Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Yours Truly
by R.M. Demeester
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Love finds us, but so does she. I know what it’s like to be underestimated. At almost twenty, I’ve learned that life isn’t easy on people like me—a high school dropout working in a dead-end bar. So when Chad, from an influential family, walks into my life, I think I’ve finally caught a break. But, of course, things are never that simple.
Then there’s Sarah, his ex-fiancée. She can’t, or won’t, let him go. Chad says she’s just struggling to move on, but I’m not so sure. Sarah is everywhere. She’s inserting herself into our business, and her behavior crosses lines I can’t ignore. I try to tell myself she’s just obsessed and harmless, but deep down, I know better.
The Art of Deception
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A young woman finds herself caught up in international intrigue – and gets her heart stolen – in The Art of Deception from #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts, “the queen of romantic suspense” (The Columbus Dispatch).
Adam Haines claims to be an admirer of Phillip Fairchild’s artistry, wishing to practice the craft as a student of the famous painter. Phillip’s daughter Kirby believes her father is blind to Adam’s flattery and suspects he’s hiding something. An attempt on Kirby’s life reveals the truth after Adam saves her. He’s an investigator seeking a missing Rembrandt painting and the trail leads to Phillip, who’s been known to traffic in forged and stolen art.
She’s the Missing Sister Complete Series
by Jacie Middlemann
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Lieutenant Ethan Hendricks greatest nightmare just also happens to be his grandfather’s newest business venture.
Logan Hendricks is thrilled about his brand new detective agency’s first case, but things weren’t turning out the way they were supposed to, including the attempted murder of one of his brand new employees. But he figures their next case, which involves finding a missing sister, should go a lot smoother. How dangerous could it be?
Ethan Hendricks wasn’t quite as confident about his grandfather’s new hobby, or that the supposedly straight-forward case of finding a missing sister was going to be either simple or free of complications. He could only hope it didn’t involve another near miss that could have just as easily proved deadly for one of his grandfather’s newest employees…
The Fifth Student
by Geoffrey M Cooper
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Cheating on college exams is commonplace. Murder isn’t.
When a student in Professor Brad Parker’s lab at the Maine Translational Research Institute in Wells is wrongfully accused of sharing answers on an exam, he tries to help. Only to encounter a series of unexpected obstacles. Burglary. Bribery. A suspicious suicide. And then the professor who accused the students of cheating is killed. Leaving Brad and his fiancée, FBI agent Karen Richmond, desperately trying to understand what’s going on behind the scenes.
The Devil’s Crossroads
by Alexis Brunet
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Life is nothing but a series of crossroads that continuously present us with one single existential question—where to next?
The Devil’s Crossroads in Clarksdale, Mississippi, is known as the location of blues legend Robert Leroy Johnson’s bargain with the Devil, where Johnson sacrificed his soul to become the greatest bluesman the world has ever known. For Alexis Brunet, the famed crossroads became the source of inspiration for this literary work—a series of reflections on the many intersections that paved the way to where he stands today.
Armored Hours
by Stephanie Hansen
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Cable Girls meets Peaky Blinders meets Titanic
The girls had forged a bond together like iron that could not be broken. Claudia, Kiersten, Lina, and Florian were on the brink of making history with their powerful feminist movement, but then they suddenly disappeared without a trace.
Alexander was a desperate bootlegger who was willing to risk it all to search for them. Not only were they in cahoots with him to help smuggle feminist contraband and forbidden booze, but Claudia had also unknowingly captivated his heart. He vowed to find them at any cost, but little did he know that their disappearance was part of a much bigger and sinister plot from the upper echelons of society.
O’SHAUGHNESSY INVESTIGATIONS INC.
by A.G. Russo
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Book 2 of 3 of the O’Shaughnessy Investigations Inc. Mystery Series
The Homefront, summer 1943, Brooklyn, New York.
Smalley Pauley is missing. His brother, gangster Guido Bonasccoro, hires reluctant O’Shaughnessy Detective Agency partners Maeve O’Shaughnessy and Vic Marino to find him.
A year after Vic Marino walked into the O’Shaughnessy detective agency office and told Maeve he was going to help her make a go of an agency on the brink of collapse, they have managed to keep it going thanks to the challenging murder case they solved the previous year. This second year provides newer, darker, more dangerous cases as they find themselves caught in the middle of a gangster turf war and forced to do risky work for G-men.
Precious Blood
by Jonathan Hayes
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The nightmare of 9/11 left New York City medical examiner Edward Jenner shattered and emotionally scarred. He thought he’d turned away from forensics—and life—for good, but the mutilation murder of a college student is pulling him back. The body of a young woman, nailed to the wall of her East Village apartment, has Jenner convinced that there’s a serial killer prowling the city—and a second horrific murder only confirms his most terrible fears. The desperate hunt for a psychopath—and Jenner’s troubling obsession with a beautiful, frightened woman who could be the maniac’s next victim—is pushing the forensic expert to the limits of his physical and mental endurance.
Framed
by John Grisham, Jim McCloskey
Kindle $14.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
John Grisham is known worldwide for his bestselling novels, but it’s his real-life passion for justice that led to his work with Jim McCloskey of Centurion Ministries, the first organization dedicated to exonerating innocent people who have been wrongly convicted. Together they offer an inside look at the many injustices in our criminal justice system.
A fundamental principle of our legal system is a presumption of innocence, but once someone has been found guilty, there is very little room to prove doubt. These ten true stories shed light on Americans who were innocent but found guilty and forced to sacrifice friends, families, and decades of their lives to prison while the guilty parties remained free…