Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
CALICO
by Lee Goldberg
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A man walks into the path of an oncoming motor home in the Mojave Desert. He’s dressed like an 1880s miner. His bones are over a hundred years old.
Welcome to Barstow.
Detective Beth McDade was an LAPD homicide cop until she wasn’t. Now she’s working the graveyard shift in a town nobody chooses, and she has a body in Yermo she can’t explain. The security camera caught the dead man running into traffic seconds after a flash of lightning that wasn’t really lightning, more like something tearing a hole in the sky.
Days later, an LA food blogger vanishes off the same stretch of Interstate 15. The last footage of him alive shows him buying beef jerky at a gas station up the road…
Blood Hunt
by Ian Rankin
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
As a former soldier, Gordon Reeve knows something about killing. So despite the fact that the death of his brother Jim has been ruled a suicide, Gordon can’t shake the feeling that someone is responsible. Traveling alone across an ocean, he arrives in California determined to get answers: Why was the car Jim’s body was found in locked from the outside? Who would want Jim dead? And now why do the local cops seem bent on thwarting Gordon’s efforts to uncover the truth?
With all the verve and taut pacing that have made Ian Rankin an internationally renowned suspense writer, Blood Hunt is a gripping story of one man’s dogged pursuit of justice.
Test of Wills, A
by Charles Todd
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
New York Times Notable mystery brilliantly evokes post-World War I Great Britain and introduces readers to one of crime fiction’s most compelling series protagonists.
Here the shell-shocked Rutledge struggles to retain his fragile grip on sanity while investigating the death of a popular army colonel, murdered, it appears, by a decorated war hero with ties to the Royal Family. A phenomenal writer, a twisting puzzle, a character-rich re-creation of an extraordinary time and place…it all adds up to one exceptional read that will delight fans of Elizabeth George, Martha Grimes, Jacqueline Winspear, Ruth Rendell, and other masters of the British procedural.
The Fall of Crazy House
by James Patterson, Gabrielle Charbonnet
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Escape is just the beginning in this dystopian story of two fearless sisters who must defeat a powerful regime—or risk becoming what they despise.
Twin sisters Becca and Cassie barely got out of the Crazy House alive. Now they’re trained, skilled fighters who fear nothing—not even the all-powerful United regime. Together, the sisters hold the key to defeating the despotic government and freeing the people of the former United States. But to win this war, will the girls have to become the very thing they hate?
The world is about to get even crazier in this gripping sequel to the New York Times bestselling blockbuster Crazy House.
The Collector
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
When professional house-sitter Lila Emerson witnesses a murder/suicide from her current apartment-sitting job, life as she knows it takes a dramatic turn. Suddenly, the woman with no permanent ties finds herself almost wishing for one…
Artist Ashton Archer knows his brother isn’t capable of violence—against himself or others. He recruits Lila, the only eyewitness, to help him uncover what happened. Chalking up their intense attraction to the heat of the moment, Lila agrees to help Ash try to find out who murdered his brother and why.
Bullets in the Briar
by Kimber Silver
Kindle $5.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The discovery of a mutilated body on remote farmland is only the start of Sheriff Lincoln James’ latest investigation. A mysterious religious sect and an intimidating biker gang add fuel to the fire. Within the sheriff’s circle of friends is someone with a hidden connection – If only she’d be willing to step forward…
To add to his problems, Lincoln has a fiercely contested election to win if he’s going to continue as sheriff. His opponent is a smooth out-of-towner who is making friends among the local people, so it’s going to be a fight.
Brenda’s Unicorn
by Cordelia Cohen
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Discover a World Where Magic is Real… and Dangerous!
When eleven-year-old Brenda Collins discovers a unicorn hiding in her backyard, her ordinary life shatters into a thousand magical pieces. She’s the only one who can see the majestic creature, and suddenly, she’s thrust into an unbelievable world where ancient magic pulses just beneath the surface of New York City.
But this isn’t a fairytale. The unicorn needs to return to its home in the mystical Unending Forest, and Brenda knows she must help. With her skeptical best friend, Charles, reluctantly by her side, Brenda embarks on a perilous quest that will test their courage, their friendship, and their belief in the impossible.
Mother Daughter Sister Stranger
by Hank Phillippi Ryan
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New release #ad
What if your own family history turns out to be a terrifying lie? Every family has its story, and this one’s deadly. Two sisters. One secret. And a race against time to find the explosive truth in this twisty and captivating thriller by USA Today bestselling author Hank Phillippi Ryan.
