Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Antique Blues
Jane K. Cleland
Kindle 2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Ever-crafty Josie must confront suspicious antiques dealers and her own friend’s killer in Antique Blues, the twelfth mystery in Jane K. Cleland’s beloved Josie Prescott Antiques Mystery series set in New Hampshire.
When amateur sleuth and antiques expert Josie Prescott is called in to appraise a Japanese woodblock print and vintage guitar for her friend Mo, she’s thrilled—until Mo is murdered. It doesn’t take her long to pinpoint one suspect: Mo’s sister’s manipulative boyfriend, who sold her the print—and has now, conveniently, disappeared.
Tokyo Express
Seicho Matsumoto
Kindle 1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
From “Japan’s Agatha Christie” (The Sunday Times): A secluded bay. An apparent lovers’ suicide. And a pair of detectives with a nagging suspicion that the pieces don’t add up. Can you solve one of the most astonishing literary puzzles ever written?
“An irresistible Hitchcockian gem: a fiendishly plotted crime novel told in crisp, elegant prose.”—Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train In a rocky cove at Hakata Bay, the bodies of a young and beautiful couple are discovered.
Unnatural History
Jonathan Kellerman
Kindle 2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The iconic thriller series that inspired the upcoming streaming show on Prime Video, in development now! The most enduring detectives in American crime fiction are back in this electrifying novel of art and brutality from the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense.
Los Angeles is a city of stark contrast, the palaces of the affluent coexisting uneasily with the hellholes of the mad and the needy. That shadow world and the violence it breeds draw brilliant psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis into an unsettling case of altruism gone wrong.
The Dark Remains
William McIlvanney and Ian Rankin
Kindle 1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
In this prequel to the hit series, Glasgow’s gritty detective probes the murder of a gangland lawyer as tensions rise in the city’s underworld. Lawyer Bobby Carter did a lot of work for the wrong kind of people.
When his body is found in an alley behind a pub that is known to be under the protective wing of a local crime boss, the fragile equilibrium that has been keeping Glasgow relatively safe for months is shattered. Besides a distraught family and any number of powerful friends, Carter has left behind his fair share of enemies.
Slow Dawn
Ralph Hecht
Kindle 0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
A coastal gothic nightmare for fans of dangerous magic, seductive monsters, cursed bloodlines, haunted libraries, secret societies, threshold law, supernatural justice, dark desire, witchy atmosphere, and beautiful terror.
Maria Hellstrom does not become safe when she awakens, she becomes seen, wanted, hunted, tested, and crowned by a house that remembers every sin. Read it for the fog. Stay for the hunger. Fear the door that opens back. Maria Hellstrom thought silence was the thing she feared most.
Tonight and Always
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A story of misplaced expectations and unexpected passion from #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts.
For a change of pace, renowned anthropologist Kasey Wyatt takes a job working for bestselling author Jordan Taylor, who needs helps researching his latest novel about the Plains Indians.
Upon arriving at Jordan’s impressive Palm Springs estate, Kasey finds all the trappings of a family, but none of the warmth. Jordan’s forbidding mother is immediately suspicious of her, while Jordan’s shy and serious orphaned niece represses her curiosity. Jordan himself is an expert at hiding his emotions behind an aristocratic facade.
A Season of Secrets
Fern Michaels
Kindle 8.54 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
In search of long-lost family and a little holiday magic, a young woman and her adopted mother go on a once-in-a-lifetime trip to London for Christmas in this humorous, heartwarming standalone novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels.
Signing up for an ancestry report starts as a fun diversion for Ashley Chandler, but the results throw her life into upheaval. Ashley is not biologically related to the people she’s always assumed were her parents. Finally, the truth emerges—Ashley was adopted, and her real birth family is in England.
Depths of Deception
Stacy Angell Curtis
Kindle 0.99 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.
Children of Demise
by Shannon Elliott
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
The West Valley neighborhood in Louisville, Kentucky, has descended into chaos due to a gang called the Children of Demise (COD) led by Typhon, a brilliant but dangerous leader rumored to be the frontman for The Victor, a mythical figure who controls all crime in the city.
Pastor Don Whitaker leads Lincoln Street Baptist Church, located in the center of this urban war zone. With his congregation leaving in droves, Don and the church board find their hold on the church property and their community deteriorating. When Reginald Hall, a criminal defense lawyer, city councilman, and mayoral-hopeful, fails in his attempts to buy the church grounds through his real estate group, he makes clear he will stop at nothing to achieve his ambition.
Mistake in Time
by Anna Faversham
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
For 21st century career girl Liberty Taffet, the idea of making a catastrophic mistake is unthinkable. To get away from two-timing heartbreaker Dr Nicolo Nylander, she sets off to visit Regency England. She knows the secret, she’s done her research – what could possibly go wrong?
Landing in London’s Swinging Sixties pursued by two unknown men and unable to remember who she is wasn’t in the plan. Yet what fun to see madcap fashions and even a piano being played in the middle of Carnaby Street. Then more problems arise and staying in this wonderful life of fun and colour becomes increasingly impossible.