Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Triple Chocolate Cheesecake Murder
by Joanne Fluke
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Spring has sprung in Lake Eden, Minnesota, but Hannah Swensen doesn’t have time to stop and smell the roses—not with hot cross buns to make, treats to bake, and a sister to exonerate . . .
Hannah’s up to her ears with Easter orders rushing in at The Cookie Jar, plus a festive meal to prepare for a dinner party at her mother’s penthouse. But everything comes crashing to a halt when Hannah receives a panicked call from her sister Andrea – Mayor Richard Bascomb has been murdered . . . and Andrea is the prime suspect.
Judgement Day
by Steve Sheffield
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A sinister cult. A renegade special forces veteran. A deadly race against time.
When special forces veteran Eddie Virgo agrees to rescue a young woman, Casey Bender, from the clutches of a religious cult, he has no idea what he’s getting into. The cult leader, self-appointed prophet Doctor Daniel Nelson, has a small army of fanatical followers who will do whatever he asks. Up to and including murder.
And there are other problems.
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(Zero Hour)
Quicksand
by Iris Johansen
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Returning from Johansen’s New York Times bestselling thriller, Stalemate, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is still reeling from the disappearance of her daughter, Bonnie.
Deciding to take matters into her own hands, she enlists the clairvoyant skills of Dr. Megan Blair to help find her. No strangers to looking for clues where there seem to be none, the two women use their highly specialized talents to hunt down Bonnie’s elusive kidnapper and return her to her mother’s arms. But is Bonnie still alive? Will the two women find her in time?
The Surrogate
by Iain Maitland
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Lucy will carry Sophie’s child. But she does want something in return…
Sophie should be the happiest woman in the world. A good job. A nice home. Best of all, married to Matt, the love of her life.
But there’s one thing she doesn’t have – a baby. She knows that without a child of her own to love, she will never feel complete. This emptiness at the centre of her life is driving her to the edge of madness.
Then Lucy, her best friend forever, comes back to live in their home town – and offers to have a baby for Sophie.
Justice
by Faye Kellerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
It’s Prom Night . . . and the queen is dead.
LAPD Homicide Detective Peter Decker and his wife and confidante Rina Lazarus have a daughter of their own. So the savage murder of a popular high school girl on prom night strikes home . . . very hard.
The cruel and bizarre slaying of a beautiful teen leads Detective Decker into the dark heart of an exotic subculture: the seamy, sometimes violent world of Southern California’s rootless, affluent youth. But even the confession of a disturbed kid with cold “killer eyes” cannot soothe Decker’s inner torment.
A Rule Against Murder
by Louise Penny
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A Rule Against Murder, the fourth book in Louise Penny’s award-winning and critical revered mystery series features the wise and beleaguered Inspector Armand Gamache.
It is the height of summer, and Armand and Reine-Marie Gamache are celebrating their wedding anniversary at Manoir Bellechasse, an isolated, luxurious inn not far from the village of Three Pines. But they’re not alone. The Finney family—rich, cultured, and respectable—has also arrived for a celebration of their own…
Thrill of the Chase
by Lorhainne Eckhart
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
She’s the hometown EMT with everything to lose.
He’s the wealthy outsider with nothing left to prove—except that she’s the one he can’t walk away from.
When Taz Parker, a small-town EMT in rural Wyoming, meets a stranger who stays to help her at the scene of a harrowing roadside accident, she never expects to see him again—let alone find him standing at her parents’ ranch days later. Jerry O’Rourke is a man from a different world—a powerful Denver security mogul with charm, secrets, and a past that casts a long shadow…
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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
by Kate Summerscale
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
The New York Times bestselling account of the real-life murder that inspired the birth of modern detective fiction.
In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all England and led to a national obsession with detection, ironically destroying, in the process, the career of perhaps the greatest detective in the land.
At the time, the detective was a relatively new invention; there were only eight detectives in all of England and rarely were they called out of London, but this crime was so shocking, as Kate Summerscale relates in her scintillating new book, that Scotland Yard sent its best man to investigate, Inspector Jonathan Whicher…
Carved Wooden Heart
by Elizabeth Horton-Newton , Starla Hartless
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
An encounter with a talented native artist, a broken heart, and a knight in shining armor are just the beginning in this passionate erotic romance. Dani Stone never expected to fall in love with carver Jesse Wolf Carver. She certainly didn’t foresee the results of her intense one night stand with the sexy hunk. From the wealth of New York City to a small southern community, follow Dani as she journeys the winding path fate has laid out for her.