Monday’s Mystery eBooks
The Cat Who Saw Stars
by Lilian Jackson Braun
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
UFOs in Mooseville? Rumors abound that a missing backpacker has been abducted, and it looks like Jim Qwilleran’s sedate summer may be interrupted by an investigation – with the help of his own little aliens, Koko and Yum Yum. And when the backpacker’s body turns up – and transplanted Floridian Owen Bowen is found dead soon afterward—the search for intelligent life turns into a hunt for a murderer…
Lost Birds
by Anne Hillerman
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Joe Leaphorn may be long retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, but his detective skills are still sharp, honed by his work as a private detective. His experience will be essential to solve a compelling new case: finding the birth parents of a woman who was raised by a bilagáana family but believes she is Diné based on one solid clue, an old photograph with a classic Navajo child’s blanket. Leaphorn discovers that his client’s adoption was questionable, and her adoptive family not what they seem. His quest for answers takes him to an old trading post and leads him to a deadly cache of long-buried family secrets.
The Father’s Tree
by Crystal Jencks
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
The tale of the Garden of Eden is one of the most well-known and universally loved stories of all time, and Dr. Elise Harper and her team believe there’s more than a little truth to it.
To prove the science books wrong and religious lore right, they trek into the Caucasus mountain ranges, amidst a world ravaged with war and apocalyptic tragedy. But shortly into the expedition, events pivot dangerously. Nature and hidden supernatural forces interrupt their mission, and the team’s motivation transforms from finding the Tree of Life to simply maintaining life itself.
Whiskey Beach
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
For more than three hundred years, Bluff House has sat above Whiskey Beach, guarding its shore – and its secrets. But to Eli Landon, it’s home.
A Boston lawyer, Eli has weathered an intense year of public scrutiny and police investigations after being accused of – but never arrested for – the murder of his soon-to-be ex-wife. He finds sanctuary at Bluff House, even though his beloved grandmother is in Boston recuperating from a nasty fall. Abra Walsh is always there, though…
The Girl Who Killed Her Mom
by MCGARVEY BLACK
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
I was barely fifteen when I killed my mom. No one knew . . . until now.
I’ve spent my entire life trying to make up for what happened that day. I’ve turned my life around. I have a handsome, wealthy husband; two daughters who are everything to me; a stunning Connecticut beachfront home. I’m grateful for every minute that we have together.
Today I come home to find a silver-and-blue gift-wrapped box on the porch. The note inside says: Who killed Midge Lester? Midge Lester was my mom. Someone knows.
The Savant of Chelsea
by Suzanne Jenkins
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
From USA Today Bestselling Author, Suzanne Jenkins!
A Manhattan surgeon travels to New Orleans to face the tragedies and secrets of her youth, leading on a journey to madness. Warning: Contains graphic descriptions of child abuse.
“Jeez what a harrowing read. Molestation from an early age. A mother who doesn’t care even when Alexandria gives birth at the age of 10. Eventually the mother gives the child away on Alexandria first day back at school! As an adult having made something of get self and become a surgeon, her mother dies and while going to see about her mother’s funeral she finds her daughter who is a drug addict and prostitute with 7 children of whom she uses the oldest girl for money and molestation. Alexandria gets her daughter arrested and the court awards her custody but her daughter gets relased and she’s coming for her girls!” by Amazon Customer
The First Harm
by Steven Piskula
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Tanna Christensen spent countless hours planning for her first gross anatomy dissection, but nothing could have prepared her for what she’s found. Beneath her scalpel lies a cadaver riddled with disturbing genetic abnormalities—evidence pointing to an unthinkable crime.
Tanna believes her discovery is the tip of a terrifying secret that goes far deeper than a single corpse. But when her investigation leads to a brutal murder, a lethal cover-up threatens to destroy the future she once dreamed of.
The Prediction
by Jean Rezab
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Thea kept her visions a secret her entire life. Her father warned her other people would find her knowledge of future events abnormal, leaving Thea feeling both distant from him and others.
When Thea’s latest vision reveals someone shooting her father, her psychic ability can’t be hidden from those close to her. Searching for the potential murderer, she discovers her father has enemies from the past.
With his long-held secrets coming to light, can Thea finally have the close family relationships she’s always wanted?
Firefly Lane
by Kristin Hannah
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
From the New York Times bestselling author Kristin Hannah comes a powerful novel of love, loss, and the magic of friendship. . . . now a #1 Netflix series!
In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food chain. Then, to her amazement, the “coolest girl in the world” moves in across the street and wants to be her friend. Tully Hart seems to have it all—beauty, brains, ambition. On the surface they are as opposite as two people can be: Kate, doomed to be forever uncool, with a loving family who mortifies her at every turn…
Red Star Falling
by Steve Berry, Grant Blackwood
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
From New York Times bestselling authors Steve Berry and Grant Blackwood comes an action-packed adventure: in the waning days of the Cold War, Luke Daniels embarks on a quest in search of the legendary library of Ivan the Terrible—the unlikely key to ending a looming threat orbiting two hundred miles above the earth.
