Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
State of Terror
by Louise Penny & Hillary Rodham Clinton
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
After a tumultuous period in American politics, a new administration has just been sworn in, and to everyone’s surprise the president chooses a political enemy for the vital position of secretary of state.
There is no love lost between the president of the United States and Ellen Adams, his new secretary of state. But it’s a canny move on the part of the president. With this appointment, he silences one of his harshest critics, since taking the job means Adams must step down as head of her multinational media conglomerate.
Blood Justice
by Tom Henderson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
The True Story of Multiple Murder and a Family’s Revenge
A husband’s anguish, a son’s suspicion, a killer’s secret. The true crime account of Jeffrey Gorton, the Michigan murderer who lived under the radar.
In 1991, flight attendant Nancy Ludwig checked in to an airport hotel near Detroit. The next morning she was found gagged, raped, and tortured—her throat slit with such rage that she was nearly decapitated. Her husband Arthur never gave up hope that the future would bring enough evidence to close the case. But it was the past that held the clue.
Fire Between Two Skies
by R. F. Whong
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Across centuries—power and peril—one fire endures. Two eras. One relentless quest for truth amid desires and temptation. Across the centuries, two men are bound by parallel destinies that echo through time. Book 3 of this dual-time odyssey delves deep into the passions and struggles that connect their worlds.
In 2022 Hong Kong, Jason Guan, after losing his job as an assistant supervisor for wetland conservation, joins his uncle’s real-estate business. A chance meeting with his high school classmate, Vivian Jiang, draws him into a web of secrecy, seduction, and moral compromise.
She’s the Missing Sister Complete Series Box Set
by Jacie Middlemann
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Lieutenant Ethan Hendricks greatest nightmare just also happens to be his grandfather’s newest business venture. Logan Hendricks is thrilled about his brand new detective agency’s first case, but things weren’t turning out the way they were supposed to, including the attempted murder of one of his brand new employees.
But he figures their next case, which involves finding a missing sister, should go a lot smoother. How dangerous could it be?
A New Eternity Boxed Set One
by C.R. Rowenson & Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Home is where the spawn point is. Topha survives the brutal Trial of Wires to become an External—an immortal adventurer in the endless worlds of the Singularity. Her reward: a gorgeous new planet with no other Externals in sight, locals who sentence her to death, and one hungry, sharp-tongued serpent made of vines.
Topha’s last chance starts in five…four…three… A chance at immortality, an unpopular world, and hidden forces that want you gone. What’s not to love?
Dark Rivers of the Heart
by Dean Koontz
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A man and a woman meet by chance in a bar. Suddenly they are fleeing the long arm of a clandestine and increasingly powerful renegade government agency — the woman hunted for the information she possesses, the man mistaken as her comrade in a burgeoning resistance movement.
The architect of the chase is a man of uncommon madness and cruelty — ruthless, possibly psychotic, and equipped with a vast technological arsenal. He is the brazen face of an insidiously fascistic future. And he is virtually unstoppable. But he has never before come up against the likes of his current quarry.
Trad Wife
by Saratoga Schaefer
Kindle $9.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Every #tradwife needs a baby. She’ll get one at any cost.
When Camille Deming isn’t cooking, cleaning, or homesteading in her picture-perfect country farmhouse, she’s posting about her tradwife lifestyle for her online followers. She takes inspiration from other tradwives on social media, aspiring to be like them, but Camille’s missing a key component: a baby. And contrary to what she posts online, things with her husband, Graham, have been strained. Pressured by her eager followers, Camille fears that without a baby, her relationship will suffer and her social media will never grow out of its infancy.
When You Are Mine
by Michael Robotham
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Philomena McCarthy is an ambitious police officer with the elite Metropolitan Police in London, responding to a domestic violence call. Tempe Brown is a bloodied young woman and the mistress of a decorated and intimidating London detective, Darren Goodall.
Philomena and Tempe strike up a tentative friendship, determined to protect each other from Goodall, but something isn’t quite right about the stories Tempe tells and the secrets she keeps. Yet the young officer is drawn into Tempe’s world, unsure of what is real or invented.
The Drowning Kind
by Jennifer McMahon
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Be careful what you wish for. When Jax receives nine missed calls from her older sister, Lexie, she assumes that it’s just another one of her sister’s episodes. Manic and increasingly out of touch with reality, Lexie has pushed Jax away for over a year.
But the next day, Lexie is dead: drowned in the pool at their grandmother’s estate. When Jax arrives at the house to go through her sister’s things, she learns that Lexie was researching the history of their family and the property.