Books to Read if You Like James Patterson
Looking for a chilling new mystery novel? What about a heart-racing new thriller series? If you love fast-paced stories full of action, surprising twists, and engaging characters, you’ll love these new mystery and thriller releases! Check out these recommended books for fans of James Patterson.
Blood Perfect (A Joe Turner Mystery Book 1)
by T.L. Bequette
Release Date: July 28, 2022
In this gripping courtroom thriller, a young Joe Turner returns to defend a man charged with the bloody attempted murder of a racist caretaker. Penned by a practicing criminal defense attorney, Blood Perfect is a uniquely authentic tale that probes the subconscious mind and depicts an unfiltered view of the modern criminal justice system.
Buy on AmazonThe Surgeon’s Scalpel (Heinous Crimes Unit Book 1)
by Daniel Scott
Release Date: August 4, 2022
No one was prepared for him. He’s smart, cunning, and unpredictable. Meticulous in his murders, the newspapers call him ‘The Surgeon’. A serial killer like no other. A young genius, Christian Windsor, is tasked with stopping him. The two find themselves in a battle of the mind, a race against time. One searching for answers, the other searching for his next victim…
Buy on AmazonThe Rising Tide: A Vera Stanhope Novel
by Ann Cleeves
Release Date: September 6, 2022
From Ann Cleeves—New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows—comes the stunning tenth Vera Stanhope novel, The Rising Tide, a powerful novel about guilt, betrayal, and the longheld secrets people keep.
Buy on AmazonOath of Loyalty (A Mitch Rapp Novel Book 21)
by Kyle Mills
Release Date: September 13, 2022
Mitch Rapp confronts a very different kind of killer in the explosive new thriller in Vince Flynn’s #1 New York Times bestselling series, written by Kyle Mills.
Buy on AmazonUndefeated (Sydney Rye Mysteries Book 15)
by Emily Kimelman
Release Date: September 15, 2022
The moon hangs low and full, her silvery light reflecting in the facets of black choppy water. Blue and I sit in the cockpit of a sailboat. My eyes scan the open ocean while female Peshmerga fighters sleep all around me—below deck, across benches on the bow, and one curled up on the stern. My old story starts to ride its rails: Everyone I love dies…
Buy on AmazonThe Butcher and The Wren
by Alaina Urquhart
Release Date: September 13, 2022
From the co-host of chart-topping true crime podcast Morbid, a thrilling debut novel told from the dueling perspectives of a notorious serial killer and the medical examiner following where his trail of victims leads
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