Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Death Over Easy
by Maddie Day
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
June’s annual Brown County Bluegrass Festival at the Bill Monroe Music Park in neighboring Beanblossom is always a hit for Robbie’s country store and café, Pans ’N Pancakes. This year, Robbie is even more excited, because she’s launching a new bed and breakfast above her shop. A few festival musicians will be among Robbie’s first guests, along with her father, Roberto, and his wife, Maria. But the celebration is cut short when a performer is found choked to death by a banjo string. Now all the banjo players are featured in a different kind of lineup…
The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist
by Radley Balko, Tucker Carrington, John Grisham
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A shocking and deeply reported account of the persistent plague of institutional racism and junk forensic science in our criminal justice system, and its devastating effect on innocent lives
After two three-year-old girls were raped and murdered in rural Mississippi, law enforcement pursued and convicted two innocent men: Kennedy Brewer and Levon Brooks. Together they spent a combined thirty years in prison before finally being exonerated in 2008. Meanwhile, the real killer remained free.
Weapons of Opportunity
by Dale Brown, Patrick Larkin
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Fresh off his success in the New York Times bestselling Countdown to Midnight, Nick Flynn finds himself once again facing a vicious enemy—one determined to destroy the United States.
When Nick Flynn left the US Air Force to join the Quartet Directorate, he did so with the full knowledge that no one could ever know. This covert private force – called Four by its members – promised him the chance to lead his own missions and make his own decisions, though the risks are high. When a former senior CIA executive goes dark, Flynn and his team – including the daring Laura Van Horn – are ready to step in. What begins as a quiet check on his home turns into a firefight against a familiar enemy who is more dangerous than ever…
Die Again
by Tess Gerritsen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles are back—and they’re going into the wild to find a killer. Die Again is the latest heart-pounding thriller in Tess Gerritsen’s bestselling series, the inspiration behind TNT’s hit show Rizzoli & Isles.
When Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles are summoned to a crime scene, they find a killing worthy of the most ferocious beast—right down to the claw marks on the corpse. But only the most sinister human hands could have left renowned big-game hunter and taxidermist Leon Gott gruesomely displayed like the once-proud animals whose heads adorn his walls. Did Gott unwittingly awaken a predator more dangerous than any he’s ever hunted?
Kill Shot
by Blair Denholm
Kindle $1.49 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Working his first homicide case since relocating from the United Kingdom, Detective Sergeant Jack Lisbon must prove he’s got what it takes to perform in the heat of tropical Northern Australia.
When a mutilated body washes up on the edge of a mangrove forest, it seems a straight-forward case — death by misadventure. The victim’s wounds are consistent with a frenzied crocodile attack. Detectives quickly discover, however, this is a premediated and brutal murder…
Full Tilt
by Rick Mofina
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Deep in the woods of upstate New York a woman flees a blazing barn. She is burned beyond recognition, and her dying words point police to a labyrinth of “confinement rooms” —rooms designed to hold human beings captive—where they make other chilling discoveries.
In Manhattan, Kate Page, a single mom and reporter with a newswire service, receives a heart-stopping call from a detective on the case. A guardian angel charm found at the scene fits the description of the one belonging to Kate’s sister, Vanessa, who washed away after a car crash in a mountain river twenty years ago.
The Door to December
by Dean Koontz
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A call in the middle of the night summoned psychiatrist Laura McCaffrey out into the rain-swept streets of Los Angeles. The police had found her husband-beaten to death. But what of her daughter, Melanie, whom he had kidnapped six years earlier? At the brutal murder scene, the police lead Laura into her husband’s makeshift lab—and open the door to a rising tide of terror that has trapped Melanie in its midst…
Broken Rhodes
by Kimber Silver
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Kinsley Rhodes blows into Harlow, Kansas like a tornado, twisting Sheriff Lincoln James’ life into knots. Her grandfather has been murdered and she wants answers.
