Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Elevated Madness and Other Stories
by John D. Ottini
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Semi-Finalist in the 2021 Royal Palm Literary Award Competition. (Florida Writers Association)
The real world is filled with people who live quiet, productive, uneventful lives. These are not the characters you’ll meet in author John D. Ottini’s world of twisted fiction.
Elevated Madness & Other Stories consists of 11 short stories that will amuse, shock, and enlighten you. The twists and turns in each story will keep you guessing until the conclusion, where you’ll be left shaking your head and wondering, “Why didn’t I see that coming?”
The Rule of Threes
by Jeffery Deaver
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Special Agent Constant Marlowe is tasked with taking over the investigation of an obsessed serial killer trolling the small town of Clark Valley in the quiet—and eerie—plains of the Midwest. Two female victims in quick succession, the same brutal MO, and every indication that victim number three is only days away. Also in the killer’s scope is Constant herself. When she interviews a local family who may be potential witnesses, she leads the devil to their doorstep, throwing their lives into chaos…
Blind Eye
by Vanessa Luther
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
After enduring years of infidelity and a painful divorce, Rachel Davis has finally reclaimed her life. Gorgeous, intelligent and now with a tenacity to survive whatever life throws at her, Rachel feels better than she has in a long time. With two wonderful children, a successful career and a newfound strength, life is good.
At least until she gets involved with Eric Sinclair, a handsome but mysterious colleague in the throes of a nasty divorce. What starts off as a harmless friendship catapults into a sensuous affair filled with sex, lies and murder…
I Follow You
by Peter James
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Obsession takes over the mind of a physician in this thriller by the #1 international bestselling author of the Roy Grace series.
Marcus Valentine seemingly has it all: He’s a smart, charming, and successful doctor with a wife, three kids, and a job he loves. But something, or rather someone, is missing . . .
One morning, driving to work, he almost runs down a female jogger crossing the road. Marcus cannot take his eyes off her. She is identical to a girl he was infatuated with in his teens. A girl he has never forgotten.
Black Plumes
by Margery Allingham
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A classic from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. “One of the best books by a mystery novelist whose work is always of first rank.” —The New York Times
Something is afoot at the Ivory Gallery in London. A string of suspicious incidents—a Kang-Tse vase broken, a specially commissioned catalog burned, and now a painting slashed—has young Frances Ivory on edge. She suspects that the instigator is her stepsister’s husband, Robert Madrigal, but there’s not much she can do about it while her father is out of the country.
Sleight of Hand
by CJ Lyons
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Two months ago Dr. Cassandra Hart was forced to kill a man. The man who murdered her best friend, almost killed Detective Mickey Drake, and seriously wounded her. Now she’s back at work in her Pittsburgh ER, but nothing seems the same.
When she fears that a young boy is being abused by his “perfect” mother, her friends and colleagues worry that she’s returned to work too soon, imagining dangers that don’t exist. Others accuse her of trying to cover up her own alleged mistakes in the boy’s treatment by making a false report of abuse.
The Haunting of Evie Meyers
by Rick Wood
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Following a fatal exorcism, Mo decides he can’t take it anymore. He’s not cut out for a life of fighting demons.
He leaves his friends behind, in search of a life that doesn’t matter. He wishes to wallow in despair, and drink away his days until death finally arrives. But the demon next door won’t let him.
EMBRACE THE WIND
by Susan Denning
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What is the cost of living life on your own terms? For a young woman on the American Frontier, the price can be high. Aislynn Maher trusted the wrong man. To conceal her disgrace, she abandons her job, her home, her family and friends. She turns to the raw, contentious US marshal of the Wyoming Territory, Orrin Sage, who is hiding a guilty secret of his own. Setting out alone, Aislynn brings her optimism and determination to Cheyenne. But in this rough town, with its prejudice, violence and lawlessness, it’s not just difficult to do what you believe is right─ it’s potentially deadly.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
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Murder on Tour
by V.M. Burns
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Bookstore owner and Michigander Samantha Washington is thrilled to see her debut historical mystery finally on the shelves, but a killer seems determined to steal away the spotlight . . .
