Friday’s Mystery eBooks
EVANGELINE
by Herc Samson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In 1953, two FBI agents are called in to investigate the disappearance of a young White woman in Louisiana. In their pursuit of clues, they stumble across the horrific murder of a Black youth. It soon becomes apparent that the two cases are linked, and solving the murder is the key to unlocking both cases.
But the agents are impeded in their investigation by parties on the both sides of the color line in the victim’s hometown of Evangeline, right on the edge of the Louisiana swamplands. The Whites close ranks, seemingly in effort to protect their own; the Black population keeps silent in fear of reprisals and the threat of more violence. And the deeper they dig, the more the agents find that nothing and no one are as they seem…
The League of Ascenders
by Spring Dalton
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Beneath the disguise of a local shelter in the small town of Evergreen lies a secret training ground where destiny is forged.
Welcome to The Landing—the hidden home of The League of Ascenders, just one division of a worldwide alliance where twelve warriors are called to use their superpowers to protect humanity from demonic harm. It is time for a new generation of recruits to take up the mantle, but their journey to the academy grounds is riddled with peril.
Eighteen-year-old fledglings enter The Landing estate expecting answers about who they are. What they discover will shatter everything they thought they knew.
One Fatal Flaw
by Anne Perry
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
When a desperate woman comes to Daniel Pitt seeking a lawyer for her boyfriend, Rob Adwell, Daniel is convinced of the young man’s innocence. Adwell has been accused of murder and of setting a fire to conceal the body, but Daniel is sure that science can absolve him—and Miriam fford Croft is the best scientist he knows. Miriam connects Daniel with her former teacher Sir Barnabas Saltram, an expert in arson, and together, they reveal Adwell’s innocence by proving that an accidental fire caused the victim’s death. But it’s not long before Adwell is killed in the same fiery fashion. If these deaths are, in fact, murders, what essential clue could Daniel and Miriam have missed?
Exit Music
by Ian Rankin
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
From international mystery sensation Ian Rankin comes the gripping last case for one of crime fiction’s most beloved heroes, John Rebus.
It’s late in the fall in Edinburgh and late in the career of Detective Inspector John Rebus. As he is simply trying to tie up some loose ends before his retirement, a new case lands on his desk: a dissident Russian poet has been murdered in what looks like a mugging gone wrong.
Rebus discovers that an elite delegation of Russian businessmen is in town, looking to expand its interests…
Storm Prey
by John Sandford
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
“Sandford’s track record as a best-selling author is amazing, but it’s not an accident,” wrote Booklist of Wicked Prey. “His plotting is sharp, his villains are extraordinarily layered, and his good guys are always evolving.
And this time, there’s a storm brewing…Very early, 4:45, on a bitterly cold Minnesota morning, three big men burst through the door of a hospital pharmacy, duct-tape the hands, feet, mouth, and eyes of two pharmacy workers, and clean the place out. But then things swiftly go bad, one of the workers dies, and the robbers hustle out to their truck-and find themselves for just one second face-to-face with a blond woman in the garage: Weather Karkinnen, surgeon, wife of an investigator named Lucas Davenport.
Weir Dragon Academy Complete Series Boxed Set
by D.R. Perry
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Always be yourself. Unless you can be a dragon.
My sisters and I escaped a tyrant’s realm only to face something scarier: boarding school. They see a forest. I see every flawed tree, and I can’t stop pointing them out. But stand out too far and someone’s bound to cut you down. Can I fit in when I hatched this way?
Join Linden and her sisters as they take on the challenge of Weir Dragon Academy with this complete series boxed set!
Sacrifice
by Lynda La Plante
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Detective Jack leads Scotland Yard’s fledgling art fraud unit, its survival hinging on exposing a suspected forgery – a multimillion-dollar masterpiece.
When his informant, gallerist Ester Langton, is brutally murdered, Jack’s hunt spirals into obsession. Clues point to Adam Border, a reclusive genius hiding in a decayed Sicilian villa haunted by Mafia ties and violent secrets…
What Happened That Night
by Nicci French
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Old friends, new secrets, one deadly reunion.
Tyler Green, convicted of murdering his friend Leo at a student house party in 1993, has been released after almost three decades in prison. He has always protested his innocence.
On a warm evening in London, Tyler summons eight of his university friends who were present on that fateful night. Is it just a reunion – or something else? With wine—and accusations— flowing liberally, the reunion descends into violent chaos, and one friend will end the night with their throat slit in the upstairs bedroom…the same way that Leo’s was in 1993.