Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for September 27, 2023

When a routine dog walk leads to a violent discovery, criminology student Jenna Stack finds herself caught in a web of international intrigue. Can she discover the truth and expose the assassins? Or will she die trying?

Twenty-six-year-old Jenna Stack is having a terrible day. After dumping her cheating boyfriend Liam, she moves in with her best friend Dave, and accepts a job with his high-end pet-sitting service. But in the glittering world of New York society, things are not always as they seem. When Max the bulldog drags Jenna into the middle of a brutal mugging, she becomes an unwitting target in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse. With varying degrees of help and interference from a brilliant professor, handsome client, hipster hacker, arrogant cop, and enigmatic FBI agent, Jenna must hone her skills, face her fears, and learn to trust her instincts before she ends up dead.

The Deadliest Lead is a fast-paced thriller full of unexpected twists. If you like action, intrigue, and a healthy dose of humor, you’ll love this page-turner by Hanna Wren.

Category: Mystery – Series

If you like Mark Dawson, Steven Leather, Robert Ludlum’s Jason Bourne and Lee Child’s Jack Reacher, you will love this heart-stopping thriller.

A violent encounter forces Jack Kane to emerge from a life in hiding, where he had hoped his wife and children would be safe. He must go on the run and fight for the lives of those he holds most dear.

Category: Thrillers – Crime

Stephanie Silkwood goes overboard into the Amazon River on a luxury cruise with her husband and their two friends. She hits her head and when she comes to on the deck of the boat, she can’t remember anything about what happened right before she went overboard except one thing: someone pushed her.

She suspects her husband and as they cruise deeper into the Amazon, she starts to think her traveling companions might have had something to do with it as well. Tensions rise and old resentments and secrets threaten to destroy them all.

On an overnight trip into the jungle, the four travelers find themselves at an ayahuasca retreat and things go sideways when Stephanie begins to remember all that she has forgotten.

And not everyone is going to make it out of the jungle alive.

Category: Thrillers – Psychological

Welcome to Las Vegas – and a series of cupcakes-and-crime mysteries! Cupcake-loving croupier Tiffany tries to solve four murders (and a daring art heist!) in this box set of four bestselling books. Her match-making mother and poker-playing Nanna insist on “helping” her out, as does her new friend and neighbor, Ian Ewanson.

Category: Mystery – Cozy

Prepare To Be Hooked: A Cupcakes-And-Crime Caper!

A poker-hustling grandma, a mysterious bodyguard, and intimidating casino henchmen: can Tiffany Black navigate the dangerous web of secrets to uncover the truth behind casino-mogul Ethan Becker’s death?

Category: Mystery – Cozy

Fifteen-year-old Justin Billings wants nothing more than to break the destructive chain of enmeshment clouding his deliberately sheltered adolescence. However, autonomy is fiercely chastised in the Billings household. Justin’s newfound dignity threatens his scheming single-mother Wendy’s benefit scam, of which Justin’s fabricated autism diagnosis serves as an integral cog.

Whether forced into spending time with unsavoury babysitters, or following Wendy on her endeavours, Justin lives a burdensome life. Never fully welcome, wherever he goes. Being the only kid at school without a mobile phone only adds to his isolation.

Determined to flee Wendy’s unbearable psychological abuse, Justin wittingly enters the north Wales care system. Unbeknown to him, only compounding his brittle vulnerability. While desperate for independence, engrained self-abhorrence sees him perpetually preyed on by society’s wolves. Local tearaway and fellow resident, Darcy Quinney, sniffs his diffidence from a mile off, and gleefully assumes Wendy’s puppeteer role.

Category: Thrillers – Crime