Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for June 19, 2020

Gus Freeman is a retired Detective Inspector who has spent the past three years alone.
Freeman’s wife, Tess, died from a brain aneurysm six months to the day after his retirement.
He is still coming to terms with his enforced solitary existence.
His old boss wants Gus to head up a Crime Review Team investigating cold cases.
Gus can’t resist the chance to enter the fray for one last hurrah.
“It’s a mystery that will keep you wondering, with the usual wide array of characters to enjoy that give Tayler’s novels their stamp.”

In this latest thriller, Tracie Tanner is tasked with acquiring intel from a Russian general’s house. But what she finds is alarming: a nuclear device has been stolen from a Soviet military base.
Tracie discovers that Russian radicals have acquired the bomb, intending to detonate it in a major American city. And Tracie is the only one standing between the radicals and thousands of dead innocents…

Category: Thrillers – Espionage

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

When the police tell transit security cop Casey Holland that her father was murdered the previous night, Casey doesn’t believe them. Why would she, given that she buried her dad three years earlier? Desperate to understand what’s going on and if the man she buried really was Marcus Holland, Casey attempts to unravel the truth about her past.

Filled with twists and turns and the unwelcome help of a persistent stranger, Casey’s quest takes her to Europe where startling revelations place her in danger. An associate of her father believes that Marcus stole three million dollars from him and he wants it back. Convinced that Casey can find the money, the man won’t stop until he either has the cash or she and those she loves die.

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Category: Mystery – Women Sleuths

Where do you draw the line between murder and torture?
A horrific murder has taken place in Southern California. Emily Waters, a local teacher, has been bound in duct tape – leaving only her eyes exposed – and crushed to death on the Eureka freeway. Who could have done this?

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Category: Mystery – International Mystery & Crime

When a 20-year-old American volunteer is savagely assaulted and left for dead on a windswept island off the coast of Africa, her hit man father, Bill Blake, flies to her bedside. While he tries to find the courage to terminate his daughter’s life support, Blake plots revenge against the men who attacked her: psycho gangbanger Johnny Zero and his crew.

Category: Thrillers – Crime

A woman’s body is found in the woods. No one knows who she is or why she was left in such a dreadful state. Alex Duggins, owner of Folly-on-Weir’s best pub, The Black Dog, is determined not to get involved — for once. But the person who found the gruesomely mutilated body was young Kyle Gammage, who helps out at Alex’s friend Tony’s veterinary clinic. And she and Tony are reluctantly drawn into the murder investigation. To protect Kyle and his elder brother, Alex withholds vital information from the police. It’s a misjudgement that will have far-reaching — and possibly fatal — consequences. Then one of them goes missing and what lies beneath is very dark indeed. Will Alex’s silence put her and those she loves in danger?

Category: Mystery – Women Sleuths