Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
After the Pulse
by Robert J. Walker
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
An EMP strike shatters the nation.
Keith flees biker gangs, his daughter is trapped in mall rubble, and his wife fights through burning streets.
Their only hope is Eddie’s off-grid mountain homestead.
Survival, family, and chaos collide in this explosive thriller.
Faint Trace
by M. P. Cooley
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.0 #ad
In her former life as an FBI agent in Oakland, California, June Lyons didn’t flinch at tough assignments investigating gangs. But this hot and weary summer, she finds herself on the sidelines of the action, fruitlessly searching through a boiling hot storage facility for evidence of a counterfeiter.
When June’s lead on the forger becomes a dead end, and her personal life threatens to overwhelm, she’s ready to surrender to the sweltering heat—fighting back when she finds out that the stakes are much higher than she realized.
The Space Between Worlds
by Micaiah Johnson
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.4 #ad
WINNER OF THE COMPTON CROOK AWARD
FINALIST FOR THE LOCUS AWARD
Multiverse travel is finally possible, but there’s just one catch: No one can visit a world where their counterpart is still alive. Enter Cara, whose parallel selves happen to be exceptionally good at dying—from disease, turf wars, or vendettas they couldn’t outrun. Cara’s life has been cut short on 372 worlds in total.
On this dystopian Earth, however, Cara has survived. Identified as an outlier and therefore a perfect candidate for multiverse travel, Cara is plucked from the dirt of the wastelands. Now what once made her marginalized has finally become an unexpected source of power…
Choke
by Stuart Woods
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Murder is not a spectator sport.
Chuck Chandler has choked on more than one occasion—first as a pro tennis player at Wimbledon, then as a womanizing coach at posh tennis clubs around the country. Now at Key West’s Old Racquet Club, Chuck gets involved with the wrong married woman—the enticing Clare Carras, married to an enigmatic older man—and soon he is in way over his head.
Enter Tommy Sculley, a retired New York homicide detective who has just joined the Key West force, and his young green partner, Daryl Haynes, who turns out to be smarter than he looks…
Matters of Choice
by Noah Gordon
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
A woman physician confronts the moral issues of her time in the third novel in the New York Times–bestselling author’s historical medical trilogy.
Roberta Jeanne d’Arc Cole is favored to be named associate chief of medicine at a Boston hospital. She is married to a surgeon. They own a trophy residence on historic Brattle Street in Cambridge and a summer house in the Berkshire Hills. Everything melts away. Her gender and her work at an abortion clinic cost her the hospital appointment. Her marriage fails.
Dead of Night
by Lisa Gray
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A crime writer. A cold case. Will she survive to tell the story?
Since the sudden and tragic death of her partner, bestselling crime author Serena Winters hasn’t written a word. With deadlines looming, she packs up her grief and escapes from New York City to a secluded clifftop house in small-town California, hoping the change of scenery will cure her writer’s block.
But as news of her arrival spreads, Serena finds herself facing strange accusations that she’s here to cash in on the house’s history. When she uncovers the chilling story of a young family who mysteriously vanished from the very same house thirty years earlier, she can’t help asking more questions…