Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Midnight Shadow
by Candle Sutton
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
It’s not the first time she’s fled for her life. When an armed assailant breaks into her home, geneticist Tari Salah is forced to run from an unknown enemy. The murder of two friends and the bombing of her lab strip her of all her allies. When she’s framed for the crimes and branded a terrorist, she can’t even go to the police for help.
He thought it would be an easy case… he couldn’t be more wrong. Special Agent Dalton Fowler is thrilled when the director of a covert law enforcement agency handpicks him for a sensitive case. Locating and protecting a wrongly accused geneticist should be simple. When he’s shot his second day on the case, he quickly realizes that nothing about the case will be straightforward. Failure won’t just tank his career – it’ll end his life.
Their enemies won’t relent...
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(The Shadows Mysteries)
The Mercedes Coffin
by Faye Kellerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Billionaire Genoa Greeves believes the LAPD should finally solve the fifteen-year-old execution-style murder of her favorite teacher, Bennett Little—especially now that Hollywood music producer Primo Ekerling has been slain in an eerily similar manner: shot and stuffed into the trunk of his Mercedes-Benz.
Lieutenant Peter Decker resents having to commit valuable manpower to a cold case simply because a rich woman says, “Jump!”…
Murderous and Desperate 2 Boxed Sets
by Daniel Scott
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A Murderous Mind: Five relentless years. Not a single kill. Included in this boxed set:
Hunter
Obsession
Consumed
A Desperate Man: You can’t cage evil. You have to kill it. Included in this boxed set:
A Desperate Man
A Desperate Nation
A Desperate World
Street of the Five Moons
by Elizabeth Peters
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Vicky gasped at the sight of the exquisite gold pendant her boss at Munich’s National Museum held in his hand. The Charlemagne talisman replica, along with a note in hieroglyphs, was found sewn into the suit pocket of an unidentified man found dead in an alley.
Vicky vows to find the master craftsman who created it. It’s a daring chase that takes her all the way to Rome and through the dusty antique centers and moonlit streets of the most romantic city in the world. But soon she’s trapped in a treacherous game of intrigue that could cost her life — or her heart…
Reckoning
by Catherine Coulter
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Agents Savich and Sherlock are back in the latest installment in Catherine Coulter’s #1 New York Times bestselling FBI Thriller series, and this time both are enlisted to help women with traumatic pasts who are in mortal danger.
When she was twelve years old, Kirra Mandarian’s parents were murdered and she barely escaped with her life. Fourteen years later Kirra is a commonwealth attorney back home in Porte Franklin, Virginia, and her goal is to find out who killed her parents and why. She assumes the identity of E.N.—Eliot Ness—and gathers proof to bring down the man she believes was behind her parents’ deaths.
Dark Side of the Moon
by Alan Jacobson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In 1972, Apollo 17 returned to Earth with two hundred pounds of rock—as well as something far more dangerous than they could have imagined. For decades, the military concealed the crew’s mysterious discovery. But now a NASA contractor has leaked the intel to conspiring foreign powers, putting in their hands the most powerful weapon of mass destruction yet created.
