Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Reunion in Death
by J. D. Robb
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
A birthday bash sets the scene for a frightening reunion with a killer from Eve Dallas’s past in this novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling In Death series.
At exactly 7:30 p.m., Walter Pettibone arrived home to over a hundred friends and family shouting, “surprise!” It was his birthday. Although he had known about the planned event for weeks, the real surprise was yet to come. At 8:45 p.m., a woman with emerald eyes and red hair handed him a glass of champagne. One sip of birthday bubbly, and he was dead.
The Fallback Boxed Set
by Robert J. Walker
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
An EMP attack cripples the grid in seconds, leaving Bethany and Krystal trapped in Baja and hunted by cartel thugs. Hundreds of miles away, her husband Lucas begins a desperate journey on foot while their son Reuben escapes a burning city with his bandmates. With no power, no communication, and danger at every turn, each of them must fight to survive and find their way back to each other.
Essence of Illusion
by R. F. Whong
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A perfect murder… until it isn’t.
Paying homage to the queen of mystery, Agatha Christie, this contemporary whodunit weaves an atypical tale of illusion and intrigue set in the picturesque Amish enclave of Paradise, Pennsylvania.
A year ago, still haunted by the tragic events of September 11, Tina Sheng reluctantly served as a Christian summer camp counselor in Paradise.
Every Fear
by Rick Mofina
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
On an ordinary morning, Maria Colson takes her baby son Dylan to the corner store. She turns her back for only a few seconds. When she looks again, she sees his empty stroller, as Dylan is being abducted into a waiting van. Maria climbs into the van, but is violently thrown to the road where she is left for dead as the vehicle vanishes without a trace.
As Maria fights for her life and her anguished young husband keeps a beside vigil, the FBI and police across metro Sea-Tac and Washington State search for Dylan.
Seattle Mirror reporter Jason Wade is under pressure to bring in a big story, and the Colson kidnapping could be it…
The Federal Agents of Magic Saga: Two Complete Series
by TR Cameron, Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
FBI Agent Diana Sheen is an agent with a secret…
…she carries a badge and a troll, along with a little magic.
But her Most Wanted List is going to take a little extra effort.
Grab this saga to start the Federal Agents of Magic story with the first 8 books in this collection and continue the story with the next 8 books of Rogue Agents of Magic. More than 3,500 pages of action-filled adventure awaits you!
Prayers for The Dead
by Faye Kellerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The brutal murder of Dr. Azor Sparks in an alley behind a restaurant is greeted with public outrage and a demand for swift, sure justice. But the investigation into the well-known surgeon’s death is raising too many questions and providing too few answers for homicide detective Lieutenant Peter Decker.
Why, for example, would the family of a man so beloved respond to his slaying with more surprise than grief? And what linked a celebrated doctor with strict fundamentalist beliefs to a gang of outlaw bikers?
Coyote Waits
by Tony Hillerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The car fire didn’t kill Navajo Tribal Policeman Delbert Nez—a bullet did. And the old man in possession of the murder weapon is a whiskey-soaked shaman named Ashie Pinto. Officer Jim Chee is devastated by the slaying of his good friend Del, and confounded by the prime suspect’s refusal to utter a single word of confession or denial.
Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn believes there is much more to this outrage than what appears on the surface, as he and Jim Chee set out to unravel a complex weave of greed and death that involves a historical find and a lost fortune. But the hungry and mythical trickster Coyote is waiting, as always, in the shadows to add a strange and deadly new twist.
You Had Me at Haiku
by John D. Ottini
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
This book contains 101 thought-provoking haiku poems, covering broad topics such as life, love, death, and almost everything in between. The poems are filled with insight, passion, and a touch of humor.
The author first encountered haiku in high school. He thought they were cool back then, as he does today.
The challenge and enjoyment in crafting a haiku is in attempting to portray a meaningful thought or emotion using only three lines and seventeen syllables. That was the challenge the author faced in writing this book.
The Widow
by John Grisham
Kindle $13.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Simon Latch is a lawyer in rural Virginia, making just enough to pay his bills while his marriage slowly falls apart. Then into his office walks Eleanor Barnett, an elderly widow in need of a new will. Apparently, her husband left her a small fortune, and no one knows about it.
Once he hooks the richest client of his career, Simon works quietly to keep her wealth under the radar. But soon her story begins to crack. When she is hospitalized after a car accident, Simon realizes that nothing is as it seems, and he finds himself on trial for a crime he swears he didn’t commit: murder.