Mysteries & Thrillers That’ll Ruin Your Sleep Schedule

24 Oct 2025

Mysteries & Thrillers That’ll Ruin Your Sleep Schedule

These are the books that keep your phone on night mode and your heart racing. Twists, betrayals, and cliffhangers, you’ll read past bedtime and love every second. Perfect for readers addicted to adrenaline-fueled mysteries.


Death at Falconfields (Murder on the Gulf Coast Book 1)

by Elizabeth Buhmann

Release Date: October 15, 2025

Ex-homicide detective Gil Tillier investigates the murder of a young Black man on an old plantation in southern Alabama. The case is cold, and the local sheriff wants nothing to do with it, but the Black community wants answers. With nothing to go on but a skeleton and tatters of decomposed clothing, Tillier uncovers a crime deeply rooted in the past.

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State of Zen (Virgil Jones Mystery Thriller Series Book 26)

by Thomas Scott

Release Date: October 14, 2025

Virgil Jones has dealt with criminals before, but nothing prepares him for what comes next. Perfect for fans of C.J. Box and John Sandford. State of Zen, the 26th mystery/thriller from Thomas Scott, is a high-stakes novel packed with loyalty, obsession, family, and a battle that will push Virgil Jones to his limits—and beyond. Grab your copy today!

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Coyote Hills (Clay Edison Book 6)

by Jonathan Kellerman & Jesse Kellerman

Release Date: October 28, 2025

Clay Edison has left behind the Alameda County coroner’s office to strike out on his own as a private investigator. He’s perfectly happy working low-stakes embezzlement cases—that is, until PI Regina Klein calls him with a mystery only he can solve.

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The Tin Men (Scott Brodie & Maggie Taylor Series Book 3)

by Nelson DeMille & Alex DeMille

Release Date: October 28, 2025

At a top-secret Army training facility in the Mojave Desert, Special Agents Scott Brodie and Maggie Taylor plunge into a deadly web of military intrigue, AI technology, and robot soldiers as they unravel the shocking murder of a senior scientist in this gripping thriller from New York Times bestselling authors Nelson DeMille and Alex DeMille.

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Outlived You

by Alison Lyle

Release Date: October 13, 2025

Lola Rayne had the voice everyone wanted and the love story that nearly killed her. Now, after a brush with death and a public unraveling, she’s clawing her way back. Haunted by fractured memories and a creeping sense that someone is still pulling her strings, Lola begins to question what was real and who she can still trust.

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Where Darkness Clings to Bone (Sadie Gray Book 8)

by R.B. Schow & Bailey James

Release Date: September 30, 2025

When several locals vanish without a trace, the pattern is unmistakable: a serial predator is at work. FBI Special Agents Sadie Gray and Brad Tulle uncover parallel disappearances in Southern California—each abduction surgical, each tagged with a chilling photo and sinister message.

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