Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Dear Miss Demeanor
Joan Hess
Kindle 0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Amateur sleuth Claire Malloy heads back to school in a delightful whodunit from the author Sharyn McCrumb calls “the patron saint of comic mystery.” Agatha Award–Winning Author At Farberville High, it’s reading, writing . . . and murder.
Who knows what evil lurks in the halls of Farbervilles’ high school—or what blackmail is hidden in Miss Demeanor’s Falcon Crier advice column? Certainly not bookstore owner and amateur sleuth Claire Malloy—until her daughter persuades her to substitute for disgraced column editor and journalism teacher Emily Parchester. Surely Miss Parchester cannot be guilty of embezzlement.
O’Henry
t.g. brown
Kindle 0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A TALE OF MURDER, MADNESS AND POLITICAL INTRIGUE . . . Spring of 2003. After spending eleven months at the Vandenberg Psychiatric Hospital of Massachusetts, Josh Ingram, once a decorated FBI profiler is released back into society.
Present day. While out learning to noodle for catfish in the Louisiana Bayou, Ingram gets notice the FBI is looking for him. O’Henry, a serial killer who once plagued New York City, has resurfaced. Recently promoted (against the wishes of her new boss) to head an FBI Special Crimes Unit in Lower East Side Manhattan, Rachael Tanner, driven, focused and willful, is given the O’Henry file.
Pain Point (Aiden McCrae Thrillers Book 2)
E.S. Hobbs
Kindle 0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
There’s dangerous. There’s lethal. And then there’s McCrae. Aiden McCrae was an enforcer for the mob. Until the mob betrayed him—burying him in Stateville for murders he didn’t commit. Now a judge has granted him an off-the-books release, sending him home to find out who’s flooding the streets of his old neighborhood with dope.
The answer wears a white coat. A doctor who preaches wellness is hooking patients on Oxy. Then he cuts their prescriptions and feeds them to street dealers waiting outside. Behind it all: the Commission. The same criminal outfit that left McCrae for dead.
The Night Train
Sharon Bolton
Kindle 2.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Return to the worlds of The Craftsman and Lacey Flint in this first short story collection from Sharon Bolton, International award-winning author of The Split. This collection features eight short stories, each with a new introduction written by the author as well as the first three chapters of Sharon Bolton’s latest novel The Pact.
From the world of the Craftsman The Night Train Alive! All Souls’ Eve From the world of Lacey Flint Mugwort and Moonbeams Lacey’s Wedding From the world of Dead Woman Walking Time Travel, Flight and Invisibility In a world of its own…
Cadillac Wheels
Scott Saxberg
Kindle 0.99 Rating: 5.00 #ad
A country music singer trying to outrun tragedy. A businessman eager to make him pay for his crime. Haunted by the tragic accident that claimed his girlfriend’s life, Tanner Banks is stuck on luck’s bad side, busking on the streets with only his notebooks and his guitar.
That is until he meets Jack Strong, a successful businessman with a painful past of his own. Tanner’s voice stirs Jack’s memory of his son, Aiden—murdered years ago—and compels him to help the street performer catch a break.
Capital Crimes
Jonathan Kellerman and Faye Kellerman
Kindle 1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Internationally bestselling husband and wife Jonathan and Faye Kellerman team up for a powerful one-two punch with Capital Crimes, a gripping pair of original crime thrillers. MY SISTER’S KEEPER: BERKELEY Some of progressive state representative Davida Grayson’s views have made her unpopular.
Although her foes are numerous no one suspects that any buttons Davida might push could evoke deadly force. But now Davida lies brutally murdered in her office, and Berkeley homicide detectives Will Barnes and Amanda Isis must unravel Davida’s complex, before the killer pulls off a repeat performance.
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
Kindle 2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
A lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this “propulsive” (Entertainment Weekly), cinematic thriller full of suspense, humor, and fascinating science—from the author of The Martian.
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time.
Hard News (Rune Trilogy Book 3)
Jeffery Deaver
Kindle 1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
From the bestselling author of the Bone Collector novels, soon to be an NBC series Rune is an aspiring filmmaker with more ambition than political savvy, paying her dues as an assistant cameraperson for the local news. But she’s got her eyes on the prize, the network’s hot newsmagazine, Current Events—and she’s got the story she knows will get her there.
Poking around in the video archives, Rune spots a taped interview with Randy Boggs, who’s doing hard time in Attica for a murder he claims he didn’t commit. Rune can’t say exactly why, but she’s sure he’s innocent.
Hoping on Change
Danae Little
Kindle 0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
She came to Hope Lake for a fresh start. He fell for her. Now he’ll have to protect her from a man who wants her for himself. Megan Murray moves to Hope Lake to be near her best friend, but unsettling letters follow her into the new life she’s trying to build.
Then a broken-down car leaves her stranded on a dark mountain road, and the injured cowboy who comes to her rescue is the last man she expects to want.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Antique Blues
Jane K. Cleland
Kindle 2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Ever-crafty Josie must confront suspicious antiques dealers and her own friend’s killer in Antique Blues, the twelfth mystery in Jane K. Cleland’s beloved Josie Prescott Antiques Mystery series set in New Hampshire.
