Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
The Maid and the Mansion
by Fiona Grace
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In post-World War II England, a clever, young woman named Mary Adams finds herself thrust into a world of privilege and secrets as she transitions from being a wartime factory worker to a maid in the grand estates.
As Mary begins a new position in the kitchens of a prestigious family, she finds herself in the midst of an engagement party where the air is thick with tension and secrets. When a poison-induced murder disrupts the façade of a forced union, Mary must uncover the identity of the killer before the killer destroys more than just the engagement…
Kachina Doll Murders
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
When she goes to pay her bill at a bed and breakfast she’s stayed at for 3 days, Jordan finds the owner murdered and becomes the chief suspect, because she was the only guest the previous night. The suspicion only gets worse when the woman’s strange will leaves the property to her, a total stranger.
Jordan prides herself in being tough, but having fled the cool, piney woods of Georgia for the hostile Arizona desert to escape her jealous ex-husband, Jordan finds herself in alien surroundings that tax her to the max. Eerily surrounded by a legion of Native American kachina dolls, and both two-legged and four-legged strangers, she is thrust into a mystery that doesn’t end with the first murder.
If Two Are Dead
by Rick Mofina
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Three girls go into the woods, but only one comes out…
Driving alone at night in a wild rainstorm, Luke Conway strikes something—or someone. He and his wife, Carrie, recently moved back to Clear River to help take care of her ailing father, and after a tragedy at his previous job, this move is their last chance at a new life. Now, standing in the downpour on this Texas road, Luke, an off-duty cop, has a decision to make—and he has to make it fast.
Seeking Glory
by Patricia Hamilton Shook
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
What would you do if you suddenly received a phone call from your daughter who has been missing for years? And then discovered you now have an orphaned granddaughter named Glory you never knew existed? What do you do when you realize her silence hides a dangerous secret?
Kate LaRue is a divorced, successful co-owner of an art and gift store on Cape Cod whose current life has been largely peaceful, well ordered and without undue daily stress. That is, until she receives a phone call saying her long-missing daughter Ally is seriously ill in a hospital in California…
Oyster Bay Boogie
by Eric Wilder
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Buckle up! The ride’s about to get bumpy.
When a claw rips through Grogan ‘Chief’ La Tortue’s teepee at midnight, he quickly realizes it isn’t an ordinary beast but a rougarou, a Cajun werewolf stalking Oyster Island, the ancestral home of the Atakapa Indians. Cajun witch Paula Mouton and her friend Odette, who lives in a tent on the beach with her dog Mud Puppy, vow to confront the ghosts in the nearby lighthouse. Their actions soon lead them to the Majestic, a Prohibition-era hotel and casino—a noir setting where they face a vampire, demons, and an avenging angel. The paranormal island is about to become even more haunted. Buckle up and enjoy the thrills, fantasy, and mystery. The ride’s fun and a little racy, but it’s about to get bumpy.
Shadow of the Solstice
by Anne Hillerman
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In this gripping chapter in New York Times bestselling author Anne Hillerman’s Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito series, the detectives must sort out a save-the-planet meditation group connected to a mysterious death and a nefarious scheme targeting vulnerable indigenous people living with addiction.
The Navajo Nation police are on high alert when a U.S. Cabinet Secretary schedules an unprecedented trip to the little Navajo town of Shiprock, New Mexico. The visit coincides with a plan to resume uranium mining along the Navajo Nation border. Tensions around the official’s arrival escalate when the body of a stranger is found in an area restricted for the disposal of radioactive uranium waste…
Breathing Lessons
by Anne Tyler
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.8 #ad
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Evoking Jane Austen, Emma Straub, and other masters of the literary marriage, Breathing Lessons celebrates the small miracles and magic of truly knowing someone.
Unfolding over the course of a single emotionally fraught day, this stunning novel encompasses a lifetime of dreams, regrets and reckonings—and is oftern regarded as Tyler’s seminal work. Maggie and Ira Moran are on a road trip from Baltimore, Maryland to Deer Lick, Pennsylvania to attend the funeral of a friend. Along the way, they reflect on the state of their marriage, its trials and its triumphs—through their quarrels, their routines, and their ability to tolerate each other’s faults with patience and affection.
The Country Road Murders
by James Patterson, Mike Lupica
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Humbled, but never defeated, he returns to his backwoods hometown, Cross Rivers, North Carolina, where his father was murdered.
He goes back to what’s left of his family and their small, struggling farm. He reunites with his best friend in the world—Taylor McCarter Webb, who is now married.
Then Silas is pulled into a deadly battle with the Southern Mafia who control drugs, trafficking and murder.