Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Genie and the Ghost
by Carmen Radtke
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Small town secrets never die. Neither do murdered flappers.
New York jewelry designer Genie Darling has returned to her childhood home in quaint Cobblewood Cove for one reason only: to sort through generations of old family heirlooms and hand anything of historical interest over to the local museum.
But after a failed mugging attempt, and the appearance of a beautiful but ghostly young stranger in a vintage evening dress, Genie realises there’s something suspicious – and spooky – going on.
The glamorous and friendly spectre turns out to be Genie’s own great-great-aunt Adriana, who died in 1929 in mysterious circumstances…
Never Flinch
by Stephen King
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
From Stephen King, “a writer of towering brilliance” (The Spectator), a “cinematic, brilliant” (The New York Times) psychological thriller exploring vigilante justice and a diabolical serial killer—featuring the beloved Holly Gibney and a dynamic new cast of characters.
When the Buckeye City Police Department receives a disturbing letter from a person threatening to “kill thirteen innocents and one guilty” in “an act of atonement for the needless death of an innocent man,” Detective Izzy Jaynes has no idea what to think. Are fourteen citizens about to be slaughtered in an unhinged act of retribution? Izzy turns to her friend Holly Gibney for help.
Point of Origin
by Patricia Cornwell
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The devastating fire tore through the horse farm, destroying everything it touched. Picking through the wreckage, Dr. Kay Scarpetta uncovers human remains—the work of an audacious and wily killer who uses fire to mask his brutal murders. And when Scarpetta learns that her old nemesis, Carrie Grethen, has escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is somehow involved, the investigation becomes personal.
Tragedy strikes close to home. And Scarpetta must match Grethen’s every move with one of her own to douse the inferno of evil that threatens everyone around her. . . .
The Tin Men
by Nelson DeMille, Alex DeMille
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At a top-secret Army training facility in the Mojave Desert, Special Agents Scott Brodie and Maggie Taylor plunge into a deadly web of military intrigue, AI technology, and robot soldiers as they unravel the shocking murder of a senior scientist in this gripping thriller from New York Times bestselling authors of Bloodlines.
Army CID Special Agents Scott Brodie and Maggie Taylor team up for their toughest assignment yet as they are dispatched to Camp Hayden to investigate the death of Major Roger Ames, the chief scientist in charge of the top-secret war games being conducted between a platoon of Army Rangers and a fleet of “lethal autonomous weapons.” Brodie and Taylor find themselves at ground zero of the next generation of warfare, and must untangle the complex web of alliances, animosities, and secret agendas among the men and women of the isolated facility
Ordinary Grace
by William Kent Krueger
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“That was it. That was all of it. A grace so ordinary there was no reason at all to remember it. Yet I have never across the forty years since it was spoken forgotten a single word.”
New Bremen, Minnesota, 1961. The Twins were playing their debut season, ice-cold root beers were selling out at the soda counter of Halderson’s Drugstore, and Hot Stuff comic books were a mainstay on every barbershop magazine rack. It was a time of innocence and hope for a country with a new, young president. But for thirteen-year-old Frank Drum it was a grim summer in which death visited frequently and assumed many forms. Accident. Nature. Suicide. Murder. From New York Times bestselling author William Kent Krueger, a brilliant new novel about a young man, a small town, and murder in the summer of 1961.
Night People
by Eric Wilder
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
No one is who they seem
Private Investigator Wyatt Thomas takes a seductive journey through the dark, glittering streets of New Orleans, where passion and danger collide. Wyatt is no stranger to the Crescent City’s secrets, but when a mysterious voodoo mambo draws him into the heart of the French Quarter’s underworld, he finds himself entangled in a web of deceit, lust, and murder. As the nights grow hotter, so do the stakes, and Wyatt must navigate the twisted desires of the city’s most dangerous inhabitants. But in the world of the Night People, no one is who they seem—and Wyatt is playing a game that could cost him more than just his heart.
