Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for December 20, 2021

How far would you go for the person who broke your heart? When a past love calls for help, John Cutler returns to Seattle. He didn’t want to go, but she offered the one thing he needed more than distance from her—money.

He sees you when you’re sleeping, he knows when you’re awake.

Some kids are scared of the dark, others of monsters living under their beds. Some are even afraid of clowns.

None of those things scare Sara. But she is terrified of one man, who comes to her house every year, in the middle of the night.

Santa.

Curl up with some frightening Christmas horror from the Queen of Scream, Willow Rose. Warning: you might not feel like putting out cookies for Santa ever again after reading this short story.

Category: Suspense

‘More twists and turns than a trip to Ikea!’

Jack Finch has returned. A pariah. A murderer. He has lost his wife, his daughter, his home. But he has new skills now. And before the week is out he will revenge himself on the man who framed him and took his place in his bed. The man who he calls brother.

“Take care, brother. What you did was worthy of a demon. But I am the Devil himself.”

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Category: Thrillers – Crime

F. Scott Fitzgerald is hoping for a quiet retreat to write his next novel following The Great Gatsby. He and his wife Zelda rent a mansion in Edgemoor, Delaware known as Ellerslie. Their stay is anything but quiet. There is another guest staying at Ellerslie – a female spirit who roams the property.

Looking to sell Ellerslie, the owner hires April Ross, the only female student at the University of Delaware’s History Department, to research the estate’s history. It doesn’t take long before April realizes the true reason she was hired – to uncover the identity of the ghost. With the aid of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, April discovers the shocking and tragic events that lead to the Lady’s demise and why she and other spirits are not yet at peace.

Category: Mystery – Historical

When veterinary college sweethearts Jim Briggs and Helen Williams broke up to pursue careers in other parts of the country, they had no idea a tragedy would reunite them six years later in Portland, Oregon where Briggs operated a mobile canine care service.

Shortly after Williams loses her husband in a freak accident and is then attacked and left for dead by a group of homeless predators, she shows up on Briggs’ doorstep to take a job managing his pet crematory. Helen’s arrival coincides with Briggs’ own shock over witnessing a homeless woman flipping out in a drug overdose meltdown, begging, “God please take me.”

While Briggs struggles with an inner dark voice urging him to put down the homeless meth addict like a stray dog, Williams goes on a murderous rampage for revenge while sleeping with a detective assigned to the case.

Category: Mystery – Private Investigators

These four heart-stopping, hard-boiled mysteries feature Deuce Mora, a female sleuth with a conscience and an attitude–fiery, tough, athletic, a dirty fighter when she has to be, lead columnist for the Chicago Journal who normally writes about politics, and, rather than shying away from fights, she tends to pick them.

Category: Mystery – Women Sleuths

In the fall of 2005, devils chased Lizbeth Shannon across nightmarish acres and deep into the bowels of hell. Not actual devils, only personal demons. And hell meant the seediest underbelly of L.A., where she walked among clever predators and outright ghouls. Discarded and homeless after her girlfriend, Dell—a hospice nurse—finally grew a spine and tossed the “energy vampire” out the door and smack into the jaws of the street wolves.

But Lizbeth isn’t really a vampire. Forget the pale skin, sharp bite, and a life spent roaming through the gloaming hours. Depraved conditions fell upon her early, as they do to many who end up deformed by circumstance.

And yet, an inexplicable bond remains between the two women—an otherworldly connection—a cord that cannot be severed, no matter the fraying threads. Still, Dell can’t root through the ugly places or prevent her love from hitting bottom.

Only Liz can battle the fiends and avoid the abyss. First, she must dig her inner child from the ruins. But the weight of history hovers, like the sword of Damocles, eager to generate more debris—and crush them both to smithereens.

Category: Thrillers – Psychological