Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
The Tenant
by Freida McFadden
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
There’s no place like home…
Blake Porter is riding high, until he’s not. Fired abruptly from his job as a VP of marketing and unable to make the mortgage payments on the new brownstone that he shares with his fiancee, he’s desperate to make ends meet.
Enter Whitney. Beautiful, charming, down-to-earth, and looking for a room to rent. She’s exactly what Blake’s looking for. Or is she?
Because something isn’t quite right. The neighbors start treating Blake differently. The smell of decay permeates his home, no matter how hard he scrubs…
Burner
by Mark Greaney
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Court Gentry is caught between the Russian mafia and the CIA in this latest electrifying thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling Gray Man series.
When you kick over a rock, you never know what’s going to crawl out.
Alex Velesky is about to discover that the hard way. He’s stolen records from the Swiss bank that employs him, thinking that he’ll uncover a criminal conspiracy. But he soon finds that he’s tapped into the mother lode of corruption. Before he knows it, he’s being hunted by everyone from the Russian mafia to the CIA.
Dust
by Patricia Cornwell
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
In this novel of “nail-biting suspense” (The Boston Globe) from #1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell, Kay Scarpetta is thrust deep into the dark world of designer drugs, drone technology, organized crime, and shocking corruption at the highest levels.
A body, oddly draped in an unusual cloth, has just been discovered inside the sheltered gates of MIT, and it’s suspected the identity is that of missing computer engineering grad student Gail Shipton, last seen the night before at a trendy Cambridge bar. It appears she’s been murdered, mere weeks before the trial in her $100 million lawsuit against her former financial manager, and Massachusetts Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta doubts it’s a coincidence. She also fears the case may have a connection with her computer genius niece, Lucy.
Trespassers at the Golden Gate
by Gary Krist
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
The sensational, forgotten true story of a woman who murdered her married lover in Gilded Age San Francisco and the trial that epitomized the city’s transformation from raucous frontier town into modern metropolis—from the New York Times bestselling author of Empire of Sin
Shortly before dusk on November 3, 1870, just as the ferryboat El Capitan was pulling away from its slip into San Francisco Bay, a woman clad in black emerged from the shadows and strode across the crowded deck. Reaching under her veil, she drew a small pistol and aimed it directly at a well-dressed man sitting quietly with his wife and children. The woman fired a single bullet into his chest. “I did it and I don’t deny it,” she said when arrested shortly thereafter. “He ruined both myself and my daughter.”
Eden Undone
by Abbott Kahler
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
At the height of the Great Depression, Los Angeles oil mogul George Allan Hancock and his crew of Smithsonian scientists came upon a gruesome scene: two bodies, mummified by the searing heat, on the shore of a remote Galápagos island. For the past four years Hancock and other American elites had traveled the South Seas to collect specimens for scientific research. On one trip to the Galápagos, Hancock was surprised to discover an equally exotic group of humans: European exiles who had fled political and economic unrest, hoping to create a utopian paradise. One was so devoted to a life of isolation that he’d had his teeth extracted and replaced with a set of steel dentures.
What Happened to the Bennetts
by Lisa Scottoline
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Your family has been attacked, never again to be the same.
Now you have to choose between law…and justice.
Jason Bennett is a suburban dad who owns a court-reporting business, but one night, his life takes a horrific turn. He is driving his family home after his daughter’s field hockey game when a pickup truck begins tailgating them, on a dark stretch of road.
Suddenly two men jump from the pickup and pull guns on Jason, demanding the car. A horrific flash of violence changes his life forever.
Starship Express
by John Walker, Ethan Kramer
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Nelson Tuckey tells the best stories in Sunningdale Psychiatric.
Alien worlds. Impossible deliveries. A ship he calls The Lost Princess. Reed is just an orderly, but he listens anyway. The stories keep the old man calm. And besides, everyone knows they’re not true. A space courier locked away on the fourth floor? Please.
Then the old man dies. And leaves Reed a shoebox.
Inside: pages of coded notes written on napkins and torn menus, addressed to “the boy.” Suddenly, the memory games Tuckey made him play don’t feel like games anymore…
Peace Talks
by Jim Butcher
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
HARRY DRESDEN IS BACK AND READY FOR ACTION, in the new entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling Dresden Files.
