Mysteries
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
EVANGELINE
by Herc Samson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In 1953, two FBI agents are called in to investigate the disappearance of a young White woman in Louisiana. In their pursuit of clues, they stumble across the horrific murder of a Black youth. It soon becomes apparent that the two cases are linked, and solving the murder is the key to unlocking both cases.
But the agents are impeded in their investigation by parties on the both sides of the color line in the victim’s hometown of Evangeline, right on the edge of the Louisiana swamplands. The Whites close ranks, seemingly in effort to protect their own; the Black population keeps silent in fear of reprisals and the threat of more violence. And the deeper they dig, the more the agents find that nothing and no one are as they seem…
The League of Ascenders
by Spring Dalton
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Beneath the disguise of a local shelter in the small town of Evergreen lies a secret training ground where destiny is forged.
Welcome to The Landing—the hidden home of The League of Ascenders, just one division of a worldwide alliance where twelve warriors are called to use their superpowers to protect humanity from demonic harm. It is time for a new generation of recruits to take up the mantle, but their journey to the academy grounds is riddled with peril.
Eighteen-year-old fledglings enter The Landing estate expecting answers about who they are. What they discover will shatter everything they thought they knew.
One Fatal Flaw
by Anne Perry
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
When a desperate woman comes to Daniel Pitt seeking a lawyer for her boyfriend, Rob Adwell, Daniel is convinced of the young man’s innocence. Adwell has been accused of murder and of setting a fire to conceal the body, but Daniel is sure that science can absolve him—and Miriam fford Croft is the best scientist he knows. Miriam connects Daniel with her former teacher Sir Barnabas Saltram, an expert in arson, and together, they reveal Adwell’s innocence by proving that an accidental fire caused the victim’s death. But it’s not long before Adwell is killed in the same fiery fashion. If these deaths are, in fact, murders, what essential clue could Daniel and Miriam have missed?
Exit Music
by Ian Rankin
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
From international mystery sensation Ian Rankin comes the gripping last case for one of crime fiction’s most beloved heroes, John Rebus.
It’s late in the fall in Edinburgh and late in the career of Detective Inspector John Rebus. As he is simply trying to tie up some loose ends before his retirement, a new case lands on his desk: a dissident Russian poet has been murdered in what looks like a mugging gone wrong.
Rebus discovers that an elite delegation of Russian businessmen is in town, looking to expand its interests…
Storm Prey
by John Sandford
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
“Sandford’s track record as a best-selling author is amazing, but it’s not an accident,” wrote Booklist of Wicked Prey. “His plotting is sharp, his villains are extraordinarily layered, and his good guys are always evolving.
And this time, there’s a storm brewing…Very early, 4:45, on a bitterly cold Minnesota morning, three big men burst through the door of a hospital pharmacy, duct-tape the hands, feet, mouth, and eyes of two pharmacy workers, and clean the place out. But then things swiftly go bad, one of the workers dies, and the robbers hustle out to their truck-and find themselves for just one second face-to-face with a blond woman in the garage: Weather Karkinnen, surgeon, wife of an investigator named Lucas Davenport.
Weir Dragon Academy Complete Series Boxed Set
by D.R. Perry
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Always be yourself. Unless you can be a dragon.
My sisters and I escaped a tyrant’s realm only to face something scarier: boarding school. They see a forest. I see every flawed tree, and I can’t stop pointing them out. But stand out too far and someone’s bound to cut you down. Can I fit in when I hatched this way?
Join Linden and her sisters as they take on the challenge of Weir Dragon Academy with this complete series boxed set!
Sacrifice
by Lynda La Plante
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Detective Jack leads Scotland Yard’s fledgling art fraud unit, its survival hinging on exposing a suspected forgery – a multimillion-dollar masterpiece.
When his informant, gallerist Ester Langton, is brutally murdered, Jack’s hunt spirals into obsession. Clues point to Adam Border, a reclusive genius hiding in a decayed Sicilian villa haunted by Mafia ties and violent secrets…
What Happened That Night
by Nicci French
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Old friends, new secrets, one deadly reunion.
Tyler Green, convicted of murdering his friend Leo at a student house party in 1993, has been released after almost three decades in prison. He has always protested his innocence.
