Get your heart racing with this month’s Mystery & Thriller releases. Sinister conspiracies, missing CEOs, deadly secrets, and shocking revelations drive these stories—whether in hurricane-lashed Louisiana, corporate battlegrounds, or idyllic wedding weekends gone wrong. Perfect for fans who crave pulse-pounding suspense, unpredictable twists, and smart investigators facing impossible odds.
Black and White Smoke
by Thomas Vincent Papa
Release Date: May 7, 2026
Threats are mounting against an innovative business intelligence firm. When the CEO vanishes, and a game-changing deal starts unraveling, two men are thrust into an unexpected race for the top job. As a smear campaign takes shape, it becomes clear that this competition is far more dangerous than either man expected.
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Sashé Boudreaux (The Sashé Boudreaux Mysteries Book 2)
by Coco McQ
Release Date: June 8, 2026
Between Mayan prophecies, doomsday predictions, and Hurricane Isaac bearing down on Louisiana, 2012 is already shaping up to be unforgettable. Then Sashé Boudreaux delivers lunch to one of her shut-ins and stumbles into a deadly international conspiracy, becoming an unwilling player in a dangerous game of espionage, betrayal, and assassination.
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Jake Doe Burning Bright
by Edward Trimble
Release Date: June 8, 2026
Forced to face a series of nightmares—a violent psychopath, a sinister rogue intelligence, a wild-eyed, merciless president, and an arch-enemy he can barely remember—Jake Doe must cultivate unusual gifts while uncovering a clandestine resistance and a captivating woman carrying world-altering secrets. A passionate romance becomes his sanctuary in a dark and dangerous world.
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Until Midnight
by Luanne Rice
Release Date: June 30, 2026
Rhode Island's picturesque Ocean House is the perfect setting for Kate Woodward and Conor Reid's fairy-tale wedding weekend. But there may not be a happily ever after. When an old friend of Conor's disrupts the rehearsal dinner and reveals a blindsiding secret—a claim that she and Conor share a child—Kate calls off the wedding, thinking things can't get any worse.
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The Girl in the Lake (Dept of Unexplained Phenomenon Book 1)
by Lauren Oliver
Release Date: June 1, 2026
Kate Willis, consultant for the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia, is tasked with interviewing six-year-old Henley Haskell about the girl's alleged past-life recollections. The evaluation also marks a return for Kate to Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and to troubling recollections of her own.
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The Safe Room
by Lisa Unger
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Private investigator Rae Donovan’s relationship with her father is distant to the point of estrangement. But when she learns he’s dying in hospice, she drops everything to be at his side. By the time she arrives, he’s already too far gone to speak, and a doctor says his death is consistent with poisoning.
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