Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Bagpipes, Brides and Homicides
by Kaitlyn Dunnett
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Thanks to the Western Maine Highland Games, Moosetookalook, Maine, has never seen so many bare legs walking its streets. But instead of wondering who’ll win the hammer throw, everyone’s asking who got kilt. Especially Liss MacCrimmon, purveyor of the town’s Scottish Emporium, since it’s also her wedding weekend. And nothing scotches up nuptial bliss like a dead body.
But who’d go medieval on a professor, no matter how nutty? As much as Liss tries to keep her fingers out of the sleuthing cake, she finds herself again dead center of a Moosetookalook murder mystery. If Liss doesn’t solve this one, and quick, she might never say “I do,” let alone “’til death do us part”…
The Lying Game
by Ruth Ware
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
From the instant New York Times bestselling author of blockbuster thrillers In a Dark, Dark Wood and The Woman in Cabin 10 comes a chilling new novel of friendship, dark secrets, and the dangerous games teenage girls play.
On a cool June morning, a woman is walking her dog in the idyllic English coastal village of Salten, along a tidal estuary known as the Reach. Before she can stop him, the dog charges into the water to retrieve what first appears to be a wayward stick, but to her horror, turns out to be something much more sinister…
Mean Streak
by Sandra Brown
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Dr. Emory Charbonneau, a pediatrician and marathon runner, disappears on a mountain road in North Carolina minutes after an argument with her husband Jeff. But by the time he reports her missing, the trail has (literally) gone cold. Fog and ice encapsulate the wilderness and freeze the search.
While police suspect Jeff of “instant divorce,” Emory regains consciousness only to find herself the captive of a man whose violent past is so dark he won’t even tell her his name. She’s willing to take any risks necessary to survive.
“J” is for Judgment
by Sue Grafton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
K IS FOR KNOCK. Janice Kepler is on the way home from the support group she joined after the death of her beloved daughter, Lorna. When she sees a light on in the offices of Millhone Investigations, she believes it’s a sign…and decides to knock on the door.
K IS FOR KEEP ON. Janice has waited long enough for Lorna’s case to pick up steam, and she is relieved when Kinsey Millhone agrees to finish the work authorities left undone…
Hidden Legacy
by Christina Rost
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
When Emersyn Zucker meets Lucas Bennett, it’s love at first sight. But both harbor family secrets, and their blossoming romance soon gets tangled in a web of deception.
After uncovering her great-grandfather’s connection to a clandestine society known as H & G, Emersyn begins to question everything she’s ever known. Should she embrace the society or distance herself from her family ties and renounce her great-grandfather’s legacy? And if she joins H & G, how would Lucas react to her secret double life?
AspenRidge
by Michelle Wiberg
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
We all experience underworld journeys, times when it seems like the life we knew was hijacked and the world is suddenly unrecognizable.
Jessie’s future looks bright. She’s a successful artist with an MFA and a job she loves when her clairvoyant grandmother has a vision of imminent catastrophe. Jessie, her dog, Wolfie, and Grammie flee to AspenRidge, their isolated off-grid retreat in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains. The next day, a cyber-attack destroys the power-grid, and Jessie fears her father won’t make it home from his conference in England.
Shawn struggled with PTSD after three tours in Afghanistan as a Navy corpsman. After a brutal winter in the mountains, an elk leads Shawn to a distraught Jessie.
Gideon’s Corpse
by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A top nuclear scientist goes mad and takes an innocent family hostage at gunpoint, killing one and causing a massive standoff.
A plume of radiation above New York City leads to a warehouse where, it seems, a powerful nuclear bomb was assembled just hours before.
Sifting through the evidence, authorities determine that the unthinkable is about to happen: in ten days, a major American city will be vaporized by a terrorist attack.
Landon Falls
by Shannon Elliott
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
When seventeen-year-old Chase Allen touches someone, he is inundated by every sin they’ve committed. To minimize human contact, Chase keeps to himself at home and school. But when his mother’s death abandons him to the cruel despotism of his abusive grandfather, he follows an inexorable calling by an unknown power to seek out his destiny in a world he doesn’t understand. Led to the seemingly bucolic small town of Landon Falls, he encounters an ancient evil that holds the town in its grasp and meets the town’s new preacher, Frank Williams, who is oddly immune to Chase’s sixth sense.
