Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Tanked
by Bessie Barr
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
New Year’s Day, 1900. A new century. A dead man floating face-down in the McKinney, Texas, courthouse square water tank. And one farmwife who cannot (will not) let a wrong answer stand.
Minnie Mae Harper is sixty years old, armed with a basket of eggs, too many years of reading people, and she is the most dangerous thing in Collin County. When Leroy McMurtry turns up dead on the first morning of the twentieth century, the whole town settles comfortably on the obvious answer: a livery argument, two brothers with a history of fire, and motive stacked three ways. Minnie Mae helps build the case herself. Then a quiet man in a jail doorway says four words that won’t leave her alone.
Coffin Man
by James D. Doss
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
When Colorado rancher and part-time tribal investigator Charlie Moon gets a call from Wanda Naranjo, she’s panicked. Not only is her sink leaking, which Moon graciously fixes, but her sixteen-year-old daughter, Betty, has gone missing. For how long? Only a few hours, but she’s pregnant. So what about the father-to-be? It’s a good question and anybody’s guess. Betty has kept her lips sealed on the subject.
And that’s not all. Betty claimed to be going to see a school counselor on what turned out to be his day off. So was she running away or was she abducted? Moon’s best friend, Granite Creek Chief of Police Scott Parris, doesn’t believe any of it and suspects that Wanda tricked them into doing a little emergency plumbing…
The Calleshire Chronicles Volume Three
by Catherine Aird
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Over the course of twenty-four crime novels set in the fictional County of Calleshire, England, and featuring the sleuthing team of shrewd Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan and his less-than-shrewd sidekick, Detective Constable William Crosby, award-winning author Catherine Aird maintained the perfect balance between cozy village mystery and police procedural. These three entertaining crime novels offer “the very best in British mystery”
Parting Breath,
Some Die Eloquent,
Passing Strange
Mildred Budge in Embankment
by Daphne Simpkins
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The others heard it, but they were also experiencing their own quick flashes of insight. Liz, a serial widow, felt unsatisfied with her life. She wanted more. Sailing toward her death, she still did.
Sam, who had turned the steering wheel that had sent them over the embankment, was looking forward to the crash. He wanted to feel it—the hard slam of collision. His hands held the wheel tightly, bracing for it.
Jake smiled. He resisted holding Mildred’s hand, because black men still didn’t touch white women in the where he lived. And he took note of the wonder of the experience that was like flying…
The Stolen Queen
by Fiona Davis
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
From New York Times bestselling author Fiona Davis, an utterly addictive new novel that will transport you from New York City’s most glamorous party to the labyrinth streets of Cairo and back.
Egypt, 1936: When anthropology student Charlotte Cross is offered a coveted spot on an archaeological dig in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, she leaps at the opportunity. That is until an unbearable tragedy strikes.
New York City, 1978: Nineteen-year-old Annie Jenkins is thrilled when she lands an opportunity to work for former Vogue fashion editor Diana Vreeland, who’s in the midst of organizing the famous Met Gala, hosted at the museum and known across the city as the “party of the year.”
Ruling Passion
by Reginald Hill
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
With his longtime girlfriend, Ellie, detective Peter Pascoe is off to Thornton Lacey for an exciting weekend reunion with a few of his college friends. However, upon arrival, he finds no cause for celebration. Instead, there’s been a triple homicide, and one of his friends—the chief suspect—is missing.
Pascoe is eager to assist with the case, but the local constabulary doesn’t seem to welcome outside help. Meanwhile, Pascoe’s superior, the incorrigibly rude Andy Dalziel, needs him back home to find the culprit behind a series of burglaries…
The Lie That Binds
by Carolina Mac
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Sloan Jerico’s knuckles bleed as he punches his way toward his dream of building a biker empire from nothing.
When his reckless ambition puts a target on his back, he’s left choking on his own blood, seconds from death. Savage life lessons hammer him into submission as he claws his way back, forced to swallow his pride or lose everything. After betraying his only ally in a rage-fueled power grab, Sloan faces the ultimate choice: embrace the ruthless business tactics that could make him a legend, or die face-down in the dirt of the very ranch he wants to possess.
The Secrets We Hide
by Karin Slaughter
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
The next thrilling mystery in the new North Falls series from Karin Slaughter, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Good Daughter and the Will Trent Series.
Welcome to North Falls. A small town with big secrets…
1601 Iris Drive looks like any other house on the quiet, residential street. But rumors are rampant about the Vickery family, and what goes on behind closed doors…