Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
A Day for Dying
by Dorothy Simpson
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The thirteenth novel in the British mystery series featuring Inspector Luke Thanet from the Silver Dagger Award–winning author Dorothy Simpson, “a modern-day version of Agatha Christie” (Booklist).
When playboy Max Jeopard is killed at his own engagement party, Inspector Luke Thanet is called in to investigate and uncovers a host of suspects, including his fiancée, a jealous brother, an ex-girlfriend, and the victim’s future in-laws .
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman and
The Skull Beneath the Skin
by P. D. James
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Two complete mysteries in one volume featuring a young female sleuth from a New York Times–bestselling author and “champion of the detective mystery”(The New York Times).
In An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, Cordelia’s first assignment finds her hired to investigate the death of a young Cambridge student found hanged in mysterious circumstances.
In The Skull Beneath the Skin, Cordelia is invited to a isolated island to protect an actress, only to find that the death threats she has been receiving are all too real.
Dream State
by Avraham Halili
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After signing up as a test subject for an AI experiment on human consciousness, the unextraordinary Eric Chapman awakes to discover he can manifest dream-like abilities in the real world. Together with Terry, a charismatic career woman who grew tired of the constant rat race of life, the two decide to use Chapman’s newfound powers to heist the dreams of some of the richest and most powerful people in the world, convincing them to give away their fortune. With the corporation that ran Chapman’s experiment in pursuit, Terry and Chapman’s dream of a world without boundaries ripples faster than they could anticipate. And there is no telling where it might end.
Inmate 1577
by Alan Jacobson
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When an elderly woman is found raped and brutally murdered in San Francisco, Vail heads west to team up with SFPD Inspector Lance Burden and her former task force colleague Detective Roxxann Dixon.
As Vail, Burden, and Dixon follow the killer’s trail in and around San Francisco, the offender continues his rampage, leaving behind clues that ultimately lead them to the most unlikely of places: a mysterious island ripped from city lore whose long-buried, decades-old secrets hold the key to their case. Alcatraz. The Rock.
Multo
by Cindy Fazzi
Kindle $9.49 Rating: 5.0 #ad
His latest job is to catch the one that got away…three times.
Filipino-American bounty hunter Domingo has made a career of catching criminal undocumented immigrants. He’s the best in the business—and it isn’t lost on him that he’s so good because of his similarities to his targets. Despite Domingo’s claims that he is unsympathetic to their plight, yet spends his spare moments on stakeouts and in between jobs writing a book of advice for aspiring immigrants. Brash, funny, and candid, he compiles the names of all the people he’s apprehended, documenting the hazards of his profession, and imparting advice to foreigners who dare to dream of life in America.
The Empty Chair
by Jeffery Deaver
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A quadriplegic since a beam crushed his spinal cord years ago, Lincoln Rhyme is desperate to improve his condition and goes to the University of North Carolina Medical Center for high-risk experimental surgery. But he and Sachs have hardly settled in when the local authorities come calling. In a twenty-four-hour period, the sleepy Southern outpost of Tanner’s Corner has seen a local teen murdered and two young women abducted. And Rhyme and Sachs are the best chance to find the girls alive.
Whistle-Stop Politics
by Edward Segal
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Foreword by Jules Witcover, veteran Washington correspondent, award-winning reporter, former political columnist for the Baltimore Sun, and author of 85 Days: The Last Campaign of Robert Kennedy.
Discover the entertaining story of how campaigning by train shaped American politics, elections, journalism, and culture in Whistle-Stop Politics.
Memories of the pivotal role campaign trains played in American elections fade with the passing of each generation. Also forgotten are the stories documented by the reporters who traveled with hundreds of whistle-stopping politicians including Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, and Ronald Reagan.
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder Most Antique
by E. C. Bateman
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Who knew a harmless town fair could be so polarising – or so deadly?
When auctioneer Felicia Grant’s best friend, Stamford Mayor Cassandra Lane, talked her into helping with the town’s annual Georgian Fair, she expected the worst she’d have to endure was the corset. But when the fair’s headline speaker turns up dead in the hook-a-duck pool, and more murders follow in quick succession, she finds herself investigating a serial killer for the second time in less than a year – and this time the stakes are even higher…
The Perfect Friend
by J.V. Cardy
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Lou has finally found a friend. Now she’ll do anything to keep her.
