Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for March 17, 2022

The Chance of A Lifetime…
To Live In A Thrilling World of Adventure…
One with Endless Possibilities.

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Down on his luck and with his back against a wall, John Crussel would do anything to provide for his family.

Even rob a bank out of desperation.

But when he hears of how he can make money in a virtual reality video game called Alterlife, he walks away from the robbery and decides to give it a shot.

Couldn’t be harder than robbing a bank, could it?

John’s world is about to change as he finds that Alterlife is easier than it seems.

But being a hotshot new guy that seems to have all the luck draws the attention of some dangerous people in Alterlife – ones that want what he has and are willing to do anything for it.

John finds fame and fortune inside Alterlife, but all things come with a price.

Will John rise to the top, or will the game consume him and everything he loves?

Private Investigator Steve Rockfish needs cash, like yesterday. The bad news is that yesterday, a global pandemic raged, and Maryland was headed toward a lockdown that would ultimately lead to cheating spouses no longer “working late,” and hence a lack of new clients.

Category: Thrillers – Crime

It was supposed to be the happiest day of her life when her kidnapped daughter returned, but it wasn’t.
Fourteen years ago, Clarissa Smalls was born, and a few hours later, she was taken from the hospital. Kidnapped. Her mother searched desperately for her for years, but she never found her.
Until now.
When Clarissa Smalls is suddenly found in the swamps of central Florida, badly bruised and confused, it is cause for much joy and celebration in her family, especially with her mother, who has waited fourteen years to see her baby girl again. Little did she know that this day would end up being the worst in her life. Because Clarissa doesn’t want to know about her mother, she refuses to talk to anyone and won’t tell the police what happened to her.
When another baby girl is kidnapped from the same hospital in the same manner, the police believe it’s the same kidnapper that took Clarissa. Suddenly, time is of the essence to make her answer the many questions that are piling up.

Category: Mystery – Series

Pandemonium on Saint Patrick’s Day!
After a nomadic childhood, Ivy Michaels is ready to settle in the city of her birth and open her dream café. The decision to return to Savannah created a rift with the woman who raised her, but Ivy wants to carve out her own path.

The Saint Patrick’s Day celebrations are bringing tourists into the Cosmic Café. The pot of gold is in sight and all of her dreams are coming true; until her estranged aunt is found floating in the Savannah River. Enter …
* an inherited diamond ring with a shady past
* a handsome ex-cop who can’t let a cold case die
* and a series of burglaries.
Determined to regain her well-oiled life, Ivy, aided by her grouchy cat, sets out to solve the mystery surrounding the hot blue diamond only to end up in the crosshairs of a stone-cold killer.

As the world’s second largest Saint Patrick’s Day parade kicks off, Ivy must stop marching to the beat of her own drum and work with her new love to uncover the secrets of the past before she finds herself buried along with the truth.

Category: Mystery – Cozy

Max is starting over. Fresh out of prison, he just wants to keep his head down, go to work, and maybe grab a cold beer at the end of his shift. He doesn’t even care that the program stuck him in a nice, but nowhere small town. With his head already full of bloody memories, he’d like it just fine if his future stayed nice and quiet.

Too bad the present just got really messy.

A body in a tree. A missing briefcase. A Russian hit man. A DEA agent bent on revenge. Not to mention a sheriff with dangerous ambition and some pissed off bikers. Things are suddenly very interesting in this sleepy small town. Bodies are turning up. Secrets are coming out. Questions are being asked.

It’s not good being the new guy in a small town.

Read the first addictive thriller in the Max Strong series today.

Category: Thrillers – Crime

Max is a wanted man. Again. Only this time he’s innocent. Mostly.

Refusing to be the fall guy, he fled Essex, witness protection, and some sticky questions about dead bodies and a missing suitcase. Now, he’s a fugitive just trying to piece together a life as best he can.

Mr. Smith is a man that specializes in discretely taking care of problems. Kate Sanders is a PI that’s going broke and trying to get her dead father’s voice out of her head. Alexei Yushkin is still alive but walks with a limp and carries a deep grudge. Mike Duffy is a small town reporter in danger of cracking a case too wide open.

Carter is just a psycho. Danny is the idiot that crossed Carter.

They all want to find Max.

After a brutal beating reopens old wounds in Essex, the pressure mounts for Max to stop hiding and come back.

Nobody can run forever.

Family Secrets Can Kill
Cara De Rosa is the heart of her large family and community in London. Her restaurant business is booming. She’s found a second chance at love, and an impending marriage is on the horizon. But there’s no such thing as a perfect life. And the good times never last forever.

When Cara’s health suddenly falters, her family’s world turns upside down in the blink of an eye. In a bed-ridden haze, she confides in Sienna, her favourite grandchild, that her rapid decline may be at the hands of one of her own.

Sienna, a young, single mother, is reeling in the wake of her husband’s unsolved death. She is haunted by crippling anxiety and misplaced guilt, heightened by suddenly finding herself in a race against time to save Cara’s life. As she begins to pull at the strings of a tangled family web, she’ll reveal disturbing secrets, decades of deceit and shockingly serious crimes.

Category: Suspense