Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Storm Watch
by C. J. Box
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett investigates a mysterious death at a secret remote high-tech facility in this riveting new novel from #1 New York Times bestseller C.J. Box. When a prominent University of Wyoming professor goes missing, authorities are stumped.
That is, until Joe Pickett makes two surprising discoveries while hunting down a wounded elk on his district as an epic spring storm descends upon him. First, he finds the professor’s vehicle parked on a remote mountainside. Then Joe finds the professor’s frozen and mutilated body.
One-Hit Wonder
by Lisa Jewell
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
First published in 2001, a reissue of #1 New York Times bestseller Lisa Jewell’s third novel, an “inventive and moving” (The Sunday Times, London) novel about a young woman determined to discover the secrets her celebrity half-sister kept after her untimely death.
Bee Beahorn had it all: a successful music career, fabulous friends, and a glamorous celebrity lifestyle. At least, that’s what her estranged half-sister, Ana, had always believed. Their lives were worlds apart. Bee was beautiful, extravagant, and full of life. Ana was awkward, shy, and destined to live in Bee’s shadow.
The Death of Mrs. Westaway
by Ruth Ware
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
On a day that begins like any other, Hal receives a mysterious letter bequeathing her a substantial inheritance. She realizes very quickly that the letter was sent to the wrong person—but also that the cold-reading skills she’s honed as a tarot card reader might help her claim the money.
Soon, Hal finds herself at the funeral of the deceased…where it dawns on her that there is something very, very wrong about this strange situation and the inheritance at the center of a dark family mystery.
Ice Cold
by Tess Gerritsen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A spur-of-the-moment ski trip becomes a bone-chilling nightmare when a wrong turn leaves Boston medical examiner Maura Isles marooned—far from home and help—in the snowbound Wyoming mountains. Seeking shelter from the cold, she and her traveling companions stumble upon Kingdom Come—a remote village of identical houses that seems to have become a ghost town overnight.
But the abandoned hamlet has dark secrets to tell, and Maura’s party may not be as alone as they think. Days later, word reaches homicide cop Jane Rizzoli that Maura’s charred remains have been found at the scene of a car crash.
Beyond Honor
by K.B. Brodsky
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A paramilitary operative confronting his grief on a path of retribution. A CIA analyst hunting a conspiracy that leads to the Oval Office. A Russian agent hiding in plain sight.
Jason Matthews’s Red Sparrow meets Jack Carr’s The Terminal List in Beyond Honor, a debut political thriller that plunges readers into a world of international espionage, where loyalty and duty are tested. A man forged by war, paramilitary operative Kevin Rhoads is recruited for a solo extraction mission deep inside Siberia.
Spruced up for Murder
by Helen Golden
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
She thinks he’s a boorish know-it-all. He thinks she’s a pampered princess. Unfortunately, they’re both determined to solve the same murder.
Beatrice, Countess of Rossex, is ready for a fresh start. Helping transform the Events Suite at her family’s country estate should provide exactly that. Then she finds a dead body.
When suspicion falls on Bea’s sister, standing back is no longer an option. The trouble is, the investigation is being led by Detective Chief Inspector Richard Fitzwilliam, an arrogant, infuriating man who seems equally determined to keep Bea out of his way.
Rook Steele
by Jesse Storm
Kindle $0.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
They blame the tribes for the bloodshed. Rook Steele knows the truth. A former Army scout, Rook recognizes the work of trained soldiers when he sees it. And the brutal robberies spreading across the Arizona Territory bear the unmistakable mark of a man who knows exactly how to wage war.
That man is Victor Kane – a ruthless Army deserter determined to turn settlers and tribes against each other. When Kane nearly kills Rook and leaves a young orphan in his path, the hunt becomes personal.
The Zig Zag Girl
by Elly Griffiths
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
The chilling debut mystery in the Brighton Mysteries series from Edgar Allen Poe Award-winner Elly Griffiths—author of the Ruth Galloway Mysteries—about a band of magicians who served together in World War II tracking a killer who’s performing their deadly tricks.
Brighton, 1950. A girl is found cut into three sections, and Detective Inspector Edgar Stephens is convinced the killer is mimicking a famous magic trick—the Zig Zag Girl. The inventor of the trick, Max Mephisto, served with Edgar in a special ops group called the Magic Men that used stage illusions to confound the enemy.
Salem Falls
by Jodi Picoult
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Love can redeem a man…but secrets and lies can condemn him. A handsome stranger comes to the sleepy New England town of Salem Falls in hopes of burying his past. Once a prep schoolteacher, Jack St. Bride was destroyed when a student’s crush sparked a powder keg of accusation.
Now, washing dishes for Addie Peabody at the Do-Or-Diner, he slips quietly into his new routine, and Addie finds this unassuming man fitting easily inside her heart. But amid the rustic calm of Salem Falls, a quartet of teenage girls harbor dark secrets—and they maliciously launch a modern-day witch hunt.