Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
One of Us Is Dead
Jeneva Rose
Kindle 1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
“Scheming mean girls, sex and scandal, secrets and lies…what’s not to love?” — Lisa Unger, New York Times bestselling author of Last Girl Ghosted The Real Housewives meets murder in this deliciously savage and wildly entertaining thriller from Jeneva Rose, New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Marriage, You Shouldn’t Have Come Here, and Home Is Where the Bodies Are.
Buckhead isn’t a place you live, it’s a place you survive. And that applies even to the wealthy housewives that have it all. Fancy cars, designer clothes, and daily salon appointments aren’t nearly enough to keep them fulfilled and happy.
Ice Vector
Aiden Bailey
Kindle 0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Beneath the Antarctic ice, a weapon that could change the world. Stranded in the brutal hellscape of Antarctica after being seconded to the Australian Defence Force, CIA paramilitary officer Mark Pierce—the Trigger Man—stumbles upon a terrifying global conspiracy. A Russian research vessel is drifting, powerless, towards an iceberg.
When Pierce boards the ship to investigate, he discovers the entire crew has vanished. A final message names the thing they were running from—a deadly, fast-acting biological weapon capable of wiping out half a billion lives in three months.
Billion-Dollar Ransom
James Patterson and Duane Swierczynski
Kindle 2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In this New York Times bestseller from James Patterson, six kidnappers pursue a whopping ten-figure payout in this thrilling novel. Five members of a billionaire’s family. In different locations. All kidnapped at the same moment. Two children taken from a private-school bus. A film producer and a movie star grabbed at a hideaway resort.
A beautiful wife whisked off the streets of Beverly Hills. A patriarch wants his family back. The cash, gold, jewels, and crypto are all ready. There’s only one problem: a brilliant, very stubborn FBI agent. Special Agent Nicky Gordon doesn’t want to pay the kidnappers. Not a dime.
Robert B. Parker’s Showdown
Mike Lupica
Kindle 2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Spenser may have uncovered an explosive secret that threatens the career of a controversial figure, in this latest installment of Robert B. Parker’s beloved series. Vic Hale isn’t anyone’s idea of a father figure.
He is one of the biggest – and loudest — podcasters in the nation and got there by spewing overheated rhetoric that’s reviled by some but loved by even more. His particular brand of “entertainment” is so successful, he’s about to sign the biggest contract in the history of online broadcasting.
Finders Keepers
Jessica Huntley
Kindle 0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
They stumbled on a fortune. Now they’re paying the price. Mel, Liv, and Jennie have been best friends forever. There’s nothing they wouldn’t do for each other. When Mel’s mother dies, a hidden key leads the three of them to a storage unit—and a discovery that will change their lives.
Over £100,000 in cash. And a body. They desperately need the money so they agree to keep it and say nothing about the dead man. At first, it seems their plan is working. Then the messages start.
Deadly Trio
Emma Jameson
Kindle 0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Lord Anthony Hetheridge, Chief Superintendent for Scotland Yard, has made a name for himself catching killers—a name all his own, apart from his hereditary title. On the cusp of his sixtieth birthday, the wealthy lifelong bachelor has it all—until DS Kate Wakefield upends his elegantly ordered world.
The divide should be insurmountable—age gap, wealth gap, and a class gap wider than the Thames. But as Hetheridge, Kate, and his protege, DS Deepal “Paul” Bhar, investigate the brutal murder of a financier, he finds himself falling in love with Kate—even as the clues lead to a secret from his own past.
Crash Landed with My Weredragon
Celeste Raye
Kindle 0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Crash-landing on an alien planet was never part of Marina Livingstone’s mission. Falling for the Weredragon who comes to her rescue definitely wasn’t. Toren is powerful, protective—and secretly a prince. He needs Marina’s help to save his dying world. She needs him to keep her crew alive on a planet filled with deadly creatures.
As danger forces them closer, an unexpected attraction becomes something neither can deny. But when their ancient Weredragon bond awakens, Marina must decide if she’s willing to leave everything she knows behind for the alien male who has claimed her heart.
The Memory Police
Yoko Ogawa
Kindle 0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Finalist for the International Booker Prize and the National Book Award A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor. On an unnamed island, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses. . . .
Most of the inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few able to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconian Memory Police, who are committed to ensuring that what has disappeared remains forgotten.
25 Alive
James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
Kindle 2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller! Sergeant Lindsay Boxer, medical examiner Claire Washburn, Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano, and crime reporter Cindy Thomas investigate the shocking murder of a former SFPD chief in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, in this thriller from the world’s #1 bestselling author.
“Those who haven’t read any of the novels in the Women’s Murder Club series are cheating themselves.” —BookReporter SFPD homicide detective Lindsay Boxer knows her way around a crime scene. But nothing can prepare her for the shock of recognition: the victim is Warren Jacobi, Lindsay’s onetime partner who rose to chief of police.