Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Scales of Justice
by Ngaio Marsh
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In an almost unspeakably charming little English village, one of the local aristocrats turns up dead next to the local trout-stream with, in fact, a trout at his side. Everyone is dreadfully upset, of course, but really, just a tad irritated as well – murder is so awfully messy.
Inspector Alleyn doesn’t quite fit in among the inbred gentry, but they’ll allow him to do his work and clear the matter up—though they do wish he didn’t feel compelled to ask quite so many questions . . .
Paranoia
by James Patterson, James O. Born
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
At every death scene, Bennett says a prayer over the victim.
But recently, too many of the departed have been fellow cops.
“I want you to look at these deaths on special assignment,” NYPD Inspector Celeste Cantor says. “Report only to me.”
Bennett excels as a solo investigator. But he’s chasing a killer who feeds on isolation… and paranoia.
The Unquiet (In Death)
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Settle in for five startling tales of uncanny suspense and disquieting romance—including an In Death story featuring Lieutenant Eve Dallas from #1 New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb.
J. D. Robb’s “Chaos in Death.”
Mary Blayney’s “Her Greatest Pleasure.”
Patricia Gaffney’s “Dear One.”
Ryan Langan’s “The Unforgiven.”
Mary Kay McComas’s “His Brother’s Keeper.”
The Native American Experience
by Dee Brown
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Two profoundly moving, candid histories and a powerful novel illuminate important aspects of the Native American story.
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: The #1 New York Times bestseller that awakened the world to the destruction of American Indians in the nineteenth-century West, Dee Brown’s groundbreaking history focuses on the betrayals, battles, and systematic slaughter suffered by Native American tribes between 1860 and 1890, culminating in the Sioux massacre at Wounded Knee.
The Impostor
by R.J. Patterson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Living a lie while seeking the truth. Meet Blake Barrett.
Minding his own business with a quiet life in the Ozarks, former Air Force Special Reconnaissance airman Blake Barrett survives a surprising assassination attempt on his life and must make a difficult choice to avoid a life on the run: impersonate an assassin. Not an easy task for a man who was passed over for an elite special ops team because of his reticence to take another’s life.
With his life at stake, Barrett must find the resolve to do what he couldn’t do years before. But in the process, he’s thrust headlong into a twisted conspiracy that weighs heavily on a hotly contested presidential election.
The Lost Coast
by Jonathan Kellerman, Jesse Kellerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Cut loose from his former life at the coroner’s office, Clay Edison has set up shop as a private investigator. It’s steady, safe work. Until it isn’t.
The trouble begins when a young man, tasked with managing his grandmother’s estate, hires Clay to examine some minor financial discrepancies. What starts off as a case of simple fraud rapidly explodes into a web of deception, an elaborate con game stretching back decades and involving countless victims.
Me & My Haiku Collection
by John D. Ottini
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0#ad
This book contains 202 thought-provoking haiku poems, covering broad topics such as life, love, death, and almost everything in between. The poems are filled with insight, passion, and a touch of humor.
The challenge and enjoyment in crafting a haiku is in attempting to portray a meaningful thought or emotion using only three lines and seventeen syllables. That was the challenge the author faced in writing this book.
He’s hopeful that you will find these haiku poems both eloquent and entertaining.
Unreliable Narrator
by Araminta Hall
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
A new twisted psychological thriller from the author of Imperfect Women—now a #1 hit Apple TV show!
It’s his story. But it’s her life.
When twenty-three-year-old Hope Jenkins arrives at the isolated, otherworldly Shadowlands estate, she’s certain her life is finally about to begin.
Hope is eager to spend her summer assisting the up-and-coming literary star Ambrose “Rosie” Glencourt, but at Shadowlands, art and danger blur into one…
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
by Benjamin Stevenson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than once. I’m not trying to be dramatic, but it is the truth. In this dysfunctional family, some of us are good, others are bad, and some just unfortunate.
I’m Ernest Cunningham. Call me Ern or Ernie. I write guides to writing mysteries, so you can call me a reliable narrator. I wish I’d killed whoever decided our family reunion should be at a ski resort, but it’s a little more complicated than that.
