Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
The Alibi
by Sandra Brown
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The sensational murder of powerful tycoon Lute Pettijohn has rocked Charleston. Prosecutor Hammond Cross sees his chance to become the city’s next district attorney . . . but only if he can put a killer behind bars.
Hammond’s investigation turns up more than one person who wants Pettijohn dead. But when the prime suspect turns out to be a mysterious woman who holds a secret that could shatter Hammond’s ambitions, he faces a moral dilemma and a haunting question: Was he set up to be the perfect alibi?
Matt Claymore
by William Black
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Once, Matt Claymore wore a badge and made outlaws think twice about riding into Victor, Texas.
As sheriff, the six-foot-four lawman kept the town’s peace with steady hands and a quick gun. Then, one night changed everything.
When his wife Sarah was killed by a careless drunk, the badge stopped meaning anything. Matt walked away from the law and the man he used to be.
Five years later, Victor town faces a new threat.
Rescued Hearts
by Hope Toler Dougherty
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
He sacrificed his cover to save her life. Now protecting her may cost him his heart.
Children’s clothing designer Mary Wade Kimball never imagined rescuing a stranded kitten would land her in the hands of dangerous criminals. Beaten, bound, and held captive in an abandoned farmhouse, she believes her chances of escape have disappeared when a third man arrives.
But Brett Davis isn’t another criminal.
A Morning for Flamingos
by James Lee Burke
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A cajun cop infiltrates the mob…but is he too close?
A Morning for Flamingos is a classic Dave Robicheaux Louisiana mystery by New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke.
Clutching the shards, of his shattered life, Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux has rejoined the New lberia police force.
His partner is dead — slain during a condemned prisoner’s bloody flight to freedom that left Robicheaux critically wounded and reawakened the ghost of his haunted, violent past.
“H” is for Homicide
by Sue Grafton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
H IS FOR HUSTLER When PI Kinsey Millhone’s good friend and colleague Parnell Perkins is found murdered in the parking lot behind California Fidelity Insurance, she can’t believe he had any enemies. The only clue that raises a red flag for Kinsey is one of Parnell’s files on a Bibianna Diaz, who appears to have made a lucrative career out of scamming insurance companies with phony claims…
H IS FOR HAZARDOUS Taking an alias, Kinsey goes undercover to befriend Bibianna, hoping she’ll get close enough to catch the con artist at her own game. But Kinsey never dreams that hanging out with Bibianna will get them both thrown in jail. And when they’re released, Bibianna’s very jealous, very dangerous ex-fiancé Raymond Maldonado is waiting for them.
H IS FOR HOMICIDE
Shadow Strike
by Brad Taylor
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
After its proxies are devastated and its offensive capability pummeled in the latest war in the middle east, a rogue group of Iranian regime officials create a brazen plot to strike back at their hated enemies once and for all. They envision a series of operational dominos culminating in a devastating attack, and the first step is the assassination of the Israeli prime minister. And there’s only one assassin with the skills to pull it off: Abdul Rahman, known in the shadows as the Ghost.
When a routine prison transfer is ambushed, the Ghost escapes and is given the assignment. The only Operator who can hunt him down is the man who stopped him before: Pike Logan.
Dolores Claiborne
by Stephen King
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Master storyteller Stephen King presents the “powerful” (Time) #1 New York Times bestselling classic thriller about a housekeeper with a long-hidden secret from her past—one that tests her own will to survive.
When Vera Donovan, one of the wealthiest and most ill-natured residents of Maine’s Little Tall Island, dies suddenly in her home, suspicion is immediately cast on her housekeeper and caretaker, Dolores Claiborne. Dolores herself is no stranger to such mistrust, thanks to the local chatter and mysterious circumstances surrounding her abusive husband’s death twenty-nine years earlier.
What They’ll Say About Us
by Barbara Freethy
Kindle $9.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Every story has two versions—the one people tell, and the one that’s true.
Tessa Conway has built her career around other people’s mysteries. As co-host of Mysteries Uncorked, the true crime podcast that shot to number one by actually solving the cases they cover, she’s heard every version of every story.
She just never expected her own to catch up with her in Chicago.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
McDivit mystery crime thriller adventure
by Eric Wilder
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A wildly suspenseful, action-packed Buck McDivit mystery crime thriller adventure
Down on your luck doesn’t always mean down and out
When an Oklahoma cattle rancher hires P.I. Buck McDivit to investigate a gory murder committed by something not quite human and a rural community populated by pagan women, he has to think fast or end up dead. Though no choir boy, Buck is unprepared for his role as the lone male participant in a spring equinox fertility ceremony. The only thing worse for the paranormal cowboy than having no woman is too many women – or maybe being eaten alive by a supernatural black panther.
