Shadows in the Frame: 6 Mysteries and Thrillers Hitchcock Would Approve

22 Aug 2025

Shadows in the Frame: 6 Mysteries and Thrillers Hitchcock Would Approve

Step into stories where the ordinary tilts into the terrifying. These thrillers echo genius—hidden motives, sharp suspense, and a slow burn that snaps into shock. You’ll find yourself holding your breath at every turn.

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Deadly Village (Deadly Series Book 13)

by Kate Parker

Release Date: August 19, 2025

Olivia Redmond fled bombed-out London with her baby, seeking safety in a Cotswold village. But when a middle-aged gossip is found murdered, she is pressed into assisting the police. As an outsider, no one trusts her with their secrets.

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Five Found Dead

by Sulari Gentill

Release Date: August 19, 2025

Crime fiction author Joe Penvale has won the most brutal battle of his life. Now that he has finished his intense medical treatment, he and his twin sister, Meredith, are boarding the glorious Orient Express in Paris, hoping for some much-needed rest and rejuvenation. Meredith also hopes that the literary ghosts on the train will nudge Joe’s muse awake, and he’ll be inspired to write again. And he is; after their first evening spent getting to know some of their fellow travelers, Joe pulls out his laptop and opens a new document. Seems like this trip is just what the doctor ordered…

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The Man Who Died Seven Times

by Yasuhiko Nishizawa

Release Date: July 29, 2025

Contemporary Japanese legend Yasuhiko Nishizawa makes his English-language debut with this slick, funny murder mystery, which adds a sci-fi twist to an age-old setup: a murder in a wealthy family with an inheritance at stake. Hisataro, a young member of the wealthy Fuchigami family, has a mysterious ability. Every now and then, against his will, he falls into a time loop in which he is obliged to re-live the same day a total of 9 times. Little does he know how useful this ability will be, until one day, his grandfather mysteriously dies…

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The Tesla Formula (A Tom Wagner Adventure Book 12)

by M.C. Roberts and R.F. Maclay

Release Date: August 17, 2025

An ancient secret. An old enemy. The end of humanity. When clues emerge that a devastating tsunami off the coast of Cuba was artificially triggered, and rumors intensify that an invention by Nikola Tesla might be connected to it, Tom, Hellen, and Cloutard are called upon for help by Dr. Phoebe Cross, President of the Tesla Institute.

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The Assignment

by Craig Mueller

Release Date: August 16, 2025

Gus Meier came to Atlanta for a normal life—to study engineering at Georgia Tech, then return to Switzerland. But on the morning after his graduation, his grandfather revealed “The Assignment”—a clandestine family project rooted in research stolen from Nazi Germany, kept in Atlanta. For eight years now, Gus has worked in secret at the Atlanta Technology and Research Institute, where America’s brightest minds conduct research the government can’t officially acknowledge, decoding cryptic notes about electrical frequencies and cancer-fighting enzymes. He’s done the impossible: created a device that can stop cancer without drugs, surgery, or radiation.

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Wounds

by Sara Blaedel & Mads Peder Nordbo

Release Date: August 12, 2025

When a body is discovered in an abandoned building, Denmark police investigators Liam Stark and Dea Torp are called to the scene to investigate. They learn that the victim has several shallow wounds all over his body that were inflicted over the span of several weeks.

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