Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Bryant & May
by Christopher Fowler
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
When a prominent politician is crushed by a fruit van making a delivery, the singular team of Arthur Bryant and John May overcome insurmountable odds to reunite the PCU and solve the case in this brainy new mystery from acclaimed author Christopher Fowler.
On a spring morning in London’s Strand, the Speaker of the House of Commons is nearly killed by a van unloading oranges and lemons for the annual St. Clement Danes celebration. It’s an absurd near-death experience, but the government is more interested in investigating the Speaker’s state of mind just prior to his accident.
Gemini
by Mark Burnell
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Around the world, my face has many names. Long ago, when I was a complete person, I was somebody called Stephanie Patrick. But almost nobody remembers her now. Sometimes, not even me.
Stephanie Patrick has left behind the dark world of spies, lies, and aliases, to live a normal civilian life in London. But then a shocking discovery envelops her, forcing her back into her former life. Scientific and weapons secrets and personnel are being sent via the people-smuggling routes from China, through Albania and the former Yugoslavia to Europe and Britain.
Heinous Crimes Unit Boxed Set One
by Daniel Scott
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Atlanta keeps finding bodies that look like surgical experiments. The eyes are never found.
The media call him the Surgeon. Precise. Patient. Always a step ahead of the FBI’s brand-new Heinous Crimes Unit. Then the unit gets its strangest recruit: Christian Windsor, twenty-three years old, two doctorates, fresh out of Quantico, happier alone with data than in any room full of people. Christian doesn’t profile killers. He follows their logic step for step, as if it were his own.
Every scene the Surgeon leaves is a language only Christian speaks: the rules he follows, the things he keeps. But living inside a killer’s head has a price. Every trip cuts away a little more of what holds Christian together. And the closer he gets to the Surgeon, the closer he gets to a truth the Bureau isn’t ready to hear: the worst monster on this case has a badge.
Perilous
by Jimmy Gear
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
In the desert there’s nowhere to run.
Emma Cauthen wakes up in a dilapidated motel room in the middle of the Sonoran Desert, her feet and hands chained. She suspects that she’s been drugged and abducted, her worst fears confirmed when one of her captors visits, a man with a rough mask over his head whom she comes to know as “Rucksack.”
But he is not acting alone. Emma discovers that she is a victim of a human trafficking operation, and that she’s not the only one being held captive. Her friend Tori is somewhere nearby, and there might be others as well.
Grief Cottage
by Gail Godwin
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The haunting tale of a desolate cottage, and the hair-thin junction between this life and the next, from bestselling National Book Award finalist Gail Godwin.
After his mother’s death, eleven-year-old Marcus is sent to live on a small South Carolina island with his great aunt, a reclusive painter with a haunted past. Aunt Charlotte, otherwise a woman of few words, points out a ruined cottage, telling Marcus she had visited it regularly after she’d moved there thirty years ago because it matched the ruin of her own life. Eventually she was inspired to take up painting so she could capture its utter desolation.
The President’s Assassin
by Brian Haig
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
With just three days to prevent the assassination of the President, Army lawyer Sean Drummond races the clock in the high-stakes countdown of his career.
It looked like a mass execution: six people, systematically shot and killed in a private Washington mansion. One of the targets happened to be the White House Chief of Staff. But that wasn’t the reason Sean Drummond was called in on the case. Newly enlisted in a CIA cell called the Office of Special Projects, the former Army lawyer was informed that the murders were just a warning. The killer had left a note: “You can’t stop us. There will be others, and the President will be history in the next two days.”
The House on the Strand
by Daphne du Maurier
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Dick Young is lent a house in Cornwall by his friend Professor Magnus Lane. During his stay he agrees to serve as a guinea pig for a new drug that Magnus has discovered in his scientific research.
When Dick samples Magnus’s potion, he finds himself doing the impossible: traveling through time while staying in place, thrown all the way back into Medieval Cornwall. The concoction wears off after several hours, but its effects are intoxicating and Dick cannot resist his newfound powers. As his journeys increase, Dick begins to resent the days he must spend in the modern world, longing ever more fervently to get back into his world of centuries before, and the home of the beautiful Lady Isolda . . .
Welcome to Poppy Creek
by Rachael Bloome
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Three heartwarming romances. One unforgettable small town. Endless reasons to fall in love with Poppy Creek.
Escape to the charming mountain town of Poppy Creek, where neighbors become family, hope always finds a way, and love appears when it’s least expected.
This special boxed set includes the first three full-length novels in USA Today bestselling author Rachael Bloome’s beloved Poppy Creek series—more than 900 pages of sweet romance, memorable characters, and feel-good stories readers can’t put down.
Getting Away with Murder
by Shari Lapena
Kindle $13.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Jill and Ted adore their New York brownstone the way others adore their children. They have carefully, expensively, made every inch of it their own. It reflects who they are, their status and tastes. With the grand mahogany staircase and state-of-the-art kitchen, it is the stuff of glossy magazines and real-estate dreams. It is their sanctuary.
So when Ted’s inheritance runs out and he makes a bad investment, they panic. How can they protect their beloved home and enviable lifestyle?