Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for March 25, 2023

How is an oil painting a lethal weapon? This action thriller shows you how!
“John Kite is a fabulous main character – every bit as skilled, resourceful, and sexy as James Bond.”
Ex-cop, John Kite, is a specialist PI who recovers stolen art. Three men were killed to steal the picture he’s chasing. Why is someone so desperate to own this painting? Working with a sassy female MI5 agent, Kite uncovers a Middle Eastern conspiracy, and finds getting the picture back is a matter of life and death – for both of them.
Can John Kite stop two nations starting a war?

Joe Campbell’s an average guy. Average job. Average looks. Even his name’s average. Just your regular old Average Joe. Until the night he walks into a bar and meets a mysterious woman who makes him a tempting offer—ghostwrite a novel depicting her life as the mistress of a notorious Mafia kingpin.

After initially refusing the offer, curiosity gets the better of Joe. Now he finds himself sinking deeper into a hole he may never escape. First his wife vanishes, then he’s framed for murder. With the mob, the law, and a band of ruthless killers in hot pursuit, Joe turns to the only person he can trust—his estranged brother, someone harboring secrets more dangerous than his own.

With no place left to hide, the brothers, along with a down-on-his-luck detective, must band together if they are to survive the night—a night where no one will escape the crossfire unscathed.

Category: Thrillers – Crime

Things can always get worse…
ITALY. A viral mutation that defies all human logic has hit a world already shaken to its core by years of pandemic.
Governments’ instructions have been reduced to a single commandment: “STAY INDOORS!”
Paul finds himself trapped at his high-school reunion, which coincides with a sumptuous party that was supposed to jumpstart normality across the entire continent.
His former classmates are there…people in their thirties whom he barely recognizes and cannot decipher: they’re all caught in an Everlasting Quarantine, their bodies and minds pushed to the brink by Nature’s relentless fury.
How long can they hold on?
What will become of us and our once-great expectations when the world we know falls into the depths of unpredictability?
Can flowers even blossom in the midst of an earthquake?

Category: Thrillers – Psychological

50-something dog walker Penelope Standing has life figured out. Then she arrives to walk a dog — and finds his owner dead. While the police work to uncover the victim’s past, Penelope investigates on her own. More than one person had a motive for murder. But only one is coming after Penelope… “Greatest couple since Nick and Nora Charles.”

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Category: Mystery – Cozy

In 1905, London chief inspector James Huxley is exiled to the remote island of St Ender to drink what’s left of his career away. But barely off the coach, he is forced to investigate the heinous murder of a young boy that soon escalates into a nightmare of profound evil where the shadows hide deep scars, ancient secrets — and long, pointed teeth.

Category: Mystery – Historical