Monday’s Mystery eBooks
The Maltese Iguana
by Tim Dorsey
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
After a long and arduous COVID-19 quarantine, Serge A. Storms is fully vaccinated and ready to hit the road. Along with his condo neighbors, he cooks up a wild plan to celebrate in true Serge fashion: each week, they rent a shuttle van and head out for funky Florida road trips and some serious revelry.
Meanwhile, a CIA revenge operation down in Honduras goes very, very wrong. The local liaison hired to help with the mission is the only witness to the disaster, and the CIA quickly sets a black ops contractor on his trail to eliminate him.
Doctored Evidence
by Donna Leon
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
After a wealthy elderly woman is found brutally murdered in her Venetian apartment, the police suspect her maid, who has disappeared and is heading for her native Romania. But when it becomes clear the maid could not have had time to kill the old woman before catching her train, Guido Brunetti decides—unofficially—to take on the case himself.
As his wife reads about the seven deadly sins, Brunetti realizes that this is probably not a crime motivated by greed—rather, the motive may have more to do with the temptations of lust. But perhaps Brunetti is following a false trail and thinking of the wrong sin altogether . . .
Psychopaths Anonymous
by Will Carver
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
When AA meetings make her want to drink more, alcoholic murderess Maeve sets up a group for psychopaths … The dark, unpredictable, electrifyingly original new thriller from critically acclaimed author Will Carver.
‘Cements Carver as one of the most exciting authors in Britain. After this, he’ll have his own cult following’ Daily Express
‘Will Carver is an exhilarating and audacious new voice in literary crime fiction’ Sarah Pinborough
Her Forgotten Life
by Maggie K. Black
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
To protect her baby she needs to remember who she is.
Gunshot victim Sara Kilpatrick has no memory of her life before she ended up in an Amish farmhouse – or why someone’s trying to kill her. But when clues lead to her own gravestone, Sara discovers a deadly conspiracy – and a husband and baby she doesn’t remember. And uncovering the truth could cost her everything…including the family she just found.
Run for Cover
by Michael Ledwidge
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Fresh from a lethal entanglement with some of the deepest and darkest players in the global intelligence services, Michael Gannon heads to the safest place he can think of: deep in the wilds of Utah on the ranch of one of his oldest and closest war buddies.
But when his friend’s brother is found dead in the rocky foothills of Grand Teton, Gannon realizes there are some things more important than keeping your head down. Is his death just one in a string of grisly murders mysteriously occurring around national parks—or a part of something even more sinister?
The Rose Code
by Kate Quinn
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
1940. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. Vivacious debutante Osla is the girl who has everything – beauty, wealth, and the dashing Prince Philip of Greece sending her roses – but she burns to prove herself as more than a society girl, and puts her fluent German to use as a translator of decoded enemy secrets. Imperious self-made Mab, product of east-end London poverty, works the legendary codebreaking machines as she conceals old wounds and looks for a socially advantageous husband.
Forged in Peril
by Kendra Warden
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
She can’t keep running…
Ambitious paralegal Bristol Chaplin knows that achieving her dream of becoming a lawyer won’t be easy, but there’s a price that even she isn’t willing to pay. When a dark secret threatens to destroy her career, she’s forced to seek help from the man she thought she’d left behind forever.
Private security operative Cameron Forge is content to spend his life serving God and protecting the innocent. But as the woman who broke his heart brings danger straight to his doorstep, he realizes that keeping her safe might be his toughest mission yet.
The Origin of Dreams
by Shlomo Yakobovits
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Dreaming is a phenomenon that is universally shared among all of mankind, one that has fascinated cultures and peoples throughout history. Yet despite spending years of our lifetime dreaming, we still lack a fundamental understanding of dreams: Where do they stem from? Do they serve a higher purpose, or are they random? And what is it about dreams that inspire so many people despite our lack of understanding?
Drawing from a wealth of knowledge in psychology, philosophy, science, theology, and more, The Origin of Dreams provides a comprehensive examination of this universal human experience…
The Rejected Child
by Yael Abraham
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Your groundbreaking manual for supporting and protecting children from social rejection.
The desire to be “a part of the group” resides in every one of us and is shown to be an especially crucial part of children’s and young people’s healthy development. However, an increasing number of children face the painful and overwhelming experience of being socially isolated. Experiences of peer rejection, bullying, social violence, and emotional stress which, if left unattended, are shown to have a lasting impact well into adulthood.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
A Day for Dying
by Dorothy Simpson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
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
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
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
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
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.