Mysteries
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Bar None
by Deany Ray
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
It’s been two months since Piper and her Gran relocated to Bitter End, Florida, as part of the witness protection program, and things are only slightly looking up.
That is, if you don’t count another murder.
Piper has taken a bartending job at a dive bar that’s shadier than a palm tree at night. Dealing with questionable characters comes with the territory, but she’s used to that. After she threatens one of the patrons with a knife, she stumbles upon his dead body in the alley later that night. She is not used to that.
The Carrier
by E.D Atanasoski
Kindle $3.54 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Surprisingly wholesome for an apocalyptic novel, this mystery-adventure is sure to thrill readers of all genres.
The world ended in just days.
After losing his parents in the outbreak, Nate survives by keeping to himself, scavenging what he needs and avoiding the living almost as carefully as the infected. It’s a system that works…until it doesn’t.
Then he meets Morgan and Jace, a married couple travelling with their young niece and nephew. The children’s parents are missing, and Morgan and Jace are determined to find them, even as the country collapses around them…
Death Row
by Freida McFadden
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
With all hope of an appeal fading away, the fate of a condemned murderess takes a shocking turn in a breathtaking short story by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Housemaid.
Talia Kemper is on death row for murdering her husband. She had an alibi and no known motive, yet Talia’s unwavering protestations of innocence have always been ignored. Then one day in the visiting area, she sees a recognizable stranger she’s certain is her husband. It turns out the man she’s been convicted of killing may not be dead after all. But as the days tick away toward Talia’s execution, what will it take for her to be believed?
Paradise Cove
by Davin Goodwin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Roscoe Conklin never dreamed he’d be looking down at a severed human leg—on the island paradise of Bonaire. But he quickly determines who it belongs to—the nephew of a friend.
A bizarre barter lands Conklin the case file, but he can’t make any progress. He has the pieces and needs to snap them together soon.
Before the body count rises.
Perfect for fans of John Sanford’s Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers
Schrader’s Chord
by Scott Leeds
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Heart-Shaped Box meets The Haunting of Hill House in Schrader’s Chord, Scott Leeds’s chilling debut about cursed vinyl records that open a gateway to the land of the dead.
I told you they were real.
After his estranged father’s mysterious death, Charlie Remick returns to Seattle to help with the funeral. There, he discovers his father left him two parting gifts: the keys to the family record store and a strange black case containing four antique records that, according to legend, can open a gate to the land of the dead.
When Charlie, his sister, and their two friends play the records, they unwittingly open a floodgate of unspeakable horror.
The Amateur Detective
by Peter Zander-Howell
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In 1950, a death occurs under the uniquely-banded cliffs in Hunstanton. It is soon realised that this is a case of murder, but the Norfolk police inspector runs into difficulties, and Scotland Yard DCI Philip Bryce finds himself back in the county for the second time in a matter of months.
A local amateur detective with a considerable knowledge of murder cases (both real and fictional) is determined to help the police, and comes up with various suggestions. However, initially neither he nor the police seem to be able to pin all the usual key elements – means, motive, and opportunity – on any one person…
The Forgotten Girl
by Rio Youers
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Nominated for the 2018 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel.
A dark mystery unfolds in Rio Youers’s riveting thriller, The Forgotten Girl.
Harvey Anderson is a twenty-six-year-old street performer from New Jersey. He enjoys his peaceful life, but everything turns upside down when he is abducted and beaten by a group of nondescript thugs. Working for a sinister man known as “the spider,” these goons have spent nine years searching for Harvey’s girlfriend, Sally Starling. Now they think they know where she lives. And whom she loves.
There’s only one problem: Sally is gone and Harvey has no memory of her. Which makes no sense to him, until the spider explains that Sally has the unique ability to selectively erase a person’s memories—an ability she has used to delete herself from Harvey’s mind.
The Lazarus Solution
by Kjell Ola Dahl
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Summer, 1943. Daniel Berkåk, who works as a courier for the Press and Military Office in Sweden, is killed on his last cross-border mission to Norway.
Demobbed sailor Kai Fredly escapes from occupied Norway into Sweden, but finds that the murder of his Nazi-sympathiser brother is drawing the attention of the authorities on both sides of the border…
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder by Milk Bottle
by Lynne Truss
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.8 #ad
The quirky and charming third crime novel from New York Times bestselling author Lynne Truss.
In the wake of two extremely high-profile murder cases, and with the summer of 1957 finally winding down, Constable Twitten is eagerly anticipating a quiet spell at work. But his hoped-for rest is interrupted when he and his colleagues find a trio of bodies, all murdered with the same unusual weapon: a milk bottle.
The three victims are seemingly unconnected—a hardworking patrolman, a would-be beauty queen, and a catty BBC radio personality—so Constable Twitten, Sergeant Brunswick, and Inspector Steine are baffled…
If I Die Tonight
by Alison Gaylin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original.
