Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Memory in Death
by J. D. Robb
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Eve Dallas is one tough cop. It should take more than a seemingly ordinary middle-aged lady to make her fall apart. But when that lady is Trudy Lombard, all bets are off. Just seeing Trudy at the station plunges Eve back to the days when she was a vulnerable, traumatized young girl—and trapped in foster care with the twisted woman who now sits smiling in front of her.
Trudy claims she came all the way to New York just to see how Eve is doing. But Eve’s fiercely protective husband, Roarke, suspects otherwise—and a blackmail attempt by Trudy proves his suspicion correct…
The Sex Club
by L.J. Sellers
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A pipe bomb explodes at a birth control clinic, then a young client turns up dead in a dumpster. Kera, the clinic nurse, discovers that the girl’s Bible group is sharing more than the Good News. Confidentiality keeps her from telling the police, so she digs for the truth on her own—becoming the bomber’s new target.
Meanwhile, Detective Jackson races to find the killer, fearing his own daughter could be next. But his investigation is blocked by power politics at every step. Can Jackson uncover the killer’s shocking identity in time to stop the slaughter?
Lazytown
by Steve Sheppard
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Something funny’s going on in Lazytown…
For jobbing writer, Sam Bryant, life in the eccentric Oxfordshire village of Idleborough – known to all and sundry as Lazytown – is relaxed, despite living in the unfortunately named Slaughterhouse Cottages. The most he has to concern himself with is the annual cricket grudge match with neighbours, Stockford, organising the local Duck Race, watching Granny’s Bobbins matches and deciding which of the village’s four pubs to frequent, whilst smiling at the antics of Lazytown’s collection of weird and wonderful residents…
Paint The Dead
by Jack Gatland
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Some cases need more than the police…
Meet disgraced ex-DI Ellie Reckless, a self-proclaimed ‘cop for criminals’, and the person the underworld calls when they can’t call the police.
Working for favours, freely given at a time and place of her choosing, Ellie and her team of fallen angels work the cases the police never see–while Ellie builds enough favours to discover who in the force framed her for murder, who ordered it, and who really killed the man she loved…
Vincible
by Jay Jameston
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Breakups are hard, but going viral during your meltdown is alarmingly easy.
Jake Durham just got dumped, humiliated online, and shoved back into the dating pool with absolutely no idea what he’s doing. Meanwhile, his ex racks up likes and glow-up photos across social media.
Desperate for closure, or at least a distraction, Jake plunges headfirst into dating apps, ill-advised hookups, and a series of HR “misunderstandings” that spiral wildly out of control. Each swipe, text, and morning-after pushes him deeper into post-breakup purgatory and closer to torching his job, his reputation, and what little self-respect he has left.
The Bleeding Woods
by Brittany Amara
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.5 #ad
In this chilling debut horror novel, a young woman discovering dangerous new powers finds herself lost in the Appalachian Mountains with her first love, the sister she betrayed, and an infatuated stranger bound to her telepathically as a string of vicious murders taints the woods red.
Clara Lovecroft didn’t mean to kill her parents. She was fourteen when it happened. Something inside her had awoken, something terrible and dangerous that Clara’s kept at bay with pills ever since. Not that her sister, Jade, will ever forgive her for what happened. Not that Clara will ever forgive herself.
She-Wolf
by E.K. O’Connor
Kindle $5.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
In ancient Scandinavia, a land beset by monstrous creatures and legends, Beowulf is warrior of extreme renown. Born in battle and shaped by steel, she has spent years proving that strength is not solely a man’s domain.
When the halls of Heorot threaten to buckle under the horror of a monstrous creature known as Grendel, Beowulf answers the call.
As she battles creatures of nightmare, she finds herself drawn to a queen who she should slay for the good of the realm, a woman whose heart holds both solace and peril.
An Act of Treason
by Jack Coughlin, Donald A. Davis
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In the fourth novel in the New York Times–bestselling series, a Marine sniper is targeted by a man he once idolized—a true American hero turned traitor.
Kyle Swanson and his beautiful girlfriend, CIA agent Lauren Carson, are on a mission in Pakistan when their world is turned inside out. Kyle is captured and thrown in prison. Lauren is accused of being a double agent. The one person they trust to help is the man who sent them on the black operation—Jim Hall, a legendary CIA agent, Kyle’s sniper mentor, and Lauren’s boss and former lover.
Deadline for Justice
by Kristen M. Fraser
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
When the past comes calling, justice demands an answer.
Tahlia Gibson thought she’d left her past behind when she moved to the coastal hamlet of Tidewater Point. After helping uncover a powerful sex-trafficking ring, the former investigative reporter sought a fresh start far from danger and the shadows of grief. But when chilling threats begin arriving and someone starts targeting her, Tahlia realises the past isn’t done with her yet.
Landon Cheney, a burnt-out ex-homicide detective, is also starting over, hoping the quiet town will offer healing and bring him back from the brink of burnout…
Jigsaw
by Jonathan Kellerman
Kindle $14.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Psychologist Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis, the most beloved duo in American crime fiction, return in this electric novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling “master of suspense” (Los Angeles Times).
This one looked like a slam dunk: a young woman found dead at her kitchen table, DNA on cigarette butts linking quickly to an ex-boyfriend with a criminal record. Or so homicide lieutenant Milo Sturgis thought. Then everything changed and a quick close turned into a mind-bending whodunit. That’s when Milo called in psychologist Alex Delaware, his best friend and a long-term consultant on “those cases.” The ones that are different…