Monday’s Mystery eBooks
The Stranger in the Library
by Eva Gates
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
When a traveling show of impressionist art comes to Nags Head, North Carolina, librarian Lucy and the staff at the Bodie Island Lighthouse Library are inspired to create an educational display about art history. Their launch of the display is a huge success, but the morning after, they discover that a reproduction of a famous painting has gone missing.
No one knows why anyone would bother stealing it: the picture is of no value–the real, priceless painting is under lock and key at the art show itself. Lucy gets an invite to the glitzy opening night for the real show, where she notices unusual tension among the show’s organizers. Then, the man scheduled to give the welcoming speech fails to arrive, and a party-goer is discovered drowned in a fish pond.
Raised by Wolves
by James Patterson, Emily Raymond
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The police are called to stop two teens ransacking a small-town grocery store. They have no identification. And they won’t speak a word. And the small town of Kokanee Creek is suddenly plunged into a sinister mystery that only #1 bestseller James Patterson could have written.
Two teens appear out of nowhere, ransacking a small-town grocery and attacking the police officers who come to investigate. Their clothes are torn and filthy, their hands and bare feet callused, they have fangs. They’re sister and brother, alone against the world. Where did they come from? Raised by wolves, they say.
Edge of Dark Water
by Joe R. Lansdale
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
May Lynn is a pretty girl who dreams of becoming a Hollywood star. Until her dead body is dredged up from the Sabine River.
Sue Ellen, May Lynn’s strong-willed teenage friend; her pals Terry and Jinx; and Sue Ellen’s mother set out to dig up May Lynn’s body, burn it to ash, and take those ashes to Hollywood. If May Lynn can’t become a star, at least her remains can be spread in the land of her dreams.
Shepherds
by J. Drew Brumbaugh
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Olga is a genetically altered “shepherd” born to live at sea herding factory tuna. She lives with her two shipmates aboard a submersible raft in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Toivo is an independent fisherman who, along with two dolphins, struggles to make a living catching what few wild tuna are left. The two of them should never have met. But, someone is killing shepherds and fate pushes Olga and Toivo to join forces just to stay alive. Together they must outwit heavily armed drug smugglers bent on killing anyone who gets in their way. The nonstop action hurtles toward a startling conclusion that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
The Theory of Death
by Faye Kellerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Now living in upstate New York, former LAPD lieutenant Peter Decker is plunged into a bizarre web involving academia, underworld crime, and calculating killers in this compulsive novel in New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman’s beloved Decker and Lazarus series.
Former LAPD lieutenant Peter Decker is relishing the quiet and slow pace of his new job with the Greenbury police department. The work is low stress and engaging, and it’s been almost a year since the last murder in this sleepy upstate New York town…
Once Upon A Dragon Wish
by Adrienne Woods
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The only thing Elena Watkins wants is a normal life. One where she doesn’t have to move every three months or be the new student at school. She will love a friend or two as well.
But when the weird, complex, hotness on legs, Blake Leaf, enrolled a few weeks later at Falmouth High, Elena struggles to keep the walls she builds around herself from falling. The guy seems to only have eyes for her, and she doesn’t know why. Until the truth reveals that he and his father are there to take her home, to a land of magic, fairytales and dragons.
The 24th Hour
by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
SFPD Sergeant Lindsay Boxer, Medical Examiner Claire Washburn, Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano, and crime writer Cindy Thomas gather at one of San Francisco’s finest restaurants to celebrate exciting news: Cindy is getting married.
Before they can raise their glasses, there’s a disturbance in the restaurant. A woman has been assaulted. Claire examines the victim. Lindsay makes an arrest. Yuki takes the case. Cindy covers it. The legal strategy is complicated by gaps in the plaintiff’s memory—and the shocking reason behind her ever-changing testimony.
Don’t Tell
by Mary Stone, Matt Giegerich
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
I don’t trust anyone. Not after my dad abandoned me. Not after the toxic affair with my high school teacher. Not after the attack that nearly killed me. And definitely not after the lies I’ve told—to myself and others.
For twelve years, I’ve buried my secrets, trying to live the perfect suburban life. I’m married to a wonderful man, and I have a rewarding career at Camp Wildfire—a sanctuary for troubled teens nestled on the edge of a sprawling forest. Life looks good on the surface, but one crack and it could all fall apart.
Turns out, that crack has a name. Amanda.
The Stranger in Her House
by John Marrs
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
A stranger has infiltrated your family…and now he’s taking over.
Paul’s just here to help, or so he claims—sent by a charity for vulnerable people to do odd jobs for elderly widow Gwen. But for Gwen’s daughter Connie, there’s just something about Paul that rings alarm bells from day one. He’s a little too kind, a little too involved…Worse still, Gwen seems to have fallen under his spell.
The last thing Connie wants is a stranger meddling in the safe routine she’s built around Gwen. She loves being the one Gwen turns to for cooking, cleaning and company…
The Woman in Cabin 10
by Ruth Ware
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Reminiscent of a classic whodunit, this “pulse-quickening” (Oprah Daily) instant New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller follows a journalist searching for a missing woman on a cruise ship—a woman that everyone else insists doesn’t exist.
