Mystery & Thriller

Estimated reading time: 6 minutes

Brian O’Sullivan has a real knack for writing thrilling stories which not only entertain, but also educate and push us to think about various aspects of modern life, namely politics. In The Patsy O’Sullivan returns to the helm to tell the tale of a dying self-made billionaire who concocts a scheme to murder two prominent politicians he deeply despises. However, he gets in a bit over his head when the titular patsy of his plan, a young and extremely skilled shooter by the name of Aidan Gentry starts to come up with some plans of his own.

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Estimated reading time: 5 minutes

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Andrew Turpin has made a real splash in the world of thriller books with his debut novel, The Last Nazi, a story centred on a U.S. presidential hopeful’s secret past, the buried contents of a Nazi train, and an ageing SS mass murderer on the run. In the midst of it all is a former CIA operative Joe Johnson, dragged into the midst of a complex web of deceit where all the elements are interconnected, one where a single wrong move can lead to the abyss.

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Estimated reading time: 6 minutes

C. A. Asbrey has introduced us in the first book of The Innocents Mystery Series to the eventful world of Abigail MacKay, Pinkerton Detective, and the leaders of a train-robbing Wild West gang she befriends.
In the second volume, titled Innocent as Sin, Abigail reunites by pure chance with Nat and Jake, the leaders of the gang, as they find themselves in a town which has been snowed in with a murderer hiding in the shadows. The three must work together and race against time to find the culprit before he claims any more victims.

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Estimated reading time: 6 minutes

C. A. Asbrey has begun her great foray into literature with The Innocents, marking in great style the debut of The Innocents Mystery Series. In it, she puts her years of research to the test in telling the story of a Pinkerton Detective, Abigail MacKay, as she uses her talents in order to help the ringleaders of a western train-robbing gang find the culprit for the murder of a family friend. Owing her life to them for a previous rescue, Abigail has no choice but to lend her hand to the other side of the law, and who knows how she might come out of it.

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Estimated reading time: 8 minutes

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Joel Dicker made quite a splash in the world of literature a few years ago when he captured numerous literary prizes, most of them for his novel The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair. This book takes us deep into an investigation led by the protege of a famous author accused of having murdered a girl thirty-three years ago. The reason? Her remains were recently unearthed alongside an old copy of the manuscript which defined the author’s career.

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Estimated reading time: 6 minutes

Rafael Amadeus Hines has self-admittedly fantasized time and time again about a hero stopping the 9/11 attacks, which he himself witnessed on that fateful day. Ultimately, as a result of his musings he came up with the Sergeant John Bishop character, introducing him to the world in his first novel ever titled Bishop’s War. Though he might be a retired special forces operative, it takes very little time for him to get thrust back into the thick of it, fighting terrorism on domestic and foreign fronts alike through a time which changed America for evermore.

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Estimated reading time: 6 minutes

Brian O’Sullivan is the kind of person who isn’t afraid to speak his mind without mincing words, to draw the light to opinions we might want to ignore. Writing has always been a prime method of expression for anyone willing to give themselves to it, and in a novel whose publication he expedited, titled The Puppeteer, he expresses with great vigor his distaste for the toxicity of the current political climate. It’s all told through the story of Frank and Evie, two regular people who become embroiled in a plot by a menace aligned with the far-right to take over the country by seizing the true power: control over the president.

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Estimated reading time: 6 minutes

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Bob Van Laerhoven has always been a very apt author when it comes to weaving complex stories, and few get more intriguing and complicated than his most recent novel, Return to Hiroshima. The book tells the intersecting stories of a Belgian diplomat’s son, a police inspector, a Yakuza lord who may or may not be a demon, his potentially-insane daughter, a lowly punk with ultra-nationalistic ideals, and the infamous Japanese Secret Service Unit 731. All of their paths cross in the nuclear past of Hiroshima’s war history.

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Estimated reading time: 5 minutes

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Carlos Ruiz Zafon is the type of author whose imagination expands well beyond the conventions of normalcy and colours the world in shades we never knew existed. His novels often pull us into the world’s underbelly, and in Marina we once again dive deep beneath Barcelona’s veneer as we follow the story of fifteen-year-old Oscar who vanished from his boarding school for seven days. What he witnessed during that time wasn’t meant for his eyes, and his journey begins with a strange cemetery ritual and a rose at an unmarked grave.

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Estimated reading time: 7 minutes

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Though Matthew Sullivan has been a writer for much of his life, we’ve only recently seen him publish his second work, Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore. In it, we are introduced to a bookstore clerk by the name of Lydia Smith whose existence is anything but out of the ordinary. However, one day her orderly life is plunged into the throes of chaotic unpredictability when one of her patrons commits suicide in the store’s upper room. Quite sadly and surprisingly, Lydia is the one to inherit the poor young man’s possessions, and amongst them she finds terribly defaced and mutilated books… containing some sort of a message, one that might hide a terrifying truth.

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