Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Digital Assassins III
by Danielle Spencer
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Before the cyberterrorism, before the digital assassination, before Danielle Spencer – there was Ruth.
In this powerful prequel to the Digital Assassins series, Danielle Spencer takes readers deep into the roots of corruption at the Financial Revenue Service (FRS) through the unfiltered voice of Ruth, a long-serving insider who witnessed it all.
Digital Assassins III: Improper, Reprehensible, Scandals exposes the hidden history of an agency built on cronyism, systemic abuse, and impunity…
Rainbow’s End
by Martha Grimes
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
When three women die of “natural causes” in London and the West Country, there appears to be no connection – or reason to suspect foul play. But Scotland Yard Superintendent Richard Jury has other ideas, and before long he’s following his keen police instincts all the way to Santa Fe, New Mexico.
There, in the company of a brooding thirteen-year-old girl and her pet coyote, he mingles with an odd assortment of characters and tangles with a twisted plot that stretches from England to the American Southwest…
Bullets in the Briar
by Kimber Silver
Kindle $5.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
The discovery of a mutilated body on remote farmland is only the start of Sheriff Lincoln James’ latest investigation. A mysterious religious sect and an intimidating biker gang add fuel to the fire. Within the sheriff’s circle of friends is someone with a hidden connection – If only she’d be willing to step forward…
To add to his problems, Lincoln has a fiercely contested election to win if he’s going to continue as sheriff. His opponent is a smooth out-of-towner who is making friends among the local people, so it’s going to be a fight.
Shake the Devil Off
by Ethan Brown
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Zackery Bowen was one of the first soldiers to encounter the fledgling insurgency in Iraq. After years of military service he returned to New Orleans to tend bar and deliver groceries. In the weeks before Hurricane Katrina made landfall, he met Addie Hall, a pretty and high-spirited bartender. Their hard-partying endurance during and after Hurricane Katrina had news outlets around the world featuring the couple as the personification of what so many want to believe is the indomitable spirit of New Orleans.
But in October 2006, Bowen leaped from the rooftop bar of a French Quarter hotel. A note in his pocket directed the police to the body of Addie Hall. It was, according to NOPD veterans, one of the most gruesome crimes in the city’s history. How had this popular, handsome father of two done such a thing?
The Lost Letters from Martha’s Vineyard
by Michael Callahan
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A tantalizing novel of two women bound by blood but divided by a long-buried secret, and the island that holds the key to the fateful summer that changed everything forever.
In 1959, Hollywood ingenue Mercy Welles seems to have the world at her feet. Far removed from her Nebraska roots, she has crafted herself into a glamorous Oscar-nominated actress engaged to an up-and-coming director…
Until she shockingly vanishes without a trace, just as her career is taking off…
Cone
by Amy Cross
Kindle $0.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
She put the cone on as a joke. Now she can’t take it off.
Polly Parker has a rash. And when she turns up at a party with friends, one of them – who happens to be a veterinarian – offers a simple solution: a plastic cone that will stop her scratching herself.
As soon as she puts the cone on, however, Polly finds herself drawn into an increasingly dangerous world. Having made a bet, she’s determined to keep the cone on for an entire week, but she has already attracted the attention of a mysterious man who has been looking for someone like her for a very long time. And he’s not prepared to wait.
Lost Birds
by Anne Hillerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
From New York Times bestselling author Anne Hillerman, a thrilling and moving chapter in the Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito series involving several emotionally complex cases that will test the detectives in different ways.
Joe Leaphorn may be long retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, but his detective skills are still sharp, honed by his work as a private detective. His experience will be essential to solve a compelling new case: finding the birth parents of a woman who was raised by a bilagáana family but believes she is Diné based on one solid clue, an old photograph with a classic Navajo child’s blanket…
the moment we met was a lie
by Kari Wiethop
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
The colorful staff of a hedonistic club attends to the unconventional and sometimes humorous needs of their members while navigating their own friendships, rivalries and romances in this contemporary series.
Since Trip is on his way to rehab, Black temporarily takes on both Becky and Babe, the collective’s two new recruits. Their journeys start off similarly but branch off when Becky is taken under Quinn’s wing and trained for her job. Once Becky is somewhat settled in, Black enlightens her on unexplored areas of the household and his personal preferences, cumulating in a shocking explanation of his training method.
The Autobiography of Mark Twain
by Mark Twain
Kindle $0.29 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Mark Twain was a figure larger than life: massive in talent, eruptive in temperament, unpredictable in his actions. He crafted stories of heroism, adventure, tragedy, and comedy that reflected the changing America of the time, and he tells his own story – which includes sixteen pages of photos – with the same flair he brought to his fiction. Writing this autobiography on his deathbed, Twain vowed to be “free and frank and unembarrassed” in the recounting of his life and his experiences.
