Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for April 8, 2021

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

For an ex-cop turned private investigator, I’ve carved out a pretty nice life for myself. Yes, life is good, but that doesn’t stop me from seeking closure and justice for victims of the darker side of Chattanooga. Some would call me reckless. But I’m just doing it my way, and it works. These then are my stories.

Book 1: On a wild December night, I found myself on the Walnut Street Bridge. Moments later I was staring down into the terrified eyes of a young woman—just seconds before she slipped through my fingers and fell to her death. Who was she? Why did she kill herself? The look on that girl’s face will haunt me for the rest of my days. I had to find the answers…

Category: Thrillers – Crime

Ghostly Chickens from her dead-ex-boyfriend are the least of her worries.

Barista April Storm longs for more than making a mean macchiato and talking to her ex-boyfriend’s ghost. She gets an extra shot of strife when Sir Reginald Dewsberry, a famous deceased cricketer, wants her to spill the coffee beans on his killer.

With her ghostly client unable to remember who did him in, April is forced into the role of supernatural detective. Assisted by her spectral ex, a magical secret agent, and an overcaffeinated talking cat, she finds herself in hot water when the clue trail reveals an escaped demon.

Can April serve up justice before a brewing disaster boils over?

Begin your journey into the Mystic Brews cozy mystery series today. If you like sassy heroines, colorful characters, and a side of spells with your cuppa joe, then you’ll love Alyn Troy’s otherworldly adventure.

Category: Mystery – Cozy

She befriended the one woman she was never supposed to meet. Now she’s the key suspect in her disappearance.
Lana has never considered herself a stalker—until the night she impulsively follows a familiar face through the streets of Manhattan. Her target? The anonymous woman she’d selected through an egg-donor agency, the one who’s making motherhood possible for her. Hungry to learn more, Lana plans to watch Katya only from a distance. But when circumstances bring them face-to-face, an unexpected friendship is born.

Then, just as suddenly, Katya disappears—and Lana might have been the last person to see her before she went missing. Determined to find out what became of the woman to whom she owes so much, Lana digs into Katya’s past, even as the police grow suspicious of her motives. But she’s unprepared for the secrets she unearths and their power to change everything she thought she knew about those she loves best…
Her Daughter’s Mother is a gripping psychological thriller about two strangers, one incredible connection, and the steep price of obsession.

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Category: Suspense

Tokyo, 1951. Elly Ruskin is still struggling to settle. Half-Japanese by heritage, Elly was repatriated to Japan after the war, but Tokyo is a city she barely knows. And now she’s certain her new husband is having an affair with the enigmatic Japanese poet known as Vida Vidanto. Yet Elly is not the only one suspicious of Vida. The occupying American forces have their eye on her too. Kamiya Jun has been recruited to spy on the poet and find out why Vida spent her war years in China. He is perfect for the part. A war orphan, he has honed the art of becoming invisible in order to survive. But following Vida leads Jun to the Ruskins. And he soon finds himself delving into their private lives as well. Then Vida Vidanto is found murdered in her apartment. Is it a case of mere jealousy or has there been a betrayal of a more dangerous kind? Because Vida had more than one secret worth killing for.

Category: Mystery – Historical

To save her, he’ll have to be deadly, accurate, and most of all, quick…

First grade teachers aren’t supposed to face life-and-death scenarios. But that’s exactly what happens when Suz Molloy is kidnapped. What she really needs is her ex-Navy SEAL fiancé. It’s just her unfortunate luck that he’s laid up in the hospital with no idea she’s even missing.

When Jack McCullen wakes up from surgery to find Suz gone, his gut—and his psychic colleague at Iniquus—tells him Suz is in life-threatening danger. Now, all he can do is follow the clues to South America and pray he’ll get there in time to be the hero Suz needs.

Jack’s faced tough times before. Beaten unbeatable odds. But this time, the mission is for more than love of country—it’s for the love of his life.

Jack Be Quick is an intense, action adventure, military romance filled with spies, conspiracies, political and international terror. Grab your copy, and let’s go!

Category: Suspense

Welcome to Seaside! A sleepy, island village filled with sandy beaches, colorful characters… AND MURDER!

Paige Comber dreams of running off to Paris to train at the Cordon Bleu, but fresh out of college, she is stuck running her granny’s coffee shop in the small town of Seaside. It looks like a lousy summer until a handsome stranger named Nate arrives.

He’s here to help his Uncle Byron with his affairs, but when his uncle’s body washes up on the beach and Nate is thrown into prison, it is up to Paige to find out who might have been crazy enough to do it.

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Category: Mystery – Cozy