Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder off Route 82
by Jane Suen
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A missing girl. Her boyfriend,gone without a trace. Can a tenacious undergrad find them both before the case becomes a homicide?
Eve Sawyer is ready to wave goodbye to summer. Fresh off helping solve a puzzling beach crime, the inquisitive college student can’t wait for fall classes to start. But her newfound fame has attracted an anxious mom’s cry for help to track down a classmate who never returned home. Eve soon learns that the girl’s boyfriend is also missing…
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Witch of the Federation Complete Series
by Michael Anderle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Magic is real. But it comes at a price.
Stephanie Morgana, a young woman with a rare gift, yearns for a life beyond the crumbling walls of her poverty-stricken city. She dreams of harnessing her magic, of soaring through virtual skies, and leaving her mark on a world that undervalues her.
But when she’s offered a chance to train in a virtual reality world, Stephanie uncovers a hidden talent, a power that could change the course of history…
The Assassination Option
by W.E.B. Griffin, William E. Butterworth
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
James Cronley thought he had done well—he didn’t know he’d done this well.
His first successful mission for the about-to-be-official new Central Intelligence Directorate has drawn all kinds of attention, some welcome, some not. On the plus side, he’s now a captain; promoted to Chief, DCI, Europe; and in charge of a top secret spy operation. On the minus side, a lot of people would like to know about that operation, including not only the Soviets, but his own Pentagon, and even a seething J. Edgar Hoover…
Every Silent Thing
by Alan Brenham
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Shy and deaf, twenty-three-year-old Claire Deveraux has worked hard to land her dream job as a foreign service officer at the U.S. Embassy in Paris. Yet her idyllic life is shattered when she finds a woman lying on the restroom floor dying from a gunshot wound. The dying woman utters three words to Claire and conceals a thumb drive in Claire’s pocket. The items are keys to the location of proceeds from a bank robbery. The killer, certain Claire now has sole possession of those items, must find her, recover the code words and the drive, then kill her before she can solve the puzzle and recover the money. Knowing he is determined to find and kill her, Claire must do whatever she can to keep her heart beating.
The Death of Mrs. Westaway
by Ruth Ware
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
On a day that begins like any other, Hal receives a mysterious letter bequeathing her a substantial inheritance. She realizes very quickly that the letter was sent to the wrong person—but also that the cold-reading skills she’s honed as a tarot card reader might help her claim the money.
Soon, Hal finds herself at the funeral of the deceased…where it dawns on her that there is something very, very wrong about this strange situation and the inheritance at the center of it…
Ghost Camera
by Darcy Coates
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
When Jenine finds an abandoned polaroid camera, she playfully snaps a photo without a second thought. But there’s something wrong with the image: a ghostly figure stands in the background, watching her.
Fixated on her. Moving one step closer with every picture she takes.
Desperate, Jenine shares her secret with her best friend, Bree. Together they realize the camera captures unsettling impressions of the dead…
Three Barbara Vine Mysteries
by Ruth Rendell
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Three spellbinders from a New York Times–bestselling Edgar Award winner, “unequivocally the most brilliant mystery writer of our time” (Patricia Cornwell).
This trio of Barbara Vine mysteries provides undisputable evidence that “no one surpasses Ruth Rendell when it comes to stories of obsession, instability, and malignant coincidence” (Stephen King).
A Dark-Adapted Eye
The Chimney Sweeper’s Boy
The Brimstone Wedding
Carcass Trade
by Noreen Ayres
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Ayres writes hard-hitting crime fiction that’s vivid, graphic, and visceral. Smokey Brandon, former striptease artist and cop, now works as a civilian employee of the Orange County, California, crime lab. She’s a hard-living, tough-talking gal with an attitudebut she’s damn good at her job and practically fearless when it comes to confronting danger. Smokey’s latest assignment is to discover the identity of a woman’s body found burned beyond recognition in a rural canyon. At first fearing the victim is her brother Nathan’s ex-wife, Smokey soon becomes convinced that going undercover is her only hope to solve the case. Disguising herself as a motorcycle groupie, she’s soon pulled into a dangerous world where violence is an everyday occurrence and where her own life is threatened by a brutal and mysterious killer.