Travel magazine writer Lo Blacklock has just been given the assignment of a lifetime: one week on a luxury cruise with only a handful of cabins. The sky is clear, the waters calm, and the elite guests jovial as the exclusive cruise ship, the Aurora, begins her voyage in the picturesque North Sea.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Triple Chocolate Cheesecake Murder
by Joanne Fluke
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Spring has sprung in Lake Eden, Minnesota, but Hannah Swensen doesn’t have time to stop and smell the roses—not with hot cross buns to make, treats to bake, and a sister to exonerate . . .
Hannah’s up to her ears with Easter orders rushing in at The Cookie Jar, plus a festive meal to prepare for a dinner party at her mother’s penthouse. But everything comes crashing to a halt when Hannah receives a panicked call from her sister Andrea – Mayor Richard Bascomb has been murdered . . . and Andrea is the prime suspect.
Judgement Day
by Steve Sheffield
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A sinister cult. A renegade special forces veteran. A deadly race against time.
When special forces veteran Eddie Virgo agrees to rescue a young woman, Casey Bender, from the clutches of a religious cult, he has no idea what he’s getting into. The cult leader, self-appointed prophet Doctor Daniel Nelson, has a small army of fanatical followers who will do whatever he asks. Up to and including murder.
And there are other problems.
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(Zero Hour)
Quicksand
by Iris Johansen
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Returning from Johansen’s New York Times bestselling thriller, Stalemate, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is still reeling from the disappearance of her daughter, Bonnie.
Deciding to take matters into her own hands, she enlists the clairvoyant skills of Dr. Megan Blair to help find her. No strangers to looking for clues where there seem to be none, the two women use their highly specialized talents to hunt down Bonnie’s elusive kidnapper and return her to her mother’s arms. But is Bonnie still alive? Will the two women find her in time?
The Surrogate
by Iain Maitland
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Lucy will carry Sophie’s child. But she does want something in return…
Sophie should be the happiest woman in the world. A good job. A nice home. Best of all, married to Matt, the love of her life.
But there’s one thing she doesn’t have – a baby. She knows that without a child of her own to love, she will never feel complete. This emptiness at the centre of her life is driving her to the edge of madness.
Then Lucy, her best friend forever, comes back to live in their home town – and offers to have a baby for Sophie.
Justice
by Faye Kellerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
It’s Prom Night . . . and the queen is dead.
LAPD Homicide Detective Peter Decker and his wife and confidante Rina Lazarus have a daughter of their own. So the savage murder of a popular high school girl on prom night strikes home . . . very hard.
The cruel and bizarre slaying of a beautiful teen leads Detective Decker into the dark heart of an exotic subculture: the seamy, sometimes violent world of Southern California’s rootless, affluent youth. But even the confession of a disturbed kid with cold “killer eyes” cannot soothe Decker’s inner torment.
A Rule Against Murder
by Louise Penny
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A Rule Against Murder, the fourth book in Louise Penny’s award-winning and critical revered mystery series features the wise and beleaguered Inspector Armand Gamache.
It is the height of summer, and Armand and Reine-Marie Gamache are celebrating their wedding anniversary at Manoir Bellechasse, an isolated, luxurious inn not far from the village of Three Pines. But they’re not alone. The Finney family—rich, cultured, and respectable—has also arrived for a celebration of their own…
Thrill of the Chase
by Lorhainne Eckhart
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
She’s the hometown EMT with everything to lose.
He’s the wealthy outsider with nothing left to prove—except that she’s the one he can’t walk away from.
When Taz Parker, a small-town EMT in rural Wyoming, meets a stranger who stays to help her at the scene of a harrowing roadside accident, she never expects to see him again—let alone find him standing at her parents’ ranch days later. Jerry O’Rourke is a man from a different world—a powerful Denver security mogul with charm, secrets, and a past that casts a long shadow…
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(The Parker Sisters)
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
by Kate Summerscale
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
The New York Times bestselling account of the real-life murder that inspired the birth of modern detective fiction.
In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all England and led to a national obsession with detection, ironically destroying, in the process, the career of perhaps the greatest detective in the land.
At the time, the detective was a relatively new invention; there were only eight detectives in all of England and rarely were they called out of London, but this crime was so shocking, as Kate Summerscale relates in her scintillating new book, that Scotland Yard sent its best man to investigate, Inspector Jonathan Whicher…
Carved Wooden Heart
by Elizabeth Horton-Newton , Starla Hartless
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
An encounter with a talented native artist, a broken heart, and a knight in shining armor are just the beginning in this passionate erotic romance. Dani Stone never expected to fall in love with carver Jesse Wolf Carver. She certainly didn’t foresee the results of her intense one night stand with the sexy hunk. From the wealth of New York City to a small southern community, follow Dani as she journeys the winding path fate has laid out for her.