Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Royally Dispatched Trilogy Boxed Set
by P. C. James, Kathryn Mykel
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A Duchess, her trusted butler and a nose-it-all furry sidekick.
London, 1958-1959
Lady Mary, Duchess of Snodsbury, has been Royally Dispatched to oversee the final preparations of London’s debutantes. Learning about the mysterious death of their previous trainer sets the stage for high-stakes danger and delightful mayhem. Can the debutantes help Lady Mary uncover the truth, or will they find the killer among them?
In Royally Whacked, Mary accepts an invitation for a summer of leisure—only to find herself caught in a web of deception and murder. The debutantes must put their newly acquired sleuthing skills to the test. Will they unmask the culprit, or have they finally met their match?
Blood Trail
by JT Sawyer
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
In the mountains of northern California, every shadow hides a killer.
Former CIA operative Kyle Payne is enjoying a motorcycle trip along the West Coast when he’s wrongly arrested for murder in the small town of Absynth, California. After being cleared, he wants to help journalist Eva Daly, sister of the murder victim, to find her brother’s killer.
Their investigation leads them to a sinister agricultural facility where they uncover an international conspiracy to destroy Europe’s food supply.
A ruthless drug kingpin provides security for the operation, and a team of elite German mercenaries eliminates anyone who gets too close to the truth.
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The Devil’s Bones
by Jefferson Bass
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The secrets about violent murder are investigated at . . . The Body Farm
A burned car sits on a Tennessee hilltop, a woman’s charred body in the driver’s seat. Forensic anthropologist Bill Brockton’s job is to discover the truth hidden in the fire-desecrated corpse. Was the woman’s death accidental . . . or was she incinerated to cover up her murder?
But his research into the effect of fl/ame on flesh and bone is about to collide with reality like a lit match meeting spilled gasoline…
Beneath the Bleeding
by Val McDermid
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The residents of Bradfield are devastated when their star midfielder dies, the victim of a bizarre, seemingly motiveless murder. In a hospital, recovering from injuries, criminal profiler and psychologist Dr. Tony Hill struggles to make sense of the fragments of information he can gather in order to help his ally, Detective Chief Inspector Carol Jordan, bring a killer to justice. Then an explosion rips through a soccer stadium, leaving dozens dead and many more injured, and Jordan finds herself pushed to the margins of the investigation by the intelligence services…
Light It Up
by Nick Petrie
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In this action-packed thriller starring war veteran Peter Ash, a well-planned and flawlessly executed hijacking reveals the hidden dangers of Colorado’s mellowest business, but Ash may find there’s more to this crime than meets the eye.
Combat veteran Peter Ash leaves a simple life rebuilding hiking trails in Oregon to help his good friend Henry Nygaard, whose daughter runs a Denver security company that protects cash-rich cannabis entrepreneurs from modern-day highwaymen. Henry’s son-in-law and the company’s operations manager were carrying a large sum of client money when their vehicle vanished without a trace, leaving Henry’s daughter and her company vulnerable.
Confessions of a Murder Suspect
by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
On the night Malcolm and Maud Angel are murdered, Tandy Angel knows just three things: 1. She was the last person to see her parents alive. 2. The police have no suspects besides Tandy and her three siblings. 3. She can’t trust anyone-maybe not even herself. As Tandy sets out to clear the family name, she begins to recall flashes of experiences long buried in her vulnerable psyche. These memories shed light on her family’s dark secrets, and digging deeper into her powerful parents’ affairs proves to be a disturbing and dangerous game. Who knows what any of the Angels are truly capable of?
A Talent for Murder
by Peter Swanson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A newlywed librarian begins to suspect the man she married might be a murderer—in this spectacularly twisty and deviously clever novel by Peter Swanson, New York Times bestselling author of The Kind Worth Killing and Eight Perfect Murders.
Martha Ratliff conceded long ago that she’d likely spend her life alone. She was fine with it, happy with her solo existence, stimulated by her work as a librarian in Maine. But then she met Alan, a charming and sweet-natured salesman whose job took him on the road for half the year. When he asked her to marry him, she said yes, even though he still felt a little bit like a stranger…
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
The Burnside Body Snatcher
by G.G. Morris
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 3.9 #ad
The residents of Portland’s charming Alphabet District are horrified when the neighborhood’s favorite auntie goes missing–on the day of her funeral! Soon, other prominent citizens are meeting nasty ends and bodies are vanishing like pies on windowsills.
