Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder at Maisie’s
by Lyla Blue
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Welcome to Silver Pines—where the coffee is strong, every conversation begins with “Did you hear…?” and coming home is never as simple as it sounds.
Clare Garner came home for a fresh start. Instead, she got two exes, one murder, and absolutely no idea which problem to tackle first.
Her high school sweetheart has never stopped believing she belonged in Silver Pines. Her charming college ex suddenly reappears with secrets—and a smile that reminds her why she fell for him in the first place.
The Lazarus Protocol
by Lisa Phillips
Kindle $3.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Brand New Release from USA Today and top ten Publishers Weekly bestselling author Lisa Phillips.
A suspicious death in Washington, ruled an accident. A team dispatched into hostile territory. A covert agent, bruised and hunted, but very much alive.
The CIA saved Stephanie-Jo’s life. Now she owes them her soul, and there’s no way out. When a private black-ops team becomes her only chance at survival, the mission shifts to a battle of wills. These men answer to no government, only to each other, and they’re hunting the same device she’s been sent to secure. Steph’s handlers don’t accept failure. She has to complete the mission—or die trying.
Low Pressure
by Sandra Brown
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
“A good old-fashioned thriller and a winner.” – Kirkus Reviews
Bellamy Lyston was only twelve years old when her older sister Susan was killed on a stormy Memorial Day. Bellamy’s fear of storms is a legacy of the tornado that destroyed the crime scene along with her memory of what really happened during the day’s most devastating moments.
Now, eighteen years later, Bellamy has written a sensational bestselling novel based on Susan’s murder, published under a pseudonym to protect her family from unwanted publicity…
Hour Game
by David Baldacci
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A man accused of burglary seems innocent, but two ex-Secret Service agents quickly learn that nothing is more dangerous than the truth in this propulsive thriller from a #1 New York Times bestselling author.
A woman is found murdered in the woods. It seems like a simple case but it soon escalates into a terrible nightmare. Someone is replicating the killing styles of the most infamous murderers of all time. No one knows this criminal’s motives … or who will die next.
Two ex-Secret Service agents, Sean King and Michelle Maxwell, have been hired to defend a man’s innocence in a burglary involving an aristocratic family…
Trauma and Recovery
by Judith Lewis Herman MD
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
“One of the most important psychiatric works to be published since Freud.” – New York Times
Trauma and Recovery is the foundational text on understanding trauma survivors. By placing individual experience in a political frame, psychiatrist Judith L. Herman argues that psychological trauma is inseparable from its social and political context. Drawing on her own research on incest, as well as a vast literature on combat veterans and victims of political terror, she shows surprising parallels between private horrors like child abuse and public horrors like war.
No Lights No Law
by Robert J. Walker
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
When an EMP destroys America’s power grid, Frank Tilley has only one mission: reach his grandchildren before the darkness claims them.
With society collapsing and his loyal dog at his side, Frank begins a desperate journey across a lawless West Coast. Every mile brings new dangers, and time is running out.
The grid is down. Civilization is gone. And Frank may be his grandchildren’s only hope.
The One from the Other
by Philip Kerr
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In the fourth mystery in Philip Kerr’s New York Times bestselling series, Bernie Gunther—a former policeman and reluctant SS offier—attempts to start over in the aftermath of World War 2 and quickly learns that the past is never far behind you…
Berlin, 1949. Amid the chaos of defeat, Germany is a place of dirty deals, rampant greed, and fleeing Nazis. For Bernie Gunther, Berlin has become far too dangerous. After being forced to serve in the SS in the killing fields of Ukraine, Bernie has moved to Munich to reestablish himself as a private investigator.
The Blue Flame
by George Pelecanos
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Private investigator Derek Strange returns in a riveting drama about revenge, greed, and redemption—from bestselling author and Emmy-nominated writer for HBO’s The Wire and Treme, George Pelecanos.
He was curious. It was the cop in him. That flame was still alive.
The neon “Strange Investigations” sign may be flickering in disrepair outside his office, but private investigator Derek Strange is still accepting new cases. When a flashy drug lawyer hires him to prove an alibi for an accused murderer, Strange can’t help getting drawn into the darkness.