Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Death in Small Measures
by Gerald Hansen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A terminal illness wasn’t quick enough. It was one drink too many for 72-year-old Evelyn Guilfoyle, found poisoned the morning after a raucous party. But the woman would have been dead in a few months anyway. Why the hurry…?
Family, friends and neighbors had crammed into the tiny back garden pub that night. Too many suspects, one clever killer. Could this be a case DI Liam McLaughlin and his ragtag team from the Major Investigation Team will never solve?
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Tell No Lies
by Gregg Hurwitz
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Daniel Brasher left a high-paying job as a money manager to marry his community-organizer wife and do the work he loves, leading group counseling sessions with recently paroled ex-cons. Now he’s about to start a private practice. But just before his last day on the job, Daniel finds an envelope in his department mailbox—one intended for someone else that was placed in his slot by accident. Inside it is an unsigned piece of paper, a note that says only “admit what you’ve done or you will bleed for it.” along with a midnight deadline…which has passed. And the person to whom the envelope was addressed was found brutally murdered…
Wreck
by Shawn Luther
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Five seemingly unrelated stories become entwined during the course of a single night in this climactic novella. It all starts when Darya and her boyfriend Brian witness a man being held at gunpoint on the side of the highway. Despite Brian’s protests, Darya follows the perpetrator, determined to stop him somehow. The chase ensues until events begin to spiral out of control, mistakes are made, and people are forced to choose who lives and who dies.
A suspenseful thriller as well as an intimate character study, Wreck investigates a day in the life of five ordinary individuals who don’t always realize their presence in other’s lives. Short but effective, this book will have you clinging to each page.
Holly
by Stephen King
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Holly Gibney, one of Stephen King’s most compelling and resourceful characters, returns in this chilling “exploration of grief and delusion, just pure undistilled evil” (New York magazine) as she uncovers the truth behind multiple disappearances in a midwestern town.
When Penny Dahl calls the Finders Keepers detective agency, hoping for help locating her missing daughter, Holly Gibney is reluctant to accept the case. Her partner, Pete, has Covid. Her (very complicated) mother has just passed away. And Holly is meant to be on leave. But something in Penny’s desperate voice makes it impossible to turn her down.
Seduction in Death
by J. D. Robb
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
From #1 New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb comes a tantalizing novel in the futuristic In Death series, as Detective Eve Dallas searches for a Casanova killer with a deadly appetite for seduction…
Dante had been courting his victim in cyberspace for weeks before meeting her in person. A few sips of wine and a few hours later, she was dead. The murder weapon: a rare, usually undetectable date-rape drug with a street value of a quarter million dollars…
The Midnight Caller
by Kayla Lowe
Kindle $4.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
Ten years ago, a string of disappearances shook the small town of Harbor Point. The crimes were never solved. Now, a chilling midnight caller is haunting the town’s residents, whispering secrets from the past and leaving a trail of fear in his wake.
Detective Celeste Harrington has built her career on faith, justice, and an unshakable resolve. When eerie phone calls link to unsolved crimes from a decade ago, she refuses to let fear cloud her judgment. But as the midnight calls grow more sinister, she knows she’s running out of time…
MK’s Detective Club
by James Patterson, Keir Graff
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
James Patterson has just created the most spine-tingling, creepy-crawling, giggle-producing kid’s detective club ever. That’s ever.
Living in the luxurious Arcanum building—with its interior balconies perfect for playing tag, an elevator like an iron birdcage, and quirky neighbors behind every apartment door—has always been fun and games for twelve-year-old Minerva Keen … until her neighbors start getting poisoned. Anyone could be next, and everyone is a suspect, including Minerva herself…
This page-turning new mystery series is packed with chills, thrills, laughs, and unforgettable characters and will leave kids eager to join the best club around.
Talking God
by Tony Hillerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
From New York Times bestselling author Tony Hillerman, Talking God is the ninth novel featuring beloved characters Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Office Jim Chee
Reunited by a grave robber and a corpse, Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn is trying to determine the identity of a murder victim, while Officer Jim Chee is arresting Smithsonian conservator Henry Highhawk for ransacking the sacred bones of his ancestors…
The Devil’s Scars
by Marysol James
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Six years ago, Zoe Parish fled Denver, declaring to never again have anything to do with motorcycle club guys. A horrifying, horrific experience in a bar back room showed her that they’re lower than scum, and Zoe swore to never trust one of those animals to get close to her again. But that was before she became responsible for a baby girl, and before her oldest friend, Wolf Connor, President of The Road Devils MC, begged for her help. Wolf promised her that his club was ‘out of the life’, and that she’d be completely safe… and so Zoe has returned to Denver to work with one of the Road Devils’ businesses. She’s wary, angry, defensive, untrusting, suspicious…
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
The Fallen Man
by Tony Hillerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Human bones lie on a ledge under the peak of Ship Rock mountain, the remains of a murder victim undisturbed for more than a decade. Three hundred miles across the Navajo reservation, a harmless old canyon guide is felled by a sniper’s bullet.
