Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
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Glutton for Punishment
by Cecile Lamalle
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Sleuth and master chef Charly Poisson is back in this followup to Appetite for Murder.
The winter holidays are over, and Charly and the staff of La Fermette are settling down for a quiet season when a ring of antique thieves terrorize their wealthy, weekend patrons. Things get worse when Charly finds the corpse of a local antiques dealer in the freezer. Despite warnings from the police chief, Charly can’t help investigating on his own. This title includes recipes.
The Alison Brownstone Saga
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Alison Brownstone is half-human, half-Drow… and all trouble.
If you like action, adventure, magic, and an academy-to-adult storyline, you won’t want to miss this bestselling 23-book urban fantasy boxed set. You get 2 complete series that will leave you wanting more!
Get in on the origin story of Alison Brownstone and learn the mystery behind Izzy’s past. Join us for the adventures in the School of Necessary Magic.
Midnight Offensive: Toxic Truths
by Elle E. Kay
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
One blind date. One deadly plot.
ER nurse Sadie Kline wasn’t looking for love, or even a night out, when her roommate talked her into a blind date. She’s shocked when her date turns out to be Craig Malone, her childhood neighbor and brother’s best friend—now a Homeland Security agent. What starts as an awkward reunion spirals into danger. Craig is protecting a virologist developing an antidote to a stolen biological weapon, but when Sadie crosses paths with a suspect in her ER, she lands in the sights of a terror network with millions at stake.
As New Year’s Eve nears, threats escalate and loyalties are tested. Craig is determined to keep Sadie safe, but the bioterrorists’ midnight offensive is closing in, and failure could mean disaster…
Haunted Waterways
by Sara Clancy, Scare Street
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The La Roux ancestral home may be gone, but the horror it once sheltered is still alive.
Marigold is hunted, tormented by a demon that hungers for her to kill. She doesn’t know how much longer she can resist. In a desperate attempt to keep her sanity, Marigold flees to the rusted remains of a paddle steamer, deep in the heart of the Louisiana bayous. Here, the only people she encounters are long since dead. The ghosts that haunt the boat are possessive and territorial. They keep the demon from entering. But there are many lost souls that roam the backwaters. They are drawn to the boat, to the life on board. Marigold’s hiding place may soon become her grave…
Dance Hall of the Dead
by Tony Hillerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
“Hillerman is a wonderful storyteller.” – New York Times Book Review
Two Native American boys have vanished into thin air, leaving a pool of blood behind them. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police has no choice but to suspect the very worst, since the blood that stains the parched New Mexico ground once flowed through the veins of one of the missing, a young Zuñi. But his investigation into a terrible crime is being complicated by an important archaeological dig . . . and a steel hypodermic needle.
Old Bones
by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Nora Kelly, a young curator at the Santa Fe Institute of Archaeology, is approached by historian Clive Benton with a once-in-a-lifetime proposal: to lead a team in search of the so-called “Lost Camp” of the tragic Donner Party. This was a group of pioneers who earned a terrible place in American history when they became snow-bound in the California mountains in 1847, their fate unknown until the first skeletonized survivors stumbled out of the wilderness, raving about starvation, murder-and cannibalism.
What Happened to Nina?
by Dervla McTiernan
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Murder Rule comes an emotional novel of suspense about two families at war.
Nina and Simon are the perfect couple. Young, fun and deeply in love. Until they leave for a weekend at his family’s cabin in Vermont, and only Simon comes home. WHAT HAPPENED TO NINA?
Nobody knows. Simon’s explanation about what happened in their last hours together doesn’t add up. Nina’s parents push the police for answers, and Simon’s parents rush to protect him. They hire expensive lawyers and a PR firm that quickly ramps up a vicious, nothing-is-off-limits media campaign.
The Price of Passage
by Larry Sommers
Kindle Bargain Rating: 4.9 #ad
“An intricately plotted library whodunit that both cozy readers and librarians will love!” – Amanda Flower, author of the Magic Bookshop Mysteries
Hidden Nature
by Nora Roberts
Kindle 14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Natural Resources police officer, Sloan Cooper, and her partner had just taken down three men preying on hikers in the Western Maryland mountains. Driving back, she pulled in at a convenience store—and walked right into a robbery in progress. One gunshot from a jittery thief was about to change her world.
After being shocked back to life on the operating table, she has a long recovery ahead, so she moves back to her parents’ peaceful house in Heron’s Rest. As for the boyfriend who dumped her via text while she was in the hospital, good riddance.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
HOT FLASHES & HOMICIDE
by Patti Petrone Miller
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Three sassy retirees. One dead developer. Zero patience for nonsense.
Welcome to Conch Key, where the sun is hot, the gossip is hotter, and the local beach just coughed up a corpse in Gucci loafers.
