Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Then She Was Gone
by Lisa Jewell
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
From the New York Times bestselling author of Invisible Girl and None of This Is True comes a “riveting” (PopSugar) and “acutely observed family drama” (People) that delves into the lingering aftermath of a young girl’s disappearance.
Ellie Mack was the perfect daughter. She was fifteen, the youngest of three. Beloved by her parents, friends, and teachers, and half of a teenaged golden couple. Ellie was days away from an idyllic post-exams summer vacation, with her whole life ahead of her. And then she was gone.
Say When
by N. Gemini Sasson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
A second chance at life — and love.
Sooner isn’t the perfect dog, but she’s finally found the perfect home with owner Brandy Anders — until one tragic day when life goes from hopeful to hopeless.
Grayson Darling has never believed in fate; he’s just down on his luck for now. Recently divorced, downsized, and soon to be without a home, his move to Faderville is supposed to be temporary. All he has to do is sell his uncle’s farm, then he can return to success and civilization in New York City. The farm he inherited, however, comes with unforeseen responsibilities…
Carved in Bone
by Jefferson Bass
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Renowned anthropologist Dr. Bill Brockton has spent his career surrounded by death at the Body Farm. Now he’s being called upon to help solve a baffling puzzle in a remote mountain community. The mummified corpse of a young woman dead for thirty years has been discovered in a cave, the body bizarrely preserved and transformed by the environment’s unique chemistry. But Brockton’s investigation is threatening to open old wounds among an insularpeople who won’t forget or forgive. And a long-buried secretprematurely exposed could inflame Brockton’s own guilt—and the dangerous hostility of bitter enemies determined to see himfail . . . by any means necessary.
Bethlehem Road
by Anne Perry
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In the few minutes it takes to cross Westminster Bridge, Sir Lockwood Hamilton has his throat slit and is tied securely to the lamppost with his evening scarf. The killer then vanishes without being seen. Inspector Thomas Pitt thinks the motive might have been personal . . . or political. When a second Member of Parliament is murdered in the same way, politics appear to be the reason. Soon the suspect list includes anarchists and suffragettes. Public outrage mounts and fear grips London and Parliament after a third lamppost murder. Deep in his end of the investigation, Pitt must rely on his wife, Charlotte, and Great-aunt Vespasia to explore the drawing rooms of the upper class for clues to the mystery.
The Hard Way
by Lee Child
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Jack Reacher was alone, the way he liked it, soaking up the hot, electric New York City night, watching a man cross the street to a parked Mercedes and drive it away. The car contained one million dollars in ransom money because Edward Lane, the man who paid it, would do anything to get his family back.
Lane runs a highly illegal soldiers-for-hire operation. He will use any tool to find his beautiful wife and child. And Jack Reacher is the best manhunter in the world.
Devil’s Corner
by Lisa Scottoline
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
New York Times bestselling author Lisa Scottoline delivers a knockout stand-alone thriller featuring a young federal prosecutor who risks her life to bring down the kingpin of a conspiracy responsible for murders in West Philly.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Vicki Allegretti goes to meet a confidential informant and finds herself facing a loaded 9 mm Glock semiautomatic weapon, wielded by a panicky teenager. Violence is the last thing this neophyte lawyer expects. The case is easy, the kind given to new ADAs to help them cut their teeth. Yet almost before she has time to react, her partner is dead, shot in the chest…
Only If You’re Lucky
by Stacy Willingham
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.9 #ad
A sharp and twisty exploration of female friendship from the New York Times bestselling author of A Flicker in the Dark and All the Dangerous Things.
Lucy Sharpe is larger than life. Magnetic, addictive. Bold and dangerous. Especially for Margot, who meets Lucy at the end of their freshman year at a liberal arts college in South Carolina. Margot is the shy one, the careful one, always the sidekick and never the center of attention. But when Lucy singles her out at the end of the year, a year Margot spent studying and playing it safe, and asks her to room together, something in Margot can’t say no—something daring, or starved, or maybe even envious.
Blood Debt
by Ian Loome
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Former black ops assassin Bob Singleton is on the road and on the run, an open CIA contract on his head. He rolls into New Orleans to visit a dead comrade’s mother and finds himself neck-deep in a neighborhood battle.
A biker gang is blockbusting – scaring people from their homes so they’ll be forced to sell them cheap. A casino boss needs the land, and he doesn’t care who his thugs hurt to get it.
Bob isn’t going to stand by while innocent people are victimized. He brings his lethal skills to bear and soon the bikers realize they have a real fight on their hands.
