Mysteries
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Hot Six
by Janet Evanovich
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum and Trenton vice cop Joe Morelli join forces to find the madman killer who shot and barbecued the youngest son of international black-market arms dealer Alexander Ramos.
Carlos Manoso, street name Ranger, is caught on video just minutes before the crime occurs. He’s at the scene, he’s with the victim, and he’s the number-one suspect. Ranger is former special forces turned soldier of fortune. He has a blue-chip stock portfolio and no known address. He moves in mysterious circles. He’s Stephanie’s mentor–the man who taught her everything she knows about fugitive apprehension. And he’s more than her friend.
Out of Jurisdiction
by Gerald Hansen
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Two time zones. Same body count.
DI Liam McLaughlin thought he’d left murder behind in Derry. The body found in a field under a full moon was bad enough—savaged, staged, and whispered about as something not quite human. But when McLaughlin travels to Egypt for a long-overdue holiday with his teenage daughter, death isn’t finished with him yet.
On a Nile cruise crowded with international tourists, he crosses paths with a group of mature students from Derry. When their charismatic lecturer, Dr. Maggie McCracken, is found dead during a nighttime visit to an ancient temple, McLaughlin is suddenly hunting a killer on foreign soil—alone.
The Fallen
by David Baldacci
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Star FBI detective Amos Decker and his colleague Alex Jamison must solve four increasingly bizarre murders in a dying rust belt town—and the closer they come to the truth, the deadlier it gets in this rapid-fire #1 New York Times bestseller.
Something sinister is going on in Baronville. The rust belt town has seen four bizarre murders in the space of two weeks. Cryptic clues left at the scenes—obscure bible verses, odd symbols—have the police stumped.
Amos Decker and his FBI colleague Alex Jamison are in Baronville visiting Alex’s sister and her family. It’s a bleak place: a former mill and mining town with a crumbling economy and rampant opioid addiction. Decker has only been there a few hours when he stumbles on a horrific double murder scene.
Fantastic Revelations Vol. 1
by Grant Morris
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
These five tales explore the resilience of the innocent when confronted with unbridled wickedness in its various forms.
The Last Weeping Willow
Battle of the Marne
Gonzalez House Murders
Kos-Soo-Kah’s Lost Arrow
Check’s Mate
Death’s Door
by Michael Slade
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Canadian Mountie Robert DeClercq and his Special X team are facing down a stolen mummy with a trail of corpses in its wake. The question is: Is this the work of one killer? Or is it some sort of diabolical conspiracy? DeClercq’s investigation leads him to a local porn king who specializes in snuff videos and a fresh trail of mutilated female bodies being dumped around the Gulf Islands. But just when DeClercq narrows in on the criminality behind these abominable murders, an old enemy returns. Not only is Mephisto determined to destroy DeClercq once and for all, but this megalomaniac won’t stop until he puts all of humanity at the brink of Death’s Door…
White Fire
by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Kindle 1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Past and present collide as Special Agent Pendergast uncovers a mysterious connection between a string of 19th century bear attacks in a Colorado mining town, a long-lost Sherlock Holmes story, and a deadly arsonist. In 1876, in a mining camp called Roaring Fork in the Colorado Rockies, eleven miners were killed by a rogue grizzly bear. Corrie Swanson has arranged to examine the miners’ remains. When she makes a shocking discovery, town leaders try to stop her from exposing their community’s dark and bloody past.
Just as Special Agent Pendergast of the FBI arrives to rescue his protege, the town comes under siege by a murderous arsonist who-with brutal precision-begins burning down multimillion-dollar mansions with the families locked inside…
Untouchable
by Jeffery Deaver
Kindle 1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Untouchable
by Jeffery Deaver
Kindle 1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
For Special Agent Constant Marlowe, a quiet college town hides a nest of malice and revenge in this twisty novella by New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver.
Special Agent Constant Marlowe is passing through the charming college town of Prescott, Illinois, when a chance encounter with a terrified student stops her in her tracks. Kathleen Delaine thought she was doing the right thing when she demanded an inquiry into traumatic brain injuries among the university’s football team. But after a manosphere shock jock picks up the story on his radio show and makes it personal, the online uproar bleeds into the real world…
The Pact
by Lisa Walker
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
They all share a secret. But only one knows the truth. Who will be the first to break?
Tess enters the prestigious and exclusive Ravensthorpe Writing College with dreams of literary greatness, but soon discovers that ambition comes at a cost.
Drawn into a tight-knit group with fellow writers Ethan, Theo, and Jaz, Tess’s world is upended when their charismatic tutor is found dead. Believing someone in their circle is responsible, Tess flees the elite literary world and abandons the future she once craved.
