Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Death on the Rhine
by Vivian Conroy
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.31 #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.
Sensuous Angel
by Heather Graham
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Her best friend in danger, a young woman’s search for her will take her into the dark heart of New York’s criminal underground—and into the arms of an unlikely hero.
The lovely heiress to an olive oil empire, Donna Miro is gravely worried about her best friend, Lorna, who seems to be missing. Having traveled to New York to find the missing Lorna, Donna finds herself trapped in the city’s seedy underbelly—until an unexpected man comes to her aid. Father Luke Trudeau, the most unusual priest she has ever met, has the mouth of a sailor and the brawn to go with it. Luke offers Donna help, and he seems to know things about the city—and the dangerous people in it—that might lead them to Lorna.
Coyote Wind
by Peter Bowen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
First in the crime-fiction series set in the modern-day west, starring a half-French, half-Indian “character of legendary proportions” (Ridley Pearson).
Officially, Gabriel Du Pré is the cattle inspector for Toussaint, Montana, responsible for making sure no one tries to sell livestock branded by another ranch. Unofficially, he is responsible for much more than cows’ backsides. The barren country around Toussaint is too vast for the town’s small police force, and so, when needed, this hard-nosed Métis Indian lends a hand. When the sheriff offers gas money to investigate newly discovered plane wreckage in the desert, Du Pré quickly finds himself embroiled in a mystery stretching back a generation.
The McBain Brief: Stories
by Ed McBain
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A collection of twenty short stories from the legendary crime author and creator of the 87th Precinct series.
Ed McBain was one of the most admired and prolific crime writers of the twentieth century. His long-running 87th Precinct series helped define the gritty police procedural. In The McBain Brief, he presents a series of short stories where desperation, greed, and violence lead to bad ends.
A collector who loves his porcelain more than his daughter; a hooker who melts the heart of a tough cop; an ex-fighter who goes berserk at Christmas; an automobile dealer out for a funny business ride.
Cross Down
by James Patterson , Brendan DuBois
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
For the first time, John Sampson is on his own.
The brilliant crime-solving duo of Washington, DC’s, Metro PD and the FBI has a proven MO: Detective Alex Cross makes his own rules. Detective John Sampson enforces them.
When military-style attacks erupt, brutally sidelining Cross, Sampson is sent reeling. The patterns are too random—Sampson’s friend, his partner, his brother—have told him. Don’t trust anyone.
The Hunting Grounds
by Charly Cox
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
When Jennie Killingbeck goes missing while driving back to Albuquerque, Detective Alyssa Wyatt and the squad quickly swing into action to bring her home, alive.
But the case takes a darker turn when FBI Agent Ryker Newlin walks into their precinct. For the past six years, the FBI have been searching for a killer dubbed ‘The Sunset Slayer’ for their M.O. of brutally murdering young red-haired women, mutilating them with an ‘X’ across their lips.
Giap
by James A. Warren
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
An in-depth look at the strategy and tactics of the visionary commander who beat the United States in the Vietnam War—includes maps and photos.
General Vo Nguyen Giap was the commander in chief of the communist armed forces during two of his country’s most difficult conflicts—the first against Vietnam’s colonial masters, the French, and the second against the most powerful nation on earth, the United States. After long and bloody efforts, he defeated both Western powers and their Vietnamese allies, forever changing modern warfare.
Orson Deadeye
by William Black
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Orson “Deadeye” Cain survived the noose once. Cottonridge may test him again.
Twenty-three years ago, sharpshooter Orson rode into a burning ranch and rode out branded a murderer. He saved a child from the flames and disappeared before the law could hang him.
Now, older and carrying a damaged gun hand, Orson drifts into Cottonridge, Arizona, where irrigation headgates decide who eats and who starves. A disciplined outlaw gang strikes canals and freight lines with precision. Each attack is followed by Federal Marshal Frank tightening his grip, claiming order while seizing control of the valley’s water.
Float Don’t Lie
by Ralph Hecht
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A gritty, emotional, high-stakes story about a woman, a dead wash, and a river that kept its promises. If you love raw characters, impossible geology, and wins that are earned in dust and blood — you’re not putting this down.
The Mojave takes everything, water, time, hope but Mara Castillo walks into the Searchlight Nevada wash anyway. Broke, blistered, and desperate to save her mother’s home, she finds gold where none should exist, gem stones, a strange color glowing in dead ground, and signs of a buried river that may change everything.
Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep
by Paul Tremblay
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Meet Julia Flang, a twenty-something former semi-professional gamer, living with her retired uncle, and working two jobs she doesn’t like. Out of the blue, her estranged mother, a CFO for one of the world’s largest tech companies, offers her a temp job with a payday Julia can’t refuse. One sham interview later, she’s offered the job: to chaperone a man in a vegetative state—one with proprietary AI implanted in his head—from California to the East Coast.
