Monday’s Mystery eBooks
The Ankeny Arsonist
by G.G. Morris
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Daughter of a famous chanteuse, Wanda Whipple prefers sleuthing to champagne and caviar. When an arsonist lights up the mayor’s home, Wanda’s investigative skills are put to a trial by fire…literally!
Before long, a body is discovered in the rubble of the mayor’s home, and the hunt is on for a killer. Wanda’s old flame heads up the investigation, but Detective Rubio’s no match for Wanda’s talent for smoking out a suspect. Wanda soon learns, however, if you play with fire you’re apt to get burned. Can Wanda catch the Ankeny arsonist before she becomes the next victim?
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Found
by Harlan Coben
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
From internationally bestselling author Harlan Coben comes this third action-packed installment of his bestselling young adult series.
It’s been eight months since Mickey Bolitar witnessed the shocking, tragic death of his father. Eight months of lies, dark secrets, and unanswered questions. While he desperately wants answers, Mickey’s sophomore year of high school brings on a whole new set of troubles. Spoon is in the hospital, Rachel won’t tell him where he stands, his basketball teammates hate him . . . and then there’s Ema’s surprise announcement: She has an online boyfriend, and he’s vanished.
Hard Gray Eyes
by Jon Richards
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
A financial conspiracy. A dangerous secret. A team that refuses to back down.
What Jack Murphy thought was the banking opportunity of a lifetime turned into a humiliating arrest, a brutal prison term, and a Texas Hill Country shootout with a Mexican drug cartel.
With the help of alliances forged behind prison walls, a Texas Hill Country recluse, a wizened FBI agent willing to push limits, and the unwavering love and support of his wife, Murphy recovers millions in hidden cartel money — and orchestrates the downfall of those who engineered the false claims that sent him to prison.
Of Lightning and Silver
by Julianne Munich
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In 1810 England, Miss Phoebe Eaton trains as a Vampire Hunter.
She has only ever used her Lightning magic to spark kitchen fires, until her training officer teaches her to use her power to knock vampire bats from the sky. Kindhearted Phoebe is always one to help others—even if she’s rather timid for a fighter.
Constable Jakob Weber is a dashing new member of the Mage law force. He saves Phoebe’s life during her first disastrous hunt—then mysteriously vanishes. Phoebe soon witnesses a brutal massacre at the hands of a newly sired vampire. The tragedy gives her a clue to Jakob’s disappearance, and she embarks on a new hunt with a talented, international team of high-powered Mages.
Away With the Fairies
by Kerry Greenwood
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, now streaming on Netflix, starring Essie Davis as the honourable Phryne Fisher
It’s 1928 in Melbourne and Phryne is asked to investigate the puzzling death of a famous author and illustrator of fairy stories. To do so, Phryne takes a job within the women’s magazine that employed the victim and finds herself enmeshed in her colleagues’ deceptions.
But while Phryne is learning the ins and outs of magazine publishing first hand, her personal life is thrown into chaos.,,
Juggler of Worlds
by Larry Niven, Edward M. Lerner
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
For too long, the Puppeteers have controlled the fate of worlds. Now Sigmund is pulling the strings…
Covert agent Sigmund Ausfaller is Earth’s secret weapon, humanity’s best defense against all conspiracies, real and potential – and imaginary – of foes both human and alien. Who better than a brilliant paranoid to expose the devious plots of others?
He may finally have met his match in Nessus, representative of the secretive Puppeteers, the elder race who wield vastly superior technologies. Nessus schemes in the shadows with Earth’s traitors and adversaries, even after the race he represents abruptly vanishes from Known Space.
Not Lost Forever
by Carmina Salcido, Steve Jackson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
In this memoir of true crime and survival, a woman recounts the remarkable story of her father’s murderous rampage and how she was left for dead.
On April 14, 1989, in California’s idyllic Sonoma Valley, Mexican immigrant Ramón Salcido went on a rampage, killing his wife, her two younger sisters, his mother-in-law, and his wife’s suspected lover. Then he slashed the throats of his three young daughters—ages four years, three years, and twenty-two months—and left them for dead in the county dump. A day later, when the children’s bodies were finally discovered, three-year-old Carmina was miraculously still alive. “Daddy cut me,” she told her rescuers.
Loyal Justice
by Kayla Lowe
Kindle $4.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Protection is easy. Trust is harder. Love is hardest of all.
K-9 officer Jack Hayes has always answered the call—but nothing prepares him for Samantha Cole, a woman on the run from an abusive ex. With danger around every corner and faith guiding their steps, Jack and Sam must learn to trust God, each other, and the courage in their own hearts. Because in Glory, justice is loyal—and love can be the greatest protection of all.