Mysteries
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Bad Blood
by Dana Stabenow
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
New York Times bestselling author Dana Stabenow’s next novel, Bad Blood, finds Kate Shugak entangled in a bitter tribal rivalry and murder
One hundred years of bad blood between the Alaskan villages of Kushtaka and Kuskulana come to a boil when the body of a young Kushtaka ne’er-do-well is found wedged in a fish wheel. Sergeant Jim Chopin’s prime suspect is a Kuskulana man who is already in trouble in both villages for falling in love across the river. But when the suspect disappears, members of both tribes refuse to speak to Jim.
Being Nancy
by Michele Olson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A Nancy Drew convention on Mackinac Island. A stolen treasure. A mystery that suddenly becomes real.
When fans gather to celebrate the legendary sleuth Nancy Drew on beautiful Mackinac Island, they expect games, costumes, and a little nostalgic fun.
What they don’t expect is a real mystery.
When a valuable treasure disappears during the convention, the line between fiction and reality begins to blur…
The Grave Tattoo
by Val McDermid
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In The Grave Tattoo, suspense master Val McDermid spins a psychological thriller in which a present-day murder has its roots in the eighteenth century and the mutiny on the H.M.S. Bounty.
After torrential summer rains uncover a bizarrely tattooed body on a Lake District hillside, long discarded old wives’ tales takes on a chilling new plausibility. For centuries, Lakelanders have whispered that Fletcher Christian staged the massacre on Pitcairn so that he could return home…
Agents of Secrets and Lies
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Four heroes, four quests, one mission: save the Summer Realm
The Summer Realm is in mortal danger. Huge flying beasts have found a portal into their world and are devouring entire villages of people. And Ulysses Rasselas, Minister of Secrets and Lies, has been tasked with pulling together his agents to save it.
It’s an impossible mission, and all he’s got to work with is a thick-headed guard, a cocky thief, a reclusive mage, and a complete unknown – a witch the Guild of Mages called in from another world. But time is running out, so he deploys his team of parrots to all four corners of the realm with instruction to obtain ingredients for a unique spell the mages insist will work.
Live Flesh
by Ruth Rendell
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
From a New York Times–bestselling author: A terrifying psychological thriller that dives deep into the mind of a sexual predator.
In a remote corner of London, a woman is walking her dog when a man grabs her from behind. She screams, and her attacker flees, escaping into a nearby house, where he finds another victim. Victor Jenner has a compulsion he does not understand—to grab women, to hurt them—and he also has a gun. When it goes off, grievously wounding a police officer, it marks the beginning of a long stretch in jail for Victor.
The Paladin
by David Ignatius
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
“Tension, suspense, betrayal, and revenge.… David Ignatius is the best in the world at this stuff.” —Lee Child
In this latest novel from the “dean of international intrigue” (Brad Thor) and New York Times best-selling author David Ignatius, CIA operations officer Michael Dunne is tasked with infiltrating an Italian news organization that smells like a front for an enemy intelligence service. Headed by an American journalist, the self-styled bandits run a cyber operation unlike anything the CIA has seen before. Fast, slick, and indiscriminate, the group steals secrets from everywhere and anyone, and exploits them in ways the CIA can neither understand nor stop.
Amish Blast Investigation
by Debby Giusti
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A deadly explosion. A dangerous search for the truth.
After an explosion rocks Becca Klein’s bakery and kills one of her customers, she teams up with the victim’s son to find justice. Though estranged from his father, Englischer Luke Snyder is compelled to help the Amish woman uncover why his father died. But ruthless killers believe Luke’s father gave Becca something they want, and they’ll stop at nothing to get it. Can Luke keep Becca safe until they discover the truth?
Evil in High Places
by Rory Clements
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
HOW DO YOU CATCH A KILLER WHO BELIEVES THEY’RE ABOVE JUSITCE?
Munich, 1936. All eyes are on the Bavarian capital for the upcoming Olympic Games. As athletes fight for gold and the Nazis fight for power, Detective Sebastian Wolff faces a battle of his own.
A famous actress has disappeared and Wolff has been ordered to find her, fast. But Elena Lang is no ordinary film-star: she is the mistress of Joseph Goebbels – Hitler’s right-hand-man in the party that Wolff despises.
Conjuring the Hurricane
by Sarah Hanson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
When Sarah Hanson realized she had to leave her abusive relationship, she didn’t have a plan. She had fear, instinct, and a body that had learned how to survive.
Conjuring the Hurricane is a survival memoir-in-verse about leaving a life that’s killing you and rebuilding a self you can finally live inside. Told in fragments that mirror the way trauma lives in the body, the book traces the nonlinear work of reclaiming identity, trust, and agency after abuse.