Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Royally Dispatched Trilogy Boxed Set
by P. C. James, Kathryn Mykel
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A Duchess, her trusted butler and a nose-it-all furry sidekick.
London, 1958-1959
Lady Mary, Duchess of Snodsbury, has been Royally Dispatched to oversee the final preparations of London’s debutantes. Learning about the mysterious death of their previous trainer sets the stage for high-stakes danger and delightful mayhem. Can the debutantes help Lady Mary uncover the truth, or will they find the killer among them?
In Royally Whacked, Mary accepts an invitation for a summer of leisure—only to find herself caught in a web of deception and murder. The debutantes must put their newly acquired sleuthing skills to the test. Will they unmask the culprit, or have they finally met their match?
Blood Trail
by JT Sawyer
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
In the mountains of northern California, every shadow hides a killer.
Former CIA operative Kyle Payne is enjoying a motorcycle trip along the West Coast when he’s wrongly arrested for murder in the small town of Absynth, California. After being cleared, he wants to help journalist Eva Daly, sister of the murder victim, to find her brother’s killer.
Their investigation leads them to a sinister agricultural facility where they uncover an international conspiracy to destroy Europe’s food supply.
A ruthless drug kingpin provides security for the operation, and a team of elite German mercenaries eliminates anyone who gets too close to the truth.
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The Devil’s Bones
by Jefferson Bass
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The secrets about violent murder are investigated at . . . The Body Farm
A burned car sits on a Tennessee hilltop, a woman’s charred body in the driver’s seat. Forensic anthropologist Bill Brockton’s job is to discover the truth hidden in the fire-desecrated corpse. Was the woman’s death accidental . . . or was she incinerated to cover up her murder?
But his research into the effect of fl/ame on flesh and bone is about to collide with reality like a lit match meeting spilled gasoline…
Beneath the Bleeding
by Val McDermid
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The residents of Bradfield are devastated when their star midfielder dies, the victim of a bizarre, seemingly motiveless murder. In a hospital, recovering from injuries, criminal profiler and psychologist Dr. Tony Hill struggles to make sense of the fragments of information he can gather in order to help his ally, Detective Chief Inspector Carol Jordan, bring a killer to justice. Then an explosion rips through a soccer stadium, leaving dozens dead and many more injured, and Jordan finds herself pushed to the margins of the investigation by the intelligence services…
Light It Up
by Nick Petrie
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In this action-packed thriller starring war veteran Peter Ash, a well-planned and flawlessly executed hijacking reveals the hidden dangers of Colorado’s mellowest business, but Ash may find there’s more to this crime than meets the eye.
Combat veteran Peter Ash leaves a simple life rebuilding hiking trails in Oregon to help his good friend Henry Nygaard, whose daughter runs a Denver security company that protects cash-rich cannabis entrepreneurs from modern-day highwaymen. Henry’s son-in-law and the company’s operations manager were carrying a large sum of client money when their vehicle vanished without a trace, leaving Henry’s daughter and her company vulnerable.
Confessions of a Murder Suspect
by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
On the night Malcolm and Maud Angel are murdered, Tandy Angel knows just three things: 1. She was the last person to see her parents alive. 2. The police have no suspects besides Tandy and her three siblings. 3. She can’t trust anyone-maybe not even herself. As Tandy sets out to clear the family name, she begins to recall flashes of experiences long buried in her vulnerable psyche. These memories shed light on her family’s dark secrets, and digging deeper into her powerful parents’ affairs proves to be a disturbing and dangerous game. Who knows what any of the Angels are truly capable of?
A Talent for Murder
by Peter Swanson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A newlywed librarian begins to suspect the man she married might be a murderer—in this spectacularly twisty and deviously clever novel by Peter Swanson, New York Times bestselling author of The Kind Worth Killing and Eight Perfect Murders.
Martha Ratliff conceded long ago that she’d likely spend her life alone. She was fine with it, happy with her solo existence, stimulated by her work as a librarian in Maine. But then she met Alan, a charming and sweet-natured salesman whose job took him on the road for half the year. When he asked her to marry him, she said yes, even though he still felt a little bit like a stranger…