Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
To Catch a Cat
by Marian Babson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
On a dare from the local boys, lonely eleven-year-old Robin sneaks into a neighbor’s house to steal their pedigree cat. But he doesn’t expect the terrifying scene that awaits him. After a loud dispute echoes from above—and the man of the house comes down the stairs covered in blood—Robin makes a run for it. But the killer knows someone was there, and when he talks to the police, he figures the mysterious intruder is the perfect person to pin the murder on…
In the Hour Before Midnight
by Jack Higgins
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
There’s a side of Sicily that the tourists see—golden beaches and cheerful locals—and there’s the side of Sicily Stacey Wyatt knows. It’s dark and savage. His grandfather raised him to follow in his footsteps as a leader in the Mafia, to live by its code of honor and violence. It’s also not the life Stacey wants.
Unfortunately, trying to cut himself free only lands him in an Egyptian prison. He is broken out, only to be brought back to Sicily where he’s given a job…
Landon Falls: Christian Fantasy
by Shannon Elliott
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
When seventeen-year-old Chase Allen touches someone, he is inundated by every sin they’ve committed. To minimize human contact, Chase keeps to himself at home and school. But when his mother’s death abandons him to the cruel despotism of his abusive grandfather, he follows an inexorable calling by an unknown power to seek out his destiny in a world he doesn’t understand. Led to the seemingly bucolic small town of Landon Falls, he encounters an ancient evil that holds the town in its grasp and meets the town’s new preacher, Frank Williams, who is oddly immune to Chase’s sixth sense.
Addison Landon recently arrived in Landon Falls with her husband Turner, heir to the Landon Mining Company fortune. Pregnant with their first child, Addison is excited to make such a wealthy, powerful, benevolent family her own.
Falling Darkness
by Karen Harper
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Forensic psychologist Claire Britten finds herself at the mercy of a treacherous sea in the third nail-biting South Shores novel.
Claire Britten’s training never prepared her for this—the forensic psychology curriculum didn’t cover plane crashes. Or how to help fellow survivors cope, seven frightened people huddled in two small rafts awaiting a rescue that may never come. Especially when three of them are your ex-husband, your young daughter—and the man you love, Nick Markwood, whose pursuit by a criminal mastermind forced you all to run in the first place.
The Phoenix Code
by Catherine Asaro
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
MIT professor Megan O’Flannery is one of the world’s leading research scientists on artificial intelligence for androids. Most of her work consists of working with computer simulations, so when the company MindSim gives Megan an opportunity to work with an android, she jumps at the chance.
Hidden and secret, an underground compound in the Nevada desert offers Megan a spectacular lab where she can live and work, mostly alone except for robotic assistants—and the android…
Dress Her in Indigo
by John D. MacDonald, Lee Child
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
From a beloved master of crime fiction, Dress Her in Indigo is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.
Travis McGee could never deny his old friend anything. So before Meyer even says please, McGee agrees to accompany him to Mexico to reconstruct the last mysterious months of a young woman’s life—on a fat expense account provided by the father who has lost touch with her. They think she’s fallen in with the usual post-teenage misfits and rebels. What they find is stranger, kinkier, and far more deadly.
Nobody’s Fool
by Harlan Coben
Kindle $7.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Sami Kierce, a young college grad backpacking in Spain with friends, wakes up one morning, covered in blood. There’s a knife in his hand. Beside him, the body of his girlfriend. Anna. Dead. He doesn’t know what happened. His screams drown out his thoughts—and then he runs.
Twenty-two years later, Kierce, now a private investigator, is a new father who’s working off his debts by doing low level surveillance jobs and teaching wannabe sleuths at a night school in New York City. One evening, he recognizes a familiar face at the back of the classroom…
Tornadoes
by Joe Eagleman
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Are you prepared for nature’s most unpredictable and destructive storms? Tornadoes: Be Informed, Be Safe is your ultimate guide to understanding and surviving one of the most awe-inspiring forces on Earth.
This comprehensive book breaks down complex meteorological science into easy-to-grasp concepts, empowering readers with the knowledge they need to stay safe during a tornado. Whether you’re a weather enthusiast, a teacher looking for reliable resources, or simply someone wanting to protect your family, this book is packed with insights and practical advice tailored for everyone.
The Scandal Of Father Brown
by G. K. Chesterton
Kindle $0.49 Rating: 4.1 #ad
In this fifth and final set of Father Brown mysteries G. K. Chesterton’s short, shabby priest continues, in his humorous, effortless but powerfully effective way to solve a wide range of high crimes and misdemeanours. There are Nine Father Brown mysteries in this collection, “The Scandal of Father Brown”, “The Quick One”, “The Blast of the Book/The Five Fugitives”, “The Green Man”, “The Pursuit of Mr Blue”, “The Crime of the Communist”, “The Point of a Pin”, “The Insoluble Problem”, “The Vampire of the Village”.