Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for October 18, 2022

From USA Today bestselling author Uvi Poznansky comes a gripping suspense thriller:
Her bullet grazed his head, but the leader of a Russian crime organization is still breathing. One way for Vlad to avoid paying the price for his crimes is to play dead; another is to play dying. For Ash, this is not a game. She must learn his secrets. Only one problem: because of the raging pandemic, she must put her plan on hold.

Vlad slips away from the hospital in a body bag, then develops a brazen fraud scheme that will bilk health insurance companies out of millions of dollars. If not caught in time, he will drive victims to suicide, rob Ash of her identity, and slit her throat.

Will Ash manage to stay one step ahead of him and at the same time, protect her loved ones from contagion?

A simple man with a refined palate, maverick New Orleans lawyer Tubby Dubonnet has a penchant for fishing, Old Fashioneds, off-track betting, and fighting evil while passing a good time. Passing a good time, of course, includes running from the mob, solving gritty crime lab murder mysteries, thwarting hurricane season bank heists, and a good deal of rubbing elbows with corrupt politicians—all this while answering to a family of beloved women that he just can’t seem to slip anything past.

Category: Mystery – Collections & Anthologies

Augie is dying to know Izzie Crilly’s secret, and death may be the price he pays for figuring it out.

The new girl is dark, mysterious, and morbid. Her strangeness and boney body make her an easy target. Yet everyone who bullies her ends up hurt or dead.

Augie can’t figure out why anyone would date her, but they do, and it never ends well for them. When she takes an interest in Augie, he finds himself stuck in a relationship he doesn’t want, and as far as he can tell, the only way out is death.

Category: Suspense

Sometimes life is stranger than we think, but it’s rarely stranger than what Augie thinks.

When Oliver falls off the Old Mill Bridge and dies, everyone thinks they’ve seen the last of him. Five days later, he shows up at school, but he’s changed. Yes, he’s alive but barely.

Augie believes this is the dawn of the zombie apocalypse. But this plague only affects Oliver’s friends. One by one, as each friend’s health gets worse, Oliver’s health gets better.
Two of Oliver’s friends are also friends of Augie’s, and the plague is closing in.

Inspired by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s account of a Soviet labor camp revolt in Gulag Archipelago, Volume III, FORTY DAYS AT KAMAS potrays political prisoners and security officials at a corrective labor camp in Kamas, Utah, where inmates seize control during the summer of 2024. FORTY DAYS AT KAMAS offers a stirring portrait of a man determined to survive under the bleakest of conditions and against formidable odds while raising fundamental questions about the future of American society.

Category: Thrillers – Political

A sheltered mother. A medically fragile child. They can’t just disappear. Or can they?

A typical day of medical appointments and errands. Elizabeth can handle it, she tells herself. She’ll do it all until her husband returns on the weekend.

But someone else has a plan – several someones, throwing Elizabeth’s orderly life into chaos and danger.
Now, she’s on her own. Neither her parents nor her husband is there to protect her. No one knows where they are. If her son is to get out of this alive, it’s up to Elizabeth.

Ordinary people, thrown into extraordinary circumstances. Read Gone, Book One of the psychological thriller series When Bad Things Happen.

Category: Mystery – Series

‘White Heron’ is the first thrilling instalment in the ‘Run and Hide’ series by Welsh author JJ Marsh.

Ann Sheldon is a woman with secrets – and a past that she wants to leave behind. What better place to escape than to a remote shack in the Brazilian jungle?

However, when a young local boy is violently murdered, Ann finds herself drawn into the investigation and fearful that her past has caught up with her.

A high octane thriller packed full of mystery, danger, and adventure.

Category: Thrillers – Crime

The woods are no longer safe!

There is an evil lurking in the dark, and it has a taste for blood.
What starts as a simple camping trip turns into more than Emma bargained for when she witnesses her friends being attacked by a madman slashing his way through their group. As she watches her friends die in a series of increasingly terrifying attacks, Emma must fight to survive as she realizes there’s something much bigger going on than just one killer hunting them down one by one.

Category: Thrillers – Pulp

If you love small towns, quirky characters and cozy mysteries…
Coffee Creek may just be the place for you!

Connie Cafe is living a perfectly mundane life in Coffee Creek. This all changes when she discovers some dead bodies! Together with her mother, Roberta Cafe, her best friend, the purple haired barista, Reba, and the small town police officer, Ted Billings, she snoops and sleuths her way around the town to find out whodunit!

Come on down to Coffee Creek for the mystery…and stay for the characters and coffee!

Category: Mystery – Cozy