Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Let It Crow! Let It Crow! Let It Crow!
by Donna Andrews
Kindle $1.49 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Meg has been roped into participating in a weaponsmithing competition, a Forged in Fire wannabe organized by a blacksmith friend. Meg originally turned down an invitation to participate, but the night before the filming starts, someone attacks Faulk, her blacksmithing mentor, breaking his arm and eliminating him from the contest before it begins. Meg agrees to step in as his replacement to keep the project from failing. She’s not thrilled that the filming will take place during December – Christmas is already a crazy time for her. Since the competition is taking place on Ragnarshjem, the picturesque estate that her friend Ragnar, the retired heavy metal drummer, is turning into a Goth castle, Meg won’t have to spend Christmas alone and gets to bring Michael and her twin sons with her.
Bright Expanse
by Daniel Zeigler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Are humans alone in the universe? Everyone wants to know the answer—until suddenly the truth is staring them in the face.
The ExPAnSE Project is a bold new advance in SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. With this project, humankind is poised to answer some of its biggest questions. Are we just one of millions of civilizations in the galaxy? Are advanced alien life forms reaching out to us even now? Is Earth ready to join a galactic community of planets? Or instead, are we completely, terrifyingly, alone?
Ten Plus One
by Ed McBain
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
When Anthony Forrest walked out of the office building, the only thoughts on his mind were of an impending birthday and a meeting with his wife for dinner. And a deadly bullet saw to it that they were the last thoughts on his mind.
The problem for Detectives Steve Carella and Meyer Meyer of the 87th Precinct is that Forrest isn’t alone. An anonymous sniper is unofficially holding the city hostage, frustrating the police as one by one the denizens of Isola drop like flies. With fear gripping the citizenry and the pressure on the 87th mounting, finding a killer whose victims are random is the greatest challenge the detectives have ever faced—and the deadliest game the city has ever known.
Beneath the Waves
by Kayla Lowe
Kindle $4.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Brand New Release from Award-winning author Kayla Lowe
Ria Durham, a passionate marine biologist, is determined to uncover the truth behind the mysterious deaths of local marine life. When her investigation leads her to a powerful corporation with dark secrets, she enlists the help of Dale Guerra, a reclusive park ranger with a painful past. Together, they uncover a shocking conspiracy—illegal chemicals being dumped into the ocean, threatening both the environment and the future of their town.
As they dive deeper into the mystery, they become targets of the corporation’s ruthless henchmen.
Secrets of Peaceful River Valley
by Suzanne Sinclair
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Three sisters. One buried secret. And a past that won’t stay buried.
In the quiet town of Peaceful River Valley, Florida, Kyra King has spent twenty years raising her sister Kat after their parents’ tragic death. But when Kat uncovers a DNA test revealing they have an older sister, Perdita, the King family’s carefully guarded secrets start to unravel.
As Kyra, Kat, and Perdita dig into their past, they discover ties to the prestigious Ponte Vedra Inn and Club, where their mother once stayed as a teen. The truth they uncover is more shocking and dangerous than they could have imagined, with a long-buried murder mystery tied to their family’s history…
Untidy Murder
by Frances Lockridge, Richard Lockridge
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
When a magazine editor falls from his window, the case lands in the laps of Mr. and Mrs. North
The body hits the pavement at 12:25 p.m., but Dorian Hunt doesn’t know a thing about it. She has come to the offices of Esprit magazine to deliver some sketches, and she has a meeting with the art director, Paul Wilming. When his secretary opens the door, Wilming isn’t in his office. He’s not anywhere on the floor. But there’s a cigarette burning in the ashtray, a window open to the sky . . . and a tragedy on the sidewalk below.
The Best Lies
by David Ellis
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Bestselling and award-winning author David Ellis delivers a fast-paced, twisty thriller that will surprise readers at every turn.
Leo Balanoff is a crusading attorney with unthinkable skeletons in his closet. He’s also a diagnosed pathological liar. When a predatory gangster with a long list of victims is found dead and Leo’s fingerprints show up on the murder weapon, no one believes a word he says in his defense. But he might be the FBI’s only shot at taking down the gangster’s even more lethal boss…
THE SUM OF OUR SORROWS
by Lisette Brodey
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
In an idyllic suburb in Northern California, tragedy strikes the Sheppard family when Abby, the mother of three daughters and wife to Dalton, is killed in a car accident. Charlotte, the middle daughter, is in the car with her mother and survives without physical injury but remains deeply scarred on the inside.
Dalton tells Lily, his eldest daughter, that she must sacrifice long-awaited college plans and put her life on hold to take care of her sisters. Lily is torn between her devotion to family and an increasing need to find her place in the world — but how can she leave, knowing her family may crumble? Will her presence eventually cause more problems than it resolves?
Tom Clancy Line of Demarcation
by M.P. Woodward
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
The discovery of an oil field off the coast of Guyana plunges Jack Ryan, Jr into a cauldron of lies in the latest entry in this New York Times bestselling series.
It starts with the destruction of a US Coast Guard cutter and the loss of her entire crew. But the USCG Claiborne was on an innocuous mission to open a sea lane between an oil field off the coast of South America and the refineries of southern Louisiana. The destruction of the ship, tragic as it is, won’t stop that mission from continuing…