Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for January 10, 2023

The murder of the deacon of Saint Clare’s Catholic Church interrupts the honeymoon plans of Father Tom Greer and his new wife, Chief of Police Helen Parr Greer.

The Honeymoon Homicide is the first novel in the Mercy and Justice Mystery series, a contemporary small town mystery series. The series is a sequel to the Father Tom Mysteries that began with The Penitent Priest and includes the same cast of characters. It features Father Tom Greer, a Catholic Priest who is also an amateur sleuth in the tradition of Father Brown, and his wife Helen Greer, female Chief of Police and detective in the tradition of Kinsey Millhone.

Take a sometime wizard, send him back to his paranormal hometown, add in a cast of quirky characters and supernatural beings, including a smart Irish Wolfhound familiar, sprinkle with magic, then top off with a big dollop of humour, and you have A Wizards of Little Hope Cozy Mystery.

Category: Mystery – Cozy

What if delivering the mail was a matter of life and death?

Somebody kills a postman in Quake City while he’s delivering the mail. Laconic private investigator Danny Ashford suspects the police will bungle the investigation—they usually do. He joins forces with headstrong investigative reporter Deepa Banwait to track down the killer.

But when a second murder follows close on the heels of the first, with a similar MO, Danny suspects a dangerous serial killer is at work.

How do you catch a serial killer who strikes seemingly at random?

Is it random, though? Danny and Deepa have their theories. But they have to find a way to work together to track down the fiend with a vendetta against postal workers and couriers before he or she strikes again.

And they might succeed, if only they could stop arguing… but with Danny’s overconfidence and Deepa’s driving quest for a story, what could go wrong? And then it becomes personal…

Category: Thrillers – Crime

Jack Dillon is a U.S. Marshal abroad, is escorting a fugitive named Daniel Ackerman with lovely Officer Ann Dumphy. He’s had a splendid tour of the city until the transfer of the prisoner at the airport. Ackerman’s Russian partner would prefer that Ackerman not stand trial in the U.S., and sends a team of his thugs to prevent it.

Category: Mystery – International Mystery & Crime

Justice is just another price to pay when life hangs in the balance.
From dark, deserted alleyways to pearly clean ORs, a covert operation is being set up in Recife, Brazil, far from the watchful eyes of local law enforcement. Shrouded in secrecy, an illegal organ transplant operation offers its services to the most desperate of people, those at the very brink of death.
As word of their operation gets around, the new predators enlist a leading transplant center, but their infamy comes at a price. Soon, a determined Interpol officer is hot on the organization’s heels, bent on shutting it down and bringing its ringleaders to long-overdue justice. The closer he gets, the more his sense of righteousness grows.
22 successful transplants had been performed, but when recipient 23 on the illicit transplant list hits close to home, an inconceivable choice will have to be made.

Category: Thrillers – Medical

With the ink barely dry on her new identity, Carly Moore just wants to disappear…but fate has other plans.

Broken down car, next to nothing in her bank account, Carly is stuck in a Smoky Mountain town that time has forgotten. Drum, Tennessee is riddled with secrets and outsiders are eyed with distrust. Still, it isn’t until she witnesses a cold-blooded murder in a darkened parking lot, that she realizes she’s escaped one nightmare, only to land in another.

As the clock ticks down and more bodies pile up, Carly doesn’t know who to trust. If she doesn’t stop the killers, they just might stop her…permanently.

Category: Mystery – Women Sleuths