Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for June 17, 2023

Murder happens in Houston, but when the most recent murders take on disturbing similarities, local law enforcement officers fear a serial killer is roaming their streets.
Former sheriff’s department sergeant Jade Monroe has just graduated from the FBI’s serial crimes unit in homicide and is called to Houston with her partner, J.T. Harper, to take on her first assignment—apprehending the person responsible for these gruesome crimes.
With victims piling up and the clock ticking, Jade and J.T. need to intensify their search because there’s no sign the killer is slowing down.
After a late-night epiphany while she’s alone, Jade suddenly comes face to face with the killer, and now Jade is missing. The clock continues to tick—but this time it’s for her.

No-nonsense, world-weary Minneapolis criminal defense lawyer Marc Kadella shines through gritty, street-wise narrative in Dennis Carstens’ action-packed legal thriller series, sure to please fans of courtroom drama and classic noir alike with a contemporary angle sure to please fans of both sexes.

Category: Thrillers – Legal

Gifted sleuth Page Wright’s inner world is anything but ordinary, yet her outer world craves a revamp from her mountain bookshop’s continuing demands. A summer escape to her beloved cottage on Shell Isle with cousin Betsy Ross always promised fun and relaxation…until this latest holiday. Two constants exist that Page can’t escape: Betsy’s spicy culinary fiascos she’s obliged to chase with endless antacids, and the special guidance she receives from ‘inklings’ when her sleuthing gifts are needed. While the ever-curious Page and Betsy savor lunch at the Bistro, the sleuth observes a cryptic exchange between her la-di-da neighbor, Catherine Lange, and a seedy-looking guy sitting a few feet away. Their words travel across the café’s table on a paper napkin. However, it’s the pistol passed under the table that awakens Page’s first inkling that unknown forces are conspiring to muck-up her and Betsy’s carefree sojourn. The cousins witness subsequent sightings of Catherine, dripping in her canary diamond jewelry and making ominous threats to five people in her inner circle. On alert now that trouble lurks, Page must entice an always reluctant Betsy to help when the nudge comes to act, knowing time is pressing.

Category: Mystery – Cozy

OUR TWO MAGNETS FOR MAYHEM ARE AT IT AGAIN! Shell Isle’s celebration of July 4th began with the wrong kind of boom. While cousin sleuths Page Wright and Betsy Ross await the cannon firing at Shell Isle’s July 4th celebration, Page gets one of her inklings. A murder is imminent, which lands her and Betsy in the middle of another escapade. This time it’s charter Captain Jake who managed to anger five dodgy suspects, all possessing enough motive to take him out. Ignoring the threats of too handsome Detective Tanner not to meddle in the case, the determined sleuths chart a course to solving the murder, only to stumble upon more than they imagined. Along with a twisty plot adventure, this fun romp offers plenty of hi-jinks, culinary debacles served by Betsy, and dashes of romance between Page and Tanner. Fair warning. This whodunit will challenge readers to the final scene. Recipes included.

Nick Ritter, a crisis consultant, has 24 hours to escape Boston before a deadly virus tears through the city. But when he rescues a pregnant runaway, a washed-up Navy SEAL, and an overworked ER doc, his survival plan becomes a fight to save humanity.

Category: Suspense

Eve Lloyd’s attempt to revamp her life turns her into a magnet for murder and mayhem and the idyllic small town of Rock-Maine Island into a stomping ground for killers. Even when Eve sets her heart on a swanky new stove she lands right in the thick of a murder investigation with the finger of suspicion pointed her way.

Category: Mystery – Cozy

Summer greets the land of the midnight sun as a lone rider races across the last American wilderness, delivering on a promise he made long ago. He has many names, but the world only knows a shadow called the Demon. Soon to be drawn into the Demon’s world, Claire Ferreti, an Army sniper, sips sake in Washington, DC with her lover, a young, ambitious General whose geosecurity specialty remains classified. When a boy finds a small machine, Claire embarks on a a black-ops mission that leads to a test of skill, a clash of ideologies, and her unconscious body lying in a typhoon-ravaged jungle. In that instant she becomes the hunted, the Demon’s means for survival, and an unforeseen threat. As the General pursues them into a labyrinth of cyber-secrets, political necessity and financial reality collide like a fireball piercing steel.

Category: Thrillers – Technothrillers