Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for January 29, 2021

Her boss is a letch, her love life is a mess, but nothing can keep Miami’s wackiest certified process server down for long! Not even a dead Jane Doe. If you like Stephanie Plum, you’ll love Jackie Parker and the Damaged Goods crew!

Nancy Tremayne has landed the job of her dreams in London. But this is 1955 and her husband has a project in the Caribbean and expects her to travel with him. It’s not long before she realises that tension and suspense pervade the island of Malfuego, fuelled by political upheaval and a suspected drug ring. When she witnesses a brutal attack on a defenceless young man, Gabriel Sekela, she expects the worst. And the worst duly arrives.
Murder.
Determined to discover who killed Gabriel, Nancy finds herself plunged into a mayhem of deceit and fear, relying on her husband’s assistant, Archie, for help. But there is more at stake than physical danger. Romance is a slippery word, and their lives have become dangerously entangled. After Malfuego, things will never be the same again.

Category: Mystery – Women Sleuths

A terrible accident—or the murder of someone keeping dangerous secrets?
The music soars. The opera reaches its finale. And a woman falls to her death. Newlywed Nancy Tremayne is a shocked witness to the tragedy at La Fenice. The police suspect suicide but Nancy has spoken to the dead woman only hours before her death and feels certain she was pushed.
As she explores the beauty of Venice, helped reluctantly by Leo’s assistant, Archie, she finds herself caught in a thrilling roller coaster of suspense, plunging more and more deeply into the city’s secrets. Together, they discover a Venice as sinister as it is beautiful.
Determined to reveal the evil she suspects, Nancy walks ever closer to danger. Until she realises she may be forced to make a choice – the truth or her life?

Only a handful of souls know the true story of Jesus of Nazareth.

Those who know the truth must fight to expose it, and a war started in Judea two thousand years ago culminates in a final battle in the twenty-first century.

If you enjoy the works of Dan Brown and Stephen King, then you’ll love this dark, action-packed conspiracy thriller.

Category: Thrillers – Conspiracies

Duncan Hunter, a retired Marine Corps fighter pilot, flies a top-secret airplane with his mentor, Greg Lynche, the sometimes über-liberal retired CIA Chief of Air Branch. Together, in their quiet airplane, they execute some of the CIA’s most sensitive airborne counterterrorism missions under a Special Access Program. Saving McGee from a sniper’s bullet comes at a price as Duncan Hunter finds himself at the crossroads – either remain a contract pilot and betray a friend or become a patriot and risk exposure as a traitor. His decision pulls him into one intrigue after another, finally revealing the truth behind several conspiracies hidden behind the firewalls of top-secret security clearances, CIA files, and Special Access Programs.

Category: Thrillers – Terrorism

Three friends, inseparable as children, take very different paths toward adulthood. In spite of the distances that emerge among them, they are thrust together by the tragedy of death. Each affected in different ways. Giuseppe Lozano, a candidate for U.S. Senate, returns home one night to find his wife and three children mysteriously murdered. There seems to be no motive, and little evidence is left at the scene.

Category: Mystery – Historical

Meet Frank Fischer, a retired Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned winemaker. There’s just one thing…Frank Fischer is really “Gentleman” Jack Burdette an international jewel thief.

Jack’s mentor and fixer pitches him on the biggest heist either has ever seen—a jewelry exhibition in the French Riviera worth eighty million dollars and almost no security. Too good to be true, Jack passes. But when his accountant disappears with ten million dollars, Jack’s business, his security and his new life could disappear with it. Knowing he can’t turn to the police, Jack’s only option to get back the money he’s lost is to steal it.

The clock starts when Jack learns he’s no longer the only one in on the score. But with eighty million—and his life—at stake, he’s not going to let a little thing like competition get in the way. But if he’s going to pull off the most daring heist in history, Jack will have to stay one step ahead of the FBI, a gang of Serbian jewel thieves, his old crew and a dangerous Israeli diamond mogul. Not to mention the fiery winemaker that Jack, or rather Frank, is in love with. Can this thief pull off the heist of a lifetime before his two lives come face to face?

Category: Thrillers – Crime

He’s playing a dangerous game, living two lives. But he only has one to lose…

Jack Burdette wants a normal life but cannot give up his criminal past. Though he works to build a legit business as a winemaker, the infamous jewel thief can’t resist the thrill of a heist. But when his latest job goes sour, he has no choice but to make a devil’s bargain to avoid arrest.

Under the thumb of a Serbian gangster, Jack is forced to commit a series of high stakes crimes he wants no part of. With the authorities closing in and an old friend pushing him to settle a long-forgotten score, he fears this caper could well be his last.

The School of Turin is the nail-biting second novel in the “Gentleman” Jack Burdette crime thriller series.