Silent Centurion
by William Pickrel
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Some relics heal. Some relics are weapons. The nails that pinned Christ to the cross are both.
Dr. Daniel Rowan has spent his life chasing a vindication that keeps slipping away — a historian ruined by his own obsession, left with the one thing his father died believing in: the Mercer Journal, the account of a Roman centurion who stood at the foot of the cross, watched a man die, and could not stay silent about what he saw.
The world calls Longinus a legend. Daniel’s research says he was real — and that the iron nails he guarded carry a power no laboratory can explain and no empire has ever stopped hunting.
The Witness
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Daughter of a cold, controlling mother and an anonymous donor, studious, obedient Elizabeth Fitch finally let loose one night, drinking too much at a nightclub and allowing a strange man’s seductive Russian accent to lure her to a house on Lake Shore Drive.
Twelve years later, the woman now known as Abigail Lowery lives alone on the outskirts of a small town in the Ozarks. A freelance security systems designer, her own protection is supplemented by a fierce dog and an assortment of firearms. She keeps to herself, saying little, revealing nothing. Unfortunately, that seems to be the quickest way to get attention in a tiny southern town.
Alien Allure
by Hope Callaghan
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After a group of spy and alien enthusiasts descend on the small town of Belhaven, a child is abducted, prompting Gloria & the Garden Girls to investigate.
“If you like clean cozy mysteries that keep you guessing until the end, you’ll love Hope Callaghan books!”
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Unwanted Significance
by Renée Ozburn
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When race and ethnicity mean nothing to a man and woman in love-but everything to their families-everyone gets hurt.
In 1995, when Tyler Carson and Alana Adler meet, their chemistry is instant. He’s a psychology professor. She’s a linguist and musician. Both are 38. He is White. She is Black. Neither has made much time for serious relationships, until a train trip changes their trajectory.
But their growing passion, played out in atmospheric settings from Cape Cod to San Francisco and Montana to New York, is no match for the intergenerational forces working to tear them apart…
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Judge a Murder by Its Cover
by Annalisa Russo
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A pregnant woman on the run. An invisible foe. A body count of two… so far.
1928 Chicago. Court reporter Belle Stefano escapes from her San Francisco home, where a growing shadow of danger looms after her husband’s death. She leaves immediately, zigzagging across the country by rail and bus until she arrives at her Uncle Archibald’s mansion on the city’s affluent south side. Although Archie welcomes her and her unborn child, she feels she must keep moving to outrun her enemy, yet she’s desperate for answers.
Stone is an agent with the newly launched Special Bureau of Investigation, a covert agency that has taken on Belle’s case. As an established bachelor, Stone thinks Belle, who is six months along, can’t be ‘the one’ he’s been waiting for his whole life. Though he’s tempted to spend some time finding out.
If You Tell
by Gregg Olsen
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After more than a decade, when sisters Nikki, Sami, and Tori Knotek hear the word mom, it claws like an eagle’s talons, triggering memories that have been their secret since childhood. Until now.
For years, behind the closed doors of their farmhouse in Raymond, Washington, their sadistic mother, Shelly, subjected her girls to unimaginable abuse, degradation, torture, and psychic terrors. Through it all, Nikki, Sami, and Tori developed a defiant bond that made them far less vulnerable than Shelly imagined. Even as others were drawn into their mother’s dark and perverse web, the sisters found the strength and courage to escape an escalating nightmare that culminated in multiple murders.
The Sigma Protocol
by Robert Ludlum
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From a #1 New York Times–bestselling author, an agent escapes a hospital where the government held him hostage and finds he’s not the man he thinks he is.
On Parrish Island, a restricted island off the coast of Virginia, is a little-known and never-visited psychiatric facility. There, far from prying eyes, the government stores former intelligence employees whose psychiatric states make them a danger to their own government, people whose ramblings might endanger ongoing operations or prove dangerously inconvenient. One of these employees, former Consular Operations agent Hal Ambler, is kept heavily medicated and closely watched. But there’s one difference between Hal and the other patients—Hal isn’t crazy. With the help of a sympathetic nurse, Hal manages to clear his mind of the drug-induced haze and then pulls off a daring escape.
