The Killer is Closer Than You Think: Mystery & Thriller Picks You’ll Love

13 Jun 2025

The Killer is Closer Than You Think: Mystery & Thriller Picks You’ll Love

These tightly wound mysteries and thrillers feature close-to-home crimes, cold cases, and suspects you’d never suspect. Smart, chilling, and impossible to put down.

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Deep Orange Cover: The Allegiance

by Joel W. Barrows

Release Date: June 9, 2025

A weapons shipment is hijacked, the driver executed in a way that sends a message. A rolling gun battle between rival motorcycle gangs ensues, leaving carnage strewn across Interstate 35. When Allegiance MC President Sonny Baumer is sentenced, he gets more than he bargained for. ATF undercover legend David Ward is pulled into the darkness.

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Murder on Morgue Street (The Detective Jericho Series Book 10)

by Walter Marks

Release Date: May 15, 2025

Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” is the first fictional detective novel. A community theater’s production of this story results in a real murder: the death of the lead actress. The eerie parallels to Poe’s tale make this investigation a real challenge for Detective Jericho. A second murder makes for a shocking ending to this book.

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The Regression Strain

by Kevin Hwang

Release Date: May 25, 2025

On a cruise ship sailing across the Atlantic, Dr. Peter Palma expects to treat passengers for minor ailments. But violence erupts as a vile affliction pits loved ones against each other. With the ship bearing down on New York, Peter must fight his own delirium to neutralize the threat. But sometimes primal urges are impossible to resist.

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Woe is Wednesday

by Maggie FitzRoy

Release Date: May 26, 2025

Savvy sleuth Story Smith is thrust into a tangled web of deception and deadly secrets as she and handsome rival Steve Evans team up to stop a killer out for revenge in this gripping, romantic page-turner set in the summer of 1955. Shootings. Kidnappings. A terrifying boat ride. Nothing will stop Story and Steve as they race against a ticking clock.

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A Devil in the Wilderness

by Warren Rainer

Release Date: May 14, 2025

Megan Burgan’s comfortable life takes an adventurous turn when she agrees to join her friend on a backpacking trek in the Oregon wilderness. What begins as an escape into nature soon spirals into a harrowing ordeal of being alone and fighting for survival in the wild as well as confronting a demon from her own past. She is in the fight of her life.

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The First Gentleman

by James Patterson & Bill Clinton

Release Date: June 2, 2025

America has a powerful new president… And her husband’s on trial for murder. Clinton and Patterson are back. And they’re better than ever. The President of the United States is up for reelection. Her husband is on trial for murder. Is the First Gentleman a killer? A pair of brilliant investigative journalists set out to answer that burning question about the NFL star-turned-political spouse.

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