Must-Read Mystery and Thriller Books | September 2020

03 Sep 2020

Must-Read Mystery and Thriller Books | September 2020

Your reading list is about to get an exciting injection thanks to these must-read mystery and thriller books! If you’ve been searching for some great reads, don’t miss these new novels from Joan Livingston, Lorhainne Eckhart, K. Patrick Donoghue, Alexi Venice, Becki Willis, and David Temple. Enjoy!


Killing the Story

by Joan Livingston

Release Date: August 26, 2020

The fourth book in The Isabel Long Mystery Series by Joan Livingston… Estelle Crane was the gutsy editor of The Observer newspaper who died after a hard fall on ice. Years later, her son discovers a cryptic note hinting her death might not have been an accident after all. Was Estelle pursuing a story that put her life in danger? That’s what Isabel Long and her 93-year-old mother, Maria, are investigating.

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The Family Secret

by Lorhainne Eckhart

Release Date: July 31, 2020

The ninth book in The O’Connells Series by New York Times Bestselling Author Lorhainne Eckhart… Raymond O’Connell was the love of Iris’s life. From the day she met him, to the day a year later when she married him, to the tragic night before she never saw him again. Eighteen years later, questions arise about that night her husband disappeared when a bloody knife and a letter addressed to her are found. Iris can no longer keep her life with Raymond O’Connell buried.

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The GODD Chip

by K. Patrick Donoghue

Release Date: August 31, 2020

The first book in The Unity of Four Series by K. Patrick Donoghue… This post-apocalyptic technothriller takes place in the year 2137, amid the aftermath of the Genetic Revolution of the 2070s. An era where the craze of designer babies and gene replacement therapies led to generations of horrible mutations and the eventual ban of DNA alterations. Now a new outbreak of mutations threatens to wreak even more havoc.

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Standby Counsel

by Alexi Venice

Release Date: August 26, 2020

The second book in A Monica Spade Series from Amazon Bestselling Author Alexi Venice… Monica Spade insists she isn’t a trial lawyer. She definitely isn’t one that represents dangerous criminals. Despite her protests, Monica is ordered to serve as standby counsel for a young woman accused of repeatedly stabbing her boyfriend. Monica sets her fear aside and visits her new client in jail. Stela Reiter looks more like a meek librarian than a person capable of overpowering and stabbing a young man to death.

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Rose by Any Other Name

by Becki Willis

Release Date: August 13, 2020

The 10th book in The Sisters, Texas Mystery Series by bestselling author Becki Willis… A mysterious woman has moved to The Sisters and tongues start wagging. Why did Rose Belvedere move here of all places? Was that a body the movers stuffed into the van? Calls start to flood the police department but Chief Brash deCordova can’t do much without probable cause. But when Madison stumbles upon a gruesome discovery, all that changes.

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The Poser

by David Temple

Release Date: May 16, 2020

The first book in the Detective Pat Norelli Thriller Series by David Temple… It is Oscar night in Hollywood, and media darling Meredith Johansen has finally taken home a gold statue. Across town, rookie Detective Patricia Norelli is working late and trying to break through her own glass ceiling with a promotion in the LAPD. Their paths collide when Johansen is found dead in her home only hours after the Oscar festivities ended. It was ruled a suicide but Norelli’s instinct says murder.

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