Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for May 13, 2022

Jewel Mantelle has never lived in the South, much less on the coast, so moving from Chicagoland to the historic North Florida coastal town of Sophia Island seems like just the adventure to fix her marriage. However, when she arrives she finds that it’s awfully hot and humid there and that these Southern folks really like to hug.
Her husband’s past on the island includes a creaky old house in the historic district and lots of nosy relatives he’d forgotten to mention. When one of the Mantelle cousins turns up dead, Jewel needs something she’s never really had before—friends. As her lunch bunch puts on their detective caps to get to the bottom of this murder, Jewel discovers that she may get more than she bargained for out of Sophia Island. THE MANATEE DID IT is a clean and cozy beach mystery set in a historic small town.

Last night two children knocked at his door. Someone is looking for them…

Nicholas Hooper wanted to be left alone. Looking to escape his past and his unfortunate present, the best-selling author rented a luxury house in the Poconos to finish what very well could be his very last book. But his plans change when one night he opens his front door to find two frightened children.

Hooper takes them into town to see if the local police can help uncover the mystery of what has happened to these children. But what happens next is something Hooper never saw coming. The children are escaping their past too and their present is far worse than anything Hooper could have ever imagined. Can Hooper battle his own personal demons and protect these innocent children?

Someone Savage is a page-turning thriller packed with shocking twists and heart-stopping suspense.

Category: Suspense

REVISITING THE PAST CAN BE MURDER

Private detective Greyson Travers has a secret, but he isn’t the only one.

When a stunning widow asks him to investigate the suicide of her husband, Greyson plans for an easy resolution.
But a quick look into the past gets dangerous for his future. He isn’t the only one interested in the case, and the longer he’s involved, the more victims turn up dead.

Greyson can travel through time. It makes him the best sleuth in the city. But every advantage comes at a cost. Under pressure from a powerful mob kingpin and an agency governing time, his investigation will take him deep into the underworld.

The clock is ticking, and Greyson might be too late to discover the truth.
Sometimes the past is better left for dead.

If you love treacherous twists and mind-bending murder mysteries, jump into this page turner where time is never on your side.

Can you solve the mystery of the future?

Category: Mystery – Private Investigators

A 500-year-old murder.
The world’s largest painting.
An ancient order that will kill to silence the truth.

Nick and Julia O’Connor’s dream trip to Venice collapses when a haunting voice reaches out to Nick from Tintoretto’s Paradise, the world’s largest oil painting.

Though Julia worries her husband suffers from a delusion, Nick is adamant the voice belongs to a woman from the 16th century—his soul mate from a previous life. He discovers an ancient order that has developed a method of extracting people’s souls, which they imprison in the artwork. Over the centuries, they’ve judged thousands of souls and sentenced them to eternal purgatory.

As infatuation with the past clouds his commitment to a present-day wife, Nick must right an age-old wrong—destroy Paradise and liberate his soul mate. But freeing her would allow all the souls to be reborn.

The order will never let that happen.

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Category: Thrillers – Historical

Two communities. One flower competition. So much dead-heading! Aldermaston’s having a bad day. A falling hanging-basket has killed the town’s mayor, and someone is sending him death threats. This isn’t the quiet life he expected as the new Marquess of Mortiforde. It’s the annual Borders in Blossom competition, and Mortiforde is battling with Portley Ridge in the final. But this is no parochial flower competition. The mayor’s mishap looks like murder, and there’s another body in the river. Someone wants Portley Ridge to win for the 15th successive year. So when a guerrilla gardener group carpet bomb Mortiforde with a series of stunning floral delights one night, a chain reaction of floral retaliation ensues. Can Aldermaston survive long enough to uncover who is trying to kill him, and why? And can he get his wife’s greenhouse built in time?

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Category: Mystery – Cozy

The house is free, but it comes with a price…

Single mom, Molly Greene, is forced to close her Michelin star restaurant due to the Covid 19 pandemic. To escape the ghosts of her past and the high cost of city living, Molly moves the Greene family to the isolated town of Old Castle where they move into a free-of-charge 200-year-old stately farmhouse…which isn’t quite vacant.

The Greene family realise they’ve become unwitting participants in a macabre contest where the farmhouse is the first prize…or is it? Little do they know they’re sharing their house with a sinister squatter that lingers in the fireplace and likes to come out and play when the sun goes down.

Financially broke, Molly decides to go public about the ominous presence in the farmhouse, hoping to cash in on the phenomena, never considering the repercussions of her actions.

Category: Suspense

Murray Barrington-Jones sounds aristocratic. He’s not.

Many Pottsville residents have fallen foul of Mr. Barrington-Jones dodgy business dealings; most have been financially ruined.

And now he’s dead. Suspects are plenty.

His ex-wife Susan is the primary suspect. But the list grows bigger.

There’s Susan’s financially strapped lover, Tommy Llewellyn; Stefan Rudinski, a local bikie Chapter President; Brian Brady, a bankrupt pensioner and Annie Greer, a ‘a koala saving greenie’.

All have motive. All wanted Murray Barrington-Jones dead.

When Selena Sharma, Pottsville’s cooking school Queen and part time amateur sleuth, discovers a vital clue, Detective Stewart has just minutes to solve the crime.

If he fails, Pottsville will have another killing. Will he make it in time?

C T Mitchell, Austrailia’s rising cozy mystery, top selling author, delivers another masterful, twist turning cozy mysteries in small town Pottsville, book 3 in the cozy mystery sets of Selena Sharma

Category: Mystery – Cozy