The Bone Code
by Kathy Reichs
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
On the way to hurricane-ravaged Isle of Palms, a barrier island off the South Carolina coast, Tempe receives a call from the Charleston coroner. The storm has tossed ashore a medical waste container. Inside are two decomposed bodies wrapped in plastic sheeting and bound with electrical wire. Tempe recognizes many of the details as identical to those of an unsolved cold case she handled in Quebec fifteen years earlier. With a growing sense of foreboding, she travels to Montreal to gather evidence.
Meanwhile, health authorities in South Carolina become increasingly alarmed as a human flesh-eating contagion spreads. So focused is Tempe on identifying the container victims that, initially, she doesn’t register how their murders and the deadly outbreak may be related…
The Method
by Matthew Quirk
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
A silent war. An unlikely spy. She’s done playing by their rules.
Actress Anna Vaughn is fearless—on screen, at least. She tends to play doomed brunettes with a badass streak, and has put in countless hours training for parts and learning how to fight, shoot, and drive like a pro.
She likes to believe she is as tough as her characters, but off-camera she leads a far quieter life: trying to keep her acting career alive so she can take care of her younger sister.
What Doesn’t Kill You
by Iris Johansen
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Abandoned on the streets of Hong Kong, Catherine Ling was schooled in the art of survival by the mysterious Hu Chang, a master assassin and poisoner. Now recruited by the CIA, Catherine finds herself caught between worlds when her mentor develops a formula that is extremely fatal, virtually untraceable—and highly coveted.
On the hunt for this prize are a rogue operative, a band of criminals, and a man so evil he kills without remorse. Catherine will do anything to protect those she loves: Hu Chang and her son Luke. But she will have to use every deadly weapon, every double cross, every lethal lesson she ever learned—to prove that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger . . .
First Wave
by Lisa Phillips
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Homeland Security Agent Dakota Pierce knows how to survive the cold. She knows how to hunt predators. What she doesn’t know is why whispers of a new “weapon” are moving through the Washington backcountry—or why people connected to the chatter keep disappearing.
When a surveillance run leads to a dead nineteen-year-old girl dumped in an apple orchard, Dakota’s investigation collides with Josh Weber, a former soldier turned DEA agent searching for the same missing young woman. And neither of them expects to find a body.
The Night of the Crash
by Jessica Irena Smith
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
All she knows is her mother has been brutally murdered and her brother is the prime suspect.
As Steppy begins to piece together events in the run-up to the accident, she discovers her brother’s connection to another ongoing case, that of a missing girl last seen with him on Halloween.
Steppy knows better than anyone that the truth often hides in the darkest of corners, but as she races to untangle the web of secrets and lies, will it ultimately prove too close to home?
Seduced by Madness
by Carol Pogash
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A true crime account and analysis of a California housewife’s murder of her husband and the revealing trial that followed.
In October 2002, Susan Polk, the soft-spoken mother of three teenage boys, was arrested for stabbing her husband and former therapist, Dr. Felix Polk, to death. Three years later she was tried for first degree murder, choosing to act as her own attorney in a trial that rapidly devolved into one of the most outrageous media circuses in modern history. To a crowded courtroom, Susan Polk presented her defense—a bizarre story of unethical therapies, abuse, repressed memories, and satanic rituals—and, in doing so, exposed her madness. Carol Pogash was there.
Letters with Love
by Erma M. Ullrey
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 48 #ad
An encrypted message shatters Lila James’ forbidden marriage, but a twist of fate reveals the only love that can heal her.
Lila James wants the world to see her, not her skin color. She marries Army Air Corps flyboy Joe Lane, believing his promise that together they can change the world. An encrypted message shatters her marriage. Crushed, pregnant, and alone, Lila retreats home to Boise carrying wounds she never asked for. There, she discovers her wartime pen pal’s identity. The only love meant to heal her was never lost but simply waiting for acceptance.
You’ll Be Sorry
by Lisa Gardner
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
“Chilling, gripping.” – Lisa Jewell, New York Times bestselling author of None of This Is True
For Raquel and Theo Collins, it appeared to be love at first sight. Raquel, a renowned interior designer, and Theo, a brash financial wizard met and married in a matter of months, only to confront a terrible tragedy. Now, unbearably aware of the distance between them, they’ve come to a remote town in New Hampshire to begin anew.