Reminiscent of the bestsellers of Laura Lippman and Harlan Coben—with a dose of Big Little Lies or Stranger Things—an absorbing, addictive tale of psychological suspense from the author of the highly acclaimed stand-alone novel What Remains of Me and the USA Today bestselling and Shamus Award-winning Brenna Spector series, in which a seemingly open-and-shut police case with a clear-cut hero and villain turns out to be anything but simple.
Late one night in the quiet Hudson Valley town of Havenkill, a distraught woman stumbles into the police station—and lives are changed forever.
First Spells
by Renata Riva
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A dark and magical tale of witches, ghosts, and dangerous family secrets.
Twelve-year-old Vianne has always been different—she sees ghosts, feels magic, and sees the future in her dreams—and knows her life isn’t exactly normal.
Raised by her single mother, Vianne knows little about her family—except that her mum is terrified of her sister, the powerful and mysterious witch aunt, Suzanne. When Vianne’s grandmother falls ill, the family is forced back together. But Aunt Suzanne has been waiting for this moment—and what she wants could change everything.
With only a magical cat and a ghost to guide her, Vianne must unlock her hidden powers, face long-buried secrets, and discover who she really is before it’s too late.
The Bourne Betrayal
by Eric Van Lustbader
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Already devastated by loss, Bourne is shattered by a report that his last friend in the world, Martin Lindros has gone missing. A CI deputy director, Lindros was in Ethiopia tracking suspicious shipments of yellowcake uranium and atomic bomb weaponry. His last lifeline to humanity, Bourne will not let Lindros go. Despite his hatred for CI, Bourne sets out to rescue his friend and finish the job: dismantling a terrorist network determined to build nuclear armaments by cutting off their source of money.
But Bourne doesn’t realize that these men, Islamic supremacists, are leaders of an incredibly dangerous, technologically savvy group with ties from Africa, across the Middle East, and into Eastern Europe and Russia.
I, Ripper
by Stephen Hunter
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
An electrifying new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of the Bob Lee Swagger series, taking you deep inside the mind of the most notorious serial killer of all time: Jack the Ripper.
In the fall of 1888, Jack the Ripper slaughtered five prostitutes in London’s seamy Whitechapel District. He did not just kill—he ripped with a butcher’s glee—and then, after the particularly gruesome slaying of Mary Jane Kelly, he disappeared. For 127 years, Jack has haunted the dark corners of our imagination, the paradigm of the psychotic killer. We remember him not only for his crimes, but because, despite one of the biggest dragnets in London history, he was never caught.
The Big Chill
by Doug Johnstone
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Haunted by their past, the Skelf women are hoping for a quieter life. But running both a funeral directors’ and a private investigation business means trouble is never far away, and when a car crashes into the open grave at a funeral that matriarch Dorothy is conducting, she can’t help looking into the dead driver’s shadowy life.
While Dorothy uncovers a dark truth at the heart of Edinburgh society, her daughter Jenny and granddaughter Hannah have their own struggles. Jenny’s ex-husband Craig is making plans that could shatter the Skelf women’s lives, and the increasingly obsessive Hannah has formed a friendship with an elderly professor that is fast turning deadly.
Legends Are Made Complete Series
by Patrick Michael
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A fearless young woman released from service to her town. A ghost from the past with a gift for story. The legendary Dragonlord who has been sleeping for over a thousand years.
Together, they will undertake an adventure that will change everything…
Mine
by Robert McCammon
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A psychopathic female fugitive provokes a mother’s vengeance in this terrifying thriller by the New York Times–bestselling author of Gone South and Boy’s Life.
Back in the 1960s, Mary Terrell shot and killed a man. A former member of the fanatical Storm Front Brigade—a splinter group of the notorious Weathermen—Terrell has stayed one step ahead of the FBI for decades. Living with numerous identities and menial jobs, Terrell’s only constants in life have been LSD, psychotic delusions of motherhood, and murderous rage…
The Escape Game
by Gina Holder
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Twenty years ago, the world’s leading enigmatologist disappeared, leaving behind a cipher no one could solve… not without his journal.
Puzzle shop owner Demi Kayne has spent twenty years hoping her father would return home. When she discovers his hidden journal, she finally uncovers the clue she’s been waiting for—but it leads somewhere far more dangerous than she imagined.
Liam Shepherd, a missionary and escape-room enthusiast, is searching for answers of his own. His sister has vanished without a trace, and the trail of clues leads him straight to Demi—and the secrets hidden in her father’s journal.
You’ll Be Sorry
by Lisa Gardner
Kindle $7.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
For Raquel and Theo Collins, it appeared to be love at first sight. Raquel, a renowned interior designer, and Theo, a brash financial wizard met and married in a matter of months, only to confront a terrible tragedy. Now, unbearably aware of the distance between them, they’ve come to a remote town in New Hampshire to begin anew.
Perched on a ledge with stunning views, the Dixon’s family lodge was once a crown jewel of the mountains. Until late one August night, when both parents and their four children vanished, leaving behind a trail of bloody footprints, and a mystery that has endured for thirty years.