Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for March 20, 2019

A mysterious race of North American giants.

An ancient Hebrew inscription in a Cherokee burial mound.

A blood oath made by blindfolded Freemasons.

Are these three historical oddities the reason the CIA is trying to brainwash historian Cameron Thorne and his fiancée Amanda Spencer-Gunn? The answer lies buried in the legends of the Knights Templar, within the rituals of the secretive Freemasons and, most significantly of all, inside the bowels of the Smithsonian Institution. The problem for Cam and Amanda? If they go rummaging around the Smithsonian, they may find themselves buried alongside the ancient giants.

Based on actual historical artifacts, and illustrated.

Category: Thrillers – Historical

SOMETIMES IT’S BEST TO FORGIVE AND FORGET

Fed up after thirty years of teaching, Deena Sharpe doesn’t know what to do with her life. Sure, she’s ready for a new challenge, but an old family mystery is about to turn her life upside down and inside out.

When a Texas sheriff’s office finds a 50-year-old skeleton in their closet, a rookie deputy scrambles to make an identification. That’s when Deena’s family turns to her to uncover the truth about the murder before a conspiracy theory-nut implicates their loved one in his latest book.

Can Deena channel her inner sleuth to sift through the clues and protect her family name? With the help of her off-beat brother, she embarks on a quest that brings the past colliding into the present.

Sharpe Shooter is book 1 in the Maycroft Mysteries. If you like a savvy amateur sleuth with wit and perseverance, check out this puzzling whodunit today!

Category: Mystery – Women Sleuths

This much is true: In 1562 Diego de Landa burned all the Mayan codices and began a suppression of the Mayan religion that was brutal even by 16th century conquistador standards. What we don’t know is why.

Excavations at a recently discovered Mayan site near Valladolid in the Yucatan unearth a codex – the first to be discovered in over 50 years. A mangled body is found among the ruins. It belongs to Father Colvin McNeery, an expert on the Gospel of Matthew, the only Gospel to mention the Star of Bethlehem. The local police say he was killed by a jaguar.

The 1500 year old codex contains an account of a holy man, a savior who is born under a bright star to a virgin, performs miracles, dies a horrible death, and is resurrected. If McNeery’s translation of the codex is correct, then something is radically wrong with the conventional accounts of the European discovery of the Americas. Or – and this is the only other possibility – something is radically wrong with Christianity’s notion of itself.

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Category: Mystery – International Mystery & Crime