Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for March 19, 2020

This collection of oddball tales from The City That Care Forgot has a little something for everyone– everyone who loves New Orleans, that is. The set includes four full-length murder mysteries and one dose of love laced with intrigue amongst an assortment of vivid local characters in an Uptown pharmacy (the kind you could only find in N.O.) PLUS a BONUS! M.A. Harper’s FIRE ON THE BAYOU, the second novel of an epic second-chance-at-love story in Louisiana—with plenty of its own mystery to solve. And Julie Smith’s short story PRIVATE CHICK—because every New Orleans mystery anthology needs at least a dash of detective-in-drag.

Category: Mystery – Collections & Anthologies

Can small-town artist Cherry Tucker outwit a killer? A fun, fast-paced, rollicking start to the Cherry Tucker Mysteries. Southern-fried with a side of romance! A Woman’s World Magazine Book Club Pick, a Daphne Du Maurier finalist, Dixie Kane Memorial winner, Night Owl Reviews Top Pick and first in the Wall Street Journal bestselling series!
When the well-heeled Branson family wants to memorialize their murdered son in a coffin portrait, Cherry scrambles to win their patronage from her small town rival. As the clock ticks toward the deadline, Cherry faces more trouble than just a controversial subject. Between ex-boyfriends, her flaky family, an illegal gambling ring, and outwitting a killer on a spree, Cherry finds herself painted into a corner she’ll be lucky to survive.

Category: Mystery – Cozy

A Night Owl Reviews Top Pick from The Wall Street Journal bestselling author Larissa Reinhart. The second in the award-winning, Sassy and Southern Cherry Tucker humorous mystery series.
When Cherry and her friend, Eloise, spend a sultry summer weekend hawking their art at the Sidewinder Annual Brunswick Stew Cook-Off and Eloise dies, the police brush off her death as accidental. However, Cherry suspects someone spiked the stew and killed her friend. Caught between helping Eloise’s family and an ongoing investigation, Cherry finds herself in hot water with her deputy boyfriend. As Cherry calls on cook-off competitors, bitter rivals, and crooked judges, her love life steams. Meanwhile, the killer prepares to cook Cherry’s goose.

Vermont winters harden more than the land.

After the sudden death of his daughter. Rancher Tom Hardgrave is given sole custody of his granddaughter—ten-year-old Paige. He desperately wants to be a good guardian, but the personal hardships keep coming for him and the child.

When an unknown assailant takes the life of Paige’s best friend, the police are baffled and the small town of Middlebury grows fearful and suspicious.

A murdered child, a missing murder weapon, a shattered community, family secrets, and second chances forge a twisted path through Kristopher Triana’s latest dark thriller.

Category: Thrillers – Crime

It was never going to be easy to return for one last look at the streets where he spent his childhood years. Even knowing this, Gary still felt he had to make the effort, just this once, to see if they were really as bad as he remembered.

In a few months demolition was due to start on Grudge End…When Gary Morgan travels north to lie low after a gangland shooting in London, a childhood friend is violently maimed within hours of his arrival. Decades after escaping the blight of his hometown, he finds himself ensnared in a place he hates more than any other.

Feuding families, bloodthirsty syndicates, and hostile forces older than mankind all play a role in the escalating chaos surrounding Gary Morgan. Now he must unravel the mysteries of Grudge End and his own past or meet his doom in the grip of an ancient, unimaginable evil.

Category: Thrillers – Crime