Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Terminal Velocity
by M.P. Woodward
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Jack Ryan Jr battles terrorists in the disputed mountains of Kashmir to save a comrade in the latest entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.
A string of savage murders in the United States seems unrelated until the FBI makes a shocking discovery: a decade ago, all of the murder victims were involved in a raid to eliminate the Umayyad Revolutionary Council, a vicious terror group that—were it not for John Clark and the Campus—would have perpetrated the most devastating attack against critical American infrastructure in history. Now it appears they’re back, with a next-generation leader hell-bent on revenge.
Carolina Moon
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts presents a novel of redemption and suspense, as a woman haunted by the unsolved murder of her childhood friend returns to her small South Carolina hometown. . . .
Tory Bodeen grew up in a run-down house where her father ruled with an iron fist and a leather belt—and where her dreams and talents had no room to flourish. Her one escape was her neighbor Hope, who lived in the big house just a short skip away, and whose friendship allowed Tory to be something she wasn’t allowed to be at home: a child.
Then Hope was brutally murdered, and everything fell apart.
The Bourne Deception
by Robert Ludlum, Eric Van Lustbader
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
After Bourne is ambushed and nearly killed while in Indonesia, he fakes his death to take on a new identity and mission—to find out who is trying to assassinate him.
In the process, Bourne begins to question who he really is and what he would become if he no longer carried the Bourne identity. Across the globe, an American passenger airliner is shot down over Egypt—apparently by an Iranian missile—leaving the world wondering if it was an accident or an act of aggression. A massive global team lead by Soraya Moore is assembled to investigate the attack before the situation escalates.
NYPD Red 8
by Marshall Karp
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
It’s 11:59.
And the city that never sleeps is afraid to get out of bed.
A bomb explodes in a crowded New York subway station at exactly 11:59 a.m. The next day, a second blast rips through a busy department store—again at 11:59.
As the bombs go off with clockwork precision, the death toll climbs and businesses shut their doors as the city hunkers down in fear.
Bad Deeds
by David J. Gatward
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
As the delicate threads of community begin to unravel, can Harry Grimm trap a malicious puppeteer before their malevolent game leads to murder?
When beloved local mechanic, Mike, causes a serious motoring accident, DCI Grimm’s instincts tell him something is very wrong. But with no trail of evidence to follow, he is left grappling in the dark for clues.
Then, in the usually tranquil Swaledale village of Muker, the local baker is poisoned, and a chilling reality unfolds: these accidents are no string of coincidences, but orchestrated acts of malice conducted by a shadowy foe.
Blessing of the Lost Girls
by J. A. Jance
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Driven by a compulsion that challenges his self-control, the man calling himself Charles Milton prowls the rodeo circuit, hunting young women. He chooses those he believes are the most vulnerable, wandering alone and distracted, before he strikes.
For years, he has been meticulous in his methods, abducting, murdering, and disposing of his victims while leaving no evidence of his crimes—or their identities—behind. Indigenous women have become his target of choice, knowing law enforcement’s history of ignoring their disappearances.
Carpet People : The Invasion
by Ralph Hecht
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Carpet People – The Invasion is a darkly funny, fast-moving sci-fi horror adventure about an Arkansas farmhouse, a reckless teenager, his terrifyingly observant little sister, one loyal dog, and four thousand tiny alien survivors who mistake a family home for the safest battlefield in the universe.
After the generational starship Titan’s Pride crash-lands beneath an azalea bush in Logan County, its half-inch colonists discover Earth is a monstrous landscape of grass-blade forests, thunderstorm oceans, predatory insects, and giants with snack food, electrical outlets, and vacuums. With freakishly long faces, googly eyes, and rubbery cartoon expressions, they seem ridiculous at first, until pride, fear, and dangerous invention make them impossible to dismiss. Soon, the survivors push into the farmhouse walls and found Baseboard One beneath Rick’s bed.
The Witches of Cambridge
by Alice Hoffman
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
The brand-new series from the bestselling author of Practical Magic, following two brilliant young women in 1950s Cambridge, Massachusetts, as they become immersed in a mysterious secret group of witches at Radcliffe known as the Lilith Society.
Once upon a time, women were drowned in the river and the only witnesses were the crows in the trees. The Puritans blamed Eve for the sins of the world. That was when we began to meet in the name of Lilith, Adam’s first wife—banished for refusing to do as she was told.