Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Deadly Art
by Alison Bruce
Kindle $4.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Things are looking up for Kate Garrett. She’s moving into the apartment she inherited, along with half her father’s detective agency. Her new business partner, Jake Carmedy, trusts her enough to ask for help. And she has a new case of her own.
This case involves ransomware, not exactly in Kate’s wheelhouse. However, Professor Smyth is sure that he is being personally targeted by one of his colleagues or students. Finding the person is as important to him as undoing the damage to his system. Someone has been filling his server and cloud storage with subscriptions to racist, sexist and pornographic e-zines. The latter includes one creator that thinks revenge killing is video art, and it’s up to Kate to expose the murderer before he strikes again.
The Twisted Road Ahead
by John D. Ottini
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Finalist in the 2018 Royal Palm Literary Awards Competition – Short Story Genre (Florida Writers Association)
Our journey through life rarely follows a straight and narrow path. The road is filled with unexpected twists and turns and sometimes things are not as they seem. In The Twisted Road Ahead, John D. Ottini leads us on an excursion through eight suspenseful tales, each filled with joy, heartache, mystery, intrigue and a pinch of humor.
When tragedy strikes, Blake Thomas is left with a broken heart and a guilty conscience. Rather than searching within his heart for the forgiveness he needs, he decides that sometimes it’s easier to just “Blame it on the Weather.”
Darkness, Take My Hand
by Dennis Lehane
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Master of new noir Dennis Lehane magnificently evokes the dignity and savagery of working-class Boston in Darkness, Take My Hand, a terrifying tale of redemption.
Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro’s latest client is a prominent Boston psychiatrist, running scared from a vengeful Irish mob. The private investigators know about cold-blooded retribution. Born and bred on the mean streets of blue-collar Dorchester, they’ve seen the darkness that lives in the hearts of the unfortunate…
Bangtails, Grifters, and a Liar’s Kiss
by A.G. Russo
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The Homefront, summer 1943, Brooklyn, New York.
Smalley Pauley is missing. His brother, gangster Guido Bonasccoro, hires reluctant O’Shaughnessy Detective Agency partners Maeve O’Shaughnessy and Vic Marino to find him.
A year after Vic Marino walked into the O’Shaughnessy detective agency office and told Maeve he was going to help her make a go of an agency on the brink of collapse, they have managed to keep it going thanks to the challenging murder case they solved the previous year. This second year provides newer, darker, more dangerous cases as they find themselves caught in the middle of a gangster turf war and forced to do risky work for G-men…
The Cabin Trilogy
by Amy Cross
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
The Cabin Trilogy tells the story of a ‘final girl’ who never managed to leave her past behind. Originally published in three parts over the course of ten years, the trilogy is finally collected together now in this shocking omnibus edition.
When she travels to Norway for a holiday with her friends, Anna Matthews has no idea that she’s about to be plunged into a nightmare. Once she arrives at a remote cabin in the forest, however, she starts to notice that some of her supposed friends are acting strangely. There’s a camera set up in the basement, aimed at a rickety old wooden chair, but what exactly are they planning to record?
Hell and Back
by Craig Johnson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
What if you woke up lying in the middle of the street in the infamous town of Fort Pratt, Montana, where thirty young Native boys perished in a tragic 1896 boarding-school fire? What if every person you encountered in that endless night was dead? What if you were covered in blood and missing a bullet from the gun holstered on your hip? What if there was something out there in the yellowed skies, along with the deceased and the smell of ash and dust, something the Northern Cheyenne refer to as the Éveohtsé-heómėse, the Wandering Without, the Taker of Souls?
Search the Dark
by Marta Perry
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Sometimes the past is best left buried
Meredith King longs for escape. Life in Deer Run is stifling, the Amish town too small for a modern woman staying just to care for her ailing mother. When a friend enlists her help in clearing the name of an Amish boy whose decades-old death is still shrouded in mystery, she welcomes the distraction. But when a ghost from her own past reappears, there is suddenly a lot more at stake.
Lie Lie Truth
by James Caine
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
My father was a serial killer – or so I thought.
My dad, Dennis Kempmen, had his quirks but was respected in our small town. That was until children began disappearing and he became the main suspect.
I started to believe what others were saying: My father was a killer. Then it happens again. A little girl disappears in a similar way the others were taken. Everything I thought I knew is revealed to be a lie.
The Aperture Effect
by Kathryn Ford
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Couples often ask, “Can people really change?” A better question is, “How do people change?” In The Aperture Effect, psychiatrist and couples therapist Dr. Kathryn Ford doesn’t just tell you how—she gives you simple tools that will immediately begin to transform your conversations and your relationship.With the radically simple approach of Aperture Awareness, Dr. Ford integrates mindfulness, psychology, and neuroscience to help couples shift their dynamics when in distress, turning their difficulties into lasting connection.
The Unraveling of Julia
by Lisa Scottoline
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
An international bestselling author crafts a gothic “thriller with dashes of romance and excellent twists!” (Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling author) in which a young widow inherits a Tuscan estate from a mysterious benefactor and finds herself thrust into the crosshairs of a dangerous conspiracy—twisty, transportive, and haunting, this is suspense with a passport.
