Mysteries
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
The Predicament
by William Boyd
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
From the internationally bestselling author, a thrilling novel starring the travel writer-turned-reluctant spy Gabriel Dax, who finds himself implicated in a dangerous conspiracy with global consequences
1963, Guatemala. The country is in turmoil, with a presidential election looming and a charismatic, left-wing ex-priest and trade union leader predicted to win. United Fruits, a giant American corporation responsible for a large percentage of the country’s GNP, meanwhile, is not pleased by this prospect. Neither is the CIA. Amid the uncertainty, Gabriel Dax arrives on orders from his MI6 handler Faith Green, who has tasked him with assessing the fallout from the election…
The Beach Bistro
by Meg Hartwell
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
She came to Coral Bay to hide. She was really coming home.
After a scathing review and a viral meltdown destroy her successful city restaurant, chef Laura Blake watches twenty years of relentless work go up in smoke. With nothing left to lose, she retreats to Coral Bay, Florida—the sleepy Gulf Coast hometown she left at eighteen and swore she’d never see again.
In a weathered beach cottage filled with reminders of her late mother and the girl she used to be, Laura tries to figure out what comes next. Little by little, an idea takes shape…
The Collaborators
by Michael Idov
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Combining realistic thrills with sophisticated spycraft and witty dialogue, The Collaborators delivers a gut-punch answer to the biggest geopolitical question of our time: how, exactly, did post-Soviet Russia turn down the wrong path?
Crisscrossing the globe on the way to this shocking revelation are disaffected millennial CIA officer Ari Falk, thrown into a moral and professional crisis by the death of his best asset; and brash, troubled LA heiress Maya Chou, spiraling after the disappearance of her Russian American billionaire father…
Dig Me a Grave
by Richard A. Harpootlian, Shaun Assael
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The definitive true “Southern Gothic” account of the life, crimes, conviction, and execution of Donald “Pee Wee” Gaskins, the charismatic, brutal, well-liked, remorseless South Carolina serial killer who was dubbed the Charles Manson of the South—written by the prosecutor who brought him to justice.
Of the hundreds of murder cases that noted South Carolina attorney Dick Harpootlian has prosecuted, one in particular haunts him. Donald “Pee Wee” Gaskins was a serial killer and rapist, a master manipulator who claimed to have killed over 100 people and is known to have murdered over a dozen, including a toddler, and his own teenage niece. Yet it was on Death Row that he pulled off his most audacious murder—killing another inmate with a military grade explosive.
Texas Security Series Books 1-3
by Stacy Angell Curtis
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The complete three-book Texas Security Series: Wealth of Secrets, Depths of Deception, and Deadly Christmas Cipher
Jack McKerrick and Bryn Marsh navigate mystery, murderers, billionaires, a hurricane, lost treasure, and their growing feelings for each other in this contemporary Christian Romantic Suspense three-book series set in Texas.
When new threats and old secrets collide, Jack and Bryn will risk their lives and their hearts to find the truth.
Smoke
by Joe Ide
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Isaiah Quintabe is no longer IQ, the genius of East Long Beach; instead, he’s a man on the road and on the run, hiding in a small Northern California town when his room is broken into by a desperate young man on the trail of the state’s most prolific serial killer.
His old partner, Juanell Dodson, must go straight or lose his wife and child. His devil’s bargain? An internship at an LA advertising agency, where it turns out the rules of the street have simply been dressed in business casual, but where the aging company’s fortunes may well rest on their ability to attract a younger demographic. Dodson—”the hustler’s hustler”—just may be the right man for the job.
The Copper Testament
by William Pickrel
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Dr. Nadira El-Hadid reads what other people miss. It has made her difficult, respected, and alone. So when an old colleague calls about a disputed reading of the Copper Scroll, she goes to Jerusalem expecting academic politics — and finds a page marked in her dead father’s handwriting.
In a storage unit in Alexandria, in twelve boxes nobody has opened in twenty years, the same five-stroke mark appears again and again across a lifetime of field notes her father never published. He had been tracking something. He never told his family what.
The Fine Art of Lying
by Alexandra Andrews
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
From the critically acclaimed author of Who is Maud Dixon? comes a riveting new novel about a young wife and mother thrust into a world of wealth and privilege, whose rash mistake sets off a domino effect of murder and betrayal. In the beginning, there was art.
It was Clare Bast’s love of art that saved her from a bleak, predictable life in upstate New York, and drew her to the cultured world of Manhattan’s Upper East Side where she met Jed, her doting, affluent husband. Despite her best efforts—including a half-finished PhD, abandoned when her daughter Sadie was born—Clare secretly can’t help but feel like an imposter in Jed’s one-percent, Park-Avenue life.
Not a Word
by Linwood Barclay
Kindle $14.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
In the latest chilling thriller from New York Times bestselling author Linwood Barclay, a man’s world is upended after he stumbles upon a grisly crime scene in the family home.
