Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for January 26, 2023

This novel is the first book in Willow Rose’s electrifying new Harry Hunter series.

Detective Harry Hunter of Miami PD’s homicide squad throws himself into a case no one asked him to solve.

Four teenagers from one of Miami’s affluent neighborhoods are murdered on a boat. Another is found in a dumpster. All five of them go to the same school and are on a list of witnesses to another crime.

Because he’s in bad standing with his boss, Harry is given the task of protecting a possible future victim, but Harry isn’t always known to follow his boss’s orders.

Soon, he’ll risk everything while racing to stop a killer who has left everyone else in the homicide squad shaking in terror.

ALL THE GOOD GIRLS is the first book in the Harry Hunter Mystery Series and can be read as a standalone.

Category: Suspense

Mystery writer Victoria Rienzi returns to the Jersey shore to explore her family’s roots and the specialty Italian cuisine their restaurant, the Casa Lido, is famous for. But she barely hits town before she finds that Oceanside Park is up in arms about a reality show slated to film on its beach.
And when the show’s brash producer winds up face down in the tomato garden after eating at the restaurant, things look bleak for the Rienzi clan—and Victoria finds herself in some hot pasta water. She served the dead man his last meal, her ex-boyfriend prepared it, and now the Casa Lido is on the verge of closing. That’s when her formidable nonna gives her a new job: solve the murder before the summer season starts and save the Casa Lido.
With her deadline only days away, this saucy sleuth jumps into action—but can Victoria serve up the culprit before it’s too late?

Category: Mystery – Cozy

A completely gripping, twist-packed psychological thriller, perfect for fans of Liane Moriarty, K.L Slater, and Lisa Jewell.

“Beautifully written with themes of love, abuse, and betrayal, The Secrets We Keep is heart-wrenching, heroic, and unexpected” – Kristi Elizabeth, Manhattan Book Review

One woman who has lost everything – another with everything to lose. When a chilling discovery sets their lives on a collision course, will the secrets they keep save the ones they love – or destroy everything they care about?

SOPHIE

Sophie Miller had it all. A loving husband and adorable six-year-old son. They were a perfect family. Until a drunk driver lost control and James and Josh were killed on their way to a soccer game. Five years later, and a mother without a child, she remains a shadow of herself, barely leaving the house and relying on anti-anxiety pills just to get through the day. Working from home as a book editor is safe – or so she thinks, until a manuscript comes across her desk that threatens to turn her world upside down.

Because Sophie has a secret. A child that many years ago she helped to conceive.

The story triggers in her a sudden longing to know. Would the child share Josh’s chestnut hair? The same gold and brown flecks of his eyes. She wouldn’t interfere. She would watch from a distance. Just to know. Could she see the features of her little boy reflected one last time?

It wouldn’t hurt just to look. Would it?

MADELYN-MAY

Madelyn-May Marozzi has it all. To her Love, Mommy online community she is the perfect mother. She has a successful husband, perfect twins, and an idyllic life.

What they don’t know is that Madelyn-May is not who she says she is.

Certain everyone who knows the truth about her past is long gone, Madelyn-May’s world is turned upside down when an anonymous email drops into her inbox threatening to expose a horrific crime she committed as a teenager.

But should she take the threat seriously? Everyone involved is already dead. Aren’t they?

Nikki Lee Taylor crafts an intense, complex, and addictive novel with richly drawn and beautifully flawed characters in this powerful and sometimes heart-breaking book about family, motherhood, and the dark secrets we keep.

This is a great read for people who enjoyed Girl on the Train, Sharp Objects, and Gone Girl. If you like suspense and thrillers with flawed characters, intriguing female protagonists, and twists you will never see coming you will enjoy this book.

Find out why readers are calling The Secrets We Keep, an ‘intensive, addictive, jaw-dropping read to keep you on the edge of your seat’.

Category: Thrillers – Psychological

In sleepy, rural North Wales, Frankie Gibbs, a recently laid off, aimless twenty-year-old on Universal Credit, wants nothing more than to keep his younger brother out of the care system. He single-handedly takes this upon himself while their alcoholic, cocaine-addict, single-parent father, Guy Gibbs, heaps misery on their lives through systematic abuse and his never-ending wild parties. After Guy is sent to prison, Frankie is coerced into opening his home to Justin, an acquaintance from his school days now turned drug dealer, while his own addiction and self-worth spiral beyond recognition.

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Category: Crime Fiction