Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for February 22, 2023

Death is only the beginning!

From an internationally bestselling author comes this wonderful collection of the first three books in the addictive Afterlife series — you’ll love reading about teenager Meghan and her adventurous life after death.

Book 1 – BEYOND
Meghan is 16 when she dies.

She wakes up on a flying steamboat on her way to a school run by Angels in a white marble castle.

On the boat, she meets Mick who has been dead for more than a hundred years but still looks like a teenager. He helps her past the difficult beginning at the new school in a new world filled with magic.

One day some of Meghan’s roommates find a mirror in the cellar of the school and they persuade her to go through it with them – well knowing it is strictly against the rules of the school. Meghan ends up back on earth where she meets Jason. However, Jason is in danger, and Meghan knows something important. Something that is a matter of life and death. Soon she is forced to choose between the two worlds. The one she belongs to now and the one she left.

Category: Mystery – Collections & Anthologies

Witch Esme’s secret vampirism is under control and she might even be finally going on a date with the handsome Chris Constantine. But then an influx of vampires to her magical tourist town causes havoc. A magical dagger is stolen and a girl is murdered with it under the corrupt Chief of Police’s very nose, possibly by his vampire friends. And now someone is trying to frame Esme for murder!
Worse, Esme discovers her own mysterious vampire sire has arrived in town. His presence is making her lose control of her free will and act dangerously vampirish at night. Can she and her merry band of magical friends – psychic cat included – find out who he is before he exposes her deep, dark secret to the people she cares about most? And all while finding a stolen dagger and solving the most confusing murder yet? Read this hilarious and charming cozy mystery adventure today.

Category: Mystery – Cozy

In the thriving kingdom of Idaza, Mikalla is the adored Conjurer, the nation’s chief storyteller, using the shadows cast by the city’s glorious ceremonial flame.

But death awaits around every corner. Addiction rattles the king. Trauma haunts the nobility and their conflicting motives. Murder happens, but to find out who succumbs to it is a journey the reader must take alone through the halls and palaces of the glorious Inner Gardens.

With a beautiful family and his position as one of King Oro’s favorite courtiers, Mikalla’s life is perfect. That is, until the king commands him to deliver a deadly message—one that will inevitably end in bloodshed and a war-torn Idaza.

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Category: Thrillers – Historical

There’s a young woman tied up in the basement of our cabin.

It was supposed to be a fun weekend at our family cabin. I was going to surprise my husband, Mike, with a small get together for his 40th birthday.

Something is wrong though. Mike isn’t himself lately. He goes out often, and by himself, leaving me and our young son. Our happy marriage is fading away and I don’t know why.

This weekend is just what’s needed to cheer him up. It’s what we need for us.

When I get to the cabin and set up, I hear sounds coming from the basement. That’s when I see her. A young woman tied up and scared.

She cries out for me to help her. Before I can, Mike comes to the cabin early.

Who is she? Why is she here?

What has my husband done?

The new psychological thriller from the author of The In-Laws and The Patient’s List. If you’re a fan of page turning thrillers by the likes of Daniel Hurst or Freida McFadden, The Family Cabin will keep you on the edge of your seat.

Category: Thrillers – Psychological

Bad news for Samantha Warren: The plucky Houston, Texas, reporter lost her job and her fiancé in rapid succession. But Sam has a way of making lemonade out of the bitterest of lemons. At a meeting of the local historical-homes council, she serves up the homemade bitters that she made as gifts for her wedding party. She intends to use that as her “in” to become an in-demand party mixologist. But the party’s over for one of the council members, who keels over dead soon after he sips the bereft bride’s bitter brew.

It turns out that the victim, Mark, was poisoned—his drink spiked with oleander. Since Sam mixed the drink that Mark imbibed right before his demise, she finds herself at the front of the suspect line. Now, she’ll have to use all of her reporter’s wisdom and wiles to clear her name.

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Category: Mystery – Cozy

Mossad Chief David Avivi faces a new nuclear threat from democracy’s greatest enemy.
The trade sanctions imposed by the West are crippling Iran’s economy. The high living costs and the staggering unemployment rate have led to widespread social unrest, only to be ruthlessly crushed under the heels of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
To save their crumbling regime from succumbing to the demands of western powers, the Iranian leadership adopts a daring plan – a sophisticated disinformation campaign designed to intimidate world leaders into submission. As both the White House and UN are dumbfounded in the face of the threat, David Avivi moves to formulate a response. Battle-hardened from years of service, Avivi has little time before the atomic clock strikes midnight, with one standing question at the heart of the operation:
Is the Iranian threat a bluff, or is nuclear war truly imminent?

Category: Thrillers – Assassinations

Jenna Sutton is nothing like Buffy—the iconic vampire slayer of TV fame.
She’s the antithesis of a cheerleader. She’s not peppy. And she sucks at gymnastics. She has nothing in common with the fictional Buffy, other than being blonde and in high school…

Oh, and occasionally she kills vampires for a living as well as other things that go bump in the night.

Following an attack on an English teacher at a nearby school, it becomes clear this wasn’t an ordinary coyote bite. The gray-green Lichtenberg-like webbing of streaks making their way up Ms. Pruett’s arm can mean only one thing—zombies.

But this isn’t a normal zombie attack. The victims seem to be hand-picked.

Can Jenna complete her investigation without the school administrators figuring out she’s actually a high school student from another school? Will Jenna be able to find out who’s behind these attacks before a full-scale zombie outbreak overtakes the town? And, perhaps most importantly…

Why did her best friend kiss her after all of these years?

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Category: Mystery – Cozy