Mysteries
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
The Alibi
by Sandra Brown
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The sensational murder of powerful tycoon Lute Pettijohn has rocked Charleston. Prosecutor Hammond Cross sees his chance to become the city’s next district attorney . . . but only if he can put a killer behind bars.
Hammond’s investigation turns up more than one person who wants Pettijohn dead. But when the prime suspect turns out to be a mysterious woman who holds a secret that could shatter Hammond’s ambitions, he faces a moral dilemma and a haunting question: Was he set up to be the perfect alibi?
Matt Claymore
by William Black
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Once, Matt Claymore wore a badge and made outlaws think twice about riding into Victor, Texas.
As sheriff, the six-foot-four lawman kept the town’s peace with steady hands and a quick gun. Then, one night changed everything.
When his wife Sarah was killed by a careless drunk, the badge stopped meaning anything. Matt walked away from the law and the man he used to be.
Five years later, Victor town faces a new threat.
Rescued Hearts
by Hope Toler Dougherty
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
He sacrificed his cover to save her life. Now protecting her may cost him his heart.
Children’s clothing designer Mary Wade Kimball never imagined rescuing a stranded kitten would land her in the hands of dangerous criminals. Beaten, bound, and held captive in an abandoned farmhouse, she believes her chances of escape have disappeared when a third man arrives.
But Brett Davis isn’t another criminal.
A Morning for Flamingos
by James Lee Burke
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A cajun cop infiltrates the mob…but is he too close?
A Morning for Flamingos is a classic Dave Robicheaux Louisiana mystery by New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke.
Clutching the shards, of his shattered life, Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux has rejoined the New lberia police force.
His partner is dead — slain during a condemned prisoner’s bloody flight to freedom that left Robicheaux critically wounded and reawakened the ghost of his haunted, violent past.
“H” is for Homicide
by Sue Grafton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
H IS FOR HUSTLER When PI Kinsey Millhone’s good friend and colleague Parnell Perkins is found murdered in the parking lot behind California Fidelity Insurance, she can’t believe he had any enemies. The only clue that raises a red flag for Kinsey is one of Parnell’s files on a Bibianna Diaz, who appears to have made a lucrative career out of scamming insurance companies with phony claims…
H IS FOR HAZARDOUS Taking an alias, Kinsey goes undercover to befriend Bibianna, hoping she’ll get close enough to catch the con artist at her own game. But Kinsey never dreams that hanging out with Bibianna will get them both thrown in jail. And when they’re released, Bibianna’s very jealous, very dangerous ex-fiancé Raymond Maldonado is waiting for them.
H IS FOR HOMICIDE
Shadow Strike
by Brad Taylor
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
After its proxies are devastated and its offensive capability pummeled in the latest war in the middle east, a rogue group of Iranian regime officials create a brazen plot to strike back at their hated enemies once and for all. They envision a series of operational dominos culminating in a devastating attack, and the first step is the assassination of the Israeli prime minister. And there’s only one assassin with the skills to pull it off: Abdul Rahman, known in the shadows as the Ghost.
When a routine prison transfer is ambushed, the Ghost escapes and is given the assignment. The only Operator who can hunt him down is the man who stopped him before: Pike Logan.
Dolores Claiborne
by Stephen King
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Master storyteller Stephen King presents the “powerful” (Time) #1 New York Times bestselling classic thriller about a housekeeper with a long-hidden secret from her past—one that tests her own will to survive.
When Vera Donovan, one of the wealthiest and most ill-natured residents of Maine’s Little Tall Island, dies suddenly in her home, suspicion is immediately cast on her housekeeper and caretaker, Dolores Claiborne. Dolores herself is no stranger to such mistrust, thanks to the local chatter and mysterious circumstances surrounding her abusive husband’s death twenty-nine years earlier.
What They’ll Say About Us
by Barbara Freethy
Kindle $9.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Every story has two versions—the one people tell, and the one that’s true.
Tessa Conway has built her career around other people’s mysteries. As co-host of Mysteries Uncorked, the true crime podcast that shot to number one by actually solving the cases they cover, she’s heard every version of every story.
She just never expected her own to catch up with her in Chicago.