Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for December 29, 2020

Another nail-biting horror novella from the Queen of Scream

Everyone’s nightmare

When five-year-old Winnie finds a little bird that is hurt, she wants to take it in and take care of it. Her mother is reluctant. She is terrified of birds. As she rightfully should be…

The Bird is a short story from The Queen of Scream. A quick and scary read, as only Willow Rose can deliver it.

Category: Suspense

A strange nightmare links a man to a woman and to a foggy city. A little girl who can see her dead cat, an old blind woman, and a beautiful girl who died too young all have questions. But to get their answers they may have to look beyond that meadow.

Category: Mystery – Cozy

“Powerful and unapologetic exploration of one woman’s journey as democracy fails and authoritarianism takes hold.” Anne Willow, author of Broken Promises

Lauren’s happy childhood on a farm in Minnesota is shattered after an assault during her teen years, and she retreats into her own world as America falls apart. Hers was the last generation to grow up before the economic collapse that followed the Corona pandemic. Amidst roiling climate chaos, the government has been taken over by extremists, incompetents, and con-men who tear the country apart while clinging to power. Lauren is swept up in the madness when she falls for the wrong man. She’s looking for love and safety, but Bryan becomes distant and abusive as he obsesses over White Sharia and deepens his ties to the racist patriot militia group. Lauren worries about the safety of her sister and nephew, who is mixed-race. Will Lauren escape from Bryan and keep her nephew safe from danger? In a world where values are tested and morality is unsettlingly murky, Lauren must break free from the constraints in her mind to protect her family.

Category: Thrillers – Political

When bookshop owner, Samantha Washington’s assistant is arrested for murder, it’s up to Sam, Nana Jo, and “the girls” from the retirement village to find the real killer. Also included: Sam’s British historic cozy. When Wallis Simpson’s maid is killed at a shooting party, is it a case of mistaken identity? Or, a sinister plot to ignite a war?

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Category: Mystery – Cozy

Meet Justin Hall, a deadly covert assassin working for the Canadian Intelligence Service. He never listened at home; or at school… Why would anyone think he’d listen now? But no one’s better at getting the job done. Justin serves alongside his red-tape ripping partner Carrie O’Conner, and together they’ll stop at nothing to make sure justice is done. Dispatched to execute near-impossible missions with no time, no back-up, and no options. If you love adrenaline-drenched, heart-pounding suspense, you need Justin Hall…

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Category: Thrillers – Espionage

Caroline Tate seems to have it all: she’s beautiful, married to a wealthy and handsome man, and newly relocated from Boston to an exotic island off the coast of Thailand. But beneath the veneer of perfection lurk secrets of betrayal and tragedy that make her volatile and vulnerable.

When Caroline is befriended by a seductive American widow and a charmingly mysterious Englishman she is drawn into a sinister spiral of manipulation and murder that leaves her fighting for her sanity and her life.

Good Friends is a gripping novel of psychological suspense that hurtles to a diabolically Hitchcockian climax.

Category: Mystery – International Mystery & Crime

Mystery, love and action this book has it all

From the Amazon ALL-star Bestselling author Willow Rose

They take turns with the knife, cutting their thumbs open. A drop of blood lands on the dark wooden table. Eyes meet across the room. All four thumbs are pressed against each other one by one. Blood is shared, secrets buried.

Years later a brutal madman sprays bullets into a crowd at a movie theater in Miami and sends a chill through the entire nation. When human remains are discovered in the dense forest next to a biking trail in Brevard County, it is only the beginning of a series of gruesome murders, which will shock the entire Space Coast.

Detective Jack Ryder is preoccupied with Shannon King and the strange email she has just received that leaves her terrified just as she prepares to go on stage at the Runaway Country Festival. Jack Ryder senses the connection and soon he realizes he is on the hunt for a serial killer with a killing spree that spans over more than a decade.

˃˃˃ It’s spring break in Cocoa Beach and evil is lurking everywhere.
Slip out The Back Jack is the second novel in Willow Rose’s bestselling series about Jack Ryder, a devoted father and committed homicide detective.

Category: Mystery – Hard-Boiled