Twain was more than a match for the expanding America of riverboats, gold rushes, and the vast westward movement, which provided the material for his novels and which served to inspire this beloved and uniquely American autobiography.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Dune to Death
by Mary Daheim
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Just when she thought her honeymoon couldn’t get worse, a newlywed finds someone newly dead. Fourth in the series from the author of Holy Terrors.
Bed-and-breakfast hostess Judith McMonigle and her policeman beau Joe Flynn have finally gotten hitched—and they’re off on a sunny honeymoon to beautiful Buccaneer Beach. But an unfortunate confrontation with a dune buggy run amok puts hubby Joe in hospital traction—leaving his beleaguered blushing bride stranded in paradise with a bad case of ennui by the sea. Luckily irrepressible cousin Renie has selflessly agreed to keep Judith company…
Scorched Earth
by George Galdorisi
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
General Bob Underwood is en route to Syria when a rocket-propelled grenade strikes the side of his Humvee and the heavily armored convoy comes under attack. His bodyguard is brutally murdered, and Underwood himself is kidnapped. Hours later, the president and top officials watch in horror from the Oval Office as the general is viciously beheaded by an ISIS leader—broadcast live on the Al Jazeera television network.
The world is stunned by the bloody scene, but even more so that this supposedly loose-knit terrorist organization was able to orchestrate a lethal attack on the world’s most powerful military…
TARGETED
by Susanna Haymond
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Just when it seems life can’t get any darker, his past comes back to haunt him.
FBI Agent Connor Fields and DEA Agent Elaine Jackson team up and are working on a case that started as a suspicious death. During their investigation, they discover that the perpetrator they’re after is a convicted felon who is out for revenge and is going after his arresting agent, Grant Rourke. It’s a race against time as the perpetrator is leaving a trail of victims in his wake.
Injured in the line of duty, DEA Agent Grant Rourke is forced to take medical leave. While struggling to accept the possibility that he may never hear again, he enrolls in New Beginnings Deaf Community Services…
The Sheva Chronicles Complete Series
by Michael Todd, Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A witch assassin. An FBI agent. A dangerous conspiracy unravels.
Valerie Kuriken, a skilled witch assassin known as a SHVA, has always worked alone. When a routine mission brings her face-to-face with FBI agent Benjamin Carter, their paths become intertwined.
Pick up this 6-book boxed set today to join their adventures!
Death on the Rhine
by Vivian Conroy
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A luxury cruise. Hidden family secrets. A body on board…
A birthday trip to Bonn sees amateur detective Atalanta Ashford drawn into the scandalous will of a wealthy grandmother during a scenic cruise down along the Rhine.
But growing tensions lead to a sudden and shocking death. Facing suspicion all around, Atalanta must unravel a deadly web of family secrets as treacherous as the river they voyage on, to find the killer.
Look out for the other Miss Ashford mysteries and get your passports ready as you travel with her to some of the most sought-after destinations on the continent… Each title can be read as standalone and in any order…
The Day the Rabbi Resigned
by Harry Kemelman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Rabbi Small has left the synagogue, but he’s not done with sleuthing, in this “engaging” mystery from the New York Times–bestselling author (New York Newsday).
After three decades of dealing with temple politics and getting involved with more than a handful of murder investigations, Rabbi David Small is ready to retire from his synagogue in the cozy Boston suburb of Barnard’s Crossing. For years, his secret desire has been to permanently take up teaching, but when he finally leaves the synagogue to pursue that dream, life at a university proves more dangerous than he thought…
The Oligarch’s Daughter
by Joseph Finder
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
From the New York Times bestselling author of House on Fire, a breakneck thriller that marries the dynastic opulence of Succession with the tense and disorienting spycraft of The Americans.
Paul Brightman is a man on the run, living under an assumed name in a small New England town with a million-dollar bounty on his head. When his security is breached, Paul is forced to flee into the New Hampshire wilderness to evade Russian operatives who can seemingly predict his every move…
A Family Name
by Frank Wheeler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A classic western novel from Frank Wheeler with non-stop epic adventure and a blend of western romance
Lucky Bones hunts outlaws for a living. Virginia Brooks is hunting one man for revenge. When their paths cross on the trail of Mad Jack Harlan, justice ride side by side, and neither comes easy.
Ten years ago, Jack burned Virginia’s family ranch to the ground. She’s been looking for him ever since.
Lucky’s just after the two-thousand dollar price on Jack’s head. But as the bodies pile up, the lines between bounty and righteousness start to blur.