As if the town’s first homicide in twenty years wasn’t enough, the beleaguered sheriff now has to deal with Henry Rhodes’ bobcat of a granddaughter, plunging his life deeper into chaos. As a dark storm threatens, long-held secrets are exposed, placing Kinsley directly in harm’s way.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
The Great Brownie Taste-off
by Lisa Maliga
Kindle $0.99 Rating: Brand NEW Release #ad
Cat shelter employee Yolanda Carter loves her job, but her dream is to own a bakery. Living in Sherman Oaks, California with her tuxedo cat, her only outlet is baking treats for her friends, coworkers and family.
Her situation changes when her high school friend, Teagan Mishkin, drops by to tell her about an incredible job opportunity that will give Yolanda enough money to launch her bakery…
Least of Evils
by J. M. Gregson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The Northumberland detective makes “a memorable hero, as distinctive as Inspector Morse” in this thrilling whodunit of murder among the moneyed (Booklist).
DCI Percy Peach has been called to the sprawling Thorley Grange estate in Brunton to investigate the murder of Oliver Ketley. The beloved philanthropist was found in his Bentley, shot through the head. When he arrives, Peach discovers a wounded intruder lurking on the grounds, hoarding a bag of priceless gems. Case closed? Not exactly. A guy like Oliver doesn’t die in a simple robbery gone wrong. Not with his secrets.
The Other Wife
by Michael Robotham
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Childhood sweethearts William and Mary have been married for sixty years. William is a celebrated surgeon, Mary a devoted wife. Both have a strong sense of right and wrong.
This is what their son, Joe O’Loughlin, has always believed. But when Joe is summoned to the hospital with news that his father has been brutally attacked, his world is turned upside down. Who is the strange woman crying at William’s bedside, covered in his blood – a friend, a mistress, a fantasist or a killer?
Trophy Hunt
by C. J. Box
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In this thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling Joe Pickett series, the Wyoming game warden is up against a vicious killer who’s more beast than man…
Local authorities in Twelve Sleep County, Wyoming, are quick to label a rash of animal mutilations as the work of a grizzly bear, but game warden Joe Pickett suspects that something far more sinister is afoot. And when the bodies of two men are found disfigured in the same way, his worst feats are confirmed: A modern-day Jack the Ripper is on the loose—and the killings have just begun.
On the Street Where You Live
by Mary Higgins Clark
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Following a nasty divorce and the trauma of being stalked, criminal defense attorney Emily Graham leaves Albany to work in Manhattan. Craving roots, she buys her ancestral home, a Victorian house in the seaside resort town of Spring Lake, New Jersey. Her family sold the house in 1892, after one of Emily’s forebears, Madeline Shapley, then a young girl, disappeared.
As the house is renovated and a pool dug, a skeleton is found and identified as Martha Lawrence, a young Spring Lake woman who vanished several years ago…
Stardust
by Robert B. Parker
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
When a Hollywood-based TV series schedules filming in Boston, Spenser smells trouble. When he signs up to protect the show’s star, Jill Joyce, he knows it’s on its way.First, there’s Jill herself. She’s spoiled, arrogant, drugged out — made worse by fear. Someone is out to get her — does she imagine it, or is it real?Spenser monitors her neurosis, but finds evidence of harassment. It escalates to murder. Now begins the dangerous part — while the act may have ended, the murderer lingers on.”STARDUST is a four-star noir suspense that no Spenser fan will be able to resist.” (Publisher’s Source)
Beneath A Deadly Sky
by Frank Wheeler
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
John Mitchell returned home from the war a changed man. Betrayed by his commanding officer, General Nathaniel Carver, all he wanted was a fresh start. But that fresh start was shattered when John’s is killed, leaving him as guardian to his six-year-old niece, Sienna.
Six years later, just as life begins to settle, Carver reappears, coveting John’s land for its rich coal deposits. Only this time, John is not backing down. Joined by his fierce ally Rune, a blacksmith with a quick temper, and Myra, Carver’s defiant daughter, John sets out to stop Carver before he can hurt anyone else.