August Mystery & Thriller Books You Won’t Want to Miss
Summer is heating up, and so are the mystery thriller book releases. This August features some of our most anticipated mystery & thriller books, ones that you won’t want to miss. Get ready to add each and every one of these to your to be read pile!
From New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown comes an exciting new thriller about a former football star and an ambitious state prosecutor in a fight for their lives. In Overkill, Zach Bridger is a former NFL quarterback who hasn’t seen his ex-wife Rebecca Pratt for years. So, when he receives a call that Rebecca has been placed on life support after a violent assault, he’s surprised. Especially when he discovers that—despite their divorce—he has medical power of attorney. Only four years later, Rebecca's attacker, Eban, is released from prison. Rebecca has remained on life support all these years, but now, if she were to die, Eban could be retried for the murder.
Gabino Iglesias is a Bram Stoker, Anthony, and Locus award-nominated author, and his latest novel The Devil Takes You Home is an enthralling and genre-bending thriller. Mario is buried in debt due to his daughter’s illness. Desperate to make money, he reluctantly takes a job as a hitman and discovers he has a real knack for it. Now Mario has agreed to one final job before quitting the business for good. This one last mission will require him to hijack a cartel’s cash shipment before it reaches Mexico. After all is said and done, Mario will either walk away with $200,000 or he’ll end up dead.
Related: Read an Excerpt from The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias
The Liar is an exciting new nonfiction book that reads like a page-turning thriller. In the mid-1970s at the height of the Cold War, Karel Koecher was a double agent posing as a Czechoslovak asylum seeker. Unlike many operatives, Karel decided against keeping a low profile, instead embracing Manhattan’s high life. Karel and his wife Hana lived a life of excess and hedonism. But it was too good to last. Using newly declassified documents, interrogation tapes and first-hand accounts from the Koechers themselves, The Liar reveals the secret lives of Karel and Hana Koecher like never before.
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Emily Martin has a PhD in English from the University of Southern Mississippi. She’s a contributing editor at Book Riot and blogs/podcasts at Book Squad Goals.