Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Split Second
by Janet Evanovich
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
In a now-or-never moment, Stephanie Plum made the decision of a lifetime. But some lifetimes are shorter than others and Stephanie will be lucky if she makes it to the end of the week. Over the years, Trenton’s best-known bounty hunter has acquired a long list of enemies.
It’s an occupational hazard as a bond enforcement agent. The problem is that she now has a mysterious enemy whose name isn’t on any list. Disturbing packages, threatening notes, and near misses are keeping Stephanie in the dark and her anonymous tormentor, who wants her dead, in the shadows.
Unfinished
by Rich J.B. Martin
Kindle $2.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Alex Taylor arrives at Covenant University looking for a fresh start. He wants a quiet life, a college degree, and no reason to depend on anyone. Then his roommate is found beaten and unconscious behind a campus technology building. Hours earlier, witnesses heard Alex threaten him. Alex has no alibi.
Anonymous notes claim he possesses something he has never seen. The victim’s final, fragmented words seem to point directly at him. As Detective Sarah Sloane investigates, she uncovers a second trail involving unauthorized computer access, a missing professor, and groundbreaking artificial-intelligence research that someone is willing to use violence to obtain.
Faith Hunter
by William Pickrel
Kindle $0.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Daniel Rowan used to find things for a living. Then he found something that cost too many people too much, and he disappeared to a cottage at the end of a dirt road. Now a foundation director has tracked him down with a clay jar from a dead collector’s estate.
Inside is a scroll written by a man who calls himself the son of Jesse. It tells where he laid down the sword of Goliath, and why he wrapped it in cloth: his own men had started turning on each other around it.
A Cornucopia of Murder
by Michele PW (Pariza Wacek)
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
When Charlie accepts an invitation for a potluck Thanksgiving feast, she immediately decides to bring dessert. Homemade pies, of course. And they look so delicious that two of the guests decide to sneak a few bites before the meal.
Which wouldn’t be an issue, except they both end up dead! Obviously, Charlie didn’t poison the pies, but that’s not how it appears. Can she solve the case in time to save the day?
Dead Man’s Loot
by Armstrong Johnson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Johnny Foster was three days from homeless and one bad morning from giving up. Then he bid sixty dollars on the wrong pallet. It should have been junk.
Instead, Pallet 13 held a dead knight’s legacy: a sword that glows, rings that will not come off, bags that hold more than they should, coins from a mint no country on Earth ever stamped, and one legendary artifact that wakes something called the System and marks Johnny as a Traveler. He does not go alone.
The Other Woman
by Daniel Silva
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In an isolated village in the mountains of Andalusia, a mysterious Frenchwoman begins work on a dangerous memoir. It is the story of a man she once loved in the Beirut of old, and a child taken from her in treason’s name. The woman is the keeper of the Kremlin’s most closely guarded secret.
Long ago, the KGB inserted a mole into the heart of the West—a mole who stands on the doorstep of ultimate power. Only one man can unravel the conspiracy: Gabriel Allon, the legendary art restorer and assassin who serves as the chief of Israel’s vaunted secret intelligence service.
The Order
by Daniel Silva
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
It was nearly one a.m. by the time he crawled into bed. Chiara was reading a novel, oblivious to the television, which was muted. On the screen was a live shot of St. Peter’s Basilica. Gabriel raised the volume and learned that an old friend had died …
Gabriel Allon has slipped quietly into Venice for a much-needed holiday with his wife and two young children. But when Pope Paul VII dies suddenly, Gabriel is summoned to Rome for a secret mission of international intrigue by the Holy Father’s loyal private secretary, Archbishop Luigi Donati.
The Oxford Detective Society
by Faith Martin
Kindle $2.49 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Oxford biographer Lyssa Moore is delighted to be commissioned to write about Amelia ‘Monty’ Montrose, the 1960s music icon who died mysteriously at her birthday party in 1966. But as Lyssa delves into Monty’s past, she discovers the wild child portrayed by the press was hiding far more than anyone knew.
And someone is taking a very keen interest in Lyssa’s research. Her flat has been broken into, her phone is acting strangely, and she has a feeling she is being followed. Is Lyssa getting too close to a dangerous truth—was there more to Monty’s death than a tragic accident?
Hunting Badger
by Tony Hillerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Three men raid the gambling casino run by the Ute nation and then disappear into the maze of canyons on the Utah-Arizona border. When the FBI, with its helicopters and high-tech equipment, focuses on a wounded deputy sheriff as a possible suspect, Navajo Tribal Police Sergeant Jim Chee and his longtime colleague, retired Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, launch an investigation of their own.
Chee sees a dangerous flaw in the federal theory; Leaphorn sees intriguing connections to the exploits of a legendary Ute bandit-hero. And together, they find themselves caught up in the most perplexing—and deadly—criminal manhunt of their lives.