Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Killer’s Christmas List
by Chris Frost
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
In the picturesque village of Kibblesworth, DI Tom Stonem is dreaming of a quiet Christmas alone.
But in the shadow of the Angel of the North, a body lies waiting. The dead man is posed with a child’s Christmas list in his pocket, and the first mysterious item – 1. No angel – is crossed off.
When a second body is found – a woman, stabbed in the abdomen after her work Christmas do – Stonem is convinced there’s a grim connection between the crime scenes and the seemingly innocent list. 2. Red partee dress. Could this be a murderer’s twisted code?
Doll House
by John Hunt
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
“All you girls were less than human. Play things in a twisted doll house.”
Olivia is taken from the sidewalk near her college and thrown into a van. Her captors, who she soon discovers are vile, sadistic monsters, abuse her immediately, both mentally and physically. Then she is taken into a house, into a locked room, where everything is cotton candy pink. The pink furniture is designed with rounded edges and corners bolted to the floor, and the seams at the bolts melted. This is where the nightmare begins. She is now a part of their collection.
Six Days Spent
by Luana Ehrlich
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
When private investigator Mylas Grey gets a call from the wife of a high-profile Pentagon official, he assumes it’s about their appointment to discuss a possible stalker.
It’s not. It’s about her husband—he’s just been murdered. Mylas agrees to investigate the murder, even though he’s supposed to help Whitney find a place to live in the next six days. Can he do both?
As it turns out, finding a killer and finding a house have a lot in common . . . Both require connections . . .
Lacey’s Star
by Kay DiBianca
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Get in, sit down, buckle up, and hang on!
Was it an accident? Or was it murder? Private pilot Cassie Deakin lands in the middle of an unwanted adventure and reluctantly agrees to team up with Deputy Frank White to investigate the mysterious death of young Lacey Alderson.
But as Cassie and Frank peel back the layers of one mystery, they uncover deep and sinister secrets in the rural community Lacey’s family lived in. Armed with only a single, cryptic clue to the death of the child, Cassie makes a crucial discovery that lands her in the crosshairs of a murderer.
A Talent for Murder
by Peter Swanson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
A newlywed librarian begins to suspect the man she married might be a murderer—in this spectacularly twisty and deviously clever novel by Peter Swanson, New York Times bestselling author of The Kind Worth Killing and Eight Perfect Murders.
Martha Ratliff conceded long ago that she’d likely spend her life alone. She was fine with it, happy with her solo existence, stimulated by her work as a librarian in Maine. But then she met Alan, a charming and sweet-natured salesman whose job took him on the road for half the year. When he asked her to marry him, she said yes, even though he still felt a little bit like a stranger…
Witch
by Barbara Michaels
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
For Ellen March, the secluded old house nestled in the pine woods is more than the dream home she’s long been searching for. It’s an escape, a chance to start over, to forget the pain of her failed marriage and enjoy the restful pace of small-town living. Here, too, is a golden opportunity to get to know Norman McKay, her handsome and worldly new neighbor. But after dark in Ellen’s “perfect” house, strange visions invade her restless mind: silent strangers moving through the twilight shadows, the ghostly figure of a woman and a spectral white cat.
Split Images
by Elmore Leonard
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A Palm Beach playboy who amuses himself with murder finds himself on a collision course with a vacationing Motown cop in Elmore Leonard’s Split Images—a gripping and electrifying example of noir gold from “the coolest, hottest writer in America” (Chicago Tribune). Split Images is Grand Master Leonard at the top of his game, a bravura example of how exemplary crime fiction is done by a writer who stands tall among the all-time mystery greats…
Summer Island
by Kristin Hannah
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Years ago, Nora Bridge walked out on her marriage and left her daughters behind. She has since become a famous radio talk-show host and newspaper columnist beloved for her moral advice. Her youngest daughter, Ruby, is a struggling comedienne who uses her famous mother as fuel for her bitter, cynical humor. When the tabloids unearth a scandalous secret from Nora’s past, their estrangement suddenly becomes dramatic: Nora is injured in an accident and a glossy magazine offers Ruby a fortune to write a tell-all about her mother…
Evidence of Grace
by Teresa Slack
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A murder conviction sent Sally Blake’s killer to prison. Nearly thirty years after that fateful night, a phone call from a potential eyewitness could prove the wrong person is serving time for the crime. What would drive someone to plead guilty to another man’s crime? Noel Wyatt enlists the help of a young attorney, and David Davis, the retired judge who prosecuted the case, to put all the pieces of the puzzle together.
If an eyewitness exists, where has he been for the last thirty years?
Midnight in Darkness
by Jacie Middlemann
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Tragedy, indescribable courage, and heart-wrenching secrets. It was her family’s history…one that she wasn’t aware of until recently.
Shay was stunned to learn about her family’s tragic past…a history shrouded in secrets and from what she’d read so far in journals that dated back hundreds of years…there was good reason for the secrecy…fear was a huge motivator no matter the century.