While FBI profiler Karen Vail and OPSIG Team Black colleague Alexandra Rusakov try to root out the NASA mole and break up the spy ring, covert operatives Hector DeSantos and Aaron Uziel prepare for a mission beyond anything they’ve ever attempted—a spaceflight to the moon itself—to avert a war that could not only disrupt the global balance of power, but also end in catastrophic annihilation…
I Am the Only Running Footman
by Martha Grimes
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
The Scotland Yard detective investigates an elusive pair of murders in this “intriguing, appealing” entry in the New York Times–bestselling series (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
In a rainy ditch in a Devon wood, a hitchhiker is found dead. Almost a year later, on another rainy night, another murder; this time, however, the victim is found just outside a pub called I Am the Only Running Footman, near Berkeley Square in London’s fashionable Mayfair District. Devon policeman Brian Macalvie believes the two murders are connected. And thus, detective Richard Jury is drawn into the so-called Porphyria killings.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Top Secret Twenty-One
by Janet Evanovich
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Trenton, New Jersey’s favorite used-car dealer, Jimmy Poletti, was caught selling a lot more than used cars out of his dealerships. Now he’s out on bail and has missed his date in court, and bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is looking to bring him in. Leads are quickly turning into dead ends, and all too frequently into dead bodies. Even Joe Morelli, the city’s hottest cop, is struggling to find a clue to the suspected killer’s whereabouts. These are desperate times, and they call for desperate measures…
Dark Storm Rising
by Linda Castillo
Kindle $1.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
Newlyweds Chief of Police Kate Burkholder and John Tomasetti are happily spending their honeymoon at a beautiful Lake Erie cabin that was once part of an historic Amish settlement. But when a violent storm suddenly erupts, Lovina Nisley, the Amish owner of the cabin, goes missing. Lovina is in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, so it initially appears the elderly woman simply took the wrong path, but her disappearance takes an ominous turn when her husband reveals that a developer has been threatening them if they refuse to sell him their home…
The Inheritance
by Kevin Lynch
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Jane must return to the one place she fears most. Her family home.
Jane’s father was murdered in cold blood at the family home. The killer was never found. In the years since, Jane has done everything in her power to stay away from that house. To forget the nightmare and get on with her life.
But now she has to go back.
Hands On Homicide
by Sarah Hualde
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Almost dying left Corky. With a little something extra…
The ability to see secrets with a single touch. Not the best gift for a professional masseuse.
In the bustling town where faith and fortitude collide, Corky’s life takes an unforeseen turn after a near-fatal incident leaves her with a bewildering gift. Hands On Homicide invites readers into a world where the ordinary becomes extraordinary, and a touch can reveal the deepest secrets. This first installment in The Massage and Murder Mystery Series unveils a tale of suspense, faith, and a puzzle that only a strong female character can solve.
Harmful Intent
by Robin Cook
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A physician turned fugitive must save himself and stop a lethal drug-tampering plot in Robin Cook’s most disturbing techno-chiller yet.
Anesthesiologist Dr. Jeffrey Rhodes’s nightmare begins with nerve-shattering swiftness, but it will haunt him always: he administers routine anesthesia during a normal birth. Suddenly the young, healthy mother goes into inexplicable seizures and dies; her infant survives but is severely disabled and brain damaged. But the living nightmare is only beginning: sued first for malpractice, then brought up on criminal charges, Jeffrey is convicted of malpractice—to the tune of $11 million—then of harmful intent and reckless disregard for human life…second-degree murder carrying a mandatory prison term.
Keep Me In Your Heart
by Lorhainne Eckhart
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
A Friessen family celebration turns tragic when the marriage of one daughter is preceded by the heartbreaking loss of another.
Three days before Sara Friessen’s wedding, her older sister, Chelsea, who is married to the son of a notorious criminal, disappears without a trace. The police have no leads, and her husband, Alaric Taft, has also gone missing. To find the couple, the Friessens must come face to face with the kind of deadly underworld they had never expected would touch their family.
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The Mist
by Stephen King
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In the wake of a summer storm, terror descends…David Drayton, his son Billy, and their neighbor Brent Norton join dozens of others and head to the local grocery store to replenish supplies following a freak storm. Once there, they become trapped by a strange mist that has enveloped the town. As the confinement takes its toll on their nerves, a religious zealot, Mrs. Carmody, begins to play on their fears to convince them that this is God’s vengeance for their sins. She insists a sacrifice must be made and two groups—those for and those against—are aligned.
Hindsight
by Iris Johansen, Roy Johansen
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Dr. Kendra Michaels, blind for the first twenty years of her life before gaining her sight via a revolutionary surgical procedure, is a renowned investigator known for her razor-sharp senses — honed during her years in the dark — and keen deductive abilities.
Now her skills are needed uncomfortably close to home. Two staff members have been murdered at a school for the blind where Kendra spent her formative years. But the murders are puzzlingly dissimilar: one victim was brutally stabbed, while the other was killed by a bullet to the head. Are the crimes related? Or is Kendra on the hunt for more than one dangerous killer?