Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Weeding Out Trouble
by Heather Webber
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A landscaper with a knack for unearthing the truth is out to catch a killer and clear her friend’s name in this cozy mystery.
Landscaper Nina Quinn would do anything for her employees. After all, her garden makeover business wouldn’t be blooming if it weren’t for them. So when Kit Pipe, her right-hand handyman, goes missing, Nina immediately starts digging into his disappearance. But all she finds is Kit’s recent ex, Daisy Bedinghaus – and she’s dead as dirt.
The Cemetery Spot
by Jenna Moquin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
When April arrived at her sister’s house, she didn’t expect to find a dead man…
Auggie has stabbed her abusive husband, Roy. Afraid of the cops due to Roy’s ties with the police force, Auggie convinces April to help her get rid of the body. April agrees because she owes a debt to her sister and wants to keep her out of prison. The two sisters bury Roy in the woods, near an old cemetery.
But someone is watching.
The Curse of the Pharaohs
by Elizabeth Peters
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
From a New York Times bestselling author, Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, now a wife and mother, returns to catch a murderer at an excavation of an ancient tomb.
It’s 1892, and Amelia and her now-husband Radcliffe Emerson have settled down in Victorian England after their escapade in Egypt. They’re raising their young son Ramses and everything seems normal–until they are approached by a damsel in distress. Lady Baskerville’s husband, Sir Henry, has died after uncovering what might be a royal tomb in Luxor.
Zero Hour
by Steve Sheffield
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Want a guy who plays by the rules? Don’t pick Virgo.
Special forces veteran Eddie Virgo is doing hard time for taking the law into his own hands. But now he is offered an early release if he agrees to work one last job…
Stacy, daughter of wealthy senator Daniel Donovan, has been kidnapped. And Virgo’s lethal skills seem to offer the best shot at getting her safely home…
The Beast You Are
by Paul Tremblay
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.9 #ad
A haunting collection of short fiction from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club, A Head Full of Ghosts, and The Cabin at the End of the World.
Paul Tremblay has won widespread acclaim for illuminating the dark horrors of the mind in novels and stories that push the boundaries of storytelling itself. The fifteen pieces in this brilliant collection, The Beast You Are, are all monsters of a kind, ready to loudly (and lovingly) smash through your head and into your heart.
Deadfall
by Aline Templeton
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
TThere is something sinister about Drumdalloch Woods in the Black Isle near Inverness. It is a place of tangled growth and shadowy darkness, and it has business opportunists, biological scientists and conflicted family members all competing for a say in its future. Then a body is found, and everything starts to look suspicious.
As DCI Kelso Strang’s investigation grows more complex, he unearths layers of hatred, greed and revenge that cast suspicion even on the local police force.
A Calamity of Souls
by David Baldacci
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Set in the tumultuous year of 1968 in southern Virginia, a racially charged murder case sets a duo of white and Black lawyers against a deeply unfair system as they work to defend their wrongfully accused Black defendants in this courtroom drama from #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci.
Jack Lee is a white lawyer from Freeman County, Virginia, who has never done anything to push back against racism—until he decides to represent Jerome Washington, a Black man charged with brutally killing an elderly wealthy white couple…
The Test
by Patricia Gussin
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Renowned philanthropist and billionaire Paul Parnell had reached the pinnacle of monetary success, but not without cost. Had he put too much emphasis on work and spent too little time with his family?Determined to leave something far more valuable than money to his six children, Paul instructs his lawyers to create an unusual last will and testament. This unorthodox will, which stipulates that the lions share of Pauls two billion dollar estate be given to the heirs who pass the test, was Pauls last hope of creating an enduring legacy by inspiring his children to give back to society and embrace a code of moral values…
Old Bones
by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The #1 NYT bestselling authors Preston & Child bring the true story of the ill-fated Donner Party to new life in this thrilling novel of archaeology, history, murder, and suspense.
Nora Kelly, a young curator at the Santa Fe Institute of Archaeology, is approached by historian Clive Benton with a once-in-a-lifetime proposal: to lead a team in search of the so-called “Lost Camp” of the tragic Donner Party. This was a group of pioneers who earned a terrible place in American history when they became snow-bound in the California mountains in 1847, their fate unknown until the first skeletonized survivors stumbled out of the wilderness, raving about starvation, murder-and cannibalism.
Whiplash
by Dale Brown, Jim DeFelice
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A high-tech covert strike force takes aim at a nuclear armed extremist in the New York Times–bestselling co-author’s military techno-thriller.
The world is watching as the U.S. and Iran agree to lay down their swords. But one man hiding in Africa holds the power to obliterate the peace. Shrouded by the bloody madness of tribal warfare, Iranian functionary-turned-fanatic Bani Aberhadji has created a vast network dedicated to unleashing a nuclear nightmare. Only by chance are American agents now learning of its existence . . . and it may already be too late.