Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for December 28, 2020

3 Bone-chilling tales from a Bestselling Author.
Series sold more than 1 million copies

ITSY BITSY SPIDER (Emma Frost #1):
Emma Frost inherits a house on Fanoe Island when her grandmother dies. She decides to move there with her family, much to her teenage daughter’s regret. One morning a wealthy old woman in her street is found murdered and soon Emma finds herself wrapped in a mystery uncovering the island’s dark secrets that not only runs deep within the history of the island but also within her own family.

MISS POLLY HAD A DOLLY (Emma Frost #2):
Miss Polly had a dolly. A beautiful daughter that she called her Baby Doll. Every day she dressed her in dresses and brushed her hair before they went outside to show off to the neighbors. On the playground, one day her Baby Doll talked to a boy, and for one unforgivable second, Miss Polly let herself be distracted by a woman telling her how adorable she thought her daughter was. When Miss Polly finally turned to look for her Baby Doll, she was gone.

Many years later Emma Frost hears about the disappearance of the little girl and learns that she is not the only one to have gone missing from Fanoe Island back in the nineties. As she digs deeper into the story, she soon finds herself entangled in a web of strange and very disturbing events.

RUN RUN AS FAST AS YOU CAN (Emma Frost #3):
Simone Beaumont is having a rough day. She is exhausted. Her baby is crying non-stop, she is in a fight with her husband and hasn’t spoken to him since last night. A big part of her want to just leave everything. To run away from it all. To vanish. She is considering it while putting her screaming baby in her car seat when suddenly she meets a man in the parking lot who without asking her makes her wish come true.

Emma Frost has just come home from a trip to Eastern Europe when the body of Simone Beaumont is being found. It turns out she was part of Sophia’s mothers’ group and soon the small group is shaken by yet another disappearance.

Category: Mystery – Hard-Boiled

A marriage made in heaven, a murder made in hell.

Why kill the man you love?

Lizzy was struggling, everyone knew that.
He shouldn’t have done those things.
He shouldn’t have pushed her so hard.
And now, her children, her marriage, her hope – gone.
It was all her fault, she knew that, but was there a chance of redemption?

Lizzy Dyson’s on trial for her life. She knows she must pay for what she did, even if it wasn’t planned, but will the jury believe her?

Category: Thrillers – Psychological

Now you can get the first THREE hard-boiled but humorous mysteries in the food-friendly TUBBY DUBONNET series by Edgar-nominated author Tony Dunbar at a delectable price! “From the Bywater … to Uptown, Tubby eats and drinks his way through interrogations and rendezvous, and it’s all delicious.” –New Orleans Advocate

Category: Mystery – Private Investigators

Sam’s Song is book one in the Sam Smith Mystery Series. The book combines a psychological mystery with humour and romance and has reached #1 on the Amazon charts on ten separate occasions. Each book in the series can be read as a standalone.

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Category: Mystery – Women Sleuths

Pro-life governor Michael Romano is laser-focused on his agenda to enact stricter abortion legislation in his state. While campaigning to further his agenda, he meets a wealthy young widow, Kristin Long, who sets her sites on the governor. Despite a faithful marriage of seventeen years, Romano is drawn into a lustful affair that, despite precautions, results in an unintended pregnancy. Now Kristin wants him and his baby, and she will publicly destroy him if he doesn’t leave his wife to marry her. Romano finds himself walking a tightrope where a single misstep can ruin his carefully-constructed personal and political life. Choice takes on a whole new meaning for him as he plumbs his conscience and weighs his ever-narrowing options. Romano’s moral compass is irreversibly skewed when he decides to set in motion a fatal plan that will allow him to pull free from the tangled web he has woven.

Category: Thrillers – Political

There’s a new detective duo in Victorian London…

When Katherine Demeray opens an unsigned letter addressed to her missing father, she is drawn into a quest to find the terrified letter-writer and learn the secret of the black tulips.

Katherine has neither the time nor the money to solve the mystery alone. She has no choice but to seek help from a woman she has only just met; awkward socialite Connie Swift.

Confronting danger as they venture into new and frightening territory, Katherine and Connie risk arrest, exposure, and even their reputations to solve the Case of the Black Tulips. Can they solve the mystery before someone gets killed….or they kill each other?

The Case of the Black Tulips is the first book in the Caster & Fleet mystery series, set in 1890s London.

Category: Mystery – Historical

Manchester, 1989

A student, Rick, is found dead in halls of residence.

His friends get caught up in the aftermath: Dan, who was in love with Rick; and Becky, who is in love with Dan.

Their fraught emotions lead them into dark places – particularly a connection to a mysterious Kabbalistic sect.

Will Becky discover who killed Rick in time to save her best friend?

Category: Thrillers – Psychological

When journalism student Eve investigates a 20-year-old cold case, she begins to unravel a small town’s darkest secrets… What exactly happened the night Lacey Walken went missing at Murder Creek?

Twenty years ago, Lacey disappeared without a trace … except for her bloody scarf tangled in fallen branches at the muddy water’s edge.

Drawn to this cold case, Eve goes back to investigate and write a report for her journalism class. As she discovers a small town’s long-buried dark secrets, the pieces of the puzzle come together: the legacy of a man, the fate of a beautiful woman, and the lives that changed forever.

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Category: Mystery – Series