Monday’s Mystery eBooks
The Cat Who Saw Stars
by Lilian Jackson Braun
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
UFOs in Mooseville? Rumors abound that a missing backpacker has been abducted, and it looks like Jim Qwilleran’s sedate summer may be interrupted by an investigation – with the help of his own little aliens, Koko and Yum Yum. And when the backpacker’s body turns up – and transplanted Floridian Owen Bowen is found dead soon afterward—the search for intelligent life turns into a hunt for a murderer…
Lost Birds
by Anne Hillerman
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Joe Leaphorn may be long retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, but his detective skills are still sharp, honed by his work as a private detective. His experience will be essential to solve a compelling new case: finding the birth parents of a woman who was raised by a bilagáana family but believes she is Diné based on one solid clue, an old photograph with a classic Navajo child’s blanket. Leaphorn discovers that his client’s adoption was questionable, and her adoptive family not what they seem. His quest for answers takes him to an old trading post and leads him to a deadly cache of long-buried family secrets.
The Father’s Tree
by Crystal Jencks
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
The tale of the Garden of Eden is one of the most well-known and universally loved stories of all time, and Dr. Elise Harper and her team believe there’s more than a little truth to it.
To prove the science books wrong and religious lore right, they trek into the Caucasus mountain ranges, amidst a world ravaged with war and apocalyptic tragedy. But shortly into the expedition, events pivot dangerously. Nature and hidden supernatural forces interrupt their mission, and the team’s motivation transforms from finding the Tree of Life to simply maintaining life itself.
Whiskey Beach
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
For more than three hundred years, Bluff House has sat above Whiskey Beach, guarding its shore – and its secrets. But to Eli Landon, it’s home.
A Boston lawyer, Eli has weathered an intense year of public scrutiny and police investigations after being accused of – but never arrested for – the murder of his soon-to-be ex-wife. He finds sanctuary at Bluff House, even though his beloved grandmother is in Boston recuperating from a nasty fall. Abra Walsh is always there, though…
The Girl Who Killed Her Mom
by MCGARVEY BLACK
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
I was barely fifteen when I killed my mom. No one knew . . . until now.
I’ve spent my entire life trying to make up for what happened that day. I’ve turned my life around. I have a handsome, wealthy husband; two daughters who are everything to me; a stunning Connecticut beachfront home. I’m grateful for every minute that we have together.
Today I come home to find a silver-and-blue gift-wrapped box on the porch. The note inside says: Who killed Midge Lester? Midge Lester was my mom. Someone knows.
The Savant of Chelsea
by Suzanne Jenkins
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
From USA Today Bestselling Author, Suzanne Jenkins!
A Manhattan surgeon travels to New Orleans to face the tragedies and secrets of her youth, leading on a journey to madness. Warning: Contains graphic descriptions of child abuse.
“Jeez what a harrowing read. Molestation from an early age. A mother who doesn’t care even when Alexandria gives birth at the age of 10. Eventually the mother gives the child away on Alexandria first day back at school! As an adult having made something of get self and become a surgeon, her mother dies and while going to see about her mother’s funeral she finds her daughter who is a drug addict and prostitute with 7 children of whom she uses the oldest girl for money and molestation. Alexandria gets her daughter arrested and the court awards her custody but her daughter gets relased and she’s coming for her girls!” by Amazon Customer
The First Harm
by Steven Piskula
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Tanna Christensen spent countless hours planning for her first gross anatomy dissection, but nothing could have prepared her for what she’s found. Beneath her scalpel lies a cadaver riddled with disturbing genetic abnormalities—evidence pointing to an unthinkable crime.
Tanna believes her discovery is the tip of a terrifying secret that goes far deeper than a single corpse. But when her investigation leads to a brutal murder, a lethal cover-up threatens to destroy the future she once dreamed of.
The Prediction
by Jean Rezab
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Thea kept her visions a secret her entire life. Her father warned her other people would find her knowledge of future events abnormal, leaving Thea feeling both distant from him and others.
When Thea’s latest vision reveals someone shooting her father, her psychic ability can’t be hidden from those close to her. Searching for the potential murderer, she discovers her father has enemies from the past.
With his long-held secrets coming to light, can Thea finally have the close family relationships she’s always wanted?
Firefly Lane
by Kristin Hannah
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
From the New York Times bestselling author Kristin Hannah comes a powerful novel of love, loss, and the magic of friendship. . . . now a #1 Netflix series!
In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food chain. Then, to her amazement, the “coolest girl in the world” moves in across the street and wants to be her friend. Tully Hart seems to have it all—beauty, brains, ambition. On the surface they are as opposite as two people can be: Kate, doomed to be forever uncool, with a loving family who mortifies her at every turn…
Red Star Falling
by Steve Berry, Grant Blackwood
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
From New York Times bestselling authors Steve Berry and Grant Blackwood comes an action-packed adventure: in the waning days of the Cold War, Luke Daniels embarks on a quest in search of the legendary library of Ivan the Terrible—the unlikely key to ending a looming threat orbiting two hundred miles above the earth.
Wrapping up his latest assignment for the Magellan Billet, Luke Daniels receives a surprise visit from the head of a former-CIA operation named Sommerhaus—a failed attempt to assemble an espionage network within the Ukraine on the eve of the Russian invasion. Sommerhaus ranks high on Luke’s list of painful regrets, for it was during this mission that his friend, CIA case officer John Vince, was captured by Russian operatives and supposedly executed.