Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
An American in Scotland
by Lucy Connelly
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The first in a Scottish cozy mystery series full of red herrings, a dash of romance, and all the charm of a Jane Austen novel.
Dr. Emilia McRoy is determined to uncover the secrets of her small Scottish town—before someone else gets kilt.
Sea Isle was supposed to be the fresh start Dr. Emilia McRoy dreamed of. Far from the busy emergency room across the Atlantic in Seattle, she hoped to settle down and begin this new chapter as a small-town doctor to the quirky residents who immediately welcomed her. When she stumbles across a dead body, she starts to think that she may not be as Scot free of the drama and intrigue as she initially thought.
And Then She Was GONE
by Christopher Greyson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
What’s done in the dark will be brought to the light…
Jack Stratton, a hometown hero with a heart of gold, seemed destined to become another statistic, but now his life has taken a turn for the better. Determined to escape his past, he’s headed for a career in law enforcement. When his foster mother asks him to look into a young woman’s disappearance, Jack quickly gets drawn into a baffling mystery. As Jack digs deeper, everyone becomes a suspect–including himself. Caught between the criminals and the cops, can Jack discover the truth in time to save the girl? Or will he become the next victim?
A Killer’s Canvas
by Miss Wolfe, Kat Burie
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Compassion is Anita Parish’s calling. As a hospice nurse in Elgin, she brings comfort to those nearing life’s end. But a darkness simmers beneath her caring facade, a ruthless determination to protect the vulnerable from a world teeming with predators. Haunted by a past she can’t escape, Anita believes it’s her duty to deliver the justice the system fails to provide.
A Killer’s Canvas begins a chilling four-book psychological thriller arc that follows Anita Parish. This is one half of a shared-world thriller series told from two opposing perspectives: the killer, and the detective. Dark, intimate, and unsettling, Anita’s story is ideal for fans of Caroline Kepnes, Gillian Flynn, and thrillers where justice wears a bloody mask…
The Line Between
by Tosca Lee
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
When Wynter Roth finally escapes from New Earth, a self-contained doomsday cult on the American prairie, she emerges into a world poised on the brink of madness as a mysterious outbreak of rapid early onset dementia spreads across the nation.
As Wynter struggles to start over in a world she’s been taught to regard as evil, she finds herself face-to-face with the apocalypse she’s feared all her life—until the night her sister shows up at her doorstep with a set of medical samples. That night, Wynter learns there’s something far more sinister at play: that the prophet they once idolized has been toying with the fate of mankind, and that these samples are key to understanding the disease.
When Will There Be Good News?
by Kate Atkinson
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The third installment in Kate Atkinson’s wildly beloved series of Jackson Brodie Mysteries: a complex tale of murder, coincidence, and connected lives. On a hot summer day, Joanna Mason’s family slowly wanders home along a country lane. A moment later, Joanna’s life is changed forever…
On a dark night thirty years later, ex-detective Jackson Brodie finds himself on a train that is both crowded and late. Lost in his thoughts, he suddenly hears a shocking sound… At the end of a long day, 16-year-old Reggie is looking forward to watching a little TV. Then a terrifying noise shatters her peaceful evening. Luckily, Reggie makes it a point to be prepared for an emergency…
Deeper Than the Dead
by Tami Hoag
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A serial killer terrorizes a small California town in this gripping thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag.
California, 1985—Four children and young teacher Anne Navarre make a gruesome discovery: a partially buried female body, her eyes and mouth glued shut. A serial killer is at large, and the very bonds that hold their idyllic town together are about to be tested to the breaking point.
Tasked with finding the killer, FBI investigator Vince Leone employs a new and controversial FBI technique called “profiling,” which plunges him into the lives of the four children—and the young teacher whose need to uncover the truth is as intense as his own.
Coma
by Robin Cook
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The blockbuster bestseller that kickstarted a new genre–the medical thriller–is now available in trade paperback for the first time.
They called it “minor surgery,” but Nancy Greenly, Sean Berman and a dozen others–all admitted to Boston Memorial Hospital for routine procedures–were victims of the same inexplicable, hideous tragedy on the operating table. They never woke up.
Susan Wheeler is a third-year medical student working as a trainee at Boston Memorial Hospital. Two patients during her residency mysteriously go into comas immediately after their operations due to complications from anesthesia…
The Munich Girl
by Phyllis Edgerly Ring
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Anna Dahlberg grew up eating dinner under her father’s war-trophy portrait of Eva Braun. Fifty years after the war, she discovers what he never did—that her mother and Hitler’s mistress were friends.
The secret surfaces with a mysterious monogrammed handkerchief, and a man, Hannes Ritter, whose Third Reich family history is entwined with Anna’s.
Plunged into the world of the “ordinary” Munich girl who was her mother’s confidante—and a tyrant’s lover—Anna finds her every belief about right and wrong challenged. With Hannes’s help, she retraces the path of two women who met as teenagers, shared a friendship that spanned the years that Eva Braun was Hitler’s mistress, yet never knew that the men they loved had opposing ambitions.
Conscript: The Complete Series
by John Walker
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Sam Levine thought scraping by on Mars would get easier with time. It hasn’t.
Once full of promise, he now survives as a freelance operator in the Empire’s shadow—taking jobs no one wants just to stay afloat. It’s not the life he imagined, but it’s predictable. And predictability keeps him alive. Until a high-risk offer lands in his lap. One job. One payout. A chance to finally break free. Against his better judgment, Sam takes the risk.
He has no idea what he’s stepped into. As the Empire fractures and an alien threat presses at its borders, his gamble becomes tangled in forces that could decide the fate of entire worlds.