She was equally surprised to hear from Patrick Johnston. He had questions about the Delasina family…questions that she wouldn’t mind knowing the answers to herself.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Cat Deck the Halls
by Shirley Rousseau Murphy
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Christmas in the charming seaside village of Molena Point, California, has always been a traditional affair—but not this holiday season. Instead of singing carols and climbing into Christmas trees, Joe Grey, feline P.I., is faced with his most difficult case yet—and that’s saying a lot for a wily tomcat who for years has been solving crimes the police can’t even crack.
A stranger lies dead beneath the village Christmas tree, with a little child the only witness to the shooting. As the police scramble for leads, the grey tomcat, his tabby lady, Dulcie, and their tortoiseshell pal, Kit, launch their own unique investigation…
Bangtails, Grifters, and a Liar’s Kiss
by A.G. Russo
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The Homefront, summer 1943, Brooklyn, New York. Smalley Pauley is missing. His brother, gangster Guido Bonasccoro, hires reluctant O’Shaughnessy Detective Agency partners Maeve O’Shaughnessy and Vic Marino to find him.
A year after Vic Marino walked into the O’Shaughnessy detective agency office and told Maeve he was going to help her make a go of an agency on the brink of collapse, they have managed to keep it going thanks to the challenging murder case they solved the previous year. This second year provides newer, darker, more dangerous cases as they find themselves caught in the middle of a gangster turf war and forced to do risky work for G-men.
DARK LITTLE SECRETS
by Willow Rose
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Diane Matthews lost everything when her daughter Angela died in a mysterious accident. But when Angela’s husband, Will, is arrested for her murder three years later, Diane’s world is turned upside down again.
Desperate and seeking answers, she turns to an unlikely source – FBI agent Eva Rae Thomas, who quickly becomes embroiled in the case.
As she delves deeper, Eva Rae uncovers shocking inconsistencies in the evidence against Will and sets out to clear his name. But as she faces off against a corrupt detective and fights to uncover the truth, she realizes that this small town may hold more secrets than she ever imagined.
Silhouette in Scarlet
by Elizabeth Peters
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
One perfect red rose, a one-way ticket to Stockholm, and a cryptic “message” consisting of two Latin words intrigue art historian Vicky Bliss—as they were precisely intended to do.Beautiful, brilliant and, as always, dangerously inquisitive, Vicky recognizes the handiwork of her former lover, the daring jewel thief John Smythe. So she takes the bait, eagerly following Smythe’s lead in the hope of finding a lost treasure. But the trail begins at a priceless fifth century chalice which will place Vicky at the mercy of a gang of ruthless criminals who have their eyes on an even more valuable prize
Encore in Death
by J. D. Robb
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
The homicide cop with a passion for justice returns in the captivating crime thriller series by the #1 New York Times bestselling author.
It was a glittering event full of A-listers, hosted by Eliza Lane and Brant Fitzhugh, a celebrity couple who’d conquered both Hollywood and Broadway. And now Eve Dallas has made her entrance—but not as a guest. After raising a toast, Fitzhugh fell to the floor and died, with physical symptoms pointing to cyanide, and the police have crashed the party.
From all accounts, he wasn’t the kind of star who made enemies. Everyone loved him—even his ex-wife.
Ghost Hexed
by J.S. Malcom
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
To win this fight, I’ll need the help of my friends. First, I’ll need to convince them I’m only dead some of the time.
Here’s the thing about supernatural cleanup jobs: I make it look like work because that’s how I get paid. But, honestly, it’s easy. I show up, act friendly, get my client out of the way and then do my Veil Witch thing. Until the day comes when, just as I’m about to eject a ghost, I suddenly become one. Yeah, kind of confusing, seeing as the last time I checked I wasn’t dead.
At least, that’s what I thought but I soon learn otherwise. Somehow, I’ve become no longer physical. Like that’s not enough to freak me out completely, I discover that other things have changed…
Crosswind
by Karen K. Brees
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A desperate search for a missing MI6 colleague and the microfilm he possesses leads Professor Katrin Nissen deep into the maelstrom of Nazi-controlled Berlin. Impulsive and reckless, Dieter Weiss may have pushed his luck too far and taken one chance too many. Against all odds, Katrin has just one week to find him.
Posing as a research scientist sympathetic to the Nazis, Katrin attends a conference organized by Heinrich Himmler. The conference will showcase the Nazis’ dark plans to redesign nature and will become the birthing ground of the Holocaust – a cost far greater than Katrin is willing to accept.
You, Human Collection
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.9 #ad
Bram Stoker Award winning editor Michael Bailey brings you a genre-bending anthology of dark science fiction and poetry, with fiction illustrated beautifully throughout by world-renowned artist L.A. Spooner, poetry and spot illustrations by the always-impressive Orion Zangara, and an incredible introduction on humanism by New York Times bestselling author F. Paul Wilson.
Decode the Deck
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Even if you’re at a crossroads in life, the path forward is right in front of you. Grab a deck of cards to find your way.
Human beings are curious. We want to know why we are the way we are and why we do the things we do. We long to discover what comes next and how to make the right decisions. If you are hungry for new ways of exploring relationships, career, money, and purpose through intuition and energy, you will find answers in Decode the Deck,an insightful guide that uses a deck of playing cards to help you uncover truths about yourself and embrace your unique journey in life.