Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for June 14, 2022

We knew they were coming one day; we had just never imagined anything like…this.

Joanna Marks always had a knack for terrible timing. After all, she did get pregnant and run off at 16. With her husband recently deceased, she and her child head back home ten years later… just in time for the invasion.

Sheriff Wayne can never share how he’d known about the Chinese forces before they stormed his beloved little Florida town. The locals would think he was crazy. However, when their harmless city is put under military lockdown, he’s not the only one who finds the whole invasion suspicious.

As Joanna and Wayne team up to uncover the truth, they must venture into a terrifying world that defies reality. Moreover, if they journey too deep, they may never make it out alive…

The Surge is a post-apocalyptic thriller novel with a dash of horror. If you like shocking twists, gritty characters, and pulse-pounding suspense, then you’ll love Willow Rose’s spine-tingling story.

Category: Suspense

Small town. Dark secrets. Whose lies are worth killing for? Discover the darker side of small town life in this clean domestic thriller. Richly atmospheric with heart-stopping suspense, its twists and turns will keep you turning pages late into the night.

Category: Suspense

1593. A young Franciscan friar from southern Italy arrives at the holy land to document Christianity’s holiest places. In the fields of Bethlehem, he meets a young girl who shows him a secret linked to the Church of Nativity. Awed by the discovery, he gifts her with a portrait, unaware that his seemingly innocent gift might cost her her life.

A British Surveyor arrive at British-occupied Israel following his service in the first World War. During a survey mission Giles makes an eye-opening discovery outside of Jerusalem – that will change his life forever.

When armed militants occupy of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, an elite sniper scouts the church, ready to shoot whoever tries to escape the siege through one of the underground passages.

Past and present collide as three men are linked in a violent cycle at one of the holiest places on Earth.

Category: Thrillers – Historical

Welcome to beautiful Sunrise Bay, where the beach is hot and the corpses are cold

When Charlie Carter catches her fiance cheating with her best friend, she swaps power suits for swimsuits and moves to the idyllic seaside town of Sunrise Bay, home of her feisty retired aunt. Maybe a dose of vitamin sea can cure her broken heart.

Everything is going swimmingly until Aunt Evie’s book club pal Peggy turns up deader than Charlie’s engagement. Aunt Evie is convinced it was murder. Charlie’s not convinced, but the more she discovers, the more she suspects that Aunt Evie is right—as usual. Now Charlie—with the help of one inquisitive four-legged neighbour—must use her keen photographer’s eye to spot the killer … before they take her out of the picture.

Category: Mystery – Cozy

Sixteen years after a family feud drove her from the cozy Northwoods village of Whispering Pines, Wisconsin, former detective Jayne O’Shea returns to prepare her grandparents’ lake house for sale. Once there, not only does she find that the house has been trashed, her dog discovers a dead body in the backyard.

Jayne intends to stay out of it, but when it becomes obvious the sheriff isn’t interested in investigating the death, Jayne can’t stop herself. Her list of suspects grows faster than the plants in the commons’ pentacle garden. Could it be the local Wiccan green witch with her stash of deadly plants? The shopkeeper who slips into trances and foretells death? The visitor determined to practice black magic?

What Jayne knows for sure is that the closer she gets to solving this crime, the more the sheriff wants her to back off. And when a local fortune teller provides a crucial clue, Jayne knows it’s up to her to solve this murder.

Category: Mystery – Cozy

“It’s about blood, survival and money. Mostly yours.”
New Yorker Karen Brown is running for her life. She makes a snap decision to flee to Roma Nova – her dead mother’s homeland, and last remnant of the Roman Empire in the 21st century. But can Karen tough it out in such an alien culture? And with a crazy killer determined to terminate her for a very personal reason?

Stifled by the protective cocoon of her Roma Novan family, deceived by her new lover, she propels herself into a dangerous mission. But then the killer sets a trap – she must sacrifice herself for another – and she sees no escape.

A thriller laced with romance and coming of age, this is Roman fiction brought into the 21st century through the lens of alternative history and driven by a female protagonist with heart and courage.

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Category: Thrillers – Historical

Present day, alternate timeline. Carina Mitela is a young officer in the Praetorian Guard Special Forces. Disgraced and smarting from a period in the cells for a disciplinary offence, she is sent out of everybody’s way on a seemingly straightforward mission overseas.

All she and her comrade-in-arms, Flavius, have to do is bring back a traitor from the Republic of Quebec. Under no circumstances will she risk entering the Eastern United States where she is still wanted under her old name Karen Brown. But when she and Flavius discover a conspiracy that reaches to the highest levels of Roma Nova, what price is personal danger against fulfilling the mission?

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