Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
You Only Live Once
by Haris Orkin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
James Flynn is an expert shot, a black belt in karate, fluent in four languages and irresistible to women. He’s also a heavily medicated patient in a Los Angeles psychiatric hospital. Flynn believes his locked ward is the headquarters of Her Majesty’s Secret Service and that he is a secret agent with a license to kill.
When the hospital is acquired by a new HMO, Flynn is a convinced that the Secret Service has been infiltrated by the enemy. He escapes to save the day and carjacks a young orderly named Sancho…
Whispers of the Dead
by Simon Beckett
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
While visiting his mentor in Tennessee, a forensics expert matches wits with a killer of terrifying skill in this acclaimed crime series.
To escape the violence that nearly killed him, forensic pathologist Dr. David Hunter leaves the United Kingdom for America, returning to the Body Farm—the Tennessee research center where he once trained. David is there to find out if he’s still up to the job of confronting death in all its strange and terrible forms. So when his former mentor asks David to accompany him to a crime scene, he agrees. But even David is unprepared for what awaits them in a remote cabin.
Murder in a Tourist Town
by Lynn Cahoon
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In this delightful prequel to the beloved Tourist Trap mystery series, lawyer Jill Gardner flees job burnout to take a vacation—and finds a brand-new life on the California coast.
Jill’s family law career is in a rut. Watching a client go back to her abusive husband, yet again—and then learning she’s been passed up for a partnership, yet again—finally prompts her to take a break. She’ll have to dip into her emergency fund. But after all those long days in her windowless office, subsisting on leftover cake from the breakroom, it’s time to smell some flowers.
Herding Bats
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Buoyed by an inspirational calendar, Dulcinea Robbins travels from shady, green Georgia to hot, semi-arid Laredo, Texas, to flee a broken romance and help an aging author with dementia write a book about her mental decline. However, she runs headlong into two antagonistic brothers, the author’s sons, who resent her presence and initially try to force her to leave.
Dulcy attempts to help older brother HJ find his long-missing father. She has no idea that the quest for truth will lead her into an encounter with the Los Zetas drug cartel in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico; the necessity to rescue a kidnapped neighbor; and other, even more sinister, dangers…
Imaginary Friend
by Stephen Chbosky
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Single mother Kate Reese is on the run. Determined to improve life for her and her seven year-old son, Christopher, she flees an abusive relationship in the middle of the night. At first, the tight-knit community of Mill Grove, Pennsylvania seems like the perfect place to finally settle down. Then Christopher vanishes. Days later, he emerges from the woods at the edge of town, unharmed but not unchanged. He returns with a voice in his head only he can hear, with a mission only he can complete: Build a treehouse in the woods by Christmas, or his mother and everyone in the town will never be the same again.
Dance Upon the Air
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
When Nell Channing arrives on charming Three Sisters Island, she believes that she’s finally found refuge from her abusive husband—and from the terrifying life she fled so desperately eight months ago…
Careful to conceal her true identity, she takes a job as a cook at the local bookstore café—and begins to explore her feelings for the island sheriff, Zack Todd. But there is a part of herself she can never reveal to him. One careless word, one misplaced confidence, and the new life she’s so carefully created could shatter completely…
Code Name Viridian Complete Series
by Bradford Bates, Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
In a relentless pursuit of galactic conquest, humanity’s ambitions knew no bounds.
The race to Mars had ended generations ago, pushing those seeking fame to venture beyond known borders. Major corporations battled to be first in securing resources and the future, vying for ownership of a new galaxy, akin to historical westward settlers.
A single blinking red light signaled a seismic shift—a colossal deposit of zosmodious ore that eclipsed all others.
A Life Stolen
by Vanessa Luther
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A Life Stolen is the gripping account of a father and daughter’s devastating, but inspiring journey through Alzheimer’s. It’s an inside look into the day-to-day challenges facing not only the patient, but also the caregivers. For many years, her father exhibited signs of dementia, eventually becoming too significant to ignore. Everything culminated during an incident one night, after which her father was taken away, never to return to his home again. The disease changed him every day until he was a stranger. Then, it stole his life.
Through the initial days at home to hospital stays, living in a memory care unit, rehab stints and eventually hospice care, this book reveals many of the struggles encountered while facing Alzheimer’s in a world not quite ready for it…
Identity Unknown
by Patricia Cornwell
Kindle $14.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
Autopsies can reveal the secrets of the dead.
And this victim is sending Scarpetta a message…
Summoned to an unnerving, abandoned theme park to retrieve a body, Dr Kay Scarpetta is devastated to learn that the victim is a man she once loved. While teaching in Rome during the early days of her career, Scarpetta had an intense love affair with Sal Giordano that led to a lifelong friendship.