Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Death by Deception
by Tracy Gardner
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Join the Shepherd sisters in solving a mystery…before it’s too late! This artful cozy mystery is perfect for fans of Krista Davis and Joanne Fluke.
Savanna Shepherd is a former art authenticator―someone who can tell a forgery from the real thing. She’s got a talent for spotting secrets hiding in plain sight.
After being fired and dumped in the same terrible day, Savanna moves back to her idyllic hometown on the banks of Lake Michigan. At least she’s close to her sisters again, and she’s enjoying her new job as a grade school art teacher.
Heat of Hydration
by Dwight Morgan Jr.
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
A skyscraper primed to ignite. A killer with a code name. A race to stop a disaster that could rewrite the balance of world power.
When Interpol investigator Colton Gray begins tracking a string of bizarre murders across Europe, the trail leads to something far more explosive—a new United Nations headquarters with a deadly secret built into its foundation. Hidden within its walls is a catastrophic weapon, timed to detonate on opening day and wipe out the leaders of the world’s largest economies.
Behind the plot is a phantom operative known only as Pakistan—a man driven by revenge, armed with genius-level engineering skills, and backed by a shadow network willing to do anything to see the plan succeed.
Shadow Fall
by Laura Griffin
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Special Agent Tara Rushing arrives at a grisly Texas murder scene and quickly realizes she’s dealing with a meticulous predator who leaves almost no trace. Determined to stop the killer, Tara turns to the renowned forensic specialists at the Delphi Center for help.
The local sheriff is convinced he already has his man—ex-Marine and security expert Liam Wolfe. When Tara arrives at Liam’s high-security Texas compound, she’s prepared for resistance but not for her powerful attraction to him. As danger closes in, she reluctantly relies on Liam’s skills and resources to track the killer, even as her instincts warn her to keep her guard up.
Money for Old Bones
by Joe Talon
Kindle $1.49 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A witch is burnt alive. A priest cuts his throat. A soldier is hung from a tree. A terrible debt must be paid.
Lorne’s personal demons need to be tamed if he’s ever going to have a normal life. When he is offered the job of security guard at an old rectory in the Lyn Valley, he takes it. The house he’s guarding has other ideas. It’s already occupied.
As the rain falls, the waters rise and old graves move. It’s time for the witch to demand her reparations from the villagers who inherited her curse. Lorne, Ella, Willow, and Heather must find a way to balance the scales before more lives are lost.
The Sword Brothers
by Peter Darman
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Jerusalem may have fallen to the Saracens but in the Baltic Bishop Albert of Riga has created the crusader state of Livonia to bring the word of God to the indigenous pagans. The battle to convert the natives is savage and unrelenting and into this holy war is thrust Conrad Wolff, a young native of the city of Lübeck whose family has suffered a terrible injustice.
Forced to leave his homeland to seek sanctuary in Livonia, Conrad’s fate is soon entwined with that of the Sword Brothers, the order of warrior monks that fights to defend and expand Christendom in the Baltic. But as Conrad begins his training to become a member of the brethren, the enemies of the Bishop of Riga gather and soon Livonia is surrounded and battling for its very existence.
SHADOWFIRES
by Dean Koontz
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Rachel’s request for a quick and clean divorce enraged her husband. She’d never seen Eric so angry, so consumed by pure and terrifying hatred. Then, in the heat of the moment, Eric was killed in a traffic accident. Shocked and relieved, Rachel had nothing left to fear. Until Eric’s body disappeared from the morgue – and suddenly, Rachel is being stalked by someone who looks just like her dead husband.
Taking Root
by Stacey Wilk
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
After her assault one year ago, Brooklyn Wilde left her husband and her nursing career to return to her family circle in Candlewood Falls and heal her broken soul. A stranger arriving at her door in the middle of the night turns her world upside down, because he isn’t any stranger. He’s the man who went to prison for killing her uncle.
Caleb Ransom accepted his life sentence to wander from town to town without a family or a home. Even though he was wrongly accused of murder and released, suspicion hangs over him like a bank of rain clouds. Only Brooklyn sees the man he truly is, and he falls hard for her.
The Secret of Secrets
by Dan Brown
Kindle $15.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
The world’s most celebrated thriller writer and author of The Da Vinci Code returns with his most stunning novel yet—a propulsive, twisty, thought-provoking masterpiece that will entertain readers as only Dan Brown can do.
Robert Langdon, esteemed professor of symbology, travels to Prague to attend a groundbreaking lecture by Katherine Solomon—a prominent noetic scientist with whom he has recently begun a relationship. Katherine is on the verge of publishing an explosive book that contains startling discoveries about the nature of human consciousness and threatens to disrupt centuries of established belief…