Lately, Julia Pritzker is beginning to think she’s cursed. She’s lost her adoptive parents, then her husband is murdered. When she realizes that her horoscope essentially foretold his death, she begins to spiral. She fears her fate is written in the stars, not held in her own hands.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder on Summer Lane
by Hope Callaghan
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
The Garden Girls have planned the perfect baby shower for Andrea and her husband, Brian. The decorations are in place, the delicious dishes lovingly prepared by the friends and nearly half the town of Belhaven has been invited to join in the joyous occasion, but there’s trouble on the horizon.
As if dealing with the unexpected wrench in their perfectly laid party plans isn’t enough, Liz, Gloria’s sister, has arrived for the summer, and invited the friends to stop by for a tour of her swanky new summer digs…
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(Garden Girls Cozy Mysteries)
Burning Distance
by Joanne Leedom-Ackerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A modern-day Romeo and Juliet—set against the backdrop of deadly weapons smuggling
When ten-year-old Elizabeth West’s father dies in a tragic plane crash over the Persian Gulf, her family uproots their life in Washington, D.C., and moves to London. Her mother marries a knighted British businessman who has two children, and Elizabeth (Lizzy) and her two sisters move in with their new family.
At age sixteen, while attending the American School of London, Lizzy meets and falls in love with Adil Hasan—but when Adil’s father, a noted arms middleman, is deported, Lizzy and Adil are separated…
Blessing of the Lost Girls
by J. A Jance
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Driven by a compulsion that challenges his self-control, the man calling himself Charles Milton prowls the rodeo circuit, hunting young women. He chooses those he believes are the most vulnerable, wandering alone and distracted, before he strikes. For years, he has been meticulous in his methods, abducting, murdering, and disposing of his victims while leaving no evidence of his crimes—or their identities—behind. Indigenous women have become his target of choice, knowing law enforcement’s history of ignoring their disappearances…
Push Not the River
by James Conroyd Martin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Looking for historical fiction that will transport you to another time and place? This first book in an IPPI Gold Medal Winning Series will enthrall you.
Suddenly alone in the world, Anna falls in love with Jan, a patriot ready to put his life on the line for Poland’s democratic Constitution. Cousin Zofia also sets her sights on Jan even as she refuses to submit to her parents’ choice of an arranged marriage, and she will go to any lengths to avoid it, no matter whom it may hurt. All the while, political and military events are moving towards a national cataclysm.
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(The Poland Trilogy)
Depths of Deception
by Stacy Angell Curtis
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Her parents are dead. And Bryn Marsh doesn’t want to believe allegations from the FBI–and known criminals–about her deceased mother. Then her uncle reveals an old secret. And her world turns upside down.
Jack McKerrick would do anything to protect Bryn—as her billionaire uncle’s head of security—and as a man who wants to spend the rest of his life with her. But when a nineteenth-century corpse and new deadly threats collide with a Cat 4 hurricane, Jack will need a miracle to keep Bryn alive.
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(Texas Security Mysteries)
Crimespree Magazine #11 and 12
by CJ Box, Multiple Authors
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
The 11th and 12th issues of Crimespree Magazine (Mar/Apr 2006 and May/Jun 2006) are presented together as a single eBook. The cover feature of Issue 11 featured T. Jefferson Parker interviewed by CJ Box while Val McDermid was interviewed by Ruth Jordan for the cover feature of Issue 12.
Highlights of Issue 11 include: JA Konrath’s funny “Cozies or Hardboiled”, a conversation between Sharon Fiffer and John Connolly, Anthony Neil Smith tells you “Why You Shouldn’t Buy His Novel” and Reed Farrel Coleman interviewed Michel Martinez. Additionally, Ken Bruen describes his enjoyment of The Rockford Files, Michael Lister starts a new column and Michael A. Black interviews Henry Kisor.
Birth Pangs of the End Times
by Maj Tom DMin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
As America crumbles and a global dictatorship rises from the ashes, Katie discovers the real war isn’t fought with helicopters and guns.
Twenty-year-old Army helicopter pilot Katie Whitefeather is a hero, having earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and Purple Heart after saving soldiers’ lives in a severely battle-damaged medevac helicopter. But after a fellow pilot suffers a stroke, she decides not to submit to a dictatorial vaccine mandate, costing her the career she loves.
Back home in Southeast Alaska, as she struggles to find employment during a global financial collapse, she witnesses biblical prophecy unfolding–wars erupting, famines spreading, and natural disasters devastating the planet.
Turbo Twenty-Three
by Janet Evanovich
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
“The most popular mystery writer alive.” – The New York Times
Larry Virgil skipped out on his latest court date after he was arrested for hijacking an eighteen-wheeler full of premium bourbon. Fortunately for bounty hunter Stephanie Plum, Larry is just stupid enough to attempt almost the exact same crime again. Only this time he flees the scene, leaving behind a freezer truck loaded with Bogart ice cream and a dead body—frozen solid and covered in chocolate and chopped pecans…
Other People’s Stories
by Katharine Tonti
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
In this collection of 16 short stories, everyday moments become the canvas for life’s profound truths.
Each tale unveils the beauty and complexity of ordinary individuals as they navigate love and loss, and discover the mysteries hidden within the moments of their extraordinary lives.