Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Troubled Blood
by Robert Galbraith
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Private Detective Cormoran Strike is visiting his family in Cornwall when he is approached by a woman asking for help finding her mother, Margot Bamborough—who went missing in mysterious circumstances in 1974.
Strike has never tackled a cold case before, let alone one forty years old. But despite the slim chance of success, he is intrigued and takes it on; adding to the long list of cases that he and his partner in the agency, Robin Ellacott, are currently working on. And Robin herself is also juggling a messy divorce and unwanted male attention, as well as battling her own feelings about Strike.
A Second Helping of Crazy
by John D. Ottini
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A Second Helping of Crazy
In A Second Helping of Crazy, author John D. Ottini has collected thirteen of his most memorable stories in one volume. Three stories were previously chosen as Finalists in the annual Florida Writers Association Royal Palm Literary Awards competition, and the rest are a selection of the author’s personal favorites.
“I didn’t know what to expect (how many times have you read that?), but I was happily surprised by almost every story I read (I think there was one that was iffy). Wonderfully told, characters everyday people, great twists at the end that were actually unforeseeable. I think you’ll like this one, guys!” by Amazon Customer
The Ice Angels
by Caroline Mitchell
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The first in a new crime series with Nordic-noir elements featuring a compelling female detective, for fans of Lisa Jewell and Stieg Larsson, by New York Times bestselling author Caroline Mitchell
A deadly pattern: Jenny Flynn, Chelsea Hobbs, Sophie Miller. All three children were snatched from the streets of Lincoln, England years apart. All stolen in the bitter chill of winter. All on their way home from school. Then Sophie Miller is found. She’s not speaking, but she may hold a clue to the whereabouts of the missing girls, if someone can get her to open up. Some what reluctantly, Detective Swann calls in his not-quite ex-wife, the perfect woman for the job…
Depths of Deception
by Stacy Angell Curtis
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Her parents are dead. And Bryn Marsh doesn’t want to believe allegations from the FBI about her deceased mother.
Then her uncle reveals an old secret. And her world turns upside down.
Jack McKerrick would do anything to protect Bryn—as her billionaire uncle’s head of security and as a man who wants to spend the rest of his life with her. But when a nineteenth-century corpse and new deadly threats collide with a Cat 4 hurricane, Jack will need a miracle to keep Bryn alive.
Metamorphosis
by Ross Jeffery, William Sterling, Truborn Press
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Metamorphosis is a haunting exploration of grief, obsession, and transformation. Cynthia, a woman who once thrived in her autonomy, now finds herself ensnared by a relentless desire to reclaim what she has lost.
Living a double life, she meticulously plans a path that blurs the lines between love and madness. Armed with a mask that reflects her inner turmoil, Cynthia descends into a world where reality and fantasy intertwine, revealing the dark depths of her psyche…
The Flamesworn Saga Complete Series
by Lyn South, Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Monster hunting is a family business for the Fairbornes.
Maisie and her sister Sela have been trained by their mother to take down anything with claws, teeth, or dark magic, and they’re damn good at it.
After odious Alistair Bramble, the richest man in Draklûn Bay, threatens to take their home unless Maisie agrees to marry him, the sisters take the biggest job of their lives: a quest from King Rodmar of Valendar to find a legendary treasure buried deep in the mountains.
Enter Sir Castian. Grumpy, guarded, and infuriatingly noble. He’s assigned by the king to help them on their quest…
Dirty John and Other
True Stories of Outlaws and Outsiders
by Christopher Goffard
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A collection of newspaper stories by award-winning Los Angeles Times reporter Christopher Goffard—including “Dirty John,” the basis for the hit podcast and the upcoming Bravo scripted series starring Connie Britton and Eric Bana.
Since its release in fall 2017, the Dirty John podcast—about a conman who terrorizes a Southern California family—has been downloaded more than twenty million times, and will soon premiere as a scripted drama on Bravo starring Connie Britton and Eric Bana. The story, which also ran as a print series in the Los Angeles Times, wasn’t unfamiliar terrain to its writer, Christopher Goffard…
Locked In
by Jussi Adler-Olsen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In this tenth installment of the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling series, the team must solve the cold case that has put their own leader behind bars, a place where his enemies are plentiful and time is quickly running out.
When the head of Department Q, Detective Carl Mørck, finds himself handcuffed in a police car headed for Copenhagen’s Vestre prison, he realizes that a violent case from his past has finally caught up with him. But he is being framed. Someone has a million-dollar bounty on his head to make sure he doesn’t talk, putting him in grave danger among the prison’s incarcerated criminals and corrupt officers.
Fatal
by Michael Palmer
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In Chicago, a pregnant cafeteria worker suffering nothing more malevolent than flulike symptoms begins hemorrhaging from every part of her body. In Boston, a brilliant musician, her face disfigured by an unknown disease, rapidly descends into a lethal paranoia. In Belinda, West Virginia, a miner suddenly goes berserk, causing a cave-in that kills two of his co-workers. Finding the link between these events could prove FATAL.
When the Wolves Are Silent
by C. S. Harris
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
A brutal string of ritualistic killings terrorizes a city already shaken by economic and political turmoil in this chilling new historical mystery from C. S. Harris, USA Today bestselling author of Who Will Remember.
London, 1816: When a notorious young aristocrat is burned alive on a windswept hill popular with neo-Druids, former cavalry officer Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, finds himself plunged into a murder investigation shadowed by tales of ancient human sacrifices and long-buried secrets.