Mysteries
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Tanked
by Bessie Barr
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
New Year’s Day, 1900. A new century. A dead man floating face-down in the McKinney, Texas, courthouse square water tank. And one farmwife who cannot (will not) let a wrong answer stand.
Minnie Mae Harper is sixty years old, armed with a basket of eggs, too many years of reading people, and she is the most dangerous thing in Collin County. When Leroy McMurtry turns up dead on the first morning of the twentieth century, the whole town settles comfortably on the obvious answer: a livery argument, two brothers with a history of fire, and motive stacked three ways. Minnie Mae helps build the case herself. Then a quiet man in a jail doorway says four words that won’t leave her alone.
Coffin Man
by James D. Doss
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
When Colorado rancher and part-time tribal investigator Charlie Moon gets a call from Wanda Naranjo, she’s panicked. Not only is her sink leaking, which Moon graciously fixes, but her sixteen-year-old daughter, Betty, has gone missing. For how long? Only a few hours, but she’s pregnant. So what about the father-to-be? It’s a good question and anybody’s guess. Betty has kept her lips sealed on the subject.
And that’s not all. Betty claimed to be going to see a school counselor on what turned out to be his day off. So was she running away or was she abducted? Moon’s best friend, Granite Creek Chief of Police Scott Parris, doesn’t believe any of it and suspects that Wanda tricked them into doing a little emergency plumbing…
The Calleshire Chronicles Volume Three
by Catherine Aird
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Over the course of twenty-four crime novels set in the fictional County of Calleshire, England, and featuring the sleuthing team of shrewd Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan and his less-than-shrewd sidekick, Detective Constable William Crosby, award-winning author Catherine Aird maintained the perfect balance between cozy village mystery and police procedural. These three entertaining crime novels offer “the very best in British mystery”
Parting Breath,
Some Die Eloquent,
Passing Strange
Mildred Budge in Embankment
by Daphne Simpkins
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The others heard it, but they were also experiencing their own quick flashes of insight. Liz, a serial widow, felt unsatisfied with her life. She wanted more. Sailing toward her death, she still did.
Sam, who had turned the steering wheel that had sent them over the embankment, was looking forward to the crash. He wanted to feel it—the hard slam of collision. His hands held the wheel tightly, bracing for it.
Jake smiled. He resisted holding Mildred’s hand, because black men still didn’t touch white women in the where he lived. And he took note of the wonder of the experience that was like flying…
The Stolen Queen
by Fiona Davis
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
From New York Times bestselling author Fiona Davis, an utterly addictive new novel that will transport you from New York City’s most glamorous party to the labyrinth streets of Cairo and back.
Egypt, 1936: When anthropology student Charlotte Cross is offered a coveted spot on an archaeological dig in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, she leaps at the opportunity. That is until an unbearable tragedy strikes.
New York City, 1978: Nineteen-year-old Annie Jenkins is thrilled when she lands an opportunity to work for former Vogue fashion editor Diana Vreeland, who’s in the midst of organizing the famous Met Gala, hosted at the museum and known across the city as the “party of the year.”
Ruling Passion
by Reginald Hill
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
With his longtime girlfriend, Ellie, detective Peter Pascoe is off to Thornton Lacey for an exciting weekend reunion with a few of his college friends. However, upon arrival, he finds no cause for celebration. Instead, there’s been a triple homicide, and one of his friends—the chief suspect—is missing.
Pascoe is eager to assist with the case, but the local constabulary doesn’t seem to welcome outside help. Meanwhile, Pascoe’s superior, the incorrigibly rude Andy Dalziel, needs him back home to find the culprit behind a series of burglaries…
The Lie That Binds
by Carolina Mac
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Sloan Jerico’s knuckles bleed as he punches his way toward his dream of building a biker empire from nothing.
When his reckless ambition puts a target on his back, he’s left choking on his own blood, seconds from death. Savage life lessons hammer him into submission as he claws his way back, forced to swallow his pride or lose everything. After betraying his only ally in a rage-fueled power grab, Sloan faces the ultimate choice: embrace the ruthless business tactics that could make him a legend, or die face-down in the dirt of the very ranch he wants to possess.
The Secrets We Hide
by Karin Slaughter
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
The next thrilling mystery in the new North Falls series from Karin Slaughter, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Good Daughter and the Will Trent Series.
Welcome to North Falls. A small town with big secrets…
1601 Iris Drive looks like any other house on the quiet, residential street. But rumors are rampant about the Vickery family, and what goes on behind closed doors…
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Genie and the Ghost
by Carmen Radtke
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Small town secrets never die. Neither do murdered flappers.
New York jewelry designer Genie Darling has returned to her childhood home in quaint Cobblewood Cove for one reason only: to sort through generations of old family heirlooms and hand anything of historical interest over to the local museum.
But after a failed mugging attempt, and the appearance of a beautiful but ghostly young stranger in a vintage evening dress, Genie realises there’s something suspicious – and spooky – going on.
The glamorous and friendly spectre turns out to be Genie’s own great-great-aunt Adriana, who died in 1929 in mysterious circumstances…
Never Flinch
by Stephen King
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
From Stephen King, “a writer of towering brilliance” (The Spectator), a “cinematic, brilliant” (The New York Times) psychological thriller exploring vigilante justice and a diabolical serial killer—featuring the beloved Holly Gibney and a dynamic new cast of characters.