Blood Moon
by Sandra Brown
Kindle $14.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
In this sexy thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown, an unruly detective and an ambitious TV show producer work against the clock to prevent another young woman from disappearing before the next blood moon—while trying to resist the attraction between them.
Detective John Bowie is one misstep away from being fired from the Auclair Police Department in coastal Louisiana. Recently divorced and slightly heavy-handed with his liquor, Bowie does all that he can to cope with the actions taken (or not taken) during the investigation of Crissy Mellin, a teenage girl who disappeared more than three years prior. But now, Crisis Point, a long-running true crime television series, is soon to air an episode documenting the unsolved Mellin case. Bowie has been instructed by his unscrupulous boss to keep to his grievances and criticisms over the mishandling of the investigation to himself.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Uncle John’s True Crime
by Bathroom Readers’ Institute
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A collection of strange-but-true crime tales featuring cops, lawyers, and some very unusual suspects…
The fact-finding folks at Bathroom Readers’ Institute have rounded up the best cops-and-robber articles we’ve ever done, plus a rogues’ gallery of new offenders. You’ll read about dumb crooks and criminal masterminds, mafia henchmen and low-level goons, ancient warriors and Old West gunslingers, crazed cops and jovial judges, and even a few loony lawyers and crooked Wall Street types. Find out about…
Broken Harbor
by Tana French
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
On one of the half-abandoned “luxuryˮ developments that litter Ireland, Patrick Spain and his two young children have been murdered. His wife, Jenny, is in intensive care. At first, Scorcher thinks itʼs going to be an easy solve, but too many small things canʼt be explained: the half-dozen baby monitors pointed at holes smashed in the Spainsʼ walls, the files erased from the familyʼs computer, the story Jenny told her sister about a shadowy intruder slipping past the houseʼs locks…
Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War
by P. W. Singer
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
What Will World War III Look Like?
Ghost Fleet is a page-turning imagining of a war set in the not-too-distant future. Navy captains battle through a modern-day Pearl Harbor; fighter pilots duel with stealthy drones; teenage hackers fight in digital playgrounds; Silicon Valley billionaires mobilize for cyber-war; and a serial killer carries out her own vendetta. Ultimately, victory will depend on who can best blend the lessons of the past with the weapons of the future. But what makes the story even more notable is that every trend and technology in book—no matter how sci-fi it may seem—is real.
The White House Connection
by Jack Higgins
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A silver-haired assassin stalks the streets of Manhattan. She’s killing her way through a list of targets: members of a secret IRA faction known as the Sons of Erin. While she’s only killed four so far, there’s more at stake than a few lives . . .
These murders can topple two governments – and destroy the Irish peace process. Sean Dillon, a former IRA terrorist-turned-mercenary, and Blake Johnson, head of a clandestine White House department, are recruited to stop her before all hell breaks loose. And they better hurry. There are only three names left on the assassin’s list…
Heads Will Roll
by Josh Winning
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Willow’s worst nightmare was being canceled. But the shadows in the woods of Camp Castaway might destroy more than her reputation.
After sitcom star Willow tweets herself into infamy and stumbles blind-drunk into a swimming pool, her agent ships her off to Camp Castaway. Nestled deep in upstate New York, Castaway is a summer camp for adults who are desperate to leave their mistakes behind. No real names, no phones . . . no way to call for help…
The Vejay Haskell Mysteries
by Susan Dunlap
Kindle $0.75 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A special three-in-one edition of Susan Dunlap’s Vejay Haskell Mysteries, about an intrepid meter reader who solves the crimes that the police can’t crack
An Equal Opportunity Death,
The Bohemian Connection,
The Last Annual Slugfest
“Dunlap’s police procedurals have the authenticity of telling detail.” —The Washington Post Book World
The Watchman
by Robert Crais
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
At last, the enigmatic partner of Elvis Cole (The Two Minute Rule) takes center stage in this pulse-racing thriller. When Joe Pike is charged with safeguarding a wealthy heiress, he discovers protecting the sole witness to a crime is nothing compared to protecting an LA party girl from her own self-destruction…
Larkin Conner Barkley lives like the City of Angels is hers for the taking. Young and staggeringly rich, she speeds through the city during its loneliest hours, blowing through red after red in her Aston Martin as if running for her life. Then suddenly she sees another car’s metal-on-metal explosion of a terrible accident and, dazed, finds herself the single witness in a secret federal investigation.
Eamon
by Martha Roo
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Have you ever been minding your own business at work and then were stabbed, and started leaking magic?
Willow Jenkins is about to find out that was her best day that week.
Family secrets, old grimoires, dragons in Texas, taco trucks, portals through keyholes, a search for a lost love, and finding out you’re on the most wanted list of an evil empire.
That gets her to Thursday.