Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Death of a Knit Wit
by Peggy Ehrhart
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
When a professor is poisoned, Pamela Paterson and the members of the Knit and Nibble knitting club must take a crash course in solving his mysterious murder.
Pamela has organized a weekend-long knitting bee as part of a conference on fiber arts and crafts at Wendelstaff College. But when pompous Professor Robert Greer-Gordon Critter, the keynote speaker at the conference, crashes the bee, he seems more interested in flirting than knitting. The man’s reputation as a philanderer supersedes his academic reputation. After coffee and cookies are served, the professor suddenly collapses, seemingly poisoned—but how?
The Grave Maurice
by Martha Grimes
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
“Chew on this,” says Melrose Plant to Richard Jury, who’s in the hospital being driven crazy by Hannibal, a nurse who likes to speculate on his chances for survival. Jury could use a good story, preferably one not ending with his own demise.
Plant tells Jury of something he overheard in The Grave Maurice, a pub near the hospital. A woman told an intriguing story about a girl named Nell Ryder, granddaughter to the owner of the Ryder Stud Farm in Cambridgeshire, who went missing more than a year before and has never been found. What is especially interesting to Plant is that Nell is also the daughter of Jury’s surgeon.
But Nell’s disappearance isn’t the only mystery at the Ryder farm. A woman has been found dead on the track-a woman who was a stranger even to the Ryders.
Under the Marshal’s Protection
by Kathleen Tailer
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Entrap her own brother for a U.S. Marshal? Jessica Blake can’t bear the thought, but what choice does she have? It isn’t just the marshals who are after Michael. If his co-conspirators in the counterfeiting ring find him first, he won’t live long enough to clear his name. And both the U.S. Marshals and the counterfeiters think the best way to get to Michael is through Jessica. With danger on every sidefor herself and for the only family she has leftJessica has to make a choice. Can she trust U.S. Marshal Dominic Sullivan with her safety, her brother’s life and her heart?
The Omega Factor
by Steve Berry
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Enter UNESCO investigator, Nicholas Lee, who works for the United Nations’ Cultural Liaison and Investigative Office (CLIO). Nick’s job is to protect the world’s cultural artifacts—anything and everything from countless lesser-known objects to national treasures.
When Nick travels to Belgium for a visit with a woman from his past, he unwittingly stumbles on the trail of a legendary panel from the Ghent Altarpiece, stolen in 1934 under cover of night and never seen since. Soon Nick is plunged into a bitter conflict, one that has been simmering for nearly two thousand years…
Whisper of Danger
by Alexa Verde
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Her second chance at love or her last chance to survive?
Lydia, a school counselor with sharpshooting skills, guards her gut-wrenching secret with enough desperation to break off her engagement to the hometown cop Aidan Rowe. But when her friend’s child is kidnapped, Lydia has no choice but to unite forces with the man she still loves. When the search for the missing child leads her to a trail of past mistakes and painful personal connections, how much will she sacrifice for love and loyalty?
A Dog Gone Murder
by Elaine Viets
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Mystery shopper Josie Marcus catches a new case when the owner of a popular doggy day spa bites the dust and her mother’s friend is collared for the crime…
Josie’s been assigned to sniff around Uncle Bob’s Doggy Day Camp, one of St. Louis’s hottest pet spas. It doesn’t take her long to dig up dirt on the camp’s top dog, “Uncle” Bob Manning himself. Employee Frank Hyzy – Josie’s mom’s new boyfriend – reveals Bob should be in the doghouse for his cruel treatment of the canine customers. But before Josie can write Bob up, someone puts him down…and Frank is the cops’ prime suspect.
It Should Have Been Me
by Susan Wilkins
Kindle $1.49 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A murdered sister, a killer released from jail, a cop in a deadly battle to uncover the truth.
DC Jo Boden was eleven years old when her older sister, Sarah, was brutally murdered during her first year at university. Sarah’s boyfriend, Nathan Wade, was convicted of the killing.
Now, sixteen years later, Wade is being released on licence and documentary filmmaker, Briony Rowe, insists she can prove his innocence.
The Code Girl From London
by Deb Stratas
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The Germans’ transmissions are in her hands. Will she be enough to save her loved ones’ lives?
England, 1944. On a classified Navy base situated atop the cliffs of Dover, telegraph operator Katie Kingston toils day and night intercepting and translating enemy transmissions in Morse Code, hunting for the next piece of information that will give Britain the edge in the ongoing war.
But as the entire base quietly prepares for Britain’s most daring operation yet, Katie has more at stake than her fellow telegraphists. Because among the allied forces due to land on the shores of Normandy in Operation Overlord is Special Forces Lt. Ciaran McElroy, an Irishman who has stolen her heart.
Our Little Secret
by Lisa Jackson
Kindle $9.52 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
He swore he’d never let her go. She should have believed him.
Brooke Hastings is ready to end her six-week affair. Gideon Ross is charming and sexy, but he’s not worth throwing away her marriage and family for. So she breaks it off, hoping Gideon will understand.
He doesn’t. Gideon insists that he and Brooke are meant to be together. Finally, he backs off, but not before issuing a promise: he’ll never let her go.