Six Spine-Tingling Mysteries & Thrillers for Your Winter Break

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12 Dec 2025

Whether you’re traveling, staying home, or hiding from family gatherings, these twist-filled thrillers are perfect companions. Each story hooks fast, hits hard, and leaves you breathless.

Somerset Odyssey (The Elliot Todd Mysteries Book 3)

by Lionel Ward

Release Date: November 27, 2025

Following his adventures in Rome, Elliot is invited to present a copy of The Lyrical Ballads to the Coleridge Society in Somerset. He decides to combine it with a quiet walking holiday. However, things don’t quite go as planned, especially as his dynamic mother just happens to be planning her own trip to Somerset at around the same time.

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Red Snow in Winter

by Max Eastern

Release Date: December 9, 2025

January 1945: Haunted by the memory of a secret love affair in Nazi-occupied Prague, American intelligence officer Julius Orlinsky is caught in a deadly web of espionage when a routine assignment in Washington, D.C., disintegrates into murder and blackmail. A fast-paced thriller that stretches from the Pentagon to a Budapest under siege.

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Blood Tide (Jack Morrison’s Blood & Bourbon Mystery Files Book 1)

by Daniel P. Douglas

Release Date: September 21, 2025

1950, Los Angeles. The harbor keeps secrets—the kind that make men dead. When ex-cop Jack Morrison’s war buddy is murdered, the cops cry robbery. Jack smells a cover-up. He tracks heroin in spice crates from the docks to City Hall, protected by dirty badges. Now Jack’s bringing his own justice—one bullet at a time. In this city, everybody bleeds.

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Panama Red (Kelly Turnbull/PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC Book 9)

by Kurt Schlichter

Release Date: December 9, 2025

In PANAMA RED, Kelly Turnbull is back for his ninth adventure, this time chasing a new enemy around the globe from Dublin to Panama City, and from deep red Texas to Mogadishu, Minnesota, deep inside the People’s Republic! He’s after a ghost known only as Circe, a female-identifying blue assassin who has left a trail of dead Americans in her wake. Now, Kelly Turnbull is on her trail, but who is the hunter and who is the hunted?

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Children of the Empire (Noah Wolf Book 27)

by David Archer & Vince Vogel

Release Date: December 9, 2025

Noah Wolf is quickly becoming one of the top names in the world of espionage. With well over 2 million copies sold and hundreds of thousands of five-star reviews, this perennial USA Today bestselling series will be sure to keep your heart pounding well into the night.

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Running Blind (Tom Rollins Thrillers Book 19)

by Paul Heatley

Release Date: December 7, 2025

Former black ops agent Tom Rollins thought his CIA days were behind him—until analyst Jess Chen shows up at the casino where he works and asks for his help on an impossible mission. A Chinese defector has stolen a USB drive containing the identities of deep-cover moles embedded throughout American intelligence. The only problem: she’s being hunted by both the Chinese government and a ruthless Triad network determined to silence her before she reaches safety.

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