Monday’s Mystery eBooks
The Cornish Castle Murder
by Fiona Leitch
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The time has finally come for former Met police officer Jodie ‘Nosey’ Parker to wed her fiancé DCI Nathan Withers, But their long-anticipated wedding doesn’t quite go to plan…
As their guests descend on a luxurious Cornish castle for a weekend of pre-wedding activities, the happy couple look forward to spending time with friends and family. But celebrations grind to a halt when an arrow flies off-course during the archery session, and they find the body of a young woman floating face down in an ornamental pond…
Scarpetta
by Patricia Cornwell
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
IN DEVELOPMENT AS THE ORIGINAL SERIES SCARPETTA STARRING NICOLE KIDMAN AND JAMIE LEE CURTIS
Leaving behind her private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta accepts an assignment in New York City, where the NYPD has asked her to examine an injured man on Bellevue Hospital’s psychiatric prison ward. The handcuffed and chained patient, Oscar Bane, has specifically asked for her, and when she literally has her gloved hands on him, he begins to talk—and the story he has to tell turns out to be one of the most bizarre she has ever heard…
Moment of Violence
by George Harmon Coxe
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A lawyer travels to Barbados to protect an old friend from a swindle
David Payne is only twelve hours from vacation when he gets the fateful summons. Professor John Alison, David’s mentor and most prominent client, needs him to go to Barbados—and if he doesn’t tread carefully, he may not return. David is charged with checking on a beachfront property owned by the professor—which an unscrupulous rat named Mike Ludlow is trying to swindle away. The professor is too tired to fight, but his daughter has other ideas. She has snuck away to Barbados, and she’s brought the professor’s gun. David Payne’s job is to stop the bloodshed before it starts—but he might not get there in time.
Prior Bad Acts
by Tami Hoag
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag returns with a thriller that begins with a shocking crime scene you’ll never forget and follows two relentless detectives on a manhunt that ends in a chilling confrontation with the essence of human evil.
It was a crime so brutal, it changed the lives of even the most hardened homicide cops. The Haas family murders left a scar on the community nothing can erase, but everyone agrees that convicting the killer, Karl Dahl, is a start. Only Judge Carey Moore seems to be standing in the way. Her ruling that Dahl’s prior criminal record is inadmissible raises a public outcry—and puts the judge in grave danger…
Undead Dawn
by Matthew Doggett
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Cooper Kane is the last guy you’d bet on to survive the zombie apocalypse.
When the bombs fell, Kane’s carefree life of fast cars, fast women, and even faster getaways came to a screeching halt.
Now, Phoenix has transformed into a nightmare where the dead don’t stay dead, and Kane’s only concern is saving his mother from the heart of this hellscape.
But the road out of the city is paved with the living dead. With the help of his tougher-than-she-looks mother, a crotchety old sniper, a foul-mouthed mentor, and a blonde bombshell with secrets of her own, Kane fights to get out of Phoenix…
Winter’s Child
by Margaret Maron
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
It’s one month after their wedding, and the future looks bright for Judge Deborah Knott and Sheriff Deputy Dwight Bryant – until a disturbing call from Dwight’s eight-year-old son Cal calls him back to Virginia. When he arrives, he is shocked to find that his ex-wife has left the boy alone for almost twenty-four hours. Worse, as Dwight tries to confront her, she takes the child and leaves town without a word. As Dwight embarks on an all-points search, Deborah hurries to his side. But will they be able to work together to decipher the ex-wife’s motives—and, more importantly, will they find young Cal before he comes to harm?
Odessa Sea
by Clive Cussler, Dirk Cussler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Dirk Pitt is caught up in a dangerous and thrilling mystery on the murky waters of the Black Sea . . .
As Director of the National Underwater and Marine Agency, Dirk Pitt has always had a knack for finding trouble. This time, though, trouble has found him . . .
On a NUMA mission to the Black Sea to locate the wreck of a lost Ottoman Empire ship, Pitt and his friend Al Giordino respond to an urgent Mayday from a nearby freighter. By the time they reach the ship there’s no one left alive – just dead bodies and the smell of sulphur in the air. When a massive blast from the stern suddenly scuttles the ship, Pitt and Giordino are lucky not to be added to the death toll.
The Killing Hills
by Chris Offutt
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A veteran on leave investigates a murder in his Kentucky backwoods hometown in this Appalachian noir by the acclaimed author of Country Dark.
Mick Hardin, a combat veteran and Army CID agent, is home on a leave to be with his pregnant wife—but they aren’t getting along. His sister, newly risen to sheriff, has just landed her first murder investigation—but local politicians are pushing for someone else to take the case. Maybe they think she can’t handle it. Or maybe their concerns run deeper.
With his experience and knowledge of the area, Mick is well-suited to help his sister investigate while staying under the radar…
Fire on the Horizon
by Wilbur Smith
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
South Africa, 1899 – the smouldering hostility between the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State and the British colonies of the Cape and Natal is about to burst into flame. War is coming and no one can prevent it. Colonel Penrod Ballantyne, hero of Abu Klea and Omdurman, is sent to Mafeking, ‘the place of stones’, to recruit and train men for the fighting ahead. Amber, his wife, the successful novelist, accompanies him – eager to see more of the country her husband is about to risk his life for. But when war is declared, Amber must flee with their baby son and pray for her husband’s survival against impossible odds.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
The Skull Beneath the Skin
by P.D. James
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Actress Clarissa Lisle has always been famous for her ravishing beauty—and her unscrupulous manipulations. Now on the death-shrouded island of Courcy, her schemes win her a starring role in a nightmare in which she can trust no one—not her deceived husband; her dangerously insecure stepson; her ominously genial host; her dependent, desperate cousin; or her cruelly amusing ex-lover. Soon Detective Cordelia gray finds that nothing is as it seems on Courcy—especially after the curtain goes down. Here she must delve into ancient secrets and guilt-stained pasts—and risk her life to stop a brilliantly cunning murderer who has set the stage for her death.