Daisy Picklesworth wanted nothing more than a quiet morning, a strong cup of tea, and to finish her mystery novel on the porch of The Barnacle. What she got instead was a bloated real estate mogul dead in the surf, a jellyfish charm that doesn’t belong, and the strong suspicion that someone in their sleepy seaside town just committed the most stylish murder Florida’s ever seen…
A Moment on the Edge
by Elizabeth George
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
“An absolutely first-rate anthology. . . a thoughtful and intelligent paean to crime fiction.” — New York Sun
New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George serves up a century’s worth of superb crime fiction penned by women. This veritable all-star team delivers tales of dark deeds that will keep you reading long into the night.
“Edited by Elizabeth George, the creator of the aristocratic Inspector Lyndley, one of wife’s favorite detectives, the book presents a comprehensive overview of history of mysteries written by female writers. Her choices range from women who are well known, such as Dorothy Sayers, Ruth Rendell and Joyce Carol Oates, to some lesser known writers including Lia Matera and Minette Walters. All are excellent, and they provide a wide variety of examples of the mystery genre.” by Amazon Customer
Remember Me
by Mary Higgins Clark
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Menley Nichols and her husband, Adam, a criminal attorney, rent a house on Cape Cod, in the hope of restoring their faltering marriage. The birth of their daughter, Hannah, has revitalized their relationship, but Menley has never stopped blaming herself for the accidental death of her two-year-old son. The serenity of the Cape promises a new start.
But when they visit Remember House, an eighteenth-century landmark with a sinister past, strange incidents force Menley to relive the accident that killed her son, and she begins to fear for Hannah’s safety…
Bridge to Desert Desire
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Texas Miz Mike regrets the shattered romances scattered through her life like wind-thrashed flower petals. She resolves to end dystopian relationships by outdistancing the mysteries that seem to stalk her even when she is busy minding her own business. Little can she afford another mystery to sweep into her life and separate her from her new love, Scottish Reverend Alan Evan Kirkland, who is already separated from her by the ocean until she receives her United Kingdom Visa. She flees to the Nevada desert to visit an artsy friend, expecting the empty desert to shield her from murder, mystery, and mayhem. The desert proves far from empty and the secrets it guards are deadly.
The Forgotten Child
by Lorhainne Eckhart
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
She didn’t plan on falling in love with a broken man. And he never expected to need her…
When Emily Nelson answers a help-wanted ad for a live-in caregiver on a remote ranch in Washington, she’s just trying to piece her life back together for herself and her young daughter. But nothing prepares her for Brad Friessen—a rugged, brooding cattleman and single father whose silence speaks louder than words.
Brad’s world has been turned upside down by his ex-wife’s abandonment of their non-verbal young son, Trevor. Resentful and angry, Brad doesn’t have time for complications—or the quiet woman who challenges him in ways he never expected. But Emily’s fierce compassion, strength, and unwavering dedication to Trevor begin to tear down the walls Brad has spent years building.
Unnatural Causes
by P.D. James
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Maurice Seton was a famous mystery writer—but no murder he ever invented was more grisly than his own death. When his corpse is found in a drifting dinghy with both hands chopped off at the wrists, ripples of horror spread among his bizarre circle of friends. Now it’s up to brilliant Scotland Yard inspector, Adam Dalgliesh, and his extraordinary aunt to uncover the shocking truth behind the writer’s death sentence, before the plot takes another murderous turn.
Hide
by Lisa Gardner
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
There’s no use locking the doors. . . .
It was the case that nearly killed him. Now a gruesome discovery in an underground chamber is about to resurrect his worst nightmare. And Massachusetts State Police detective Bobby Dodge has only one lead: a young girl who’s been in hiding for as long as she can remember.
There’s no use turning on the light. . . .
Up on the Roof and Other Stories
by Judy Ann Davis
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
“Up on the Roof and Other Stories” is a unique collection of nineteen humorous and serious short stories exploring the lives and relationships of the young and old. Author and Story teller Judy Ann Davis weaves her award-winning tales to make her readers laugh, maybe cry, but always able to relate to the unique characters and the dilemmas they encounter. A grizzled old farmer, Pop, climbs up on his farmhouse roof to meditate, check his chimney and antenna, and ends up talking to God on his portable phone in “Up on the Roof.” In “Bald Revelations,” Maureen is convinced her husband of twenty years is planning to leave her when he purchases ten new pairs of black socks and starts singing Beach Boy songs.
Promises and Politics, Another Murder
by Christa Nardi
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A small town, a murder, a fraternity, and a tangled web of people and politics
When Senator Marcus Thornton is killed at an engagement party in his hometown, amateur sleuth Sheridan Hendley is drawn into the investigation alongside her detective husband. With a reputation for flip-flopping on political issues, Thornton’s death sparks suspicion. Broken promises and hidden agendas lead to many undercurrents.
As Sheridan delves deeper into the case, she uncovers a network of social connections and a history of infidelity that may have played a role in Thornton’s murder. But with so many suspects and conflicting motives, can she piece together the truth? Is the killer’s motive political or personal? Or both?