Mysteries
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Portrait of an Unknown Woman
by Daniel Silva
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In a spellbinding new masterpiece by #1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva, Gabriel Allon undertakes a high-stakes search for the greatest art forger who ever lived
Legendary spy and art restorer Gabriel Allon has at long last severed ties with Israeli intelligence and settled quietly in Venice, the only place where he has ever truly known peace. His beautiful wife, Chiara, has taken over the day-to-day management of the Tiepolo Restoration Company, and their two young children are discreetly enrolled in a neighborhood scuola elementare. For his part, Gabriel spends his days wandering the streets and canals of the watery city, bidding farewell to the demons of his tragic, violent past…
The Silent Forest
by David Kummer
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
In New Haven, everything is changing. And there’s no going back now.
It’s been weeks since Allison went missing, and everyone has given up except for Kaia. New Haven mourns their dead as she keeps looking. And now, she’s starting to find answers.
As the unsolved cases pile up, a new discovery in the forest offers hope. But it also threatens to unbury all of New Haven’s darkest secrets…
Someone in the House
by Barbara Michaels
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
An English Gothic mansion transported stone by stone to the isolated Pennsylvania hills, Grayhaven Manor calls to Anne and Kevin. Here is the ideal summer retreat – a perfect location from which to write the book they have long planned together.
But there are distractions in the halls and shadows of the looming architectural wonder luring them from their work—for they are not alone. Something lives on here from Grayhaven’s shocking past—something beautiful, powerful, and eerily seductive – unlocking the doors of human desire, of fear . . . and unearthly passion.
Dead by Sunset: Perfect Husband, Perfect Killer?
by Ann Rule
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
From bestselling author Ann Rule comes the true story of Bradly Morris Cunningham, the handsome and successful entrereneur who married five different women and destroyed each of them.
The author of eight New York Times bestsellers, Ann Rule first won nationwide acclaim with The Stranger Beside Me, about serial killer Ted Bundy. Her Crime Files volumes, based on fascinating case histories, have assured her reputation as our premier chronicler of crime. Now the former Seattle policewoman brings us the horrific account of a charismatic man adored by beautiful and brilliant women who always gave him what he wanted…sex, money, and even their very lives…
A Second Helping of Crazy
by John D. Ottini
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
In A Second Helping of Crazy, author John D. Ottini has collected thirteen of his most memorable stories in one volume. Three stories were previously chosen as Finalists in the annual Florida Writers Association Royal Palm Literary Awards competition, and the rest are a selection of the author’s personal favorites.
“I didn’t know what to expect (how many times have you read that?), but I was happily surprised by almost every story I read (I think there was one that was iffy). Wonderfully told, characters everyday people, great twists at the end that were actually unforeseeable. I think you’ll like this one, guys!” by Amazon Customer
Devil’s Corner
by Lisa Scottoline
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
New York Times bestselling author Lisa Scottoline delivers a knockout stand-alone thriller featuring a young federal prosecutor who risks her life to bring down the kingpin of a conspiracy responsible for murders in West Philly.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Vicki Allegretti goes to meet a confidential informant and finds herself facing a loaded 9 mm Glock semiautomatic weapon, wielded by a panicky teenager. Violence is the last thing this neophyte lawyer expects. The case is easy, the kind given to new ADAs to help them cut their teeth. Yet almost before she has time to react, her partner is dead, shot in the chest…
Leverage in Death
by J. D. Robb
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
For the airline executives finalizing a merger that would make news in the business world, the nine a.m. meeting would be a major milestone. But after marketing VP Paul Rogan walked into the plush conference room, strapped with explosives, the headlines told of death and destruction instead. The NYPSD’s Eve Dallas confirms that Rogan was cruelly coerced by two masked men holding his family hostage. His motive was saving his wife and daughter—but what was the motive of the masked men?
Close to Home
by Lisa Jackson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
An atmospheric and riveting novel of suspense from the #1 New York Times bestselling author that uncovers the horrifying secrets buried within a ramshackle house on the shores of Oregon’s wild Columbia River. Will appeal to all fans of thrillers and suspense fiction.
Along the shores of Oregon’s wild Columbia River, the Victorian mansion where Sarah McAdams grew up is as foreboding as she remembers. The moment she and her two daughters, Jade and Gracie, pull up the isolated drive, Sarah is beset by uneasy memories—of her cold, distant mother, of the half-sister who vanished without a trace, and of a long-ago night when Sarah was found on the widow’s walk, feverish and delirious.
Shallow Graves
by Jeffery Deaver
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
John Pellam had a promising career as a Hollywood stuntman, until a tragedy sidetracked him. Now he’s a divorced, hard-living location scout who travels the country in search of shooting sites, and pulling his camper into any small town brings out the locals seeking their fifteen minutes of fame. But behind an idyllic locale in upstate New York is a hotbed of violence, lust, and conspiracy, and Pellam is thrust into the heart of an unfolding drama and the search for a killer when a brutal murder has him hunting down justice on behalf of a dear friend.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
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The Five Bells and Bladebone
by Martha Grimes
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A body in a bureau sends the Scotland Yard detective on a vexing investigation in this “absorbing and stylishly crafty” mystery (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
When a dismembered corpse is found in the compartments of an antique writing bureau, Marshall Trueblood, recipient of the precious piece of furniture, is the first to protest: “I bought the desk, not the body, send it back.” But the dead body of Simon Lean presents more pressing concerns. Who, for example, would want to kill the greedy nephew of the wealthy Lady Summerston?
