Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
The English Village Murder
by Peter Jay Black
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Ruth Morgan tried retirement. It didn’t stick. Now she solves murders. That’s not her official job, of course. The sixty-five-year-old former police officer spends her days crisscrossing Britain in her motorhome with her pampered Burmese cat, Merlin, advising restaurants on their menus . . . and staying out of trouble. Mostly.
But when Ruth makes a spontaneous stop in a charming but isolated English village, she checks into the local B&B — and discovers the elderly landlady’s body at the foot of the stairs.
Getting it Right
by Karen E. Osborne
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
A dying father’s final request. Two sisters who never met. A family secret that refuses to stay buried. When Alex Lawrence’s father suffers a massive heart attack, his last wish sends her on an impossible mission-find the half-sister he abandoned twenty-four years ago.
Kara Lawrence has spent her life surviving that loss. Raised in foster care after her mother’s death, she has built a fragile peace in Harlem teaching children who remind her of herself. But the past she fought to escape still shadows her days-and haunts her nights.
The House of Secrets
by Brad Meltzer and Tod Goldberg
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
When Hazel Nash was six years old, her father taught her: mysteries need to be solved. He should know. Hazel’s father is Jack Nash, the host of America’s favorite conspiracy TV show, The House of Secrets. Even as a child, she loved hearing her dad’s tall tales, especially the one about a leather book belonging to Benedict Arnold that was hidden in a corpse.
Now, years later, Hazel wakes up in the hospital and remembers nothing, not even her own name. She’s told she’s been in a car accident that killed her father and injured her brother.
The Fate of Mercy Alban
by Wendy Webb
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Grace Alban has spent more than twenty years avoiding her childhood home, the stately Alban House on the shores of Lake Superior, for reasons she would rather forget. But when her mother’s unexpected death brings Grace and her teenage daughter back, she finds more is haunting the halls and passageways of Alban House than her own personal demons.
Long-buried family secrets, a packet of old love letters, and a lost manuscript plunge Grace into a decades-old mystery about a scandalous party at Alban House, when a world-famous author took his own life and Grace’s aunt disappeared without a trace.
House of Lords
by Philip Rosenberg
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Jeffrey Blaine is a good man, a wealthy and powerful Wall Street broker with impeccable social standing. But his wife—who supports charitable foundations from their Park Avenue townhouse—seems to have lost interest in their marriage, and his daughter, a beautiful debutante ready for Yale University in the fall, has turned sullen and rebellious.
Having achieved everything he’d ever dreamed of, Blaine now feels unsettled, stagnant, hungry for a new challenge—a challenge that presents itself suddenly in the person of Chet Fiore, an ambitious entrepreneur rumored to be tied to organized crime.
Death of a Showman
by Mariah Fredericks
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
It is the summer of 1914 and lady’s maid Jane Prescott is back in New York with the Tylers after a glittering society wedding in Europe. On their return, Jane learns another wedding has taken place. Her old dancing partner, Leo Hirschfeld, has married a chorus girl in his new Broadway musical.
Jane and Louise Tyler are pulled into the sparkling and scandalous world of Broadway, as a star struck Louise invests in Leo’s show, and Jane chaperones her at rehearsals. But behind the glittering facade of the theater, there are rivalries, secret romances, and some very dodgy business practices.
Chosen by the Gods
by Michael Anderle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
What would happen if Odin and Freya decided to get involved in Midgard again? Our world is tearing itself apart. The evil among us are ripping apart the very seams of today’s society, using terrorism and blackmail to create chaos.
Valerie Kearie and Terra Olson soon discover that something is going on with them that they aren’t sure of. And then their lives change forever. Grab two complete series—15 books of urban fantasy adventure—to join Valerie, Tetra, and their teams on their adventures today!
Chain Reaction
by Lee Child and Andrew Child
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Jack Reacher is hard to find. It’s not easy to track him down. And he likes it that way. But General Susan Turner, based deep inside the Pentagon, has the means and the motive. She needs his help. A member of her team has been brutally murdered on covert duty. She can’t trust anyone she works with, not even her deputy. She needs someone from the outside. Someone who solves problems and disappears without a trace.
Reacher heads to Summertown, Colorado. A town as remote and bizarre as it gets.