Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for September 11, 2022

When Landry Burke’s favorite Aunt Tildie passes away, Landry inherits the entire estate. It includes a five story apartment building named Magnolia Place, as well as a bookstore across the street named Jasmine Bloom Books, both located in Bobwhite Mountain, Tennessee.

Landry packs up and leaves Bent Branch, SC for the hills of Tennessee. On her very first day there, she and her aunt’s attorney, Adam Wilcox, find the body of one of Magnolia Place’s employees. Between her panic attacks, anxiety and trying to adjust to her new surroundings, Landry wants this murder solved and fast.

Sheriff Wyatt Collins and his deputies are on the case. Now, if they can just keep Landry from trying to help and causing danger to herself.

Jasmine Bloom’s manager, and late Aunt Tildie’s best friend, Ms. Millie and Landry get into all kinds of zany situations as they try to help solve the case.

Army veteran Mason Sharpe’s world is destroyed when his fiancé is shot dead. He goes to the North Carolina town where they had planned to honeymoon.

Alone on a beach, he sees a body wash ashore.
The police say accidental death – Mason doesn’t buy it.

Mason won’t be pushed around. He’ll deal with this problem the only way he knows: Point Blank.

Category: Thrillers – Crime

Known as con artist royalty, Leroy “Pops” Amadeus Logan, is the master of the long con. But his daughter, Dani Silver, is out to become THE greatest living con artist and prove that you can do well AND do good, by cheating people who really—really—deserve it. Fans of heist and caper movies will love this series.

Category: Mystery – Women Sleuths

Charlie North has three severely pressing problems.

The cops think he murdered his three old girlfriends. They want him to fry.

Can he catch the killers before the cops—or the killers—catch him?

Cornered, Charlie investigates the murders. He hires a stunning private detective, the daughter of a retired LAPD friend. As they dig up clues, Charlie dutifully reports their findings in his blogs, naming names, naming everything.

The blogs go wildly viral! It’s like putting the investigations of all three murders on a sizzling griddle. (Spoiler: killers and cops don’t like that.)

There is a rousing finish at a lonely Oregon beach house. Justice prevails in strange ways.

This is a fast read. Old guys like things fast.

Category: Mystery – Cozy

Kurt persuades his new bride Johanna to move from Europe to Australia, in search of a better future. The eventually locate in an opal mining town deep in the outback.
Alone and isolated from their friends in Sydney, Kurt’s true nature unfolds. He exploits Johanna’s love and forces her to help him dig obsessively for the legendary black opal, using increasingly sadistic methods.
Johanna is at the mercy of her husband, and her fate seems sealed—unless she kills him first.

Category: Thrillers – Psychological

The mystery begins with an unusual find in the secret compartment of Doug’s new Corvette, changing his and Catherine’s life forever. Doug’s mysterious behavior afterward forces Catherine to escape to The Osprey Cove Lodge, where she finds something even more valuable. The series is uniquely written, spanning seven geographic locations, from the scenic Canadian region of the Rideau Lakes to the beautiful shores of the Caribbean. An exciting web of mystery develops as the characters’ lives intertwine. The description of the lodge is so inviting that you will want to pack your bags and head there.

Category: Mystery – Cozy