Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Bones Under the Ice
by Mary Ann Miller
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Jhonni Laurent is the first female sheriff of Field’s Crossing, Indiana—and now she has her first murder case
Two days after a blizzard hits Field’s Crossing, Indiana, Sheriff Jhonni Laurent discovers the frozen body of a high school senior under a fifteen-foot pile of snow and ice. Murder is rare in farm country, and this death marks the beginning of Jhonni’s first homicide case.
Just as the investigation gets underway, Jhonni’s opponent for sheriff from four years ago wages a bitter reelection battle to oust her…
Now You See Her
by Linda Howard
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A talented painter in her early thirties, Paris Sweeney has achieved enviable success: her work sells at an exclusive New York City gallery, and her popularity is at an all-time high. Life is good, and Sweeney, as she prefers to be called, is content.
But lately, Sweeney’s dreams seem to echo a growing restlessness that has taken hold of her. Suddenly, impulsively, Sweeney falls into a night of intense passion with millionaire Richard Worth. Now, the true dangers of her all-consuming urges are about to be revealed where Sweeney least expects it: in her paintings…
Cub Creek
by Grace Greene
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In the heart of Virginia, where the forests hide secrets and the creeks run strong and deep ~ Libbie Havens is fine on her own. She doesn’t need anyone’s approval. When she chances upon the secluded house on Cub Creek she purchases it. She’ll show her cousin Liz, and other doubters, that she can rise above her past and live happily and successfully on her own terms. Libbie has emotional problems born of a troubled childhood and is more comfortable not being comfortable with people. She knows she’s different from most. She has special gifts, or curses, but are they real? Or are they products of her history and dysfunction?
Sudden Impact
by Paul Heatley
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They have all the money, all the muscle. But they’ve picked on the wrong guy.
Tom Rollins has been hanging low, working a security job in Davenport, Mississippi.
One night, there is trouble in the bar where he covers the door, and when he gets involved, Tom finds himself pitted against Du Lac Chemicals, a billion-dollar corporation with some very nasty skeletons in the closet.
Campaigning ecologist Laila North is determined to expose them, going toe-to-toe with their ruthless head of security who will do whatever it takes to protect their secrets…
About Face
by Donna Leon
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Incinerators across the south of Italy are at full capacity, burning who-knows-what and releasing unacceptable levels of dangerous air pollutants, while in Naples, enormous trash piles grow in the streets. In Venice, with the polluted waters of the canals and a major chemical complex across the lagoon, the issue is never far from the fore.
Then, after an investigator from the Carabiniere, looking into the illegal hauling of garbage, asks for a favor, Guido Brunetti finds himself in the middle of an investigation into murder and corruption even dirtier than the air and water…
The Angel Trials: The Complete Series
by Michelle Madow
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Magic. Romance. Adventure. Twists.
Raven Danvers was a typical college student… until a demon attacks her on the night of her twenty-first birthday. Luckily, she’s saved by Noah—a mysterious, sexy wolf shifter who appears and disappears before she can ask him any questions.
Then, her mom is abducted by the same demon who came after her. And who turns up at the scene of the crime again? Noah. He’s hunting the demons who are taking humans, and he’s ultimately heading where Raven need to go to save her mom—the mystical island of Avalon…
Murder by Candlelight
by Faith Martin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
One suspicious death. Two amateur sleuths. And an utterly impossible crime…
The Cotswolds, 1924. At the Old Forge in the quiet village of Maybury-in-the-Marsh a cry of anguish rings out: lady of the house Amy Phelps has been discovered dead. But with all the windows and doors to her room locked from inside, how – and by whom – was she killed?
Arbuthnot ‘Arbie’ Swift finds himself in the unlikely position of detective. The celebrated author of The Gentleman’s Guide to Ghost-Hunting is staying at the Old Forge to investigate a suspected spectre, but now the more pressing matter of Amy’s murder falls to him too…
The Listener
by Robert McCammon
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Economic collapse. Crushing unemployment and breadlines crowding city streets as crime spirals out of control. The Great Depression has enough misery for all, and some to spare. But for angel-faced grifter John Partlow, the American South in 1934 is a land of opportunity. The small-time confidence man stumbles into the big leagues when he partners up with beautiful hustler Ginger LaFrance. Seduced into her high stakes plot to kidnap the young children of a New Orleans shipping magnate, John realizes he’s in over his head when Ginger’s fierce desire to see her scheme succeed could mean a gruesome end for their innocent victims.
Fever of the Bone
by Val McDermid
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A criminal profiler races to catch a serial killer preying upon teenagers in this shocking crime thriller by the author of The Wire in the Blood.
