Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for March 31, 2022

What happens when a U.S. Army Signal Corps operator returns from serving in France during the Great War? She not only finds her hometown and family resort struggling, she comes across the dead body of a neighbor. The murder caps a string of crimes plaguing the area. Eager to solve the case, Arabella Stewart convinces Constable Jackson Hastings to let her help him. Jax—her childhood buddy, her girlhood crush, and her brother’s best friend—harbors conflicting feelings about working with Bella. But, with his own job on the line and plagued by war wounds, he accepts her help. As the pair pursues a killer, they are caught in a precarious homecoming.

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Category: Mystery – Historical

A program designed to protect them. A malfunction that could obliterate them all.

When the United States comes under attack from an AI program its government built in secret, IT specialist Terre Hoffman learns firsthand how deadly the program can be; with one strike, the machines decimate Terre’s entire family. As Terre comes to terms with the loss, he and fellow robotics consultant Kristopher Klein are assigned to investigate the AI anomalies and bring the bots back under human direction.

Under pressure and under attack, the two experts only have one shot at success—override the network and shut down the Guardian Program.

With everything on the line, Terre must overcome the pain of losing his loved ones in order to stop the war machines from causing absolute and horrific destruction. If they fail, it means handing over complete control to the very machines designed to protect them … but bent on killing them instead.

The Guardian Program is the first thrilling apocalyptic entry in The Terre Hoffman Chronicles—a new standalone series expanding the universe of the internationally best-selling Lies the Guardians Tell.

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Category: Thrillers – Technothrillers

Fifteen-year-old Jacob Kelly would love to go back to simpler times. Before his parents’ divorce and the onset of his older brother’s schizophrenia. But when he returns to his hometown, things feel off. After a series of strange occurrences in his new house, Jacob fears the house is haunted, or even worse, he is losing his mind.

To his surprise, Jacob discovers a mysterious teenage runaway, Sanctuary Daniels, living in the house. She reveals she has been kept by a figure known only as Mother, in a place where downstairs children are languishing prisoners, and upstairs children do Mother’s bidding.

Both Jacob’s investigation into Sanctuary’s allegations and their budding romance are cut short when she is reclaimed by evil beings. Beings who unleash terror upon Jacob and his family. Now he must journey to a real haunted house to save his first love and fight for his life.

Category: Suspense

Witch Esme is shocked when her cheating ex-husband Drew and his family turn up uninvited for a visit at her castle. First, the Dastardly Drew is intent on wreaking havoc on Esme’s new life in magical Brimstone Bay. Next, he gets arrested for a death that looks nothing like murder, Esme uncovers a plot to steal away her castle, and her own long-lost magic starts spiraling out of control.

Can Esme untangle the complicated conundrum of a mysterious death, defeat the corrupt police, deal with the Dastardly Drew and save her castle with the help (and hindrance!) of her mischievous ghosts, her wild witch cousins, and the far too handsome Agent Chris Constantine? Or will her unruly magic unleash some harm and evil of its own?

Category: Mystery – Cozy