Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for October 9, 2020

From the Queen of Scream comes a novel that will raise the hair on the back of your neck.

To the neighbors, they’re sweet old ladies. To Tim Robertson, they’re his worst nightmare

Not every grandmotherly type bakes cookies.

What’s more frightening than finding out that the kindly old ladies living across the street from you are anything but?

As a child, Tim Robertson is selling cookies with his best friend Damien when they knock on the door of the house across the street from him. Two old ladies open the door and Tim never sees his best friend again.

Twenty years later, Tim has tried to move on and forget what happened back then. He is married, has a son, and just bought the house of his dreams in small town Cocoa Beach. When the house across the street from them is sold, they are all looking forward to getting new neighbors, until Tim realizes the old ladies are back to haunt him and the rest of the town.

To Hell in a Handbasket is Willow Rose, when she is at her most horrifying. Every page of this book is oozing with dread, and this novel stands shoulder to shoulder with the very best of Koontz and King. Anyone who has read a Willow Rose book knows it’s harder to put the book down than to just finish it.

Category: Suspense

A terrible accident—or the murder of someone keeping dangerous secrets?
While watching the opera at La Fenice, Nancy Tremayne is shocked to see a woman fall to her death. But was it really an accident?
Newlywed Nancy is accompanying her husband, Leo, on a work trip to Venice. As she explores Italy’s beautiful city on the water, she finds herself compelled to uncover the mystery of the woman’s death, reluctantly helped by Leo’s assistant, Archie. Together they discover a Venice as sinister as it is beautiful.
Plunging more and more deeply into the city’s secrets, Nancy realises she may be forced to make a choice—the truth or her life?

Category: Mystery – Women Sleuths

Nikki Garcia, the sexy protagonist in this woman sleuth series, is an unlikely Sam Spade.
Page turner author Kathryn Lane’s protagonist, Nikki Garcia, is sent to Medellin on assignment. Nikki embarks on action adventure as she investigates high stakes, mega-money corruption, grapples with her own ghosts, and yet finds romance in a foreign country. Then she’s kidnapped and she’ll have one shot at surviving.
If you like page turner fiction and woman sleuth series, you will like Award-Winning Author Kathryn Lane’s Nikki Garcia Mystery, Crime and Thriller novels. Kathryn’s books take you on unforgettable action adventure in exotic international locations.

Category: Mystery – International Mystery & Crime

Lieutenant Sam Tate investigates the suspicious death of treasure hunter Arley Fitchett, who discovers he was hunting a 300-year-old carving of a bird with a sapphire eye. Based on historical letters of questionable origin, Fitchett was convinced the rare bird had been stolen & hidden by pirates roaming the Chesapeake Bay. Several others share his obsession. Any one of them may be the next victim—or the killer.

Category: Mystery – Women Sleuths

A dead brunette dressed like a bride shows up in Pickett County, Tennessee, the latest victim of an elusive killer known as the Wedding Crasher. Sam Tate is Pickett County’s poker-playing, yoga-loving new sheriff, a woman with a troubled past and an uncertain future. Even as she tracks the predator, she wonders: Who can she trust? Why is she a target? Can she stop more people from dying on her watch?

Set in the New Jersey fishing village of Keyport, where the Esoteric Order of Dagon has been planning for the awakening of the Deep One all these years…

Who can survive when Cthulhu rises?

Includes several bonus stories:

the steampunk tale “Rats In The Cellars”
“Cthulhunicorn” co-written with Katelynn Rosamilia
“Lockbox” previously unreleased
And two Lovecraftian tales from author Chuck Buda: “The Terrible Old Man of Keyport” and “Dark Waters of Sin”

Category: Thrillers – Pulp