Monday’s Mystery eBooks
A Death in Diamonds
by SJ Bennett
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Two murders in Chelsea plague amateur detective Queen Elizabeth II in the fourth book in the charming series, perfect for fans of Rhys Bowen and Jacqueline Winspear.
1957, England. Young Queen Elizabeth II is finding her way in postwar Europe, trying to repair friendships with foreign governments. Advised by her father’s old courtiers, the Queen suspects that they may not have her best interests at heart. One of them is trying to sabotage her public appearances: that much she is sure of.
When two bodies turn up in Chelsea, the Queen finds herself unwillingly used as the alibi for somebody very close to her…
Body Be Gone
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
It should have been easy. Kill him. Hide the Body. But after Valentine kills boyfriend Boyd Wright, Annalie and Valley can’t get rid of the body. It’s a murder that just won’t go away.
Rollicking comedy continues as the besties face one snag after another in their attempt to get rid of the body including a hurricane, the search for a missing person, unwanted guests and a disgruntled police chief.
Annalie begins to wonder for the first time in her life if God is real and if He is against them because of what they’ve done. They begin a life of looking over their shoulders, yet Annalie discovers that the greatest danger of all is not from the law enforcement officers watching them…it’s from love.
THE BLACK SUIT
by Andrew V. Kudin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
The Black Suit — a historical crime novel inspired by true events in late Soviet Ukraine. A gripping tale of power, betrayal, and forbidden love, it pulls readers deep into the shadows where criminal empires rose as the Soviet world collapsed.
What would you sacrifice for absolute power? Your deepest values? Those you love most? Perhaps even your own soul?
As the USSR unravels, chaos engulfs Ukraine and violent syndicates fill the vacuum. A quiet, introspective young man from a respected intellectual family is pulled into a world darker than his worst fears. Rising fast to lead one of Ukraine’s most feared gangs, he discovers a brutal truth: power always demands its price.
The Surgeon’s Wife
by Kieran Crowley
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
The New York Times–bestselling true crime account of the NYC doctor who killed his wife in cold blood and nearly got away with murder.
In the summer of 1985, in his exclusive Upper East Side Manhattan apartment, Robert Bierenbaum, a prominent surgeon and certified genius, strangled his wife Gail to death. He then drove her body to an airstrip in Caldwell, N.J., and dumped it into the Atlantic Ocean from a single-engine private plane. The next day he reported her missing.
Gail’s parents had been thrilled to learn she was marrying Robert Bierenbaum. He seemed to be the perfect match for their daughter…
The Book of Seila
by Wilda Hughes
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The Book of Seila is a dystopian thriller about sisters caught between a police state and biblical law.
Ruby Lambert is in hiding after escaping a brutal police redemption camp. For five years, she’s been wanted for murder, heresy, and abomination.
When her sister’s husband is killed, her sister becomes a suspect in his death. To save her, Ruby comes out of hiding to help her flee the southern Covenant States.
On their way north, the women are ambushed and separated. Thus begins the clash with a twisted and cloying web of true believers and informers in the small town of Wendell.
The H. P. Lovecraft Collection
by H. P. Lovecraft
Kindle $0.49 Rating: 4.8 #ad
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This beautiful slipcased collection set brings together H.P. Lovecraft’s most celebrated works, divided into six clothbound volumes. Said to be inspired by his own nightmares, Lovecraft’s writing astounds and terrifies in equal measure. His fiction marry gothic horror with cosmic fantasy, from his early macabre stories to his tales of the dreamlands, and of course, his famous Cthulhu novellas, and have influenced authors from Stephen King to Neil Gaiman.
Ripple
by Jim Cosgrove
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
For 9 years, South Carolina officials struggled to identify “the boy in the woods,” a young man whose body had been discovered just south of Myrtle Beach in a fishing village called Murrells Inlet.
Meanwhile, 1,200 miles away in Kansas City, Missouri, Frank McGonigle was missing. His family searched for him at Grateful Dead concerts and in the face of every long-haired hitchhiker they passed. Consumed by guilt for how they’d treated him, Frank’s 8 siblings slowly came to understand that—like Jerry Garcia sang—he’s gone and nothin’s gonna bring him back.
Finally, Frank McGonigle was found—and identified as “the boy in the woods.”
Island Shadows
by Stacy Angell Curtis
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Tayla Faraday’s tragic past still haunts her nightmares. But when she discovers her only living relative—her dear uncle, Leland—is in danger, she curbs her fear and rushes to a remote island in the Caribbean to warn him. He’s kept a secret from her. And the truth stings. But maybe that’s unfair.
Because she has her own secrets.
Former CIA operative, Jason Bridger, works for the private security company, WhiteRock. Jason arrives on Isadora Island to track down a fellow agent, hoping the agent’s lack of communication is simply due to poor cell service in the tropical paradise. His mission is complicated when he meets the intriguing Tayla Faraday and learns she’s searching for her uncle on the same island.
The Picasso Heist
by James Patterson, Howard Roughan
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
A $100 million painting. A previously unknown Picasso is discovered in the attic of a French villa.
Everyone wants to possess it. Filthy-rich Manhattan art people. Organized crime bosses. Power-hungry government officials. A notorious forger. A glamorous twenty-two-year-old art thief.
Only one person knows how to take it. She’s the rival none of the power players see coming.