Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for June 25, 2021

“Urgently timely.”- Kirkus Reviews

They think she’s a monster, but she’s their only hope…

In a divided nation, 14-year-old Jetta belongs nowhere. Her face is split right down the middle: half-black and half-white. The non-white residents of her New Orleans camp call her a demon. The white oppressors who took over during the 2nd American Civil War have called her much worse…

After years as an outcast, Jetta uncovers her true heritage as the daughter of an African storm god and a Finnish death goddess. As she attempts to harness her terrible new abilities to turn the tide in the war, trouble comes to those she tries to help. Only Jetta has the power to heal her divided homeland… or destroy everything in her path…

Girl Divided is a post-apocalyptic sci-fi novel infused with magical forces. If you like immersive worlds, strong characters, and a tale that reads like Neil Gaiman and Stephen King combined, then you’ll love Willow Rose’s provocative story.

Buy Girl Divided now to destroy a divided dystopia today!

“In short, exciting chapters, prolific thriller writer Rose (Waltzing Matilda, 2018, etc.) spins an action-fantasy yarn with a hot-button premise that will strike some readers as urgently timely…An incendiary tale featuring mythic and realistic elements.” – Kirkus Reviews

Category: Suspense

TO YOU, ITS JUST A FROZEN LUMP OF DOUGH; TO SOME, IT’S LIFE AND DEATH…

Especially to handsome Peter Martinelli, who wants to auction off the fabled sourdough starter from his family’s famous bakery. But who’d buy a frozen hunk of flour and water? Only, it turns out, every bakery in San Francisco, a national food conglomerate, and an upstart ringer with a mysterious backer.

Someone would even kill for it. And does.

Category: Mystery – Women Sleuths

When Tessa and Janey arrive at the cottage on Nantucket after their mother’s death, they begin down a road filled with the ghosts of their past. And when Tessa finds a final letter addressed only to her in a locked desk drawer, the two sisters will start down a path that uncovers secret after secret and exposes them to danger at their Nantucket cottage.

Amidst the new truths they find, can Janey and Tessa redefine the bonds of friendship and sisterhood? Or will they lose everything because the rift between them is too wide?

Other Retailers
Apple | Nook | Kobo

Category: Mystery – Women Sleuths

It’s not easy being a woman in the police force in the 1970s. Sergeant Helen Carter is having trouble making her mark in the male-dominated Edinburgh CID, working under the difficult Inspector Jack Craven. But then she’s landed with her first case: a murder in an old abandoned picture house. Whoever did it left a mysterious clock-like symbol on the wall . . . drawn in blood. Stranger still, the killer has left a clue: the business card of an ex-cop. Corpses keep turning up in the strangest of places. Can Helen prove herself and piece together the case before the body count rises? Fans of Ashes to Ashes, Caro Ramsay, Angela Marsons, Rachel McLean and Maureen Carter will love this retro Scottish crime series.

Category: Thrillers – Crime

It is 1942. HMS Visigoth has been torpedoed off the coast of German occupied Norway. Sole survivor Lieutenant Dragan Kelly finds himself behind enemy lines, unsure who to trust. The Norwegian resistance share rumours about a mysterious Nazi plant where an Armageddon weapon of terrifying power is under construction.

Should Kelly escape to Russia or stay and investigate it?

And what of the stunningly beautiful but enigmatic resistance fighter Sybilla? Kelly falls in love with her, but is she all she claims to be?

Inexorably, Kelly is drawn into the murky world of espionage making unlikely friends and powerful enemies as he goes, learning bleak secrets and uncovering dark truths.

He dreams of being reunited with Sybilla. But if he finds her, will he caress her? Or kill her?

Category: Thrillers – Espionage

Jake Ord lives in peaceful seclusion with his companion, Magda, in a small town in Portugal. They each have something to hide, but their life together is just how they want it: tranquil, safe and agreeably boring. THEN JAKE RECEIVES A PHONE CALL THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING. Crime boss Ed Fogarty has escaped from prison. He wants revenge on those who put him there. He also wants the missing £20 million from his last heist. Fogarty is ticking names off his hit list. He knows where Jake lives. It’s time for Jake and Magda to run. But Magda is no stranger to the criminal underworld — or to the violent men hunting them. CAN JAKE REALLY TRUST HER?

Category: Thrillers – Crime