Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Triple Chocolate Cheesecake Murder
by Joanne Fluke
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Spring has sprung in Lake Eden, Minnesota, but Hannah Swensen doesn’t have time to stop and smell the roses—not with hot cross buns to make, treats to bake, and a sister to exonerate . . .
Hannah’s up to her ears with Easter orders rushing in at The Cookie Jar, plus a festive meal to prepare for a dinner party at her mother’s penthouse. But everything comes crashing to a halt when Hannah receives a panicked call from her sister Andrea – Mayor Richard Bascomb has been murdered . . . and Andrea is the prime suspect.
Judgement Day
by Steve Sheffield
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A sinister cult. A renegade special forces veteran. A deadly race against time.
When special forces veteran Eddie Virgo agrees to rescue a young woman, Casey Bender, from the clutches of a religious cult, he has no idea what he’s getting into. The cult leader, self-appointed prophet Doctor Daniel Nelson, has a small army of fanatical followers who will do whatever he asks. Up to and including murder.
And there are other problems.
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Quicksand
by Iris Johansen
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Returning from Johansen’s New York Times bestselling thriller, Stalemate, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is still reeling from the disappearance of her daughter, Bonnie.
Deciding to take matters into her own hands, she enlists the clairvoyant skills of Dr. Megan Blair to help find her. No strangers to looking for clues where there seem to be none, the two women use their highly specialized talents to hunt down Bonnie’s elusive kidnapper and return her to her mother’s arms. But is Bonnie still alive? Will the two women find her in time?
The Surrogate
by Iain Maitland
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Lucy will carry Sophie’s child. But she does want something in return…
Sophie should be the happiest woman in the world. A good job. A nice home. Best of all, married to Matt, the love of her life.
But there’s one thing she doesn’t have – a baby. She knows that without a child of her own to love, she will never feel complete. This emptiness at the centre of her life is driving her to the edge of madness.
Then Lucy, her best friend forever, comes back to live in their home town – and offers to have a baby for Sophie.
Justice
by Faye Kellerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
It’s Prom Night . . . and the queen is dead.
LAPD Homicide Detective Peter Decker and his wife and confidante Rina Lazarus have a daughter of their own. So the savage murder of a popular high school girl on prom night strikes home . . . very hard.
The cruel and bizarre slaying of a beautiful teen leads Detective Decker into the dark heart of an exotic subculture: the seamy, sometimes violent world of Southern California’s rootless, affluent youth. But even the confession of a disturbed kid with cold “killer eyes” cannot soothe Decker’s inner torment.
A Rule Against Murder
by Louise Penny
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A Rule Against Murder, the fourth book in Louise Penny’s award-winning and critical revered mystery series features the wise and beleaguered Inspector Armand Gamache.
It is the height of summer, and Armand and Reine-Marie Gamache are celebrating their wedding anniversary at Manoir Bellechasse, an isolated, luxurious inn not far from the village of Three Pines. But they’re not alone. The Finney family—rich, cultured, and respectable—has also arrived for a celebration of their own…
Thrill of the Chase
by Lorhainne Eckhart
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
She’s the hometown EMT with everything to lose.
He’s the wealthy outsider with nothing left to prove—except that she’s the one he can’t walk away from.
When Taz Parker, a small-town EMT in rural Wyoming, meets a stranger who stays to help her at the scene of a harrowing roadside accident, she never expects to see him again—let alone find him standing at her parents’ ranch days later. Jerry O’Rourke is a man from a different world—a powerful Denver security mogul with charm, secrets, and a past that casts a long shadow…
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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
by Kate Summerscale
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
The New York Times bestselling account of the real-life murder that inspired the birth of modern detective fiction.
In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all England and led to a national obsession with detection, ironically destroying, in the process, the career of perhaps the greatest detective in the land.
At the time, the detective was a relatively new invention; there were only eight detectives in all of England and rarely were they called out of London, but this crime was so shocking, as Kate Summerscale relates in her scintillating new book, that Scotland Yard sent its best man to investigate, Inspector Jonathan Whicher…
Carved Wooden Heart
by Elizabeth Horton-Newton , Starla Hartless
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
An encounter with a talented native artist, a broken heart, and a knight in shining armor are just the beginning in this passionate erotic romance. Dani Stone never expected to fall in love with carver Jesse Wolf Carver. She certainly didn’t foresee the results of her intense one night stand with the sexy hunk. From the wealth of New York City to a small southern community, follow Dani as she journeys the winding path fate has laid out for her.
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
The Shape Shifter
by Tony Hillerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn is drawn back into the past to solve a cold case that has haunted him for nearly a decade in this atmospheric and twisting mystery infused with the Native American culture and lore of the desert Southwest.
