Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for August 16, 2022

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.

The saga begins in Chicago in 1881; when the city was just recovering from the great fire of ’71. Emma works at her family bakery but wishes for more adventure. There is an opportunity for her to have more adventures by working with the boys on the delivery wagons.

Her observation begins to pull her into cases ranging from robbery to murder. One case becomes more and more complicated and pulls in her family; To protect them and herself-will her skills with knives and self-defense see her through?

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Category: Mystery – Women Sleuths

A determined teen sleuth solves crimes and mysteries in thrilling new escapades!

Chicago, 1883:18-year-old Emma Evans graduates from business school and, building on her investigating success becomes embroiled in several perplexing inquiries. New specialists skilled in photography and disguises join her team. A new team member has a background that gives Emma pause-can they work with her? and can they accept her. Emma gains professional recognition for her abilities as she struggles to define her feelings for the two men in her life.

But things are not as they seem… in her business life, nor in her puzzling Pinkerton case. Assaulted, threatened, and confused, can Emma hold her new business intact? Can she help an old family friend survive?

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When your past catches up with you … run. Presumed dead after the
Twin Towers attack in 2001, stockbroker/con artist Mel Green, in reality,
escaped the disaster and departed Manhattan with stolen millions. Two decades
later she learns the hard way, embezzling money from the wrong people can be
murder.

Category: Thrillers – Psychological

If you were a patient of this prolific serial killer doctor, you’re lucky to be alive.

Meet Harold Shipman, a serial killer with a disturbing proclivity to murder a specific kind of patient. With an estimated 250 victims, there’s no doubt his kill count might be much, much higher. But what drove him to murder?

Category: Thrillers – Crime

The murder of the deacon of Saint Clare’s Catholic Church in Myerton cuts short the honeymoon plans of Father Tom Greer and his new wife, Chief of Police Helen Greer.

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Category: Mystery – Cozy

After her husband’s tragic death, Joanna finds herself grappling with dark secrets in her small, seemingly idyllic town in Maine — and falling into an unexpected romance with Rick, a younger man. An “entertaining” and “well paced” series starter where “the intriguing murder mystery is balanced with sexy encounters” (Kirkus Reviews).

Category: Thrillers – Psychological