Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for December 8, 2018

Chuck Winters, recently retired San Francisco homicide detective struck it rich by developing a U.S. criminal database earning him over $100 million after taxes. Within weeks his venture capital mentor called on him to investigate a missing CEO that disappeared days before a scheduled public stock offering. The worldwide chase for a killer starts.

Books 1-3 in the award-winning Forensic Geology Series:
QUICKSILVER:
Forensic geologists Cassie Oldfield and Walter Shaws plunge into the dark history of the California gold country, into the dark past of two brothers, into a poisonous feud that threatens lives and the land.

BADWATER:
Death Valley earns its name when a terrorist threatens to unleash lethal radioactive toxins. The only ones who can find and stop him are the forensic geologists, and they are up against more than pure human malice. The unstable atom–in the hands of an unstable man–is governed by Murphy’s Law. Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong.

VOLCANO WATCH:
The volcano beneath the geologists’ home town is seething, and the mayor is found murdered with a note saying NO WAY OUT. The fate of the town now rests in the hands of an emergency planner with his own twisted agenda. As the volcano moves toward red alert, the geologists race to prevent ‘no way out’ from becoming a prophecy.

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Category: Mystery – Women Sleuths

Claire Foley is a genius, and the wrong people have noticed. Now, she’s become accomplice to sinister happenings, led by a mysterious organization with unlimited influence. Faced with a bizarre environment, terrifying villains, shocking revelations and a deepening mystery, Claire must find a way to escape the inescapable, before they hijack her gifts to do something unimaginable.

Category: Thrillers – Psychological

Desert Jade was named a finalist for Best Suspense-Thriller book, 2018 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards.

Tucson Chicana/Native American private investigator and Iraq War veteran Letty Valdez joins forces with an unlikely ally, Chinese police Detective Inspector Zhou Liang Wei, in Desert Jade, a fast-paced mystery-suspense thriller set in the Sonoran Desert.

We meet a migrant lost and out of water in the desert, Chinese triad gangsters engaged in criminal activities on the U.S.-Mexico border, a woman murdered in her backyard, a husband who vanished with a large sum of money, and three abducted young women threatened with sex trafficking.

There’s a touch of romance, too, when cop Zhou meets one of Letty’s friends. Don’t forget Milagro (aka Millie), the runt-sized female pit bull who performs a heroic act and saves a life.

Next after Desert Jade, look for Dragon’s Revenge: A Letty Valdez Mystery

Other Retailers
Nook | Smashwords | Kobo

Category: Mystery – Private Investigators

A beautiful spring day in Paris… What could possibly go wrong?

For Ava Sext, a transplanted Londoner who sells books from a outdoor stand overlooking the Seine, her day goes from bad to worse when the tall, handsome stranger whose appearance her horoscope predicted disappears after he is almost killed before her eyes, and that’s before she discovers he supposedly died weeks earlier!

With the help of her fellow bookseller, Henri DeAth, a former notary in a country where notaries are a powerful caste, Ava attempts to find her not-so-dead man while trying to stay alive.

“Death on the Seine” is a light-hearted cozy mystery set in Paris, a city where food, wine and crime make life worth living… along with a few books and Mercury, the cat.

Category: Mystery – Cozy