Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for October 7, 2021

Roger Zorn, owner of a French security company, is delighted to win a major contract with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The work requires applying his risk assessment technology to evaluate terrorist suspects. But when Zorn discovers that DHS is manipulating scores to deport massive numbers of Muslims, he faces a terrible choice.

Some debts you cannot repay, even if you live forever…

What if The Gladiator smashed into The Highlander, and then careened into Jason Bourne? You would get The Last Roman: Exile.

Seasoned imperial officer Marcus Sempronius Gracchus leads the 9th Roman Legion into a bloody battle against a fierce barbarian tribe. It’s a battle he won’t survive.

When he awakens three days later, clawing his way from a shallow grave, Marcus must face the reality of his new existence. He will never see the afterlife–but that won’t stop him from dying time and again over the next 2,000 years.

But Marcus is not the only one cursed with eternal life, and they are determined to bring the world crashing to its knees. Forced to confront the only brother he has ever known, can Marcus prevent the inevitable and find redemption?

Category: Thrillers – Historical

Some witches are born to their craft. Some of us fall face-first into it.
Evangeline Winther has just landed her dream job as a librarian in Whisper Grove, NC. The fact that she also discovered she’s the lost heir to a centuries-old coven of witches is not so dreamy.

She can’t control her powers.
She can’t cast a spell.
And—let down of a lifetime—no one rides a broom.

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Category: Mystery – Cozy

He’s hunting a psychopath. And now the killer wants him dead.

After he’s shot in the line of duty, Detective Thomas Shepherd returns to Wolf Lake to pick up the pieces of his shattered life. Living beside the water, he finds peace…until the body of a missing woman washes up on his shore and the town blames a teenage boy with a history of violence. Is a killer stalking the sleepy resort village?

Thomas isn’t convinced the teenager committed murder. Challenging a village that wants justice at any cost, he pursues the real killer as evidence mounts against the teenager. If he fails, an innocent boy will go to prison.

Can Thomas clear the boy’s name before he becomes the killer’s next victim?

Category: Thrillers – Psychological

Birmingham, Alabama, 1922. Prohibition has its grip on the bustling city. Corruption is rife and remaining an honest man of the law takes tenacity in the face of rampant greed. Strait-laced Bureau of Investigation officer Francis Laurent does his job and does it morally. When crooked officers gun down his partner and closest friend August Day in cold blood, Laurent vows to exact revenge on those responsible. As Laurent delves into Day’s murder, he discovers the corruption runs deeper than he ever suspected. It is time to act, but the system is rotten, and Laurent must get to the source, purging as he goes.
Laurent’s gripping tale of revenge and redemption is revealed through the eyes of his estranged daughter, Raina, who is no stranger to the desire for justice. Plenty of demons haunt Raina, and she is no stranger to playing judge, jury and…executioner.

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Nook | Kobo

Category: Thrillers – Crime