Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Knit One Murde
by Reagan Davis
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Knitting Can Be Murder!
I’m not a cop. I’m a soon-to-be-ex-wife, and former full-time mom who works part-time at the local yarn store. The biggest mystery I’ve ever solved is finding a missing knitting needle tucked behind my ear after spending all morning looking for it.
Someone in Harmony Lake is trying to stitch me up for murder…
Can I knit the clues together and expose the killer before they unravel and kill again?
RED SKY
by A.B. Acharya
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
He believed he was developing a revolutionary drug… Now, he’s accused of murder.
Narin Roy is a brilliant, obsessed neuropharmacologist who has spent his career studying Red Sky, a hallucinogenic street drug that can make you instantly feel euphoric and unstoppable, but can also, without warning, trigger violent psychosis and death at any moment. When he discovers a formula that could neutralize Red Sky’s deadliest side effects and turn ordinary people into DaVinci-level geniuses, Harvester Pharmaceuticals comes calling.
But Harvester isn’t interested in saving lives. Behind its gleaming façade lies a secret military project built on Narin’s own research — one with consequences far beyond anything he imagined…
Bright Expanse
by Daniel Zeigler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Are humans alone in the universe? Everyone wants to know the answer—until suddenly the truth is staring them in the face.
The ExPAnSE Project is a bold new advance in SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. With this project, humankind is poised to answer some of its biggest questions. Are we just one of millions of civilizations in the galaxy? Are advanced alien life forms reaching out to us even now? Is Earth ready to join a galactic community of planets? Or instead, are we completely, terrifyingly, alone?
Big answers to big questions always come at a price. Some answers cost everything.
The Abduction
by James Grippando
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
U.S. Attorney General Allison Leahy is the nation’s top law enforcement officer and the Democrats’ best chance for holding on to the Oval Office. But she has powerful competition in Republican Lincoln Howe, a retired four-star general and bona fide Africa-American hero. They are running neck and neck, and seemingly nothing can break the deadlock.
Then, just days before the election, disaster strikes. Twelve-year-old Kristen Howe, the general’s granddaughter, is kidnapped. As attorney general, Allison launches a nationwide manhunt, but her motives come under fire from her opponent. For Allison, though, finding Kristen isn’t about politics…
Not a Single Easy Day Complete Box Set
by Jacie Middlemann
Kindle $0.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
A harrowing trip, dark secrets, and a not-so-unexpected romance.
Simon Blane was always prepared for everything and anything even though it didn’t always appears as if it was. He’d always believed that little trick of appearing oblivious had kept him alive at the end of more than a few intense and volatile situations.
Including the one that just arrived at his doorstep.
The chilling message from his dead best friend’s sister telling him she was in trouble and needed his help might have come as a surprise, but he was prepared. In a number of ways, the timing couldn’t be better, especially considering the dangerous and idiotic situation going on with his father. Trouble of the worst kind was brewing there as well. He could only hope his brothers were smart and capable enough to handle it without allowing themselves to be dragged into his mess…
Trail of Blood
by Lisa Black
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
With “captivating characters,” this forensics thriller from a New York Times bestseller features a killer who copycats unsolved historical serial murders (Booklist).
In 1930s Cleveland, a serial killer nicknamed the Torso Killer went on a horrific spree that resulted in more than a dozen murders. And he was never caught.
Today, forensic scientist Theresa MacLean is called to an abandoned building where a body has been found in a room that’s been sealed off for years. Although there’s no immediate proof, everyone assumes the newly discovered corpse was a Torso Killer victim.
The Alliance
by Shannon Stoker
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In America, the Registry weds girls to the highest bidder and raises boys for its army. Mia Morrissey fled to Mexico to claim her freedom. Now, she’s going risk everything so that the rest of America can be free.
Going undercover as part of a diplomatic mission, Mia returns to an America even more dangerous than the one she left. The forgotten country faces its most ruthless leader yet, Grant Marsden—a shadow from Mia’s past. With the help of the subversive group Affinity, she embarks on a perilous journey to defeat Grant, bring down the government, and destroy the Registry once and for all.
To Cut a Long Story Short
by Jeffrey Archer
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
From the master storyteller comes a compelling collection of fourteen riveting tales of elaborate confidence tricks, political chicanery, immoral behavior, and dangerously illicit affairs, rendered with the breathtaking narrative twists that have become the Jeffrey Archer hallmark.
Here are stories that will engross and astonish, peopled with a rich assortment of truly memorable characters: the intoxicating woman who appears to her lover only once every six years; the British diplomat who employs his rather creative—if not entirely ethical—financial talents for a greater good; the millionaire who declares himself bankrupt to test the love and loyalties of those closest to him.
The Monk
by Tim Sullivan
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
DS George Cross has always wondered why his mother left him when he was a child. Now that she is back in his life, he suddenly has answers—but this unexpected reunion is not anything he’s used to dealing with. So when the body of a monk is found savagely beaten to death in a woodland near Bristol, Cross is eager to throw himself into the case.
