Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for April 4, 2020

From the Queen of Scream comes a novel that will raise the hair on the back of your neck.

To the neighbors, they’re sweet old ladies. To Tim Robertson, they’re his worst nightmare

Not every grandmotherly type bakes cookies.

What’s more frightening than finding out that the kindly old ladies living across the street from you are anything but?

As a child, Tim Robertson is selling cookies with his best friend Damien when they knock on the door of the house across the street from him. Two old ladies open the door and Tim never sees his best friend again.

Twenty years later, Tim has tried to move on and forget what happened back then. He is married, has a son, and just bought the house of his dreams in small town Cocoa Beach. When the house across the street from them is sold, they are all looking forward to getting new neighbors, until Tim realizes the old ladies are back to haunt him and the rest of the town.

To Hell in a Handbasket is Willow Rose, when she is at her most horrifying. Every page of this book is oozing with dread, and this novel stands shoulder to shoulder with the very best of Koontz and King. Anyone who has read a Willow Rose book knows it’s harder to put the book down than to just finish it.

Category: Suspense

WANTED: HOTSHOT P.I. WITH NEAR SUPER-HUMAN SKILLS.

Confirmed grump Eddie Valentino placed the ad. Hotshot twenty-something Talba Wallis knew exactly how to answer it.

And thus was born the dynamic duo of New Orleans private detectives—one cynical, sixty-five-year-old Luddite white dude with street smarts, and one young, bright-eyed, Twenty-First century African-American female poet, performance artist, mistress of disguise, and computer jock extraordinaire. Think Queen Latifah and Danny DeVito.

In Louisiana Hotshot, their job is to hunt down a sociopath and pedophile who’s molested the fourteen-year-old daughter of their client, hangs out on the ragged edges of the rap and recording industries, and has more powerful allies than a Cabinet member.

But both detectives have unfinished business from the past—in Eddie’s case, something he deeply regrets; in Talba’s, a personal mystery, one so frightening no one will help her investigate. But she knows she won’t sleep till she solves it—and the truth will change her forever.

Category: Mystery – Women Sleuths

Police Sergeant Daniels leads a team of detectives that uncovers a plot by a corrupt city official, who uses murder and intimidation, to try to take control of both city hall and the largest crime gang in the city. Witnesses are refusing to talk and the body count is rising, while the team methodically zeros in on the diabolical mastermind, who will go to any extent to win power, including arson, torture and mass murder. No one is safe from violence, as the villain resorts to desperate measures to keep from being caught.

Category: Mystery – Police Procedurals

This is not your friendly neighborhood library.

During a job interview for a branch manager position, Rosalind Lanners learns that others think the library is haunted. But with a horrible credit score, a mountain of school debt, and less than three figures in her bank account, Rosalind takes the job and hides out there at night until she can find an affordable apartment.

When cold spots precede unsettling, seemingly impossible events, Rosalind begins to wonder if the stories are true. These strange occurrences soon take on a more sinister edge, but circumstances outside her control force her to stay in the one place she’d like to escape at all costs.

As she discovers clues about what might be lurking inside the branch, Rosalind learns that those who work in the library…may be just as evil as what lives inside it.

Category: Thrillers – Psychological

Mack August, frustrated Los Angeles police detective, moves to a smaller city in Virginia to start over. Rather than join the force, he opens his own P.I. shop and hires out to local attorneys–until Sheriff Stackhouse comes calling with a special request.

Category: Mystery – Private Investigators

Meet Veronica Summers.
She’s a femme fatale in Jimmy Choo heels–a local attorney needing the services of a private investigator.

She’s come to the right place. Mackenzie August is hired to sniff out a traitorous informant hiding in an underworld operation. It’s an assignment he should turn down–if only someone other than Ronnie Summers had asked, maybe he could have…