Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Magic Hour
by Susan Isaacs
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Magic hour. That perfect time, that fleeting hour of enchanted light near dusk and dawn that is perfect for moviemaking, perfect for making love. Perfect for murder.
And into the magic hour steps Stephen Brady, wise guy, tough guy, local farm boy turned homicide cop, and a good man with a very bad life. But just as his luck is about to change, the rich, gifted, and urbane filmmaker Sy Spencer is murdered, and Brady discovers that his prime suspect is a woman he and the victim shared.
Obey The Vampire
by Samantha Cross
Kindle $4.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
After a brutal breakup and the loss of her job, Libby Kang has no choice but to return to her hometown of Whisper Hills, crashing in her best friend Anna’s spare room with nothing but regrets and sleepless nights.
But Whisper Hills isn’t the town she remembers.
A local girl turns up dead. Then another. Both bodies mutilated, marked with wounds that look disturbingly like bite marks. The police stay silent. The town whispers of shadows lurking just beyond the light. And Libby can’t shake the chilling feeling that unseen eyes are watching her…
It Happened on the Lake
by Lisa Jackson
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A woman returns to the Oregon town where a nightmare unfolded 20 years ago—and is waiting to engulf her again. For fans of J.T. Ellison, Paula Hawkins, Karin Slaughter, and Riley Sager.
The huge Victorian house on Lake Twilight belongs to Harper Reed Prescott, as does the private island on which it sits. Harper wants little to do with either. Twenty years ago, Harper’s grandmother died suspiciously while in her care, on the same night that Harper’s boyfriend disappeared. His body was never found, and no charges were filed. But the rumors haven’t faded. There have been other deaths, other accidents. All revolving around Harper and her family.
The Railway Murders
by J. R. Ellis
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A puzzling locked-room mystery that puts someone Oldroyd loves in terrible danger…
When a film shoot on Wharfedale’s vintage railway turns into a grisly crime scene, DCI Oldroyd’s idyllic visit to the countryside with his partner Deborah is well and truly stopped in its tracks. One of the film’s stars has been shot dead in a train carriage while the cameras rolled outside. But nobody else went in—or came out. Has the killer really pulled off the perfect, impossible crime?
Scouring the victim’s past for clues, Oldroyd soon unearths a string of heartbroken lovers and a mountain of unpaid debts, each adding to the growing list of suspects. But before he can determine who the culprit is, there’s the small matter of figuring out how they did it. A potential connection to a previous tragedy offers Oldroyd a much-needed lead…
Life Beyond the Grid
by James Hunt
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
No one believed him. When an EMP cripples the nation, Charlie is one of the few prepared to survive.
What would you risk to save your family?
Former United States Department of Defense contractor Charlie Owens resigned from his position with the government to live a life off-grid. After building a cabin on a small island in the Pacific Northwest, the detonation of an EMP sets into motion a series of events that will test Charlie and his family in ways he never imagined.
Triple
by Ken Follett
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A New York Times bestselling novel of international suspense and terror from the author of The Pillars of the Earth, World Without End, A Column of Fire, and The Evening and the Morning
As Egypt comes closer and closer to developing a nuclear bomb, the Mossad’s number one Israeli agent is given an impossible mission: to beat the Arabs in the nuclear arms race by finding and stealing two hundred tons of uranium. The world’s balance of power will shift. And the Mossad, the KGB, the Egyptians, and Fedayeen terrorists will play out the final, violent moves in this devastating game where the price of failure is a nuclear holocaust. . . .
Moonflower Murders
by Anthony Horowitz
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Retired publisher Susan Ryeland is living the good life. She is running a small hotel on a Greek island with her long-term boyfriend Andreas. It should be everything she’s always wanted. But is it? She’s exhausted with the responsibilities of making everything work on an island where nothing ever does, and truth be told she’s beginning to miss London.
And then the Trehearnes come to stay. The strange and mysterious story they tell, about an unfortunate murder that took place on the same day and in the same hotel in which their daughter was married—a picturesque inn on the Suffolk coast named Farlingaye Hall—fascinates Susan and piques her editor’s instincts.
Disrupt Everything – and Win
by James Patterson, Patrick Leddin PhD
Kindle $16.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Disruption is the most powerful force of change in our lifetime.
