Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Cinco de Mayhem
by Ann Myers
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Tres Amigas Café chef Rita Lafitte is busy baking her green chile soufflés and chocolate flans for Cinco de Mayo. If only her friend Linda, the daughter of Rita’s octogenarian boss Flori, could get into the festive spirit. Linda’s cart, Tia Tamales, is losing business to Crepe Empire, the hottest food cart in Santa Fe. Napoleon, Crepe Empire’s owner, is a pompous, celebrity chef who wants to squeeze out the competition. But when Linda gets into a heated argument with Napoleon and his corpse is later found stabbed and pinned beneath the wheels of her tamale cart, she becomes the number one suspect.
All the Beautiful Lies
by Peter Swanson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Harry Ackerson has always considered his stepmother Alice to be sexy and beautiful, in an “otherworldly” way. She has always been kind and attentive, if a little aloof in the last few years.
Days before his college graduation, Alice calls with shocking news. His father is dead and the police think it’s suicide. Devastated, Harry returns to his father’s home in Maine. There, he and Alice will help each other pick up of the pieces of their lives and uncover what happened to his father.
Sunstroke
by Jesse Kellerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
When she’s told that Carl has died in a car accident, it’s Gloria who tries, to no avail, to track down the next of kin or a copy of Carl’s will. And it’s Gloria, heartbroken, who finally decides to journey across the border herself to retrieve his body.
But the deeper into the desert she travels, the more shocking the discoveries she makes. About Carl. About herself. And about how elusive and dangerous the truth can be.
Jack Reacher Never go back
French Edition by Lee Child
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Des déserts glacés du Dakota du Sud à son ancien bureau de la 110e unité de police de WashingtonDC, la route est longue et semée d’embûches, mais après bien des péripéties et avoir expédié au tapis deux individus qui lui conseillaient de filer s’il ne voulait pas être traduit en cour martiale, Reacher, intrigué et séduit, pousse enfi n la porte du bureau de celle dont il ne connaît pourtant que la voix, le major Susan Turner. Et là, surprise: il tombe sur un commandant Morgan qui l’informe que «le major Susan Turner n’est plus là». Et qu’il est, lui, accusé d’avoir tué un dénommé Rodriguez il y a seize ans de ça.
Pendant ce temps, un certain «Romeo» appelle un certain «Juliet» pour suivre pas à pas les faits et gestes de Reacher. Ils savent qu’il va tout faire pour retrouver Susan Turner.
The Boston Strangler
by Gerold Frank
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
On June 14, 1962, twenty-five-year-old Juris Slesers arrived at his mother’s apartment to drive her to church. But there was no answer at the door. When he pushed his way inside, Juris found Anna Slesers dead on the kitchen floor, the cord of her housecoat knotted tightly around her neck.
Over the next two years, twelve more bodies were discovered in and around Boston: all women, all sexually assaulted, and all strangled. None of the victims exhibited any signs of struggle, nothing was stolen from their homes, and there were no signs of forcible entry. The police could find no discernable motive or clues. Who was this madman? How was he entering women’s homes? And what insanity was driving him?
The Undertaker’s Daughter
by Debra Webb
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Dr. Rowan DuPont and the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department are hunting a serial killer. All the victims have one thing in common–they could be Rowan’s twin, except her twin sister is dead.
Rowan grew up in a funeral home, surrounded by death, so her keen insights into homicide cases seldom fall short of the mark. Though growing up as the undertaker’s daughter made her acutely aware of life and all its frailties, she is only human. Will her one mistake in this shocking case be her last one?
A Fistful of Winter
by Frank Wheeler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A classic western novel from Frank Wheeler with non-stop epic adventure and a blend of western romance
Jonah Munroe has lost everything. His brother. His badge. His life as he knew it. But there’s one thing he refuses to lose: his niece and nephew.
Eliza Langford is running from a past that won’t let her go. Widowed and driven off her land by a ruthless debt collector, she’s crossing the Montana wilderness with her teenage son, hoping to find safety on the other side.
Tales of Tara
by Tara Shen
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A Riveting Memoir That Reads Like A Psychological Thriller
Tara’s life is unraveling. Divorcing her violent husband while caring for her dying mother, she’s forced to confront the horrors of her past—horrors her therapist suggests go far beyond what she remembers.
As Tara delves into repressed memories, she discovers that abuse by her grandfather was only the beginning. With the support of a caring therapist and survivor community, Tara unearths a long history of dark secrets, hidden family truths, and unimaginable betrayals.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Cat Breaking Free
by Shirley Rousseau Murphy
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
In this cozy mystery, a talking cat and his four-legged friends investigate cat trappers and murder in smalltown California.
