Right here’s a enjoyable round-up, with thriller books with psychics, tarot readers, and seances!
Demise within the Playing cards by Mia P. Manansala
For followers of YA lacking particular person mysteries!
Highschool scholar Danika has thriller fixing in her blood: her mother is a PI and her dad is a thriller writer. Whereas she will get to do some work within the household PI agency, she doesn’t get to do the precise sleuthing as a PI, which is all she needs. As a substitute, she secretly does tarot readings for her classmates in school. That’s, till Gaby, a classmate, informs Danika that after she learn her older sister’s playing cards—which included a demise card—she disappeared. Danika decides this would be the case she makes use of to show to her mother and father she is a PI-level sleuth for the household enterprise. However she’s quickly fired by Gaby’s mother and father, main Danika and Gaby to research on their very own…
Night time Will Discover You by Julia Heaberlin
For followers of previous mysteries and detectives turning to a psychic for assist!
Vivvy Bouchet is an astrophysicist, however she grew up with a mother who charged folks for her psychic items, and whereas Vivvy doesn’t name herself a psychic, she did save a boy as soon as based mostly on a imaginative and prescient. Now that boy is a police officer and he connects Vivvy to a detective on a lacking youngster case the place the kid has by no means been discovered and the mother is in jail nonetheless pleading her innocence…
The Raven Thief (Secret Staircase Thriller #2 ) by Gigi Pandian
The Raven Thief (Secret Staircase Thriller #2 ) by Gigi Pandian For followers of cozy thriller sequence, newbie sleuths, puzzle mysteries, and all of the tropes!
Tempest Raj was a well-known magician in Las Vegas till she misplaced all of it and moved again to her household dwelling. She now works for her dad’s enterprise putting in secret doorways and rooms and staircases in folks’s houses—and must be an newbie sleuth ’trigger useless our bodies maintain popping up as they do in cozies! This time round, she has to clear her grandfather’s title after a useless physique falls from the ceiling throughout a faux séance. Clearly, somebody within the room is the assassin, however they had been all holding fingers when the physique fell, so how?!
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Fortune Favors the Lifeless (Pentecost and Parker #1) by Stephen Spotswood
For followers of strange couple PIs and enjoyable historic thriller sequence!
Willowjean “Will” Parker is our narrator who’s retelling how she was working within the circus and Lillian Pentecost, a well-known detective, discovered her and made her her assistant. The primary case she recounts entails a lady murdered with a crystal ball throughout a celebration in a locked room on hearth. If that wasn’t eyebrow elevating sufficient, it was a 12 months after her husband’s demise by suicide, and individuals are gossiping that the ghost of her husband did it. Now the household needs solutions, in order that they’ve employed Will and Lillian to resolve the case, which suggests coping with a whole lot of household and enterprise drama and a religious advisor…
The Demise of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware
For followers of suspenseful mysteries and the inheritance trope!
Hal took over her mother’s tarot studying purchasers after her demise, however it’s not paying the payments, and a nasty mortgage is about to sink her. On this desperation, she decides {that a} letter wrongly addressed to her—with a doable inheritance on the opposite finish!—is price pretending to be another person to get. That is how she finds herself at Mrs. Westaway’s mansion, naively considering her folks studying expertise will assist her faux to be another person, when in actuality, she’s simply stepped right into a household the place one thing feels off…
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