Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for March 12, 2023

Sleepy little North Bend just woke up.
The newly promoted Sergeant Jade Monroe, and her partner, Detective Jack Steele, have just been informed of an unidentified male body found at a local lake. The town is in an uproar. The victim was nearly decapitated, and murder simply doesn’t happen in North Bend.
As more bodies turn up, the single connection between all of the victims becomes clear—it’s Jade, herself.
With each new victim getting one step closer to Jade, time begins to tick away. She must find the person responsible before her loved ones, or herself, are targeted next.

Lucy Wang, a Chinese-Canadian woman, leads an idyllic life (which also includes plans to soon become a mother) in Montreal with her husband Patrick, an English Canadian entrepreneurial millionaire whose career is on the rise. Her crystal castle cracks when she discovers that he is having a passionate extramarital affair. Chance leads Lucy to learn of an unconventional, new method for tackling the problem, unknown in the West but all the rage in China, and travels to China to learn more about it. Back in Canada, sets her plan in motion, ignoring that in addition to standing up to her rival in love, she will have to face powerful adversaries in the shadows, to the point of risking her own life. Her dilemma: to accept a premature defeat and quit or gather up the necessary courage to transform herself into a new, empowered woman and go further to meet the ultimate consequences.

Category: Thrillers – Psychological

When the self-titled Lord of the Manor, Harold Baker, meets an untimely end, the residents of Baker’s Rise believe that he has simply died from choking. It is fair to say that they are certainly not sad to see him go!
Former city dweller Flora Miller, new to the quaint English village and in charge of the recently restored Tearoom on the Rise, is the unlucky recipient of the late man’s parrot. Her new feathered companion has no filter and a vibrant personality that cannot be ignored! Witness to Harold’s murder, the bird won’t let the matter lie, and it’s not long before Flora becomes suspicious.
A quest to bake the perfect scone is put on hold whilst Flora helps the charming Detective Bramble to investigate Harold’s death. She has set her hopes on writing the next bestseller, not on becoming an amateur sleuth, but life sometimes has surprises in store!

Category: Mystery – Cozy

Ex-Homicide Detective Frank Langer is a broken man – but he’s all that stands in the way of a deadly conspiracy.

Since a mental breakdown put him on medical leave from the squad he was once hand-picked to lead, Frank spends his days drinking and chain-smoking, and his nights waking up screaming from a horrific recurring nightmare.

Then one day, by chance, he stumbles on a monstrous plot to kidnap children.

When he shows up at the squad with his wild story, the guys pat him on the back and tell him to go home. But after the mother of one of the missing children commits suicide, Frank stamps down his demons, and together with the dead woman’s sister Rebecca, plunges into the case.

He uncovers a shadowy entity lurking behind one of the richest and most powerful Pharma corporations in the world. When he finally unravels the mystery, the truth is more bizarre and deadly than he ever imagined, and telling Rebecca would put her life in danger. Soon even she comes to question his sanity.

Frank has to warn the world of the danger. But can he stay alive long enough to find someone to buy his story?

Category: Thrillers – Psychological

Widow Liz McLuckie has just moved to picturesque Whitby when she discovers a body near the medieval abbey and reluctantly finds herself at the centre of a murder investigation.
Liz follows the trail of the murderer in the company of an almost-reformed burglar, a disgraced student and Nelson the bull terrier.
Will she find the culprit in time?

Category: Mystery – Traditional Detectives

Wyatt Dardin is an artist and successful junkyard operator with a girlfriend and two beautiful dogs. He believes his violent childhood is behind him until a child shows up with a broken arm and a story about his abusive father. Unable to stand idly by, he confronts the man and inadvertently kills him. He makes the body disappear on his property realizing whether it’s justified or wrong, it finally feels good to be doing something to stop abusers. As his childhood resurfaces, he sets out to find his mother, a woman who fled his father’s abuse all those years ago. Is she still alive? On the journey west, another story of abuse arises. Should he kill again, and if so, how many killings are enough to scare potential abusers from committing an act they should pay for? He briefly befriends a young man who’s mentally broken due to his father’s abuse. Wyatt takes pity on him and helps him. This act of kindness sparks a series of events that puts everything and everyone Wyatt holds dear in grave danger. Has his shot at justice been worth it?

Category: Suspense