Joe Leaphorn, recently retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, believes the shooter and the skeleton are somehow connected and recalls a chilling puzzle he was previously unable to solve. But Acting Lieutenant Jim Chee is too busy to take an interest in a dusty cold case . . . until the reborn violence of it hits much too close to home.
Beware the Midnight Train
by Anna Faversham
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
If you were offered a dream cottage in an English country village and it was dirt cheap, would you go ahead without viewing it? Perhaps you would if you had walked out on a no-good two-timing whatsit and had nowhere else to go. Even 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…are you sure you’re doing the right thing?
It’s the 1970s and Ellie attempts to make a new life for herself ignoring the gossip about ghosts and disappearing people. Boring? She’ll never be called that again and I think you’ll agree with her…
The Girl Once Known
by R.M. Demeester
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
After a violent hit-and-run shatters Mira Harris’s life, she finds herself at a crossroads.
Before the accident, Mira, haunted by a childhood shaped by dysfunction and the recent return of her estranged father, has always sought order to cope. Her relationship with Joseph Oliver, a young man with a troubled past, provided a semblance of balance. But now, with her trust broken and her body battered, to find out who wanted to harm her, she must peel back layers of lies, confronting not just the driver’s identity but the very fabric of her childhood.
As the truth inches closer, Mira and those closest to her face a reality more daunting than her injuries. Is uncovering the truth worth the risk and the personal cost not only to Mira but also to those closest to her?
Blue Labyrinth
by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
When a longtime enemy shows up dead on Pendergast’s doorstep, the murder investigation leads him into his own dark past as a vengeful killer waits in the shadows.
It begins with murder. One of Pendergast’s most implacable, most feared enemies is found on his doorstep, dead. Pendergast has no idea who is responsible for the killing, or why the body was brought to his home. The mystery has all the hallmarks of the perfect crime, save for an enigmatic clue: a piece of turquoise lodged in the stomach of the deceased.
The gem leads Pendergast to an abandoned mine on the shore of California’s Salton Sea, which in turn propels him on a journey of discovery deep into his own family’s sinister past.
The Joe Hill Collection
by Joe Hill
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Heart-Shaped Box,
20th Century Ghosts,
Horns,
NOS4A2
Get four bone-chilling novels of psychological and supernatural suspense from New York Times bestselling author Joe Hill in one e-book, including: Heart-Shaped Box, 20th Century Ghosts, Horns, and NOSA2. Each publication of Hill is beautiful textured, deliciously scary, and greeted with the sort of overwhelming critical acclaim that is rare for works of skin-crawling supernatural terror. Read on if you dare to see what all the well-deserved hoopla is about.
In Too Deep
by Lee Child, Andrew Child
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
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Reacher had no idea where he was. No idea how he had gotten there. But someone must have brought him. And shackled him. And whoever had done those things was going to rue the day. That was for damn sure.
Jack Reacher wakes up alone, in the dark, handcuffed to a makeshift bed. His right arm has suffered some major damage. His few possessions are gone. He has no memory of getting there.
Seeking Glory
by Patricia Hamilton Shook
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Life is never static. Just when you think you finally have everything under control, that illusion is shattered…and the life you once knew has spun off in unimaginable directions.
Kate LaRue is a divorced, successful co-owner of an art and gift store on Cape Cod whose current life has been largely peaceful, well ordered and without undue daily stress. That is, until she receives a phone call saying her long-missing daughter Ally is seriously ill in a hospital in California. After Ally dies with her mother by her side, Kate assumes custody of Glory, the four-year-old granddaughter she never knew she had; however, she soon discovers that Glory is selectively mute and seemingly traumatized.
Name Your Price
by Joe R Eagleman
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
“Name Your Price” said the Hollywood Lawyer to Professor Eagleman when he called back for the second time to entice him to come to Universal Studios for a trial. Joe Eagleman, tells in this autobiography about this unique experience as well as many other captivating aspects of his journey from a kid on the farm to a professor in demand in Hollywood.
Doctor Eagleman’s early education was in a one-room rural grade school. His invention of an artificial tornado that extended from the ceiling of his laboratory at the University of Kansas resulted in local interest as well as international filming from a news crew from Japan. It later became the subject of a lawsuit between Universal Studios in Hollywood and the Volvo Company.