Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Bones Under the Ice
by Mary Ann Miller
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Jhonni Laurent is the first female sheriff of Field’s Crossing, Indiana—and now she has her first murder case
Two days after a blizzard hits Field’s Crossing, Indiana, Sheriff Jhonni Laurent discovers the frozen body of a high school senior under a fifteen-foot pile of snow and ice. Murder is rare in farm country, and this death marks the beginning of Jhonni’s first homicide case.
Just as the investigation gets underway, Jhonni’s opponent for sheriff from four years ago wages a bitter reelection battle to oust her…
Now You See Her
by Linda Howard
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A talented painter in her early thirties, Paris Sweeney has achieved enviable success: her work sells at an exclusive New York City gallery, and her popularity is at an all-time high. Life is good, and Sweeney, as she prefers to be called, is content.
But lately, Sweeney’s dreams seem to echo a growing restlessness that has taken hold of her. Suddenly, impulsively, Sweeney falls into a night of intense passion with millionaire Richard Worth. Now, the true dangers of her all-consuming urges are about to be revealed where Sweeney least expects it: in her paintings…
Cub Creek
by Grace Greene
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In the heart of Virginia, where the forests hide secrets and the creeks run strong and deep ~ Libbie Havens is fine on her own. She doesn’t need anyone’s approval. When she chances upon the secluded house on Cub Creek she purchases it. She’ll show her cousin Liz, and other doubters, that she can rise above her past and live happily and successfully on her own terms. Libbie has emotional problems born of a troubled childhood and is more comfortable not being comfortable with people. She knows she’s different from most. She has special gifts, or curses, but are they real? Or are they products of her history and dysfunction?
Sudden Impact
by Paul Heatley
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
They have all the money, all the muscle. But they’ve picked on the wrong guy.
Tom Rollins has been hanging low, working a security job in Davenport, Mississippi.
One night, there is trouble in the bar where he covers the door, and when he gets involved, Tom finds himself pitted against Du Lac Chemicals, a billion-dollar corporation with some very nasty skeletons in the closet.
Campaigning ecologist Laila North is determined to expose them, going toe-to-toe with their ruthless head of security who will do whatever it takes to protect their secrets…
About Face
by Donna Leon
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Incinerators across the south of Italy are at full capacity, burning who-knows-what and releasing unacceptable levels of dangerous air pollutants, while in Naples, enormous trash piles grow in the streets. In Venice, with the polluted waters of the canals and a major chemical complex across the lagoon, the issue is never far from the fore.
Then, after an investigator from the Carabiniere, looking into the illegal hauling of garbage, asks for a favor, Guido Brunetti finds himself in the middle of an investigation into murder and corruption even dirtier than the air and water…
The Angel Trials: The Complete Series
by Michelle Madow
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Magic. Romance. Adventure. Twists.
Raven Danvers was a typical college student… until a demon attacks her on the night of her twenty-first birthday. Luckily, she’s saved by Noah—a mysterious, sexy wolf shifter who appears and disappears before she can ask him any questions.
Then, her mom is abducted by the same demon who came after her. And who turns up at the scene of the crime again? Noah. He’s hunting the demons who are taking humans, and he’s ultimately heading where Raven need to go to save her mom—the mystical island of Avalon…
Murder by Candlelight
by Faith Martin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
One suspicious death. Two amateur sleuths. And an utterly impossible crime…
The Cotswolds, 1924. At the Old Forge in the quiet village of Maybury-in-the-Marsh a cry of anguish rings out: lady of the house Amy Phelps has been discovered dead. But with all the windows and doors to her room locked from inside, how – and by whom – was she killed?
Arbuthnot ‘Arbie’ Swift finds himself in the unlikely position of detective. The celebrated author of The Gentleman’s Guide to Ghost-Hunting is staying at the Old Forge to investigate a suspected spectre, but now the more pressing matter of Amy’s murder falls to him too…
The Listener
by Robert McCammon
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Economic collapse. Crushing unemployment and breadlines crowding city streets as crime spirals out of control. The Great Depression has enough misery for all, and some to spare. But for angel-faced grifter John Partlow, the American South in 1934 is a land of opportunity. The small-time confidence man stumbles into the big leagues when he partners up with beautiful hustler Ginger LaFrance. Seduced into her high stakes plot to kidnap the young children of a New Orleans shipping magnate, John realizes he’s in over his head when Ginger’s fierce desire to see her scheme succeed could mean a gruesome end for their innocent victims.
Fever of the Bone
by Val McDermid
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A criminal profiler races to catch a serial killer preying upon teenagers in this shocking crime thriller by the author of The Wire in the Blood.
He is psychologist and criminal profiler Dr. Tony Hill’s worst nightmare—a killer driven by the most perverted hungers and unmoved by youth and innocence, a killer with a long shopping list of victims who leaves no trail. The murder-mutilation of teenager Jennifer Maidment is horrific enough on its own, but Hill quickly realizes that it’s just the beginning of a chilling campaign targeting an apparently unconnected group of young people—victims that the monster has been grooming through a social networking site.