When the boondoggling detective fails to provide the terror-stricken community with answers, amateur sleuth Wanda Whipple steps up to the plate. But the disturbing clues quickly lead her down a sinister path involving an enigmatic cult and a frightening legend from the Alphabet District’s shadowy past. Will Wanda uncover the identity of the Burnside Body Snatcher, or will she become the killer’s next victim?
The Crisis
by T.O. Paine
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 3.9 #ad
The Crisis is a breakneck thrill ride — a guaranteed action-packed international conspiracy thriller.
She wants to quit smoking. He wants to start a nuclear war. They both want the girl with the cryptic tattoo.
Stuck working at a backwater convenience store in the middle of northern Florida, Mattie longs for a cigarette. She longs for her days as a marine biologist at the Queen Aquarium down south. She longs for her best friend—Hank the Manatee. Her colleagues blamed her for his death, and now, she blames herself. She should have done something sooner…
The Other Girl
by Erica Spindler
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A horrific crime. One witness – a fifteen year old girl from the wrong side of the tracks, one known for lying and her own brushes with the law. Is it any surprise no one believed her?
Officer Miranda Rader of the Harmony, Louisiana PD is known for her honesty, integrity, and steady hand in a crisis—but that wasn’t always so. Miranda comes from the town of Jasper, a place about the size of a good spit on a hot day, and her side of the tracks was the wrong one. She’s worked hard to earn the respect of her coworkers and the community…
The Jade Stone Sleuth
by Cami Checketts
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
A security operative navigating his first job. A charitable angel accused of murder. Can Brex discover the truth about the jade stones or will he be the next victim?
Brexten Cabella, a suave but insecure detective trying hard to prove himself, has been hired for his first big job as a security op for the elite Aiden Porter. The case is intriguing–get close to seemingly innocent Clara Gem and prove that she is responsible for the “accidental” death of her three boyfriends with no clues other than a mysterious jade stone at the site of each fatality…
First Spells
by Renata Riva
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A dark tale of witches, ghosts and magic.
Vianne’s life has never been normal. She sees ghosts and she has an affinity for magic. Now that she’s twelve, her magic is getting stronger and her life is about to get even stranger — and more dangerous. Vianne has been raised by her single mum, Andrea, and knows very little of her other relatives. What she does know is that her mother is terrified by her witch sister, Suzanne. When Vianne’s grandmother becomes seriously ill, Andrea wants to be reunited with her mother, but this is the occasion Aunt Suzanne has been waiting for. Vianne must learn about magic fast, but she has only a cat and a ghost to help her.
The Last Juror
by John Grisham
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In 1970, Willie Traynor comes to Clanton, Mississippi, in a Triumph Spitfire and a fog of vague ambitions. Within a year, the twenty-three-year-old finds himself the owner of Ford County’s only newspaper, famous for its well-crafted obituaries. While the rest of America is in the grips of turmoil, Clanton lives on the edge of another age—until the brutal murder of a young mother rocks the town and thrusts Willie into the center of a storm.
Daring to report the true horrors of the crime, Willie makes as many friends as enemies in Clanton, and over the next decade he sometimes wonders how he got there in the first place. But he can never escape the crime that shattered his innocence or the criminal whose evil left an indelible stain…
The Bone Thief
by Jefferson Bass
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The latest Body Farm novel from New York Times bestseller Jefferson Bass, The Bone Thief is a must for fans of Patricia Cornwell and TV’s C.S.I. The hero of four previous thrillers—Carved in Bone, The Devil’s Bones, Flesh and Bone, and Bones of Betrayal—Dr. Bill Brockton must stop a grisly black market dealing in body parts and cadavers in this white-knuckle adventure written by the man widely considered to be the world’s foremost expert in forensic anthropology. Read The Bone Thief and discover why Kathy Reichs calls Bass, “The real deal.”