Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for April 13, 2023

Psychologist Maddie Swallows’ decision to return to New Mexico seemed like a good idea at the time, considering the divorce and her two teenagers she’d dragged along for the ride.

But that was before the New Year’s Eve party she was guilt-tripped into attending. Before a member of the town council wound up dead and everyone at the party became a suspect. And before she was forced to unravel the secrets of her former hometown in order to clear her name.

Of course, with the help of two precocious teenagers and one meddling mother, the real murderer doesn’t stand a chance.

She thought there’d been no witnesses.
She thought he’d never be found.
Until the leaves arrived.

Jolene Parker wants nothing more than to be awarded custody of her children after her alcoholism and OCD rituals uprooted her family. But when a cold case involving a local man’s mysterious disappearance suddenly re-opens, a secret from her past forces her into a twisted game of lies and deceit.

To save her family and her freedom, Jolene must continue to conceal what really happened that night…but the sinister letters arriving in the mail rekindle the same crazed paranoia that destroyed her life before. When the police begin searching around a majestic oak tree on her property, Jolene can obsess about nothing else.

Someone knows.

But had there really been a figure standing the shadows that night , a witness to Jolene’s unforgiveable crime? Or is the real danger the darkness within her own mind?

Category: Thrillers – Psychological

Laney Hart is just a graduate student trying to care for her sick mother in a town where nothing ever happens. But when her dog leads her to a dead body in the woods, Laney discovers that it’s connected to her grandmother and her own hidden powers as a witch.

Determined to find answers and protect her family, Laney and her friends delve deep into age-old myths, haunted dreams, and a cryptic journal that leads them on a fateful race to prevent the next murder.

But as they pull on the loose threads, they soon realize that all the answers tie right back to Laney. With danger lurking around every corner, Laney and her friends must work together to survive and uncover the truth.

Sure as fate, if they make it out alive, they will never be the same again.

Category: Mystery – Cozy

A gripping spy thriller which can be read as a stand-alone, or as part of the highly acclaimed, Sarah Black series. Described by bestselling author Richard Lyntton as “A world of intrigue, deception, and a perilous slalom of twists and turns you… might never recover from”.

Category: Thrillers – Espionage