Every day we are confronted with: Sudden pivots at our workplace and in the job market; Rule-changing technology such as Artificial Intelligence; Unexpected crises and a culture of chaos; The sinking feeling that we are losing control of our lives
This book is about taking back control. It’s easy to follow and easy to turn into lifelong habits. It has been thoroughly researched and examined. Simply put, Disrupt Everything works.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Seeking Glory
by Patricia Hamilton Shook
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Kate LaRue is a divorced, successful co-owner of an art and gift store on Cape Cod whose current life has been largely peaceful, well ordered and without undue daily stress. That is, until she receives a phone call saying her long-missing daughter Ally is seriously ill in a hospital in California. After Ally dies with her mother by her side, Kate assumes custody of Glory, the four-year-old granddaughter she never knew she had; however, she soon discovers that Glory is selectively mute and seemingly traumatized.
To help her, Kate must try to solve the mystery of what happened to both her granddaughter and her daughter but to do so she must reconnect with family and friends she hasn’t seen or wanted to see in years. What Kate finds leads her to reexamine her life, her relationships, and what she truly believes. Meanwhile she finds she is not the only one seeking Glory.
Galway Girl
by Ken Bruen
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Jack Taylor has never quite been able get his life together, but now he has truly hit rock bottom. Still reeling from a violent family tragedy, Taylor is busy drowning his grief in Jameson and uppers, as usual, when a high-profile officer in the local Garda is murdered. After another Guard is found dead, and then another, Taylor’s old colleagues from the force implore him to take on the case. ‘
The plot is one big game, and all of the pieces seem to be moving at the behest of one dangerously mysterious team: a trio of young killers with very different styles, but who are united their common desire to take down Jack Taylor. Their ring leader is Jericho, a psychotic girl from Galway who is grieving the loss of her lover, and who will force Jack to confront some personal trauma from his past.
Just the Nicest Couple
by Mary Kubica
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Jake Hayes is missing. This much is certain. At first, his wife, Nina, thinks he is blowing off steam at a friend’s house after their heated fight the night before. But then a day goes by. Two days. Five. And Jake is still nowhere to be found.
Lily Scott, Nina’s friend and coworker, thinks she may have been the last to see Jake before he went missing. After Lily confesses everything to her husband, Christian, the two decide that nobody can find out what happened leading up to Jake’s disappearance, especially not Nina. But Nina is out there looking for her husband, and she won’t stop until the truth is discovered.
In Her Shadow
by Theo Baxter
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Every room has a secret. Every secret has a price.
Rachel thought marrying Lucas Price would be the beginning of her happily ever after. Instead, moving into Crestwood, his sprawling seaside estate, feels more like stepping into a nightmare.
The shadow of his first wife, Eliza—who died in a tragic fall from the cliffs—haunts every corner of their new home. When ghostly apparitions begin appearing and mysterious messages warn Rachel to leave, she questions her own sanity.
Lucas dismisses her fears and refuses to discuss what happened to Eliza, leaving Rachel isolated and paranoid. Desperate to get to the truth, she starts to investigate Eliza’s death.
Night Shadows
by Eva Björg Ægisdóttir
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
The small community of Akranes is devastated when a young man dies in a mysterious house fire, and when Detective Elma and her colleagues from West Iceland CID discover the fire was arson, they become embroiled in an increasingly perplexing case involving multiple suspects. What’s more, the dead man’s final online search raises fears that they could be investigating not one murder, but two.
A few months before the fire, a young Dutch woman takes a job as an au pair in Iceland, desperate to make a new life for herself after the death of her father. But the seemingly perfect family who employs her turns out to have problems of its own and she soon discovers she is running out of people to turn to.
Tom Naylor Trilogy
by Trevor Negus
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Tom Naylor – a good cop with a deadly skill.
Nottingham 1990. Ex-paratrooper Tom Naylor is a sniper in the Special Operations Unit, the dedicated firearms response teams of the Nottinghamshire Police.
Each book in this gripping trilogy focuses on a single case:
Two Wrongs
The Root of All Evil
The Cause
Elegy for Eddie
by Jacqueline Winspear
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In this latest entry in Jacqueline Winspear’s acclaimed, bestselling mystery series – “less whodunits than why-dunits, more P.D. James than Agatha Christie” (USA Today)—Maisie Dobbs takes on her most personal case yet, a twisting investigation into the brutal killing of a street peddler that will take her from the working-class neighborhoods of her childhood into London’s highest circles of power.
Perfect for fans of A Lesson in Secrets, The Mapping of Love and Death
Wild Witch
by Trisha Ridinger McKee
Kindle $2.99 Rating: New Release #ad
Ginger fled her hometown three years ago with her high school sweetheart. Now, she returns to face the betrayal she left behind and to make amends with that former boyfriend she ultimately abandoned. But things change slowly in a small town, and she has to decide whether to face the rumors that still echo around her or leave it all behind once again.