Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Death at the Village Christmas Fair
by Debbie Young
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
It’s been a busy year for Alice Carroll, with her Curiosity Shop opening for business, and not one but two murders shaking things up in her quaint Cotswold village. She’s looking forward to her first countryside Christmas, complete with traditional Christmas Fair and Santa Run.
But her hopes for innocent festive fun are thwarted when one of the Santa Runners steals something from her mum’s knitting stall. His festive outfit makes him hard to spot, until he’s found fatally injured outside the village hall with the stolen item.
Keep Quiet
by Lisa Scottoline
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Scottoline delivers once again with Keep Quiet, an emotionally gripping and complex story about one man’s split-second decision to protect his son – and the devastating consequences that follow.Jake Buckman’s relationship with his sixteen-year-old son Ryan is not an easy one, so at the urging of his loving wife, Pam, Jake goes alone to pick up Ryan at their suburban movie theater. On the way home, Ryan asks to drive on a deserted road, and Jake sees it as a chance to make a connection. However, what starts as a father-son bonding opportunity instantly turns into a nightmare. Tragedy strikes, and with Ryan’s entire future hanging in the balance, Jake is forced to make a split-second decision that plunges them both into a world of guilt and lies.
The Silent Survivor
by RobertJ Walker
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The lights vanish. The cities fall.
Alone on their ranch, a family must battle hunger, violence, and the enemy sweeping through the countryside. The lights died in seconds. Now the rules are gone. On an isolated ranch, one family faces starvation, raiders, and the end of everything they knew.
Wealth of Secrets
by Stacy Angell Curtis
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In the wake of her parents’ sudden deaths, Brynnan’s reality is spinning out of control. Unexplained threats are dredging up old fears–and fueling new anxiety about her safety.
Determined to help, Brynnan’s billionaire uncle rushes to her side, along with his newly hired head-of-security—former special forces operative, Jack McKerrick. Jack is tasked with ensuring Brynnan’s safety, but when he realizes she’s being targeted, Jack learns about Brynnan’s painful past, and starts to suspect she’s in more danger than she realizes.
Wealth of Secrets
by Stacy Angell Curtis
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Last Christmas Marcie Sullivan said a final goodbye to her husband, Bobby. This Christmas she’s come to Virgin River to find the man who saved his life and gave her three more years to love him.
Fellow marine Ian Buchanan dragged Bobby’s shattered body onto a medical transport in Fallujah four years ago, then disappeared as soon as their unit arrived stateside. Since then, Marcie’s letters to Ian have gone unanswered.
A Grave in the Woods
by Martin Walker
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
When Abby, an American archaeologist, arrives in St. Denis on the heels of her divorce, she hopes to make a new life for herself as a specialist guide for visiting tourists. So when a local British couple discover a grave from World War II on their property, Abby is able to put her training to good use. As it turns out, in the grave are the remains of two German women and an Italian submarine officer who had a big secret to hide. The women are suspected of having had links to the German garrison in Bordeaux during the war. It’s up to Bruno, just recovered from a gunshot wound earlier in the year, to unravel the mystery—and its contemporary relevance.
Bad Thoughts
by Dave Zeltserman
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 3.7 #ad
From acclaimed author Dave Zeltserman comes a dark, captivating thriller unlike any you’ve ever seen, a killer unlike any you’ve ever imagined, and an ending unlike any you’ve ever dreamed of. One afternoon 13 year-old Billy Shannon comes home to a living nightmare. His mother being brutally murdered is only the beginning… 20 years later, Bill Shannon is now a cop in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As the twenty-year anniversary of his mother’s death is approaching, women are being murdered in the same horrific grisly fashion. And while this is going on, he’s having blackouts which only seem to be getting worse… Everything seems to be pointing to one of two possibilities: Shannon has gone insane or his mom’s killer is back to his old tricks. Except if it’s mom’s killer, he’s come back a long way to do these new killings… all the way from the grave.
Whaling Town
by David Parker Allen
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
“The poems are refreshing. Ambient. Mysterious . . . With language both tempered and ecstatic, Allen gives us a book steeped in the salt of old ports, the bite of memory, and the unexpected warmth of the now.” —Matthew Lippman, award-winning author of We Are All Sleeping with Our Sneakers On
This is a place you never hear about in America…
A unique American collection of poetry, Whaling Town explores the rough work of self-realization and the roots that anchor us to the unsteady ground of our past.