When the Supernatural nations of the world meet up to negotiate an end to ongoing hostilities, Harry Dresden, Chicago’s only professional wizard, joins the White Council’s security team to make sure the talks stay civil. But can he succeed, when dark political manipulations threaten the very existence of Chicago—and all he holds dear?
The No-End House
by Jeremy Bates
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
In the tradition of Stephen King, Alma Katsu, and Christopher Golden’s evil supernatural twists, two strangers unwittingly volunteer for the ultimate haunted house challenge in Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter.
Nine rooms. Nine tests. One chance to get out alive. No one makes it to the end of The No-End House.
It’s the ultimate haunted house challenge. A crumbling stone mansion nestled in the Gothic Quarter of Barcelona, it may be the best-kept secret in Europe—a little-known attraction featuring nine escape rooms to explore, nine puzzles to solve, and a large cash prize for anyone who makes it to the end. There’s just one catch: no one makes it to the end of The No-End House…
Black Woods, Blue Sky
by Eowyn Ivey
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Birdie’s keeping it together; of course she is. So she’s a little hungover, sometimes, and she has to bring her daughter, Emaleen, to her job waiting tables at an Alaskan roadside lodge, but she’s getting by as a single mother in a tough town. Still, Birdie can remember happier times from her youth, when she was free in the wilds of nature.
Arthur Neilsen, a soft-spoken and scarred recluse who appears in town only at the change of seasons, brings Emaleen back to safety when she gets lost in the woods. Most people avoid him, but to Birdie, he represents everything she’s ever longed for. She finds herself falling for Arthur and the land he knows so well.
Kelan
by Celeste Raye
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
She’s trapped with a monster… until a more dangerous one claims her.
Michelle hides bruises behind a perfect smile, praying her abusive boyfriend won’t go too far—until one brutal night changes everything. When her powerful boss, Kelan, steps in, he doesn’t just save her… he reveals a terrifying secret. Kelan isn’t human.
He’s a dragon warrior from another world, sent to Earth on a mission that could decide the fate of two planets. Protecting
Michelle wasn’t part of the plan—but now she’s his.
September Storm
by Brenda Jernigan
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
It’s the wrong time … the wrong place . . . to fall in love.
When Danielle Kapur, an advertising rep in San Antonio, decides to fly to Sea Horse Island, North Carolina. She figures two things might happen – she will have one last fling with her ex-fiancé who she hasn’t seen in eighteen months or they will figure out their problems and live happily ever after. She wants someone who will commit – not another playboy. What she doesn’t expect is drinking too much and ending up in bed with a stranger.
Adrian Massimino, CEO of Mass Enterprises, stands on the balcony of his beachfront home staring at the dark clouds massing on the horizon…
Murder in Blackfriars
by Jennifer Ashley
Kindle $12.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
In Victorian London, valiant cook and amateur sleuth Kat Holloway must help the man she loves solve the murder that will finally uncover his mysterious past, from the New York Times bestselling author of A Silence in Belgrave Square.
Kat Holloway’s beau, Daniel McAdam, has always had a past shrouded in mystery. He knows nothing about his origins, only that he was rescued from the streets many years ago. So when someone claiming to know where Daniel came from turns up dead moments before meeting with him, Daniel goes on the hunt for the killer. It soon becomes clear that to see justice served, Daniel will have to figure out who he truly is. When he asks Kat for her assistance, she readily complies, knowing she’ll do whatever she must to protect the man she’s come to love.
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
The Hanging Valley
by Peter Robinson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A faceless corpse, two long-unsolved cases, and a silent Yorkshire village draw Chief Inspector Alan Banks into a gripping British police procedural that sends him across the Atlantic in pursuit of a killer.
When a faceless body is found in a tranquil valley just south of the Yorkshire village of Swainshead, Chief Inspector Alan Banks soon discovers that no one is willing to talk about it, except to say, “Not again.” An unsolved murder from five years before and the disappearance of a prominent local man’s girlfriend appear to be connected.
The Convivial Codfish
by Charlotte MacLeod
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Christmas crimes hit close to home for Boston’s favorite art sleuths. “Charlotte MacLeod’s mysteries are witty and full of humor” (Maine Crime Writers).
