A number of Mark Billingham's novels are on sale. There's a mix of his Tom Thorne series and some stand-alones. I've read the first Tom Thorne novel, Sleepyhead, and would recommend him.
I gave synopsis for the standalones. Not for the Tom Thorne books.
Standalones:
Rush of Blood
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Three British couples meet around the pool on their Florida holiday and become fast friends. But on Easter Sunday, the last day of their vacation, tragedy strikes: The fourteen-year-old daughter of an American vacationer goes missing, and her body is later found floating in the mangroves.
When the shocked couples return home to the United Kingdom, they remain in contact, and over the course of three increasingly fraught dinner parties they come to know one another better. But they don’t always like what they find. Buried beneath these apparently normal exteriors are some unusual kinks and unpleasant vices. Then, a second girl goes missing, in Kent—not far from where the couples live. Could it be that one of these six has a secret far darker than anybody can imagine?
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Die of Shame
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Every Monday evening, six people gather in a smart North London house to talk about shame. Among them are a grieving surgeon, a betrayed housewife, a taunting gay model, a barely recovered heroin addict. All they have in common is a history of pain and compulsions—until they’re linked by the brutal murder of one of their members. Det. Inspector Nicola Tanner is drawn into this intimate circle to find the killer. Unfortunately, not a single one of them is willing to share.
Now it’s up to Tanner to delve into their pasts on her own. But what secret could be so shameful as to kill for it? Or die for it? And how can she possibly find the truth when lies and denial are second nature to her suspects?
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Tom Thorne books:
From the Dead (The Tom Thorne Novels Book 9)
The Dying Hours (The Tom Thorne Novels Book 11)
The Bones Beneath (The Tom Thorne Novels Book 12)
Love Like Blood (The Tom Thorne Novels Book 14)