Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for November 19, 2021

Blood is thicker than oil—until murder is involved.

Fenway Stevenson doesn’t want to return to the coastal town where her estranged father is practically king. But the death of her mother draws her back home—and the murder of the county coroner draws her into a deepening conspiracy. As the body count rises and all signs seem to point toward her father’s oil company, will Fenway uncover the truth before family bonds become deadly?

“Think Sue Grafton and Janet Evanovich, but with darker twists and more biting social commentary. A five-star thriller that will leave you chuckling and gasping at the same time!”
—John Ling, USA Today Bestselling Author

No one believes that Caine Butcher was murdered.

That’s the first thing seventeen-year-old Finley Jayne learns when the school paper assigns her the article commemorating the anniversary of the death of Seaside Prep’s best hockey player. The article should have been an easy fluff piece. Yet, when Finley investigates the popular senior’s past, she discovers there’s more to his death than meets the eye.

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Category: Mystery – Women Sleuths

The last person you want knocking on your door is an armed woman with ruby red lips and a thick Russian accent.

Liliana is an archeology professor who’s been trying to figure out what normal life is after an unfortunate accident cost her everything she knew. She is clueless, alone, and the only image that lingers in her mind is the vision of a mysterious dagger of glass. Little does she know, that dagger of glass is what will change everything. Her life seems dull and uneventful, until the Russian mafia comes knocking on her door.
Liliana is sent to Paris, no questions asked, down a spiraling world of crime and conspiracy. Everything is new and nothing is as it seems. It doesn’t help that Maksim, the devilishly mysterious associate tasked with escorting her, is as silent as a stone. Things will get bloody soon, and it all has to do with that dagger of glass.

Category: Thrillers – Crime

While on Queen’s Life Guard ceremonial duties in the heart of London, British Household Cavalry subaltern Jack Steele is stunned to see his estranged brother standing next to the daughter of an indicted Bosnian war criminal in Hyde Park. What happens later that day changes his life forever …
In this second in a series of international political thrillers, British United Nations Military Observer Jack Steele becomes a pivotal player in a web of international intrigue, death, and destruction. Steele must infiltrate the Bosnian Serb stronghold of Pale, near Sarajevo, and becomes embroiled in a top-secret and merciless Western political and military conspiracy to destroy the Bosnian Serbs. As the desperate attempt to neutralize the threat of Islamic terrorism in the heart of Europe spirals out of control, the only way to stop a third World War is to find the Sarajevo Protocol before everyone else—the Bosnian Serbs, Muslims, Croats, the European Union, the CIA, and MI6, all of whom will kill, maim, and slaughter, even their own, to get it. Throughout his perilous assignment, he must battle against his feelings for the daughter of the Bosnian Serb leader as well as the elusive and seemingly fathomless location and the true meaning behind the Sarajevo Protocol.

Category: Thrillers – Military

David Chill’s colorful and well-crafted mystery series captures both Raymond Chandler’s gritty vision and Robert B. Parker’s biting humor. Set in Los Angeles, the critically acclaimed and award-winning Burnside Series delivers clever plots, crackling dialogue, and fascinating characters. These 3 books rank as Chill’s best writing!

Category: Mystery – Private Investigators

Finn Duffy is a good lawyer, decent bloke and lost lover. He’s not thinking straight when he’s sucked into a dodgy deal with a dangerous man. Friends warn him, a barman bashes him, but it takes his mother and childhood sweetheart to save him.
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What more does a mother have to do? Jessie loves her son, cares for him, suffers when she feels he’s on the wrong path. And Sana, his barrister girlfriend, what does she have to do for a little commitment?

Finn Duffy is taking time to wake up. All he’s interested in is court work, fronting for the crims and rogues of Newtown, neglecting the rest of his practice, and letting off steam in the local pub.

Mallard, new hotshot businessman in town, sucks him into a dodgy dealing. Friends and local bag-lady Ruby try to warn him, but Finn thinks this is the shot in the arm he needs.

Then, things turn nasty…
Eliza Donnithorne may be buried in St James churchyard, but what else? Does it take a punk with a bomb to get someone to notice? Everyone agrees Finn needs a jolt to wake him up to the realities of life. Can being bashed in a pub do the job?

Category: Thrillers – Crime