Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for July 17, 2023

Kat Marengo is part of a team in an unnamed department of Homeland Security. She excels at her job. She also bears an uncanny resemblance to the current First Lady. So when the First Lady asks for her help, how can she say no? That’s when things get complicated. There’s her sexy hunk of a boss, a kidnapped girl, the president’s tiresome brother, and more trouble than Kat bargained for. Not to mention the two stolen diamond ring hidden in Kat’s freezer.

Category: Mystery – Women Sleuths

It’s a perfect job for the right person in the wrong place: she’s a cat lady and her name’s even Cat, yet here she is, working for cable station KDOG in a place called Barkview, the dog-friendliest town in America. Cozy fans will fall in love with Barkview and reporter sleuth Cat Wright, through these delightful small-town mysteries, scattering verbal treats and comic gems that’ll keep you chuckling.

Category: Mystery – Women Sleuths

The heart-pounding start to a series, with over 2,000 five-star ratings on Goodreads: In a secure facility for psychiatric patients convicted of violent crimes, nurse Leah Smith grows close to a patient who committed a heinous murder as a child — and questions whether the girl may have been set up…

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Category: Thrillers – Psychological

In the first of a multi-award-winning series, readers meet big-hearted Mabel Davison, who runs a little diner and motel in the small mountain town of Blue River. Recently separated from her alcoholic husband, she’s looking to rebuild her reputation and create a safe place for her kids.

But this seemingly sleepy, friendly town is anything but.

One night, a teen girl, who breezed through Mabel’s diner, is discovered murdered by State police at a local sawmill. Sheriff Dan Gibson looks no further than the teen’s black boyfriend, Winston Washington, a known drug dealer. But Mabel fears Dan’s only trying to keep the peace in a town rife with racism, and her big heart won’t let that stand.

As she starts digging, the Sheriff warns her to stop. But with Winston’s trial looming, each step of her unlikely investigation draws the attention of a local drug ring—and the killer—closer.

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Category: Mystery – Historical

In this multi-award-winning page-turner, Mabel Davison runs a struggling motel and diner while caring for two small boys in a mountain town where many shun her for what she’s done.

Desperate to rekindle fractured friendships, she is surprised one night by an alcoholic ex-husband showing up on her porch, setting into motion events that could either unite her family or tear it apart.

Encouraged to restart a missing girls’ cold case weighing heavily on her heart, she gets nowhere fast — until she desperately questions a gang member she helped put in prison. His sordid tale is more lies and threats than truth. But the clues he gives point to her past, and she uncovers to her horror, a serial killer on the hunt.

As a cat-and-mouse game unfolds, she unravels a web of secrets in her inner circle that threatens to destroy everything she holds dear.

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