Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Uncle John’s True Crime
by Bathroom Readers’ Institute
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A collection of strange-but-true crime tales featuring cops, lawyers, and some very unusual suspects…
The fact-finding folks at Bathroom Readers’ Institute have rounded up the best cops-and-robber articles we’ve ever done, plus a rogues’ gallery of new offenders. You’ll read about dumb crooks and criminal masterminds, mafia henchmen and low-level goons, ancient warriors and Old West gunslingers, crazed cops and jovial judges, and even a few loony lawyers and crooked Wall Street types. Find out about…
Broken Harbor
by Tana French
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
On one of the half-abandoned “luxuryˮ developments that litter Ireland, Patrick Spain and his two young children have been murdered. His wife, Jenny, is in intensive care. At first, Scorcher thinks itʼs going to be an easy solve, but too many small things canʼt be explained: the half-dozen baby monitors pointed at holes smashed in the Spainsʼ walls, the files erased from the familyʼs computer, the story Jenny told her sister about a shadowy intruder slipping past the houseʼs locks…
Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War
by P. W. Singer
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
What Will World War III Look Like?
Ghost Fleet is a page-turning imagining of a war set in the not-too-distant future. Navy captains battle through a modern-day Pearl Harbor; fighter pilots duel with stealthy drones; teenage hackers fight in digital playgrounds; Silicon Valley billionaires mobilize for cyber-war; and a serial killer carries out her own vendetta. Ultimately, victory will depend on who can best blend the lessons of the past with the weapons of the future. But what makes the story even more notable is that every trend and technology in book—no matter how sci-fi it may seem—is real.
The White House Connection
by Jack Higgins
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A silver-haired assassin stalks the streets of Manhattan. She’s killing her way through a list of targets: members of a secret IRA faction known as the Sons of Erin. While she’s only killed four so far, there’s more at stake than a few lives . . .
These murders can topple two governments – and destroy the Irish peace process. Sean Dillon, a former IRA terrorist-turned-mercenary, and Blake Johnson, head of a clandestine White House department, are recruited to stop her before all hell breaks loose. And they better hurry. There are only three names left on the assassin’s list…
Heads Will Roll
by Josh Winning
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Willow’s worst nightmare was being canceled. But the shadows in the woods of Camp Castaway might destroy more than her reputation.
After sitcom star Willow tweets herself into infamy and stumbles blind-drunk into a swimming pool, her agent ships her off to Camp Castaway. Nestled deep in upstate New York, Castaway is a summer camp for adults who are desperate to leave their mistakes behind. No real names, no phones . . . no way to call for help…
The Vejay Haskell Mysteries
by Susan Dunlap
Kindle $0.75 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A special three-in-one edition of Susan Dunlap’s Vejay Haskell Mysteries, about an intrepid meter reader who solves the crimes that the police can’t crack
An Equal Opportunity Death,
The Bohemian Connection,
The Last Annual Slugfest
“Dunlap’s police procedurals have the authenticity of telling detail.” —The Washington Post Book World
The Watchman
by Robert Crais
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
At last, the enigmatic partner of Elvis Cole (The Two Minute Rule) takes center stage in this pulse-racing thriller. When Joe Pike is charged with safeguarding a wealthy heiress, he discovers protecting the sole witness to a crime is nothing compared to protecting an LA party girl from her own self-destruction…
Larkin Conner Barkley lives like the City of Angels is hers for the taking. Young and staggeringly rich, she speeds through the city during its loneliest hours, blowing through red after red in her Aston Martin as if running for her life. Then suddenly she sees another car’s metal-on-metal explosion of a terrible accident and, dazed, finds herself the single witness in a secret federal investigation.
Eamon
by Martha Roo
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Have you ever been minding your own business at work and then were stabbed, and started leaking magic?
Willow Jenkins is about to find out that was her best day that week.
Family secrets, old grimoires, dragons in Texas, taco trucks, portals through keyholes, a search for a lost love, and finding out you’re on the most wanted list of an evil empire.
That gets her to Thursday.