Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Killer Commute
by Marlys Millhiser
Kindle $0.75 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Another fabulous addition to Millhiser’s acclaimed series, Killer Commute is a comical ride through a mystery sure to be a smash with both long-time fans and those just making Charlie Greene’s acquaintance.
Recovering from last year’s Las Vegas trip-from-hell, Long Beach literary agent Charlie Greene is looking forward to spending this year’s vacation at home. No manuscript reading, no needy clients, no killer commute for a whole week – just some good, old-fashioned rest and relaxation…
The Fall
by Louise Jensen
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
She promised not to tell. They made sure she couldn’t… At her surprise 40th birthday party, Kate Granger feels like the luckiest woman in the world but just hours later her fifteen-year-old daughter, Caily, is found unconscious underneath a bridge when she should have been at school.
Now, Caily lies comatose in her hospital bed, and the police don’t believe it was an accident. As the investigation progresses, it soon becomes clear that not everyone in the family was where they claimed to be at the time of her fall…
Companions
by Peter Darman
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
They called themselves Companions – those who escaped from Italy with Pacorus in the aftermath of Spartacus’ uprising, travelling across the Mediterranean to make their home in Parthia. They subsequently assisted Pacorus in turning the Kingdom of Dura into one of the strongest realms in the Parthian Empire.
But one Companion was unwittingly left behind and condemned to the living hell of Roman slavery. When Pacorus discovers this he and a band of comrades embark on a perilous quest to find and free him. Thus begins a journey that will see the King of Dura follow in the footsteps of Spartacus himself as he heads for gladiatorial games being held in the Roman-controlled city of Ephesus…
How to Sell a Haunted House
by Grady Hendrix
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. She doesn’t want to deal with her family home, stuffed to the rafters with the remnants of her father’s academic career and her mother’s lifelong obsession with puppets and dolls. She doesn’t want to learn how to live without the two people who knew and loved her best in the world.
Most of all, she doesn’t want to deal with her brother, Mark, who never left their hometown, gets fired from one job after another, and resents her success…
The Last Honest Man
by Thomas Risen
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
For decades now, America’s national security state has grown ever bigger, ever more secretive and powerful, and ever more abusive. Only once did someone manage to put a stop to any of it.
Senator Frank Church of Idaho was an unlikely hero. He led congressional opposition to the Vietnam War and had become a scathing, radical critic of what he saw as American imperialism around the world. But he was still politically ambitious, privately yearning for acceptance from the foreign policy establishment that he hated and eager to run for president. Despite his flaws, Church would show historic strength in his greatest moment, when in the wake of Watergate he was suddenly tasked with investigating abuses of power in the intelligence community…
OFFENBUNKER
by A.G. Russo
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A top secret bunker deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains. A silo housing a ballistic missile.
Cold War super powers the United States and the Soviet Union are engaged in an intense “arms race” build up of nuclear weapons and face off for control as the fate of the free world hangs in the balance.
The CIA, U.S. military intelligence, spies, double agents, the KGB, Stasi secret police, and assassins engage in a dangerous contest of espionage as Russia wants to spread communism and take control of Europe, and the United States wants to stop them.
Stolen Child
by Jane M. Choate
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A little girl taken . . . And a murderer on the loose.
Nothing will stop army ranger Grey Nighthorse from finding his abducted daughter—except maybe whoever is trying to kill him. Hiring former FBI agent Rachel Martin is his best shot at tracking down the kidnappers and staying alive.
But Rachel failed to save a child before. Can she risk everything again to rescue Grey’s little girl . . . and perhaps become part of the family she’s trying to reunite?
The Corpse Bridge
by Stephen Booth
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
The award-winning author of Already Dead “skillfully portrays a stunning landscape with a dark heart that conceals secrets, vendettas and revenge” (Daily Mail).
When it comes to murder, nothing is sacred . . . For centuries, mourners in Derbyshire have used the Corpse Bridge to cross the River Dove and reach their village burial grounds. When a developer plans to deconsecrate the land by turning it into a parking lot for his resort cottages, bodies begin to litter the road to the Corpse Bridge.
Picture You Dead
by Peter James
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Now a major ITV drama starring John Simm as Roy Grace.
Harry and Freya, an ordinary couple, dreamed for years of finding something priceless buried amongst the tat in a car boot sale. It was a dream they knew in their hearts would never come true – until the day it did . . .
They buy a drab portrait for twenty pounds for its beautiful frame, planning to cut the painting out. Then, studying it back at home, there seems to be another picture beneath, of a stunning landscape. Could it be a long-lost masterpiece from 1770? If genuine, it could be worth millions.