Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
I Bet You’d Look Good in a Coffin
by Katy Brent
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
My name is Kitty Collins and I’m a serial killer.
I don’t want to kill. It’s just so hard to resist. Some men really, really deserve it. Men like Blaze Bundy, an anonymous influencer spreading misogyny online. He’s making it very hard for me to control my murderous urges.
Meanwhile I’m in the South of France to watch my mother marry a man I’ve never met. I should be drinking cocktails and focusing on my tan, not plotting a murder.
All the Beautiful Sinners
by Stephen Graham Jones
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
This novel “masterfully plays with the serial killer genre, walking a line between convention and invention and delving into the psychology of both killer and detective” (Publishers Weekly).
For more than eight years, a serial killer has been stalking the country, visiting towns with biblical names and leaving pairs of victims behind—one female and one male, their bodies broken and twisted to create the same gruesome scene over and over again.
In rural Nazareth, Texas, a Native American man suspected of shoplifting shoots and kills the local sheriff, then takes off running. Found in the trunk of the shoplifter’s abandoned car?
A Good Hanging
by Ian Rankin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A Good Hanging is packed with twelve remarkable, gritty mystery stories starring DI John Rebus, “probably the most interesting man in detective fiction,” in his home city of Edinburgh, as only international #1 bestselling author Ian Rankin can portray it (Kirkus Reviews).
Not just the tearooms and cobbled streets of the tourist brochures, but a modern urban metropolis with a full range of criminals and their victims—blackmailers, peeping Toms, and more than one kind of murderer. It’s a city like any other, a city that gives birth to crimes of passion, accidents, and long-hidden jealousy, and a city in which criminal minds find it all too easy to fade into the shadows.
The Inquisitor
by Mark Allen Smith
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A spectacularly original thriller about a professional torturer who has a strict code, a mysterious past, and a dangerous conviction that he can save the life of an innocent child
Geiger has a gift: he knows a lie the instant he hears it. And in his business—called “information retrieval” by its practitioners—that gift is invaluable, because truth is the hottest thing on the market.
Geiger’s clients count on him to extract the truth from even the most reluctant subjects. Unlike most of his competitors, Geiger rarely sheds blood, but he does use a variety of techniques—some physical, many psychological—to push his subjects to a point where pain takes a backseat to fear. Because only then will they finally stop lying.
Wolf
by Mo Hayder
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The Edgar Award–winning, internationally bestselling author delivers a bone-chilling novel about a family held hostage in their country home.
Wolf kicks off when a vagrant—the Walking Man, an enigmatic, recurring character in Hayder’s fiction—finds a dog wandering alone with a scrap of paper with the words “HELP US” attached to its collar. He’s sure it’s a desperate plea from someone in trouble and calls on Det. Inspector Jack Caffery to investigate. Caffery is reluctant to get involved—until the Walking Man promises to exchange new information regarding the childhood disappearance of Caffery’s brother. Caffery has no idea who or what he is searching for, but one thing he is sure of: it’s a race against time.
Deadshot
by Jesse Storm
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Deadshot buried his gun four years ago. The West dug it back up.
Once the most feared bounty hunter on the frontier, Deadshot walked away after bringing in more outlaws than any man alive. At forty-nine, his body is worn, his hands ache, and the quiet life suits him just fine. He hunts, fishes, and keeps to himself – until a bleeding teenage boy stumbles out of the dark.
Rider isn’t a fighter. He was meant to inherit his father’s ranch, not outrun the men who destroyed it. With his family taken and bandits on his trail, Rider’s only refuge is the cabin of a legend who swore he’d never hunt again.
Adventure Nobody Wanted
by Jacie Middlemann
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
They came from all over the country to the one place each believed offered more than where they came from. For some the trip was short and quick…but for others, it was thousands of miles that had to be traveled through mostly treacherous conditions.
Their reasons were different but their destination was the same. They were all equally determined to get there safely.
Beth didn’t need her brother to remind her that she’d made a huge mistake…she knew too that Brett wasn’t going to let her forget it. But her mistake was only one reason why she agreed to make the trip with him to North Dakota.
Black Water
by Frank Wheeler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Two years ago, James Bridger shot Zedd Hightower off a bridge and watched him fall into the river below. Then he buried his wife and tried to bury the rest. But now Hightower is back.
He rules the deep bayou, commanding a network of smugglers and hired killers from an island stronghold no one enters without permission. Settlements pay to be left alone. Those who refuse are made into examples.
When a young woman is taken from Cypress Bend, a battered midwife comes looking for a man. Rosalie Fontenot believes this man is the only one who can stop Hightower.
Mommy’s Boy
by Jennifer Huston Schaeffer
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
LOVE WAS WAITING AT THE SHELTER, NOT ON MATCH.COM
Jennifer has always dreamed of getting married and having children, but after dealing with men who can’t commit, she shifts her focus from meeting the man of her dreams to finding her four-legged soulmate.
When Jennifer meets Benny, she knows instantly that he’s “the one.” He wiggles his way into her heart and takes up permanent residence. Despite his angelic face and calm demeanor, Benny harbors a mischievous side. He steals any food that isn’t nailed down, nearly breaks his neck chasing squirrels, and suffers from chronic allergies, separation anxiety, and a Napoleon complex…
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Framed in Death
by J. D. Robb
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Death imitates art in the brand-new crime thriller starring homicide cop Eve Dallas from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author J.D. Robb.
Manhattan is filled with galleries and deep-pocketed collectors who can make an artist’s career with a wave of a hand. But one man toils in obscurity, his brilliance unrecognized while lesser talents bask in the glory he believes should be his. Come tomorrow, he vows, the city will be buzzing about his work.
Apartment 239
by Elford Alley
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The Sixth Sense with equal parts creepiness and charm – Elford Alley has the stuff to make you smile while you squirm in this ghost-infested, serial-killing whirlwind set around one very unlucky young man’s overcrowded apartment.” — Daniel Barnett, author of Nightmareland Chronicles
“Apartment 239 is Alley’s best work yet. This compelling genre-mash-up is a page-turner of the cinematic sort – a splendid mixture of lovable and despicable characters, horrific and heartfelt scenes, and humorous and witty dialogue. Highly recommended!” — Jeremy Hepler, Bram Stoker-nominated author of Sunray Alice.
The Oriceran Rich and Famous Collection
by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A witch running Hollywood’s only magical talent agency. A billionaire wolf shifter hunting criminals through the rain-soaked streets of Seattle. Neither one signed up to be a hero. The monsters didn’t care.
The Agent Operative Complete Series
The Diary of a Dark Monster Complete Series
Hush Little Babies
by Don Davis
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
The true crime story of the Texas mother who murdered her two young sons in 1996.
Not since the Susan Smith case have two murders so shocked the nation . . . Hush Little Babies is the appalling true story of Darlie Routier, the neighborhood’s most wonderful mom, who, one night, coldly, calculatingly and brutally stabbed her two sons and watched them die in a pool of their own blood.
Darlie claimed an intruder had come through the window, fatally stabbed her sons, six-year-old Devon and five-year-old Damon, slashed her throat with the same knife, then fled, while her husband and infant sons slept upstairs.
The Blue Hour
by Paula Hawkins
Kindle $5.99 Rating: 3.6 #ad
Welcome to Eris: a remote Scottish island with only one house, one inhabitant, one way out. Unreachable from the Scottish mainland for twelve hours each day.
Once home to Vanessa: A famous artist whose notoriously unfaithful husband disappeared twenty years ago in a baffling cold case.
Now home to Grace: A solitary creature of the tides, content in her own isolation.
Bones Never Lie
by Kathy Reichs
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
This ebook edition contains a special preview of Kathy Reichs’s upcoming novel Two Nights.
The evidence is irrefutable: In sixteen New York Times bestsellers over the course of as many years, Kathy Reichs has proven herself “a genius at building suspense” (New York Daily News). In forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, Reichs has created a detective fiction heroine who’s brilliant to the bone. “Every minute in the morgue with Tempe is golden,” says The New York Times Book Review. In the acclaimed author’s thrilling new novel, Brennan is at the top of her game in a battle of wits against the most monstrous adversary she has ever encountered.
Finding Angus
by L.K. Johnson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A bereft woman…An injured dog…An unbreakable bond…
Wealthy Chicago socialite Isabelle Bordner has lost her family to a deadly Typhoid outbreak. Heartbroken and alone, she travels to London in search of a new life… and a purpose that will heal her heart.
Angus, an old Irish Wolfhound, wanders the dark alleyways of London, lost and alone, until his destiny unexpectedly entwines with Isabelle’s.
Hannah Bloom
by Jacquie Herz
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Hannah Bloom dreams of the day she’ll have chased away all those doubts and worries that plague her and be free to call herself a poet. In her everyday life, she works in the business she and her husband, Jake, founded together. While their two young daughters are away at summer camp for the first time, Hannah expects to have time for her poetry. But life has other ideas.
Every day, she finds gut-wrenching letters sitting in their mailbox from their homesick, unhappy children. Then, as she comes to grips with the sudden news of her unexpected pregnancy, she learns her mother’s contemplating a move to Switzerland—a move back to a Europe their whole family fled to escape the Holocaust.