Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for January 5, 2023

From the Queen of Scream comes a novel that will raise the hair on the back of your neck.

To the neighbors, they’re sweet old ladies. To Tim Robertson, they’re his worst nightmare

Not every grandmotherly type bakes cookies.

What’s more frightening than finding out that the kindly old ladies living across the street from you are anything but?

As a child, Tim Robertson is selling cookies with his best friend Damien when they knock on the door of the house across the street from him. Two old ladies open the door and Tim never sees his best friend again.

Twenty years later, Tim has tried to move on and forget what happened back then. He is married, has a son, and just bought the house of his dreams in small town Cocoa Beach. When the house across the street from them is sold, they are all looking forward to getting new neighbors, until Tim realizes the old ladies are back to haunt him and the rest of the town.

To Hell in a Handbasket is Willow Rose, when she is at her most horrifying. Every page of this book is oozing with dread, and this novel stands shoulder to shoulder with the very best of Koontz and King. Anyone who has read a Willow Rose book knows it’s harder to put the book down than to just finish it.

Category: Suspense

Unlike any character you’ve read about before. Morrow is a product of the streets. He became a self-educated student of human nature, and after training with a conman mentor, he went out on his own. He’s not tougher or more experienced than his opposition. He’s just an average man who blends in and earns his living by out-planning and out-thinking his adversaries.
Now, he is ready to run his first full con game on a mark who has a stolen painting. Morrow will return it to the rightful owner and has a gig that will make a ton of money for himself and his cohorts. He’s constructed his plan, he’s picked his team, and he knows he’s ready to act. It’s what he doesn’t know that could be his downfall.

Category: Thrillers – Crime

Small-town action, zany characters, and a Nasty Small Poodle will capture your heart. The mayor has been killed, and 50-something newspaper publisher Zora Flynn might be next. But Rocco, her pampered prince of a poodle, is her secret weapon. Can he sniff out a killer before Zora becomes the next victim? Readers are loving this humorous cozy mystery series. “This was a fun read and a clever mystery. I loved it from start to finish!” Book 1 of a continuing series.

Category: Mystery – Cozy

Liz, recently widowed, bought the spa on the Pacific Coast. What she didn’t count on was the mayor’s wife being murdered in one of her guest cottages!

Category: Mystery – Cozy

A dark urban fantasy legal thriller.

A simple favor finds Jayne Hart, attorney at law, caught in a legal battle between magical crime lords. As the court date approaches and the blood begins to flow, Jayne must overcome her own dark past and her deepest secrets being forced into the public eye. The stakes are raised when the sister she thought dead is revealed to not only be alive, but a victim of the trafficking ring run by her opponent.

To save her sister, Jayne must draw on every ounce of magic and courtroom trick she knows, or else she may find herself once again trapped in the nightmare she thought she’d escaped.

Category: Thrillers – Legal

Rosalind thought it was way too easy to get the new branch manager position. With a mountain of school debt and a horrible credit score, she is thrilled to find a secret compartment in the basement, so she uses the hideaway every evening until she can find an affordable apartment.

Before long, a shadow figure drifts through the stacks and ominous piano chords play deep into the night. Then Rosalind finds a secret journal from the previous branch manager, a woman who vanished under mysterious circumstances, and whose disappearance may be connected to the inexplicable events within the library.

Rosalind must unravel the mystery of the missing woman and what lingers inside the branch. If she fails, she’ll fall victim to the same dark forces that sealed her predecessor’s fate!

Category: Thrillers – Psychological