Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Bad Blood
by Dana Stabenow
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
New York Times bestselling author Dana Stabenow’s next novel, Bad Blood, finds Kate Shugak entangled in a bitter tribal rivalry and murder
One hundred years of bad blood between the Alaskan villages of Kushtaka and Kuskulana come to a boil when the body of a young Kushtaka ne’er-do-well is found wedged in a fish wheel. Sergeant Jim Chopin’s prime suspect is a Kuskulana man who is already in trouble in both villages for falling in love across the river. But when the suspect disappears, members of both tribes refuse to speak to Jim.
Being Nancy
by Michele Olson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A Nancy Drew convention on Mackinac Island. A stolen treasure. A mystery that suddenly becomes real.
When fans gather to celebrate the legendary sleuth Nancy Drew on beautiful Mackinac Island, they expect games, costumes, and a little nostalgic fun.
What they don’t expect is a real mystery.
When a valuable treasure disappears during the convention, the line between fiction and reality begins to blur…
The Grave Tattoo
by Val McDermid
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In The Grave Tattoo, suspense master Val McDermid spins a psychological thriller in which a present-day murder has its roots in the eighteenth century and the mutiny on the H.M.S. Bounty.
After torrential summer rains uncover a bizarrely tattooed body on a Lake District hillside, long discarded old wives’ tales takes on a chilling new plausibility. For centuries, Lakelanders have whispered that Fletcher Christian staged the massacre on Pitcairn so that he could return home…
Agents of Secrets and Lies
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Four heroes, four quests, one mission: save the Summer Realm
The Summer Realm is in mortal danger. Huge flying beasts have found a portal into their world and are devouring entire villages of people. And Ulysses Rasselas, Minister of Secrets and Lies, has been tasked with pulling together his agents to save it.
It’s an impossible mission, and all he’s got to work with is a thick-headed guard, a cocky thief, a reclusive mage, and a complete unknown – a witch the Guild of Mages called in from another world. But time is running out, so he deploys his team of parrots to all four corners of the realm with instruction to obtain ingredients for a unique spell the mages insist will work.
Live Flesh
by Ruth Rendell
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
From a New York Times–bestselling author: A terrifying psychological thriller that dives deep into the mind of a sexual predator.
In a remote corner of London, a woman is walking her dog when a man grabs her from behind. She screams, and her attacker flees, escaping into a nearby house, where he finds another victim. Victor Jenner has a compulsion he does not understand—to grab women, to hurt them—and he also has a gun. When it goes off, grievously wounding a police officer, it marks the beginning of a long stretch in jail for Victor.
The Paladin
by David Ignatius
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
“Tension, suspense, betrayal, and revenge.… David Ignatius is the best in the world at this stuff.” —Lee Child
In this latest novel from the “dean of international intrigue” (Brad Thor) and New York Times best-selling author David Ignatius, CIA operations officer Michael Dunne is tasked with infiltrating an Italian news organization that smells like a front for an enemy intelligence service. Headed by an American journalist, the self-styled bandits run a cyber operation unlike anything the CIA has seen before. Fast, slick, and indiscriminate, the group steals secrets from everywhere and anyone, and exploits them in ways the CIA can neither understand nor stop.
Amish Blast Investigation
by Debby Giusti
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A deadly explosion. A dangerous search for the truth.
After an explosion rocks Becca Klein’s bakery and kills one of her customers, she teams up with the victim’s son to find justice. Though estranged from his father, Englischer Luke Snyder is compelled to help the Amish woman uncover why his father died. But ruthless killers believe Luke’s father gave Becca something they want, and they’ll stop at nothing to get it. Can Luke keep Becca safe until they discover the truth?
Evil in High Places
by Rory Clements
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
HOW DO YOU CATCH A KILLER WHO BELIEVES THEY’RE ABOVE JUSITCE?
Munich, 1936. All eyes are on the Bavarian capital for the upcoming Olympic Games. As athletes fight for gold and the Nazis fight for power, Detective Sebastian Wolff faces a battle of his own.
A famous actress has disappeared and Wolff has been ordered to find her, fast. But Elena Lang is no ordinary film-star: she is the mistress of Joseph Goebbels – Hitler’s right-hand-man in the party that Wolff despises.
Conjuring the Hurricane
by Sarah Hanson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
When Sarah Hanson realized she had to leave her abusive relationship, she didn’t have a plan. She had fear, instinct, and a body that had learned how to survive.
Conjuring the Hurricane is a survival memoir-in-verse about leaving a life that’s killing you and rebuilding a self you can finally live inside. Told in fragments that mirror the way trauma lives in the body, the book traces the nonlinear work of reclaiming identity, trust, and agency after abuse.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Stealth
by Stuart Woods
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Stone Barrington is trying to enjoy some downtime at his English retreat when he’s unceremoniously sent off to the remote reaches of the UK and into a deadly snare. As it turns out, this is only the first volley by a rival power, one that has its eyes set on disrupting the peace of the nation.