The problem is, no one in the Bristol station has any leads. Nothing is known about Brother Dominic’s past. How can Cross unpick a crime when they don’t know anything about the victim? And why would someone want to harm a monk?
For Services Rendered
by Will Thomas
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
In 1896, Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, would be reformer and revolutionary, turns up in London, running away from China’s Imperial Qing Secret Service, who has placed a substantial bounty on his head for his political activities. Captured by those agents, he’s imprisoned in the Chinese Embassy until he can be smuggled back to China to face execution.
In the meantime, private enquiry agents Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewelyn receive the unbelievable news that Sebastian Nightwine is both alive and in London…
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder at Maisie’s
by Lyla Blue
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Welcome to Silver Pines—where the coffee is strong, every conversation begins with “Did you hear…?” and coming home is never as simple as it sounds.
Clare Garner came home for a fresh start. Instead, she got two exes, one murder, and absolutely no idea which problem to tackle first.
Her high school sweetheart has never stopped believing she belonged in Silver Pines. Her charming college ex suddenly reappears with secrets—and a smile that reminds her why she fell for him in the first place.
The Lazarus Protocol
by Lisa Phillips
Kindle $3.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Brand New Release from USA Today and top ten Publishers Weekly bestselling author Lisa Phillips.
A suspicious death in Washington, ruled an accident. A team dispatched into hostile territory. A covert agent, bruised and hunted, but very much alive.
The CIA saved Stephanie-Jo’s life. Now she owes them her soul, and there’s no way out. When a private black-ops team becomes her only chance at survival, the mission shifts to a battle of wills. These men answer to no government, only to each other, and they’re hunting the same device she’s been sent to secure. Steph’s handlers don’t accept failure. She has to complete the mission—or die trying.
Low Pressure
by Sandra Brown
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
“A good old-fashioned thriller and a winner.” – Kirkus Reviews
Bellamy Lyston was only twelve years old when her older sister Susan was killed on a stormy Memorial Day. Bellamy’s fear of storms is a legacy of the tornado that destroyed the crime scene along with her memory of what really happened during the day’s most devastating moments.
Now, eighteen years later, Bellamy has written a sensational bestselling novel based on Susan’s murder, published under a pseudonym to protect her family from unwanted publicity…
Hour Game
by David Baldacci
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A man accused of burglary seems innocent, but two ex-Secret Service agents quickly learn that nothing is more dangerous than the truth in this propulsive thriller from a #1 New York Times bestselling author.
A woman is found murdered in the woods. It seems like a simple case but it soon escalates into a terrible nightmare. Someone is replicating the killing styles of the most infamous murderers of all time. No one knows this criminal’s motives … or who will die next.
Two ex-Secret Service agents, Sean King and Michelle Maxwell, have been hired to defend a man’s innocence in a burglary involving an aristocratic family…
Trauma and Recovery
by Judith Lewis Herman MD
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
“One of the most important psychiatric works to be published since Freud.” – New York Times
Trauma and Recovery is the foundational text on understanding trauma survivors. By placing individual experience in a political frame, psychiatrist Judith L. Herman argues that psychological trauma is inseparable from its social and political context. Drawing on her own research on incest, as well as a vast literature on combat veterans and victims of political terror, she shows surprising parallels between private horrors like child abuse and public horrors like war.
No Lights No Law
by Robert J. Walker
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
When an EMP destroys America’s power grid, Frank Tilley has only one mission: reach his grandchildren before the darkness claims them.
With society collapsing and his loyal dog at his side, Frank begins a desperate journey across a lawless West Coast. Every mile brings new dangers, and time is running out.
The grid is down. Civilization is gone. And Frank may be his grandchildren’s only hope.
The One from the Other
by Philip Kerr
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In the fourth mystery in Philip Kerr’s New York Times bestselling series, Bernie Gunther—a former policeman and reluctant SS offier—attempts to start over in the aftermath of World War 2 and quickly learns that the past is never far behind you…
Berlin, 1949. Amid the chaos of defeat, Germany is a place of dirty deals, rampant greed, and fleeing Nazis. For Bernie Gunther, Berlin has become far too dangerous. After being forced to serve in the SS in the killing fields of Ukraine, Bernie has moved to Munich to reestablish himself as a private investigator.
The Blue Flame
by George Pelecanos
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Private investigator Derek Strange returns in a riveting drama about revenge, greed, and redemption—from bestselling author and Emmy-nominated writer for HBO’s The Wire and Treme, George Pelecanos.
He was curious. It was the cop in him. That flame was still alive.
The neon “Strange Investigations” sign may be flickering in disrepair outside his office, but private investigator Derek Strange is still accepting new cases. When a flashy drug lawyer hires him to prove an alibi for an accused murderer, Strange can’t help getting drawn into the darkness.