Monday’s Mystery eBooks
The Village Detectives and the Deadly Brew
by Fiona Walker
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
When handsome, former-rugby-playing, pub landlord Mil asks Juno Mulligan for a favour, she immediately says yes. Although she’s initially disappointed that the favour doesn’t involve any sort of romantic shenanigans, Juno is reminded that she does love investigating mysteries. And perhaps it is just her destiny to choose crime-fighting over afternoon-delighting?
It’s an interesting case. Mil needs Juno and their fellow Village Detective, Phoebe Fredericks, to investigate a targeted campaign against the local Wyche Craft Brewery, now run by his friend, Ashleigh Wyche, a former-Lioness. A series of recent near-misses and attempts at sabotaging her property are surely no coincidence?
Hindsight
by Iris Johansen, Roy Johansen
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Investigator Kendra Michaels—once blind and known for her sharp skills—puts her life on the line to catch a killer in this electrifying novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning duo.
Dr. Kendra Michaels, blind for the first twenty years of her life before gaining her sight via a revolutionary surgical procedure, is a renowned investigator known for her razor-sharp senses—honed during her years in the dark—and keen deductive abilities.
Shanghai
by Joseph Kanon
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
After the violence of Kristallnacht (1938), European Jews, now desperate to emigrate, found the consular doors of the world closed to them. Only one port required no entry visa: Shanghai, a self-governing Western trading enclave in what was technically Chinese territory, a political anomaly that became an escape hatch—if you were lucky enough to afford a ticket on one of the great Lloyd liners sailing to the East and safety.
Daniel Lohr was one of the lucky ones—lucky enough to have escaped the Gestapo when his colleagues in the resistance were caught, lucky enough to have an uncle waiting in Shanghai, lucky to find a casual shipboard flirtation that turns unexpectedly passionate.
A Soldier Finds His Way
by Irene Onorato
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Gruff and tough, Edward Giordano’s success as an elite Special Forces soldier doesn’t carry over to his personal life. Emotionally scarred from a painful childhood, he’s built a wall around his heart that he lets very few penetrate.
Audra Lorenzo, a first-year school teacher, is on a road trip with her niece during the holidays. A storm that was supposed to pass, instead crosses her path. Lost, with her GPS cutting in and out, her car skids off a road, down an embankment, and into an icy river. Everything goes black.
The Tally
by Christian Kay
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Every soul is born with a hundred. Spend it, and you’re worth nothing. In the sealed city of Galcyon, a number on your wrist is the measure of your soul. It buys your food, your shelter, your right to exist. When it hits zero, the iron cuff goes on, and the city works you until the Reckoning, the holy day when the worthless are executed in front of everyone and it’s called an act of mercy.
Micah has spent eighteen years believing the number is fair. He has to believe it, because it’s the only thing keeping his twin brother safe.
Broken Cross
by Bill Byrnes
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Priest. Scholar. Fugitive. Tom Lache never imagined fleeing through Cappadocia, but now he’s running for his life. He’s wanted for the murder of a brilliant Muslim archaeologist, whose discovery could shatter Christianity. His only ally is Rachel Goldman, a New York Times reporter and rabbi’s daughter.
Tom must decipher the Gospel of Longinus, an ancient text stating that Christ planned and survived his crucifixion. He faces the unthinkable dilemma-is his faith based on a lie, or will a lie destroy his faith?
Notes on an Execution
by Danya Kukafka
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Ansel Packer is scheduled to die in twelve hours. He knows what he’s done, and now awaits execution, the same chilling fate he forced on those girls, years ago. But Ansel doesn’t want to die; he wants to be celebrated, understood.
Through a kaleidoscope of women—a mother, a sister, a homicide detective—we learn the story of Ansel’s life. We meet his mother, Lavender, a seventeen-year-old girl pushed to desperation; Hazel, twin sister to Ansel’s wife, inseparable since birth, forced to watch helplessly as her sister’s relationship threatens to devour them all; and finally, Saffy, the detective hot on his trail, who has devoted herself to bringing bad men to justice but struggles to see her own life clearly.
The Case of the Drowsy Mosquito
by Erle Stanley Gardner, Otto Penzler
Kindle $9.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
Perry Mason solves a murder in a mining town in this whodunit from one of the bestselling authors of all time.
When a millionaire enlists Perry Mason to protect his mining interests, the sleuthing attorney and his tireless secretary Della Street trade the Los Angeles streets for the fresh mountain air of San Bernardino. As soon as they arrive at the property, however, things start to go sideways, first with the introduction of an eccentric cast of characters, and then with deception, poisoning, and gunfire. When one of the group falls dead, Mason must throw his deductive powers into overdrive, sorting through red herrings and puzzling clues to reveal whodunit. At the end, his dazzling explanation will hinge on an oddly lazy insect.