Murder & Motive: 6 Reads to Keep You Guessing
22 May 2025
Murder & Motive: 6 Reads to Keep You Guessing
From shadowy suspects to ticking clocks, these six thrillers waste no time throwing you into chaos. With every chapter, the danger escalates. Ready to play detective or become the next victim?
The Shadows Between Us (The Shadows Series Book 1)
by Amy Rose Novoa
Release Date: March 28, 2025
Kirbey thought her marriage was safe until a hidden betrayal unravels everything. What starts as a broken trust leads her into a corporate conspiracy darker than she imagined. Someone is watching. Someone wants her to be silent. But Kirbey won’t back down. A tense psychological thriller about trust, control, and the cost of uncovering the truth.
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The Cult
by K.M. Scott
Release Date: May 15, 2025
All you’ve ever wanted is yours for the taking. All you have to do is believe. Lara Simpson’s sister Rina is missing, and all she has to go on is a pamphlet in her apartment for a new self-help group, The Golden Light. Lara quickly finds out the real purpose of The Golden Light isn’t helping people at all, but something far more insidious.
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Clear Path (A Bodhi King Novel Book 9)
by Melissa F. Miller
Release Date: March 28, 2025
Bodhi King’s back, and readers are calling this his best journey yet as he leads a search party for a missing woman on the Great Allegheny Passage trail.
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Nightshade
by Michael Connelly
Release Date: May 20, 2025
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Detective Stilwell has been “exiled” to a low-key post policing rustic Catalina Island, after department politics drove him off a homicide desk on the mainland. But while following up the usual drunk-and-disorderlies and petty thefts that come with his new territory, Detective Stilwell gets a report of a body found weighed down at the bottom of the harbor—a Jane Doe identifiable at first only by a streak of purple dye in her hair. At the same time, a report of poaching on a protected reserve turns into a case fraught with violence and danger as Stilwell digs into the shady past of an island bigwig.
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Dead of Night
by Lisa Gray
Release Date: May 15, 2025
Since the sudden and tragic death of her partner, bestselling crime author Serena Winters hasn’t written a word. With deadlines looming, she packs up her grief and escapes from New York City to a secluded clifftop house in small-town California, hoping the change of scenery will cure her writer’s block.
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Cold Legacy (Avril Dahl Book 2)
by L.T. Ryan & Biba Pearce
Release Date: May 13, 2025
FBI Agent Avril Dahl thought she could leave her past behind. But when a prominent CEO is murdered in Stockholm, her fragile peace is shattered. Known for her relentless pursuit of justice, Avril is recruited to infiltrate an eco-activist group suspected of turning to violence—and agrees, hoping to find a new purpose in the shadows.
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