The fur starts flying—the fur of Joe Grey, Feline P.I., that is—when a gang from L.A. comes up to tranquil Molena Point, California, and begins breaking into the village’s quaint shops. After all, Molena Point has been his home since he was a kitten eating scraps from the garbage behind the local delicatessen, and he doesn’t take well to marauding strangers. Joe even wonders whether the blonde who’s moved in next door to human companion Clyde could be a part of the gang—she’s been acting pretty suspicious lately.
Time Pilgrims: The Complete Trilogy
by Dennis Higgins
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Time Pilgrims features a blend of fantasy, action, humor, and romance.Time Pilgrim, Katya is a strong, independent young woman plagued with a condition known as temporal amnesia. She can’t remember what year she is from and is trying desperately to locate her family. Because of Katya’s time displacement and amnesia, she has not matured beyond the age of twenty-two.
She becomes a sponge in every time period she visits, soaking up the culture and instantly becoming one with the period. Beautiful Time Pilgrim, Cathy Callahan found love at the most unexpected time and place…1906 in the San Francisco Earthquakes. The trouble is she fell in love 110 years before she was born. Could her best friend Dawn, keep her from staying in the past?
Life Support
by Tess Gerritsen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The quiet overnight shift at Springer Hospital ER suits Dr. Toby Harper just fine—until she admits a man in critical condition from a possible viral infection of the brain. The delirious man barely responds to treatment—and then disappears without a trace. Before Toby can find him, a second case occurs, revealing a terrifying fact: the virus can only be spread through direct tissue exchange. Following a trail of death that winds from a pregnant sixteen-year-old prostitute to her own home, Toby discovers the unthinkable: the epidemic didn’t just happen—someone let it loose….
The Orion Protocol
by Gary Tigerman
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Project Orion. It’s a revolutionary space-based defense shield, only weeks away from deployment. Promising global protection from missile attack by rogue nations, Orion offers an “umbrella” of security to a terror-stricken world. But even the loftiest aims often conceal darker intentions. Behind closed doors, insiders maneuver to control the new superweapon with an agenda that places all mankind at risk.
When Angela Browning, an ambitious journalist, receives a mysterious computer disk from an anonymous source, she can’t believe the information it contains: photos of ancient structures on the planet Mars. But after diligent research, Angela discovers that the images originated from the Mars Observer probe, a satellite declared “lost” over a decade before.
Instruments of Night
by Thomas H. Cook
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Mystery writer Paul Graves, a man with a painful past, has come to an artists’ retreat in New York’s quiet, picturesque Hudson Valley. But his purpose for being there is not a pleasant escape. He’s been tasked with something more unusual.
Long ago, when Riverwood was a private estate, a teenage girl was murdered there—a crime that remains unsolved to this day. Now the victim’s elderly mother is dying, and her final wish is to learn what happened to her daughter. For the sake of this grieving woman, Graves has been asked to craft a story that answers her questions and provides a sense of closure. But he may have to choose between truth and kindness . . .
Strawberry Shortcake Murder
by Joanne Fluke
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Intrepid amateur sleuth and bakery owner Hannah Swensen finds herself judging a baking contest where the competition is really murder in this cozy culinary mystery for fans of Jenn McKinlay, Ellie Alexander, Laura Childs and Kate Carlisle.
When the president of Hartland Flour chooses cozy Lake Eden, Minnesota, as the spot for their first annual Dessert Bake-Off, Hannah is thrilled to serve as the head judge. But when a fellow judge, Coach Boyd Watson, is found stone-cold dead, facedown in Hannah’s celebrated strawberry shortcake, Lake Eden’s sweet ride to fame turns very sour indeed.
Manner of Death
by Robin Cook
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In the new fast-paced medical thriller from bestselling author Robin Cook, fan favorites Jack and Laurie are inadvertently drawn into a dangerous vortex of a series of homicides that have been cleverly staged as suicides.
After Dr. Jack Stapleton’s near-death confrontation with a medical serial killer, his wife, NYC Chief Medical Examiner Laurie Montgomery, is carrying the load both at work and at home. When Laurie insists that Dr. Ryan Sullivan—an underperforming senior pathology resident who is spending his required month at the medical examiner’s office but who truly detests doing forensic autopsies—assist her on a suicide autopsy in hopes of stimulating his interest in the field, the last thing she expects is to be unwittingly drawn into a major conspiracy that puts her own life in jeopardy.
The Photographer
by William Black
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Stone Tobin’s life on the frontier has never been short of hazards. But nothing can keep him from what’s important: caring for his adopted son, Clyde.
After years of supporting himself and Clyde through his talents of wet-plate photography, Stone’s sense of justice takes them off the beaten path when he and Clyde stumble upon a woman in deep trouble.
Hazel Allen. Soon after learning of her husband’s role in her parents’ untimely deaths, she was abducted by an outlaw gang.
There’s a steep reward for her return – but her powerful husband, Wesley, hopes she’s killed before she can reveal his secret life and implode his sinister ambitions.