Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for January 18, 2022

A grieving husband. A missing child. A killer with motives as deep and twisted as the bloody roots of history.

One year after the brutal murder of his wife, Desmond Carmichael believes someone is stalking him and his four-year-old son following a hair-raising encounter with a hooded stranger in their placid New England town.

Across the country in the California desert, a severed head is found atop a watchtower at a Japanese internment camp memorial and FBI Special Agent Erin Drelick embarks on a manhunt that will lead her into the dark heart of the nation’s past.

Desmond fears the wrong man was imprisoned for his wife’s murder, and when his son goes missing he must decipher the mystery of why his family has been targeted. But can he do it in time to save his child from a monster hell-bent on reaping a whirlwind of vengeance?

Sarah Wagner is still reeling from the murder of Caro, the beloved young aunt who took Sarah in as a teenager. When she learns the and her cousin Laura are the prime suspects of a close-minded detective. He’s already decided one of them is guilty; he just doesn’t know which. Sarah has to find the strength to put aside her mind-numbing grief and focus on unraveling the mystery of Caro’s death. The only way she can protect her family is to find the real killer, but it will take a depth f courage Sarah’s not sure she possesses, especially when every move she makes seems to increase the odds that one of the people she loves is the killer.

Category: Mystery – Cozy

Fear the stranger next door.
When mysterious, single dad Ray Jenkins moves in to the neighborhood, Sonia is suspicious from the outset that something is amiss. Ray’s young son, Henry—traumatized from the recent loss of his mother—acts like he barely knows his father. But things take a turn for the worse when Ray is involved in a multi-vehicle wreck, and suffers a brain injury and subsequent memory loss. Sonia steps in to care for Henry, but soon becomes alarmed at the disturbing things he tells her. Determined to get to the bottom of who her neighbor really is, she snoops around in his house. The shocking clues she uncovers shake her to the core. Her own life is in danger from the deadly lie he is living. The more she digs, the more she finds that some lies are best left buried.
– A gripping tale of explosive secrets with a jaw-dropping twist! –

Category: Thrillers – Psychological

No one truly escapes their childhood unscathed. Especially if you grew up in Slaughter, Minnesota, in the 1960s and crossed Old Lady Ketchel’s path.
All the kids at Slaughter Elementary had the sense to steer clear of Old Lady Ketchel’s place. Everyone except for Bobby Briars. And for his folly, Bobby and his parents mysteriously disappeared.
You see, Hagatha Ketchel had a bone to pick. Not just with foolish kids like Bobby Briars, but with the entire town of Slaughter. Not that anyone knew the reason or dared approach her to learn why.
Old Lady Ketchel’s Revenge is the first book in the Slaughter Minnesota horror series. For those readers who grew up near that one scary house that they didn’t dare pass or that strange neighbor they always tried to avoid.

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Category: Suspense

When expat John Hayes’ wife is brutally attacked while on a posting in India, he’s forced to take matters into his own hands.
The first three books in this exciting eight-book series

Category: Thrillers – Pulp

Detective Jack Dawes is looking forward to a nice, quiet holiday with his wife, Corrie. And the seaside resort Now to Zen Hotel & Spa promises ‘a calming Zen environment’.

Perfect.

Corrie even registers his occupation as ‘electrician’ so no one will know he’s a detective while they’re there.

But on their way for a romantic dip, Jack and Corrie discover the body of a dead woman in one of the twilight whirlpools.

The spiritual oasis of pampering and relaxation turns into a nightmare. Jack is swiftly thrown into a police cell by a zealous local copper, who is convinced he’s the murderer.

It’s up to Corrie to clear Jack’s name. But will the truth come out before it’s too late?

DETECTIVE JACK DAWES MUST STOP A DASTARDLY KILLER BEFORE THE BODY COUNT RISES AGAIN.

Category: Mystery – Police Procedurals

I had dedicated my life to the club and the club alone.
It was the only way I could face losing the only woman I had ever loved.
But as fate would have it, the tables had turned, and I’d been given a second chance with the woman I’d always wanted.
There was just one problem.
Another woman had caught me under her spell.

Category: Suspense