Thriller & Mystery Fiction Stars
Dive into the best thriller and mystery fiction stars with our curated list of gripping books. Uncover suspense, intrigue, and page-turning excitement from top authors in the genre.
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Bad Luck and Trouble
by Lee Child
When a man is killed by being thrown from a helicopter high over the California desert, loner Jack Reacher discovers that someone is targeting his …
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Obsession
by Jonathan Kellerman
Psychologist Alex Delaware and LAPD detective Milo Sturgis investigate the aunt of a former patient, after she confesses to a crime shortly before she dies.
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The Broker
by John Grisham
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • In his final hours in the Oval Office, the outgoing President grants a controversial last-minute pardon to Joel …
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Scorpion
by Jack Stewart
DEA agent Bill Broxton is assigned to protect the Prime Minister of Trinidad from an assassin. He doesn't know that his fiancée is the killer.
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The Harry Bosch Novels
by Michael Connelly
For the first time in one volume, the three novels that introduced Michael Connelly's great LAPD homicide detective, maverick Hieronymous (Harry) Bosch. The Black Echo …
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Harry Bosch Novels, The: Volume 2
by Michael Connelly
The Last Coyote: LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch is suspended from the force for attacking his commanding officer. Unable to remain idle, he investigates the …
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Hide
by Lisa Gardner
You have good reason to be afraid. . . . It was a case that haunts Bobby Dodge to this day--the case that nearly killed …
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High Profile
by Robert B. Parker
Struggling with a high-profile case involving the murders of a controversial talk-show host and a young woman, Paradise police chief Jesse Stone becomes increasingly frustrated …
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The Hunters
by W. E. B. Griffin
Acting on orders from the president, Charley Castillo and his team travel to Uruguay in pursuit of answers pertaining to missing oil-for-food scandal funds, only …
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Body of Lies
by David Ignatius
Roger Ferris is one of the CIA\'s soldiers in the war on terrorism. He has come out of Iraq with a shattered leg and an …
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Treasure of Khan
by Clive Cussler
When an oil survey team is abducted after a suspicious accident, Dirk Pitt follows leads to Mongolia, where he learns about a megalomaniac's plot to …
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Baltimore Blues
by Laura Lippman
Unemployed journalist Tess Monaghan accepts an assigment from a suspected killer who wold have her engage in unorthodox snooping in orde to clear his name
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Beyond Reach
by Karin Slaughter
Heart-stopping suspense...cutting-edge forensic detail...flawless storytelling...these are the hallmarks of Karin Slaughter's novels. FromFaithlesstoTriptych, Slaughter's gritty, gripping thrillers have dazzled critics, who crown her "one of …
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The Woods
by Harlan Coben
Grieving over the murder of his sister twenty years earlier and raising his six-year-old daughter alone after losing his wife to cancer, county prosecutor Paul …
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Absolute Fear
by Lisa Jackson
When a series of brutal ritual slayings is linked to Our Lady of Virtues Hospital, Eve Renner, whose past is tied to this old asylum, …
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The Naming of the Dead
by Ian Rankin
Sent to man an abandoned police station during an international conference between the leaders of the free world, officer John Rebus investigates the suspicious falling …
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The Navigator
by Clive Cussler
Years after an ancient Phoenician statue is stolen from the Baghdad museum, a series of murders sparks interest in the statue's relevance in Austin and …
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Bangkok Haunts
by John Burdett
Royal Thai Police detective and devout Buddhist Sonchai Jitpleecheep returns as he investigates a mysterious snuff film in which the victim is Damrong, a woman …
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Baby Shark's Beaumont Blues
by Robert Fate
A Texas oil heiress goes missing, and a newly-licensed PI is called in.
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The Sudoku Murder
by Shelley Freydont
Professor P.T. Avondale is found murdered at his desk at the Avondale Puzzle Museum. Katie McDonald, master puzzle-solver, has returned home to save her childhood …
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Always
by Nicola Griffith
Aud Torvingen--Sa hero who makes La Femme Nikita look like a Powerpuff GirlS ("Details")--returns to teach a new round of lessons in hard-hitting justice and …
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The Various Haunts of Men
by Susan Hill
Three people disappear, so when fresh-faced policewoman Freya Graffham is assigned to the case, she must unravel the mystery before events turn too gruesome.
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Suffer the Little Children
by Donna Leon
A brutal attack on a pediatrician by a Carabiniere captain and two privates, who also take away the doctor's eighteen-month-old son, draws Commissario Guido Brunetti …
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Second Sight
by Charles McCarry
Christopher comes out of retirement to assist in locating an Arabian terrorist who is kidnapping and brain-draining American agents.
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The Savage Garden
by Mark Mills
Assigned to write about a famous sixteenth-century garden, Cambridge scholar Adam Strickland visits the garden only to discover that the woman to whom the garden …
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Cruel Choices
by Charles O'Brien
The latest in the acclaimed French Revolution series finds Anne Cartier searching for missing Lucie Gigot. The trail leads to the Marquis de Bresse, a …
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A Fatal Grace
by Louise Penny
From the Dagger and Arthur Ellis Award-winning author of "Still Life" comes the second Gamache mystery set in the stunning countryside of Quebec.
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Gun Shy
by Ben Rehder
The National Weapons Alliance is holding a rally in Blanco County, and it's being headlined by country music star Mitch Campbell. But Campbell's a fraud …
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Nine
by Andrzej Stasiuk
Pawel, a young businessman in debt to loan sharks, wakes up one April morning in a sea of debris, broken glass, ripped upholstery, and clothes …
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Ghostwalk
by Rebecca Stott
When the death of a Cambridge historian leaves her opus on Sir Isaac Newton unfinished, Lydia Brooke is called in to finish the book, only …
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The Chrysalis
by Heather Terrell
An international thriller that spans centuries, this stunning debut traces a mysterious Dutch masterpiece through the clutches of the Nazis and into the dark underbelly …