Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for August 31, 2021

Miss Congeniality meets The Golden Girls in this hilarious mystery set in southern Louisiana. With a price on her head and a leak at the CIA, assassin Fortune Redding undertakes her most difficult mission ever…in Sinful, LA. Armed with her considerable skills and two ladies the locals dub The Geritol Mafia, Fortune decides to solve a murder.

The year is 1950. After graduating from college, Dapper Luoo stands at a crossroads. His parents want him to work in the family business, but he still dreams of becoming a private eye.

Los Angeles is in turmoil. Mobster bosses Mickey Cohen and Jack Dragna are battling each other for control of the city’s underworld rackets, and Dapper is drawn into the fray when he’s given the unenviable task of finding a Chinese gang leader’s missing son.

As Dapper gets closer to the truth, family secrets are laid bare, and he’s made privy to an unexpected past, one that sends him headlong into a closely guarded conspiracy that will decide who ultimately rules the City of Angels.

Category: Mystery – Hard-Boiled

A sensational trial. Dark motives. Deadly secrets.

Arrogant and abusive Judge Samuel Chesterfield is murdered in his chambers during a sensational wrongful-death trial brought against a prominent abortionist. Only the four trial lawyers had access.

Edward Mead, 77-year-old distinguished law professor, acts as special prosecutor. Still brilliant but struggling with the ravages of age and the recent death of his wife, Mead is thrust headlong into a lethal maelstrom of crime and corruption that threatens to submerge his mind and body, with the slightest misstep costing his life.

Special Agent Sarah Riehl sees the case as her one chance to shatter the glass ceiling that has suffocated her career at the FBI. Her impetuous drive to succeed recklessly propels her on a deadly gambit where the hunter becomes the prey.

This fast-paced legal thriller ripped from today’s headlines combines the action and suspense of John Grisham with the classic twists and turns of an Agatha Christie locked room murder mystery, leaving the reader breathlessly guessing until the final page.

Category: Mystery – Cozy

Catfishing can be a deadly business, especially when social media mega-influencer Angela Fox has you in her sights.
When Angela Fox’s Myface account is selected as Hottest User of the Month, there’s only one problem: she isn’t real. As the fake Angela takes the world by storm, a group of strangers struggle to escape a twisted web of narcissism, deceit, and revenge.
L.A. hotshot Sebastian Shafer is so desperate to get a job, he creates an elaborate plan to convince his future employer that, if hired, Sebastian’s association with “Hollywood socialite” Angela Fox will bring in the sales. The only issue is he needs to convince the world that she actually exists.
Angela draws more attention than Sebastian anticipated when her profile gains millions of followers and fame seekers desperately try to catch her attention. But things really get out of control when a handsome young stage-play director winds up dead. The question is who pulled the trigger?

Category: Thrillers – Crime

In this fast-paced action thriller, a United States Deputy Marshal is drawn into a political conspiracy and becomes the target of powerful government officials.

Wife and mother Deputy Marshal Jessica Devlin is sent to Mexico to bring an American citizen back to the States to stand trial. But when the hand-off is hijacked, the twenty-nine-year-old agent senses betrayal, senses her own agency may have been compromised.

On her own, out of options, running from the gunmen trying to kill her, Devlin is forced to do something drastic to get home to her loved ones, something that doesn’t come easy to her — Trust.

And she’ll have to place that trust in the unlikeliest of men…the same outlaw she’s been ordered to bring to justice.

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Category: Thrillers – Conspiracies

In this seven-book boxset you get books 15-21 from Roger Silverwood’s bestselling Yorkshire Murder Mysteries series featuring detective Michael Angel: SHRINE TO MURDER (15), THE SNUFFBOX MURDERS (16), THE DOG COLLAR MURDERS (17), THE CHESHIRE CAT MURDERS (18), THE DIAMOND ROSARY MURDERS (19), THIRTEEN STEPS TO MURDER (20), THE FRUIT GUM MURDERS (21)

Category: Mystery – Series

This small town in Prairie County, Montana has been rocked to its very core with the brutal murders of four women. A serial killer, whose calling card is as unusual as it is twisted, is on the loose – and troubled Police Chief Nathan Sommers is bent on stopping him at all costs…

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Category: Mystery – Traditional Detectives