Every family has secrets, but when Reece visits his parents’ house, he’s shocked to find them in bed, dead. At first glance it looks like a murder-suicide perpetrated by his father, but on closer inspection there’s clearly more to the story. For starters, inconsistencies in the crime scene suggest his dad may not have shot himself…
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder Rinse Repeat
by Gerald Hansen
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
She lathered her own death into her hair.
Two hairdressers are dead. The latest, Gloria Baggot, was killed in the one place no one saw danger coming—the shower.
DI Liam McLaughlin and his Major Investigation Team can’t find a clean link between the two women—no shared history, no shared enemies, no obvious motive. The only thing they had in common was their profession. And that alone is enough to spread terror through the city’s salons…
A Very Important Teapot
by Sheppard Steve
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Dawson is the unlikeliest MI6 spy you’ll ever meet. Good thing he has the lethally competent Lucy Smith for company.
From important teapots to vengeful assassins to international conspiracies, is there any escapade that Dawson can’t stumble into or any that Lucy can’t rescue him from? Find out in the funniest spy thriller series you’ll ever read.
Dawson’s life is going nowhere. Out of work and nearly out of money, he is forlornly pursuing the love of Rachel Whyte. But Rachel is engaged to Pat Bootle, an apparently successful local solicitor who has appeared from nowhere…
Stone’s Throw
by Mike Lupica
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Paradise is rocked by the mayor’s untimely death in the latest novel starring police chief Jesse Stone.
The town of Paradise receives a tragic shock when the mayor is discovered dead, his body lying in a shallow grave on a property on the lake. It’s ostensibly suicide, but Jesse’s has his doubts . . . especially because the piece of land where the man was found is the subject of a contentious and dodgy land deal.
Two powerful moguls are fighting over the right to buy and develop the prime piece of real estate, and one of them has brought in a hired gun, an old adversary of Jesse’s: Wilson Cromartie, aka Crow…
Bad Dolls
by Rachel Harrison
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
In this stunning new collection of four horror stories, award-winning author Rachel Harrison explores themes of body image, complicated female friendship, heartbreak, and hauntings.
In “Reply Hazy, Try Again,” an indecisive young woman finds a mysterious Magic 8 Ball that might just have the answers she’s been looking for…or might lead her down a path of self-destruction.
In “Bachelorette,” a bridesmaid attends her childhood best friend’s bachelorette weekend, only to discover the itinerary may demand more than she’s willing to sacrifice.
The Shadow Friends
by Tess Gerritsen
Kindle $3.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
From New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen comes a harrowing and emotional thriller where ghosts of the Cold War return with a vengeance—and cannot be outrun.
When a renowned disease expert and Russian defector dies mysteriously during a global affairs conference in Purity, Maine, the tight-knit band of former spies in the Martini Club once again sees their quiet coastal retirement interrupted by international intrigue. And when a waitress at the conference hotel is found murdered, Ingrid Slocum sees chilling links to a disastrous mission that nearly killed her three decades ago…
Murder Next Door
by Michele PW, Michele Pariza Wacek
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Everyone knows vampires don’t exist.
So when Mildred Schmidt, one of Charlie’s customers, is convinced that her next-door neighbor’s house sitter is actually a vampire, Charlie of course has to step in to see what is really going on.
What she finds is … disturbing. The house sitter DOES have some peculiar habits—like digging holes in the backyard in the middle of the night.
Surely, they aren’t … graves…
The Day the Sheriff Died
by Jesse Storm
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
They killed the sheriff. Now his son has to wear the badge.
In Dusty Gorge, the coming railroad promises fortunes for the men ruthless enough to seize them. No one stands in the way of cattle baron Raymond Rourke – except Sheriff Thomas Mercer.
So Rourke has him murdered.
The killing leaves the town frightened and desperate for someone to stand against the violence tightening around the valley. That burden falls to Thomas’s son, Elias Mercer, a 24-year-old deputy who never believed he was ready to become sheriff.
The Seventh Floor
by David McCloskey
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Six CIA officers. Dear friends and cherished enemies. For a quarter century they have stolen other people’s secrets. Now they must steal each other’s.
A Russian arrives in Singapore with a secret to sell. When the Russian is killed and Sam Joseph, the CIA officer dispatched for the meet, goes missing, operational chief Artemis Procter is made a scapegoat for the disaster and run out of the service. Months later, Sam appears at Procter’s doorstep with an explosive secret: there is a Russian mole burrowed deep within the highest ranks of the CIA.
The Blue Blood
by James Leonard
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Sebastian Harrow once had a title, a fortune, and a future in England. Then his fiancée was murdered, and vengeance cost him all three.
Years later, he’s a bounty hunter in the American West, better known for his gun than his bloodline. When Harrow rides into Cinder Creek, a corrupt sheriff sees the perfect weapon.
Etta Blaine is a saloon owner with her own reasons to fear outlaw Abel Nighthorse. The sheriff tells her Harrow has agreed to protect her.
Harrow is told nothing.