To sum up in Julia’s own words: “You want me to remote control this dead dude across the country.” In a word, yes. But he’s not dead dead.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Snowdonia Killings
by Simon McCleave
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Starting a new life in Snowdonia was always DI Ruth Hunter’s dream. Until a twisted killer turned it into her worst nightmare.
Detective Inspector Ruth Hunter lives with the pain of her partner’s mysterious and unsolved disappearance. About to hit fifty, the veteran police officer trades in the crime-ridden streets of London for a more peaceful life in rural North Wales. But Ruth has barely settled into her new position in North Wales Police, when the body of a brutally murdered woman is discovered…with strange symbols carved into her skin. Teaming up with an obstinate deputy, Ruth struggles to eliminate anyone from a long line of suspects…
Beware the Midnight Train
by Anna Faversham
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
If you were offered a dream cottage in an English country village and it’s dirt cheap, would you be tempted? Ellie is, especially as she has nowhere else to go after walking out on her no-good two-timing ex. It’s a good start – the neighbours are great, bit strange perhaps. And the dishy local vicar declares himself willing to help day or night. Night? And what’s this talk about a mysterious Midnight Train? Has she done the right thing?
It’s the 1970s and Ellie attempts to make a new life for herself and ignores the village gossip about ghosts and disappearing people. The ex called her boring but from now on she’ll never be called that again and I think you’ll agree with her. Travel in style on the Midnight Train and see where it takes you.
Into the Water
by Diane Fanning
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
The true crime story of how the nice guy next door became one of America’s most wanted serial killers, by the author of Written in Blood and Bitter Remains.
She was young, terrified, and still bound in handcuffs when she was found on the street screaming for help . . .
To authorities she spilled the shocking details of a night of horror. It was the lead they’d been desperate for in a multi-state manhunt for an elusive serial killer. Where the witness took them was to the last man anyone would have suspected.
Richard Marc Evonitz was beloved by friends and family. He was handsome, intelligent, and compassionate. Serving a spotless eight years in the U.S. Navy, he was a town hero who lived in harmony in an exclusive South Carolina neighborhood.
Her Latest Disappearance Complete Series
by Jacie Middlemann
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
She escaped a hideous crime…and now had to deal with an even bigger threat.
It seemed as if no matter what she did or where she ran, it was only to find herself facing another disastrous situation.
Actually, she’d mostly walked after just barely escaping the guy who planned to kidnap her…or a worst crime she didn’t want to think about. It had been a long and harrowing trip to her personal small town USA…definitely not her idea of a fun vacation.
But from the very beginning, she’d felt certain that if she could just get to her little house in Burlington she’d be safe. She thought she was so smart.
Heretic of the Federation Complete Series
by Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
You cannot murder a person who never existed.
John Dunn fled into a radioactive wasteland, seeking death rather than work in the Regime.
What he learns changes humanity forever.
Get this complete series and learn who the Regime is trying to hide, for now, and will kill if she returns.
Note: This should be read after the Witch of the Federation series.
Fatal Complications
by John Benedict
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
When a colleague’s patient suffers a bizarre reaction in the operating room, Luke Daulton, a newly minted anesthesiologist, volunteers to help. Despite the surgical team’s best efforts, the patient succumbs to a rare anesthetic complication. Luke becomes perplexed, even suspicious, over their inability to save the woman. Is it possible that the diagnosis was wrong? Or, worse yet, was the diagnosis faked? Luke even wonders if his boss Dr. Katz is involved.
Too busy with the rigors of new job and his pending fatherhood, Luke is forced to put his suspicions on hold. When his wife Kim faces a C-section, his fears are reignited.
Life with Less of Me
by Julianna Brumes
Kindle Bargain Rating: 5.0 #ad
From afar, Julie’s formative years looked perfect.
A father with a good, steady job. A stay-at-home mother who loved to read. A spacious yard filled with toys and games for her and her two siblings. Yet for those who looked just a little closer, Julie’s house was the one the neighbors whispered about, the place on the block that parents didn’t want their kids to visit.
The front door of Julie’s home hid dysfunction, abuse, alcoholism, neglect, and fear. Her father’s blind selfishness, Jekyll-and-Hyde moods, and fists that left bruises on his wife dominated the home, inflicting daily trauma on the family…
Not What It Seems
by Lisa Jackson
Kindle $9.18 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
The stone is small and round, easy to miss among the junk surrounding Billy Huber’s body. The man was a hoarder for sure. At first, police assume he fell from a ladder, injuring his throat and smashing his head in the process. Only on closer inspection do they see the polished stone nearby, with a number on one side etched in blood, and a strange symbol on the other.
Reporter Nikki Gillette seizes on the story and visits Huber’s sprawling property in Georgia’s low country. She gains little except the uneasy feeling of being watched…