While Sam wraps up her first whirlwind book tour, Nana Jo has kept Market Street Mysteries running smoothly. The last stop is a prestigious book festival in Sam’s hometown of North Harbor, Michigan. But not everyone thinks the guest of honor, bestselling author Judith Hunter, deserves stellar reviews. Sam witnesses nasty arguments between Judith and two different authors—who accuse her of plagiarism and sabotage . . .
The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions
by Kerry Greenwood
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
“With Phryne Fisher, the indefatigable Greenwood has invented the character-you-fall-in-love-with genre.” —The Australian
In The Lady with Gun Asks the Questions, Kerry Greenwood distills the Phryne of her books and imagination. For those fans looking for greater character depth, a richer historical context of the twenties, and Phryne as her truest, freest self, Greenwood has curated just the right stories from her 21 novels and added four brand-new ones so we may meet the real fabulous Miss Fisher.
Strange Weather Collection
by Joe Hill
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A collection of four chilling novels, ingeniously wrought gems of terror from the brilliantly imaginative, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fireman, Joe Hill.
“I read/listened to this book over a weekend and really enjoyed it! All four stories carry their own element of the strange. Hill does a called t job of weaving the improbable with the good/evil in people. I enjoyed the audible version, with Wil Wheaton’s take on Snapshot as my favorite. Some may be out of by various political stances – let that go and enjoy this for the ride that it is.” by Amazon Customer
Sister Morphine
by Raoul Michelle
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Madeleine is determined to bring the killer to justice. She and her father must go beyond an underworld art scene that hides its own dark secrets and travel between DC, New York, Paris, Switzerland, and Venice. And as they delve deeper into the case, the lines between vengeance and justice blur, and the sins of the past intertwine with the present.
Can this father-daughter duo uncover the truth and dispense justice before two ruthless powers get away with murder?
Crooked Little Vein
by Warren Ellis
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Burned-out private dick Michael McGill needs to jump-start his career. What he gets instead is a cattle prod to the crotch. The president’s heroin-addicted chief of staff wants McGill to find the Constitution—the real one the Founding Fathers secretly devised for the time of gravest crisis. And with God, civility, and Mom’s homemade apple pie already dead or dying, that time is now. But McGill has a talent for stumbling into every imaginable depravity—and this case is driving him even deeper into America’s darkest, dankest underbelly, toward obscenities that boggle even his mind.
Justice for Hattie Mayfair
by Irene Onorato
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Lexi Mallard saw what happened in the woods. But if she tells…
Ten years is a long time to keep a secret. Eat, sleep, work. Stay busy. A social life seems impossible until Corbin Taylor, Lexi’s policeman next-door-neighbor, reaches out in friendship that quickly becomes much more serious. Lexi’s budding relationship with a cop doesn’t go unnoticed by her evil brother.
She quickly learns that putting the past behind is not always an option. Sometimes it will chase, overtake, and try to kill you.
Downward to the Earth
by Robert Silverberg
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After eight years away from the planet known as Holman’s World, Edmund Gunderson has returned. Before, as the assistant station manager, he helped the Company exploit the bustling colonial outpost for Earth’s gain—mining its riches and putting its native species to work.
Now, the planet has been given back to its inhabitants: the intelligent, elephant-like beings known as the nildoror, who peacefully coexist with carnivorous bipeds known as the sulidoror. And Edmund Gunderson has come back to relive his past and meet up with old acquaintances. Or so he says . . .
My American Dream
by Barbara Sommer Feigin
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
On August 4, 1940, the Seattle Times featured a photo of a toddler sitting on a dock, surrounded by suitcases and looking dazed. After a harrowing journey with her parents, she’d just stepped off a boat and into her new life in America. Barbara Sommer Feigin was that little girl.
Over seventy years later, Feigin made a stunning discovery: her Jewish father had kept a detailed journal that chronicled their family’s escape from Nazi Germany. Her parents had never spoken of it, and she remembered nothing of their terrifying, death-defying passage three-quarters of the way around the world—from Berlin to Seattle by way of Lithuania, Russia, China, Korea, and Japan before crossing the Pacific.