Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for December 11, 2022

It’s the Deauville yearling sales, and we arrive as former amateur jockey, now specialist banker, Freddie Lyons, is about to be wiped out financially – apparently ripped off by his bloodstock agent. His Russian clients, whose funds he loses along with his own, refuse to wear the losses, and seem to have Novichoked his business partner; and Penny, the ex-wife he still loves, is after him for a divorce settlement he can’t afford. Pursued by other creditors too, he fights to save himself from ruination, in constant dread of the consequences of failure. But the more he tries to dig himself out of his hole, the more he gets buried. Defeat follows defeat, until finally, the story is resolved by a racing coup, cooked up with his mentor, the racehorse trainer, Birkett Coward. And this time, when it fails, it feels like a final, fatal, set-back. Unless …

A young Native American woman is found brutally murdered in a small town. Police Chief Sidney Becker, a highly skilled detective, is relentless. She won’t rest until the killer is in custody. A blind Native American boy knows who killed her. Spooked, he flees into a snowstorm. A lone rider is hunting him. Sidney needs to find the boy quickly, before her only witness is silenced.

Category: Mystery – Series

Prudence’s son Nathan is only eighteen when his girlfriend Zoe drops the bombshell that she’s pregnant. Prudence invites her to move in.
Zoe is menacing and sullen when Nathan isn’t around and Prudence starts having a series of dangerous accidents.
So who exactly is Zoe, and what does she want from them?
And whose child is she really carrying?

Category: Thrillers – Psychological

William Meffert, his father, and his son are all surgeons. From World War II and Vietnam to today, they have all fought the battle for human life. In There Were No Flowers, Meffert links together the individual lives of grandfather, father, and son to tell a story of war, surgery, trauma, and the joys of family and love in the face of it all.

Category: Thrillers – Historical

A prisoner is locked in the shed next door. Suburban bystander Blake Davis knows he’s there, so why hasn’t she told the police? Wrestling with her response to the danger unfolding, Blake is drawn from the recent disappointments in her marriage into the intoxicating fold of the Army of Outlaws. As she learns more about her magnetic but dangerous new neighbor, Hayden, temptation lures her into the darkness… into his lawless world. Will her addiction to adrenaline be her savior–or take her past the point of no return?

Category: Thrillers – Crime