Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Tied Up With a Bow
by Sheila Connolly
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Pub owner Maura Donovan is still learning the local customs of the Irish village she now calls home, and with the holidays approaching she’s unsure how much, or how little, to decorate. She’s also puzzled by the small construction project going on across the street, which is shrouded in secrecy and has the whole of West Cork guessing what it might be. But most troubling of all is the secretive young boy who shows up at the pub’s door, hinting that he and his mother had to leave Dublin–in a hurry.
A Fatal Profit
by Howard Dart
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
When a medical research scientist develops an innovative technique to treat diabetes, his colleague is murdered and he is framed for the crime.
His daughter convinces a high tech private detective to help, not knowing he is an ex-CIA black ops agent hiding from his own demons.
Family Sins
by Sharon Sala
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Felled by a cowardly shot to the back, Stanton Youngblood has just enough time before he dies to leave a single clue to his killer’s identity: the word Wayne, scrawled in his own blood.
That word means everything to his widow. Leigh Youngblood was once Leigh Wayne, but she left her wealthy family behind thirty years ago when she fell in love with Stanton, a betrayal the Waynes have never forgiven. Now she publicly vows to discover which of her siblings thinks money and power are enough to cover up a murder.
Kinder
by Martin Kearns
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
“They say children are our future—but what if that future is damned?”
From the shadowy realms first glimpsed in Beneath the Veil, Martin Kearns returns with a chilling collection of stories that explore the darkest echoes of youth. In Kinder, innocence is an illusion, and the monsters don’t always live under the bed—sometimes, they’re the ones tucking you in.
A high school girl follows invisible tendrils cast by a soul-hunting demon. A centaur delivers brutal justice to a father who’s failed his child. A man’s buried memories awaken—and they remember him in return. Each story peels back the fragile skin of adolescence to reveal something ancient, hungry, and unrelentingly cruel…
Night Moves
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
When her husband died, Maggie Fitzgerald abandoned her career and place among the wealthy elite for a small town existence where she could grieve in peace and quiet. Her broken heart finds solace in the company of her landscaper, Cliff Delaney. But Cliff has a temperamental side, and when human bones are found on Maggie’s property, he becomes the police’s number one suspect. Obsessed with learning if the man she’s grown to love is capable of murder, Maggie puts her own life in a killer’s crosshairs…
The Switch
by Lily Samson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Two couples. One dark, twisted game of love and obsession. Suspend your disbelief on this roller-coaster ride of a domestic thriller about the dangerous secrets that come to light when a wild fantasy turns sinister. . .
Young couple Elena and Adam are housesitting in a posh corner of London and are instantly seduced by their new upscale surroundings. Here, Elena meets her neighbor, the enigmatic artist Sophia, and soon becomes obsessed with her beauty, her easy poise, and her husband, Finn. Sophia is everything Elena isn’t—glamorous, alluring, successful—and Finn exerts a mysterious pull on Elena that she can’t seem to shake.
Broken Rhodes
by Kimber Silver
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Kinsley Rhodes blows into Harlow, Kansas like a tornado, twisting Sheriff Lincoln James’ life into knots. Her grandfather has been murdered and she wants answers.
As if the town’s first homicide in twenty years wasn’t enough, the beleaguered sheriff now has to deal with Henry Rhodes’ bobcat of a granddaughter, plunging his life deeper into chaos. As a dark storm threatens, long-held secrets are exposed, placing Kinsley directly in harm’s way.
My Life Among the Serial Killers
by Helen Morrison, Harold Goldberg
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
In this memoir, a forensic psychiatrist chronicles her work with more than 80 serial killers and her thoughts on what compels them.
Judging by appearances, Dr. Helen Morrison has an ordinary life in the suburbs of a major city. She has a physician husband, two children, and a thriving psychiatric clinic. But her life is more than that. She is one of the world’s leading experts on serial killers, and has spent as many as four hundred hours alone in rooms with depraved murderers, digging deep into killers’ psyches in ways no profiler ever has before.
The Truth about the Devlins
by Lisa Scottoline
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Lisa Scottoline, the #1 bestselling author of What Happened to the Bennetts, presents another pulse-pounding domestic thriller about family, justice, and the lies that tear us apart.
TJ Devlin is the charming disappointment in the prominent Devlin family, all of whom are lawyers at their highly successful firm—except him. After a stint in prison and rehab for alcoholism, TJ can’t get hired anywhere except at the firm, in a make-work job with the title of investigator.