Don’t Let Her In
by J.M. O’Rourke
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Lesley seems like a perfectly normal woman. Until you ask her to leave.
Gillian wants to do right by her elderly Aunt Myra. A safe nursing home. Daily visits. A peaceful final chapter for the woman who has been like a mother to her.
A plan that’s derailed when a stranger turns up on the doorstep claiming to be Myra’s long-lost niece, Lesley. She says she’s here to look after Myra.
Within days, Myra’s bank accounts are being drained and Lesley has taken full control of the house. And Gillian—the woman who has always been there for Myra—isn’t allowed through the door.
The Original Adventures of Nancy Drew
by Carolyn Keene
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
This volume collects the first four novels in the original Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, before the series was heavily rewritten and toned down in the late 1950s for a cautious, television-age audience.
These mysteries, first published in 1930, feature a bolder, more headstrong version of America’s most famous girl detective—sharp-tongued, resourceful, independent, and willing to bend the rules, take real chances, and face genuine danger to get to the truth. The girl in these pages doesn’t wait for permission or rescue. She drives fast, talks back, and solves crimes on her own terms.
The Twelve
by Justin Cronin
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In his internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed novel The Passage, Justin Cronin constructed an unforgettable world transformed by a government experiment gone horribly wrong. Now the scope widens and the intensity deepens as the epic story surges forward . . .
In the present day, as the man-made apocalypse unfolds, three strangers navigate the chaos. Lila, a doctor and an expectant mother, is so shattered by the spread of violence and infection that she continues to plan for her child’s arrival even as society dissolves around her…
Polostan
by Neal Stephenson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The first installment in Neal Stephenson’s Bomb Light cycle, Polostan follows the early life of the enigmatic Dawn Rae Bjornberg. Born in the American West to a clan of cowboy anarchists, Dawn is raised in Leningrad after the Russian Revolution by her Russian father, a party line Leninist who re-christens her Aurora. She spends her early years in Russia but then grows up as a teenager in Montana, before being drawn into gunrunning and revolution in the streets of Washington, D.C., during the depths of the Great Depression.
When a surprising revelation about her past puts her in the crosshairs of U.S. authorities, Dawn returns to Russia, where she is groomed as a spy by the organization that later becomes the KGB.
Spacebar: The Complete Series
by John Walker
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Carson Flint left the Commonwealth’s wars behind for the quiet life of running a saloon on the edge of nowhere.
The Bulwark sits on Castus, the last neutral ground in a galaxy that tore itself apart. Smugglers, refugees, and war-weary soldiers drift through its doors, and Carson keeps his corner of it calm by staying out of everyone else’s business.
Then a dying man stumbles in carrying a secret worth killing for.
The stranger came out of Commonwealth service, hunted across the stars, holding something the Thortan warlords will level a settlement to reclaim. When their guns reach Castus, neutrality means nothing, and the Bulwark stands between a ruthless militia and a discovery that could reshape a galaxy.
EMP No Power No Shelter C Boxed Set
by William Stone
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
She thought it was just another drill. He let her believe that for one more hour.
Her father’s paranoia cost her a childhood, her inheritance, and years of her life. It was about to buy her every day she had left.
The town called him crazy. The lawyer called it theft. Burning through her dead mother’s money on bunkers and guns. Charlie called it a prison and broke out at sixteen.
Then the disaster came, the kind that proves a paranoid man was just a prophet nobody believed, and everything his obsession stole from her became the only reason she lived.
The Intrigue
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Kindle $13.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Handsome con artist Ulises has long charmed lonely women via letters in order to steal their money, but money is hard to come by in 1940s Mexico. Ulises knows his looks won’t last forever, and he’s desperate to get his hands on a real fortune.
He thinks he’s found it when he captivates his newest correspondent, Perla, the owner of a small-town boardinghouse in picturesque Veracruz. But when he meets her, he finds something he didn’t expect. The woman has a niece, Inés, who is as observant as she is desperate to escape her aunt’s household.