Monday’s Mystery eBooks
The Lord Peter Wimsey Short Story Collection
by Dorothy L. Sayers
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Four volumes of short stories featuring the iconic British aristocrat and sleuth from “one of the greatest mystery story writers” (Los Angeles Times).
A gentleman needs hobbies. For Lord Peter Wimsey—a Great War veteran with a touch of shell shock—collecting rare books, sampling fine wines, and catching criminals are all most pleasant diversions. In these Golden Age whodunits, “Lord Peter can hardly be spared from the ranks of the great detectives of the printed page” (The New York Times).
Lord Peter Views the Body,
Hangman’s Holiday,
In the Teeth of the Evidence,
Striding Folly
World War Z
by Max Brooks
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
We survived the zombie apocalypse, but how many of us are still haunted by that terrible time? We have (temporarily?) defeated the living dead, but at what cost? Told in the haunting and riveting voices of the men and women who witnessed the horror firsthand, World War Z is the only record of the pandemic.
The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet…
The Camel Club Kindle
by David Baldacci
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
After witnessing a shocking murder, four conspiracy theorists team up with a Secret Service agent to uncover the government corruption that threatens to cause an international terrorism crisis in this New York Times bestselling thriller.
Welcome to The Camel Club.
Existing at the fringes of Washington, D.C., the Club consists of four eccentric members. Led by a mysterious man known as “Oliver Stone,” they study conspiracy theories, current events, and the machinations of government to discover the “truth” behind the country’s actions. Their efforts bear little fruit—until the group witnesses a shocking murder … and becomes embroiled in an astounding, far-reaching conspiracy.
KILL THE MESSENGER
by Jessica Lynn Sorensen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A serial killer leaves a chilling note on the bodies of his victims: They should’ve kept their mouth shut. His rule is simple; whoever reports the body of his last victim becomes his next target. But when Alyssa stumbles upon the crime and refuses to report it, she becomes his obsession.
He can’t kill her, it’s against the rules… but he can’t let her go, either. Instead, he starts toying with her mind, pushing her to the edge.
In a deadly game of survival, one question remains: Who will break first? The killer or Alyssa?
The House on Serpent Lake
by Brenda Hill
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
EARTHBOUND, HE WAITS FOR HER TO BE REBORN. Hints of Bay Rum aftershave follow her through the house. A stirring of air whispers, “Remember . . . remember.”
Strange things happen when she sees the decaying house for the first time: she knows how the rooms are arranged, knows of a gazebo that hasn’t existed for fifty years.
When her husband inherits his abandoned childhood home on a north woods lake, Lindsay Peterson is delighted.
Until . . .Strange things happen when she sees the decaying house for the first time; she knows how the rooms are arranged, knows of a gazebo that hasn’t existed for fifty years. After they move in, dreams of a lover from another time haunt her sleep then intrude on her days with déjà vu until the present blurs with the past. A stirring of air caresses her with whispered touch. Then the touches become real.
Out of Time
by Mario Diana
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
One moment Jay was ordinary. The next, he’s assigned to an elite time traveling force. The rules are strict: take DNA samples, and leave the past exactly as you found it. But time travel was the easy part.
On his first mission to Venice, Jay encounters an object that inconveniently jumped across centuries. Events shift, and the more Jay tries to contain the breach, the more the damage spreads.
The fracture draws in an American nursing student on vacation in Italy, whose presence compromises everything Jay has been trained to avoid. As Jay follows the object across shifting timelines, he races to repair a growing paradox, desperate to undo the mistake that began it all. Jay’s companion, an intelligent AI with a cloned human brain, has to come to their rescue. But she uncovers a forbidden truth: humanity was created by a primal Maker. And the story of that creation has been deliberately buried.
The Mersey Ferry Murders
by Brian L. Porter
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A new serial killer is at large in Liverpool. The victims appear to have no connection to each other, and Detective Inspector Andy Ross and the Merseyside Police Force Specialist Murder Investigation Team are brought in to investigate.
The victims are all middle-aged and the police are initially baffled, until a tenuous link suggests the victims were involved in a rape/murder trial fifteen years previously. Ross and his team of detectives soon realize that the killer has a ‘murder list’ and that unless he or she can be stopped, the city’s streets will soon be awash with the blood of the innocents.
The Searcher
by Tana French
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Cal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in a bucolic Irish village would be the perfect escape. After twenty-five years in the Chicago police force and a bruising divorce, he just wants to build a new life in a pretty spot with a good pub where nothing much happens. But when a local kid whose brother has gone missing arm-twists him into investigating, Cal uncovers layers of darkness beneath his picturesque retreat, and starts to realize that even small towns shelter dangerous secrets.
26 Beauties
by James Patterson
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
From the world’s #1 bestselling author, the Women’s Murder Club goes searching for 26 Beauties – young women missing in San Francisco.
SFPD’s Sergeant Lindsay Boxer’s best friend, Claire Washburn, is named medical examiner of the year. But an uninvited guest crashes the Women’s Murder Club’s party: a concerned father seeking investigative reporter Cindy Thomas’s help in locating his missing daughter. And she’s not the only one. Lindsay’s been investigating the deaths of a Jane Doe washed up on a nearby beach, and a young woman found in Golden Gate Park.