Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for August 12, 2021

Sleepy little North Bend just woke up.
The newly promoted Sergeant Jade Monroe, and her partner, Detective Jack Steele, have just been informed of an unidentified male body found at a local lake. The town is in an uproar. The victim was nearly decapitated, and murder simply doesn’t happen in North Bend.
As more bodies turn up, the single connection between all of the victims becomes clear—it’s Jade, herself.
With each new victim getting one step closer to Jade, time begins to tick away. She must find the person responsible before her loved ones, or herself, are targeted next.

Funny, lively lawyer Rebecca Schwartz is a perennial favorite among cozy readers who can’t get enough of smart-mouthed women sleuths. You can’t read just one, they’re like chocolates! And now, for the first time, you can get all five for a yummy bargain price – only pennies more than half price. That’s what we call a delicious Kindle deal! And by the way, they go well with chocolates.

Category: Mystery – Women Sleuths

A hike on a beautiful fall day leads to the unearthing of a vast burial field, a human trafficking ring, and international intrigue and puts pull-no-punches journalist Deuce Mora on the wrong side of the NSA, the FBI, and the CIA – at a minimum.

Category: Mystery – Women Sleuths

Bob Fiske — the 74-year-old dinosaur who’s taught Honors English and coached varsity football for five decades — is missing.

To his Winners, class favorites Fiske designated over the years for their potential to “Live Big,” it’s heartbreaking. Fiske did more than inspire with soaring oratory; he supported their ambitions into adulthood. Four of his brightest former stars reunite to find him, putting high-octane careers on hold, slipping police barricades, racing into the wilds of Northern Michigan for clues about the fate of their legendary mentor.

Others don’t see a legend. They see an elitist whose time has passed.

As the search unfolds, churning up feints and betrayal and explosive secrets from the Winners’ own pasts, each must decide how far they’ll go for Fiske. Will the truth affirm him? Or has this cult of hyper-achievement spawned a thing so vile none of their lives will survive intact?

Category: Thrillers – Political

Fun paranormal cozy mysteries. 1: Lexie’s heritage has caught up with her and it leads her straight to danger. 2: Mackenzie Coven rule #1: Do not lose your cat, especially if there’s a killer on the loose with a fetish for cats. 3: If Lexie’s abysmal acting skills don’t get her killed, surely mentioning the name Macbeth inside a theater will.

Category: Mystery – Cozy

Fun paranormal cozy mysteries. Thanks to her cousins’ meddling, Lexie is solving mysteries, going into therapy and learning to work as a team with her chatty feline companion. By comparison, meeting a Monkey God seems to be a piece of cake. It could all end badly when the Coven issues her with a warning to pull up her socks or face their ire.

Raina Willoughby met her Aunt Nancy’s friend and coworker, Dr. James Posey, for the first time at the cinema in 1939. Both women enjoyed the company of the charming, delightfully funny man throughout the evening, but it wasn’t long before Raina and Aunt Nancy discovered James wasn’t nearly as genial as they had thought.
The vicious and violent finale to their night finds the Willoughby family trying desperately to heal, but with James’s actions and family secrets looming, the task becomes seemingly impossible—especially when tragedy cripples the family once again. As James repeatedly dodges repercussions courtesy of his wealthy, influential family, Raina struggles to cope with the injustices threatening to break her lovely, youthful spirit.
But Raina won’t break—Raina wants revenge. She’s going to right the wrongs done to her friend; her patients; her family; herself; and, most importantly, Nancy Willoughby. Raina will do anything, use anyone, and say anything to avenge them—and she’s going to enjoy it.

Category: Thrillers – Historical

What if the world didn’t want a serial killer caught?

A wealthy psychopath is stalking Europe. An American coed from a prominent political family is among the abducted.

It was a setup. FBI Special Agent Davé was just supposed to fly to Athens and show the flag. They paired him with an expendable cop from Crete. There wasn’t supposed to be justice. They say good men can’t catch bad men. It takes bad men to catch worse men.

Two good cops, didn’t get this memo…

From the ancient Greek Isles, unforgiving Africa, and cauldron of The Middle East, comes a dark, international thriller about evil, the thin blue line, and the price paid by those who face it.

Category: Thrillers – Crime