Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Penalty Kicks
by James Courneya
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Sam Simone is back and his past comes back to haunt him again. An ex-wife, an old adversary, and some surprising people take aim on Sam and his family. Sam must fight the demons from his past to change the outcome. A complex ordeal ends with a shootout at his team’s soccer game.
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Downstate
by Jeffery Deaver
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Special Agent Constant Marlowe pursues a lead to rural Illinois and finds a hornet’s nest of conspiracy in a pulse-pounding novella by New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver, where nothing is what it seems.
Special Agent Constant Marlowe is in pursuit of “Mr. X,” a key player in organized crime. Her mission is to collar him and flip him into a cooperating witness. The only problem? Marlowe doesn’t know who he is or even what he looks like…
The Watch Mysteries: Books 1 – 3
by Kay DiBianca
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Three complete novels: The Watch on the Fencepost, Dead Man’s Watch, and Time After Tyme, from award-winning author Kay DiBianca.
The Watch on the Fencepost: 27-year-old Kathryn Frasier is training for a marathon when she discovers a gold watch on a fencepost. Sensing that it was deliberately left for her to find, she sets out to solve the mystery behind the watch, but her orderly life is turned upside-down when it leads her to a dark family secret and a suspicion that her parents’ recent deaths may not have been an accident…
Dead Man’s Watch: Kathryn and her half-sister, Cece Goldman, literally stumble into another mystery. When a former acquaintance of Kathryn’s is accused of murder, she and Cece go on a mission to prove his innocence by finding the real killer…
Time After Tyme: secret codes and university intrigue combine to give Kathryn and Cece a new and puzzling mystery to solve. But things get dicey when two misguided young girls wander into the middle of the investigation and decide to solve it themselves…
The Complete Stephen King Universe
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The Stephen King Universe is a vast expanse of grotesque horror, dark magic, and fearsome wonder. Conjured from on man’s imagination, it is an ever-expanding kingdom of twisting, dark pathways – a place where one might easily get lost without guidance.
The Complete Stephen King Universe is the only definitive reference work that examines all of Stephen King’s novels, short stories, motion pictures, miniseries, and teleplays, and deciphers the threads that connect all of his work…
Falling for Rachel
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
For passionate lawyer Rachel Stanislaski, work is her life. Assigned to watch over teenage delinquent Nicholas LeBeck, the last thing Rachel needs is Nick’s hot-headed stepbrother storming into her courtroom. Zack Muldoon is protective and stubborn, but whether he likes it or not, he needs Rachel’s help – both to keep Nick out of trouble and to reconnect with his younger brother. Rachel knows the importance of a family bond, but she hasn’t considered what excitement – or complications – a blossoming romance could add to their agreement. But Zack and Rachel’s chemistry is hard to ignore, and the two could be falling for each other faster than they realize.
Inferno
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 3.9 #ad
Winner of the 2008 World Fantasy Award, International Horror Guild Award, and Shirley Jackson Award for Best Anthology.
This multiple award-winning anthology of twenty psychological and supernatural horror stories explores the outer limits of fear.
To create this volume, renowned horror editor Ellen Datlow wrote to her favorite authors asking for stories that would “provide the reader with a frisson of shock, or a moment of dread so powerful it might cause the reader outright physical discomfort; or a sensation of fear so palpable that the reader feels impelled to turn up the lights very bright and play music or seek the company of others to dispel the fear.”s
Point Man
by James Watson, Kevin Dockery
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Chief Petty Officer James “Patches” Watson was there at the start. As a high-performing frogman with the famed Underwater Demolition Team 21, he was chosen to become a founding member – or a “plank owner” – of the U.S. Navy SEALs.
Through three tours in the jungle hell of Vietnam, he led the way as point man – the one in charge of navigating trip wires, booby traps and punji pits. In this vividly detailed memoir, he recounts guiding his squad of amphibious fighters on missions of rescue, reconnaissance, and demolition. Together with his brave comrades, Watson confronted a war’s unique terrors head-on, unprotected . . . and unafraid.
Creed’s Law
by William Black
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
News from his family’s ranch finally brings successful frontier lawyer, Creed Cooley, back home to Young County, Texas. But it’s not good news.
A young ranch hand has been accused of murder. Creed’s mother is dying. And the decades-long feud with the neighboring Glass Ranch is boiling over. The rival cattleman at the head of it all, Jasper Glass, has hated the Cooleys his whole life. He wants their land – and now he’s going to shed more blood to come out on top.
