Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Death, Heists and Hat People
by Bessie Barr
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Finn Dockrey has plenty to distract her in Pelican Shores. Things with Detective Pace Stringfellow are definitely heating up, her BFF, Birdie, is stirring up pumpkin streusel bars, and Tory McGee has somehow convinced a flock of glamorous international visitors to model her new Tide & Brim hat line. Or has she?
Because the strangers seem far more interested in old paintings, jewelry, and island estates than fashion. Then local estate dealer Kitty Kelley turns up dead. Suspicion falls everywhere. A furious son claims Kitty cheated his family out of a priceless first edition Hemingway.
The Bone Hacker
by Kathy Reichs
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Called in to examine what is left of a person thought to have been struck by lightning, Tempe traces an unusual tattoo to its source and is soon embroiled in something much larger. Young male tourists have been disappearing on the islands of Turks and Caicos.
Seven years earlier, the first victim was found in a strange location with his left hand hacked off; subsequently, two other visitors vanished without a trace. But recently, tantalizing leads have emerged…
Loose Arrows
by Lynn Horton
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
CIA operative Nina Abrams is an invaluable asset to the Moscow office—an American who can think like a Russian. As the daughter of Stalin’s favorite portraitist, she never underestimates the Kremlin’s lethal games. But when her four-year-old daughter, Katie, disappears in a bloody kidnapping, grief paralyzes Nina, and the Agency sends her home.
Seven tough years later, her heavily medicated father’s shocking last words link Katie’s disappearance to missing nuclear warheads powerful enough to start World War III. Nina is doubtful—until vandals ransack her father’s studio and leave a grisly reminder of that horrific night in Moscow.
Trouble in Mind
by Jeffery Deaver
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In these twelve electrifying tales (including six written just for this anthology) Deaver proves once again his genius for the unexpected-in his world, appearances are always deceiving.
A devoted housekeeper embarks on a quest to find the truth behind her employer’s murder. A washed-up Hollywood actor gets one last, high-stakes chance to revive his career. A man makes an impulsive visit to his hometown, and learns more about his past than he bargained for. Two Olympic track hopefuls receive terrorist threats.
The Greatest Threat
by Christopher Walker
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
After Kaigen discovers a map proclaiming it leads to “The Greatest Threat to Mhorelia,” he and John decide to follow its path and vanquish whatever threatens the peace they just fought so hard to achieve. But what they uncover is worse than they could’ve ever imagined.
As danger comes at them from all sides and everyone is pushed to their breaking point, John must work quickly to rally his new companions and defend Mhorelia from the greatest threat it’s ever faced.
All the Demons Are Here
by Jake Tapper
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
It’s 1977. Ike and Lucy, the kids of Senator Charlie and Margaret Marder, are grown up—and in trouble. US Marine Ike has gone AWOL after a military operation gone horribly wrong.
Now he’s off the grid, working on the pit crew of the moody stunt master Evel Knievel and hanging in the roughest dive bar in Montana. His sister Lucy has become the star reporter of a brand-new Washington, DC tabloid breaking stories about a serial killer and falling in with the wealthy, shady British family that owns the newspaper.
The Jaded Warrior
by Jennifer Youngblood
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
From the moment sassy Alabama travel writer Nikki Sterling meets retired Navy SEAL Luke Ellis, sparks fly hot and fast. Nikki knew getting involved with a complicated man would come with challenges, but his controlling nature is suffocating.
Luke is disciplined … a man who’s fought his way back from addiction. Control isn’t just who he is—it’s how he keeps going. Nikki has never stayed around long enough to answer to anyone. After walking away from a prince—and a future that felt more like a gilded cage than a dream—she’s not about to trade her freedom for someone else’s expectations.
Where Memories Lie
by Deborah Crombie
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A lifetime ago, Erika Rosenthal and her late husband, David, fled to England to escape the Nazis—which is all Scotland Yard Detective Inspector Gemma James truly knows about her secretive friend’s past. But Erika needs Gemma’s help now. A family heirloom, stolen during their flight, is being sold at a prestigious London auction house. Who has had it all these years? And was Erika’s husband’s death more sinister than it appeared?
Hidden somewhere in the shadowy, exclusive world of London’s monied society are answers to these questions, and to a shocking new murder—one which kicks the enquiries into high gear and brings Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid, Gemma’s partner and colleague, into the case.