Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for June 12, 2022

He sees you when you’re sleeping, he knows when you’re awake.

Some kids are scared of the dark, others of monsters living under their beds. Some are even afraid of clowns.

None of those things scare Sara. But she is terrified of one man, who comes to her house every year, in the middle of the night.

Santa.

Curl up with some frightening Christmas horror from the Queen of Scream, Willow Rose. Warning: you might not feel like putting out cookies for Santa ever again after reading this short story.

Category: Suspense

A hallucination plagued detective teams up with a criminal profiler in the wild underground of heavy metal to hunt a serial killer carving lyrics into the flesh of his victims.

The year is 1987. Hair is big. Rock ’n’ roll is hard.

When a body with a glam-rock makeover is discovered, a detective haunted by a dark past must embrace new investigative techniques.

A serial killer leaves a trail of carnage without a trace.
A detective is trapped in the wild underground of heavy metal…

Closer to the killer than he knows…
Will he be the hunter or the prey?

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Category: Thrillers – Psychological

A hallucination possessed detective must befriend the psychotic slayer he locked up to hunt a serial killer preserving the bodies of young boys and keeping their eyes as trophies.

The year is 1987. Hairspray is thick. Everything glimmers.

The skeletal remains of a dead boy are discovered deep in a cave.

Detective Mahoney spirals down a dark path filled with horrific images reminding him of past failures.
Is a murderous psychopath his only key to the truth?

The cryptic lyrics of an acid rock god lead him deep into the belly of the hot, dry desert.

The death count spikes. The clues are horrifying.
Will he live to see the other side?

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After a bad divorce and a brief prison term for computer hacking, Steve Levitan has returned to his home town. When his next-door neighbor Caroline Kelly is shot and killed while walking her golden retriever, Rochester, Steve becomes the dog’s temporary guardian. Together, these unlikely sleuths work to uncover the mystery behind Caroline’s death.

Category: Mystery – Cozy

Alison is struggling after the loss of her baby. She still has her son, but the grief is always there.
And Alison has a terrible secret she has never shared with anyone. She knows if it’s discovered, her family will be destroyed forever.
But someone knows, and they mean to expose her.
Can she discover the truth before it’s too late?

Category: Thrillers – Psychological

PHILIPPE LAFRANCE is a well known reclusive writer whose life is suddenly thrown upside down. The grandfather he never knew existed dies. Throughout his own investigation, Philippe learns that his family has kept secrets from him, deep, ugly secrets. A killer is murdering the men in his family. First his father then his grandfather have succumbed at the hands of another. This murderer is trying his utmost to keep secrets buried.

Bereft, Roxanne St-Clair is left to manage a restaurant when the only person who ever mattered to her, her foster parent and mentor, is murdered. She puts her life on hold to find his killer and bring him to justice.

Thrown together by circumstance and a mutual goal, Philippe and Roxanne fight their attraction and team up to find the killer, bring him to justice and unearth the truth. To stay alive, they must keep one step ahead of the assassin in order to prevent him from killing his next target, Philippe. Will they succeed in bringing to justice this killer before Philippe becomes his next victim? Will they be able to deal with the truth behind all the secrets?

Category: Mystery – Private Investigators