Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for December 22, 2020

When twelve-year-old Sophie Williams went on a Girl Scout summer camp, she never returned home.

Three months later, her body is found inside her sleeping bag in the most frequented area of Cocoa Beach, and the town is outraged.

The girl isn’t just any child. She’s the town’s most beloved surf idol, and it was believed that she could be the next Kelly Slater.

As another child, the son of a well-known senator is kidnapped, and the parents receive a disturbing video, FBI profiler Eva Rae Thomas — who has just returned to her hometown, divorced and out of a job — plunges into the investigation, breaking her promise to her children not to do police work again.

Local law enforcement, with her old flame Matt Miller in charge, are the ones who ask for her help in a case so unsettling that only she can solve it. But the deeper they dig, the deadlier it becomes for Matt and Eva Rae. Soon, everyone she holds dear is in grave danger as this case hits a little too close to home.

DON’T LIE TO ME is the first book in the Eva Rae Thomas Mystery Series and can be read as a standalone.

Category: Mystery – Police Procedurals

We knew they were coming one day; we had just never imagined anything like…this.

Joanna Marks always had a knack for terrible timing. After all, she did get pregnant and run off at 16. With her husband recently deceased, she and her child head back home ten years later… just in time for the invasion.

Sheriff Wayne can never share how he’d known about the Chinese forces before they stormed his beloved little Florida town. The locals would think he was crazy. However, when their harmless city is put under military lockdown, he’s not the only one who finds the whole invasion suspicious.

As Joanna and Wayne team up to uncover the truth, they must venture into a terrifying world that defies reality. Moreover, if they journey too deep, they may never make it out alive…

The Surge is a post-apocalyptic thriller novel with a dash of horror. If you like shocking twists, gritty characters, and pulse-pounding suspense, then you’ll love Willow Rose’s spine-tingling story.

Category: Suspense

When patent attorney Richard Luster is lured into an exciting but dubious project, he doesn’t dream that it would literally change his life. But when Richard realizes that the people he trusted are not who he thought they were, he is left with no choice but to search for a truth he would have preferred not to know. A Sci-Fi thriller that will make you doubt the world around you.

Category: Thrillers – Conspiracies

“Duncan Hunter is a great character… an excellent read.” (A Good Thriller). This box set includes the first four thrillers in the award-winning Duncan Hunter Thrillers. Book #5, Wet Work, is now available. Book #6, Special Activities, releases April 29, 2021. Duncan Hunter, a retired Marine Corps fighter pilot, flies a top-secret airplane.

Category: Thrillers – Political

Mummified remains were found where they did not belong – inside a cave on the third-highest mountain on Earth. Dr. Jenny Williams agrees to assist in solving this puzzle. What starts as a scientific project turns out to be an ancient mystery, which takes Jenny from dangerous altitudes in the Himalayas to medieval England, and inside the Maya ruins in Mexico and Belize. Along the way, she has to fight a powerful adversary who pursues the same mystery but with his own agenda. She also finds loyal friends – a mountaineer from New Zealand, and a Chicana physician from LA. There is another player closely watching their progress – a mysterious group of men and women headquartered in the heart of a Basque country in Spain.

Category: Thrillers – Historical

In 1940, the night before Nazis raid his cellar, a French winemaker poisons a case of his best pinot noir to spite the invaders. The Nazis take the bait and the adventure begins. Every chapter of Pinot Noir tells the story of one of the 12 poisoned bottles in that case and the lives they change forever. When the pinot starts poisoning high-ranking German officers, detective Mads Molnar gets a call from the Gestapo. The deal? Recover the bottles and gain a ticket out of Axis territory and pardon for killing a fascist. But Molnar has a 300-pound problem. Wolfram Bastick, a Nazi detective whose father was killed by the wine, is also on the case. As Bastick races to find his father’s killer, Molnar scrambles to thwart him. Meanwhile, Bastick’s gorgeous fiancé is plotting to murder him for reasons of her own. Molnar must secretly recover the wine, win over Bastick’s fiancé, escape the Nazis and make it out of Germany without getting killed.

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Category: Mystery – Hard-Boiled

A seasonal worker is killed using a lethal drug unknown to forensics. Another Santa is next in line. Can DI Gardener stop this festive spree, or is the killer saving his biggest murderous gift till last?

Category: Mystery – Hard-Boiled