Wrapping up his latest assignment for the Magellan Billet, Luke Daniels receives a surprise visit from the head of a former-CIA operation named Sommerhaus—a failed attempt to assemble an espionage network within the Ukraine on the eve of the Russian invasion. Sommerhaus ranks high on Luke’s list of painful regrets, for it was during this mission that his friend, CIA case officer John Vince, was captured by Russian operatives and supposedly executed.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Weeding Out Trouble
by Heather Webber
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A landscaper with a knack for unearthing the truth is out to catch a killer and clear her friend’s name in this cozy mystery.
Landscaper Nina Quinn would do anything for her employees. After all, her garden makeover business wouldn’t be blooming if it weren’t for them. So when Kit Pipe, her right-hand handyman, goes missing, Nina immediately starts digging into his disappearance. But all she finds is Kit’s recent ex, Daisy Bedinghaus – and she’s dead as dirt.
The Cemetery Spot
by Jenna Moquin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
When April arrived at her sister’s house, she didn’t expect to find a dead man…
Auggie has stabbed her abusive husband, Roy. Afraid of the cops due to Roy’s ties with the police force, Auggie convinces April to help her get rid of the body. April agrees because she owes a debt to her sister and wants to keep her out of prison. The two sisters bury Roy in the woods, near an old cemetery.
But someone is watching.
The Curse of the Pharaohs
by Elizabeth Peters
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
From a New York Times bestselling author, Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, now a wife and mother, returns to catch a murderer at an excavation of an ancient tomb.
It’s 1892, and Amelia and her now-husband Radcliffe Emerson have settled down in Victorian England after their escapade in Egypt. They’re raising their young son Ramses and everything seems normal–until they are approached by a damsel in distress. Lady Baskerville’s husband, Sir Henry, has died after uncovering what might be a royal tomb in Luxor.
Zero Hour
by Steve Sheffield
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Want a guy who plays by the rules? Don’t pick Virgo.
Special forces veteran Eddie Virgo is doing hard time for taking the law into his own hands. But now he is offered an early release if he agrees to work one last job…
Stacy, daughter of wealthy senator Daniel Donovan, has been kidnapped. And Virgo’s lethal skills seem to offer the best shot at getting her safely home…
The Beast You Are
by Paul Tremblay
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.9 #ad
A haunting collection of short fiction from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club, A Head Full of Ghosts, and The Cabin at the End of the World.
Paul Tremblay has won widespread acclaim for illuminating the dark horrors of the mind in novels and stories that push the boundaries of storytelling itself. The fifteen pieces in this brilliant collection, The Beast You Are, are all monsters of a kind, ready to loudly (and lovingly) smash through your head and into your heart.
Deadfall
by Aline Templeton
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
TThere is something sinister about Drumdalloch Woods in the Black Isle near Inverness. It is a place of tangled growth and shadowy darkness, and it has business opportunists, biological scientists and conflicted family members all competing for a say in its future. Then a body is found, and everything starts to look suspicious.
As DCI Kelso Strang’s investigation grows more complex, he unearths layers of hatred, greed and revenge that cast suspicion even on the local police force.
A Calamity of Souls
by David Baldacci
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Set in the tumultuous year of 1968 in southern Virginia, a racially charged murder case sets a duo of white and Black lawyers against a deeply unfair system as they work to defend their wrongfully accused Black defendants in this courtroom drama from #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci.
Jack Lee is a white lawyer from Freeman County, Virginia, who has never done anything to push back against racism—until he decides to represent Jerome Washington, a Black man charged with brutally killing an elderly wealthy white couple…
The Test
by Patricia Gussin
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Renowned philanthropist and billionaire Paul Parnell had reached the pinnacle of monetary success, but not without cost. Had he put too much emphasis on work and spent too little time with his family?Determined to leave something far more valuable than money to his six children, Paul instructs his lawyers to create an unusual last will and testament. This unorthodox will, which stipulates that the lions share of Pauls two billion dollar estate be given to the heirs who pass the test, was Pauls last hope of creating an enduring legacy by inspiring his children to give back to society and embrace a code of moral values…
Old Bones
by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The #1 NYT bestselling authors Preston & Child bring the true story of the ill-fated Donner Party to new life in this thrilling novel of archaeology, history, murder, and suspense.
Nora Kelly, a young curator at the Santa Fe Institute of Archaeology, is approached by historian Clive Benton with a once-in-a-lifetime proposal: to lead a team in search of the so-called “Lost Camp” of the tragic Donner Party. This was a group of pioneers who earned a terrible place in American history when they became snow-bound in the California mountains in 1847, their fate unknown until the first skeletonized survivors stumbled out of the wilderness, raving about starvation, murder-and cannibalism.
Whiplash
by Dale Brown, Jim DeFelice
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A high-tech covert strike force takes aim at a nuclear armed extremist in the New York Times–bestselling co-author’s military techno-thriller.
The world is watching as the U.S. and Iran agree to lay down their swords. But one man hiding in Africa holds the power to obliterate the peace. Shrouded by the bloody madness of tribal warfare, Iranian functionary-turned-fanatic Bani Aberhadji has created a vast network dedicated to unleashing a nuclear nightmare. Only by chance are American agents now learning of its existence . . . and it may already be too late.