Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Ankeny Arsonist
by G.G. Morris
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Daughter of a famous chanteuse, Wanda Whipple prefers sleuthing to champagne and caviar. When an arsonist lights up the mayor’s home, Wanda’s investigative skills are put to a trial by fire…literally!
Before long, a body is discovered in the rubble of the mayor’s home, and the hunt is on for a killer. Wanda’s old flame heads up the investigation, but Detective Rubio’s no match for Wanda’s talent for smoking out a suspect. Wanda soon learns, however, if you play with fire you’re apt to get burned. Can Wanda catch the Ankeny arsonist before she becomes the next victim?
The Exciting Adventures of George and Amy
by Douglas Ford
Kindle $4.03 Rating: 5.0 #ad
The five exciting and previously published adventures of George & Amy are collected here in a single book. Each story is a stand-alone adventure but there is a common thread that runs through all stories with recurring characters and references to past adventures and experiences.
The books provide a learning curve through many subjects and whilst not claiming to be of text-book level they are intended to stimulate the reader’s interest in a wide range of subjects and promote a desire to learn more about the characters and situations within each story.
Daisy in Chains
by Sharon Bolton
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
He’s a serial killer. A murderer of young women, all killed in brutal attacks.
But despite Hamish Wolfe’s conviction, he’s always stuck to his story—he’s innocent and he’s been wrongly imprisoned. And now he wants someone to investigate and, more importantly, to write his story.
Maggie Rose is a notorious defense attorney and writer whose specialty is getting convictions overturned. At first, Maggie is reluctant to even acknowledge Hamish’s requests to meet, ignoring his letters. But this is a very charismatic and persuasive man, good-looking and intelligent.
Clive Cussler The Corsican Shadow
by Dirk Cussler
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
In May 1940, as the German army blitzes Europe and Parisians flee their city, the chief curator of the Musée de l’Armée is ordered to get a mysterious piece of cargo out of the country. When he arrives at the port of Le Havre and learns that his intended ship has been sunk, he places the object on a decrepit steamer that sails out under German fire.
In the present day, National Underwater and Marine Agency Director Dirk Pitt is on a diving expedition in the English Channel when he discovers a cache of uncut diamonds on a shipwreck. When the diamonds are stolen, Pitt and the NUMA team find themselves up against a murderous cabal that soon reveals far more destructive plans than mere theft…
The Gathering
by C. J. Tudor
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
In a small Alaska town, a boy is found with his throat ripped out and all the blood drained from his body. The inhabitants of Deadhart haven’t seen a killing like this in twenty-five years. But they know who’s responsible: a member of the Colony, an ostracized community of vampyrs living in an old mine settlement deep in the woods.
Detective Barbara Atkins, a specialist in vampyr killings, is called in to officially determine if this is a Colony killing—and authorize a cull. Old suspicions die hard in a town like Deadhart, but Barbara isn’t so sure. Determined to find the truth, she enlists the help of a former Deadhart sheriff, Jenson Tucker, whose investigation into the previous murder almost cost him his life. Since then, Tucker has become a recluse. But he knows the Colony better than almost anyone.
The Max Quinn Thriller Box Set
by Harry Parker
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A single thumb-drive. A hidden list. A conspiracy older than the courts she once trusted. Family-law attorney Max Quinn built her reputation fighting bruising custody battles in Richmond, but everything changes the morning a neighbor’s dog uncovers human remains and a terrified whistle-blower shoves a USB into her hands. The drive exposes Management and the Circle–two rival shadow networks that have been grooming powerbrokers since childhood… #ad
Command and Control
by Marc Cameron
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
For a century, the Panama Canal has served as the path between the seas. Control of this vital waterway is the difference between free trade and chaos in world markets.
So when Panamanian President Rafael Botero asks for a show of support against the socialist opposition, his old friend President Jack Ryan can’t turn down an invitation to visit the country, but what seems like an ordinary opportunity to preach the values of democracy quickly turns into a nightmare when a full-blown coup d’état erupts.
Death of an Angel
by Donald Davis
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
When prosperous lawyer Ernest Brendel mysteriously disappeared, along with his wife Alice, and their eight-year-old daughter Emily, friends in the close-knit Rhode Island neighborhood worried that family had been kidnapped. It would be agonizing months in a massive FBI search before they would know the heartbreaking truth.
The shaken community began to lose hope that the family would ever be found alive. Their worst fears were confirmed when heavy rains from a tropical storm uncovered Alice and Ernest Brendel’s badly decomposed bodies—shot with a giant crossbow, strangled, and buried in the quiet woods of the town. Lying under her mother’s corpse was little Emily’s lifeless body, now a silent witness to her killer’s shocking identity.
Death of a Groom
by M. C. Beaton
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Sergeant Hamish Macbeth returns to protect his sleepy Scottish village of Lochdubh in the latest mystery in M.C. Beaton’s beloved, New York Times bestselling series.
It is February and the Scottish Highlands village of Lochdubh is dealing with heavy snow and freezing temperatures. Sergeant Hamish Macbeth can handle the weather, but with a surprise influx of high-society visitors for a Valentine’s Day wedding at Tommel Castle Hotel, he has bigger problems…