Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Bar None
by Deany Ray
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
It’s been two months since Piper and her Gran relocated to Bitter End, Florida, as part of the witness protection program, and things are only slightly looking up.
That is, if you don’t count another murder.
Piper has taken a bartending job at a dive bar that’s shadier than a palm tree at night. Dealing with questionable characters comes with the territory, but she’s used to that. After she threatens one of the patrons with a knife, she stumbles upon his dead body in the alley later that night. She is not used to that.
The Carrier
by E.D Atanasoski
Kindle $3.54 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Surprisingly wholesome for an apocalyptic novel, this mystery-adventure is sure to thrill readers of all genres.
The world ended in just days.
After losing his parents in the outbreak, Nate survives by keeping to himself, scavenging what he needs and avoiding the living almost as carefully as the infected. It’s a system that works…until it doesn’t.
Then he meets Morgan and Jace, a married couple travelling with their young niece and nephew. The children’s parents are missing, and Morgan and Jace are determined to find them, even as the country collapses around them…
Death Row
by Freida McFadden
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
With all hope of an appeal fading away, the fate of a condemned murderess takes a shocking turn in a breathtaking short story by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Housemaid.
Talia Kemper is on death row for murdering her husband. She had an alibi and no known motive, yet Talia’s unwavering protestations of innocence have always been ignored. Then one day in the visiting area, she sees a recognizable stranger she’s certain is her husband. It turns out the man she’s been convicted of killing may not be dead after all. But as the days tick away toward Talia’s execution, what will it take for her to be believed?
Paradise Cove
by Davin Goodwin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Roscoe Conklin never dreamed he’d be looking down at a severed human leg—on the island paradise of Bonaire. But he quickly determines who it belongs to—the nephew of a friend.
A bizarre barter lands Conklin the case file, but he can’t make any progress. He has the pieces and needs to snap them together soon.
Before the body count rises.
Perfect for fans of John Sanford’s Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers
Schrader’s Chord
by Scott Leeds
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Heart-Shaped Box meets The Haunting of Hill House in Schrader’s Chord, Scott Leeds’s chilling debut about cursed vinyl records that open a gateway to the land of the dead.
I told you they were real.
After his estranged father’s mysterious death, Charlie Remick returns to Seattle to help with the funeral. There, he discovers his father left him two parting gifts: the keys to the family record store and a strange black case containing four antique records that, according to legend, can open a gate to the land of the dead.
When Charlie, his sister, and their two friends play the records, they unwittingly open a floodgate of unspeakable horror.
The Amateur Detective
by Peter Zander-Howell
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In 1950, a death occurs under the uniquely-banded cliffs in Hunstanton. It is soon realised that this is a case of murder, but the Norfolk police inspector runs into difficulties, and Scotland Yard DCI Philip Bryce finds himself back in the county for the second time in a matter of months.
A local amateur detective with a considerable knowledge of murder cases (both real and fictional) is determined to help the police, and comes up with various suggestions. However, initially neither he nor the police seem to be able to pin all the usual key elements – means, motive, and opportunity – on any one person…
The Forgotten Girl
by Rio Youers
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Nominated for the 2018 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel.
A dark mystery unfolds in Rio Youers’s riveting thriller, The Forgotten Girl.
Harvey Anderson is a twenty-six-year-old street performer from New Jersey. He enjoys his peaceful life, but everything turns upside down when he is abducted and beaten by a group of nondescript thugs. Working for a sinister man known as “the spider,” these goons have spent nine years searching for Harvey’s girlfriend, Sally Starling. Now they think they know where she lives. And whom she loves.
There’s only one problem: Sally is gone and Harvey has no memory of her. Which makes no sense to him, until the spider explains that Sally has the unique ability to selectively erase a person’s memories—an ability she has used to delete herself from Harvey’s mind.
The Lazarus Solution
by Kjell Ola Dahl
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Summer, 1943. Daniel Berkåk, who works as a courier for the Press and Military Office in Sweden, is killed on his last cross-border mission to Norway.
Demobbed sailor Kai Fredly escapes from occupied Norway into Sweden, but finds that the murder of his Nazi-sympathiser brother is drawing the attention of the authorities on both sides of the border…