Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Lion in the Valley
by Elizabeth Peters
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The 1895-96 season promises to be an exceptional one for Amelia Peabody, her dashing Egyptologist husband, Emerson, and their wild and precocious eight-year-old son, Ramses. The much-coveted burial chamber of the Black Pyramid in Dahshoor is theirs for the digging. But there is a great evil in the wind that roils the hot sands sweeping through the bustling streets and marketplaces of Cairo. The brazen moonlight abduction of Ramses – and an expedition subsequently cursed by misfortune and death – have alerted Amelia to the likely presence of her arch nemesis the Master Criminal, notorious looter of the living and the dead…
Dead Ringer
by Lisa Scottoline
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Bennie Rosato is fighting the battle of her life – against her own twin. The action starts innocently enough, with a stolen wallet, but in no time events escalate and the twin wreaks havoc that can be created only by a dead ringer. Her twin tries to destroy Bennie’s law firm, Rosato & Associates, and then strikes at her very heart – which just happens to be otherwise engaged by a handsome, hunky stranger with the perfect amount of chest hair. But when a brutal murder occurs, Bennie realizes that the stakes have turned deadly. And the face of evil looks like her own.
Digital Assassins III
by Danielle Spencer
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Before the cyberterrorism, before the digital assassination, before Danielle Spencer —there was Ruth.
In this powerful prequel to the Digital Assassins series, Danielle Spencer takes readers deep into the roots of corruption at the Financial Revenue Service (FRS) through the unfiltered voice of Ruth, a long-serving insider who witnessed it all.
Digital Assassins III: Improper, Reprehensible, Scandals exposes the hidden history of an agency built on cronyism, systemic abuse, and impunity. Ruth recounts how powerful White men used their positions to protect each other, cover up sexual harassment, silence whistleblowers, and ignore misogyny, sexism, and racism—creating a culture where injustice thrived in the shadows.
Under the Bridge
by Rebecca Godfrey
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
One moonlit night, fourteen-year-old Reena Virk went to join friends at a party and never returned home.
In this “tour de force of crime reportage” (Kirkus Reviews), acclaimed author Rebecca Godfrey takes us into the hidden world of the seven teenage girls—and boy—accused of a savage murder. As she follows the investigation and trials, Godfrey reveals the startling truth about the unlikely killers. Laced with lyricism and insight, Under the Bridge is an unforgettable look at a haunting modern tragedy.
Drakethorn Legal Complete Series
by Isabel Campbell, Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
When you piss off the high and mighty some get righteously angry.
By day, Anastasia “Stacy” Drakethorn wields her Juris Doctorate as a blade of justice, carving through the corruption festering in the heart of the city. An attorney with a keen mind for the law and a fierce heart for the underdog, she’s determined to level the playing field against a system designed to favor the rich, the powerful, and the corrupt.
By night, there’s another side to the story. In the shadowed alleys where legal argument.
What the Dead Know
by Laura Lippman
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
The New York Times bestselling author returns to the compelling terrain of Every Secret Thing and To the Power of Three with this indelible story of crime and vengeance in which the past becomes all-too-present.
When he’s called to the scene of an accident detective Kevin Infante is drawn into a shocking and puzzling crime that still haunts the Baltimore P.D. Twenty years ago, two little girls were kidnapped from a shopping mall, igniting fear and anger throughout the city.
Killing Reagan
by Bill O’Reilly, Martin Dugard
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Told in the same riveting fashion as Killing Lincoln, Killing Kennedy, Killing Jesus, and Killing Patton, Killing Reagan reaches back to the golden days of Hollywood, where Reagan found both fame and heartbreak, up through the years in the California governor’s mansion, and finally to the White House, where he presided over boom years and the fall of the Iron Curtain. But it was John Hinckley Jr.’s attack on him that precipitated President Reagan’s most heroic actions. In Killing Reagan, O’Reilly and Dugard take readers behind the scenes, creating an unforgettable portrait of a great man operating in violent times.
Zeroes
by Chuck Wendig
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
An Anonymous-style rabble rouser, an Arab spring hactivist, a black-hat hacker, an old-school cipherpunk, and an online troll are each offered a choice: go to prison or help protect the United States, putting their brains and skills to work for the government for one year.
But being a white-hat doesn’t always mean you work for the good guys. The would-be cyberspies discover that behind the scenes lurks a sinister NSA program, an artificial intelligence code-named Typhon, that has origins and an evolution both dangerous and disturbing. And if it’s not brought down, will soon be uncontrollable.
Kiss Her Goodbye
by Lisa Gardner
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Recent Afghan refugee and young mother Sabera Ahmadi was last seen exiting her place of work three weeks ago. The local police have yet to open a case, while her older, domineering husband seems unconcerned. At the insistence of Sabera’s closest friend, missing persons expert Frankie Elkin agrees to take up the search just in time for a video of Sabera to surface—showing her walking away from the scene of a brutal double murder.
Frankie quickly notes there’s much more to the Ahmadi family than meets the eye. The father Isaad is a brilliant mathematician, Sabera a gifted linguist, and their little girl Zahra has an uncanny ability to remember anything she sees.