Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for December 19, 2020

For fans of Twilight and The Vampire Diaries comes a new addiction impossible to put down.
She’s in love with her best friend.
A family grudge could tear them apart.
And a supernatural secret could get them killed…

Robyn can’t picture life without her childhood best friend Jayden. And now that they’re in high school in the sleepy town of Shadow Hills, she’s hoping they can take their friendship to the next level.

But when their parents suddenly forbid them from seeing each other because of a centuries-old family quarrel, the few blocks between them might as well be worlds apart.
She also can’t help but wonder if the flirty new girl in their neighborhood with her sights set on Jayden has put another nail in the coffin.

While her parents keep her under lock and key, they let her older brother roam free late into the night… even after a local girl is found murdered.
Between her brother’s nighttime excursions and her parents’ odd behavior, Robyn starts to worry that the killer may be living under her own roof.

When danger lurks around every corner, Robyn must decide if she’s willing to risk her family and her life for a chance at true love.

Have you talked to your parents today?
Do you know where they are?
Do you trust them?
What if you couldn’t?

Flesh and Blood is the first novel in the Best-selling Vampires of Shadow Hills YA paranormal romance series. If you like star-crossed chemistry, headstrong heroines, and riveting family drama, then you’ll love Willow Rose’s heart-throbbing series.

Category: Suspense

A Hollywood socialite, a cub reporter, and a 30-year-old crime: what could go wrong?

As a junior reporter ostracized by her coworkers and community, RaeLynn has something to prove. A decades-old arson on the island of La Paradisio might be her career-saving story, but she needs cooperation from Rose, Hollywood socialite and survivor of the legendary Grande Hotel fire.

Category: Mystery – Women Sleuths

Time is running out.

Nine-year-old Chloe Janis is abducted.

Abby, her mom, is now faced with revealing her dark past, hidden these last seventeen years, or losing her daughter forever. A cryptic message from a man she’d shoved into the dark recesses of her mind forces her into an impossible situation—revealing secrets best kept hidden or losing her daughter forever.

Secrets, deception, and betrayal surround the small town of Mifflinburg, Pennsylvania. All eyes are on the community, threatening to split open as yet unhealed wounds are probed. Fates will be rewritten and careers redefined. Everyone involved will confront their pasts if there’s any hope of Mifflinburg becoming a town at the heart of redemption and forgiveness.

Category: Thrillers – Crime

Climate change has ravaged the planet faster than expected. In this harsh and inhospitable world, Dylan Myers, a young, bright scientist, embarks on a seemingly impossible quest; the search for his biological parents. This proves to be a daunting task in this hazardous and toxic world infested by crime, evil, poverty and hunger. He puts himself and his loved ones in great danger and unexpectedly stumbles onto a shocking secret.

A fast-paced, realistic and intriguing story full of suspense which leaves you with plenty of food for thought.

Category: Thrillers – Technothrillers

Shot to death in his home, Morgan Tutwiler leaves behind a multimillion-dollar business and a daughter who hasn’t spoken to him in years. And she isn’t alone in wanting him dead. Plenty of people wanted the most hated man in Denver dead in P. H. Turner’s latest novel in the Claire Callahan series.

Claire finds herself up against buried secrets and partial truths. Can she use her wits to unravel riddles hidden for decades and find a cold-blooded killer?

Reminiscent of the finest gumshoe storytelling, Secrets and Lies, would not be complete without Turner’s signature quirky characters and inventive plot.

Other Retailers
Nook | Kobo

Category: Mystery – Private Investigators

A puzzling series of murders collides with a messy big-money divorce in this taut, vivid mystery set in the dramatic mountains of the Southwest.

Delusional and believing he is called by the Lord to sacrifice women to atone for his sins, champion bull rider Clint Barlow wins the buckles, beds the buckle bunnies, and murders women until his life is upended by someone from his past.

Brand new Private Investigator Claire Callahan is working on the city’s messiest divorce in decades, while her mentor, Denver homicide detective Rafe Brewster is working on a puzzling series of murders.

It doesn’t take long until they realize their two cases are linked, and they must move fast to end the killings.

Other Retailers
Nook

Setting up house in a new town is an exciting time for Amy Holt and her boyfriend Zane, until she meets the neighbours. A likable elderly couple who quickly invite Amy into their home and their lives. Lives that are veiled in mystery and deception matched only by the dark secret Amy keeps.
When the two households collide, it’s murder.

Category: Thrillers – Psychological

When homeless men start to mysteriously disappear from the French Quarter, there seems to be only one woman in the world who gives a damn.

Will she be able to rally the detectives in time to find the men, before it’s too late?

Grab this southern noir mystery today to find out!

Casket Girls is the Fourth installment in the highly-rated series following the adventures of private detective Felix Herbert and his partner, ex-NOPD detective David Melancon, but it can also be read as a stand-alone novel.

Category: Mystery – Series