Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
One for the Money
by Janet Evanovich
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Meet Stephanie Plum, a bounty hunter with attitude. In Stephanie’s opinion, toxic waste, rabid drivers, armed schizophrenics, and August heat, humidity, and hydrocarbons are all part of the great adventure of living in Jersey.
She’s a product of the “burg,” a blue-collar pocket of Trenton where houses are attached and narrow, cars are American, windows are clean, and (God forbid you should be late) dinner is served at six…
The World Beyond the Redbud Tree
by C. Brightwell , Madison
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
The world as we know it is built upon choices. If different choices had been made in the past, we might be living in an entirely different world. What if the so-called Lost Colony of settlers in North Carolina were in fact not lost at all but instead merged happily with the Native American tribes to create a new people and unique society?
Sixteen-year-old Charli is living in a pandemic-ravaged 2020 America when she stumbles upon the parallel world of the Q’ehazi. Drawn to these peaceful people, whose constant joy and optimism provides a stark contrast to the suffering and violence in her own life, Charli wants nothing more than to stay with them forever-but first, she must learn to attain a state of grace…
Night Train to Memphis
by Elizabeth Peters
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
An assistant curator of Munich’s National Museum, Vicky Bliss is no expert on Egypt, but she does have a Ph.D. in solving crimes. So when an intelligence agency offers her a luxury Nile cruise if she’ll help solve a murder and stop a heist of Egyptian antiquities, all 5’11” of her takes the plunge. Vicky suspects the authorities really want her to lead them to her missing lover, the art thief and master of disguises she knows only as “Sir John Smythe.” And right in the shadow of the Sphinx she spots him. . . with his new flame…
The New Couple in 5B
by Lisa Unger
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
A couple inherits an apartment with a spine-tingling past in this unputdownable thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six.
Rosie and Chad Lowan are barely making ends meet in New York City when they receive life-changing news: Chad’s late uncle has left them his luxury apartment at the historic Windermere in glamorous Murray Hill. With its prewar elegance and impeccably uniformed doorman, the building is the epitome of old New York charm. One would almost never suspect the dark history lurking behind its perfectly maintained facade.
Red Cloud’s Revenge
by Terry C. Johnston
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Seven month of small reprisals since the Fetterman massacre had passed. Sergeant Seamus Donegan of the Army of the West had witnessed proud leaders–both Indian and White–steel themselves for the withering clashes to come. And on two consecutive summer days, battle erupted–drowning the Dakota Territory in a damburst of bloodshed: the Hay Field Fight and Wagon Box Fight of 1867.
The Malevolent Eight
by Sebastien de Castell
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The stakes have never been higher.
The world is teetering on the brink of annihilation. The Lords Celestine and the Lords Devilish, celestial and infernal beings locked in an age-old enmity, have at last found the perfect battlefield for their apocalyptic Great Crusade: the mortal realm.
Cade Ombra, former Glorian Justiciar turned mercenary wonderist, leads a band of emotionally unstable mages in a desperate bid to prevent the impending clash of divine and diabolical titans. Failure will leave humanity to be conscripted into an eternal war, serving as foot soldiers doomed to oblivion.
The Secret Billionaire’s Last Chance
by Laney Shaw
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
It’s all broken. Hearts, bones, trust, and his latest motorcycle prototype. No one realizes that it’s the billionaire King of the Motorcycle World lying in the hospital. His life and secrets dangle by surgical thread.
Cole is found at the bottom of the canyon two days after missing the curve on a stormy late-night ride. He arrives covered in blood, with a broken body and no identity.
His nurse attends him daily for long hours. Speaking softly, touching gently, caring deeply. Healing his body, saving him. He knows it’s her. Tessa.
What Moves the Dead
by T. Kingfisher
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
An Instant USA Today & Indie Bestseller
A Barnes & Noble Book of the Year Finalist
A Goodreads Best Horror Choice Award Nominee
When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruritania.
What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves.