Mysteries
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
A Cry for Vengeance
by Ernesto Patino
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Moments before he dies, terminally ill Karl Muller makes a startling deathbed confession: he admits to killing thousands of Jews during World War II. His nurse, Helen Dobson, is understandably shocked. She refers the matter to Bryan De Luca, a part-time professor with experience in international affairs. De Luca soon learns that shortly after the war, Muller and dozens of former Nazis were recruited by American Intelligence to work as spies against the Soviets.
De Luca also learns that Sam O’Hara, a former immigration investigator, had compiled a secret list of ex-Nazis in America—a list that so-called contractors hired to protect them are desperate to obtain. They’ll stop at nothing, not even murder, to keep the identities of the Nazis from falling into the hands of the JFJ, Jews for Justice, whose sole objective is to kill them…
Guardians of Petra
by William Pickrel
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Some things are not meant to be kept. They are meant to be poured out.
Thirteen months after he buried his wife, archaeologist Michael Dale hasn’t touched a trowel — until a single headline drags him out of the dark. A mass discovery beneath the Treasury at Petra. Twelve skeletons arranged in a perfect circle. A thirteenth at the center, cradling a chalice the tabloids are already calling the Grail.
Michael knows that chamber. Lydia’s notebooks led straight to it — the secret work she was chasing the day she died. So he goes back to the rose-red city one last time, telling himself it’s only to finish what she started.
Death on the Edge
by Sara Paretsky
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Legendary sleuth V.I. Warshawski is no stranger to the sound of bullets. Growing up in the Windy City, it was a way of life: loved ones taken too early, gangs patrolling the streets by night, police too quick to touch a trigger. Now, in the wake of a string of high school shootings across the United States, V.I.’s hometown has become impassioned by the growing movement to tackle gun violence. News reaches her old high school on Chicago’s South Side that an essay competition spearheaded by renowned newspaper The Edge is calling for high school students to write about how gun violence has affected their young lives. Overseeing the contest is Marcena Love, a British journalist V.I. has tangled with in the past.
Essence of Illusion
by R. F. Whong
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A perfect murder… until it isn’t. Paying homage to the queen of mystery, Agatha Christie, this contemporary whodunit weaves an atypical tale of illusion and intrigue set in the picturesque Amish enclave of Paradise, Pennsylvania.
A year ago, still haunted by the tragic events of September 11, Tina Sheng reluctantly served as a Christian summer camp counselor in Paradise.
Now working as an insurance fraud investigator in nearby Lancaster, Tina, along with her quirky friend Amelia Pak, finds a series of internet posts about a faceless doll that appears with each occurrence of death. The writer warns that a serial killer is at large.
The Iron Tiger
by Jack Higgins
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Jack Drummond has always flown by his own radar. After getting drummed out of the British Navy, he’s made a rough-and-tumble living flying wherever the money takes him. But after one last weapons drop to Tibetan guerillas fighting the Communist Chinese, he’s ready to hang up his wings.
Unfortunately, a short stop in the tiny Himalayan country of Balpur ends with his plane in flames and Drummond out of luck—until he’s approached with a very strange offer. He must help deliver a sick child over land to the Indian border. It’s not his typical job, but it’s all he’s got. Accompanied by a nurse and an elderly priest, he sets out to make one last delivery.
The Alaskan Lady
by Richard Heard
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A young married couple travel to Alaska’s Denali National Park for their honeymoon and face a female specter inside cabin eight. The newlywed couple(Ron and Jackie Boston) travels from Pennsylvania to Alaska. However, the honeymoon quickly turns grim upon arrival. Denali National Park turns into a battle for breath and lives as the wooden cabin they rent has an uninvited lady who escapes her portal to reek utter terror on Ron and Jackie Boston for a murder committed on her 40 years prior.
The couple, and their guest couple and an Alaskan shaman simultaneously become captive inside cabin eight. The owners of the resort know the history of the property but stay button lipped to continue business as the specter holds and terrorizes the folks over three days in the winter snow drenched mountain retreat. Achak, the Air force veteran and air taxi pilot, uses his sage and Haida warrior background to fend off the raging deceased Native lady’s onslaught. Not until the entity’s murder cold case ( investigated by an Anchorage Alaska Detective Robinson ) is solved will her soul be at peace.
Five Chimneys
by Olga Lengyel
Kindle $0.49 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Experience one of the most harrowing accounts of survival and resilience with Olga Lengyel’s Five Chimneys, a firsthand narrative of her time in Auschwitz and Birkenau. Told with unflinching honesty, this day-by-day account captures the unimaginable horrors of the Holocaust through the eyes of a woman who endured it.
Lengyel’s vivid storytelling offers a raw, deeply personal perspective on one of history’s darkest chapters, shedding light on the brutality of concentration camps while also highlighting the strength of the human spirit.
The Lies I Tell
by Julie Clark
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Two women. Many aliases.
Meg Williams. Maggie Littleton. Melody Wilde. Different names for the same person, depending on the town, depending on the job. She’s a con artist who erases herself to become whoever you need her to be—a college student. A life coach. A real estate agent. Nothing about her is real. She slides alongside you and tells you exactly what you need to hear, and by the time she’s done, you’ve likely lost everything.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
A Hamish Macbeth Collection
by M. C. Beaton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Three New York Times–bestselling cozy mysteries, featuring Scotland’s cleverest but most unambitious policeman, by the author of the Agatha Raisin mysteries.
