Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for January 7, 2020

The misdeeds of our ancestors are debts passed from generation to generation. They lurk, hidden in the shadows, waiting for the right time to be collected. For the residents of Harper Pass—their debt is due.

When a young autistic girl goes missing from a small Appalachian community, the residents of Harper Pass descend into chaos. Brooks Raker and his friends stumble across the police investigation, and as they dig deeper into the mysterious events, the boys realize the fate of their missing classmate pales in comparison with the evil lurking in the shadows of the quiet little town.

With four boys who believe something sinister is at work, and an ambitious reporter breathing down his neck, Detective Holt of the Harper Pass Police Department must confront his doubts and follow the evidence. A chain of disappearances and suspicious deaths, leads Holt to the doorstep of the mysterious and reclusive Professor Wadlow who may know exactly what has come to collect in Harper Pass.

Can the detective and the boys work together to unravel the dark secrets of Harper Pass before those secrets devour them all?

Category: Mystery – Traditional Detectives

Emilia Cruz clawed her way up the ladder to become the first female police detective in Acapulco. She’ll fight to keep the job, too, even if her lieutenant is a dirty cop and the other detectives want to kick her out.

When the lieutenant is murdered, Emilia is assigned to lead the investigation. Soon the man’s sordid sex life, money laundering, and involvement in a kidnapping double-cross combine to create an ugly mess no one wants exposed.

Category: Mystery – Women Sleuths

The past has come to haunt him.
Only a May full moon remains to compensate for his losses.
Now, it’s time for revenge.

In January 1948, an entire platoon of 35 men mysteriously perished in battle near Jerusalem. Not a single survivor was left to tell their heroic story.

Moshe was just 14 years old at the time. The young boy, armed with his camera, took one last picture as they headed for battle. 37 years later, the photograph that had been lost in the turmoil of war, reappears to haunt his life.

Moshe, who is now a skilled Mossad assassin, is executing his private, unauthorized plan for revenge.

In his world the rules of competition for manhood, war, and vengeance are crystal clear. Those of love triangles and complex family affairs, however, remain obscure.

Through psychological scrutiny into the depths of his own tortured soul, he realizes that everything he knows is about to change…

Category: Thrillers – Assassinations

When wealthy developer Larkin McFall moves to the small Appalachian Mountain community of Barkersville, generations-old tales of supernatural phenomena, sudden deaths, and odd disappearances resurface. Larkin laughs off the stories as superstition, while promising to bring a bright new future to the dying town.

Sheriff Frank Littlefield senses a diabolical motive in McFall’s good intentions. High school friends Bobby Eldreth and Ronnie Day also suspect that an evil menace has invaded Barkersville, but both soon fall under McFall’s spell.

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Category: Thrillers – Psychological