Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for October 15, 2022

A gruesome murder. A friend framed. One detective races to stop another bloody masterpiece…

Edgar Allan “Poe” Rutherford’s relaxing stay on Maui gets an abrupt turn when his friend is accused of a brutal murder. Now Poe needs to convince not only the entire island, but also the sexy police detective Alana Hu, that they’ve caught the wrong guy.

Will Poe succeed before the real killer escapes…or paints the island with Poe’s blood?

No one truly escapes their childhood unscathed. Especially if you grew up in Slaughter, Minnesota, in the 1960s and crossed Old Lady Ketchel’s path.
All the kids at Slaughter Elementary had the sense to steer clear of Old Lady Ketchel’s place. Everyone except for Bobby Briars. And for his folly, Bobby and his parents mysteriously disappeared.
You see, Hagatha Ketchel had a bone to pick. Not just with foolish kids like Bobby Briars, but with the entire town of Slaughter.
Old Lady Ketchel’s Revenge is the first book in the Slaughter Minnesota horror series. For those readers who grew up near that one scary house that they didn’t dare pass or that strange neighbor they always tried to avoid.

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Category: Suspense

When Detective Maddy Reynolds leaves her job to live in the Adirondacks, she builds a house on Berry Lake, across from The Glades. Avery Jordan, its founder, operates a sex-trafficking operation out of the sprawling retreat. He and his minions are on a collision course with the renowned detective.

Category: Mystery – Women Sleuths

This page-turning box set introduces Minneapolis criminal attorney Marc Kadella as his career ignites with three high-profile cases: an accused serial killer, the family of an irresistible socialite, and the young mother of a missing toddler caught up in a media circus. Chock-full of grit and street savvy, this action-packed legal thriller series is a Grisham fan’s dream. (And we dare you not to fall in love with Marc’s badass private investigator Maddy Rivers.)

Category: Mystery – Private Investigators

Who killed Marcia?
Beautiful but difficult, Marcia…

Ted answers the telephone to discover his ex-wife, Marcia, is dead, accidentally drowned in the sea below the house that he built on a remote beach in the north of New Zealand, a house he lost in the divorce. Marcia – lively but infuriating Marcia. Gone. The mother of their daughter Holly who is devastated. Ted needs to support Holly and soon finds himself a guest at ‘his’ beach house.

But the police become involved. Marcia’s death is not accidental, they say, but suspicious. As is Ted’s involvement.

He should have stayed away.

Come along for a roller-coaster ride, what with Marcia’s death, wills, illness, a remote beach house, betrayal and love. A mesmerizing read, Marcia’s Dead is an emotive experience, transporting the reader to the dangerous beauty of New Zealand’s beaches while providing an absorbing mystery to unravel.

Category: Mystery – International Mystery & Crime

John Doby is many things: A venomous snake hobbyist and societal dissident with a list of priors not for the faint of heart, an autodidact versed in herpetology and Native American languages—and according to some, a “carnival attraction” and “welfare queen”. But is he the person responsible for the disappearance of a local boy in this quiet community?

“How did I get here?” Glenn Barnes asks herself when she finds herself on the porch of his dilapidated trailer, alone, deep in the backwoods where she gets a peek through the keyhole into the dark undercurrent of her old home town and the secrets that threaten to expose a grim truth coiled quietly below the surface.

In this serpentine tale of rural decay, Alice Curtis explores what “home” really means when it is constantly vanishing beneath your feet and what we are made of when met with our greatest fears.

Category: Thrillers – Crime