When the Buckeye City Police Department receives a disturbing letter from a person threatening to “kill thirteen innocents and one guilty” in “an act of atonement for the needless death of an innocent man,” Detective Izzy Jaynes has no idea what to think. Are fourteen citizens about to be slaughtered in an unhinged act of retribution? Izzy turns to her friend Holly Gibney for help.
Point of Origin
by Patricia Cornwell
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The devastating fire tore through the horse farm, destroying everything it touched. Picking through the wreckage, Dr. Kay Scarpetta uncovers human remains—the work of an audacious and wily killer who uses fire to mask his brutal murders. And when Scarpetta learns that her old nemesis, Carrie Grethen, has escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is somehow involved, the investigation becomes personal.
Tragedy strikes close to home. And Scarpetta must match Grethen’s every move with one of her own to douse the inferno of evil that threatens everyone around her. . . .
The Tin Men
by Nelson DeMille, Alex DeMille
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
At a top-secret Army training facility in the Mojave Desert, Special Agents Scott Brodie and Maggie Taylor plunge into a deadly web of military intrigue, AI technology, and robot soldiers as they unravel the shocking murder of a senior scientist in this gripping thriller from New York Times bestselling authors of Bloodlines.
Army CID Special Agents Scott Brodie and Maggie Taylor team up for their toughest assignment yet as they are dispatched to Camp Hayden to investigate the death of Major Roger Ames, the chief scientist in charge of the top-secret war games being conducted between a platoon of Army Rangers and a fleet of “lethal autonomous weapons.” Brodie and Taylor find themselves at ground zero of the next generation of warfare, and must untangle the complex web of alliances, animosities, and secret agendas among the men and women of the isolated facility
Ordinary Grace
by William Kent Krueger
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
“That was it. That was all of it. A grace so ordinary there was no reason at all to remember it. Yet I have never across the forty years since it was spoken forgotten a single word.”
New Bremen, Minnesota, 1961. The Twins were playing their debut season, ice-cold root beers were selling out at the soda counter of Halderson’s Drugstore, and Hot Stuff comic books were a mainstay on every barbershop magazine rack. It was a time of innocence and hope for a country with a new, young president. But for thirteen-year-old Frank Drum it was a grim summer in which death visited frequently and assumed many forms. Accident. Nature. Suicide. Murder. From New York Times bestselling author William Kent Krueger, a brilliant new novel about a young man, a small town, and murder in the summer of 1961.
Night People
by Eric Wilder
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
No one is who they seem
Private Investigator Wyatt Thomas takes a seductive journey through the dark, glittering streets of New Orleans, where passion and danger collide. Wyatt is no stranger to the Crescent City’s secrets, but when a mysterious voodoo mambo draws him into the heart of the French Quarter’s underworld, he finds himself entangled in a web of deceit, lust, and murder. As the nights grow hotter, so do the stakes, and Wyatt must navigate the twisted desires of the city’s most dangerous inhabitants. But in the world of the Night People, no one is who they seem—and Wyatt is playing a game that could cost him more than just his heart.
Silent Centurion
by William Pickrel
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Some relics heal. Some relics are weapons. The nails that pinned Christ to the cross are both.
Dr. Daniel Rowan has spent his life chasing a vindication that keeps slipping away — a historian ruined by his own obsession, left with the one thing his father died believing in: the Mercer Journal, the account of a Roman centurion who stood at the foot of the cross, watched a man die, and could not stay silent about what he saw.
The world calls Longinus a legend. Daniel’s research says he was real — and that the iron nails he guarded carry a power no laboratory can explain and no empire has ever stopped hunting.
The Witness
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Daughter of a cold, controlling mother and an anonymous donor, studious, obedient Elizabeth Fitch finally let loose one night, drinking too much at a nightclub and allowing a strange man’s seductive Russian accent to lure her to a house on Lake Shore Drive.
Twelve years later, the woman now known as Abigail Lowery lives alone on the outskirts of a small town in the Ozarks. A freelance security systems designer, her own protection is supplemented by a fierce dog and an assortment of firearms. She keeps to herself, saying little, revealing nothing. Unfortunately, that seems to be the quickest way to get attention in a tiny southern town.
Alien Allure
by Hope Callaghan
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
After a group of spy and alien enthusiasts descend on the small town of Belhaven, a child is abducted, prompting Gloria & the Garden Girls to investigate.
“If you like clean cozy mysteries that keep you guessing until the end, you’ll love Hope Callaghan books!”
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Unwanted Significance
by Renée Ozburn
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When race and ethnicity mean nothing to a man and woman in love-but everything to their families-everyone gets hurt.
In 1995, when Tyler Carson and Alana Adler meet, their chemistry is instant. He’s a psychology professor. She’s a linguist and musician. Both are 38. He is White. She is Black. Neither has made much time for serious relationships, until a train trip changes their trajectory.
But their growing passion, played out in atmospheric settings from Cape Cod to San Francisco and Montana to New York, is no match for the intergenerational forces working to tear them apart…