Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for July 21, 2023

From Multi-Million-Copy Bestselling author Willow Rose comes an engrossing mystery full of stunning twists and turns.

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Emma Frost inherits a house on Fanoe Island when her grandmother dies.

She decides to move there with her family, much to her teenage daughter’s regret.

One morning a wealthy older woman living in her street is found murdered and soon Emma finds herself wrapped in a mystery uncovering the island’s dark secrets reaching into her own family.

#1 Bestseller + series sold in more than 1.000.000 copies.

Category: Suspense

Three years ago, FBI agent Darcy Gellar almost died at the hands of a serial killer.

Is the killer back?

Struggling with her demons, Darcy moves her family to Genoa Cove. With the sadistic killer she captured serving a life sentence, she hopes a peaceful life along the ocean will end her nightmares.

Then a body surfaces along the coast. And the evidence points to one man: the killer Darcy put behind bars three years ago. Either Darcy caught the wrong man, or an apprentice serial killer stalks paradise.

Then the murderer takes another life, and the nightmare of three years ago rushes forth to claim Darcy. Now Darcy isn’t simply unraveling a mystery. She’s facing a killer who knows what frightens her most. He won’t stop until he takes her life and destroys her family.

But the killer should beware. Darcy stopped a serial killer once.

And she’ll do it again.

Category: Thrillers – Psychological

For sixteen long years, Irish detective DI Joseph Stone, now living alone on a narrowboat in Oxford, has tirelessly pursued the elusive Midwinter Butcher. This perpetrator, lurking in the shadows, commits ritualistic animal killings on the anniversary of Joseph’s son’s tragic death. Despite the heartache and the difficulties, including his superiors’ reluctance to provide needed resources, Joseph’s determination for justice remains unyielding.

His pursuit takes an unexpected turn when he’s paired with the relentless and driven DC Megan Taylor. Together, they start piecing together the intricate puzzle, unravelling a web of clues leading them closer to the truth. As they delve deeper, they realise these animal murders are merely the chilling prelude to a much more sinister plan.

The clock is ticking relentlessly, and Joseph’s daughter’s life is now perilously on the line. With everything to lose, Joseph and Megan are in a desperate race against time to apprehend the Midwinter Butcher before it’s too late. Will they succeed in bringing the killer to justice? Can Joseph finally find closure, or is his daughter doomed to be the next victim in this perverse game of life and death?

Category: Mystery – Police Procedurals

Down on her luck, Grace lands a job as a live-in maid for the wealthy Hamiltons. She mops up their scandals, even when the messes get real ugly. But when Grace pops open the one door she’s told to leave alone, she uncovers a secret so dark it could cost her more than just her job…

Category: Thrillers – Psychological

A gangster is caught in a terrorist attack. An orphan child disappears into a CIA Mind-control project. A global conspiracy to unleash a viral pandemic must be stopped.

Half a world away in Spain and running from his past, a Los Angeles gangster unwittingly takes a train that’s headed straight into a terrorist attack. He survives only to face an even deadlier threat.

On that same train: a virologist with clues to a deadly epidemic.

Did his secrets die with him in the strike? Raging in the aftermath, a foul-tempered police chief with a daughter caught in the attack thirsts for revenge.

But against whom?

An orphan child without a name disappears down a dark, illegal CIA mind-control programme. Now trained in the ways of death, he prepares to do his master’s twisted bidding.

From its first pages, the relentless techno-thriller White Horse drops you with a thunderclap in the middle of these colliding worlds. This tale of a global conspiracy that threatens humanity itself will keep you guessing whether anyone can survive.

Category: Thrillers – Conspiracies

One month ago, four college girls were abducted. Three were brutally murdered—one girl escaped.

Angie was traumatized into a state of shock. The police don’t believe her story. A psychiatrist diagnosed her as emotionally unstable. But is the murderer stalking her right now, eager to finish what he started?

FBI Special Agent Brenda Reynolds of the VSRT must investigate whether the mysterious girl is a victim, a clever killer, or has gone insane. Brenda seeks help from K-9 handler Jake Wolfe and his highly intelligent dog, Cody. Together, they uncover the truth, one disturbing clue at a time, and soon find their lives in danger.

Category: Mystery – International Mystery & Crime

A boy is found wandering in the woods, dressed in medieval clothes and speaking a strange language. When another child turns up, it doesn’t shed any more light on the mystery for FBI agent Ilona Farris. Only by digging into her own past will she begin to work out what is going on, and who these children are, seemingly lost in time.

Category: Mystery – Women Sleuths

In 1992 in Salem, Oregon, a philanthropist named Garrett Dawes was brutally murdered. His body was dumped in an alley and his killer was never found.

The day after the murder, a blood-covered young boy was found wandering the streets of Seattle, Washington. He disappeared from the police station without a trace, never identified or found.

Twenty-five years later, Natasha Hilliard, the daughter of the murder victim gets a phone call. There is new evidence in her father’s case, connecting his death to the missing unidentified child in Seattle.

Natasha decides to investigate her father’s murder on her own.

Why was a missing boy in Seattle covered in the philanthropist’s blood? Where did the boy go? And who killed Garrett Dawes?

Natasha is going to find out.

And she doesn’t care if it kills her.

Category: Suspense

Calliope King has come across some strange and unsettling situations as a social worker. None of them compare to what she finds at the end of Abernathy Lane.

The Maxwells claim to be a family that believes in simple living and quiet devotion., but Callie has a feeling that something else is going on at their farm. Their clothing from centuries past, unnaturally silent children, and the fact that Callie can’t find a trace of them in public records has her starting to believe that the Maxwell’s placid farm hides something much more sinister than a family choosing to live apart from the modern world.

Callie enlists her friend, private detective Xavier Ramos, in her quest to find out more about the Maxwells. What he finds only muddies the situation further. Missing people, false identities, and suspicious deaths seem to follow the family everywhere they go.