Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Death in Small Measures
by Gerald Hansen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A terminal illness wasn’t quick enough. It was one drink too many for 72-year-old Evelyn Guilfoyle, found poisoned the morning after a raucous party. But the woman would have been dead in a few months anyway. Why the hurry…?
Family, friends and neighbors had crammed into the tiny back garden pub that night. Too many suspects, one clever killer. Could this be a case DI Liam McLaughlin and his ragtag team from the Major Investigation Team will never solve?
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Tell No Lies
by Gregg Hurwitz
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Daniel Brasher left a high-paying job as a money manager to marry his community-organizer wife and do the work he loves, leading group counseling sessions with recently paroled ex-cons. Now he’s about to start a private practice. But just before his last day on the job, Daniel finds an envelope in his department mailbox—one intended for someone else that was placed in his slot by accident. Inside it is an unsigned piece of paper, a note that says only “admit what you’ve done or you will bleed for it.” along with a midnight deadline…which has passed. And the person to whom the envelope was addressed was found brutally murdered…
Wreck
by Shawn Luther
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Five seemingly unrelated stories become entwined during the course of a single night in this climactic novella. It all starts when Darya and her boyfriend Brian witness a man being held at gunpoint on the side of the highway. Despite Brian’s protests, Darya follows the perpetrator, determined to stop him somehow. The chase ensues until events begin to spiral out of control, mistakes are made, and people are forced to choose who lives and who dies.
A suspenseful thriller as well as an intimate character study, Wreck investigates a day in the life of five ordinary individuals who don’t always realize their presence in other’s lives. Short but effective, this book will have you clinging to each page.
Holly
by Stephen King
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Holly Gibney, one of Stephen King’s most compelling and resourceful characters, returns in this chilling “exploration of grief and delusion, just pure undistilled evil” (New York magazine) as she uncovers the truth behind multiple disappearances in a midwestern town.
When Penny Dahl calls the Finders Keepers detective agency, hoping for help locating her missing daughter, Holly Gibney is reluctant to accept the case. Her partner, Pete, has Covid. Her (very complicated) mother has just passed away. And Holly is meant to be on leave. But something in Penny’s desperate voice makes it impossible to turn her down.
Seduction in Death
by J. D. Robb
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
From #1 New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb comes a tantalizing novel in the futuristic In Death series, as Detective Eve Dallas searches for a Casanova killer with a deadly appetite for seduction…
Dante had been courting his victim in cyberspace for weeks before meeting her in person. A few sips of wine and a few hours later, she was dead. The murder weapon: a rare, usually undetectable date-rape drug with a street value of a quarter million dollars…
The Midnight Caller
by Kayla Lowe
Kindle $4.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
Ten years ago, a string of disappearances shook the small town of Harbor Point. The crimes were never solved. Now, a chilling midnight caller is haunting the town’s residents, whispering secrets from the past and leaving a trail of fear in his wake.
Detective Celeste Harrington has built her career on faith, justice, and an unshakable resolve. When eerie phone calls link to unsolved crimes from a decade ago, she refuses to let fear cloud her judgment. But as the midnight calls grow more sinister, she knows she’s running out of time…
MK’s Detective Club
by James Patterson, Keir Graff
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
James Patterson has just created the most spine-tingling, creepy-crawling, giggle-producing kid’s detective club ever. That’s ever.
Living in the luxurious Arcanum building—with its interior balconies perfect for playing tag, an elevator like an iron birdcage, and quirky neighbors behind every apartment door—has always been fun and games for twelve-year-old Minerva Keen … until her neighbors start getting poisoned. Anyone could be next, and everyone is a suspect, including Minerva herself…
This page-turning new mystery series is packed with chills, thrills, laughs, and unforgettable characters and will leave kids eager to join the best club around.
Talking God
by Tony Hillerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
From New York Times bestselling author Tony Hillerman, Talking God is the ninth novel featuring beloved characters Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Office Jim Chee
Reunited by a grave robber and a corpse, Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn is trying to determine the identity of a murder victim, while Officer Jim Chee is arresting Smithsonian conservator Henry Highhawk for ransacking the sacred bones of his ancestors…
The Devil’s Scars
by Marysol James
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Six years ago, Zoe Parish fled Denver, declaring to never again have anything to do with motorcycle club guys. A horrifying, horrific experience in a bar back room showed her that they’re lower than scum, and Zoe swore to never trust one of those animals to get close to her again. But that was before she became responsible for a baby girl, and before her oldest friend, Wolf Connor, President of The Road Devils MC, begged for her help. Wolf promised her that his club was ‘out of the life’, and that she’d be completely safe… and so Zoe has returned to Denver to work with one of the Road Devils’ businesses. She’s wary, angry, defensive, untrusting, suspicious…