Monday’s Mystery eBooks
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The Five Bells and Bladebone
by Martha Grimes
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A body in a bureau sends the Scotland Yard detective on a vexing investigation in this “absorbing and stylishly crafty” mystery (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
When a dismembered corpse is found in the compartments of an antique writing bureau, Marshall Trueblood, recipient of the precious piece of furniture, is the first to protest: “I bought the desk, not the body, send it back.” But the dead body of Simon Lean presents more pressing concerns. Who, for example, would want to kill the greedy nephew of the wealthy Lady Summerston?
Fox on the Roof Murder
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Is Wren Casper a doddering old woman or is she being gaslighted? Her friends wonder. First she claims to play ball with a fox on a roof. Then her stories escalate…to include murder.
Newly elected Bluebonnet, Texas, Sheriff Tulsa Edwards dismisses the woman with brown hair growing tired of fighting against the grey overtaking it and silver eyes capable of penetrating his façade of authority when she comes to him with claims of cars changing colors and rock climbers stealing children. He can’t dismiss the things that happen to her – like the eight-foot concrete gorilla mysteriously plunked down in her front yard. But did she order it and then forget?
X
by Sue Grafton
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
X: The number ten. An unknown quantity. A mistake. A cross. A kiss…
Perhaps Sue Grafton’s darkest and most chilling novel, X features a remorseless serial killer who leaves no trace of his crimes. Once again breaking the rules and establishing new paths, Grafton wastes little time identifying this deadly sociopath. The test is whether private investigator Kinsey Millhone can prove her case against him—before she becomes his next victim.
Keeping Downwind
by Andrew Miller
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
She’s the most notorious bounty hunter in the Federation. Her predation of pirates, criminals, and New Hollywood executives have made her the nightmare bogeyman of any who dare to target the weak and helpless. The Overone of the Fey fears her as the harbinger of mass resistance against its telepathic domination of enslaved species.
She shoots first, and rarely asks questions. She eats a kilogram of meat in a single sitting, and likes her tools oversized, overpowered, and crammed into tight packages. But none of that will help her this time. This time the job isn’t about tracking down a desperate fugitive, or playing hunter and prey with an entire crews of gun toting pirate. This time the job is a criminal investigation…
Golden in Death
by J. D. Robb
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Pediatrician Kent Abner received the package on a beautiful April morning. Inside was a cheap trinket, a golden egg that could be opened into two halves. When he pried it apart, highly toxic airborne fumes entered his body—and killed him.
After Eve Dallas calls the hazmat team—and undergoes testing to reassure both her and her husband that she hasn’t been exposed—it’s time to look into Dr. Abner’s past and relationships. Not every victim Eve encounters is an angel, but it seems that Abner came pretty close—though he did ruffle some feathers over the years by taking stands for the weak and defenseless…
Black Sheep
by Rachel Harrison
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.9 #ad
A cynical twentysomething must confront her unconventional family’s dark secrets in this fiery, irreverent horror novel from the author of Such Sharp Teeth and Cackle.
Nobody has a “normal” family, but Vesper Wright’s is truly…something else. Vesper left home at eighteen and never looked back—mostly because she was told that leaving the staunchly religious community she grew up in meant she couldn’t return. But then an envelope arrives on her doorstep…
Dragon Moon Rising
by Daniel O’Connor
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
After 600 years, the dragon Lessiam suddenly awakens with a human crying above him, the boy’s tears falling upon his forehead. Jos grew up a slave & just escaped after his last remaining family member was burned alive right in front of him for attempting to incite a slave riot.
As Jos and Lessiam come to know one another and investigate how Lessiam came to be enstoned for the past 600 years, they uncover the Dragon Moon Spell, which will reach its horrific climax with the destruction of all good dragons on the coming of the next full moon…
The Camelot Caper
by Elizabeth Peters
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
For Jessica Tregarth, an unexpected invitation to visit her grandfather in England is a wonderful surprise—an opportunity to open doors to a family past that has always been closed to her. But sinister acts greet her arrival. A stranger tries to steal her luggage and later accosts her in Salisbury Cathedral. Mysterious villains pursue her through Cornwall, their motives and intentions unknown. Jessica’s only clue is an antique heirloom she possesses, an ancient ring that bears the Tregarth family crest…
The Royal Nanny
by Karen Harper
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Based on a seldom-told true story, this novel is perfect for everyone who is fascinated by Britain’s royal family—a behind the scenes look into the nurseries of little princes and the foibles of big princes.