Fox on the Roof Murder
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Is Wren Casper a doddering old woman or is she being gaslighted? Her friends wonder. First she claims to play ball with a fox on a roof. Then her stories escalate…to include murder.
Newly elected Bluebonnet, Texas, Sheriff Tulsa Edwards dismisses the woman with brown hair growing tired of fighting against the grey overtaking it and silver eyes capable of penetrating his façade of authority when she comes to him with claims of cars changing colors and rock climbers stealing children. He can’t dismiss the things that happen to her – like the eight-foot concrete gorilla mysteriously plunked down in her front yard. But did she order it and then forget?
X
by Sue Grafton
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
X: The number ten. An unknown quantity. A mistake. A cross. A kiss…
Perhaps Sue Grafton’s darkest and most chilling novel, X features a remorseless serial killer who leaves no trace of his crimes. Once again breaking the rules and establishing new paths, Grafton wastes little time identifying this deadly sociopath. The test is whether private investigator Kinsey Millhone can prove her case against him—before she becomes his next victim.
Keeping Downwind
by Andrew Miller
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
She’s the most notorious bounty hunter in the Federation. Her predation of pirates, criminals, and New Hollywood executives have made her the nightmare bogeyman of any who dare to target the weak and helpless. The Overone of the Fey fears her as the harbinger of mass resistance against its telepathic domination of enslaved species.
She shoots first, and rarely asks questions. She eats a kilogram of meat in a single sitting, and likes her tools oversized, overpowered, and crammed into tight packages. But none of that will help her this time. This time the job isn’t about tracking down a desperate fugitive, or playing hunter and prey with an entire crews of gun toting pirate. This time the job is a criminal investigation…
Golden in Death
by J. D. Robb
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Pediatrician Kent Abner received the package on a beautiful April morning. Inside was a cheap trinket, a golden egg that could be opened into two halves. When he pried it apart, highly toxic airborne fumes entered his body—and killed him.
After Eve Dallas calls the hazmat team—and undergoes testing to reassure both her and her husband that she hasn’t been exposed—it’s time to look into Dr. Abner’s past and relationships. Not every victim Eve encounters is an angel, but it seems that Abner came pretty close—though he did ruffle some feathers over the years by taking stands for the weak and defenseless…
Black Sheep
by Rachel Harrison
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.9 #ad
A cynical twentysomething must confront her unconventional family’s dark secrets in this fiery, irreverent horror novel from the author of Such Sharp Teeth and Cackle.
Nobody has a “normal” family, but Vesper Wright’s is truly…something else. Vesper left home at eighteen and never looked back—mostly because she was told that leaving the staunchly religious community she grew up in meant she couldn’t return. But then an envelope arrives on her doorstep…
Dragon Moon Rising
by Daniel O’Connor
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
After 600 years, the dragon Lessiam suddenly awakens with a human crying above him, the boy’s tears falling upon his forehead. Jos grew up a slave & just escaped after his last remaining family member was burned alive right in front of him for attempting to incite a slave riot.
As Jos and Lessiam come to know one another and investigate how Lessiam came to be enstoned for the past 600 years, they uncover the Dragon Moon Spell, which will reach its horrific climax with the destruction of all good dragons on the coming of the next full moon…
The Camelot Caper
by Elizabeth Peters
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
For Jessica Tregarth, an unexpected invitation to visit her grandfather in England is a wonderful surprise—an opportunity to open doors to a family past that has always been closed to her. But sinister acts greet her arrival. A stranger tries to steal her luggage and later accosts her in Salisbury Cathedral. Mysterious villains pursue her through Cornwall, their motives and intentions unknown. Jessica’s only clue is an antique heirloom she possesses, an ancient ring that bears the Tregarth family crest…
The Royal Nanny
by Karen Harper
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Based on a seldom-told true story, this novel is perfect for everyone who is fascinated by Britain’s royal family—a behind the scenes look into the nurseries of little princes and the foibles of big princes.
April, 1897: A young nanny arrives at Sandringham, ancestral estate of the Duke and Duchess of York. She is excited, exhausted—and about to meet royalty…
Savage Devotion
by Ajme Williams
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Sold to the Brotherhood. Betrayed by my sister and ex, I clawed my way free, leaving a trail of gunfire and a darkness deeper than the basement cell.
Now, I wake, a captive in a gilded cage. Damian, Chicago’s most ruthless mob boss, claims me with a single word: “Mine.”
His touch offers a twisted security, but the danger hasn’t ended. Now, with a secret life blossoming within me, the real battle begins.