Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Wine and Dead, Another Murder
by Christa Nardi
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Wine tasting, murder and more.
A murder and a toxic substance in a vineyard would spell doom for the manager of any winery. When that manager is a woman, a rarity in the wine industry, people are quick to place the blame on her shoulders. Sheridan’s husband, Brett, and his partner are already on the case. When it ends up the winery manager is the daughter of Sheridan’s boss, the amateur sleuth, is quick to jump in. In her search for clues, Sheridan and her friends explore the offerings at several nearby vineyards, where they discover more than great wine.
Countdown to Mecca
by Michael Savage
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A plane bound for Amman, Jordan goes down in the Caspian Sea. The crash yields no survivors—save the Russian mercenary who hijacked the flight—and a cask containing an agent of unprecedented destructive potential is missing from the wreckage. A carefully plotted terrorist attack has been put into motion, and the resulting chaos might be enough to push America toward another costly war.
The one man who might be able to stop the attack is Jack Hatfield, a freelance reporter who has never shied away from controversy. After making a politically incorrect statement about Islamic extremists, he has been discredited as a journalist and left to pick up the pieces of his career…
Bloody Genius
by John Sandford
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
At the local state university, two feuding departments have faced off on the battleground of science and medicine. Each carries their views to extremes that may seem absurd, but highly educated people of sound mind and good intentions can reasonably disagree, right?
Then a renowned and confrontational scholar winds up dead, and Virgil Flowers is brought in to investigate . . . and as he probes the recent ideological unrest, he soon comes to realize he’s dealing with people who, on this one particular issue, are functionally crazy.
Genesis
by Robin Cook
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
When the body of twenty-eight-year-old social worker Kera Jacobsen shows up on Chief New York City Medical Examiner Laurie Montgomery’s autopsy table, at first it appears she was the victim of a tragic yet routine drug overdose. But for Laurie and her new pathology resident, the brilliant but enigmatic Dr. Aria Nichols, little things aren’t adding up. Kera’s family and friends swear she never touched drugs. Administrators from the hospital where Kera worked are insisting the case be shrouded in silence. And although Kera was ten weeks pregnant, nobody seems to know who the father was–or whether he holds the key to Kera’s final moments alive.
The Oceans Between Us
by Gill Thompson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A woman is found wandering injured in London after an air raid. She remembers nothing of who she is. Only that she has lost something very precious.
As the little boy waits in the orphanage, he hopes his mother will return. But then he finds himself on board a ship bound for Australia, the promise of a golden life ahead, and wonders: how will she find him in a land across the oceans?
The Last Ride
by Nick Louth
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
What happened to the missing victim? On a midsummer’s night, a stolen car packed with teenagers crashes at high speed on the southern edge of Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. DI Jan Talantire arrives at the scene to find the victims of the crash.
It appears to be a tragic accident until a worried mother turns up at the scene of the accident. Her daughter, Jade, a friend of the joyriders, hasn’t been seen since the previous night. The account dovetails with the statement of the householder who claimed to see a girl running near the crashed vehicle the moment he emerged.
Inborn
by Thomas Enger
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
What turns a boy into a killer?
When the high school in the small Norwegian village of Fredheim becomes a murder scene, the finger is soon pointed at seventeen-year-old Even. As the investigation closes in, social media is ablaze with accusations, rumours and even threats, and Even finds himself the subject of an online trial as well as being in the dock … for murder?
Even pores over his memories of the months leading up to the crime, and it becomes clear that more than one villager was acting suspiciously … and secrets are simmering beneath the calm surface of this close-knit community.
Rise of the Grandmaster Complete Series
by Bradford Bates, Michael Anderle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Some people just knew how to go out in style.
Tim had never been one of those guys. Tim was always a planner. The plan was to get into college, graduate, and find a well-paying job.
That plan was coming together nicely until he saw a presentation to get paid to playThe Etheric Coast.
At his graduation ceremony. After watching the company’s employee recruitment video, Big Richie’s words had a whole new meaning.
Hidden Thrones: An End-Time Thriller
by Russ Scalzo
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Jack Bennett can sense evil. His unusual gift catapults him into a spiritual world of angels and demons. Jack’s unique ability makes him the FBI’s newest hire, serving as a consultant for their new Paranormal Division. The alluring, dark, and dangerous powers of ancient Babylon have infiltrated world governments at the highest level. Intoxicated by this dark force, the Western world is spiraling out of control on a collision course with judgment on the plains of Armageddon.
Hidden Sins
by Edie James
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Former Black Ops SEAL Bridger North has no life. Three years after being forced out of the military, his tight-knit black ops team scattered, he’s a man adrift.
Until an old teammate begs a favor.
Bridger agrees to help his friend Jason stop a blackmailer from ruining a small town’s pastor, but when Bridger arrives in Redemption Creek, Jason has disappeared, leaving his stunning sister in a world of danger…
Battle Mountain
by C.J. Box
Kindle $14.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
The campaign of destruction that Axel Soledad and Dallas Cates wreaked on Nate Romanowski and Joe Pickett left both men in tatters, especially Nate, who lost almost everything. Wondering if the civilized life left him vulnerable to attack, Nate dropped off the grid with his falcons in tow to prepare for vengeance.
When Joe gets a call from the governor asking for help finding his son-in-law, who has gone missing in the Sierra Madre mountain range, he enlists the help of a local, a rookie game warden named Susan Kany.