Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
In Farm’s Way
by Amanda Flower
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
When the biggest catch at the annual Ice Fishing Derby is the body of brewmaster Wallace, Shiloh must reel in the killer before her farm goes belly-up.
Shiloh Bellamy still expects the last few Winter months to be busy with repairs, spring planning, and networking with local businesses. She might even be able to broker a new partnership with Fields Brewery and its organic brewer’s association. Well, she could if the owner, Wallace, wasn’t found murdered at the county Ice Fishing Derby…
The Deadly Sins Novels Volume Two
by Lawrence Sanders
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Lawrence Sanders’s first novel in the Deadly Sins series became a New York Times bestseller and was made into an acclaimed film starring Frank Sinatra as hard-bitten New York City homicide detective Edward Delaney. Sanders would follow up with three more Deadly Sins novels—each one a New York Times bestseller—proving himself again and again to be “a master” (The New Yorker). This collection also includes Sanders’s first novel, completed at age fifty, The Anderson Tapes, which introduced Edward Delaney and won an Edgar Award, and was made into a film starring Sean Connery.
Fourteen Days: A Collaborative Novel
by The Authors Guild, Margaret Atwood, Douglas Preston
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.8 #ad
One week into the COVID-19 shutdown, tenants of a Lower East Side apartment building in Manhattan have begun to gather on the rooftop and tell stories. With each passing night, more and more neighbors gather, bringing chairs and milk crates and overturned pails. Gradually the tenants—some of whom have barely spoken to each other—become real neighbors. In this Decameron-like serial novel, general editors Margaret Atwood and Douglas Preston and a star-studded list of contributors create a beautiful ode to the people who couldn’t escape when the pandemic hit. A dazzling, heartwarming, and ultimately surprising narrative, Fourteen Days reveals how beneath the horrible loss and suffering, some communities managed to become stronger.
Long Haul
by Frank Figliuzzi
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
“A true-crime masterpiece.” – Don Winslow
From the FBI’s former assistant director, a shocking journey to the dark side of America’s highways, revealing the FBI Highway Serial Killings Initiative’s hunt for the long-haul truckers behind an astonishing 850 murders–and counting.
In 2004, the FBI was tipped off to a gruesome pattern of unsolved murders along American roadways. Today at least 850 homicides have been linked to a solitary breed of predators: long-haul truck drivers. They have been given names like the “Truck Stop Killer,”
Visions in Death
by J. D. Robb
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Detective Eve Dallas searches the darkest corners of Manhattan for an elusive killer with a passion for collecting soulsin this novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling In Death series.
On one of the city’s hottest nights, New York Police Lieutenant Eve Dallas is sent to Central Park—and into a hellish new investigation. The victim is found on the rocks, just above the still, dark water of the lake. Around her neck is a single red ribbon. Her hands are posed, as if in prayer. But it is the eyes—removed with the precision of a surgeon—that have Dallas most alarmed.
The Beckoning Lady
by Margery Allingham
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Private detective Albert Campion’s glorious summer in Pontisbright is blighted by death. Amidst the preparations for Minnie and Tonker Cassand’s fabulous summer party, a murder is discovered – and it falls to Campion to unravel the intricate web of motives, suspicion and deception.
Danger is hardly unknown in this idyllic rural village, but it is a less romantic peril than Campion faced on his first visit, more than twenty years ago . . .
Tough Trail Home
by Marie W. Watts
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
“Tough Trail Home is a delightful read about a family coming to terms with each other and their new lives.” –Pamela Stockwell, author of A Boundless Place
The Dunwhitty family is flying high until their carefully choreographed life falls apart during the 2008 Great Recession. Lisa’s firm goes belly-up while Michael’s shuts down after selling faulty heart valves. Desperate, Lisa insists they regroup by seeking refuge in rural Central Texas on land she inherits from a distant relative she barely knows.
It’s not the ranch Lisa remembers, but a ramshackle money pit. Michael and their teenage son, Andrew, despise the place. Only their young daughter, Jessica, is happy…
The Valhalla Exchange
by Jack Higgins
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In 1945, as the Allies closed in on war-ravaged Berlin, Hitler’s personal secretary, Martin Bormann, made his escape. Since that fateful day, Bormann’s story has been shrouded in mystery.
Thirty-one years later, a journalist has begun to finally piece together Bormann’s cunning getaway. His electrifying investigation exposes the unwitting role of five Allied POWs in Bormann’s escape plot as the Nazi regime crumbled. Now, with help from a surviving POW, this journalist follows history’s twists and turns to a final, shocking conclusion.
We Solve Murders
by Richard Osman
Kindle $14.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
A brand new mystery. An iconic new detective duo. And a thrilling new murder to solve . . .
Steve Wheeler is enjoying retired life. He still does the odd bit of investigation work, but he prefers his familiar routines: the pub quiz, his favorite bench, his cat waiting for him at home. His days of adventure are over. Adrenaline is daughter-in-law Amy’s job now.
Amy Wheeler thinks adrenaline is good for the soul. Working in private security, every day is dangerous. She’s currently on a remote island protecting mega-bestselling author Rosie D’Antonio, until a dead body and a bag of money mean trouble in paradise. So she sends an SOS to the only person she trusts . . .
