Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Tricky Twenty-Two
by Janet Evanovich
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
“The most popular mystery writer alive.” – The New York Times
Stephanie Plum might not be the world’s greatest bounty hunter, but she knows when she’s being played. Ken Globovic (aka Gobbles), hailed as the Supreme Exalted Zookeeperof the animal house known as Zeta fraternity, has been arrested for beating up the dean of students at Kiltman College. Gobbles has missed his court date and gone into hiding. People have seen him on campus, but no one will talk. Things just aren’t adding up, and Stephanie can’t shake the feeling that something funny is going on at the college – and it’s not just Zeta fraternity pranks.
Thrill Kill
by Cameron Curtis
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A Russian scientist with a deadly secret. Only Breed can get him out.
When CIA operator Anya Stein offers Breed a job in Vienna, he arrives just in time to save her from Russian assassins led by a deadly blonde in dark sunglasses.
Stein explains the mission: protect defecting rocket scientist Dieter Kromik, who holds the secret to Russia’s devastating Oreshnik missile – a conventional weapon that delivers a nuclear-sized punch…
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(Breed Thrillers)
The Wolf Hunter
by Eli Hai
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A gripping psychological thriller, The Wolf Hunter will have readers on the edge of their seats as they unravel this twisted murder mystery at the center of this story of obsession, vengeance, and betrayal.
When his taste for revenge turns into murder, he’ll have nowhere to hide in the cold woods.
Growing up in the wild and dangerous tundras outside Kotzebue, Alaska, Su Ran is used to being a loner. After a wolf viciously attacked him when he was just a boy, leaving his face severely disfigured, he becomes tormented by his own reflection. When his scientist father takes off shortly after the attack, Su Ran swears to seek revenge on the one-eared wolf that ruined his life…
Ninth House
by Leigh Bardugo
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Enter a mesmerizing world of power, privilege, and dark magic among the Ivy League elite in the first book in the Alex Stern series.
Goodreads Choice Award Winner
Locus Finalist
Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug-dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. In fact, by age twenty, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say she’s thrown her life away. But at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend one of the world’s most prestigious universities on a full ride. What’s the catch, and why her?
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(Ninth House Series Book 2, for $2.99)
The Girl Next Door
by Matt McGregor
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
She’s beautiful, she’s dangerous. And she just moved in next door.
When her only son leaves for college, Helen Martin thinks her biggest worry is an empty house.
Then Dakota moves in next door. Beautiful and brash, Dakota quickly attracts the ire of the homeowners association — and the wandering eyes of Helen’s husband, Sam.
But Helen is determined to be a good neighbor. When Dakota’s violent ex-husband comes looking for her, Helen thinks she can help drive him away.
DUCT TAPE & DESTINY
by LANCE LASSEN
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
They said wormholes were impossible. Bill Griffin made one anyway.
Quantum physicist Bill Griffin has nothing left to lose. His parents are dead. His revolutionary equation is complete. And when he punches a hole through spacetime with nothing but math and his billionaire uncle’s funding, he discovers something terrifying:
Earth isn’t just isolated. It’s been quarantined.
The Big Slide—a galaxy-spanning highway system—connects every inhabited world in the known universe. Every world except Earth. Humanity speaks the universal language but has been banned from using it. And the cosmic powers that be have made it very clear: Earthlings are too dangerous to be trusted with the stars.
Stone Cold
by C. J. Box
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A stranger makes trouble for Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett in this gripping thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.
Everything about the rich stranger is a mystery: the massive, isolated ranch in the remote Black Hills of Wyoming, the women who live with him, the secret philanthropies, the private airstrip, the sudden disappearances. And especially the persistent rumors that the man’s wealth comes from killing people.
Joe Pickett, still officially a game warden but now mostly a troubleshooter for the governor, is assigned to find out the truth. But he finds out a lot more than he bargained for…
The Final Diagnosis
by Arthur Hailey
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The #1 New York Times–bestselling author’s classic novel of life and death drama inside a major American hospital – “easy to read and hard to stop reading” (Kirkus Reviews).
Change is in the air when a new board chairman sets out to modernize and expand Three Counties Hospital in Burlington, Pennsylvania—a once venerable institution whose standards have slipped. Dynamic Dr. Kent O’Donnell, a Harvard Medical School–trained surgeon, accepts the board’s offer to lead and reform the rundown, disorganized hospital because he wants to make his mark on the world.
OFF GRID
by J. P. Redding
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In the wake of a global calamity, the economy collapses. The Feds respond by wielding every power of the Welfare State to control the populace. A key tool is PivPal, an indispensable smartphone used to track citizens. As civil liberties crumble, resistance is relegated to flyover country whose residents—derided as off-gridders—cling to the time-honored virtues of freedom, self-reliance, and charity. Against this backdrop, Jenny Hernandez struggles to keep her rural church community nourished and safe. Hiding from the Feds, a team of inventors, and Jenny’s ex, arrive to complete the amazing plasma drive. They bring hope, but also the watchful eye of Big Brother. With the authorities closing in, local law enforcement must choose sides.
Vampire Vintage
by Ashlyn Chase
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Maura Keegan, addicted to vampire romance novels, decides to add a Gothic section to her vintage clothing store in SoHo. What better way to get a tax-deductible trip to Romania—and meet her future vampire mate?
Adrian, a sexy vampire living right under her nose in New York, owns a vineyard in France producing very special wine for exclusive clients. It allows him and others like him to walk in daylight and avoid snacking on strangers.