Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder within Murder
by Frances Lockridge, Richard Lockridge
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Mr. and Mrs. North seek the killer of a terribly unpleasant society woman.
Miss Amelia Gipson doesn’t tolerate foolishness. She doubts she’s ever made a mistake, and it’s unlikely she would change anything about her life—even if she knew she was in danger. While researching a famous murder case at the public library, she becomes ill at her desk. Within minutes, she’s dead. Miss Gipson would be pleased with the coroner. He doesn’t muck around when delivering the cause of death. There’s simply no question: She was poisoned.
Double Blind
by Iris Johansen, Roy Johansen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The #1 New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award winning authors Iris and Roy Johansen are back with Double Blind, an electrifying novel that will leave your heart racing.
Kendra Michaels, formerly blind and now a hired gun for law enforcement agencies who relies on her razor-sharp powers of observation, is reluctant to help the FBI with the most recent case they’ve brought to her. But then she hears the details: the body was found just blocks away from Kendra’s condo. The young woman was carrying an envelope with Kendra’s name on it, and inside was an SD card with what appears to be an innocuous video of a wedding reception. The woman died trying to get the video to Kendra, but for what purpose? Before Kendra and the FBI can answer that question, the bride is abducted from her suburban home.
Fallout
by Jeff Rovin
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
As fears of a dangerous nuclear confrontation between China and the US escalate, China targets individual members of the Black Wasp team in this heart-pounding entry in the bestselling series.
After successfully extricating one of Beijing’s top scientists from captivity and escorting him to America, the Black Wasp commandos find themselves targeted by Chinese assassins. The killers are not only highly trained but invisible, launching tactical strikes from multiple embassies in Washington, D.C. The Chinese squad has also infiltrated American intelligence and is aware of every move Black Wasp makes. Complicating matters, the new president of the United States seems willing to let Op Center take the fall for the mission that precipitated the crisis.
The Butcher
by Jesse Storm
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
They called him the Butcher because he never left work unfinished.
Once a soldier, now a hunter, Caleb earned the name tracking men who believed themselves untouchable – and proving they weren’t. When the war ended, he buried that life and walked away.
Or so he thought. When a ghost from the battlefield resurfaces, Caleb’s rules return with it:
1) hunt without mercy; 2) finish the job; 3) never look back.
Code Name Sapphire
by Pam Jenoff
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A woman must rescue her cousin’s family from a train bound for Auschwitz in this riveting tale of bravery and resistance, from the bestselling author of The Lost Girls of Paris
Hannah Martel has narrowly escaped Nazi Germany after her fiancé was killed in a pogrom. When her ship bound for America is turned away at port, she has nowhere to go but to her cousin Lily, who lives with her family in Brussels. Fearful for her life, Hannah is desperate to get out of occupied Europe. But with no safe way to leave, she must return to the dangerous underground work she thought she had left behind.
Quiet War
by James Leonard
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Keller Ward asked little from life. Honest work. A roof over his boys’ heads. Enough peace to keep the past where it belonged. Then one son is murdered in a gold convoy ambush, and the other is left broken between life and death.
Everyone in Calico Ridge knows who did it. Randall Vexler.
Heir to a cattle fortune and nephew to the town marshal.
When the courts turn their backs and Randall walks free, Keller decides to settle things himself. Soon men begin turning up dead. As fear spreads, Keller continues his silent war.
Black Swan Rising
by Lee Carroll
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A woman discovers a magical world within New York City in this urban fantasy trilogy opener—”Fans of Charles de Lint and Mercedes Lackey should enjoy this vibrant addition to the urban fantasy genre” (Library Journal).
When New York City jewelry designer Garet James stumbles into a strange antiques shop in her neighborhood, her life is turned upside down. John Dee, the enigmatic shopkeeper, asks her to open a vintage silver box for a generous sum of money. Oddly, the symbol of a swan on the box exactly matches the ring given to Garet by her deceased mother. Garet can’t believe this eerie coincidence until she opens the box and otherworldly things start happening . . .
What Remains of Heaven
by C. S. Harris
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
London 1812. When the controversial reform-minded Bishop of London is found bludgeoned to death in an ancient crypt beside the corpse of an unidentified man murdered decades before, Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, reluctantly agrees to investigate. As his search for the killer leads him from the back alleys of Smithfield to the power corridors of Whitehall, Sebastian must confront the well-guarded secrets of his own family’s past—and a devastating truth that could ultimately force him to question who—and what—he really is.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Couch Carnival Caper
by G.G. Morris
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
The Two Fellows Carnival has rolled into town! Residents of Portland’s charming Alphabet District are flocking to Couch Park to enjoy the funfair’s electrifying performances. But on opening night spectators get more bang for their buck when a carnie performer bites the big one in a spectacular way. Was it an unfortunate accident? Or is something more sinister afoot?
