Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for August 6, 2023

The first heart-stopping, enthralling serial killer thriller in the million-copy bestselling Jack Ryder Mystery Series.

Ben is supposed to be in school. It’s Monday morning, but his parents are still asleep after a night of heavy drinking. Ben waits patiently, even though he knows he is missing out on today’s field trip to the zoo. But, when his black Labrador suddenly runs upstairs and comes down with a finger in his mouth, Ben knows he’s not making it to school today at all.

Detective Jack Ryder is chaperoning his kids’ field trip when he gets the call from the head of the Cocoa Beach Police Department. A body has been found, and they need his help. Soon, Jack finds himself up against a killer, a predator who ruthlessly chases women and kills them so they can never leave him. The case soon causes serious consequences for him and his family once the truth is revealed.

With her new hero, Jack Ryder, as a loving father and committed detective, a new location in tropical Florida, and a story that moves at an incredible pace, Hit the Road Jack is Willow Rose at the top of her game.

Category: Mystery – Hard-Boiled

Magic, mystery, and mayhem collide.

When Lucas Moran agreed to paint his Aunty Clem’s house, he had no idea he was about to embark on a job like no other. Forget morning tea and biscuits, because before he could even lift a brush, his aunty took a tumble—or did she?—down the stairs, the attic exploded, and a member of her supposed coven turned up dead in the garden.

When his apprentice, gangly Young Dave, bursts in cradling a comatose red squirrel like it’s the final pack of biscuits in existence, he assumes things couldn’t possibly get any weirder. Wrong. Very, very wrong.

Lucas always dismissed Aunty Clem’s coven as a bunch of kooky misfits indulging in paranormal make-believe, but when the police brush off the chaos as freak accidents, it’s up to Lucas, his wife Charlie, and Young Dave to uncover the truth. And guess who’s joined their squad? Harlow, the awakened genius squirrel with a sniffer dog’s nose, lending a paw in solving the bewildering puzzle.

What happened to the unfortunate accountant in the garden? Could the crystal ball discovered hidden in the herbaceous border really have caused such a gruesome demise? What sparked the explosive attic incident? And how on earth did Clem manage to trip when she’s as sure-footed as a mountain goat?

As Lucas dives deeper into the mystical secrets he once dismissed as harmless fun, he finds himself armed with a wand of his own. Turns out, magic is real, and Lucas is far from your average painter. But can the crew crack the murder case wide open? Or will it forever remain a crystal ball conundrum, and the police’s accident theory will stick like stubborn paint? Will unseen forces target them next, stopping them in their tracks before Lucas and Young Dave even manage to finish painting the living room?

Brushes meet broomsticks in a brand new paranormal cozy mystery series from author Tyler Rhodes.

Category: Mystery – Cozy

Years ago, Maria did some very bad things to escape an abusive marriage. She then fled the man who helped her, Jackson Drake, when she realized he was even more dangerous than her husband.
But Jackson has finally tracked her down and now he is using Maria’s darkest secrets to blackmail her.
Just how far will Maria go to save her new life?

Category: Thrillers – Psychological

Office politics just got deadly …

Public sector worker and serial killer Dyson Devereux has just discovered there is a large reward on offer for the capture of a genocidal warlord. Dyson thinks he knows exactly where to find the fugitive. But he is extremely dangerous. It won’t be easy to take him down.

To compound matters, work colleagues are becoming ever more aggravating, and his girlfriend’s drug dealer is starting to be a serious nuisance. It’s only a matter of time before he kills again.

Will Dyson claim the bounty he craves? And can the mordant murderer get away with yet another homicide?

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Category: Suspense

His marriage in shambles and his last promotion torpedoed by internal politics, Mossad Rome station chief Ben Gal wants nothing more than to relish the swan song of his career. But when an Iranian informant surprisingly falls into his lap, Ben is drawn into a cut-throat game of chess between two Middle Eastern nuclear powers.

The son of a Holocaust survivor, Ben uses every trick of the trade to try and outsmart his opponents. As his mission unfolds, critical information comes to light concerning a notorious Nazi war criminal 70 years on the run, an international ring of art thieves, and a ticking time bomb in the heart of a major European city. Set against the backdrop of the Iranian nuclear crisis, The Rome Assignment sets itself apart with a layered and grounded portrayal of real-life espionage, terror, and the consequences the protagonists must face.

Category: Thrillers – Terrorism

Sometimes the sweetest small towns can be big on bitter secrets …

Security analyst Grace Jordan never imagined she’d be solving a murder when she returned home to Sweet Cove, North Carolina. Or, that she was good it.

Harboring a decades-long secret of her own, Grace leaves her carefully controlled, predictable city life for Sweet Cove to help her whimsical Aunt Lyla run her bookstore after the death of Lyla’s sister.

When a local businessman ends up dead surrounded by a mysterious collection of books, accusations fly, and Grace is determined to put her analytical smarts to work to uncover the truth.

Meeting a motley crew of locals along the way, including a mysterious older man with an unusual skill set of his own, Grace learns that logical analysis isn’t her only tool when solving mysteries.

Scandals. Secrets. Sweet Cove.

Category: Mystery – Cozy