Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for March 22, 2020

DCI Whitney Walker’s in trouble. She’s threatened with demotion if she screws up another case. So, when a killer starts murdering female students, it’s a chance to redeem herself.

Forensic psychologist, Dr Georgina Cavendish, has spent her life inside the university walls, but when one of her students is murdered, she steps out from behind the text books and puts her skills to the test.

Category: Mystery – Women Sleuths

A vigilante’s on the loose, dishing out their kind of justice…

A string of mutilated bodies sees Detective Chief Inspector Whitney Walker back in action. But when she discovers the victims have all been grooming young girls, she fears a vigilante is on the loose. And while she understands the motive, no one is above the law.

Several young women have recently drowned in Manchester’s vast network of canals.

When DI Jane Phillips begins to investigate, her instinct tells her these are no accidents. And when she discovers that each of the women has a mysterious circular bruise on the back of her neck, Phillips is sure she’s up against a very clever serial killer.

Category: Mystery – Private Investigators

MOTIVE: POSSIBLE TERRORISM.
M.O.: ARSON.
TARGET: CHICAGO; ALL OF IT.
It’s already been a rough year for the Chicago Journal’s first-rate journalistic sleuth, Deuce Mora. After two agonizing investigations – one of which won her a Pulitzer Prize, the other of which forced her to kill a man – she claims she’s sworn off action-packed chases that cause nightmares. Still…from the moment she hears the earliest details of the first fire, her detective-instincts say the pieces don’t fit, and every other instinct tells the hard-hitting reporter she can’t walk away from the story – even though she knows she’ll regret it.

As a series of deadly fires destroys landmarks first, then occupied structures, the body count rises by scores and the city is gripped by terror at Christmastime, adding lost revenue to property damage in the hundreds of millions. Whole blocks of Chicago real estate are falling to an arsonist, but no one knows why and everyone suspects the worst – terrorism.

After the initial tip from the lead arson investigator (aka her boyfriend), Deuce is on her own to solve the mystery. Their relationship could endanger his reputation and his job if he’s even suspected of leaking information to her, so they’ve called a temporary halt. But she’s not exactly lacking for company – her old adversary, FBI agent Colter, has a tail on her, and Colter himself keeps popping out of the shadows. His presence at the crime scene and, even more revealingly, that of an NSA agent point to the suspicion of jihadist terrorism. But no terrorist group has claimed the mayhem.

Heller’s chilling, diabolical plot promises fans of hard-boiled mysteries a substantial feast to sink their teeth into and a knock-your-socks-off ending.

Category: Mystery – Hard-Boiled

Ex-cop, Alex is recruited into a secret organization that targets criminals who manage to skirt the system and remain untouchable despite their obvious guilt. Alex survives an attempt on his life but learns the rest of the team has been eliminated.

With both the FBI and assassins on his trail, it is up to Alex to find whoever pulled the plug on the organization. Encountering challenges every step of the way, he follows any clue that will lead him to a chance for PAYBACK.

Category: Suspense

THREE SISTERS, KELLY, FAITH AND ORLA. TWO ARE ATTACKED. KELLY DROWNS, FAITH SURVIVES, ORLA WANTS JUSTICE. Kelly and Faith Dwyer are attacked on a ferry crossing the Irish Sea. Faith can’t remember what happened. Orla asks detective Tyrone Swift, a distant cousin, to investigate. Swift starts in London, where Faith and Kelly lived together. It becomes clear that many people wanted Kelly dead. The girl whose face she scarred in childhood. The brother and sister she almost killed with a botched gas installation. The brother of her ex-husband, Neil, who was in a deadly car crash after one of their marital tiffs. The husband and son of the woman whose relapse she prompted in rehab. The charity she almost sank . . . WAS KELLY AS BAD AS SHE SEEMS? Swift is juggling his difficult relationships with his girlfriend, Nora, and his ex-wife, Ruth, and trying to find time to spend with his three-year-old daughter, Branna. CAN SWIFT GET JUSTICE FOR THE SURVIVORS? DISCOVER THE TRUTH in this crime thriller full of twists and turns.

Category: Thrillers – Crime