Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for February 3, 2026

Homicide on the high seas. Times three!

Hope Harper has spent four years working her way up on the Caribbean Honey cruise ship and is sure a promotion is finally coming her way. When she gets passed over again, and for a pretentious young man with less experience, she could just…well, you know. When a cruise guest is killed, she is thrown in the middle of a murder mystery on the high seas. Then there’s a deadly beach party and a lethal bidding war at a charity auction. Can she put her feelings aside and solve these mysteries, or will the criminals get the best of her and the crew?

When her mother dies after a long illness, Ingrid Torfa must sell the family home to cover the medical bills. Her career as a book illustrator not yet exactly launched, Ingrid faces two options: live in her battered old Volkswagen, or go back to her mother’s small town in northern Minnesota.

The small town that still haunts her dreams more than a decade since she last visited it. Or rather, not the town but the grandmother.

All of the drawings she fills notebooks with witches and the trolls that do their bidding? Not as whimsical in her nightmares as she sketches them in the bright light of day.

If not for her beloved cat Mjolner, living in the Volkswagen just might tempt her.

But the cat wants four walls and a door, so north she goes. And finds trouble in the form of a dead body before she even finds her grandmother’s little town. How much can a town of stoic fishermen possibly be hiding?

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Category: Mystery – Series

Carmen is a character-driven novella that unfolds as a folkloric magical mystery. There is no detective and no whodunit. Instead, the mystery is her inner life, her silence, and the secrets she carries across two timelines. The story reveals itself through atmosphere and fragments of memory. As the boundaries between reality soften, the reader is invited to piece together what cannot be fully explained. This is a magical realist mystery, where every chapter lingers long after the final page.

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Category: Mystery – Series

This is the first short read in the Bodega Botanica Tales series. Jose is a character-driven mystery set in a city touched by magic, through a bodega portal. There is no clear divide between what is real and what is imagined. However Jose is left, along with the reader, to question whether this alternate reality truly exists or something he has carried within him all along. The story explores the mystery of what remains after childhood trauma.

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