Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
The Writer
by James Patterson, J. D. Barker
Kindle $5.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
NYPD Detective Declan Shaw gets a call: How fast can you get to the Beresford building on Central Park West?
In the tower apartment, Shaw finds a woman waiting for him. She’s covered in blood. A body is lying dead on the floor of the luxurious living room.
Every book in the apartment’s floor-to-ceiling shelves is by the same author: bestselling true-crime writer Denise Morrow. “This is you?” Shaw asks the woman. “You’re a writer?”
The Trigger Man
by Aiden Bailey
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
He’s a good guy who kills bad guys for a living.
CIA operative Mark Pierce is a trained killer with a strict moral code – he only targets those who truly deserve to die. So he has no qualms about taking out Victor Vautrin, an international arms dealer supplying fanatical terrorists in West Africa who may soon trigger a brutal civil war.
But when he is tasked with other objectives – rescue kidnapped tourists, recover eleven million dollars of stolen CIA money – it quickly becomes clear to Pierce that someone doesn’t want him to succeed in his primary mission.
One to Go
by Mike Pace
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
What would you pay for a short re-wind?
Tom Booker is a new attorney at a powerful Washington law firm. Texting while driving across Memorial Bridge, he loses control and crashes into an oncoming minivan carrying his own daughter and three of her friends. The minivan tips up on two wheels, about to flip over into the Potomac. Time freezes, he’s alone on the bridge. A young couple approaches and offers him a re-wind. The crash would be averted, the children saved. All he must do is kill someone every two weeks – anyone – for a soul exchange. A moment later, Tom is back in his spinning car, but averts the deadly crash. He laughs about the hallucination, attributing it to bumping his head on the steering wheel when his car came to an abrupt stop…
The 6:20 Man
by David Baldacci
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A cryptic murder pulls a former soldier turned financial analyst deep into the corruption and menace that prowl beneath the opulent world of finance, in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller from David Baldacci.
Every day without fail, Travis Devine puts on a cheap suit, grabs his faux-leather briefcase, and boards the 6:20 commuter train to Manhattan, where he works as an entry-level analyst at the city’s most prestigious investment firm. In the mornings, he gazes out the train window at the lavish homes of the uberwealthy, dreaming about joining their ranks. In the evenings, he listens to the fiscal news on his phone, already preparing for the next grueling day in the cutthroat realm of finance. Then one morning Devine’s tedious routine is shattered by an anonymous email: She is dead…
Win
by Harlan Coben
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Over twenty years ago, the heiress Patricia Lockwood was abducted during a robbery of her family’s estate, then locked inside an isolated cabin for months. Patricia escaped, but so did her captors — and the items stolen from her family were never recovered.
Until now. On the Upper West Side, a recluse is found murdered in his penthouse apartment, alongside two objects of note: a stolen Vermeer painting and a leather suitcase bearing the initials WHL3. For the first time in years, the authorities have a lead — not only on Patricia’s kidnapping, but also on another FBI cold case — with the suitcase and painting both pointing them toward one man…
Lady in the Lake
by Laura Lippman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
The revered New York Times bestselling author returns with a novel set in 1960s Baltimore that combines modern psychological insights with elements of classic noir, about a middle-aged housewife turned aspiring reporter who pursues the murder of a forgotten young woman.
In 1966, Baltimore is a city of secrets that everyone seems to know—everyone, that is, except Madeline “Maddie” Schwartz. Last year, she was a happy, even pampered housewife. This year, she’s bolted from her marriage of almost twenty years, determined to make good on her youthful ambitions to live a passionate, meaningful life…
Unseen (with bonus novella “Busted”)
by Karin Slaughter
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Will Trent is a Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent, working undercover in Macon, Georgia, posing as Bill Black, a scary ex-con who trails an air of violence wherever he goes. The cover has worked and he has caught the eye of a wiry little drug dealer who thinks he might be a useful ally.
But there’s a problem. Cut off from the support of the woman he loves, Sara Linton, Will finds his demons catching up with him.
Eight Wishes
by Cas Caldicott
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A heartfelt story of fresh starts, emotional journeys, and unforgettable friendships
Sometimes life’s greatest transformations begin when everything falls apart.
Emerson Bailey thought she had it all figured out. At forty, the CEO of a booming fashion tech company finds her carefully constructed world crumbling: a devastating heartbreak, crushing personal loss, and a corporate success that leaves her feeling emptier than ever.
Faced with an uncertain future, Emerson embarks on an audacious quest inspired by a childhood memory—to create extraordinary experiences for the people who matter most. From breathtaking escapes to deeply personal journeys, each adventure becomes a step toward healing.
