Saturday’s Mystery eBooks

Murder in the Book Lover’s Loft
by Ellery Adams
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad

Jane and her fiancé, Edwin, are headed to the North Carolina coast for a much-needed vacation. Their harborside loft has floor-to-ceiling bookcases and breathtaking views, but Jane’s hopes of exploring the town with her man are stymied when Edwin steps on a stingray. Things take an even less romantic turn when Jane stumbles across a dead body . . .

Instead of taking leisurely beach strolls, Jane is suddenly on a literary chase through time, unearthing a dark secret in her family tree that threatens all she holds dear back in Storyton…


If I Can’t Have You
by G.M. Lawrence
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad

Freya hopes there’s one man she never sees again. Her husband.

Freya has recently escaped from her violent and abusive husband, Liam, and has moved to the city where she is fighting to build a new life for herself. But she knows in her heart that Liam won’t give up so easily, that he’ll do everything in his power to find her and bring her back…

Caught between two terrifying men, can Freya confront her past and hold onto the future she’s fought so hard to create?


Grace for Murder
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad

Pastor Paisley Yukon fought many hard battles to win acceptance and lead Ideal’s Grace Cowboy Church as a woman, but when a possible cult moves into town—her conflicts multiply along with unsolved murders.

A widow, who lost her husband and daughter in the same horrific traffic accident, Paisley could easily fall in love with Ideal’s Sheriff Kip Restwinder. However, when she befriends and hides a missing teen, the sheriff becomes inimical toward her, a fact that is only complicated by two murders and attempts on her own life.


Family Business
by Jonathan Sims
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad

When Diya Burman’s best friend Angie dies, it feels like her own life is falling apart. Wanting a fresh start, she joins Slough & Sons – a family firm that cleans up after the recently deceased.

Old love letters. Porcelain dolls. Broken trinkets. Clearing away the remnants of other people’s lives, Diya begins to see things. Horrible things. Things that get harder and harder to write off as merely her grieving imagination. All is not as it seems with the Slough family. Why won’t they speak about their own recent loss? And who is the strange man that keeps turning up at their jobs?


Origin Story of Monsters Complete Series
by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad

It’s a full moon, the Summer Solstice, and an ancient coffin has washed up on the beaches of Moher, Ireland.

Could the Mother of Monsters really have returned? It’s just not possible.

Can Halsey dig up enough evidence to prove that the elementals’ ancient foe has returned to level the monstrous playing field? Or will it be too late to prepare for what’s to come?


2024
by Amy Cross
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad

The year is 2024. Twenty-five years ago, Beth Cooper’s family died at Hadlow House. Now Beth’s after revenge.

Having researched the house’s history extensively, Beth thinks she knows exactly what she’s up against. She knows all about the deadly Fanny Baxter, and about the lives of all the people who’ve lived at the house over the years. She also knows all about ghosts, and about how to make them suffer.

At least, she thinks she knows.


The Knowledge
by Martha Grimes
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad

As the New York Times–bestselling series continues, a double murder in front of an exclusive club takes a London detective on a wild ride.

Robbie Parsons is one of London’s finest, a black cab driver who knows every street, every theater, every landmark in the city by heart. In his backseat is a man with a gun in his hand—a man who brazenly committed a crime in front of the Artemis Club, a rarefied art gallery-cum-casino, then jumped in and ordered Parsons to drive. As the criminal eventually escapes to Nairobi, Detective Superintendent Richard Jury comes across the case in the Saturday paper.


Like Lions
by Brian Panowich
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad

A powerful follow up to multiple award-winning debut Bull Mountain.

Brian Panowich burst onto the crime fiction scene in 2015, winning awards and accolades from readers and critics alike for his smoldering debut, Bull Mountain. Now with Like Lions, he cements his place as one of the outstanding new voices in crime fiction.

Clayton Burroughs is a small-town Georgia sheriff, a new father, and, improbably, the heir apparent of Bull Mountain’s most notorious criminal family.