With the help of two brilliant and stunning women, Stone must leverage a new position of power to capture a villain with a lethal agenda. But the closer he comes to nabbing the culprit, the more he realizes there’s a bigger plan at work, and a true mastermind who’s a force to be reckoned with . . .
The Things you find in Rockpools
by Gregg Dunnett
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Billy Wheatley isn’t like most eleven-year-olds. It’s just him and his dad, in a remote house on the clifftop above Lornea Island’s Silverlea beach. But when a teenage girl goes missing one summer night, and the biggest police search the island has ever seen fails to find her, Billy decides to take a break from his more important projects. And catch the killer himself.
And why not? He knows almost everyone on Lornea Island. And no one knows the dunes, the cliffs and the hidden caves like he does.
But while playing detective might be fun at first, the clues Billy follows soon lead dangerously close to home. And he’s about to find out – cold-blooded murder isn’t a game.
The Baby-Snatcher
by Ann Cleeves
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Before Shetland and Vera, Ann Cleeves wrote the Inspector Ramsay series featuring a talented, brilliant detective—now in print for the first time in the US.
Marilyn Howe and her mother Kathleen are an inseparable duo, until one night Kathleen doesn’t come home . . .
Fifteen-year-old Marilyn turns up alone and frightened on Inspector Ramsay’s doorstep so he takes the young girl home to the isolated coastal community known as the Headland. And in the Howes’ dark and cluttered kitchen they find Kathleen safe and apparently well, though acting strange.
Hornet Flight
by Ken Follett
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
It is June 1941, and the war is not going well for England. Somehow, the Germans are anticipating the RAF’s flight paths and shooting down British bombers with impunity. Meanwhile, across the North Sea, eighteen-year-old Harald Olufsen takes a shortcut on the German-occupied Danish island of Sande and discovers an astonishing sight. He doesn’t know what it is, but he knows he must tell someone. And when he learns the truth, it will fall upon him to deliver word to England—except that he has no way to get there. He has only an old derelict Hornet Moth biplane rusting away in a ruined church—a plane so decrepit that it is unlikely to ever get off the ground . . . even if Harald knew how to fly it.
Infernal Tramps
by Alex Grass
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A boy discovers his father’s oracular grotesque in a secret dungeon below their family funeral home.
An antique spiked collar transforms Philadelphia into a city that worships a dead dog.
A video game dominates the market for years and then disappears, except for one man’s memories of its horrors.
A mother with a trunkful of hungry, inhuman babies tracks down the family that abandoned them.
The warden of a penal colony offers to pardon a murderer, but only if the inmate can find the antidote to the poison wine the warden gave him.
A wealthy young woman receives a surgical implant that delivers more than just a shapely body.
Body Double
by Tess Gerritsen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Boston medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles is shocked to discover that the murdered woman looks exactly like her. For Maura, an only child, a DNA test confirms the startling fact: the mysterious doppelgänger is in fact her twin sister. Now an already bizarre homicide investigation becomes a disturbing excursion into a past full of dark secrets and twisted truths.
It is a journey that leads Maura to the mother she never knew—an icy and cunning woman who gave Maura life . . . and who just might have a plan to take it away.
A Need to Kill
by Mark Pettit
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The Life and Crimes of John Joubert, Nebraska’s Most Notorious Serial Child Killer
From two-time best-selling author and three-time Emmy®-winning investigative reporter Mark Pettit comes the haunting true story of Nebraska serial killer John Joubert — a case that shocked a nation and still echoes across the true-crime world.
Blue Rivers
by Jesse Storm
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Blue Rivers has spent his life enforcing the law – but this time, the law won’t be enough.
He wears his badge like a shield, built from a childhood of abandonment and a father who taught him pain instead of mercy. The law is the only thing that ever made sense to him.
Then a letter changes everything. A woman named Addie writes to him with a desperate plea. A girl has been sold to settle a debt. His half-sister. A sister he never knew existed. Blue doesn’t hesitate. He rides out across the frontier with one goal – to bring her home.
The Snow Debt
by James Leonard
Kindle $0.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Everyone in Silverton Crossing knows the story.
Cairn Rusk left men to die in the snow.
The truth is harder to live with, and he’s never told it to anyone. Least of all his daughter.
A disgraced Army scout, Cairn hauls timber and keeps his head down, raising a thirteen-year-old girl and caring for a father whose mind slips a little further every day.
When winter threatens to close the high country, he takes them both up to the old family cabin, hoping the mountain will steady them. Beneath the floorboards he finds stolen Army payroll and ammunition.