He is psychologist and criminal profiler Dr. Tony Hill’s worst nightmare—a killer driven by the most perverted hungers and unmoved by youth and innocence, a killer with a long shopping list of victims who leaves no trail. The murder-mutilation of teenager Jennifer Maidment is horrific enough on its own, but Hill quickly realizes that it’s just the beginning of a chilling campaign targeting an apparently unconnected group of young people—victims that the monster has been grooming through a social networking site.
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Faithful Place
by Tana French
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Back in 1985, Frank Mackey was a nineteen-year-old kid with a dream of escaping hisi family’s cramped flat on Faithful Place and running away to London with his girl, Rosie Daly. But on the night they were supposed to leave, Rosie didn’t show. Frank took it for granted that she’d dumped him-probably because of his alcoholic father, nutcase mother, and generally dysfunctional family. He never went home again. Neither did Rosie. Then, twenty-two years later, Rosie’s suitcase shows up behind a fireplace in a derelict house on Faithful Place, and Frank, now a detective in the Dublin Undercover squad, is going home whether he likes it or not.
The Wrong Neighbour
by Caleb Crowe
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
They’ve moved into their dream house. Then they meet the couple next door. After a whirlwind romance, Megan and Nick move into the home of their dreams, a beautiful beach house. They think it’s their happily ever after… until their neighbours return from a cruise.
Ron and Jackie are loud and obnoxious, playing their home cinema at high volume, and shattering the tranquillity with their endless building work. To cap it all, they have a kennel with four dangerous dogs that bark and howl day and night.
They are the living definition of the neighbours from hell.
Nowhere to Run
by C. J. Box
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A mountain patrol leads Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett into a dangerous situation in this gripping novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author C. J. Box.
It’s Joe Pickett’s last week as a temporary game warden in the mountain town of Baggs, Wyoming, but his conscience won’t let him leave without checking out the strange reports coming from the wilderness: camps looted, tents slashed, elk butchered. What awaits him is like something out of an old campfire tale, except this story is all too real—and all too deadly.
Earthly Vessels
by David T. Isaak
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Some heroes need help. A lot of help.
All cultures have a legend of a Chosen One, a Messiah, a golden child who will be born to redeem them. But thirty-something Arby Keeling is not that guy, and Earthly Vessels is not that story.
Through a mix-up in the great metaphysical switchboard of the universe, a ritual intended to incarnate a long-awaited deity results in Arby instead. He is special, though. So, when his unorthodox energy inevitably attracts attention, Arby finds himself hunted by some who fear he has come to usurp their powers—and sought by others who wish to enlist him as an ally.
Oasis Target
by Jennifer Pierce
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Tropical islands are popular for destination weddings. But Peni won’t be a popular destination for long if Detective Noa Tanielu can’t find out who is responsible for a ring of thefts occurring during weddings. When the thefts escalate to the murder of a bridezilla, the most likely suspect is the new wedding photographer.
Wedding photographer Haley Marsh moved to the island to nurse her broken heart and start over after being dumped two days before her wedding. When she’s moved from the suspect list to the target list, a little white lie leads to a fake engagement. With Haley’s connections to the wedding business, it’s clear the key to solving this case lies in keeping up the charade.
Picture Me Dead & Hotshot P.I.
by Heather Graham, B.J. Daniels
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
AN ARRESTING AFFAIR: Ashley Montague is nearing the end of her police training—but nothing has prepared her for the shocking discovery of a body on the highway. When she links the body to Detective Jake Dilessio’s case, they are forced to work together to find the killer.
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Hotshot P.I. by New York Times bestselling author B.J. Daniels: When Clancy Jones awakens at a murder scene—with the bloodied weapon in her hand—to the untrained eye, she looks mighty guilty. But to private investigator Jake Hawkins, she still looks as good as she did ten years ago.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: The Illustrated Edition
by Douglas Adams
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
“Extremely funny . . . inspired lunacy . . . [and] over much too soon.”—The Washington Post Book World
Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor.
Lunch with the Deadly Dozen
by Peter Berry
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A secret group of retired experts hunt a methodical serial killer, in this compelling debut crime thriller set in London . . .
Widowed and in his sixties, Thomas Quinn has been invited to lunch by Lexington Smith, the leader of a covert team who call themselves The Twelve. When Thomas decides to join group, he finds himself united with other retired specialists—from a surgeon to a locksmith to a cabbie—in a quest to capture and assassinate a killer targeting homeless victims on London’s transport system.
Dragon Fever
by Serena Meadows
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
These five hot steamy stories feature powerful dragons, who were exiled by their clan because they were reckless and wild and how they break all rules to meet and protect their mates.
NATALIE and JUDE will be the first ones you’ll meet…
I used to be a brother, son, protector. Now, I’m a shadow. Exiled from my clan of dragon-shifters, I drift among the humans without purpose or belonging. My inner dragon snaps and snarls as it struggles to adapt, but like me, it has no choice—this is our life now.