Destroyer Angel
by Nevada Barr
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Anna Pigeon, a ranger for the U.S. Park Services, sets off on vacation—an autumn canoe trip in the to the Iron Range in upstate Minnesota. With Anna is her friend Heath, a paraplegic; Heath’s fifteen-year-old daughter, Elizabeth; Leah, a wealthy designer of outdoor equipment; and her daughter, Katie, who is thirteen. For Heath and Leah, this is a shakedown cruise to test a new cutting edge line of camping equipment. The equipment, designed by Leah, will make camping and canoeing more accessible to disabled outdoorsmen.
On their second night out, Anna goes off on her own for a solo evening float on the Fox River. When she comes back, she finds that four thugs, armed with rifles, pistols, and knives, have taken the two women and their teenaged daughters captive.
Devil’s Knot
by Mara Leveritt
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The West Memphis Three. Accused, convicted…and set free. Do you know their story? A “riveting” (Henry Rollins) exploration of a brutal triple murder and the imprisonment of three innocent teenagers in Arkansas.
In 2011, one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in American legal history was set right when Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley were released after eighteen years in prison. Award-winning journalist Mara Leveritt’s The Devil’s Knot remains the most comprehensive, insightful reporting ever done on the investigation, trials, and convictions of three teenage boys who became known as the West Memphis Three.
What Darkness Brings
by C. S. Harris
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In this mystery in the Sebastian St. Cyr series, the aristocratic investigator is drawn into a sordid world of greed, desperation, and the occult when the husband of his former lover is accused of murder.
Regency England, September 1812: After a long night spent dealing with the tragic death of a former military comrade, a heart-sick Sebastian learns of a new calamity: Russell Yates, the dashing, one-time privateer who married Kat Boleyn a year ago, has been found standing over the corpse of Benjamin Eisler, a wealthy gem dealer. Yates insists he is innocent, but he will surely hang unless Sebastian can unmask the real killer.
The Calleshire Chronicles Volume Five
by Catherine Aird
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A must-have collection of British whodunits featuring Detective Inspector Sloan—from a CWA Diamond Dagger winner and “most ingenious” author (The New Yorker).
Over the course of twenty-four crime novels set in the fictional County of Calleshire, England, and featuring the sleuthing team of shrewd Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan and his less-than-shrewd sidekick, Detective Constable William Crosby, award-winning author Catherine Aird maintained the perfect balance between cozy village mystery and police procedural. These entertaining puzzlers offer “the very best in British mystery” (The New Yorker).
Defy The Stars
by Cathrina Constantine
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Beware of the Stars Foretelling Your Destiny
Circus grunt. Charmer. Fire wrangler
Growing up within the grind of the enchanted Circus Faire, Crew’s unique talents have blossomed. Though, he’s been warned that the King of Hawkswing is determined to eradicate a certain species, and for his own sake Crew must keep his formidable gifts under wraps.
Relations between interspecies caused an imbalance of power and now are strictly forbidden. Dolorans, like Sage and her sister, are being hunted and persecuted because of their intense powers, leaving them no choice but to run, escaping the genocide of their kind…
Forest Home
by Mary Davis Henry, Anne Henry Tidmore
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In the pages of this new and revised edition, which is now called Forest Home The Annals of Ann Fennel Davis, readers can enjoy an eye-opening authentic account of daily life in northern Alabama in the mid-1800’s. There, Ann and her husband Absalom built a family life together that would produce the house Forest Home and generations of family members who would perpetuate Reverend Davis’s and his wife Ann’s faith in God and belief in the strength of nurturing a loving family and the power of serving a neighborly community.
Brought back to life with additional content that expands a contemporary reader’s understanding of those times, Forest Home was produced by the author’s granddaughter Anne Henry Tidmore who is a committed historian and keeper of the flame of faith that abides still in this remarkable family.