Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Bagpipes, Brides and Homicides
by Kaitlyn Dunnett
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Thanks to the Western Maine Highland Games, Moosetookalook, Maine, has never seen so many bare legs walking its streets. But instead of wondering who’ll win the hammer throw, everyone’s asking who got kilt. Especially Liss MacCrimmon, purveyor of the town’s Scottish Emporium, since it’s also her wedding weekend. And nothing scotches up nuptial bliss like a dead body.
But who’d go medieval on a professor, no matter how nutty? As much as Liss tries to keep her fingers out of the sleuthing cake, she finds herself again dead center of a Moosetookalook murder mystery. If Liss doesn’t solve this one, and quick, she might never say “I do,” let alone “’til death do us part”…
The Lying Game
by Ruth Ware
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
From the instant New York Times bestselling author of blockbuster thrillers In a Dark, Dark Wood and The Woman in Cabin 10 comes a chilling new novel of friendship, dark secrets, and the dangerous games teenage girls play.
On a cool June morning, a woman is walking her dog in the idyllic English coastal village of Salten, along a tidal estuary known as the Reach. Before she can stop him, the dog charges into the water to retrieve what first appears to be a wayward stick, but to her horror, turns out to be something much more sinister…
Mean Streak
by Sandra Brown
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Dr. Emory Charbonneau, a pediatrician and marathon runner, disappears on a mountain road in North Carolina minutes after an argument with her husband Jeff. But by the time he reports her missing, the trail has (literally) gone cold. Fog and ice encapsulate the wilderness and freeze the search.
While police suspect Jeff of “instant divorce,” Emory regains consciousness only to find herself the captive of a man whose violent past is so dark he won’t even tell her his name. She’s willing to take any risks necessary to survive.
“J” is for Judgment
by Sue Grafton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
K IS FOR KNOCK. Janice Kepler is on the way home from the support group she joined after the death of her beloved daughter, Lorna. When she sees a light on in the offices of Millhone Investigations, she believes it’s a sign…and decides to knock on the door.
K IS FOR KEEP ON. Janice has waited long enough for Lorna’s case to pick up steam, and she is relieved when Kinsey Millhone agrees to finish the work authorities left undone…
Hidden Legacy
by Christina Rost
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
When Emersyn Zucker meets Lucas Bennett, it’s love at first sight. But both harbor family secrets, and their blossoming romance soon gets tangled in a web of deception.
After uncovering her great-grandfather’s connection to a clandestine society known as H & G, Emersyn begins to question everything she’s ever known. Should she embrace the society or distance herself from her family ties and renounce her great-grandfather’s legacy? And if she joins H & G, how would Lucas react to her secret double life?
AspenRidge
by Michelle Wiberg
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
We all experience underworld journeys, times when it seems like the life we knew was hijacked and the world is suddenly unrecognizable.
Jessie’s future looks bright. She’s a successful artist with an MFA and a job she loves when her clairvoyant grandmother has a vision of imminent catastrophe. Jessie, her dog, Wolfie, and Grammie flee to AspenRidge, their isolated off-grid retreat in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains. The next day, a cyber-attack destroys the power-grid, and Jessie fears her father won’t make it home from his conference in England.
Shawn struggled with PTSD after three tours in Afghanistan as a Navy corpsman. After a brutal winter in the mountains, an elk leads Shawn to a distraught Jessie.
Gideon’s Corpse
by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A top nuclear scientist goes mad and takes an innocent family hostage at gunpoint, killing one and causing a massive standoff.
A plume of radiation above New York City leads to a warehouse where, it seems, a powerful nuclear bomb was assembled just hours before.
Sifting through the evidence, authorities determine that the unthinkable is about to happen: in ten days, a major American city will be vaporized by a terrorist attack.
Landon Falls
by Shannon Elliott
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
When seventeen-year-old Chase Allen touches someone, he is inundated by every sin they’ve committed. To minimize human contact, Chase keeps to himself at home and school. But when his mother’s death abandons him to the cruel despotism of his abusive grandfather, he follows an inexorable calling by an unknown power to seek out his destiny in a world he doesn’t understand. Led to the seemingly bucolic small town of Landon Falls, he encounters an ancient evil that holds the town in its grasp and meets the town’s new preacher, Frank Williams, who is oddly immune to Chase’s sixth sense.
Addison Landon recently arrived in Landon Falls with her husband Turner, heir to the Landon Mining Company fortune. Pregnant with their first child, Addison is excited to make such a wealthy, powerful, benevolent family her own…
Waterfal
by Linda K. Rodante
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
All Annalisa Carabelle wants is a successful summer season for the bed-and-breakfast she co-owns. She never expected the flood, the boy who needed rescuing, or the man who came from nowhere to help. And the dead body? It had nothing to do with a deluge.
Richard Jordan’s plans for the summer include as much scrambling up waterfalls as possible. He needs the adrenaline rush because life has proven routine, even pointless. But both the woman and the boy called him a hero, and maybe the dead body is a wake-up call. Life might be worth living if he and this fascinating woman can find the killer and make sure he doesn’t kill again.
Blow Fly: Scarpetta
by Patricia Cornwell
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Dr. Kay Scarpetta is settling into her new life as a private forensic consultant and is deep into a case that has left colleagues in Louisiana profoundly disturbed. A woman is found dead in a seedy hotel, dressed to go out, keys in her hand. Her history of blackouts, and her violent outbursts while under their spell, offer more questions than clues about the cause of her death.
Then Scarpetta receives news that chills her to the core: Jean-Baptiste Chandonne—the vicious and unrepentant Wolfman, who pursued her to her very doorstep—has asked to see her. From his cell on death row, he demands an audience with the legendary Dr. Scarpetta.
The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries Volume Three
by Dorothy L. Sayers
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
No mystery can stump the British aristocrat and sleuth in these four novels in the beloved series from “one of the greatest mystery story writers” (Los Angeles Times).
Murder Must Advertise,
The Nine Tailors,
Gaudy Night,
Busman’s Honeymoon