Though he’s officially retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, Joe Leaphorn occasionally helps his former colleagues Jim Chee and Bernie Manuelito crack particularly puzzling crimes.
But there is that rare unsolved investigation that haunts every lawman, including the legendary Leaphorn. Joe still hasn’t let go of his “last case”—a mystery involving a priceless Navajo rug that was supposedly destroyed in a fire…
Maisie Dobbs Bundle #4
by Jacqueline Winspear
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Elegy for Eddie: Incomparable work of intrigue and ingenuity, full of intimate descriptions and beautifully painted scenes from between the World Wars, from one of the most highly acclaimed masters of mystery, Jacqueline Winspear.
Leaving Everything Most Loved: The year is 1933. Maisie Dobbs is contacted by an Indian gentleman who has come to England in the hopes of finding out who killed his sister two months ago. Scotland Yard failed to make any arrest in the case, and there is reason to believe they failed to conduct a thorough investigation.
Payback in Death
by J. D. Robb
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Lt. Eve Dallas is just home from a long overdue vacation when she responds to a call of an unattended death. The victim is Martin Greenleaf, retired Internal Affairs Captain. At first glance, the scene appears to be suicide, but the closer Eve examines the body, the more suspicious she becomes.
An unlocked open window, a loving wife and family, a too-perfect suicide note—Eve’s gut says it’s a homicide. After all, Greenleaf put a lot of dirty cops away during his forty-seven years in Internal Affairs. It could very well be payback—and she will not rest until the case is closed.
A Conjuring of Ravens
by Azalea Ellis
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In a world where magic is a science, Siobhan is a genius. But even geniuses need schooling. When Siobhan stumbled into the theft of a priceless magical book, she thought her dreams of becoming the world’s most powerful sorcerer were destroyed. But then a mysterious spell changed her life forever…
Siobhan is now wearing the body of a strange man and has a new identity—Sebastien. With a new chance for a new start, she allies herself with a local gang—secretly a revolutionary party funding itself through crime. Now, she is bound by vow to repay them in magic and favors.
Second Foundation
by Isaac Asimov
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION
The Foundation lies in ruins—destroyed by a mutant mind bent on humanity’s annihilation. But it’s rumored that there’s a Second Foundation hidden somewhere at the end of the Galaxy, established as insurance to preserve the knowledge of mankind. Now a desperate race has begun between the survivors of the First Foundation and an alien entity to find this last flicker of humanity’s shining past—and future hope. Yet the key to it all might be a fourteen-year-old girl burdened with a terrible secret. Is she the Foundation’s savior—or its deadliest enemy?
House of Decay
by Boris Bacic
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
There’s something wrong with the house.
The road trip was meant to be a farewell. One last adventure before their friend leaves for college. But when a game of truth or dare leads them into the abandoned house across the road, the night turns into a fight for survival. The house isn’t empty. Something is inside. And it never allows its visitors to leave.
The Reckoning
by James Byron Huggins
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
HAUNTED BY HIS PAST
In a world ruled by the purest survivors, the fiercest warriors, Gage was the strongest—an American executing his country’s darkest missions with legendary cunning and skill. Until, wounded and dying in a scorched wasteland, he found mercy at the hands of an aging priest.
Separated from the secret world he once dominated, he chose a life of exile, pursuing a lonely peace, a solitary faith. Only the murder of his mentor and the mysterious theft of an ancient manuscript can compel him to emerge from solitude.
Runaway Dragon Mates Boxed Set
by Serena Meadows
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Six brides dressed in white—ready to say, “I do—” discover no other choice but to run away. Fate leads each woman to a hot and irresistible alpha dragon shifter—who wants to protect his one and only. But when the ex-fiancé shows up for revenge, it’s a bloody battle…in the name of love.
“A good read. I loved how the stories flowed from one story to the other story. The characters were well described. My favorite are the dragons. I would recommend this to others to read” by Amazon Customer
Deep Storm
by Lincoln Child
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
On an oil platform in the middle of the North Atlantic, a terrifying series of illnesses is spreading through the crew. When expert naval doctor Peter Crane is flown in, he finds his real destination is not the platform itself but Deep Storm: a top secret aquatic science facility, two miles below on the ocean floor. And as Crane soon learns, the covert operation he finds there is concealing something far more sinister than a medical mystery—and much more deadly.
In the Lady’s Heart
by JoMarie DeGioia
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Lady Sara Maxwell is on her way to wed Baron Clay Beverley. She hasn’t seen him since they were children, and when she mistakes his younger brother Jordan for her betrothed, she’s smitten.
Jordan meets his brother’s bride-to-be and is seized with desire. He’s never met a woman like her, seemingly soft-spoken but with eyes sparking with fire. Despite his loyalty to his brother, he can’t deny his attraction…