Death of a Kingfisher,
Death of Yesterday,
Death of a Policeman Omnibus
“This red-headed police sergeant living in the small village of Lochdubh, Scotland is such a hoot and a howl that you never want to see this character come to an end… . . . There’s never a dull moment in the life of Hamish Macbeth. . . . A+!”―New England News
Storm Damage
by Terry Bacon
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The deadliest threat in California doesn’t come with a warning—it slips into your system, rewires your mind, and turns you into a killer with a smile.
When a banker opens fire at Folsom Flea Market, Detective Kat Hastings catches the case—but takes three bullets before she can stop the carnage. Now she’s in the ICU, the victim of a drugged-up killer.
That night, during a gig, Sonny Marshall watches helplessly as his band’s guitarist collapses mid-set, brought down by a drug no one can identify, his body locked in euphoric paralysis. The incident rattles Sonny, but the news about Kat hits harder. When he learns she was among the victims, he drops everything to be at her side.
The House on the Hill
by S Saywack
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Can a house be evil? A telegram Vince Ransome receives makes him wonder.
The Martins stand on the brow of a hill, wreathed in mystery. If a house could choose solitude, perhaps that house did. Or perhaps it was the choice of its last owner, who died mysteriously in a fire fifty years ago.
A boy witnessed it. Vince Ransome wonders: did he also witness the deaths of each owner of the house since it was built over a hundred years ago? If so, what is he? A ghost, maybe. And now, Vince’s sister owns the house.
Shadow Moon
by Alexandra Sokoloff
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Mass killer Cara Lindstrom is in the wind, after a deadly encounter which leaves FBI Special Agent Antara Singh questioning her own sanity and fitness to serve. ASAC Matthew Roarke exiles Singh to Portland to work as an assistant to his old mentor, retiring profiler Chuck Snyder—but a mysterious break-in alerts Singh and Snyder to a sinister threat revolving around an old investigation: a series of brutal murders of homeless teenagers on the streets of Portland and Seattle.
Singh and Snyder must go on the road and deep into the mystery of Roarke’s and Cara’s pasts to discover a pattern of destiny and interconnection that holds the key to unsolved child murders, past and present.
Reacher: The Stories Behind the Stories
by Lee Child
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Lee Child tells the stories behind the stories from the bestselling Jack Reacher novels.
Includes a new, never-before-seen Reacher tale.
After making his debut in 1997’s The Killing Floor, Jack Reacher has quickly become one of the most popular—and most enduring—fictional heroes to emerge in the past half century. Now, his creator tells the stories behind the stories. These are the origin tales of all of the Reacher novels written solely by Lee Child, chock full of colorful anecdotes and intriguing inspirations. One by one, they expand upon each novel and place it in the context not only of the author’s life, but of the world outside the books. And taken together, they chart the rise of an action icon, from 1999’s The Killing Floor to 2019’s Blue Moon.
Lie Down with the Devil
by Linda Barnes
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Six-foot-tall, redheaded ex-cop and Boston-based private eye Carlotta Carlyle is “the genuine article: a straightforward, funny, thoroughly American mystery heroine” (New York Post).
On the outs with her secretive mob boss lover, Sam Gianelli, Carlotta occupies herself with a seemingly routine case. She feels an immediate bond with her new client, Jessie Franklin. Right now, both women are dealing with issues of trust. For Jessie, it’s the man she’s soon to marry. Tipped off that he’s cheating on her, she wants Carlotta to tail him. No sooner does Carlotta get a track on the likely cad, than Jessie is killed by a hit-and-run driver.
Nameless
by Candle Sutton
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Danger swirls in the mists of the Puget Sound. People are disappearing, the most recent being a young child. Nothing links the victims, except the kidnapper. FBI Special Agent Dakarai Lakes suspects the victim count will only increase… unless he and his team can stop the criminal.
His team’s newest agent might be their greatest weapon. Special Agent Kevyn Taylor has a reputation as a mind reader. As a licensed clinical psychologist, she’s spent years honing her skills to read and predict human behavior with a high degree of accuracy. She might be the secret weapon they need to get inside the kidnapper’s head – if her rule-bending, renegade tactics don’t drive Dak crazy first.
Cruel Truth
by Rachel Lynch
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Even beauty has a dark side
It’s a stunning summer evening in the Lake District. The day has been hot and long, and tourists are only just leaving Rydal Water. One solitary rowing boat remains; face-down in the reeds. Underneath is the body of a young woman.
DI Kelly Porter heads to the scene but when she arrives she gets another call. A suspected suicide at a health and fitness conference nearby. Two deaths in one day is never a good sign.
Then the first body is found.
MEMOIRS of a CLEVER PRANKSTER
by Peter Henry
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Tales of laugh-out-loud unique gags, absurd jokes, and funny stories will enrich your life.
Fun-loving Peter Henry is one of the most clever pranksters EVER. Henry’s beautiful life includes hilarious gut-busting tales, funny stories, and absurd gags. With pleasure, he carefully crafts humorous jokes that evoke rousing laughter as each trick unfolds.
Henry’s memoir tells his joyful journey from childhood through his 50-year career as a hospitality professional, including an astounding 36 years as GM of America’s finest luxury destination resorts. Henry also owned and operated a highly popular Caribbean restaurant for four years.