Twists, Thrills, and Laughs: Lighthearted Mysteries & Thrillers
By Emily Hoang
Wind down with one of these lighthearted mysteries and thrillers. From faking a relationship to avoid a national catastrophe to sipping gin with Scott Fitzgerald, these books are playfully solving murders in their own unique ways. Since some of these books are part of a series, you’ll have time to catch up before the next installment comes out.
Nicole Underwood has plenty to do as the assistant to Xander Chambers, the CEO of a Fortune 500 company. When a blowout birthday celebration ends in chaos and murder, suspicion lands on Nicole for all the bloodshed. A year after those deadly events, Nicole tries to set the record straight by agreeing to consult on an upcoming film based on her story. As strange happenings occur on set, Nicole realizes clearing her name won’t be easy.
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It’s 1925 in New York and Freddie Archer lives a pretty glamorous life frequenting speakeasies and wild parties for her nightlife column Gotham Magazine. However, her latest piece gets the attention of the police after a man mentioned in her column has been murdered. Between drinking with Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald and casting Broadway shows with Groucho Marx, she lives the adventure and excitement of the investigation. But will she survive it?
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Gabby Green is trying to figure it out. She’s balancing espionage and school lunches as a secret agent, mother of two, and recent divorcee. A romance with dreamy Markus is not in her cards, but her next mission has her pretending to be Markus’s fiancée to infiltrate a Power Couples Retreat to see if the group is selling national security secrets. She’ll need to fake a relationship with the perfect man without falling for him if she wants to avert a national crisis.
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Heavy snow and freezing temperatures are spread across the Scottish Highlands village of Lochdubh. When a surprising influx of high-society visitors show up for a Valentine’s Day wedding at Tommel Castle, Sergeant Hamish Macbeth has big problems. Two women from his romantic past are on the guest list and the groom is involved in a series of incidents in the local pub. A body is found as tensions rise between guests and villagers escalate—forcing Hamish into a murder investigation with a very long list of suspects.
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In this sixth installment of the Finlay Donovan series, Finlay’s life is about to get a lot harder when her nanny and partner-in-crime, Vero, is extradited from Virginia to Maryland. As Vero is awaiting trial, she’s forced to live with her overbearing mother and nosy aunt. Vero swears she’s being committed for a crime she didn’t commit, but Vero is one of the only people with access to her former sorority’s treasury fund. Her only alibi also ghosted her. Finlay will have to do the impossible feat of proving Vero’s innocence.
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