On a warm evening in London, Tyler summons eight of his university friends who were present on that fateful night. Is it just a reunion – or something else? With wine—and accusations— flowing liberally, the reunion descends into violent chaos, and one friend will end the night with their throat slit in the upstairs bedroom…the same way that Leo’s was in 1993.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Dogwood Springs Cozy Mysteries Books 1-3
by Sally Bayless
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Dear reader, if you like a cozy mystery with a pet who will win your heart, friends who feel like family, and a hint of romance, you’ll love the first three books in this series! These are clean reads with no profanity or graphic violence. Curl up with Libby, her lovable golden retriever Bella, and their friends to start solving these mysteries today!
Book 1 – Antiques, Artifacts & Alibis
Book 2 – Sales, Secrets & Suspects
Book 3 – Home Tours, History & Homicide
The Brothers McKay
by Craig Johnson
Kindle $6.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A masterful new novel in the beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series
When Pepper McKay, one of the most hated men in Absaroka County, is found murdered on his ranch in Crazy Woman Canyon, suspects aren’t in short supply. But Sheriff Walt Longmire’s attention is on those who had gathered for a family meeting that evening before his body is discovered, McKay’s very different sons: a smooth-talking charmer, a cosmopolitan journalist, a reclusive monk, and a half-Native ranch hand who keeps things running at their family’s lodge. Each had a motive. Each claims he’s innocent.
Forgotten Identity
by Penny Zeller
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Who is he really? And why is someone after him?
Mariah Holzman never imagined a whiteout blizzard would sever all communication from the outside world—communication desperately needed for the injured man Mariah finds near her home. Nor did she imagine helping nurse the man back to health would lead to threats and intimidation. As danger escalates and questions rise, Mariah is left to wonder what kind of person she has allowed into her home.
Grant MacGuire never imagined he would wake up one day in a strange cabin, surrounded by strange people, with no memory of who he is or how he was injured. Nor did he imagine his presence would put the lives of those who saved him in danger…
Breach of Duty
by J. A. Jance
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Jonas Piedmont Beaumont has had a hard life and learned at a young age how hard life can be. Two marriages, a treacherous battle with the bottle, assorted midlife and moral dilemmas, and a few decades as a homicide detective haven’t convinced him otherwise. When Beau and his new partner Sue Danielson are assigned the murder of an elderly woman torched to death in her bed, Beau finds himself distracted by Sue’s difficulties at home.
Distraction turns to terror as Sue and Beau find themselves caught up in a series of events that will leave them and their carefully constructed investigation shattered.
Eastbound
by Frank Wheeler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
After the Civil War, Barrow Coltrane found a living hunting men the law couldn’t catch. Seven years later, two ruthless outlaws bring him back to the last place he ever wanted to go.
Hazel and Chett Underhill are wanted for robbery and murder, and Barrow has tracked them across Colorado Territory.
Their trail leads him to a remote relay station run by a woman.
Alma Anderson. She is the woman he once expected to marry.
By morning, the station is in ashes. With Alma’s family homeless, Barrow agrees to escort them to Kessler Junction. He remembers Verity only as Alma’s kid sister. The woman traveling beside him now is much harder to overlook.
Vortex
by Catherine Coulter
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Catherine Coulter returns with a brilliant new novel in her FBI thriller series, in which agents Sherlock and Savich find themselves dealing with very powerful figures from the past who could wreak havoc in the present.
Seven years ago, Mia Briscoe was at a college frat rave with her best friend, Serena, when a fire broke out. Everyone was accounted for except Serena, who was never seen nor heard from again. Now an investigative journalist covering the political scene in New York City, Mia discovers old photos taken the night of Serena’s disappearance and begins to uncover a sinister string of events going all the way back to that disastrous party. Working with Sherlock, the secrets begin to unravel…
The Giant of Cold Rive
by William Black
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Zane Hollister never stayed anywhere long enough to call it home.
A giant of a man and deadly accurate with a rifle, Zane has spent years drifting from one ranch to the next. When the last ranch he worked for is burned and its people slaughtered, he rides into a new valley carrying nothing but grief and a saddlebag.
Home is the last thing on his mind.
Widowed rancher Elspeth Dalton is struggling to keep her Cold River Ranch alive for herself and her children. Short on help and surrounded by men eager to see her fail, she reluctantly hires the towering stranger who rides into her yard asking only for honest work.
Dear Judas
by James Finke
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Grab book one now as the sequel drops this week. Perfect for fans of C.S. Lewis and Frank Peretti.
From James Finke, author of the bestselling Christianity Uncomplicated series, comes Dear Judas, a gripping Christian novel where love, apologetics, and spiritual warfare collide.
Tommy Finch has built his life on evidence, logic, and measurable results. A successful medical device salesman in a demanding corporate world, he has no need for God. Until his heart stopped.