Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
A Game of Luck
by Sandra J. Cady
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
The puzzling murder of a beloved teacher leaves Detroit homicide detective Sam Roma searching for answers. To her chagrin, not only does Sam have a murder to solve, she’s been assigned a new homicide investigator, Tom Green, who comes with his own set of problems and challenges. As Tom makes a series of rookie mistakes, Sam wonders if she’s up to mentoring a partner with personal struggles-one who she suspects is involved in departmental politics.
To top it off, Sam’s personal guilt over her own history intersects with the conflicts faced by the middle school students close to the murder. She needs to navigate complicated relationships and face memories that have haunted her for years while keeping her family’s secret safe.
Divine Justice
by David Baldacci
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Known by his alias, “Oliver Stone,” John Carr is the most wanted man in America. With two pulls of the trigger, the men who destroyed Stone’s life and kept him in the shadows were finally silenced.
But his freedom comes at a steep price: The assassinations he carried out prompt the highest levels of the U.S. government to unleash a massive manhunt. Yet behind the scenes, master spy Macklin Hayes is playing a very personal game of cat and mouse. He, more than anyone else, wants John Carr dead.
Famous Last Words
by Gillian McAllister
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
From the author of Reese’s Book Club Pick and New York Times bestseller Wrong Place Wrong Time comes an addictive psychological thriller about a new mother’s world upended when her husband commits a terrifying crime. In this gripping suspense novel, Camilla must ask herself: How well does she truly know the man she loves? And what danger does she face if her entire life has been built on a lie?
It is June 21st, the longest day of the year, and new mother Camilla’s life is about to change forever. After months of maternity leave, she will drop her infant daughter off at daycare for the first time and return to her job as a literary agent. Finally. But, when she wakes, her husband Luke isn’t there, and in his place is a cryptic note.
The House in the Pines
by Ana Reyes
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.6 #ad
Maya was a high school senior when her best friend, Aubrey, dropped dead in front of the enigmatic man named Frank whom they’d been spending time with all summer.
Seven years later, Maya lives in Boston with a loving boyfriend and is kicking the secret addiction that has allowed her to cope with what happened years ago, the gaps in her memories, and the lost time that she can’t account for. But her past comes rushing back when she comes across a recent YouTube video in which a young woman suddenly keels over and dies in a diner while sitting across from none other than Frank. Plunged into the trauma that has defined her life, Maya heads to her Berkshires hometown to relive that fateful summer—the influence Frank once had on her and the obsessive jealousy that nearly destroyed her friendship with Aubrey.
Morning Noon & Night
by Sidney Sheldon
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A beautiful woman attends a family gathering following the mysterious death of Harry Stanford, claiming to be his long-lost child and stating her rights to a share of the tycoon’s estate, in a hypnotic, roller-coaster novel.
When Harry Stanford, one of the wealthiest men in the world, mysteriously drowns while cruising on his yacht off the rugged coast of Corsica, it sets off a chain of events that reverberates around the globe. At the family gathering following the funeral in Boston, a strikingly beautiful young woman appears. She claims to be the daughter of Harry Stanford and entitled to a share of the tycoon’s estateis she genuine or an impostor? The Stanford family is one of the most respected in America, but behind the facade of fame and glamour is a hidden web of blackmail, drugs, and murder.
Defining Chances
by Stacey Wilk
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Even the most unexpected circumstances may teach us how to forgive what cannot be changed…
Ember Wilde returns to Candlewood Falls to reconcile her life. Recently divorced, she quits her banal job and decides the timing is good to care for her ailing mother. Only her parents don’t want her help.
Raf Alvarez built a respectable life although the odds were stacked against him. When his world epically turns on its head, he isn’t prepared. Falling for Ember Wilde surprises him most of all because her family will never accept him and his family’s questionable history.
Ember isn’t interested in any man at the moment—especially not one with strong opinions and who works at her father’s orchard. But sometimes the heart knows better.
The Doll Maker
by Richard Montanari
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Detectives Byrne and Balzano return to the streets of Philadelphia to put an end to a macabre succession of murdered children.
A quiet Philadelphia suburb. A woman cycles past a train depot with her young daughter. There she finds a murdered girl posed on a newly painted bench. Beside her is a formal invitation to a tea dance in a week’s time.
Seven days later, two more young victims are discovered in an abandoned house, posed on painted swings. At the scene is an identical invitation. This time, though, there is something extra waiting for Detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano: a delicate porcelain doll.
Reverse
by Steven F. Havill
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
A road to nowhere . . .
Recovering from a near-death collision with a giant elk, Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman is back to finish her last month at the Posadas County sheriff’s office. It’s supposed to be a quiet road to retirement, until a body is found at the bottom of a water-filled quarry. The barely alive figure of the grandson of the wealthiest man in town also lies further down the ravine.
Figuring out what really happened is going to take everything that Estelle and her understaffed, overworked team have.