Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
EVANGELINE
by Herc Samson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
In 1953, two FBI agents are called in to investigate the disappearance of a young White woman in Louisiana. In their pursuit of clues, they stumble across the horrific murder of a Black youth. It soon becomes apparent that the two cases are linked, and solving the murder is the key to unlocking both cases.
But the agents are impeded in their investigation by parties on the both sides of the color line in the victim’s hometown of Evangeline, right on the edge of the Louisiana swamplands. The Whites close ranks, seemingly in effort to protect their own; the Black population keeps silent in fear of reprisals and the threat of more violence. And the deeper they dig, the more the agents find that nothing and no one are as they seem…
Murder in an Irish Bookshop
by Carlene O’Connor
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Between training the new town garda and trying to set a wedding date with her fiancé, Macdara Flannery, Siobhán is feeling a bit overwhelmed. But an author event at the new bookstore featuring Irish writers taking up residency in Kilbane offers a welcome distraction.
One author, Deirdre Walsh, spends more time complaining about the unfairness of the publishing industry and megastar bestselling authors like Nessa Lamb instead of her own body of work. After the evening ends in a battle of words, Deirdre’s body is found the next day in the back of the store—with pages torn from Nessa’s books stuffed in her mouth…
Dracula’s Child
by J.S. Barnes
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
It has been some years since Jonathan and Mina Harker survived their ordeal in Transylvania. Having vanquished Count Dracula, they return to England to try and live ordinary lives.
But shadows linger long in this world of blood feud and superstition—and, the older their son Quincey gets, the deeper the shadows that lengthen at the heart of the Harkers’ marriage. And when a gathering of old friends leads to unexpected tragedy, the Harkers’ wounds are about to be exposed . . . for a new evil is arising on the Continent.
The Little Sleep
by Paul Tremblay
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
The Bram Stoker Award–winning author of Survivor Song and The Cabin at the End of the World “slices, dices, and spins the neo-noir in his own strange way” in his “fast, smart, and completely satisfying”* debut novel featuring a narcoleptic detective from Southie.
*Stewart O’Nan
The Little Sleep is Paul Tremblay’s nod to Raymond Chandler starring a PI who nods off. Mark Genevich is a South Boston private detective who happens to have a severe form of narcolepsy, which includes hypnagogic hallucinations, like waking dreams. Unsurprisingly, his practice is not exactly booming…
Dead Fall
by Brad Thor
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
In the war-ravaged borderlands of Ukraine, a Russian mercenary unit has gone rogue. Its members, conscripted from the worst prisons and mental asylums across Russia, are the most criminally violent, psychologically dangerous combatants to ever set foot upon the modern battlefield.
With all attention focused on the frontlines, they have pushed deeper into the interior to wage a campaign of unspeakable barbarity. As they move from village to village, committing horrific war crimes, they meet little resistance as all able-bodied men are off fighting the war.
Dark and Stormy Knights
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
“Nine original stories by the modern masters of urban fantasy; an anthology that will both thrill fans and serve as a nice introduction to [the] genre.” – Booklist
It was a dark and stormy knight, and nine dark defenders embarked upon a most perilous quest. . . .
They’re the ultimate defenders of humanity—modern knights who do dark deeds for all the right reasons. In this all-star collection, nine of today’s hottest paranormal authors bring us thrilling, all-new stories brimming with magic, mystery and mayhem.
The Twelfth Card
by Jeffery Deaver
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Unlocking a cold case with explosive implications for the future of civil rights, forensics expert Lincoln Rhyme and his protégé, Amelia Sachs, must outguess a killer who has targeted a high school girl from Harlem who is digging into the past of one of her ancestors, a former slave. What buried secrets from 140 years ago could have an assassin out for innocent blood? And what chilling message is hidden in his calling card, the hanged man of the tarot deck? Rhyme must anticipate the next strike or become history—in the New York Times bestseller that proves “there is no thriller writer today like Jeffery Deaver”