Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for May 5, 2023

When Dr. Ree Ryland realizes she’s being framed for a crime she didn’t commit, she must work with the FBI to catch a criminal before time runs out in this charming, character-driven read.

She’s returned to her old stomping ground and everything’s the same… except for the flowerbed adorned with a dead body. Can Chloe dig everyone out of a precarious plot before the real killer flees to greener pastures?

Category: Mystery – Cozy

Golden Crown Literary Society 2022 Winner in the following categories:
– Debut Novel
– Young Adult Fiction

Six teenage girls. One deserted island. Removed from civilized society, can they challenge class, identity, and toxic femininity to pull together and survive? Or will they descend into savagery?

Seventeen-year-old farm girl Ellery is used to being alone; used to taking care of herself. After she wins an athletics scholarship to a prestigious new school, she finds herself facing her own personal nightmare – stuck on a plane with a bunch of mean girls, the school dork and her ex-best friend. But when the plane crashes and they find themselves alone on a deserted island, the real challenge begins.

As they fight for survival, long-buried secrets are uncovered, and – one by one – each girl’s true character emerges. Can friendships, like fires, be relit? And can Ellery survive on Girl Island?

Category: Thrillers – Psychological

“The Claremont”, an outdated, run-down apartment building and home to a number of eccentric tenants, is thrown into turmoil when its latest and most celebrated resident, Crispin Fairchild, conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, is found murdered.
His eccentric neighbors and members of the orchestra appear saddened by his death but are they?

Category: Mystery – Police Procedurals

Maureen Gould is a San Francisco attorney with a dark secret, a rocky marriage, and a need to prove herself.

Because she wanted to do more for crime victims than just putting bad guys away, she left the DA’s office and opened her own practice.

When a tearful young woman walks into her office with a Hollywood #metoo case, Maureen spots a chance to make things right.

Surprise evidence – no problem.

Witnesses hiding – she’ll find them.

Ironclad nondisclosure agreements – no such thing.

But when the Hollywood mogul she’s suing hires Maureen’s own father to defend him, long buried secrets pull her back into his dark orbit.

Secrets bind the shamed to the guilty. Maureen Gould knows truth will set them free.

Category: Thrillers – Legal