Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks

Storm Watch

Storm Watch
by C. J. Box
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad

Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett investigates a mysterious death at a secret remote high-tech facility in this riveting new novel from #1 New York Times bestseller C.J. Box. When a prominent University of Wyoming professor goes missing, authorities are stumped.

That is, until Joe Pickett makes two surprising discoveries while hunting down a wounded elk on his district as an epic spring storm descends upon him. First, he finds the professor’s vehicle parked on a remote mountainside. Then Joe finds the professor’s frozen and mutilated body.


One-Hit Wonder

One-Hit Wonder
by Lisa Jewell
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad

First published in 2001, a reissue of #1 New York Times bestseller Lisa Jewell’s third novel, an “inventive and moving” (The Sunday Times, London) novel about a young woman determined to discover the secrets her celebrity half-sister kept after her untimely death.

Bee Beahorn had it all: a successful music career, fabulous friends, and a glamorous celebrity lifestyle. At least, that’s what her estranged half-sister, Ana, had always believed. Their lives were worlds apart. Bee was beautiful, extravagant, and full of life. Ana was awkward, shy, and destined to live in Bee’s shadow.


The Death of Mrs. Westaway

The Death of Mrs. Westaway
by Ruth Ware
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad

On a day that begins like any other, Hal receives a mysterious letter bequeathing her a substantial inheritance. She realizes very quickly that the letter was sent to the wrong person—but also that the cold-reading skills she’s honed as a tarot card reader might help her claim the money.

Soon, Hal finds herself at the funeral of the deceased…where it dawns on her that there is something very, very wrong about this strange situation and the inheritance at the center of a dark family mystery.


Ice Cold

Ice Cold
by Tess Gerritsen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad

A spur-of-the-moment ski trip becomes a bone-chilling nightmare when a wrong turn leaves Boston medical examiner Maura Isles marooned—far from home and help—in the snowbound Wyoming mountains. Seeking shelter from the cold, she and her traveling companions stumble upon Kingdom Come—a remote village of identical houses that seems to have become a ghost town overnight.

But the abandoned hamlet has dark secrets to tell, and Maura’s party may not be as alone as they think. Days later, word reaches homicide cop Jane Rizzoli that Maura’s charred remains have been found at the scene of a car crash.


Beyond Honor

Beyond Honor
by K.B. Brodsky
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad

A paramilitary operative confronting his grief on a path of retribution. A CIA analyst hunting a conspiracy that leads to the Oval Office. A Russian agent hiding in plain sight.

Jason Matthews’s Red Sparrow meets Jack Carr’s The Terminal List in Beyond Honor, a debut political thriller that plunges readers into a world of international espionage, where loyalty and duty are tested. A man forged by war, paramilitary operative Kevin Rhoads is recruited for a solo extraction mission deep inside Siberia.


A Killer Plot

Spruced up for Murder
by Helen Golden
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad

She thinks he’s a boorish know-it-all. He thinks she’s a pampered princess. Unfortunately, they’re both determined to solve the same murder.

Beatrice, Countess of Rossex, is ready for a fresh start. Helping transform the Events Suite at her family’s country estate should provide exactly that. Then she finds a dead body.

When suspicion falls on Bea’s sister, standing back is no longer an option. The trouble is, the investigation is being led by Detective Chief Inspector Richard Fitzwilliam, an arrogant, infuriating man who seems equally determined to keep Bea out of his way.


Rook Steele

Rook Steele
by Jesse Storm
Kindle $0.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad

They blame the tribes for the bloodshed. Rook Steele knows the truth. A former Army scout, Rook recognizes the work of trained soldiers when he sees it. And the brutal robberies spreading across the Arizona Territory bear the unmistakable mark of a man who knows exactly how to wage war.

That man is Victor Kane – a ruthless Army deserter determined to turn settlers and tribes against each other. When Kane nearly kills Rook and leaves a young orphan in his path, the hunt becomes personal.


The Zig Zag Girl

The Zig Zag Girl
by Elly Griffiths
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad

The chilling debut mystery in the Brighton Mysteries series from Edgar Allen Poe Award-winner Elly Griffiths—author of the Ruth Galloway Mysteries—about a band of magicians who served together in World War II tracking a killer who’s performing their deadly tricks.

Brighton, 1950. A girl is found cut into three sections, and Detective Inspector Edgar Stephens is convinced the killer is mimicking a famous magic trick—the Zig Zag Girl. The inventor of the trick, Max Mephisto, served with Edgar in a special ops group called the Magic Men that used stage illusions to confound the enemy.


Salem Falls

Salem Falls
by Jodi Picoult
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad

Love can redeem a man…but secrets and lies can condemn him. A handsome stranger comes to the sleepy New England town of Salem Falls in hopes of burying his past. Once a prep schoolteacher, Jack St. Bride was destroyed when a student’s crush sparked a powder keg of accusation.

