Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for March 4, 2026

Juliette Valentine is a cunning, complex, and pathological child prodigy. At just fourteen years old, this elite gymnast manages to weaponize the family dog, create a rabies panic in her small town, initiate a CPS investigation into her own mother, and successfully hunt, capture, trap, and tame Jonathon, the boy next door. The reader will get to know both Juliette and Jonathon through their own unique perspectives, and by way of various flashbacks of their traumatic childhoods.

TWO PREQUELS. ONE VIGILANTE’S ORIGIN. A DARKNESS THAT CAN’T BE CONTAINED.

Before Colin Bailey became The Phoenix, he was a broken man with nothing left to lose. The two explosive novels reveal the making of a killer, and the relentless detective who risks everything to stop him.

THE FINAL STRAW:
Colin Bailey grew up unwanted. Scarred by neglect and shattered by tragedy, he finally snaps — and revenge is all that drives him. Detective Phil Hounsell already has a war on his hands, fighting rival gangs tearing apart his quiet West Country town. But when bodies start piling up, he realizes a new predator is stalking the streets. Can he catch a killer consumed by vengeance, or will Bailey outwit him at every turn?

UNFINISHED BUSINESS:
Ten years later, Bailey returns to Britain with a new identity, a new face, and an old scorecard. Methodical. Unstoppable. One by one, his enemies fall and the police have no idea who’s behind the killings. But Hounsell knows. Teaming up with brilliant young DS Zara Wheeler, he follows Bailey’s trail across the country. In this game of cat and mouse, who will survive?

Category: Thrillers – Assassinations

A deadly, incurable disease creeps silent through Chattanooga. And its victims aren’t random.

When inexplicable human rabies cases appear in Tennessee, disease ecologist Letty Duquesne jumps at the chance to trace the virus back to its source. But the closer Letty gets to finding the outbreak’s origin, the further someone will go to stop her.

With an unwanted promotion threatening to take Letty far from the fieldwork she loves, this outbreak feels like her last chance to make a difference. It’s not something she can ignore, especially now. The spillover of zoonotic diseases to the human population is on the rise and violent animal attacks—like the one that killed her sister—are becoming all too common.

Something in nature has gone very wrong.

Local authorities would rather she go home, but Letty can track a source animal like no one else. With the help of disgraced detective Andrew Marsh, Letty follows the virus’s epidemiological trail. But her every move is watched. And the source animal is closer than she thinks.

Category: Thrillers – Medical