Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Temptation, Trouble & Murder
by Christa Nardi
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Caffeine à la corpse, anyone?
The last thing Stacie Maroni expected to find in the break room was a dead body. To make matters worse, the dead guy had her name, phone number, and office location in his pocket. If that’s not bad enough, a fellow member of the foundation she spearheads seems to be missing in action.
Although these events don’t seem to be linked, Stacie is in the thick of things and sleuthing for her life.
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Leave No Trace
by Jo Callaghan
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
From the bestselling author of In the Blink of an Eye comes an inventive thriller that pits algorithms against experience, logic against instinct, and one undetectable killer against two extraordinary detectives.
When the body of a man is found crucified at the top of a hill in the British Midlands, AIDE Lock—the world’s first AI detective—and Detective Kat Frank are thrust into the spotlight as they are given their first live case. When a second body is found, the police issue an extraordinary warning to local males aged between thirty and forty years old…
Holy Ghost
by John Sandford
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Pinion, Minnesota: a metropolis of all of seven hundred souls, for which the word “moribund” might have been invented. Nothing ever happened there and nothing ever would–until the mayor of sorts (campaign slogan: “I’ll Do What I Can”) and a buddy come up with a scheme to put Pinion on the map. They’d heard of a place where a floating image of the Virgin Mary had turned the whole town into a shrine, attracting thousands of pilgrims. And all those pilgrims needed food, shelter, all kinds of crazy things, right? They’d all get rich! What could go wrong?
Murder at Lolly Beach
by Jane Suen
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Chef Blake Conway has been stirring up the locals with his campaign for a plastics ban on the quaint town’s littered beach. When Eve’s friend Cassie takes her to visit Blake’s crêpe food truck and they discover he’s being rushed to the hospital, the college journalism student can’t just stand by, especially after Cassie’s beach house is burglarized.
Beach Beat reporter Jake Thorne, who takes Eve on as an intern, mentors her while they race to find the answers. The fuse is running short on suspects who oppose Blake’s proposed ordinance. And a killer is lurking at the small town’s quiet beach, where murders are practically unheard of.
Persuader
by Lee Child
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
“Gripping and suspenseful . . . Child ratchets up the suspense to new heights.” – The Denver Post
Jack Reacher lives for the moment. Without a home. Without commitment. And with a burning desire to right wrongs—and rewrite his own agonizing past. DEA Susan Duffy is living for the future, knowing that she has made a terrible mistake by putting one of her own female agents into a death trap within a heavily guarded Maine mansion.
Murder in a Hurry
by Frances Lockridge, Richard Lockridge
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A pet-shop owner is killed in his store, and Mr. and Mrs. North take it personally
A smart businessman would never think to open a pet shop in the inconspicuous patch of Greenwich Village known as West Kepp Street, but J. K. Halder isn’t here to make money. A millionaire animal lover, he keeps the shop as a hobby, even though it’s fate hangs perpetually in the balance. As it happens, Halder won’t see it through the end. He has just opened the shop for the day when his final customer enters. Halder knows the visitor by sight, and he also knows that nothing he can say will save his life. There are dozens of witnesses to the murder, but luckily for the killer, animals don’t talk.
Simply Lies
by David Baldacci
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The 6:20 Man comes a twisting psychological thriller in which two women—one a former detective, the other a dangerous con artist—go head-to-head in an electrifying game of cat and mouse.
Mickey Gibson, single mother and former detective, leads a hectic life similar to that of many moms: juggling the demands of her two small children with the tasks of her job working remotely for ProEye, a global investigation company that hunts down wealthy tax and credit cheats.
All Hallows Night
by Leigh Kelsey
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
It was a normal Halloween party until the cult crashed it. I expected beer kegs and douche-bros trying to hit on me. I didn’t expect blood, chanting, and a twisted ritual.
It turns out our college is home to the Cult of Nightmare—that’s Nightmare, the living embodiment of traumatic dreams. The goddess herself transformed fifty college students into our Halloween costumes … and bound us to her command.
Now, our little town of Ford’s End is overrun with witches, ghosts, scantily clad nuns—and me, the bride of death.
See, Nightmare has a bone to pick with the other gods, and she’s using us to do her dirty work.
The Price of Fatherhood
by William Black
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Fatherhood demands something harder: saving a son who may not want to be saved.
Jebediah Stone’s world shattered when outlaw Leroy Jacobs murdered his wife and stole his son.
Now, years later, Leroy rides into Wildsprings – bringing chaos, cattle rustling, and the ghosts of Jebediah’s past.
But when the boy he thought lost stands before him at White’s Acre, hardened by the man who raised him, Jebediah faces an impossible choice: vengeance or redemption. With the sheriff in Leroy’s pocket and the town descending into lawlessness, Jebediah, in his late-fifties, straps on his deputy’s badge once more.
The Hamptons Lawyer
by James Patterson, Mike Lupica
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
The Hamptons on Long Island is known for its beautiful beaches, its luxury lifestyle—and its exclusive legal advice. When Jane Smith takes on a famous celebrity client, she’s armed and ready: with brilliant arguments, hard evidence—and two Glocks.
Yet she’s chased down, shot at, and risks contempt of court. That’s when mounting a legal defense turns into self-defense. Knowing every day in court could be her last, she’s a survivor. For now.