12 Must-Read Thrillers and Mystery Books!

Are you an avid reader in search of heart-pounding excitement and captivating plots? Look no further! We've curated a collection of 12 gripping thrillers and mystery books that will keep you on the edge of your seat from beginning to end. Get ready to dive into a world of suspense, intrigue, and unputdownable storytelling.

The Viper: A Dave Gurney Novel

By John Verdon 

Pushed to his breaking point and accused of murder, retired NYPD detective Dave Gurney must face his greatest adversary yet to solve a mystery that is quickly tearing his world apart in another shocking and riveting thriller from international bestseller John Verdon.

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After Death

By Dean Koontz 

A Michael Mace, head of security at a top-secret research facility, opens his eyes in a makeshift morgue twenty-four hours following an event in which everyone perished--including him and his best friend, Shelby Shrewsberry.

Circle of Death: A Shadow Thriller

By James Patterson 

Since Lamont Cranston - known to a select few as the Shadow - defeated Shiwan Khan and ended his reign of terror over New York one year ago, the city has started to regenerate. But there is evil brewing elsewhere. And this time the entire world is under threat. 

Little, Crazy Children: A True Crime Tragedy of Lost Innocence

By James Renner

In September of 1990, in the Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights, sixteen-year-old Lisa Pruett, a poetry lover and member of a church youth group, was on her way to a midnight tryst with her boyfriend, when she was viciously stabbed to death only thirty feet from the boy's home. 

What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator

By Barbara Butcher

Barbara Butcher was early in her recovery from alcoholism when she found an unexpected lifeline: a job at the Medical Examiner's Office in New York City. The second woman ever hired for the role of Death Investigator in Manhattan, she was the first to last more than three months. 

Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night

By Lisa Belkin 

The killer remains at large, his identity still unknown. But on a beach not far away, a young Army doctor, on vacation from his post at a research lab in a maximum-security prison, faces a chilling realization. He knows who the shooter is. In fact, the man--a prisoner out on parole--had called him only days before.