Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Dear Miss Demeanor
Joan Hess
Kindle 0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Amateur sleuth Claire Malloy heads back to school in a delightful whodunit from the author Sharyn McCrumb calls “the patron saint of comic mystery.” Agatha Award–Winning Author At Farberville High, it’s reading, writing . . . and murder.
Who knows what evil lurks in the halls of Farbervilles’ high school—or what blackmail is hidden in Miss Demeanor’s Falcon Crier advice column? Certainly not bookstore owner and amateur sleuth Claire Malloy—until her daughter persuades her to substitute for disgraced column editor and journalism teacher Emily Parchester. Surely Miss Parchester cannot be guilty of embezzlement.
O’Henry
t.g. brown
Kindle 0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A TALE OF MURDER, MADNESS AND POLITICAL INTRIGUE . . . Spring of 2003. After spending eleven months at the Vandenberg Psychiatric Hospital of Massachusetts, Josh Ingram, once a decorated FBI profiler is released back into society.
Present day. While out learning to noodle for catfish in the Louisiana Bayou, Ingram gets notice the FBI is looking for him. O’Henry, a serial killer who once plagued New York City, has resurfaced. Recently promoted (against the wishes of her new boss) to head an FBI Special Crimes Unit in Lower East Side Manhattan, Rachael Tanner, driven, focused and willful, is given the O’Henry file.
Pain Point (Aiden McCrae Thrillers Book 2)
E.S. Hobbs
Kindle 0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
There’s dangerous. There’s lethal. And then there’s McCrae. Aiden McCrae was an enforcer for the mob. Until the mob betrayed him—burying him in Stateville for murders he didn’t commit. Now a judge has granted him an off-the-books release, sending him home to find out who’s flooding the streets of his old neighborhood with dope.
The answer wears a white coat. A doctor who preaches wellness is hooking patients on Oxy. Then he cuts their prescriptions and feeds them to street dealers waiting outside. Behind it all: the Commission. The same criminal outfit that left McCrae for dead.
The Night Train
Sharon Bolton
Kindle 2.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Return to the worlds of The Craftsman and Lacey Flint in this first short story collection from Sharon Bolton, International award-winning author of The Split. This collection features eight short stories, each with a new introduction written by the author as well as the first three chapters of Sharon Bolton’s latest novel The Pact.
From the world of the Craftsman The Night Train Alive! All Souls’ Eve From the world of Lacey Flint Mugwort and Moonbeams Lacey’s Wedding From the world of Dead Woman Walking Time Travel, Flight and Invisibility In a world of its own…
Cadillac Wheels
Scott Saxberg
Kindle 0.99 Rating: 5.00 #ad
A country music singer trying to outrun tragedy. A businessman eager to make him pay for his crime. Haunted by the tragic accident that claimed his girlfriend’s life, Tanner Banks is stuck on luck’s bad side, busking on the streets with only his notebooks and his guitar.
That is until he meets Jack Strong, a successful businessman with a painful past of his own. Tanner’s voice stirs Jack’s memory of his son, Aiden—murdered years ago—and compels him to help the street performer catch a break.
Capital Crimes
Jonathan Kellerman and Faye Kellerman
Kindle 1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Internationally bestselling husband and wife Jonathan and Faye Kellerman team up for a powerful one-two punch with Capital Crimes, a gripping pair of original crime thrillers. MY SISTER’S KEEPER: BERKELEY Some of progressive state representative Davida Grayson’s views have made her unpopular.
Although her foes are numerous no one suspects that any buttons Davida might push could evoke deadly force. But now Davida lies brutally murdered in her office, and Berkeley homicide detectives Will Barnes and Amanda Isis must unravel Davida’s complex, before the killer pulls off a repeat performance.
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
Kindle 2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
A lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this “propulsive” (Entertainment Weekly), cinematic thriller full of suspense, humor, and fascinating science—from the author of The Martian.
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time.
Hard News (Rune Trilogy Book 3)
Jeffery Deaver
Kindle 1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
From the bestselling author of the Bone Collector novels, soon to be an NBC series Rune is an aspiring filmmaker with more ambition than political savvy, paying her dues as an assistant cameraperson for the local news. But she’s got her eyes on the prize, the network’s hot newsmagazine, Current Events—and she’s got the story she knows will get her there.
Poking around in the video archives, Rune spots a taped interview with Randy Boggs, who’s doing hard time in Attica for a murder he claims he didn’t commit. Rune can’t say exactly why, but she’s sure he’s innocent.
Hoping on Change
Danae Little
Kindle 0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
She came to Hope Lake for a fresh start. He fell for her. Now he’ll have to protect her from a man who wants her for himself. Megan Murray moves to Hope Lake to be near her best friend, but unsettling letters follow her into the new life she’s trying to build.
Then a broken-down car leaves her stranded on a dark mountain road, and the injured cowboy who comes to her rescue is the last man she expects to want.