Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for April 22, 2020

You will never guess the ending!
Am I pretty?

Imagine being asked that question standing face to face with a killer. What would you answer?

While her life is going from bad to worse, journalist Mary Mills receives a phone call from her father telling her that her brother has been arrested for murder. Mary decides to go back to her hometown of Cocoa Beach, Florida, which she left twenty years back and has never visited since.

Working with her old friends from the 7th Street Crew, she tracks down the most disturbing and surprising killer this town has ever faced before a shocking conclusion turns everything upside down for them.

Determined to solve the murder and to have her brother acquitted, Mary is forced to face demons from her past she never thought she would have to again.

What Hurts the Most is a chilling, fast-paced story of murder and revenge.

It’s the first in Willow Rose’s new series about Mary Mills and her childhood friends from 7th Street. It is full of the twists and turns that Willow Rose is known and loved for by readers all over the world.

Category: Mystery – Women Sleuths

This page-turning box set introduces Minneapolis criminal attorney Marc Kadella as his career ignites with three high-profile cases: an accused serial killer, the family of an irresistible socialite, and the young mother of a missing toddler caught up in a media circus. Chock-full of grit and street savvy, this action-packed legal thriller series is a Grisham fan’s dream. (And we dare you not to fall in love with Marc’s badass private investigator Maddy Rivers.)

Category: Mystery – Series

His faith was in tatters. And after being so close. Professor Mark Eberhart was set to carbon date the Shroud of Turin. He was going to finally find out if this relic was real, and if it could revive his dwindling Christian faith. But the Shroud was stolen right in front of him . . . by thieves who possessed super human powers.

But that’s not the reason for Mark’s sudden crisis of faith. As he and journalist Cora Byron attempted to recover the Shroud, he learned the disturbing news. At the same time he was scheduled to test the Shroud, other scientists were running DNA tests on the supposed lost bones of Jesus—tests which proved that these were, in fact, the real bones of Christ. And that the Resurrection never happened.

Category: Thrillers – Conspiracies

Requiem – Book 1: Origins, is the story of twins who are brought up as cousins. With no idea that they are siblings and unaware of the family secret that has been kept hidden from them, they go through life, oblivious to who they really are.
Trying to find themselves and their place in the world, a set of coincidences and circumstances trigger dangerous memories that stalks their present. Now that buried secret could be the thing that buries them too.

Category: Mystery – African American

Stolen shoes. A rogue drug dealer. An unusual family history. The Troubling Case of the Stolen Shoes is the latest in the hilarious and charming Bob Lowe Investigation Series.

Bumbling Brit Bob Lowe is successfully transitioning from unemployed drunk to slick private investigator, ably assisted by Miss Pat W, his trusted translator and investigative partner. When a young novice monk explains that shoes are going missing from the temple, Bob is outraged and takes on the case with no charge. His work only interrupted by a smattering of other cases taking him off on, at times, bizarre tangents.

They tackle these cases with their usual charm and sensitivity and of course some helpful input from Khun Daeng; Bob’s housemate. If you enjoy mysteries with a touch of humour, rich characters, and plenty of the bizarre then you’ll love The Troubling Case of the Stolen Shoes.

Category: Mystery – Cozy

Do you love a hero who pulls no punches and never gives up?

A surgeon pulled into a world of murder, betrayal and vengeance
Kurtz demands the best, from himself, from his colleagues and from his residents, and he never runs from a fight. So when former girlfriend Sharon Lee is found strangled in a hospital call room, Kurtz cannot resist getting involved…and along with police detective Lew Barent, he soon finds himself embroiled in a twisted tale of murder, betrayal and brutal revenge.

Category: Mystery – Series