When amateur sleuth and antiques expert Josie Prescott is called in to appraise a Japanese woodblock print and vintage guitar for her friend Mo, she’s thrilled—until Mo is murdered. It doesn’t take her long to pinpoint one suspect: Mo’s sister’s manipulative boyfriend, who sold her the print—and has now, conveniently, disappeared.
Tokyo Express
Seicho Matsumoto
Kindle 1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
From “Japan’s Agatha Christie” (The Sunday Times): A secluded bay. An apparent lovers’ suicide. And a pair of detectives with a nagging suspicion that the pieces don’t add up. Can you solve one of the most astonishing literary puzzles ever written?
“An irresistible Hitchcockian gem: a fiendishly plotted crime novel told in crisp, elegant prose.”—Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train In a rocky cove at Hakata Bay, the bodies of a young and beautiful couple are discovered.
Unnatural History
Jonathan Kellerman
Kindle 2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The iconic thriller series that inspired the upcoming streaming show on Prime Video, in development now! The most enduring detectives in American crime fiction are back in this electrifying novel of art and brutality from the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense.
Los Angeles is a city of stark contrast, the palaces of the affluent coexisting uneasily with the hellholes of the mad and the needy. That shadow world and the violence it breeds draw brilliant psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis into an unsettling case of altruism gone wrong.
The Dark Remains
William McIlvanney and Ian Rankin
Kindle 1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
In this prequel to the hit series, Glasgow’s gritty detective probes the murder of a gangland lawyer as tensions rise in the city’s underworld. Lawyer Bobby Carter did a lot of work for the wrong kind of people.
When his body is found in an alley behind a pub that is known to be under the protective wing of a local crime boss, the fragile equilibrium that has been keeping Glasgow relatively safe for months is shattered. Besides a distraught family and any number of powerful friends, Carter has left behind his fair share of enemies.
Slow Dawn
Ralph Hecht
Kindle 0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
A coastal gothic nightmare for fans of dangerous magic, seductive monsters, cursed bloodlines, haunted libraries, secret societies, threshold law, supernatural justice, dark desire, witchy atmosphere, and beautiful terror.
Maria Hellstrom does not become safe when she awakens, she becomes seen, wanted, hunted, tested, and crowned by a house that remembers every sin. Read it for the fog. Stay for the hunger. Fear the door that opens back. Maria Hellstrom thought silence was the thing she feared most.
Tonight and Always
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A story of misplaced expectations and unexpected passion from #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts.
For a change of pace, renowned anthropologist Kasey Wyatt takes a job working for bestselling author Jordan Taylor, who needs helps researching his latest novel about the Plains Indians.
Upon arriving at Jordan’s impressive Palm Springs estate, Kasey finds all the trappings of a family, but none of the warmth. Jordan’s forbidding mother is immediately suspicious of her, while Jordan’s shy and serious orphaned niece represses her curiosity. Jordan himself is an expert at hiding his emotions behind an aristocratic facade.
A Season of Secrets
Fern Michaels
Kindle 8.54 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
In search of long-lost family and a little holiday magic, a young woman and her adopted mother go on a once-in-a-lifetime trip to London for Christmas in this humorous, heartwarming standalone novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels.
Signing up for an ancestry report starts as a fun diversion for Ashley Chandler, but the results throw her life into upheaval. Ashley is not biologically related to the people she’s always assumed were her parents. Finally, the truth emerges—Ashley was adopted, and her real birth family is in England.
Depths of Deception
Stacy Angell Curtis
Kindle 0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Her parents are dead. And Bryn Marsh doesn’t want to believe allegations from the FBI about her deceased mother. Then her uncle reveals an old secret. And her world turns upside down.
Jack McKerrick would do anything to protect Bryn—as her billionaire uncle’s head of security and as a man who wants to spend the rest of his life with her. But when a nineteenth-century corpse and new deadly threats collide with a Cat 4 hurricane, Jack will need a miracle to keep Bryn alive.
Children of Demise
by Shannon Elliott
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
The West Valley neighborhood in Louisville, Kentucky, has descended into chaos due to a gang called the Children of Demise (COD) led by Typhon, a brilliant but dangerous leader rumored to be the frontman for The Victor, a mythical figure who controls all crime in the city.
Pastor Don Whitaker leads Lincoln Street Baptist Church, located in the center of this urban war zone. With his congregation leaving in droves, Don and the church board find their hold on the church property and their community deteriorating. When Reginald Hall, a criminal defense lawyer, city councilman, and mayoral-hopeful, fails in his attempts to buy the church grounds through his real estate group, he makes clear he will stop at nothing to achieve his ambition.
Mistake in Time
by Anna Faversham
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
For 21st century career girl Liberty Taffet, the idea of making a catastrophic mistake is unthinkable. To get away from two-timing heartbreaker Dr Nicolo Nylander, she sets off to visit Regency England. She knows the secret, she’s done her research – what could possibly go wrong?
Landing in London’s Swinging Sixties pursued by two unknown men and unable to remember who she is wasn’t in the plan. Yet what fun to see madcap fashions and even a piano being played in the middle of Carnaby Street. Then more problems arise and staying in this wonderful life of fun and colour becomes increasingly impossible.



















