Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for April 18, 2020

Secret Societies, Serial Killers, and a Seriously Snarky PI.

When Ginger Mitchell finds out her mother committed suicide, she packs up her life as a Vegas “dancer” (hey, somebody’s gotta do it) and drives her cherry-red SUV straight home to Portland. Without a disapproving mom to rebel against, what was the point?

When she arrives back in her hometown, she finds a lot more going on than fancy food trucks and put-a-bird-on-it hipsters.

Murders are being passed off as suicides.

College-aged women keep going missing.

And then there’s the troubling spate of mobsters who keep inviting her out to eat.

With a pile of cash saved from her last job and no one around to tell her not to, Ginger decides to become a private investigator, to find out exactly what’s gone wrong in the City of Roses. First up: Her mother’s “suicide.”

Category: Mystery – Women Sleuths

Detective Sidney Becker is burned out. Years of investigations in a big city left her haunted by grisly crime scenes. Seeking balance, she accepts the job of police chief in a peaceful mountain community. Life is good. Beautiful scenery. Low crime.

Then a woman is found brutally murdered in the woods. The staging of the body resembles another victim found in the same area years earlier. The case went cold. Now the killer has come out of hiding.

The killer plans each murder to the smallest detail. The only clue found at the crime scene is an origami butterfly planted on the victim. Inside is a handwritten, meaningless verse. To outwit a killer more cunning than any she’s faced before, Sidney must decode his cryptic message and lure him into the open—before he strikes again.

Category: Mystery – Women Sleuths

A KILLER WHO LOVES TO WATCH THE RESULTS OF THE HAVOC HE WREAKS.

YOU CAN RUN, YOU CAN HIDE . . . BUT HE WILL GET YOU.

DETECTIVE MADDIE IVES FACES HER WORST NIGHTMARE.

Lance Askew is a career serial killer. He lives for it.

THE FIRST VICTIM
Alice Oxley runs her own café. An older man has become a regular over the last month. He likes to people watch. He doesn’t say much.

When he does speak. It comes from nowhere, he waits until she is very close: ”Your son is dead. I killed him.”

Her boyfriend is dead too. He says he left them under the photo on the stairs, the one where they’re all smiling together.

He drinks in her reaction then breaks the spell: “Go!” he rasps.

She runs home to see what he has done.

THE SECOND VICTIM
Michelle Rice pushes open her garden gate. It makes a squealing sound – it always has. It is how Lance Askew knows she’s home. He can barely contain himself. He is waiting for her.

Soon she will see what he has done.

A THIRD VICTIM IS IDENTIFIED.
Another family are about to have their lives ruined.

Maddie Ives and Harry Blaker are the detectives who must stop this killer. And he is far from finished.

ONE OF THEIR OWN IS THE NEXT TARGET

HE WILL GET YOU: the new thriller from Charlie Gallagher. Perfect for fans of Kimberley Chambers, Damien Boyd, Rachel Abbott, Patricia Gibney or Mark Billingham.

Category: Thrillers – Crime

Celebrated criminal lawyer Marc Kadella’s had it with drug cases, but … it’s for a friend. He enlists the help of PI Maddy Rivers to dig up dirt on two cops suspected of planting evidence on the bust. She’s sidelined when her boyfriend is found dead and she’s arrested for the murder! To save Maddy, Marc must delve deep into the money laundering schemes of a drug cartel and a hitman who’s off the radar.

Category: Thrillers – Legal