Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for September 6, 2023

A boarding school steeped in tradition.
A killer cloaked in darkness.
A campus paralyzed in fear.

For Detective Forrest, evil has a distinctive smell. When a young girl is found murdered, strung from a tree at a local boarding school, Forrest fears a connection to French revolution-era savagery.

But who among the students or teachers is capable of such dark evil?

Sara Damsgaard is in debt, newly widowed, and desperate to provide for her younger sister. Her new position as a boarding school headmistress seems like the perfect fresh start. If it weren’t for the brutal attacks sweeping through the student body.

To save the school, Forrest and Damsgaard teams up to catch the killer.

When the trail of clues takes an unexpected turn, they come face-to-face with a sinister school tradition with the power to call forth a new reign of terror.

If you like confounding mysteries, a little romance, and a hardboiled detective, then you’ll love Willow Rose’s suspenseful whodunit.

Category: Mystery – Police Procedurals

Nineteen women on a university cross-country team embark on a routine eight-mile run. Only eighteen women finish. Days later, the police find the nineteenth, Andie Sheridan, buried in a shallow grave near the route. The police, the university, and the community cannot understand how someone could attack and murder a woman running in a group. The community braces for more attacks, but none occur.

Seamus O’Neill, an out-of-work local rock & roll musician and part-time detective, takes an interest in the case and in the victim. Seamus bounces between brewpubs, bars, and rock & roll shows, gaining an understanding of the victim and of the crime. He creates a theory that identifies the killer and explains why there were no witnesses. Yet he has no proof.

Can Seamus O’Neill prove who killed Andie Sheridan?

Category: Mystery – Private Investigators

Captivated by Sean’s charm on Tinder, I ignore reservations and dive into passion. But glaring red flags surface, revealing horrifying secrets in his house—escape impossible.

Category: Thrillers – Psychological

Everyone said she had her father’s eyes. A killer’s eyes. Nadia knew that on the bitterly cold streets of Moscow, she could never escape her past – but in just a few days, she would finally be free.

Bound to work for Russian Mafia boss Kadinsky for five years, Nadia has one last mission to complete. Yet when she is instructed to capture The Rose, a military weapon shrouded in secrecy, the heist goes badly wrong. Nadia finds herself trapped in a deadly game of global espionage, on the run from MI6, the CIA and the Russian Mob, all of whom will kill to get their hands on the Rose.

***** “An easy, gritty, unputdownable read!”

***** “The closest you’ll get to Scuba diving without getting wet!”

***** “The author’s knowledge of diving came across on every page, and his fast-paced plot – plus his understanding of security techniques and sleuthing – kept me watching for the next story twist all the way across the Atlantic. ”

***** “Nadia is a strong, feisty woman, with secrets, with attitude. Readers will love her from the beginning.”

Category: Thrillers – Espionage

Did his book raise the dead?

Outraged when The Post Gazette overlooks him for a well-deserved promotion, 43-year-old Sports Writer Christian Kane quits the Paper and moves to the country to write fiction.

Inspiration flows from a lone grave he stumbles upon in the woods. He compiles “The Legend of Rachel Petersen,” a fascinating story revolving around the dead twelve-year-old girl laid to rest beneath the weathered tombstone. His book quickly becomes a Best Seller; then Hollywood turns it into a blockbuster movie. Kane becomes rich and famous. But then? Does an enraged Rachel become more than a figment of the writer’s imagination? Does she rise from her grave to seek revenge on Kane for slandering her name?

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Category: Suspense

Everyone has something to hide—and someone has nothing to lose …

Nia Bryant has waited her entire life for this moment—the day when she and her line sisters are revealed as the newest members of Kappa Theta Theta sorority. It’s supposed to be the happiest day of her life … except Nia Bryant is missing …

With no clues left behind except for her abandoned car, Detective Chris Evans and his partner have very little to go on when they receive the assignment. The case makes national headlines, and the detectives know that they only have one chance to get this right. Nia Bryant isn’t your typical victim, and girls like her don’t just disappear—at least not by choice.

But as they start to peel back the layers of her life, they discover that the missing student has secrets of her own—secrets that give several people motive to want her gone.

Lies, betrayals, and long buried secrets are unearthed—revealing a twisted crime rooted in revenge that no one saw coming.

Category: Mystery – African American