Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for April 9, 2022

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

A college newspaper editor uncovers a link between a serial killer stalking the campus and a medieval death cult.

Category: Thrillers – Conspiracies

The truth may cost him everything… but living a lie is no longer an option.

Sixteen years ago, David Harper’s father was convicted of his mother’s murder. Escaping the shame and memories, David walked away and reinvented himself. Few people know his true identity, not even his wife of five months. But when his father’s conviction is overturned, David can’t hide the truth any longer. His career as a Texas State Trooper, as well as his marriage, is on the line.

Driven by revenge, David is determined to learn who really took his mother’s life and make them pay. His investigation stirs a den of vipers and they come out striking—and his dad is the number-one target.

Can David get to the murderer before he silences the only family David has left?

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Category: Mystery – Police Procedurals

A gardener with a secret life, a Goth woman with a morbid fascination, a serial killer who leaves a trail of bodies across the Midwest: they all come together at a Minnesota lakehouse in a transformation as evil as it is shocking.
The Cannibal Gardener combines out-of-this-world horror with a love story and a touch of grim humor from a master storyteller.

Category: Suspense

Dive into the exciting, seamy, intriguing world of one of America’s most iconic cities and one of mystery’s most endearing series protagonists: down-on-his-luck, ex-newspaper reporter Harry James Denton. New York Times Notable Book author Steven Womack brings Nashville to life in his action-packed, Edgar-award-winning Music City Murders series.

Category: Mystery – Private Investigators

In 1692, a disreputable young man breaks his engagement by accusing his fiancee of witchcraft. Little does he know, she really is a witch.

“Salem Burning” is a fast-paced, brand-new take on the Salem witch trials.

Category: Thrillers – Historical

After narrowly escaping the horrors of the Salem witch trials, Lilly Parris comes of age in 18th century France where she is pampered by Louis XVI, and pursued by one of history’s greatest fiends: Maximilien Robespierre, the monster who sent thousands of innocent men, women and children to the guillotine.

“The Witch and the Guillotine” is a fast-paced, brand-new take on the French Revolution.

Superstar, Sybil Cantrell, has a twitchy feeling about her trip to Cannes. Something bad will happen.
She’s Right
As bodyguard to a famous international film and Broadway star, Lolita has to deal with international jewel thieves who have targeted her client’s fabulous collection of gold and gems, as she attends the famous Cannes Film Festival in France. To pursue their goals, the Pink Panther gang decide that it would be much easier to get rid of Ms. Cantrell’s bodyguard, leaving the actress vulnerable. Lo fights off her attackers as they try to get rid of her pesky presence guarding the international super star.. The situation is so dire that Lolita’s boss at the Fontaine Agency, Lance, comes to France. Besides catching the jewel thieves, Lance and Lolita have their own undercover job. Hiding their fragile relationship from the canny film star, Sybil. Lolita proves she’s a deadly opponent to the gang of thieves, and that she’s precious to Lance.

Category: Mystery – Women Sleuths