Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for April 7, 2023

When you’re born to the streets, it forms a bond. Unrelenting and almost unbreakable, it grabs you and refuses to let go.

Natty Deeds was born into the Leeds crime life. His dad was murdered when he was just a child, forcing him to find his own way and establish himself. Now in his early thirties, he handles a crew for his uncle, running and selling drugs. The money is good and he enjoys the status, but it’s not enough. He dreams of a life where he calls the shots.

Natty is given the chance to step up when he is picked to work alongside a rival crew. The task is simple, expand into a new area and dominate the scene. What in practice appears simple turns out to be anything but. With one harrowing setback after another, Natty’s back is against the wall and the smallest mistake could cost him everything.

Can Natty survive, or will he become another casualty of the streets?

If you like gritty, character-driven thrillers, you’ll love this gripping read.

Category: Thrillers – Crime

Two graduate students fall in love, one goes missing…

Peter Andrassy, a native Hungarian and retired NYC detective, is racked with guilt over the murder of his wife. He’s moved home to Budapest seeking a fresh start as a private investigator, believing it will allow him a chance to focus on routine cases as he mends his broken heart.

Stephen, an American graduate student in Budapest, finds Peter and works to persuade him to locate his British girlfriend, Samantha. Peter is hesitant, worrying it may reveal skeletons from his past.

Seeing Stephen has nowhere else to turn, Peter reluctantly agrees but quickly becomes frustrated by how little Stephen seems to know about the woman he claims to love. As Peter unravels the mystery of Samantha’s disappearance, he discovers it may intersect with another case. Budapest has become a frightening place for foreign women, and Peter may be forced into a situation he’s desperate to avoid. Buy Vanished From Budapest today and see if Peter can find Samantha.

Category: Mystery – International Mystery & Crime

Who is Dev Haskell? A Private Investigator with a foot on both sides of the law. A back slapping, fun loving, ladies man. He deals with people who’ve made bad decisions. But then, bad decisions make for interesting tales . . .At the end of the day he gets the job done and there’s usually a gorgeous woman who says; “Please, don’t ever call me again. Ever!”

Category: Mystery – Private Investigators

A broken-down Navy Intel operative swimming in a sea of alcohol. The Japanese girl who loves him despite the tragic price she may have to pay. The “old salt” with a dark past who nonetheless tries to save them both. All coming together to face a madman more dangerous than Hitler himself with the very survival of civilization itself on the line.

Fresh from his critically-acclaimed psychological thriller, Silver or Lead, James Cox brings us Roppongi, a ripped-from-the-headlines page-turner about an all-too-real terrorist group that many had never heard of but after this read will never forget.

Category: Thrillers – Technothrillers

Moving to Crooked Tree Farms in Spell’s Bay is Verity Blume’s Chance at a Do-Over…

Instead, she’s bought the farm…literally. Lock, stock, and flesh-eating spiders…

There’s more than a few surprises waiting for her at Crooked Tree…

At 40 something, she’s divorced, broke, and a—vine witch? Or so her handsome neighbor keeps telling her.

But there’s more to Verity’s skills than the untapped magic in her hands…and a witch in waiting isn’t all she is.

Category: Mystery – Women Sleuths