Soon, more performers are taking their final curtain calls. Something must be done before the gig is permanently up. Enter amateur sleuth, Wanda Whipple! Navigating a cast of whacky suspects with more motives than you can shake a cinnamon churro at, Wanda must get to the bottom of the Couch Carnival Capers before she ends up with her ticket permanently punched.
Criminal
by Karin Slaughter
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Will Trent is a brilliant agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Newly in love, he is beginning to put a difficult past behind him. Then a local college student goes missing, and Will is inexplicably kept off the case by his supervisor and mentor, deputy director Amanda Wagner. Will cannot fathom Amanda’s motivation until the two of them literally collide in an abandoned orphanage they have both been drawn to for different reasons. Decades before, when his father was imprisoned for murder, this was Will’s home. It appears that the case that launched Amanda’s career forty years ago has suddenly come back to life—and it involves the long-held mystery of Will’s birth and parentage…
The River Runs Silent
by Kathryn Beck
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
He needs her to find the truth. She may be the one thing that destroys it.
Private Investigator Devanie Hutchins has spent years outrunning her past—former homicide detective, former foster kid. Former college sweetheart of Jackson Everett.
Now a powerful Texas congressman, Jack has built his life on control, a flawless reputation, and distance from the woman who once knew him better than anyone.
Until his sister is murdered.
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
by Richard Matheson, Stephen King
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Personally selected by Richard Matheson, the bestselling author of I Am Legend and What Dreams May Come, the stories in Nightmare at 20,000 feet more than demonstrate why Matheson’s regarded as one of our most influential horror writers.
Featuring the story “Duel,” a nail-biting tale of man versus machines that inspired Steven Spielberg’s first film.
Remember that monster on the wing of the airplane? William Shatner saw it on The Twilight Zone, John Lithgow saw it in the movie-even Bart Simpson saw it. “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet” is just one of many classic horror stories by Richard Matheson that have insinuated themselves into our collective imagination.
A Reluctant Spy
by David Goodman
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Jamie Tulloch is a successful exec at a top tech company, a long way from the tough upbringing that drove him to rise so far and so quickly.
But he has a secret…since the age of 23, he’s had a helping hand from the Legend Programme, a secret intelligence effort to prepare impenetrable backstories for undercover agents. Real people, living real lives, willing to hand over their identities for a few weeks in return for a helping hand with plum jobs, influence and access.
When his tap on the shoulder finally comes, it’s swiftly followed by the thud of a body…
Speaking in Bones
by Kathy Reichs
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
No one speaks the language of suspense more brilliantly than Kathy Reichs, author of the acclaimed Temperance Brennan series. In Speaking in Bones, the forensic anthropologist finds herself drawn into a world of dark secrets and dangerous beliefs, where good and evil blur.
Professionally, Temperance Brennan knows exactly what to do—test, analyze, identify. Her personal life is another story. She’s at a loss, wondering how to answer police detective Andrew Ryan’s marriage proposal. But the matter of matrimony takes a backseat when murder rears its head.
The Twenty
by Sam Holland
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
When DCI Adam Bishop arrives at the crime scene in the dead of night, the sight of the body is bad enough—but what Adam notices next chills him to his core. More bodies surface. And the spray-painted numbers daubed above the corpses reveal the horrific truth: the killer is counting down. But to what end?
Adam has no idea—until Dr. Romilly Cole knocks on his door with damning evidence pointing to a series of murders twenty five years earlier—a case she knows intimately from her past. Now, it’s personal—and the next knock on his door could be fatal.
HOTEL OBSCURE Collection
by Lisette Brodey
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
From the author of The Waiting House: A Novel in Stories
In a run-down neighborhood in an unnamed city, people live and die in “the Obscure.” Whether anyone remembers the real name of the derelict establishment is a mystery. In this six-story building, most who occupy the rooms are long-term residents, though some stay for as little as an hour.
The patronage is an eclectic group: musicians, writers, addicts, hookers, lonely people, poor people, rich people, once-well-off people, and those who have reason to hide from their former lives or to escape the demands of a disapproving and punishing society.
The Last Mandarin
by Louise Penny, Mellissa Fung
Kindle $0.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
A gripping thriller about family and power co-written by Louise Penny, #1 bestselling author of the Gamache novels, and Mellissa Fung, an award-winning journalist.
A mother and a daughter race against time in this all-too-real thriller that reaches from Tiananmen Square all the way to the White House.
Alice Li, a first-generation Chinese American and former food blogger, has long lived in the shadow of her mother, Vivien Li— a Tiananmen Square dissident turned world-renowned human rights activist and passionate advocate for a free and democratic China.