamorous, twist-filled mystery brimming with romance, danger, and irresistible suspense. A determined travel agent sets out to unravel a chilling murder hidden beneath the glittering façade of the French Riviera in MacKinnon’s compelling novel. Sent to Nice to negotiate…
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CARPE Ski ’em: A Murder on Skis Mystery by Phil Bayly

Intelligent, atmospheric, and slyly funny. Bayly spins a brisk, witty mountain mystery that pairs Denver TV reporter JC Snow with his cameraman and longtime sidekick Bip Peters. When a stylish skier calmly steps off a high Colorado chairlift and plummets…
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The Mystery of Healing by A P McGrath

Tense, taut, and unforgettable. A healer to the empire’s most celebrated fighters is drawn into a deadly puzzle that threatens both his heart and the imperial order in McGrath’s excellent mystery. Solon of Pergamon, physician to Rome’s prized gladiators, lives…
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The Thirty-Fifth Page by Lya Badgley

Layered, moody, and deeply immersive. In Badgley’s taut literary thriller, an art conservator’s research draws her into a deadly game of history and myth. With war creeping toward Sarajevo, American conservator Miri Adler sets out to document the fabled Sarajevo…
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Wednesday Night Whites by Marci Lin Melvin

Haunting, incisive, and unflinching… A quiet lawyer in a picturesque town finds herself entangled in a decades-old web of disappearances, deception, and inherited darkness in Melvin’s gripping thriller. Azalea “Zale” Augustine is a capable, quietly ambitious attorney in Chester, Nova…
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Breath Play (A Dan Burnett Mystery Thriller) by Larry Terhaar

Quiet, deliberate, and deeply human… A retired NYPD detective finds himself circling the edges of a chilling murder spree in Terhaar’s measured, character-driven thriller. Dan Burnett’s life on the Long Island Sound has a gentle rhythm with his girlfriend, Mia—until…
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The UFO Gambit: The Praetorius Agency Files, #4 by T.E. MacArthur

Edgy, suspenseful, and addictive: the kind of book that keeps you up at night. Paranormal intrigue and buried conspiracies drive MacArthur’s outstanding latest in The Praetorius Agency Files series. In the shadow of Northern California’s Mt. Shasta, cowboy-turned-operative Jack de…
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Confusion Has Its Cost by Jim Lively

Haunting, cerebral, and unsettling… Lively’s latest is a slow-burn psychological mystery that explores the blurry line between reality and delusion. When Dallas attorney Simon Steed is hired by a mysterious woman, Neva Storm, to probate her father’s will, he’s drawn…
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Memoir of an Innocent Brat by Aaron Wang

Bracing, darkly funny, and deeply felt. In Wang’s blistering debut, a queer millennial’s search for freedom spirals into chaos, fame, and a murder charge. When Pete Chan, a self-aware and pop-savvy Chinese American in his late twenties, impulsively quits his…
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An Ocean Life: An oceanic thriller  by T.R. Cotwell

Quiet, introspective, and elegantly written. Cotwell’s striking debut blends emotional intensity with psychological insight, tracing a man’s physical and emotional drift toward reckoning and renewal. Mark, a middle-aged tech entrepreneur, has spent years chasing the elusive promise of startup success,…
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To Know Good and Evil: Frank Adams Detective Series #2 by Daniel V. Meier Jr.

A patient, intelligent mystery that lands with quiet force… A fiery plane crash, a dead professor, and a buried research breakthrough ignite a slow-burning investigation into corruption, complicity, and conscience in Meier’s morally complex mystery. When a small plane crashes…
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Betrayal of Trust (Brad Parker and Karen Richmond Book 9) by Geoffrey M. Cooper

A tense thriller with bite and brains… Cooper’s ninth Brad Parker and Karen Richmond thriller blends scientific intrigue with a chilling revenge plot. Dr. Eric Salton, praised for a breakthrough lung cancer drug, is savagely murdered. Another dies in a…
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Death and His Brother (Urquhart & MacDonald Murder Mysteries Book 6) by D.E. Ring

A richly textured procedural with heart, brains, and a surprisingly poetic soul… Ring’s sixth Urquhart & MacDonald novel digs beneath the cheerful surface of a holiday weekend to uncover a taut, unsettling story of buried grief and moral compromise.It’s a…
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Tangled Darkness by MM Desch

Emotionally resonant and deeply moving… A psychiatrist with a haunted past is drawn into a deadly conspiracy in a clinic where silence protects secrets and the truth could cost everything. Dr. Leslie Schoen has rebuilt her life and is finally…
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Artist, Lover, Forger, Thief by Sheila Sharpe

Dark, elegant, and emotionally exacting… Sharpe dives headlong into the murky waters of identity, obsession, and deception in her smart, psychologically charged thriller. Nick McCoy is trying to walk away from a long career in art forgery, but not before…
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Stampede City (A Detective Cam Clay Novel, #2) by M.K. Pachan

A tightly wound procedural that balances emotional depth with street-level realism.  In his second Cam Clay novel, Pachan blends the sunbaked chaos of Stampede with a bloody, slow-burning gang war. The Calgary Stampede is in full swing when a young…
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Series review: Detective Cam Clay Novels (2 books) by M. K. Pachan

A raw and psychologically complex crime series that digs deep into the personal cost of justice… Pachan, a former officer turned novelist, pulls no punches in his gritty Cam Clay series, which opens with Revoked and deepens in Stampede City.…
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Chasing Czars: Book 3 of The Cleopatra Chronicles by Tina Sloan

A high-stakes romantic thriller wrapped in luxury, loss, and deadly secrets… A glamorous, unabashedly sentimental spy novel set in the glittering ski resorts of St. Moritz, Sloan’s third installment of The Chasing Cleopatra Chronicles offers danger, desire, and a heroine…
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The Vulnerable by Ed DeJesus 

A harrowing, thought-provoking, and utterly absorbing read… In DeJesus’s high-stakes thriller, domestic terrorism collides with family wounds, and past choices turn deadly. Dan DeCosta’s world collapses when Robin O’Rourke, the fiery-haired woman he loves, disappears. Her violent ex lurks, the…