The angry old men of the Comrades of the Convivial Codfish club celebrate yuletide doing what they do best: eating, drinking, and greeting the season of giving with a spirited “bah, humbug!” Though well past sixty, Jem Kelling is a relative infant compared to some of the club’s elder statesmen, and he has waited decades to host their annual Christmas scowl. And during his first evening as Exalted Chowderhead, he is thrilled to find the wine abundant, the chowder superb, and the humbugs as lusty as ever. But as the night winds down, Jem is horrified to find that the ceremonial Codfish necklace has vanished—right off of his neck!
A Cry for Vengeance
by Ernesto Patino
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Moments before he dies, terminally ill Karl Muller makes a startling deathbed confession: he admits to killing thousands of Jews during World War II. His nurse, Helen Dobson, is understandably shocked. She refers the matter to Bryan De Luca, a part-time professor with experience in international affairs. De Luca soon learns that shortly after the war, Muller and dozens of former Nazis were recruited by American Intelligence to work as spies against the Soviets.
De Luca also learns that Sam O’Hara, a former immigration investigator, had compiled a secret list of ex-Nazis in America—a list that so-called contractors hired to protect them are desperate to obtain.
Circle of Days
by Ken Follett
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
A FLINT MINER WITH A GIFT. Seft, a talented flint miner, walks the Great Plain in the high summer heat, to witness the rituals that signal the start of a new year. He is there to trade his stone at the Midsummer Fair, and to find Neen, the girl he loves. Her family lives in prosperity and offer Seft an escape from his brutish father and brothers within their herder community.
A PRIESTESS WHO BELIEVES THE IMPOSSIBLE. Joia, Neen’s sister, is a priestess with a vision and an unmatched ability to lead. As a child, she watches the Midsummer ceremony, enthralled, and dreams of a miraculous new monument, raised from the biggest stones in the world. But trouble is brewing among the hills and woodlands of the Great Plain.
A MONUMENT THAT WILL DEFINE A CIVILIZATION
The Sixth Man
by David Baldacci
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Edgar Roy–an alleged serial killer–is awaiting trial. He faces almost certain conviction. Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are called in by Roy’s attorney, Sean’s old friend and mentor Ted Bergin, to help work the case. But their investigation is derailed when Sean and Michelle find Bergin murdered.
It is now up to them to ask the questions no one seems to want answered: Is Roy a killer? Who murdered Bergin? The more they dig into Roy’s past, the more they encounter obstacles, half-truths, dead-ends, false friends, and escalating threats from every direction…
Star-Crossed
by Judith Arnold
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
When Gillian Chappell and Owen Moore meet by chance in Verona, Italy, their relationship seems as doomed as that of the city’s most famous tragic lovers, Romeo and Juliet. Little do Gillian and Owen know that the ghosts of Romeo and Juliet are guiding them, hoping to steer them to the happy ending Romeo and Juliet had dreamed of for themselves.
But like Shakespeare’s hero and heroine, Gillian and Owen are star-crossed, forced to deal with historic feuds, meddlesome friends and relatives, and their own irrational longing for each other. From Verona, Italy to Verona, New Jersey, Owen fights for everything Gillian’s family has always fought against, and Gillian tries to defend her beloved father while her heart cries out for Owen’s love.
The Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi Novels Volume Three
by Robert K. Tanenbaum
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Four razor-sharp thrillers in the long-running series from a New York Times–bestselling author—and “one hell of a writer” (New York Post).
Proclaimed the “Joseph Wambaugh of the judicial system” by the San Diego Tribune, trial lawyer Robert K. Tanenbaum crafts his legal thrillers with authenticity and breath-taking suspense. In these four entries in the series, Manhattan assistant district attorney Roger “Butch” Karp and Marlene Ciampi fight the good fight against crime and an often-corrupt judicial system with energy, wit, and a passion for the truth (New York Post).
Corruption of Blood,
Falsely Accused,
Irresistible Impulse
Reckless Endangerment
The Women in White
by Sarah Pekkanen
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Extrasensory perception.
The Gift.
A Sixth Sense.
Or something else….
In 1964, four remarkable young women at a prestigious university became the subjects of parapsychology experiments by a visionary scientist. On the cusp of a historic breakthrough, the women mysteriously vanished and the program was erased from history.