Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for December 26, 2020

“I really enjoyed this story. It’s a little bit of a crime, thriller, suspense, mystery with a smidgen of romance all wrapped up in a quirky package with brainiac, feisty female lead.” -Laura, Tangents and Tissues Book Blog

When the FBI traces shipments of military-grade hardware to a university lab, Dr. Ree Ryland is their primary suspect. They soon realize Ree is being used as a pawn and take her up on her offer to help them catch the killer hiding on campus. Now, Ree and the FBI team must find the true perpetrator before they all become collateral damage.

How will people react when they cannot sleep? PANIK tells a story about a mysterious virus that spreads and destroys a country. “An eerie and brilliant new take on the dystopian tale.” IndieReader.

Category: Thrillers – Medical

A hitman with a conscience…

Ian Bragg is paid to kill people. Only bad people and not many, but for a great deal of money.

Case the target. Make the hit. Move on until he meets the woman with sparkling green eyes who changes everything.

Is his newest target deserving of death? Who is Ian to decide if the politician needs to die? He is the one who has to live with the consequences, that’s who.

The contract deadline nears. Too many unknowns, too much to lose. Pull the trigger or not?

Ian makes his own rules to get himself out of a quandary where it’s more than just his life on the line. For the greater good, join Ian Bragg.

Category: Thrillers – Assassinations

The owner of a family trucking company is found dead in his truck down a steep embankment on the Coquihalla highway, aka the “Highway Thru Hell”. His distraught daughter wants to know how her father, an experienced driver, could have driven off the road. After the brakes on another company truck suspiciously fail on the same treacherous highway, former RCMP detective turned trucker Hunter Rayne feels compelled to find the answer.

As he uncovers signs of illegal activity out of a Seattle warehouse, Hunter recruits an old friend, an outlaw biker, to infiltrate what could be an international smuggling ring. But while Hunter follows up clues and waits for critical information from his old friend, the wily biker starts to play his own angles.

Finally, putting all the pieces together, there in the dark on the same fatal curve of the Coquihalla highway, Hunter risks it all to confront the killer.

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Category: Mystery – Series

One warm July morning, a frozen corpse turns up at a highway brake check just south of the Grapevine Pass in L.A. County. Ex-homicide detective Hunter Rayne, now a long haul trucker, is persuaded to help clear the two fellow drivers arrested for the murder. His job is made difficult because the suspects, a newlywed couple, won’t speak up in their own defense.

The circumstantial evidence is strong, and a rookie detective from the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department is eager to score a win. The victim is identified as a second rate musician, and it turns out there were more than a few people happy to see him dead, including the accused.

Hunter’s ex-wife says Hunter is running away from his past, but he feels that the hours of solitude on the road are therapy for the PTSD from his years as a cop. Hunter is forced to butt heads with more than one officer of the law to solve the crime.

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Is there a serial killer in the Catholic Church?

When a young woman is found dead on her bed, dressed in an old-fashioned nightgown with her hands clasped in a prayer position, Detective Kate Murphy is called to investigate her murder.

Before Kate and her colleagues can find the killer, another woman is found dead in the same position. Other than being Catholic, having blonde hair, and living in Boston, the women have very little in common. But one thing is clear: the serial killer has some twisted religious beliefs.

What is his motive? Who is he? And, most importantly, can Kate stop the murderer before he strikes again?

If you like adrenaline-pumping suspense and nail-biting drama, then you’ll enjoy this page-turning mystery.

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Category: Mystery – Police Procedurals

After losing her husband in a violent car crash, Rachel King and her two young sons venture to Arrowhead Lake to heal. When Rachel discovers that Great Woods Timber is planning to clear-cut this beautiful wilderness she enlists the help of Lilly Bowman and her mysterious father, chief and shaman of the Wabanaki Nation.

But dark events have been set in motion and Arrowhead Lake is under siege by a sinister force of mercenaries. When Chief Neptune vanishes, Rachel and Lilly call on Seth Ferguson, the local deputy sheriff for help. Together they discover an astonishing truth; a shadowy cabal that will stop at nothing to obtain the secret of Arrowhead Lake, a secret that if unearthed could have far-reaching consequences.

When one of Rachel’s sons vanishes in the Lake, she and Lilly embark on a harrowing journey to find him. What they discover is a mind boggling truth that will change their lives forever.

Category: Thrillers – Psychological

“Urgently timely.”- Kirkus Reviews

They think she’s a monster, but she’s their only hope…

In a divided nation, 14-year-old Jetta belongs nowhere. Her face is split right down the middle: half-black and half-white. The non-white residents of her New Orleans camp call her a demon. The white oppressors who took over during the 2nd American Civil War have called her much worse…

After years as an outcast, Jetta uncovers her true heritage as the daughter of an African storm god and a Finnish death goddess. As she attempts to harness her terrible new abilities to turn the tide in the war, trouble comes to those she tries to help. Only Jetta has the power to heal her divided homeland… or destroy everything in her path…

Girl Divided is a post-apocalyptic sci-fi novel infused with magical forces. If you like immersive worlds, strong characters, and a tale that reads like Neil Gaiman and Stephen King combined, then you’ll love Willow Rose’s provocative story.

Buy Girl Divided now to destroy a divided dystopia today!

“In short, exciting chapters, prolific thriller writer Rose (Waltzing Matilda, 2018, etc.) spins an action-fantasy yarn with a hot-button premise that will strike some readers as urgently timely…An incendiary tale featuring mythic and realistic elements.” – Kirkus Reviews

Category: Suspense