Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Seeking Glory
by Patricia Hamilton Shook
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Kate LaRue is a divorced, successful co-owner of an art and gift store on Cape Cod whose current life has been largely peaceful, well ordered and without undue daily stress. That is, until she receives a phone call saying her long-missing daughter Ally is seriously ill in a hospital in California. After Ally dies with her mother by her side, Kate assumes custody of Glory, the four-year-old granddaughter she never knew she had; however, she soon discovers that Glory is selectively mute and seemingly traumatized.
To help her, Kate must try to solve the mystery of what happened to both her granddaughter and her daughter but to do so she must reconnect with family and friends she hasn’t seen or wanted to see in years. What Kate finds leads her to reexamine her life, her relationships, and what she truly believes. Meanwhile she finds she is not the only one seeking Glory.
Galway Girl
by Ken Bruen
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Jack Taylor has never quite been able get his life together, but now he has truly hit rock bottom. Still reeling from a violent family tragedy, Taylor is busy drowning his grief in Jameson and uppers, as usual, when a high-profile officer in the local Garda is murdered. After another Guard is found dead, and then another, Taylor’s old colleagues from the force implore him to take on the case. ‘
The plot is one big game, and all of the pieces seem to be moving at the behest of one dangerously mysterious team: a trio of young killers with very different styles, but who are united their common desire to take down Jack Taylor. Their ring leader is Jericho, a psychotic girl from Galway who is grieving the loss of her lover, and who will force Jack to confront some personal trauma from his past.
Just the Nicest Couple
by Mary Kubica
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Jake Hayes is missing. This much is certain. At first, his wife, Nina, thinks he is blowing off steam at a friend’s house after their heated fight the night before. But then a day goes by. Two days. Five. And Jake is still nowhere to be found.
Lily Scott, Nina’s friend and coworker, thinks she may have been the last to see Jake before he went missing. After Lily confesses everything to her husband, Christian, the two decide that nobody can find out what happened leading up to Jake’s disappearance, especially not Nina. But Nina is out there looking for her husband, and she won’t stop until the truth is discovered.
In Her Shadow
by Theo Baxter
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Every room has a secret. Every secret has a price.
Rachel thought marrying Lucas Price would be the beginning of her happily ever after. Instead, moving into Crestwood, his sprawling seaside estate, feels more like stepping into a nightmare.
The shadow of his first wife, Eliza—who died in a tragic fall from the cliffs—haunts every corner of their new home. When ghostly apparitions begin appearing and mysterious messages warn Rachel to leave, she questions her own sanity.
Lucas dismisses her fears and refuses to discuss what happened to Eliza, leaving Rachel isolated and paranoid. Desperate to get to the truth, she starts to investigate Eliza’s death.
Night Shadows
by Eva Björg Ægisdóttir
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
The small community of Akranes is devastated when a young man dies in a mysterious house fire, and when Detective Elma and her colleagues from West Iceland CID discover the fire was arson, they become embroiled in an increasingly perplexing case involving multiple suspects. What’s more, the dead man’s final online search raises fears that they could be investigating not one murder, but two.
A few months before the fire, a young Dutch woman takes a job as an au pair in Iceland, desperate to make a new life for herself after the death of her father. But the seemingly perfect family who employs her turns out to have problems of its own and she soon discovers she is running out of people to turn to.
Tom Naylor Trilogy
by Trevor Negus
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Tom Naylor – a good cop with a deadly skill.
Nottingham 1990. Ex-paratrooper Tom Naylor is a sniper in the Special Operations Unit, the dedicated firearms response teams of the Nottinghamshire Police.
Each book in this gripping trilogy focuses on a single case:
Two Wrongs
The Root of All Evil
The Cause
Elegy for Eddie
by Jacqueline Winspear
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In this latest entry in Jacqueline Winspear’s acclaimed, bestselling mystery series – “less whodunits than why-dunits, more P.D. James than Agatha Christie” (USA Today)—Maisie Dobbs takes on her most personal case yet, a twisting investigation into the brutal killing of a street peddler that will take her from the working-class neighborhoods of her childhood into London’s highest circles of power.
Perfect for fans of A Lesson in Secrets, The Mapping of Love and Death
Wild Witch
by Trisha Ridinger McKee
Kindle $2.99 Rating: New Release #ad
Ginger fled her hometown three years ago with her high school sweetheart. Now, she returns to face the betrayal she left behind and to make amends with that former boyfriend she ultimately abandoned. But things change slowly in a small town, and she has to decide whether to face the rumors that still echo around her or leave it all behind once again.