Solomon’s Compass
by Carol Kilgore
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
One USCG Commander + One Veteran Navy SEAL = Fireworks from Stem to Stern
When Coast Guard Commander Taylor Campbell returns to Rock Harbor, Texas, to tend to her uncle’s estate, she meets a veteran Navy SEAL, Jake Solomon, and learns her uncle didn’t drown accidentally. His murder was one in a string of murders of a group of Vietnam veterans who called themselves the Compass Points.
Before her uncle died, he sent Taylor a message with the location of his buried treasure. Unearthing it will place her squarely in the killer’s crosshairs, but she’s determined to fulfill her uncle’s last wish.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder within Murder
by Frances Lockridge, Richard Lockridge
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Mr. and Mrs. North seek the killer of a terribly unpleasant society woman.
Miss Amelia Gipson doesn’t tolerate foolishness. She doubts she’s ever made a mistake, and it’s unlikely she would change anything about her life—even if she knew she was in danger. While researching a famous murder case at the public library, she becomes ill at her desk. Within minutes, she’s dead. Miss Gipson would be pleased with the coroner. He doesn’t muck around when delivering the cause of death. There’s simply no question: She was poisoned.
Double Blind
by Iris Johansen, Roy Johansen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The #1 New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award winning authors Iris and Roy Johansen are back with Double Blind, an electrifying novel that will leave your heart racing.
Kendra Michaels, formerly blind and now a hired gun for law enforcement agencies who relies on her razor-sharp powers of observation, is reluctant to help the FBI with the most recent case they’ve brought to her. But then she hears the details: the body was found just blocks away from Kendra’s condo. The young woman was carrying an envelope with Kendra’s name on it, and inside was an SD card with what appears to be an innocuous video of a wedding reception. The woman died trying to get the video to Kendra, but for what purpose? Before Kendra and the FBI can answer that question, the bride is abducted from her suburban home.
Fallout
by Jeff Rovin
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
As fears of a dangerous nuclear confrontation between China and the US escalate, China targets individual members of the Black Wasp team in this heart-pounding entry in the bestselling series.
After successfully extricating one of Beijing’s top scientists from captivity and escorting him to America, the Black Wasp commandos find themselves targeted by Chinese assassins. The killers are not only highly trained but invisible, launching tactical strikes from multiple embassies in Washington, D.C. The Chinese squad has also infiltrated American intelligence and is aware of every move Black Wasp makes. Complicating matters, the new president of the United States seems willing to let Op Center take the fall for the mission that precipitated the crisis.
The Butcher
by Jesse Storm
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
They called him the Butcher because he never left work unfinished.
Once a soldier, now a hunter, Caleb earned the name tracking men who believed themselves untouchable – and proving they weren’t. When the war ended, he buried that life and walked away.
Or so he thought. When a ghost from the battlefield resurfaces, Caleb’s rules return with it:
1) hunt without mercy; 2) finish the job; 3) never look back.
Code Name Sapphire
by Pam Jenoff
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A woman must rescue her cousin’s family from a train bound for Auschwitz in this riveting tale of bravery and resistance, from the bestselling author of The Lost Girls of Paris
Hannah Martel has narrowly escaped Nazi Germany after her fiancé was killed in a pogrom. When her ship bound for America is turned away at port, she has nowhere to go but to her cousin Lily, who lives with her family in Brussels. Fearful for her life, Hannah is desperate to get out of occupied Europe. But with no safe way to leave, she must return to the dangerous underground work she thought she had left behind.
Quiet War
by James Leonard
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Keller Ward asked little from life. Honest work. A roof over his boys’ heads. Enough peace to keep the past where it belonged. Then one son is murdered in a gold convoy ambush, and the other is left broken between life and death.
Everyone in Calico Ridge knows who did it. Randall Vexler.
Heir to a cattle fortune and nephew to the town marshal.
When the courts turn their backs and Randall walks free, Keller decides to settle things himself. Soon men begin turning up dead. As fear spreads, Keller continues his silent war.
Black Swan Rising
by Lee Carroll
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A woman discovers a magical world within New York City in this urban fantasy trilogy opener—”Fans of Charles de Lint and Mercedes Lackey should enjoy this vibrant addition to the urban fantasy genre” (Library Journal).
When New York City jewelry designer Garet James stumbles into a strange antiques shop in her neighborhood, her life is turned upside down. John Dee, the enigmatic shopkeeper, asks her to open a vintage silver box for a generous sum of money. Oddly, the symbol of a swan on the box exactly matches the ring given to Garet by her deceased mother. Garet can’t believe this eerie coincidence until she opens the box and otherworldly things start happening . . .
What Remains of Heaven
by C. S. Harris
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
London 1812. When the controversial reform-minded Bishop of London is found bludgeoned to death in an ancient crypt beside the corpse of an unidentified man murdered decades before, Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, reluctantly agrees to investigate. As his search for the killer leads him from the back alleys of Smithfield to the power corridors of Whitehall, Sebastian must confront the well-guarded secrets of his own family’s past—and a devastating truth that could ultimately force him to question who—and what—he really is.