Pro Bono
by Thomas Perry
Kindle $14.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A tenacious attorney grapples with a dangerous group of thieves in this new thriller from the author of The Old Man.
Charles Warren, Los Angeles attorney, has dedicated his career to aiding people in financial straits. He is particularly skilled at the art of recovering assets that have been embezzled or hidden. In his newest case, helping a beautiful young widow find the money missing from her late husband’s investment accounts, Charlie recognizes a familiar scheme—one that echoes the con job that targeted his own widowed mother many years before, and that led him, as a teenager, to commit a crime of retribution that still weighs on his conscience.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
A Very Lively Murder
by Katy Watson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
One murder mystery movie. Three Dahlias. And a whole cast of suspects…
Ex child star Posy Starling is finally filming her dream role – Dahlia Lively in The Lady Detective movie. But things take a nightmare turn when a prop weapon is replaced with the real thing – with almost fatal consequences for her fellow Dahlia, Rosalind King. There’s something very wrong on the set of The Lady Detective – which means it’s time to call in Caro Hooper, so the three Dahlias can investigate…
Daughter of the Morning Star
by Craig Johnson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The hit drama Longmire is now streaming on Paramount+
When Lolo Long’s niece Jaya begins receiving death threats, Tribal Police Chief Long calls on Absaroka County Sheriff Walt Longmire along with Henry Standing Bear as lethal backup. Jaya “Longshot” Long is the phenom of the Lame Deer Lady Stars High School basketball team and is following in the steps of her older sister, who disappeared a year previously, a victim of the scourge of missing Native Woman in Indian Country…
Girl, Forgotten
by Karin Slaughter
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A girl with a secret… Longbill Beach, 1982. Emily Vaughn gets ready for the prom. For an athlete, who is smart, pretty and well-liked, this night should be the highlight of her high school career. But Emily has a secret. And by the end of the evening, that secret will be silenced forever.
An unsolved murder… Forty years later, Emily’s murder remains a mystery. Her tight-knit group of friends closed ranks; her respected, wealthy family retreated inwards; the small town moved on from her grisly attack. But all that’s about to change.
One final chance to uncover a killer…
Precipice
by Robert Harris
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A spellbinding novel of passion, intrigue, and betrayal set in England in the months leading to the Great War from the bestselling author of Act of Oblivion, Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, and Munich.
Summer 1914. A world on the brink of catastrophe.
In London, twenty-six-year-old Venetia Stanley—aristocratic, clever, bored, reckless—is part of a fast group of upper-crust bohemians and socialites known as “The Coterie.” She’s also engaged in a clandestine love affair with the Prime Minister, H. H. Asquith, a man more than twice her age. He writes to her obsessively, sharing the most sensitive matters of state.
The Dreadful Lemon Sky
by John D. MacDonald, Lee Chil
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
“The Travis McGee novels are among the finest works of fiction ever penned by an American author.” – Jonathan Kellerman
Carolyn Milligan was only aboard McGee’s boat for one night. She came to drop off a hundred grand for safekeeping. What Carrie really needed was someone to keep her safe. She said she’d be back in a month. Instead Carrie is killed in a dubious roadside accident. Now McGee is left with a fortune—and a nagging conscience.
The Five
by Hallie Rubenhold
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction and of the Goodreads Choice Award for History & Biography
The award-winning, best-selling book that changes the narrative of the “Ripper” murders forever
Polly, Annie, Elisabeth, Catherine, and Mary Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from some of London’s wealthiest and poorest neighborhoods, from the factory towns of middle England, and from Wales and Sweden. They wrote ballads, ran coffeehouses, lived on country estates; they breathed ink dust from printing presses and escaped human traffickers.
The Maddening
by Andrew Neiderman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Stacey Oberman made the worst mistake of her life when she followed the garage mechanic’s advice and turned off the main highway. When her car breaks down in a rainstorm, she and her five-year-old daughter seek refuge in a nearby farmhouse – only to become “playmates” in a violent whirlpool of unrelenting terror.
Grave Danger
by James Grippando
Kindle $14.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
Bestselling author James Grippando’s legendary criminal defense attorney Jack Swyteck is back to defend a single mother accused of kidnapping her own child in a perilous case involving politics and international diplomacy that will test his legal expertise and his marriage.
Jack Swyteck’s new client fled Iran to Miami with her daughter, and has been accused of kidnapping by her husband. The seasoned attorney must not only plan a winning defense. To stop the father from taking the girl back to Tehran, Jack must build a case under international law and prove that returning the child would put her at risk.