Anna is in a good place in her life – a husband she loves, a great job, a lovely home. Everything is perfect.
But then she gets a call from an old girlfriend, Lou, whom she hasn’t seen for twenty years. Lou, now seeming troubled and off kilter, wants to confess to a fatal hit-and-run from back in the day – an accident which Anna helped cover up. If Lou goes to the police, Anna’s life is over, she’ll lose everything she has worked so hard to build.
Forever
by Geoffrey M. Cooper
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Will medical research unravel the secret to immortality? Or will it be stolen by a master of manipulation, deceit, and murder?
Professor Brad Parker is enjoying his sabbatical in one of Harvard’s leading genomic engineering labs, focused on altering the human genome to meet challenges like treating cancer and increasing longevity. Then he’s interrupted by a surprise request from the FBI. Can he help them track down a Chinese spy who’s stealing the lab’s secrets? Becoming engaged in a case of criminal conspiracy is the last thing Brad wants to do—but at the urging of Karen Richmond, his partner and now an FBI agent herself, he agrees.
Jacob’s Well
by Urcelia Teixeira
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Dark secrets swirl around the small coastal town of Weyport as Mary-Jean Foley discovers just how far she would go to protect her son.
Even with a new sheriff in town. Even when her husband doesn’t agree. Even when she thinks God isn’t looking. But how far is too far and at what cost?
As newly appointed small-town Sheriff Angus Reid settles into Weyport, it doesn’t take him long to discover just how corrupt his new town is. With a desk full of suspicious open cases and too much to prove, he is determined to rid his town of crime and win the hearts of his people.
Big Easy
by Eric Wilder
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“Forget about it, Wyatt. It’s the Big Easy.” Step into the sultry streets of New Orleans and enter a world of voodoo, mystery, and murder in this gripping crime thriller. N.O.P.D. homicide detective Tony Nicosia faces the biggest challenge of his career: a sadistic killer who revels in the ritualistic murder of his victims. With voodoo as the only link, Tony turns to French Quarter private investigator Wyatt Thomas and voodoo mambo Mama Mulate, to unravel the mystery and bring the killer to justice.
As Tony and Mama delve deeper into the world of voodoo, they discover a shocking truth: the killer is none other than a former U.S. senator and a prominent member of New Orleans’ high society.
The Chosen Ones
by Jaye Wells
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
Sabina Kane is one of the most infamous and beloved heroines in the Urban Fantasy genre. This special collection of short fiction is a must-have for any fan of the series, and a must-read for any fan of the genre.
This collection includes four stories: two Sabina Kane novellas plus one short story as well as a bonus Prospero’s War novella.
Fool’s Gold
Violet Tendencies
Rusted Veins
Bonus Novella: Fire Water (Prospero’s War)
Mississippi Blood
by Greg Iles
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Prepare to be surprised. Iles has always been an exceptional storyteller, and he has invested these volumes with an energy and sense of personal urgency that rarely, if ever, falter.” — Washington Post The endgame is at hand for Penn Cage, his family, and the enemies bent on destroying them in this revelatory volume in the epic trilogy set in modern-day Natchez, Mississippi—Greg Iles’s epic tale of love and honor, hatred and revenge that explores how the sins of the past continue to haunt the present. Shattered by grief and dreaming of vengeance, Penn Cage sees his family and his world collapsing around him.
A Taste of Blood
by Lynda La Plante
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The gripping new Detective Jane Tennison thriller from the Queen of Crime Drama, Lynda La Plante. Detective Jane Tennison made a bad choice.
She was the one who put in a transfer to the quiet, local police station in Bromley, keen to escape the relentless pressure of her former West End department. Now she regrets her decision. The tedium of petty crime investigations even makes her question remaining in the force.
Elysium Fire
by Alastair Reynolds
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Ten thousand city-state habitats orbit the planet Yellowstone, forming a near-perfect democratic human paradise.
But even utopia needs a police force. For the citizens of the Glitter Band that organization is Panoply, and the prefects are its operatives.
Prefect Tom Dreyfus has a new emergency on his hands. Across the habitats and their hundred million citizens, people are dying suddenly and randomly, victims of a bizarre and unprecedented malfunction of their neural implants.