Friday’s Mystery eBooks
A Three Book Problem
by Vicki Delany
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Sherlockian bookshop manager and frequent amateur sleuth Gemma Doyle is back on the case when a poisoned dart ends in demise . . .
It’s a crisp, early October weekend, and business is slowing down as fall descends at the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium and adjacent Mrs. Hudson’s Tea Room. Wealthy philanthropist and prominent Sherlockian David Masterson has rented Suffolk Gardens House, where he plans to entertain his friends in a traditional English country house weekend…
The Body in the Malibran Theater
by Barbara Marangon
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
During the restoration of the Malibran Theater in Venice, an ancient mummy of an Asian woman is discovered buried under the stage. Detective Antonio Galimberti and Professor Francesca Pavan, an expert in Chinese antiquities, are called to the scene. Two things are found on the mummy: a tiara of inestimable value and a diary. The only other lead they have is that the theater had been built on the foundation of Marco Polo’s house.
The next day, the precious tiara is stolen from the forensic department and later the suspected thief is discovered dead—without the tiara. A murderer has it now. Eventually, two people who can identify the killer are also found murdered.
Antonio and Francesca are attracted to each other from the beginning, sparking a romance. But she has a dark secret: the gift of retro-cognition, an ability to see a murder through an object that had belonged to a victim. In time, Francesca confesses to Antonio that when she had first touched the tiara, she had seen how the mummy died. And as she slowly translates the fragile diary, she identifies the Chinese woman, changing the pages of history.
Along Came a Spider
by James Patterson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Discover the classic thriller that launched the bestselling detective series from the world’s most popular storyteller. Alex Cross is in a race against time after two private-school children are kidnapped by their teacher—a man looking to commit the crime of the century. The inspiration for the Prime Video show, Cross. Alex Cross is a homicide detective with a Ph.D. in psychology. He works and lives in Southeast D.C. and looks like Muhammad Ali in his prime. He’s a tough guy from a tough part of town who wears Harris Tweed jackets and likes to relax by banging out Gershwin tunes on his baby grand piano. But he also has two adorable kids of his own, and they are his own special vulnerabilities.
Jezzie Flanagan is the first woman ever to hold the highly sensitive job as supervisor of the Secret Service in Washington. Blond, mysterious, seductive, she’s got an outer shell that’s as tough as it is beautiful. She rides her black BMW motorcycle at speeds of no less than 100 mph. What is she running from? What is her secret?
She refused to be The Other Woman
by Crystal Mary Lindsey
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Every wise woman should not miss the opportunity to read this enlightening book, while every mother should make sure to pass it on to her daughter.
Nurse Erin Thibaut, known for her unwavering dedication to her profession, never anticipated finding herself in a romantic entanglement.
However, fate had other plans when she encountered Dr. James Brennan, who pursued her relentlessly and eventually won her heart. This captivating narrative will expose the treacherous tactics and deceit some individuals employ to manipulate others. Driven by innocence, Erin becomes trapped in a web of lies, with seduction threatening to shatter her sanity.
As she unveils the truth, she discovers that the charming doctor who seduced her with romantic illusions is, in fact, already married, leaving her involuntarily relegated to the role of his secret lover.
With a Mind to Kill
by Anthony Horowitz
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Internationally bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s third James Bond novel, after Forever and a Day.
It is M’s funeral. One man is missing from the graveside: the traitor who pulled the trigger and who is now in custody, accused of M’s murder—James Bond.
Behind the Iron Curtain, a group of former Smersh agents want to use the British spy in an operation that will change the balance of world power. Bond is smuggled into the lion’s den—but whose orders is he following, and will he obey them when the moment of truth arrives?
A Fatal Profit
by Howard Dart
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #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.
Six Days Spent
by Luana Ehrlich
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
When private investigator Mylas Grey gets a call from the wife of a high-profile Pentagon official, he assumes it’s about their appointment to discuss a possible stalker.
It’s not. It’s about her husband – he’s just been murdered. Mylas agrees to investigate the murder, even though he’s supposed to help Whitney find a place to live in the next six days. Can he do both?
As it turns out, finding a killer and finding a house have a lot in common . . .
Both require connections . . .
Devil’s Corner
by Lisa Scottoline
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Assistant U.S. Attorney Vicki Allegretti goes to meet a confidential informant and finds herself facing a loaded 9 mm Glock semiautomatic weapon, wielded by a panicky teenager. Violence is the last thing this neophyte lawyer expects. The case is easy, the kind given to new ADAs to help them cut their teeth. Yet almost before she has time to react, her partner is dead, shot in the chest.
From that high-octane introduction to her job, Vicki vows to continue with the case, protect her informant, and find the shadowy figure behind the death of her partner…
Circle of Days
by Ken Follett
Kindle $16.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
From a bestselling author of epic fiction comes the deeply human story of one of the world’s greatest mysteries: the building of Stonehenge.
A FLINT MINER WITH A GIFT
Seft, a talented flint miner, walks the Great Plain in the high summer heat, to witness the rituals that signal the start of a new year. He is there to trade his stone at the Midsummer Fair, and to find Neen, the girl he loves. Her family lives in prosperity and offer Seft an escape from his brutish father and brothers within their herder community.
A PRIESTESS WHO BELIEVES THE IMPOSSIBLE