Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for November 10, 2023

Hi, I’m Chloe! I have a house, a best friend, and absolutely no idea how to say “no.”
You see, my elderly neighbor asked me to surrender her little dog named Theo to the animal shelter, and of course I agreed. But then Theo batted his big puppy dog eyes, and I became the reluctant owner of a dog. As if I need another man in my life.
With a sexy new neighbor named Brody to play havoc with my emotions, a creepy new neighbor named Rick, and my ex-boyfriend Jack snooping around, the men in my life seem to be multiplying, and I don’t need that kind of trouble. Add in an attempted dog snatching, a break in, a masked attacker, and a hit and run, my life is adding up to big problems.
But maybe with the help of my new neighbor, I can figure out why everyone wants Theo, and what key he holds to the whole mess. If I can do that, I may be able keep us all alive!

Assistant United States Attorney Jeff Trask moves from Washington, D.C., to Kansas City, where he begins an investigation into an international drug ring smuggling the deadly combination of fentanyl and heroin from the southern border to the Eastern Seaboard.
In this case, Trask is fighting a rival whose criminal genius rivals Trask’s own intellect, and–while Trask is bound by the legal code and his own set of morals–the mob boss on the other side of this battle is unencumbered by such restrictions. The investigation forces Trask to choose whether to operate within the legal system or to venture outside it in order to bring down the murderous kingpin. Marc Rainer again blends actual events from his career with a compelling plot line to add to a series of novels hailed by law enforcement professionals for their realism.

Category: Thrillers – Crime

Federal prosecutor Jeff Trask is assigned to prosecute WaShaun “Gloomy” Stewart, a street gang leader who has killed five rival gang members by his eighteenth birthday. At the same time, another serial killer—known to the investigators as, “The Butcher”—has begun kidnapping local women, killing them, and leaving their body parts in and around Kansas City.

All the kids are afraid of someone scary in the neighborhood. They call him the Boo Man.

While playing tag, six-year-old Mateo is pushed into the Boo Man’s yard and discovers it may be a secret graveyard. Mateo escapes but is determined to prove there is something buried back there…without getting caught.

Mateo calls on his little brother for help. Soon, he’s fearing for both of their lives because it’s rumored the Boo Man captures little kids, locks them up, and tortures them in his basement. Late at night, they say you can hear the children screaming. Mateo doesn’t want them to be next.

Category: Suspense

To Kill a Mockingbird meets White Fragility in this fast-paced legal thriller set in a small East Texas town.
“I was seventy years old before I realized I was a racist.” So begins attorney R. E. Jackson’s intensely personal warfare against the powers that be that mete out their rigged brand of justice in East Texas.

Category: Thrillers – Legal

Los Angeles, 1928. It has been a year since Victoria Tori Jacobsen became a Vampire and agreed to live under the guidance of Werewolf Abraham Mueller.

After months of training to control her vampiric urges, Tori asks Mueller if she can accompany him to the opening of the new mummy exhibit at the Natural History Museum

But what was meant to be a run-of-the-mill visit soon turns into a heart-pounding race against time when they stumble on a murder in progress. Because this isn’t just any murder – it involves an ancient artifact and the supernatural power it carries with it.

The duo, with the help of some formidable allies, must sprint to catch the cunning murderer before they can activate the catastrophic powers of the Eye of Aten, and release the curse of the Mummy’s Vengeance upon the globe. If they fail, the forces of evil will bring on a new Dark Age.

Category: Mystery – Private Investigators