Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good
by Helene Tursten, Marlaine Delargy
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Maud is an irascible 88-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and… no qualms about a little murder. This funny, irreverent story collection by Helene Tursten, author of the Irene Huss investigations, features two-never-before translated stories that will keep you laughing all the way to the retirement home.
Ever since her darling father’s untimely death when she was only eighteen, Maud has lived in the family’s spacious apartment in downtown Gothenburg rent-free, thanks to a minor clause in a hastily negotiated contract. That was how Maud learned that good things can come from tragedy…
One Little Mistake
by Miranda Rijks
Kindle 0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
They were best friends forever. Then Kate made one little mistake…
Kate thought the spreadsheet was harmless—a private ranking of her four best friends detailing their various strengths and weaknesses. But when it leaks online and goes viral, her carefully curated life implodes.
Social invitations vanish, her business crumbles, even her marriage starts to fall apart. It’s as if the silken thread that has been holding everything together has been pulled and now it’s all unravelling.
And it gets worse. Someone on the list seems to be out for revenge, determined to destroy whatever is left of Kate’s perfect life. As anonymous threats multiply and her son falls mysteriously ill, Kate doesn’t know where to turn or who to trust.
Something to Hide
by Elizabeth George
Kindle 1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers and Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley are back in the next Lynley novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George.
When a police detective is taken off life support after falling into a coma, only an autopsy reveals the murderous act that precipitated her death. She’d been working on a special task force within North London’s Nigerian community, and Acting Detective Superintendent Thomas Lynley is assigned to the case, which has far-reaching cultural associations that have nothing to do with life as he knows it. In his pursuit of a killer determined to remain hidden, he’s assisted by Detective Sergeants Barbara Havers and Winston Nkata…
A Day in the Death of Dorothea Cassidy
by Ann Cleeves
Kindle 2.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Before Shetland and Vera, Ann Cleeves wrote the Inspector Ramsay series featuring a talented, brilliant detective—now in print for the first time in the US.
For Dorothea Cassidy, Thursdays were special. Every week she would look forward to the one day she could call her own, a welcome respite from the routine duties of being a vicar’s wife. But one Thursday in June would be her last—the day Dorothea Cassidy was strangled…
Heat Lightning
by John Sandford
Kindle 1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Virgil Flowers hunts a killer responsible for a strange string of murders in this thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford.
On a hot, humid summer night in Minnesota, Virgil Flowers gets a call from Lucas Davenport. A body has been found near a veterans’ memorial in Stillwater with two shots to the head and a lemon in his mouth—exactly like the body they found two weeks ago…
The Deputy & Mirabel
by L.K. Campbell
Kindle 0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Mirabel Findley is fired from her nursing job for allegedly helping outlaw Danny McGowan escape from a clinic. During a Christmas blizzard, she flees to Red Gorge, Dakota Territory, where her cousin is the sheriff. There, Mirabel discovers Danny is also in town, trying to clear his brothers of a crime they didn’t commit. He forces Mirabel to help, trapping her and Deputy Micah Hansen in a perilous situation. Mirabel and Deputy Hansen must work together to survive and ensure justice prevails.
All Her Fault
by Andrea Mara
Kindle 0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
ONE MISSING BOY.
Marissa Irvine arrives at 14 Tudor Grove, expecting to pick up her young son Milo from his first playdate with a boy at his new school. But the woman who answers the door isn’t a mother she recognises. She isn’t the nanny. She doesn’t have Milo. And so begins every parent’s worst nightmare.
FOUR GUILTY WOMEN.
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
by Damien Lewis
Kindle 1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
One of the most remarkable stories in the history of Special Forces’ operations – Daily Express
In the bleak moments after defeat on mainland Europe in winter 1939, wartime leader Winston Churchill knew that Britain had to strike back hard.
He recruited a band of eccentric free-thinking warriors to become the first ‘deniable’ secret operatives behind enemy lines, offering these volunteers nothing but the potential for glory and all-but-certain death.