OFF GRID
by J. P. Redding
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In the wake of a global calamity, the economy collapses. The Feds respond by wielding every power of the Welfare State to control the populace. A key tool is PivPal, an indispensable smartphone used to track citizens. As civil liberties crumble, resistance is relegated to flyover country whose residents—derided as off-gridders—cling to the time-honored virtues of freedom, self-reliance, and charity. Against this backdrop, Jenny Hernandez struggles to keep her rural church community nourished and safe. Hiding from the Feds, a team of inventors, and Jenny’s ex, arrive to complete the amazing plasma drive. They bring hope, but also the watchful eye of Big Brother. With the authorities closing in, local law enforcement must choose sides…
Best Kept Secrets
by Sandra Brown
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Lawyer Alexandra Gaither revisits the three men who were with her mother the night she died twenty-five years ago. None of their charms can stop Alex’s determined search for the truth–she’s not leaving without one of them being arrested and convicted.
When Alex’s investigation uncovers decades-old intrigues, someone decides she must be stopped. Now, with a one-month deadline to either wrap up the case or drop it for good, Alex must work diligently to catch her mother’s killer–and find a way to stay alive.
Four Steps Missed
by Luana Ehrlich
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
CIA covert operative Titus Ray is used to keeping secrets. This time, it’s different.
This time, he’s keeping secrets from his boss, his handler, and his wife.
Operation False Flag is the secret Titus is keeping from his boss . . . While his boss, Deputy Director of Operations, Robert Ira, would ordinarily be aware of any operation being run out of the Agency, this mission concerns the DDO himself, a mission that could cost him his job.
The whistleblower behind the operation is the secret Titus is keeping from his handler . . . Even though his handler, Douglas Carlton, has been tasked with directing Operation False Flag, he has no idea Titus knows the identity of the whistleblower who gave the Inspector General the files that set the operation in motion.
The operation itself is the secret Titus is keeping from his wife . . .
Deep Water
by Paul Heatley
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
When you can’t trust the law, you make your own.
Former black ops specialist Tom Rollins is trying to live a quiet life in Newark when his friend Dennis witnesses a brutal crime. Reporting it to the police only puts them in greater danger – the lead detective is in the pocket of a powerful and ruthless family – The Penneys.
They have money, influence, and a deadly secret tied to their pharmaceutical empire – and they’ll kill to protect it.
Now Tom, Dennis and Tom’s girlfriend are on the run, with no one to trust and nowhere to hide. Outnumbered and outgunned, Tom must rely on every lethal skill he has to keep them alive – and to take the Penneys down, no matter the cost.
Savage Run
by C. J. Box
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett uncovers a conspiracy in this explosive novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.
When a massive blast rocks the forests of Twelve Sleep County, Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett is called to the scene to help investigate the death of a colorful environmental activist. The case is wrapped up quickly, explained as an environmental publicity stunt gone wrong, but Joe isn’t convinced. He soon discovers clues that suggest a deadly conspiracy–one that will test his courage, his survival skills, and his determination to “do the right thing” despite all costs.
Read Between the Crimes
by Annalisa Russo
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Chicago 1927. Can love blossom when you meet over a dead body?
Against her affluent family’s wishes, Elise MacMillan leaves her privileged life, and finally lands a paying job as a stenographer. She and her two new friends—a budding actress and a British writer of penny dreadfuls—find a decent place to live with her recluse uncle and madcap scientist, Archibald Lemon, in his sprawling mansion. Her life is the frog’s eyebrows now, but unfortunately, Elise ends up in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Widower and CPD detective, Luca Cipriano, has his hands full of family responsibilities and doesn’t need an alluring female and her two friends digging into his baffling new case. But there is one little problem to his growing attraction…Elise MacMillan is one of his primary suspects.
Deep Black: Dark Zone
by Stephen Coonts, Jim DeFelice
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A missing A-bomb and a terrorist threat ignite a global crisis in the New York Times–bestselling author’s technothriller.
In a secluded headquarters on the other side of the globe, terrorists plan to set-off an underwater explosion of such hellish force that it could shift the very foundation of the earth’s surface. Envisioning world-wide disaster, the terrorists call it God’s Revenge.
A nuclear warhead has gone missing. Small in size, it packs up to ten times the kilotons that exploded over Hiroshima. It’s now in the wrong hands, ready to detonate a world war of unfathomable proportions.
Dog Logic
by Tom Strelich
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
“I laughed my tail off right up to the very last page, which I read in a local cemetery for just the right ambience. Hats off to you Tom Strelich.” –Tom McCaffrey, author of The Claire Saga
That dystopian future they always warned us about? It turns out we’re already in it.
Hertell Daggett isn’t what he used to be-he’d once been married, he’d once been a physicist, and he’d once been shot in the head. The doctors got the bullet out, but a few tiny specks of copper stayed behind, floating inside his brain, connecting parts that aren’t connected in the rest of us, filaments of species memory going back to the beginning of time. He remembers the yodeling sound of dinosaurs and the rubbery smell of trilobites…
Shifter Wolves of Pleasant Valley Collection
by Serena Meadows
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
A small Texas town is bursting with secrets, deceptions…and forbidden relationships with the enemy. When a wolf shifter sets eyes on his one and only–there’s no turning back. He’ll do anything to protect the woman that brings him to his knees. Book 1: Moving to a new town and falling for the enemy was not my plan. My dangerous ex led me to Pleasant Valley. One that I needed protection from. Little did I know that my wolf shifter enemy would be the one to save my life… CLICK above to read more!