Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for February 20, 2023

– HIT THE ROAD JACK:
Ben is supposed to be in school. It’s Monday morning but his parents are still asleep after a night of heavy drinking. Ben waits patiently, even though he knows he is missing out on today’s field trip to the zoo. But, when his black Labrador suddenly runs upstairs and comes down with a finger in his mouth, Ben knows he’s not making it to school today at all.

Detective Jack Ryder is chaperoning his kids’ field trip when he gets the call from the head of the Cocoa Beach Police Department. A body has been found and they need his help. Soon, Jack finds himself up against a killer, a predator who ruthlessly chases women and kills them so they can never leave him. The case soon causes serious consequences for him and his family once the truth is revealed.

With her new hero, Jack Ryder, as a loving father and committed detective, a new location in tropical Florida, and a story that moves at an incredible pace, Hit the Road Jack is Willow Rose at the top of her game.

– SLIP OUT THE BACK JACK:
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.

˃˃˃ This is the first two books in the bestselling Jack Ryder Series

Category: Suspense

A missing teenager. A web of prison corruption and human trafficking. Can DI Ruth Hunter blow the lid off the case in time to save a sixteen year old girl?

Detective Inspector Ruth Hunter has resolved to put the grief of her missing partner behind her and continue to make a life away from London in Snowdonia. When a sixteen year old girl, Rosie, mysteriously vanishes, the case brings up unresolved issues from the past for Ruth.

Ruth realises that the key to Rosie’s disappearance might lie within a violent battle for control of a local prison. As they race against the clock, Ruth, and her sidekick DS Nick Evans, begin to uncover slavery, intimidation and bribery, only to find that the repercussions of the investigation damage those they are closest to.

Category: Thrillers – Crime

A double suicide. A dark investigation into historic abuse. Can DI Ruth Hunter link the present killings to secrets of the past before the killer strikes again?

Detective Inspector Ruth Hunter has resolved to put her past life in London behind her. So when two seemingly routine suicides start to look suspicious, Ruth is keen to throw herself into a new investigation, lead her CID team and solve what appears to be a complex case. However, as the former London detective digs into the past of the victims’ lives, she uncovers a dark web of abuse within the music industry.

Tracking down clues alongside her hot-headed partner DS Nick Evans, Ruth becomes increasingly frustrated by an investigation where there is no obvious prime suspect. Can she track down the killer before they disappear for good?

Leeland Dawcett and his family are plunged into the nightmare of a world plunged without warning back to a third-world state. No phones. No computers. No television. At first, Leeland thinks basic survival is enough. Then he crosses the path of the wrong guy… someone who wants to do more than simply survive.

Half Past Midnight is a Red Adept Select novel.

Category: Thrillers – Terrorism

Zachary Dawcett was eight years old on D-day, barely old enough to remember what life was like in the Old Days. He’s a young man now. He’s learned to live in this new world—learned to hunt and fight, and survive in the ruins of old East Texas. He, along with everyone else who survived the Doomsday War, have adapted to a new way of life. They have learned to accept that computers, electric lighting, automobiles, or any of the other conveniences they once took for granted are all things of the past.

Then, one night, Zachary spots a satellite in the sky – the first indication in twelve years that anyone is rebuilding. As events unfold, he is forced to question everything he thought he knew, and the decisions he makes will help determine the shape of a reemerging world.

Caught up in a global terrorism plot, a covert agent must make the choice between his faith in the people who trained him and his oath to save lives.

He looks just like the neighbor from across the hall. Like the friendly tourist at the shop. For all they know, he is. Trained by the Organization to gather the intel on some of the most dangerous men in the modern world, Yoav has been working as a field agent for the past five years. He’s the man the man on the ground. Invisible, able to change identities in the blink of an eye. He’s saving lives.
Or so he thinks.

Category: Thrillers – Espionage

What happened to 17-year-old Indigo Salazar?

They found her in the trunk of an abandoned car with her throat slit.

Why did she have to die? Who killed her?

It was Sunday, Cpt. Kate Gazzara’s day off, but with Samson at her side, she and her team must sort through the shady underworld of the city and what little evidence there is to try to find the truth. What she finds is a bunch of seedy characters, more questions and few answers.

Indigo’s father, a prominent pediatric surgeon, is more hinderance than help.

But what would you do if someone murdered your teenage daughter?

Was it a kidnapping gone wrong? Was it a revenge killing? Did Indigo see something she wasn’t supposed to? Or was it simply a case of wrong place, wrong time?

Will Kate and her team be able to close this file and bring her killer to justice?

Ride along on another riveting case with Cpt. Kate Gazzara and her canine partner, Samson.

Category: Mystery – Women Sleuths