Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
The Jailhouse Lawyer
by James Patterson, Nancy Allen
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
From James Patterson, the world’s #1 bestselling author: a young lawyer takes on the judge who is destroying her hometown—and ends up in jail herself.
In picture-perfect Erva, Alabama, the most serious crimes are misdemeanors. Speeding tickets. Shoplifting. Contempt of court. Then why is the jail so crowded? And why are so few prisoners released? There’s only one place to learn the truth behind these incriminating secrets.
Little Girl Lost
by Mia Frances
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Sheriff Zac McHenry is fit to be tied. A new “working girl” just showed up at the local truck stop. He doesn’t want “her kind” in town! He arrests her, but things aren’t what they seem. She’s no hooker…she’s a librarian! Her name is Ali, and she’s trying to track down a 13-year-old runaway. The girl disappeared from the truck stop a week ago and hasn’t been heard from since. Zac tries to send Ali packing, even checks her out of her motel room, but she refuses to leave until she finds the girl. With the rodeo in town and all the hotel and motel rooms in the area booked up, Ali finds herself temporarily homeless. With no place else to go, she moves in with the sheriff until a room becomes available…
If Only You Knew
by Theo Baxter
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Both of them said ‘Till death do us part’. One of them meant it. Emily is on the home stretch of an acrimonious divorce from husband Teddy when she realizes someone is following her.
The stalking quickly escalates into something more sinister.
Emily starts getting hang-up phone calls and suspects someone is coming into her home when she isn’t there. Her email is hacked and she almost loses her job. She finds cameras and microphones hidden all over her house.
In the Moon of Red Ponies
by James Lee Burke
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Billy Bob Holland has moved his family to west Montana and hung out a shingle for his law practice. But he discovers that jail cells have revolving doors and that the government he had sworn to serve may have become his enemy.
His first client in Missoula is Johnny American Horse, a young activist for land preservation and the rights of Native Americans. Johnny is charged with the murder of two mysterious men—who seem to have recently tried to kill Johnny themselves, or at least scare him off his political causes…
Alpha Beta Gamma
by Malabika RAY
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 3.4 #ad
Physics masters student Sri accidentally gets involved in a complicated mystery as one of her professors mysteriously gets killed in his own lab in London. As a young officer from MI6 takes charge of the investigation, soon it becomes clear that this is no ordinary murder, but a case of high profile espionage and reckless spying. The murderer leaves no clue, even the weapon is unknown. Moreover, the state investigating agency also seem compromised with the existence of an internal mole. As Sri and her investigator friend gets chased by the ruthless, international spies, they run up and down the country to escape them. The story progress in warp speed and finally the mystery is resolved thanks to Sri’s cool, calm intellect and flawless physics knowledge…
Gwyneth in the Garden
by Amanda Gale
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Gwyneth O’Shaughnessy lives a quiet existence in a sleepy Maine town. Outside her work at the local historical society, she confines herself to her cozy Victorian home, convincing herself she’s more satisfied that way. But when Liam Baxter moves into the house next door, Gwyneth’s interest is piqued. From the safety of her window, she watches as he performs strange rituals in his winter garden, planting unusual flowers and reciting poetry during midnight snowfalls.
After a chance meeting, their friendship blossoms, and Liam invites her to share the secrets of his garden. They bond over mythology and magic, and Gwyneth feels more special than she has in decades…
Final Assignment
by Linwood Barclay
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Private investigator Cal Weaver doesn’t know what to expect when he’s called to the home of Chandler Carson. The sixteen-year-old has been suspended for writing a violent story about a bat-wielding teen who beats his best friend to death over a girl. Much to Chandler’s mother’s surprise, there’s nothing that Cal is willing to do—or can do—about it.
Soon after, Chandler’s best friend is found murdered—beaten to death by a bat. Cal knew the victim, and now he knows the prime suspect. But there’s more to this story than anyone could have imagined…
The It Girls
by Karen Harper
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 3.9 #ad
From New York Times bestselling author Karen Harper comes a novel based on the lives of two amazing sisters . . .
One sailed the Titanic and started a fashion empire . . . The other overtook Hollywood and scandalized the world . . . Together, they were unstoppable.
They rose from genteel poverty, two beautiful sisters, ambitious, witty, seductive. Elinor and Lucy Sutherland are at once each other’s fiercest supporters and most vicious critics.
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.