Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Foundations, Funny Business & Murder
by Christa Nardi
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The best of intentions shouldn’t lead to murder.
HR specialist and trauma counselor Stacie Maroni joins the board of a fledgling nonprofit dedicated to supporting victims of domestic violence—a foundation created through the trust of her late husband. The diverse board includes powerful figures from senators and town mayors to mental health advocates and survivors. But as the board convenes to chart its future, tensions rise—and someone ends up dead.
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(A Stacie Maroni Mysteries)
The Perfect Nanny
by Iris Baxter
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Be careful who you trust with your child.
After losing her husband, Sarah is doing everything she can to hold herself—and her young son Theo—together. When Elena appears, calm, capable, and eager to help, she seems like the answer to Sarah’s prayers. Theo adores her, and for the first time in months, Sarah feels like she can finally breathe.
But soon, little things start to feel… off. Lullabies Sarah has never sung filling the house. Documents moved. Unfamiliar items appearing in Theo’s room. And the way Elena looks at her son—as if he belongs to her.
Storm of Secrets
by Kayla Lowe
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
When a deadly storm ravages the quiet coastal town of Harbor Point, investigative journalist Elise Marlowe stumbles upon a chilling discovery—several bodies washed up on shore, their deaths shrouded in mystery. Determined to uncover the truth, Elise follows the trail to the town’s docks, where whispers of a human trafficking ring shake her to the core.
But she’s not the only one watching the shadows. Sam Lockwood, a reclusive fisherman with a past he won’t speak of, knows danger when he sees it. He warns Elise to walk away—but when threats close in around her, he realizes he can’t stand by and let her fight alone…
Code Red
by Ian Loome
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Bob is just another homeless guy. So why is he being hunted by a crack team of assassins? Bob Singleton used to be a top CIA assassin. Now, scarred by his terrible past, he lives in a refrigerator box behind a dumpster in downtown Chicago.
He just wants to be left alone. But his past is coming back to haunt him, in the shape of a nurse and a teenage boy who desperately need his help. They are being pursued by trained killers because they stumbled on a long-buried conspiracy, a secret that is tied to a failed mission in Bob’s military past.
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(Rogue Warrior Thrillers)
This Is Why We Lied
by Karin Slaughter
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
One toxic family. Eight suspicious guests. Everyone is guilty…But who is a killer?
For GBI investigator Will Trent and medical examiner Sara Linton, McAlpine Lodge seems like the ideal getaway to celebrate their honeymoon. Set on a gorgeous, off-the-grid mountaintop property, it’s the perfect place to unplug and reconnect. Until a bone-chilling scream cuts through the night.
A murderer in their midst. Mercy McAlpine, the manager of the Lodge, is dead. With a vicious storm raging and the one access road to the property washed out, the murderer must be someone on the mountain…
Murder in the Smithsonian
by Margaret Truman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
In a mystery replete with “nonstop action and a brilliantly evocative setting,” a noted historian is murdered at the National Museum of Art (Booklist).
Dr. Lewis Tunney, a brilliant historian who had stumbled onto an international art scandal, was brutally murdered in front of two hundred guests at an elegant party at the Smithsonian.
Taking the case, DC police Cpt. Mac Hanrahan begins to uncover a web of secrets, lies, and revenge surrounding the historian’s killing. From the deceased Tunney’s strong-willed fiancée, Heather McBean, to the congressmen with secrets to hide, Hanrahan finds himself unsure who to believe. Soon after, two more murders add to the intrigue.
Rise of Tyrants: Whispers of War
by Callum Brooks
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
As the embers of old wars smoulder, the world of Gigas Earth stands on the brink of chaos. Fragile alliances strain under the weight of ambition, and in the shadows, whispers of treachery and war grow louder.
In the north, Queen Karak Thørn seeks to seize the throne of Nordon from her Husband, her King. But trust within her own court is a dangerous illusion. In the east, Lord Malum Thalron prepares to welcome foreign envoys to Borlong, unaware that their arrival will shatter his dominion and expose the fault lines in his house. And in the south, beneath the scorched skies of the Drylands, an ancient prophecy stirs—one that could reshape the fate of empires…
The Waiting
by Michael Connelly
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
LAPD Detective Renée Ballard tracks a serial rapist whose trail has gone cold, and enlists a new volunteer to the Open-Unsolved Unit: patrol officer Maddie Bosch, Harry’s daughter.
Renée Ballard and the LAPD’s Open-Unsolved Unit get a hot shot DNA connection between a recently arrested man and a serial rapist and murderer who went quiet two decades ago. The arrested man is only twenty-four, so the genetic link must be familial: His father was the Pillowcase Rapist, responsible for a five-year reign of terror in the City of Angels. But when Ballard and her team move in on their suspect, they encounter a baffling web of secrets and legal hurdles.
The Marfa Blues
by John Egenes
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Vera DeSota runs a cafe in Marfa, Texas in 1968. The cowboys and truckers who come in every day fantasize and hope for a chance with her, but she enjoys her solitary life and isn’t ready to settle down with anyone. Yet somehow, Vera seems to collect strays, lost and wayward people looking for second chances. A 14-year-old girl, two hippie boys, and a scared young artist manage to find their way into Vera’s life and suddenly, she’s joining them in a search for buried treasure in the badlands of the rugged desert of Southwest Texas.
2 Sisters Murder Investigations
by James Patterson, Candice Fox
Kindle $14.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
Patterson’s greatest crime-solving team since the Women’s Murder Club is the Bird Sisters.
Rhonda and Barbara “Baby” Bird are half-sisters—and full partners in their Los Angeles detective agency. They agree on nothing. Rhonda, a former attorney, takes a by-the-book approach to solving crimes, while teenage Baby relies on her street smarts.
But when they take a controversial case of a loner whose popular wife has gone missing, they’re accused of being PIs who can’t tell a client from a killer.
None Left to Tell
by Noelle West Ihli
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Three women, connected by one of the most brutal mass slayings in US history.
Lucy is sick of turning the other cheek. Ten years ago, an anti-Mormon mob drove her family and friends from their homes in Illinois. But now, the tables have turned. Rumor has it, some of those same men are traveling through Utah on their way to California. And this time, Lucy won’t run.
Katrina knew the trek west would be difficult. But she had no idea she’d be walking straight into hell. The young mother of four is prepared to do whatever it takes to protect her family from the violence closing in, but the battle to survive will be more harrowing than anything she can imagine.