Now, washing dishes for Addie Peabody at the Do-Or-Diner, he slips quietly into his new routine, and Addie finds this unassuming man fitting easily inside her heart. But amid the rustic calm of Salem Falls, a quartet of teenage girls harbor dark secrets—and they maliciously launch a modern-day witch hunt.

Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks

State of Terror
by Louise Penny & Hillary Rodham Clinton
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad

After a tumultuous period in American politics, a new administration has just been sworn in, and to everyone’s surprise the president chooses a political enemy for the vital position of secretary of state.

There is no love lost between the president of the United States and Ellen Adams, his new secretary of state. But it’s a canny move on the part of the president. With this appointment, he silences one of his harshest critics, since taking the job means Adams must step down as head of her multinational media conglomerate.


Blood Justice
by Tom Henderson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad

The True Story of Multiple Murder and a Family’s Revenge

A husband’s anguish, a son’s suspicion, a killer’s secret. The true crime account of Jeffrey Gorton, the Michigan murderer who lived under the radar.

In 1991, flight attendant Nancy Ludwig checked in to an airport hotel near Detroit. The next morning she was found gagged, raped, and tortured—her throat slit with such rage that she was nearly decapitated. Her husband Arthur never gave up hope that the future would bring enough evidence to close the case. But it was the past that held the clue.


Fire Between Two Skies
by R. F. Whong
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad

Across centuries—power and peril—one fire endures. Two eras. One relentless quest for truth amid desires and temptation. Across the centuries, two men are bound by parallel destinies that echo through time. Book 3 of this dual-time odyssey delves deep into the passions and struggles that connect their worlds.

In 2022 Hong Kong, Jason Guan, after losing his job as an assistant supervisor for wetland conservation, joins his uncle’s real-estate business. A chance meeting with his high school classmate, Vivian Jiang, draws him into a web of secrecy, seduction, and moral compromise.


She’s the Missing Sister Complete Series Box Set
by Jacie Middlemann
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad

Lieutenant Ethan Hendricks greatest nightmare just also happens to be his grandfather’s newest business venture. Logan Hendricks is thrilled about his brand new detective agency’s first case, but things weren’t turning out the way they were supposed to, including the attempted murder of one of his brand new employees.

But he figures their next case, which involves finding a missing sister, should go a lot smoother. How dangerous could it be?


A New Eternity Boxed Set One
by C.R. Rowenson & Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad

Home is where the spawn point is. Topha survives the brutal Trial of Wires to become an External—an immortal adventurer in the endless worlds of the Singularity. Her reward: a gorgeous new planet with no other Externals in sight, locals who sentence her to death, and one hungry, sharp-tongued serpent made of vines.

Topha’s last chance starts in five…four…three… A chance at immortality, an unpopular world, and hidden forces that want you gone. What’s not to love?


Dark Rivers of the Heart
by Dean Koontz
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad

A man and a woman meet by chance in a bar. Suddenly they are fleeing the long arm of a clandestine and increasingly powerful renegade government agency — the woman hunted for the information she possesses, the man mistaken as her comrade in a burgeoning resistance movement.

The architect of the chase is a man of uncommon madness and cruelty — ruthless, possibly psychotic, and equipped with a vast technological arsenal. He is the brazen face of an insidiously fascistic future. And he is virtually unstoppable. But he has never before come up against the likes of his current quarry.


Trad Wife
by Saratoga Schaefer
Kindle $9.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad

Every #tradwife needs a baby. She’ll get one at any cost.

When Camille Deming isn’t cooking, cleaning, or homesteading in her picture-perfect country farmhouse, she’s posting about her tradwife lifestyle for her online followers. She takes inspiration from other tradwives on social media, aspiring to be like them, but Camille’s missing a key component: a baby. And contrary to what she posts online, things with her husband, Graham, have been strained. Pressured by her eager followers, Camille fears that without a baby, her relationship will suffer and her social media will never grow out of its infancy.


When You Are Mine
by Michael Robotham
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad

Philomena McCarthy is an ambitious police officer with the elite Metropolitan Police in London, responding to a domestic violence call. Tempe Brown is a bloodied young woman and the mistress of a decorated and intimidating London detective, Darren Goodall.

Philomena and Tempe strike up a tentative friendship, determined to protect each other from Goodall, but something isn’t quite right about the stories Tempe tells and the secrets she keeps. Yet the young officer is drawn into Tempe’s world, unsure of what is real or invented.


The Drowning Kind
by Jennifer McMahon
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad

Be careful what you wish for. When Jax receives nine missed calls from her older sister, Lexie, she assumes that it’s just another one of her sister’s episodes. Manic and increasingly out of touch with reality, Lexie has pushed Jax away for over a year.

But the next day, Lexie is dead: drowned in the pool at their grandmother’s estate. When Jax arrives at the house to go through her sister’s things, she learns that Lexie was researching the history of their family and the property.