Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
The Retirement Plan
by Sue Hincenbergs
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
THEY’D KILL TO BE WIDOWS.
Three best friends turn to murder to collect on their husbands’ life insurance policies… But the husbands have a plan of their own in this darkly funny debut suspense novel that will delight readers from the first laugh to the final twist.
After thirty years of friendship, Pam dreams of her perfect retirement with Nancy, Shalisa, Marlene, and their husbands—until their husbands pool their funds for an investment that goes terribly wrong. Suddenly, in this witty domestic thriller, their golden years are looking as dreary as their marriages.
Every Spy a Traitor
by Alex Gerlis
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Trust no one. Suspect everyone.
It’s 1937. Fear and suspicion stalk the Continent. A million have died in Stalin’s Great Purge and the Nazi terror grips Germany. But British intelligence is still trying to work out who the enemy is.
As Europe heads towards war, treason is in the air. British spymasters know there is one Soviet agent in their ranks, codenamed Agent ‘Archie’, and there’s a frantic search to find them. What they don’t know is that he is not the only traitor.
The life of Charles Cooper, a young British writer travelling Europe to research his novel, is about to change for ever…
Mysteries of Dragon’s Island
by Serena Meadows
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
A hidden island. A powerful magic. Eight fated loves that can’t be denied.
On Heart of the Ocean, destiny doesn’t wait. Dragon shifters are drawn to the one woman meant for them—whether they’re ready or not. From second chances and secret children to dangerous missions and forbidden attraction, each story is a battle between control and the pull of a bond that won’t be ignored.
Fate doesn’t ask permission.
And on this island, love isn’t a choice — it’s inevitable.
A Deadly Shade of Gold
by John D. MacDonald, Lee Child
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
When Travis McGee picks up the phone and hears a voice from his past, he can’t help it: He has to meddle. Especially when he has the chance to reunite Sam Taggart, a reckless, restless man like himself, with the woman who’s still waiting for him. But what begins as a simple matchmaking scheme soon becomes a bloody chase that takes McGee to Mexico, a beautiful country from which he hopes to return alive.
Deception. Betrayal. Heartbreak. When Sam left his girlfriend, Nora, and vanished from Fort Lauderdale, no one was surprised. But when he shows up three years later lying in a pool of his own blood, people start to ask questions. And his old friend Travis McGee is left to find answers.
Broken
by Karin Slaughter
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Karin Slaughter’s internationally bestselling novels are as notable for their vivid portraits of lives shadowed by loss and heartbreak as they are for their dramatic criminal investigations. Broken features the return of her most compelling characters and introduces memorable new ones in a tale of corruption, murder, and confrontation that will leave more than one life . . .
When Special Agent Will Trent arrives in Grant County, he finds a police department determined to protect its own and far too many unanswered questions about a prisoner’s death…
The Hanging Girl
by Jussi Adler-Olsen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
New York Times and internationally bestselling author Jussi Adler-Olsen delivers an exhilarating mystery in the Department Q series, featuring Detective Carl Mørck and his enigmatic assistants, Assad and Rose.
In the middle of his usual hard-won morning nap in the basement of police headquarters, Carl Mørck, head of Department Q, receives a call from a colleague working on the Danish island of Bornholm. Carl is dismissive when he realizes that a new case is being foisted on him, but a few hours later, he receives some shocking news that leaves his headstrong assistant Rose more furious than usual….
W. E. B. Griffin Direct Action
by Jack Stewart
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Charley Castillo, the original Presidential Agent is in Virginia Beach to visit his son when two gunmen appear. Charley is able to thwart a deadly mass shooting, but he is hit and badly injured.
Meanwhile Pick McCoy is at the Naval Academy catching up with some old friends. When the news of the attack reaches him, he senses that this is no random event. While Charley clings to life, Pick searches for the men responsible and in the process uncovers a deadly plot that threatens to strike deep at the heart of American democracy.
Girls in the City – Samantha
by Suzanne Jenkins
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
An OB resident who’s afraid to love, and a Detroit cop with nothing on his mind but loving her; what will it take to bring them together?
After graduating from medical school, single parent Samantha Karas and her daughter, Adelaide leave Chicago for a longed-for residency in Detroit where she’ll be close to her family again. With one goal in mind aside from her daughter, her focus is to finish the rigorous obstetrics residency, with no notions of ever getting involved again.
But then she meets Detroit cop Mike Khan, and after one glorious night, realizes her heart has room for love.