Friday’s Mystery eBooks
The Predicament
by William Boyd
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
From the internationally bestselling author, a thrilling novel starring the travel writer-turned-reluctant spy Gabriel Dax, who finds himself implicated in a dangerous conspiracy with global consequences
1963, Guatemala. The country is in turmoil, with a presidential election looming and a charismatic, left-wing ex-priest and trade union leader predicted to win. United Fruits, a giant American corporation responsible for a large percentage of the country’s GNP, meanwhile, is not pleased by this prospect. Neither is the CIA. Amid the uncertainty, Gabriel Dax arrives on orders from his MI6 handler Faith Green, who has tasked him with assessing the fallout from the election…
The Beach Bistro
by Meg Hartwell
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
She came to Coral Bay to hide. She was really coming home.
After a scathing review and a viral meltdown destroy her successful city restaurant, chef Laura Blake watches twenty years of relentless work go up in smoke. With nothing left to lose, she retreats to Coral Bay, Florida—the sleepy Gulf Coast hometown she left at eighteen and swore she’d never see again.
In a weathered beach cottage filled with reminders of her late mother and the girl she used to be, Laura tries to figure out what comes next. Little by little, an idea takes shape…
The Collaborators
by Michael Idov
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Combining realistic thrills with sophisticated spycraft and witty dialogue, The Collaborators delivers a gut-punch answer to the biggest geopolitical question of our time: how, exactly, did post-Soviet Russia turn down the wrong path?
Crisscrossing the globe on the way to this shocking revelation are disaffected millennial CIA officer Ari Falk, thrown into a moral and professional crisis by the death of his best asset; and brash, troubled LA heiress Maya Chou, spiraling after the disappearance of her Russian American billionaire father…
Dig Me a Grave
by Richard A. Harpootlian, Shaun Assael
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The definitive true “Southern Gothic” account of the life, crimes, conviction, and execution of Donald “Pee Wee” Gaskins, the charismatic, brutal, well-liked, remorseless South Carolina serial killer who was dubbed the Charles Manson of the South—written by the prosecutor who brought him to justice.
Of the hundreds of murder cases that noted South Carolina attorney Dick Harpootlian has prosecuted, one in particular haunts him. Donald “Pee Wee” Gaskins was a serial killer and rapist, a master manipulator who claimed to have killed over 100 people and is known to have murdered over a dozen, including a toddler, and his own teenage niece. Yet it was on Death Row that he pulled off his most audacious murder—killing another inmate with a military grade explosive.
Texas Security Series Books 1-3
by Stacy Angell Curtis
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The complete three-book Texas Security Series: Wealth of Secrets, Depths of Deception, and Deadly Christmas Cipher
Jack McKerrick and Bryn Marsh navigate mystery, murderers, billionaires, a hurricane, lost treasure, and their growing feelings for each other in this contemporary Christian Romantic Suspense three-book series set in Texas.
When new threats and old secrets collide, Jack and Bryn will risk their lives and their hearts to find the truth.
Smoke
by Joe Ide
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Isaiah Quintabe is no longer IQ, the genius of East Long Beach; instead, he’s a man on the road and on the run, hiding in a small Northern California town when his room is broken into by a desperate young man on the trail of the state’s most prolific serial killer.
His old partner, Juanell Dodson, must go straight or lose his wife and child. His devil’s bargain? An internship at an LA advertising agency, where it turns out the rules of the street have simply been dressed in business casual, but where the aging company’s fortunes may well rest on their ability to attract a younger demographic. Dodson—”the hustler’s hustler”—just may be the right man for the job.
The Copper Testament
by William Pickrel
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Dr. Nadira El-Hadid reads what other people miss. It has made her difficult, respected, and alone. So when an old colleague calls about a disputed reading of the Copper Scroll, she goes to Jerusalem expecting academic politics — and finds a page marked in her dead father’s handwriting.
In a storage unit in Alexandria, in twelve boxes nobody has opened in twenty years, the same five-stroke mark appears again and again across a lifetime of field notes her father never published. He had been tracking something. He never told his family what.
The Fine Art of Lying
by Alexandra Andrews
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
From the critically acclaimed author of Who is Maud Dixon? comes a riveting new novel about a young wife and mother thrust into a world of wealth and privilege, whose rash mistake sets off a domino effect of murder and betrayal. In the beginning, there was art.
It was Clare Bast’s love of art that saved her from a bleak, predictable life in upstate New York, and drew her to the cultured world of Manhattan’s Upper East Side where she met Jed, her doting, affluent husband. Despite her best efforts—including a half-finished PhD, abandoned when her daughter Sadie was born—Clare secretly can’t help but feel like an imposter in Jed’s one-percent, Park-Avenue life.
Not a Word
by Linwood Barclay
Kindle $14.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
In the latest chilling thriller from New York Times bestselling author Linwood Barclay, a man’s world is upended after he stumbles upon a grisly crime scene in the family home.
Every family has secrets, but when Reece visits his parents’ house, he’s shocked to find them in bed, dead. At first glance it looks like a murder-suicide perpetrated by his father, but on closer inspection there’s clearly more to the story. For starters, inconsistencies in the crime scene suggest his dad may not have shot himself…