Deal : Mystery

FIVE STAR PBR BOOK REVIEW... Snowden impresses with his exceptional collection of eight deeply poignant stories in his latest. A decades-old unsavory act sets the stage for a hard-edged businessman’s transformation into a sympathetic person weighed down with guilt and shame in “Yesterday’s Giant.” Snowden’s prose is assured as he takes readers into a long-dead artisan glassmaker’s quest to fulfilling his wish in “Snowfall in Venice.” In “Never in Time,” a time travel tale with a dash of paranormal, Snowden traces a computer repair shop owner’s journey of longing and mystery as he sets on to free a beautiful, young...

Richard Kurtz is a surgeon with a growing practice, a luxury apartment on the East Side of Manhattan and a beautiful girlfriend. Lew Barent is a police detective. He has chronic migraine headaches, a son-in-law he can barely stand and a job that he's looking forward to leaving. Kurtz and Barent have solved two improbable murders at Easton Medical Center and neither of them are expecting a third, but when elderly philanthropist Eleanor Herbert dreams that she's witnessed a murder and a young hospital administrator is found strangled, Kurtz and Barent are drawn into a twisted tale of greed, conspiracy...

Richart Kurtz has the typical surgeon’s deep-seated mania for control and right now, too many things are happening, none of which make sense. His most recent patient, an undercover cop, has had his brain scrambled by a sniper’s bullet. Another patient is dying because an incompetent colleague made one mistake too many. A third patient got hit by a car after OD’ing on a new, unknown narcotic, and Steven Hayward and his wife, both drug dealers, were found dead in bed with their detached heads propped up on the kitchen counter. Not that any of this is Kurtz’ business. Kurtz...

Buyer beware. To create excitement, Ruger, a shady dealer at the annual rendezvous flea market, puts up for auction a locked Civil War trunk with contents to be sold sight unseen! That night, the highest bidder, Zeke Jones, is found stabbed to death beside the trunk. Sheriff Jeff McQuede believes Jones has interrupted a robbery in progress. Several people had offered to buy old coins, photos, and medals from him, which indicates to McQuede that Jones had already sold what the robber had been after. Acts of vandalism follow as the thief continues his ruthless search. Baffled, McQuede must beat...

It is 1973 and Peter Wilson, a young reporter working in Oxford, is in hospital recovering from a car accident. During his stay, he becomes friendly with a young Persian nurse, who tells him a mysterious story, casting doubt upon the true parentage of the child of a wealthy young couple. Forty years later, whilst attending a dinner party in Hampstead, Wilson unexpectedly comes across a photograph of the nurse. Remembering the story she told him in Oxford, he decides to investigate along with his old friend Mathew Phillips-Lehman. A sometimes tragic story unfolds involving a Tory grandee, his elegant...

Everyone’s a criminal, but not every crime is illegal... A legendary bank robber who knocked off ten banks with his crew before the FBI caught him, Robert Hood has done his time—fifteen long years of it. Finally out of jail, he’s finished with a life of crime. Now all he wants is to find a decent job, a good woman, and his happily ever after. With the help of his younger brother, who’s offered him a place to stay, Robert has faith he’ll make it. Instead, his brother wants him gone as soon as possible, and he quickly realizes a...

"A compulsively readable suspense thriller... An investigation into a series of many deliberate fires in a row puts the investigative journalist Maxwell Muggs on the trail of a maniac killer in Snowden’s gripping latest. Maxwell Muggs, an investigative reporter and a recovering gambler, gets involved in a case of suspicious fires around the city. Paired with Scarlett Sympson, an investigator with Albuquerque Fire Department, Maxwell begins to dig deeper into the case. By the time Maxwell and Scarlett realize how the case relates to a deeper conspiracy at city hall, they are the next targets. Multidimensional, memorable characters enliven the...

In 1945, a mysterious killer has been lurking in plain sight in the small town of Reckon, Texas. When student pastor Big Roy Goodson moves in, he is thrust into the abduction of a local Japanese girl. Reluctantly, he will have to lay down his Bible and pick up the badge of Sheriff to bring the Kokalo killer to justice. 99 Cent Bargain Book from May 13 - June 7, 2021

When Henry Hetherington-Busby discovered that the nursing home of choice for his mother was full, he hit upon a staggeringly simple solution. Where no vacancy existed he would create one. An unexpected death in a nursing home would not arouse suspicions. After all, they are God’s waiting rooms and the Grim Reaper is never far away. He approached the task with optimism, but murder can be as life changing for the perpetrator as it is for the victim. In his endeavours to commit the perfect murder, Henry’s mundane and predictable life as a small town accountant would change forever. In...

The Twin Paradox - INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER With ten years passing for every three minutes on a remote stretch of Texas coast, planes fall out of the sky, evolved species are on the hunt, and people die inside one of the most vicious ecosystems ever grown--all a result of the government's efforts to slow down time. A lot can happen in ten years. That's the point. Governments are always racing for supremacy, for scientific breakthroughs, for technological advantages--and these things take time. Until something goes wrong. With the grounded yet massive world-building of READY PLAYER ONE, thrilling scientific questions of JURASSIC...