Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for March 8, 2023

The true story of an actual evil genius who gets 5 foreign armies to invade Britain in 367 AD, killing 100,00 Britons in what historians call The Great Conspiracy. Meet the real-life man sent to stop them. Magnus Maximus means Maximum Great – that’s his name and he’ll become Roman emperor in 383. But this long-suffering orphan has demons from his past that darken his future. His cousins ruin Rome, destroy Western civilization, and trigger the Dark Ages. See Rome fall, meet the greatest Roman you’ve never heard of, enjoy the 4th century now, and take a tour of antiquity today.

Amanda Clarke thinks of herself as perfectly ordinary in every way. Just a small-town girl who serves breakfast all day in a little diner nestled next to the highway, nothing but dairy farms for miles around. She fits in there.
But then an old woman she never met dies, and Amanda was named in her will. Now Amanda packs a bag and heads to the big city, to Miss Zenobia Weekes’ Charm School for Exceptional Young Ladies. And it’s not in just any neighborhood. No, she finds herself on Summit Avenue in St. Paul, a street lined with gorgeous old houses, the former homes of lumber barons, railroad millionaires, even the writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Why, Amanda can practically hear the jazz music still playing across the decades.
Scratch that. The music really, literally, still plays in the backyard of the charm school. Because the house stretches across time itself. Without a witch to protect this tear in the fabric of the world, anything can spill over. Like music.
Or like murder.

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Category: Mystery – Cozy

The Journey is a must-read thriller. The gripping story of a young boy and his family, driven from their home by war and indiscriminate violence. Like millions of others, they attempt the treacherous journey across their war-torn continent, trying to reach the safety of Europe. The truth is, Europe doesn’t want them and thousands die every month at the hands of thieves and profiteering men to whom life is cheap. The story is fast-paced, at times heart-breaking but it will pull you along at 100 miles an hour. It will make you think and it will make you question your perception of refugees.

Category: Thrillers – Political

The Journey Back is the blistering sequel to The Journey. Kalu is a doctor, who escaped an extremist revolution in Nigeria. He tried to get his family across the Sahara to look for passage to the safety of Europe but they were duped by ruthless people traffickers and his wife and two daughters were lost at sea. Fast forward twenty-years and his daughter, Kissie is in Ukraine when Russian tanks cross the border and his family are in terrible danger again.

It should have been just another routine call for Rye and Claire Anderson, owners of Mad Dash Ambulance Service. But when the DOA they deliver to the hospital goes missing, their routine turns deadly.

Greedy doctors involved in black market organ harvesting. Innocent girls lured into the lucrative, dangerous world of xxx-rated films. Sex, murder and deception in a small, Oregon town —it’s all here in Body Parts.

Category: Thrillers – Medical

When you wake up, you remember nothing. Not your name, or where you were born, or the faces of the people you knew. Just a single warning written to yourself before you forgot it all: ”Emily, it’s me. You. Don’t ask about the last two years… Don’t try to remember and don’t go digging. Your life depends on it. Other lives depend on it. By the way, Emily isn’t your real name. You died in an accident. You paid extra for that.” You start over in a remote place with a new name, a fresh life. Until the day a stranger tells you you’re being hunted for the sins of a royal ancestor who died centuries before you were born. You don’t believe him, until they come for you. Now you’re on the run. Every answer you need lies in a past you chose to erase. The only thing you know for sure is that others are about to die and you need those memories back. But first, you have to stay alive…

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Category: Thrillers – Historical

Jamie Sharpe is adoring her new role managing the Terrowin Hotel. But Grandpa Sharpe has alluded that the mysterious hotel, a legacy passed down from her uncle, could contain secrets and treasures too dangerous to unearth.

When she’s invited to a gathering at the historic Story Mansion for the Gloucester family reunion, she eagerly accepts. Jamie is hoping to get the elderly Evelyn Gloucester, an old family friend of the Sharpes, to finally reveal some of the Terrowin’s carefully guarded secrets.

But then she finds Evelyn’s dead body in the old servant’s quarters, and suddenly she’s swept into a new and more terrifying mystery. Which of Evelyn’s grandchildren could have killed her, and why?

The answer is further complicated when Evelyn’s will mentions a priceless artifact hidden at the Terrowin many decades earlier. Each of the grandchildren begins their own quest scouring the deepest and darkest passageways within the Hotel.

Jamie gets wrangled into the thrill of the hunt herself, but it’s a dangerous line she’s walking. With the police no closer to a suspect for the murder, can she solve the case and discover the treasure before it happens again?

Category: Mystery – Cozy