Return of the Spider
by James Patterson
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Detective Alex Cross; the “human superhero” (New York Times) versus Gary Soneji; the “most deliciously wicked character since Hannibal Lecter” (Lexington Herald-Leader).
But that wasn’t their first meeting…
Police discover that Soneji kept a murder book, Profiles in Homicidal Genius, detailing his transformation from substitute teacher to hardened serial killer—including clues that imply missteps that Alex Cross may have made a rookie homicide detective.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good
by Helene Tursten, Marlaine Delargy
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Maud is an irascible 88-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and… no qualms about a little murder. This funny, irreverent story collection by Helene Tursten, author of the Irene Huss investigations, features two-never-before translated stories that will keep you laughing all the way to the retirement home.
Ever since her darling father’s untimely death when she was only eighteen, Maud has lived in the family’s spacious apartment in downtown Gothenburg rent-free, thanks to a minor clause in a hastily negotiated contract. That was how Maud learned that good things can come from tragedy…
One Little Mistake
by Miranda Rijks
Kindle 0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
They were best friends forever. Then Kate made one little mistake…
Kate thought the spreadsheet was harmless—a private ranking of her four best friends detailing their various strengths and weaknesses. But when it leaks online and goes viral, her carefully curated life implodes.
Social invitations vanish, her business crumbles, even her marriage starts to fall apart. It’s as if the silken thread that has been holding everything together has been pulled and now it’s all unravelling.
And it gets worse. Someone on the list seems to be out for revenge, determined to destroy whatever is left of Kate’s perfect life. As anonymous threats multiply and her son falls mysteriously ill, Kate doesn’t know where to turn or who to trust.
Something to Hide
by Elizabeth George
Kindle 1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers and Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley are back in the next Lynley novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George.
When a police detective is taken off life support after falling into a coma, only an autopsy reveals the murderous act that precipitated her death. She’d been working on a special task force within North London’s Nigerian community, and Acting Detective Superintendent Thomas Lynley is assigned to the case, which has far-reaching cultural associations that have nothing to do with life as he knows it. In his pursuit of a killer determined to remain hidden, he’s assisted by Detective Sergeants Barbara Havers and Winston Nkata…
A Day in the Death of Dorothea Cassidy
by Ann Cleeves
Kindle 2.99 Rating: 4.1 #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.
For Dorothea Cassidy, Thursdays were special. Every week she would look forward to the one day she could call her own, a welcome respite from the routine duties of being a vicar’s wife. But one Thursday in June would be her last—the day Dorothea Cassidy was strangled…
Heat Lightning
by John Sandford
Kindle 1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Virgil Flowers hunts a killer responsible for a strange string of murders in this thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford.
On a hot, humid summer night in Minnesota, Virgil Flowers gets a call from Lucas Davenport. A body has been found near a veterans’ memorial in Stillwater with two shots to the head and a lemon in his mouth—exactly like the body they found two weeks ago…
The Deputy & Mirabel
by L.K. Campbell
Kindle 0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Mirabel Findley is fired from her nursing job for allegedly helping outlaw Danny McGowan escape from a clinic. During a Christmas blizzard, she flees to Red Gorge, Dakota Territory, where her cousin is the sheriff. There, Mirabel discovers Danny is also in town, trying to clear his brothers of a crime they didn’t commit. He forces Mirabel to help, trapping her and Deputy Micah Hansen in a perilous situation. Mirabel and Deputy Hansen must work together to survive and ensure justice prevails.
All Her Fault
by Andrea Mara
Kindle 0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
ONE MISSING BOY.
Marissa Irvine arrives at 14 Tudor Grove, expecting to pick up her young son Milo from his first playdate with a boy at his new school. But the woman who answers the door isn’t a mother she recognises. She isn’t the nanny. She doesn’t have Milo. And so begins every parent’s worst nightmare.
FOUR GUILTY WOMEN.
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
by Damien Lewis
Kindle 1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
One of the most remarkable stories in the history of Special Forces’ operations – Daily Express
In the bleak moments after defeat on mainland Europe in winter 1939, wartime leader Winston Churchill knew that Britain had to strike back hard.
He recruited a band of eccentric free-thinking warriors to become the first ‘deniable’ secret operatives behind enemy lines, offering these volunteers nothing but the potential for glory and all-but-certain death.