Northern Lights
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
As a Baltimore cop, Nate Burke watched his partner die on the street—and the guilt still haunts him. With nowhere else to go, he accepted the job as Chief of Police in a tiny, remote Alaskan town with the hopes of starting over. Despite the name, Lunacy provides a balm for Nate’s shattered soul—and an unexpected affair with pilot Meg Galloway warms his nights…
But other things in Lunacy are heating up. Nate suspects the killer in an unsolved murder still walks the snowy streets. His investigation will unearth the secrets and suspicions that lurk beneath the placid surface, as well as bring out the big-city survival instincts that made him a cop in the first place…
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
The Mysterious Case of the Missing Motive
by Michele PW
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Or maybe a gin and tonic.
Emily Hildebrandt has run into a bit of a rough patch. She’s lost her job, her fiance and her apartment. Still, she never expected to be desperate enough to accept an invitation to live with her eccentric Aunt Tilde in Redemption, Wisconsin.
But, beggars can’t be choosers. Even if part of the deal is she has to pretend to work at her aunt’s latest hair-brained scheme, The Redemption Detective Agency. Seriously, the woman is a retired nurse. Why does she think she’s remotely qualified to run a detective agency, especially in a creepy little town like Redemption?
While You Were Gone
by Mark Gillespie
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
She thinks she’s found the perfect house sitter. She’s wrong.
When Angie and Dan are offered a last-minute vacation, they jump at the chance. All they need is someone to care for their pets and home while they’re gone. When warm, reliable Martha Hunt steps in, she seems like the perfect house sitter.
But when the couple returns home early, their dream holiday turns into a chilling nightmare. The house is in chaos and they have no choice but to fire Martha on the spot. That should have ended it. Instead, it unleashes something far more sinister. Because Martha isn’t done with them yet—and what she wants is far worse than revenge.
Home Is Where the Bodies Are
by Jeneva Rose
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
From New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Marriage and You Shouldn’t Have Come Here comes a chilling family thriller about the (sometimes literal) skeletons in the closet.
After their mother passes, three estranged siblings reunite to sort out her estate. Beth, the oldest, never left home. She stayed with her mom, caring for her until the very end. Nicole, the middle child, has been kept at arm’s length due to her ongoing battle with a serious drug addiction. Michael, the youngest, lives out of state and hasn’t been back to their small Wisconsin town since their father ran out on them seven years before.
Eat What You Kill
by Ted Scofield
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Evan Stoess is a struggling young Wall Street analyst obsessed with fortune and fame. A trailer park kid who attended an exclusive prep school through a lucky twist of fate, Evan’s unusual past leaves him an alien in both worlds, an outsider who desperately wants to belong. When a small stock he discovers becomes an overnight sensation, he is poised to make millions and land the girl of his dreams, but disaster strikes and he loses everything.
Two years later a mysterious firm offers Evan a chance for redemption, and he jumps at the opportunity. His new job is to short stocks—to bet against the market…
Conclave
by Robert Harris
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
“Pulsates with intrigue. . . . Ambition, sex scandals, financial corruption and terrorism all rear their ugly heads. And Harris saves one whopper of a surprise for the final pages.” – USA Today
The pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, one hundred and eighteen cardinals from all over the globe will gather to cast their votes in the world’s most secretive election. They are holy men. But they are not immune to the human temptations of power and glory. And they are not above the tribalism and factionalism that consumes humanity. When all is said and done, one of them will become the most powerful spiritual figure on Earth.
Deep Tide
by Laura Griffin
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
An undercover FBI agent and a coffee shop owner who values her independence must team up when a local barista is found dead in their coastal Texas town in this new romantic thriller from New York Times bestselling author Laura Griffin.
With two brothers on the police force, Leyla Breda is well aware of the rising crime in her small beach town, but she never expected it to show up on her doorstep. When Leyla finds one of her employees murdered in the alley behind her coffee shop, she’s deeply shaken, and as a new law enforcement officer in town begins to circle her place of business, her instincts only sharpen.
Magic Hour
by Kristin Hannah
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Women comes an incandescent story about the resilience of the human spirit, the triumph of hope, and the meaning of home.
In the rugged Pacific Northwest lies the Olympic National Forest—nearly a million acres of impenetrable darkness and impossible beauty. From deep within this old growth forest, a six-year-old girl appears. Speechless and alone, she offers no clue as to her identity, no hint of her past…
Threat Warning
by John Gilstrap
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A hostage rescue specialist is on the trail of a homegrown terrorist organization in this thriller by the New York Times bestselling author.
When a cult-like paramilitary group decides to make its deadly presence known, the first victims are random. Ordinary citizens going about their lives in Washington, D.C., are suddenly fired upon at rush hour by unseen assassins. Caught in the crossfire of one of the attacks, rescue specialist Jonathan Grave spies a gunman getting away—with a mother and her young son as hostages.