Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder in Prospect
by Jane Suen
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
On spring break, Eve Sawyer conquers her fear of flying to help a friend, only to find herself drawn into a murder case.
Her friend Bob is grieving the death of his beloved Uncle Will and feels something’s not right. It was ruled that he died of natural causes, but shortly after arriving, Eve begins to suspect foul play.
No stranger to murder cases, journalism student Eve puts her sleuthing skills to use to help Bob get the answers he needs, peeling away the layers of the mystery in her hunt for the truth.
Silent Witness
by Richard North Patterson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
After the murder of his high school sweetheart left him shattered, Tony Lord vowed never to return to his Ohio hometown of Lake City. Twenty-eight years later, Tony is a successful California criminal lawyer with a beautiful celebrity wife. He’s living the good life…until long-buried memories come crashing down when he hears from an old friend, who needs his help.
Sam Robb is a track coach at Lake City High. He swears he is not responsible for the death of one of his female team members…even though forensic evidence reveals that he’s the father of her unborn child.
Code Red
by Ian Loome
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Bob is just another homeless guy. So why is he being hunted by a crack team of assassins?
Bob Singleton used to be a top CIA assassin. Now, scarred by his terrible past, he lives in a refrigerator box behind a dumpster in downtown Chicago. He just wants to be left alone. But his past is coming back to haunt him, in the shape of a nurse and a teenage boy who desperately need his help.
They are being pursued by trained killers because they stumbled on a long-buried conspiracy, a secret that is tied to a failed mission in Bob’s military past.
A Missing Manuscript and Murder
by P. C. James
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A simple puzzle turned deadly. With scandal and folks with something to hide, can this retired inspector close the book on homicide?
North Yorkshire, 1966. Tom Ramsay can’t seem to escape mysteries. Reluctantly taking on a straightforward case to appease his assistant, the former investigator suddenly finds himself caught up in two capers when a literary agent begs for his help. But when tampering becomes theft, the frustrated man can’t walk away when a best-selling author turns up dead.
Attempting to stay out of a police matter, the diligent sleuth soon realizes he can’t pretend the two incidents aren’t connected…
The Street Between the Pines
by J.J. Alo
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
This debut psychological thriller by award-winning author J.J. Alo will scratch readers’ horror itch like the writing of H.P. Lovecraft or modern-day master Stephen King.
Curtis Reynolds hasn’t slept well in months. Years, even, if you include the deadly DUI that ruined his life. Returning home today to a pile of debt, his estranged wife, and son between third-shift work assignments has been anything but bliss.
This morning, his elderly neighbor was brutally murdered, and the local police are now prodding him for answers…
Slayer of the Dead
by Tom Atwood Jr.
Kindle 2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
The Kingdom of Melora is on the verge of civil war as rioting mages clash with zealous Templars.
Erik Wynnson dreams of escape, of becoming a mercenary and carving out his own future. Instead, a forbidden ritual unleashes an ancient Nightmare upon his village and awakens a raw, uncontrollable magic within him.
To survive, Erik must master this dangerous power under the guidance of Bowen, a mysterious Druid who reveals a hidden world of elemental magic and legendary monster hunters. But when the resurrected vampire lord Kerrigan rises with an army of the dead, Erik’s path collides with the kingdom’s secret war.
Sullivan’s Woman
by Nora Roberts
Kindle 1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Nora Roberts, #1 New York Times bestselling “word artist” (Los Angeles Daily News), paints a passionate portrait of how pursuing a single moment of beauty may become a lifetime of love in Sullivan’s Woman.
Despite possessing a look envied and desired by everyone she meets, Cassidy St. John’s modeling career has stalled. So when famous painter Colin Sullivan wants her as the model for what he believes will be his visionary masterpiece, she knows this isn’t just a job but a chance to be immortalized. And as Colin strives to capture Cassidy’s allure, both artist and subject realize their growing attraction for one another cannot be contained on a canvas.
Apples Don’t Fall
by Terry Toler
Kindle 0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Ellie Austen has spent her life living in a shadow.
As the daughter of Jamie Austen—the most lethal female assassin the CIA has ever known—Ellie enters the Agency with expectations she never asked for and a legacy she can’t escape. Her first assignment is supposed to be simple. Quiet. Routine.
Travel to the Cayman Islands. Identify a suspected CIA mole. Report back.
But routine ends the moment Ellie realizes she’s being watched.
The Bishop’s Pawn
by Steve Berry
Kindle 2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
History notes that the ugly feud between J. Edgar Hoover and Martin Luther King, Jr., marked by years of illegal surveillance and the accumulation of secret files, ended on April 4, 1968 when King was assassinated by James Earl Ray. But that may not have been the case.
Now, fifty years later, former Justice Department agent, Cotton Malone, must reckon with the truth of what really happened that fateful day in Memphis.