The sole survivors of the fiery plane crash that killed their parents, Eliza Ramsey and her sister Bea share an unbreakable bond. But now, on the eleventh anniversary of the tragedy, Bea fails to retrieve her pre-teen daughter from a sleepover at Eliza’s.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
EVANGELINE
by Herc Samson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In 1953, two FBI agents are called in to investigate the disappearance of a young White woman in Louisiana. In their pursuit of clues, they stumble across the horrific murder of a Black youth. It soon becomes apparent that the two cases are linked, and solving the murder is the key to unlocking both cases.
But the agents are impeded in their investigation by parties on the both sides of the color line in the victim’s hometown of Evangeline, right on the edge of the Louisiana swamplands. The Whites close ranks, seemingly in effort to protect their own; the Black population keeps silent in fear of reprisals and the threat of more violence. And the deeper they dig, the more the agents find that nothing and no one are as they seem…
The League of Ascenders
by Spring Dalton
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Beneath the disguise of a local shelter in the small town of Evergreen lies a secret training ground where destiny is forged.
Welcome to The Landing—the hidden home of The League of Ascenders, just one division of a worldwide alliance where twelve warriors are called to use their superpowers to protect humanity from demonic harm. It is time for a new generation of recruits to take up the mantle, but their journey to the academy grounds is riddled with peril.
Eighteen-year-old fledglings enter The Landing estate expecting answers about who they are. What they discover will shatter everything they thought they knew.
One Fatal Flaw
by Anne Perry
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
When a desperate woman comes to Daniel Pitt seeking a lawyer for her boyfriend, Rob Adwell, Daniel is convinced of the young man’s innocence. Adwell has been accused of murder and of setting a fire to conceal the body, but Daniel is sure that science can absolve him—and Miriam fford Croft is the best scientist he knows. Miriam connects Daniel with her former teacher Sir Barnabas Saltram, an expert in arson, and together, they reveal Adwell’s innocence by proving that an accidental fire caused the victim’s death. But it’s not long before Adwell is killed in the same fiery fashion. If these deaths are, in fact, murders, what essential clue could Daniel and Miriam have missed?
Exit Music
by Ian Rankin
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
From international mystery sensation Ian Rankin comes the gripping last case for one of crime fiction’s most beloved heroes, John Rebus.
It’s late in the fall in Edinburgh and late in the career of Detective Inspector John Rebus. As he is simply trying to tie up some loose ends before his retirement, a new case lands on his desk: a dissident Russian poet has been murdered in what looks like a mugging gone wrong.
Rebus discovers that an elite delegation of Russian businessmen is in town, looking to expand its interests…
Storm Prey
by John Sandford
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
“Sandford’s track record as a best-selling author is amazing, but it’s not an accident,” wrote Booklist of Wicked Prey. “His plotting is sharp, his villains are extraordinarily layered, and his good guys are always evolving.
And this time, there’s a storm brewing…Very early, 4:45, on a bitterly cold Minnesota morning, three big men burst through the door of a hospital pharmacy, duct-tape the hands, feet, mouth, and eyes of two pharmacy workers, and clean the place out. But then things swiftly go bad, one of the workers dies, and the robbers hustle out to their truck-and find themselves for just one second face-to-face with a blond woman in the garage: Weather Karkinnen, surgeon, wife of an investigator named Lucas Davenport.
Weir Dragon Academy Complete Series Boxed Set
by D.R. Perry
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Always be yourself. Unless you can be a dragon.
My sisters and I escaped a tyrant’s realm only to face something scarier: boarding school. They see a forest. I see every flawed tree, and I can’t stop pointing them out. But stand out too far and someone’s bound to cut you down. Can I fit in when I hatched this way?
Join Linden and her sisters as they take on the challenge of Weir Dragon Academy with this complete series boxed set!
Sacrifice
by Lynda La Plante
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Detective Jack leads Scotland Yard’s fledgling art fraud unit, its survival hinging on exposing a suspected forgery – a multimillion-dollar masterpiece.
When his informant, gallerist Ester Langton, is brutally murdered, Jack’s hunt spirals into obsession. Clues point to Adam Border, a reclusive genius hiding in a decayed Sicilian villa haunted by Mafia ties and violent secrets…
What Happened That Night
by Nicci French
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Old friends, new secrets, one deadly reunion.
Tyler Green, convicted of murdering his friend Leo at a student house party in 1993, has been released after almost three decades in prison. He has always protested his innocence.
On a warm evening in London, Tyler summons eight of his university friends who were present on that fateful night. Is it just a reunion – or something else? With wine—and accusations— flowing liberally, the reunion descends into violent chaos, and one friend will end the night with their throat slit in the upstairs bedroom…the same way that Leo’s was in 1993.