April, 1897: A young nanny arrives at Sandringham, ancestral estate of the Duke and Duchess of York. She is excited, exhausted—and about to meet royalty…
Savage Devotion
by Ajme Williams
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Sold to the Brotherhood. Betrayed by my sister and ex, I clawed my way free, leaving a trail of gunfire and a darkness deeper than the basement cell.
Now, I wake, a captive in a gilded cage. Damian, Chicago’s most ruthless mob boss, claims me with a single word: “Mine.”
His touch offers a twisted security, but the danger hasn’t ended. Now, with a secret life blossoming within me, the real battle begins.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Rendezvous and Revenge
by Hope Callaghan
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
When the star of Siren of the Seas new hit show is murdered backstage, Felix lands the lead role and also the top spot on the list of suspects. Can Millie solve the mystery in time to clear her friend’s name?
Discover why so many fans love the “Original” Cruise Ship Cozy Mystery series by Hope Callaghan!
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Second Nature
by Alice Hoffman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Robin Moore, coping with a divorce and a troubled teen-aged son, impulsively rescues a strange man from a psychiatric ward—a beautiful, uncivilized innocent who has been raised in the wilderness and possesses no more sophistication than a child. But when she brings him home to her perfectly ordered neighborhood, the events that follow cause Robin to question her wisdom and doubt her own heart—and, ultimately, to change all of her ideas about love and humanity.
“Her richest and wisest, as well as her boldest, novel to date.” – The New York Times Book Review
Infliction Point
by Mark Hacker
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Zach Axton is in a dark place. After the brutal murder of the love of his life, the haunted FBI agent is one border collie away from cashing in his chips. But he’s grudgingly pulled back into action when a prisoner in an experimental government program designed to increase brain functioning escapes in a violent and bloody confrontation.
Teaming up with his former partner and a beautiful assistant district attorney, Axton uses his specialized skills in hunting serial killers to track down the brilliant psychopath. But the secret to his success in knowing the minds of murderers could be the very thing that leads him to his own destruction…
Girl Trap
by Cynthia Hamilton
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Appearances can be deceiving. And in Southern California, where the sun shines almost every day and make-believe has its own industry, it’s hard to tell what is real and what is merely illusion.
Two inquiries come to MDPI on the same day that seem like fairly straight-forward missing person cases. But it doesn’t take long to discover there’s nothing ordinary about the disappearance of two beautiful sisters from Minnesota and an estranged heiress who has never touched her eight-figure fortune…
The Obsession
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Naomi Bowes lost her innocence the night she followed her father into the woods. In freeing the girl trapped in the root cellar, Naomi revealed the horrible extent of her father’s crimes and made him infamous. No matter how close she gets to happiness, she can’t outrun the sins of Thomas David Bowes.
Now a successful photographer living under the name Naomi Carson, she has found a place that calls to her, a rambling old house in need of repair, thousands of miles away from everything she’s ever known. Naomi wants to embrace the solitude, but the kindly residents of Sunrise Cove keep forcing her to open up—especially the determined Xander Keaton.
Silk Road
by Colin Falconer
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Bestselling historical thriller, Silk Road, paints a captivating story of courage, daring and human frailty onto the grand canvas of the medieval East.
The Holy Land, 1260: Josseran Sarrazini is a Templar Knight, trained for war. But as the Christian garrisons in the Holy Land begin to fall to the Saracen, he is sent on a mission of peace. Haunted by the things he has done, he sees it as a way to escape his past.
His task is formidable. To forge an alliance with Kublai Khan, ruler of the greatest empire in history and commander of the invincible Mongol horde. To ride the treacherous Silk Road to the edge of the known world. To cheat hunger, thirst and death. And to put his trust in a people who do not believe in his cause or his god…
One Good Time
by Luana Ehrlich
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
CIA operative Titus Ray is supposed to be enjoying his time off after a grueling m mission. His division head specifically told him to go home and have a good time with his family.
But then, in the middle of his daughter’s birthday party, when he receives disturbing news about an imminent threat to America’s heartland, he postpones having a good time with his family and agrees to lead a joint FBI/CIA operation to the southern border. How could he do otherwise?
He couldn’t have a good time when . . . A group of terrorists have access to a new bioweapon . . .
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A Killing of Innocents
by Deborah Crombie
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
On a rainy November evening, trainee doctor Sasha Johnson hurries through the evening crowd in London’s historic Russell Square. Out of the darkness, someone jostles her as they brush past. A moment later, Sasha stumbles, then collapses. When Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and his sergeant, Doug Cullen, are called to the scene, they discover that she’s been stabbed.
Kincaid immediately calls in his detective wife, Gemma James, who has recently been assigned to a task force on knife crimes which are on the rise. Along with her partner, detective sergeant Melody Talbot, Gemma aids the investigation…