Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for March 11, 2020

A boarding school steeped in tradition. A killer cloaked in darkness. A campus soaked in blood.

For Detective Forrest, evil has a distinctive smell. When a dead girl’s severed organs are found strung from a tree, Forrest fears that French Revolution-era savagery is making a comeback…

Sara Damsgaard is in debt, newly widowed, and desperate to provide for her young sister. Her new position as a boarding school headmistress seems like the perfect fresh start… if it weren’t for the brutal attacks sweeping through the student body.

To save the school, Forrest and Damsgaard must team up and catch the killer. When the trail of clues takes an unexpected turn, they come face-to-face with a sinister school tradition with the power to call forth a new reign of terror…

If you like disturbing mysteries, terrifying suspense, and hardboiled detectives, then you’ll love Willow Rose’s bloody whodunit.

Category: Mystery – Police Procedurals

When past bleeds into present, one detective must unravel the strands of history and legend to find a killer.

A local businessman stabbed to death in his bed. An estranged wife. A slightly obsessive reporter.

When a string of murders rocks the relatively quiet city of Bangor, Maine, Detective Lieutenant Thomas Clipper must look to the pages of history to bring the killer to justice.

What do all the victims have to do with the legend of the Edgewink gang, cut down in a bloody gunfight in 1937? Why did the FBI agent in charge of the Edgewink case disappear on a return trip to Bangor? Where is the stolen loot that Lester Edgewink supposedly hid away before his death?

And why do people keep turning up missing—and dead?

Past is present, as they say. And as Bangor gears up for a Founders’ Day re-enactment of the shootout, an old bill is about to come violently due.

Category: Mystery – Police Procedurals

Taylor Quinn has it all—at least by millennial standards. A good job, a home in the city, and someone she loves to share life with.

When her mom dies unexpectedly, she doesn’t hesitate to drop everything for her family. With a baby sister still in high school, an elderly grandfather at home, and the family quilt shop to run in the small town of Comfort, Oregon, she knows where she needs to be.

Belle, Taylor’s sister, fears their mom’s death is her fault. She thinks her birth mom may just have wanted her back badly enough to kill.

To lay Belle’s fear to rest, the Quinn girls search out exactly what happened the night of the accident. But in doing so, Taylor finds herself tangled in a mess of secrets, envy, and small town gossip that threatens to unravel the family she loves.

Ripping out the stitches that hold her family together may be the only way to keep their lives from falling apart.

Category: Mystery – Cozy

The virus is spreading… how will people respond?

“A timely, allegorical thriller…” Reedsy Discovery

PANIK tells a story about mass hysteria, profit-driven drug companies, and corrupt government. It explores how we are becoming less connected to each other, losing a core part of what it is to be human.

Category: Thrillers – Medical

When a sniper takes aim at a May Day pageant, scrapbooking virtuoso Kiki Lowenstein leads her family to safety and is stunned to learn that she may actually have been the intended target. Between her mother-in-law’s wedding planning and her grouchy mother, the busy single mother still manages to scrapbook her way into solving the murder.

Category: Mystery – Cozy