Closet of Dreams
by Mark Ukra, Tara Mesalik MacMahon
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
“A timeless tale reminiscent of a day when love could heal all wounds and hope abounded” — Kim Beyer-Johnson, Writer for Disney and Hallmark
Meet Child. A nine-year-old boy who has dreams so big, he has a whole Closet of Dreams in his home. But Child’s fears are really big, too. With his class bully Eddie throwing curve balls his way at every chance, Child must figure out how to navigate unexpected twists and turns. Just when all hope seems to be lost, Child discovers the secret powers in his Closet of Dreams. These new powers — along with his friends Ele the elephant, Sister Sue the hippo, Clarence the bear, and Hilda the dachshund — might just be what Child needs to face his fears.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Mistletoe Murder Collection
by P. D. James
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Throughout her illustrious career as the Queen of Crime, P. D. James was frequently commissioned by newspapers and magazines to write a special short story for Christmas. Four of the best are collected here.
Each of these stories is as playful as it is ingeniously plotted, the author’s sly humor as evident as her hallmark narrative elegance and shrewd understanding of some of the most complex–not to say the most damning–aspects of human nature. In “The Twelve Clues of Christmas,” James’s iconic Scotland Yard detective Adam Dalgliesh is drawn into a case that is, in his own words, “pure Agatha Christie.” In “A Very Commonplace Murder,” a respectable clerk’s secret taste for pornography is only the first reason he finds for not coming forward as a witness to a terrible crime.
The Bourne Deception
by Robert Ludlum, Eric Van Lustbader
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Bourne is thrust into a race to prevent a new world war–but it may already be too late, from New York Times bestselling author, Eric Van Lustbader.
After Bourne is ambushed and nearly killed while in Indonesia, he fakes his death to take on a new identity and mission- to find out who is trying to assassinate him. In the process, Bourne begins to question who he really is and what he would become if he no longer carried the Bourne identity. Across the globe, an American passenger airliner is shot down over Egypt-apparently by an Iranian missile-leaving the world wondering if it was an accident or an act of aggression.
One Man’s Promise
by Laura Domino
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In a safe haven, but still learning about love. One Man’s Promise continues Sharla’s story from book one. Read One Man’s Haven first!
Afraid for her life, Sharla flees San Francisco and hopes the rest of her family is still safe. Her life isn’t over after all, but she’s still unsettled. Staying under the radar and out of her enemy’s grasp means she must learn a new way of life away from the city. Is Sharla starting over in the right place? Hiding isn’t paradise when her enemy catches up with her. How will Sharla escape a second time?
The Broken Wings
by Kahlil Gibran
Kindle $0.49 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Kahlil Gibran’s poetry novel Broken Wings was initially published in 1912 in New York by the publishing company of the periodical Meraat-ul-Gharb. It’s a tragic love story set in Beirut at the turn of the century. Selma Karamy, a young woman, is betrothed to the nephew of a renowned religious figure. This woman falls in love with the protagonist (a young man who Gibran may have based after himself). They begin meeting in secret, but are discovered, and Selma is banned from leaving her home, shattering their dreams and hearts.
The China Governess
by Margery Allingham
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Timothy Kinnit is rich, handsome, and successful, but his past is a mystery to him. When he learns, on the eve of his elopement, that he is adopted, he must question everything he thought he knew.
In desperate search of answers, Kinnit calls on private detective Albert Campion to shed some light on his past, and how it connects him to the notorious Turk Street Mile slum. Meanwhile, his illustrious adopted family has a sinister secret of its own—involving a murderous nineteenth-century governess—that must also be brought to light by Campion’s investigations.
Just One Evil Act
by Elizabeth George
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Barbara is at a loss: Hadiyyah, the daughter of her friend Taymullah Azhar, has been taken by her mother, and Barbara can’t really help. Azhar has no legal claim.
Just when Azhar is beginning to accept his soul-crushing loss, he gets more shocking news: Hadiyyah has been kidnapped from an Italian marketplace. As both Barbara and her partner, Inspector Thomas Lynley, soon discover, the case is far more complex than a typical kidnapping, revealing secrets that could have far-reaching effects outside of the investigation…
Farewell to Dreams
by CJ Lyons
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In the chaos of the ER, functioning without sleep is a prized skill. But even Dr. Angela Rossi will admit that five months is far too long. Then a dead nun speaks to her while Angela is holding the nun’s heart in her hand.
“Find the girl,” the nun commands – although no one else in the trauma room can hear, the words drilling directly into Angela’s brain. “Save the girl.”
Aided by a police detective fallen from grace, Angela searches the midnight catacombs beneath the city, facing down a ruthless gang leader and stumbling onto a serial killer’s lair. Her desperate quest to save the girl leads her to the one thing she least expected to find: a last chance for love.
Crestview Academy Complete Series
by Katerina Raven
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
The more I uncover, the more danger I’m in.
I’m no longer safe anywhere.
Starting at Crestview Academy was supposed to be a brand-new start. A chance to grow new relationships, learn who I am and where I came from, and have a chance to do things I never could have dreamed of.
Instead, it’s a living hell.
Aquamarine & Indigo: Two Novels
by Alice Hoffman
Kindle $5.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
Two luminous stories of friendship, magic, and the sea — bound together in one beautiful volume — by bestselling author Alice Hoffman.
In Aquamarine, twelve-year-old best friends Hailey and Claire are enjoying their last summer together when they discover something at the bottom of the murky pool at the Capri Beach Club. There, among the seaweed and jellyfish that a summer storm washed in from the ocean, is a mysterious and beautiful creature with a sharp tongue and a broken heart — a mermaid named Aquamarine…
In Indigo, thirteen-year-old Martha Glimmer is convinced this is the worst time of her life. Her mother died, she grew seven inches, and she has to put up with a woman who plies Martha’s lonely father with food and opinions about how thirteen-year-old girls should behave….