Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for July 3, 2020

Killen was a small farming community in North Georgia. Anyone wanting to know what it was like to live there, only had to read a small wooden sign on the outskirts of town: “Welcome to Killen…a little piece of Heaven.” Those words rang true for most of Killen’s first 200 years. But there was one exception. It was the time that Killen lived up to its name and a little piece of heaven…became…a little piece of hell.

When Thomas Dalton was 13-years-old, a string of murders in a North Georgia received unwanted national attention. With the passing of time, facts got distorted, turning Killen into a macabre tourist destination. But for Thomas, it became personal when his own parents, suddenly disappeared and were subsequently declared dead.

In a pension on the Greek island of Naxos, a former Serbian army officer, the perpetrator of all sorts of atrocities during the Bosnian war, is found dead with clear signs of torture. Next to the corpse is a flower, a Narcissus. Denis Martel, an aging Interpol French inspector is, reluctantly, assigned to the case.

Thousands of miles away, Adrian Seaten a billionaire and arrogant executive is driving back from shooting a TV commercial with Laura, an employee from his advertising agency, when they have an accident. Two mysterious men will come to their rescue. We cut to an episode from Adrian’s past, on Harvard University’s campus, during the celebrations of graduation night. He is partying with three other students, abusing drugs and alcohol but the night will take a sinister turn.

In “The Nemesis Factor”” these plots, seemingly far from each other, run in parallel, intersect and finally converge, trapping the reader in an original and cinematic thriller that will pose more than one moral dilemma and will keep you hooked until its surprising outcome.

Category: Mystery – International Mystery & Crime

The Burden of Darkness is the fifth in The Marcie Kane Thriller Collection. Although part of a series, The Burden of Darkness stands alone. Like the other books in the series, this one tackles a subject of social significance. Marcie Kane’s FBI consultant husband, Nathan Harris, is battle weary and suffering from PTSD from previous cases. He eventually seeks counseling with the help of Marcie, but is it too late? He has everything to gain by trying.

Owen Strand has nothing to lose. He has been fired from a job, sued by a partner and now he has been handed a death sentence by a doctor. Seeking last minute notoriety, he compiles a list of people he deems to have harmed him and travels around North America picking them off with drones one by one. One person on the list is someone close to Nathan.

Two men on opposite sides of a bridge destined to meet with deadly consequences.

Category: Thrillers – Crime

This novel is the first book in Willow Rose’s electrifying new Harry Hunter series.

Detective Harry Hunter of Miami PD’s homicide squad throws himself into a case no one asked him to solve.

Four teenagers from one of Miami’s affluent neighborhoods are murdered on a boat. Another is found in a dumpster. All five of them go to the same school and are on a list of witnesses to another crime.

Because he’s in bad standing with his boss, Harry is given the task of protecting a possible future victim, but Harry isn’t always known to follow his boss’s orders.

Soon, he’ll risk everything while racing to stop a killer who has left everyone else in the homicide squad shaking in terror.

ALL THE GOOD GIRLS is the first book in the Harry Hunter Mystery Series and can be read as a standalone.

Category: Suspense

Blood is thicker than oil–until murder is involved.

Fenway Stevenson doesn’t want to return to the coastal town where her estranged father is practically king. But the death of her mother draws her back home–and the murder of the county coroner draws her into a deepening conspiracy. As the body count rises and all signs seem to point toward her father’s oil company, will Fenway uncover the truth before family bonds become deadly?

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Category: Mystery – African American

Small towns have secrets. The dark mysteries of Emma’s life are ready to be told.

It has been more than a year since Emma Griffin stumbled upon a clue behind the dangerous secrets of her past.
Now, she has the answers at her fingertips.
The only question is will she survive long enough to find them?

As Greg struggles to recover, Emma keeps watch over him.
She’s desperate for answers, answers locked inside him.
And she will do whatever it takes to keep him safe.

Her dangerous cat and mouse game with Catch Me, leads her to discover more about Dean and how their pasts truly collide.
Is she who she has always believed? Or does her uncle know more about her than she would ever want to know?
One thing is for certain, a small town full of deadly secrets still has more to tell.

Category: Mystery – Series