Addison Landon recently arrived in Landon Falls with her husband Turner, heir to the Landon Mining Company fortune. Pregnant with their first child, Addison is excited to make such a wealthy, powerful, benevolent family her own…
Waterfal
by Linda K. Rodante
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
All Annalisa Carabelle wants is a successful summer season for the bed-and-breakfast she co-owns. She never expected the flood, the boy who needed rescuing, or the man who came from nowhere to help. And the dead body? It had nothing to do with a deluge.
Richard Jordan’s plans for the summer include as much scrambling up waterfalls as possible. He needs the adrenaline rush because life has proven routine, even pointless. But both the woman and the boy called him a hero, and maybe the dead body is a wake-up call. Life might be worth living if he and this fascinating woman can find the killer and make sure he doesn’t kill again.
Blow Fly: Scarpetta
by Patricia Cornwell
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Dr. Kay Scarpetta is settling into her new life as a private forensic consultant and is deep into a case that has left colleagues in Louisiana profoundly disturbed. A woman is found dead in a seedy hotel, dressed to go out, keys in her hand. Her history of blackouts, and her violent outbursts while under their spell, offer more questions than clues about the cause of her death.
Then Scarpetta receives news that chills her to the core: Jean-Baptiste Chandonne—the vicious and unrepentant Wolfman, who pursued her to her very doorstep—has asked to see her. From his cell on death row, he demands an audience with the legendary Dr. Scarpetta.
The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries Volume Three
by Dorothy L. Sayers
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
No mystery can stump the British aristocrat and sleuth in these four novels in the beloved series from “one of the greatest mystery story writers” (Los Angeles Times).
Murder Must Advertise,
The Nine Tailors,
Gaudy Night,
Busman’s Honeymoon
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
The Intruder
by Freida McFadden
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Who knows what the storm will blow in…
Casey’s cabin in the wilderness is not built for a hurricane. Her roof shakes, the lights flicker, and the tree outside her front door sways ominously in the wind. But she’s a lot more worried about the girl she discovers lurking outside her kitchen window.
She’s young. She’s alone. And she’s covered in blood.
The girl won’t explain where she came from or loosen her grip on the knife in her right hand. And when Casey makes a disturbing discovery in the middle of the night, things take a turn for the worse.
Murder at Lolly Beach
by Jane Suen
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Eve Sawyer is expecting a fun summer vacation until the chef at a popular food truck is attacked. But he’s not the only victim …
Chef Blake Conway has been stirring up the locals with his campaign for a plastics ban on the quaint town’s littered beach. When Eve’s friend Cassie takes her to visit Blake’s crêpe food truck and they discover he’s being rushed to the hospital, the college journalism student can’t just stand by, especially after Cassie’s beach house is burglarized.
Beach Beat reporter Jake Thorne, who takes Eve on as an intern, mentors her while they race to find the answers…
Incentive for Death
by James Spoonhour
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
They all sold their life insurance policies to the same company. Now they’re dead.
When a prominent Washington, D.C., attorney is found dead in his office with no apparent cause of death, homicide detectives McDermott “Mac” Burke and Oliver Shaw are called in to investigate. What looks like a natural death quickly becomes something far more sinister when a medical examiner discovers a nearly invisible clue—a tiny puncture mark that suggests murder.
As Mac and Oliver dig deeper, they uncover a disturbing connection: the victim had recently sold his life insurance policy to a large viatical company. Soon, other suspicious deaths emerge among people who made the same financial decision.
The Final Winter
by Baldwin Rogers
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The sky turns white. Every engine dies. And one family is scattered across a country that can no longer move.
On his remote Colorado farm, James has what most people don’t: food, animals, and a hand-pumped well that still delivers clean water. He also has four grandchildren depending on him, while his two daughters are stranded hundreds of miles away.
Ashley wakes in a shattered Los Angeles with dangerous men on her trail and eight hundred miles between her and her little girls. Georgia is trapped in Alabama, where a private menagerie has become a killing ground. Both women have only one destination: home.
Bullet Proof
by Joshua Harkin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Frank Ranger lives by one simple rule. Justice will be done.
Former Marine Sergeant Frank Ranger is a hunted man—framed for his wife’s murder, he is determined to clear his name so he can be reunited with his young daughter.
Pursued relentlessly by his vengeful U.S. Marshal brother-in-law, Ranger finds temporary refuge in the scorching Arizona town of Namrena.
Code Blue
by Fern Michaels
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The newest action-packed, ripped-from-the-headlines adventure in The Sisterhood from #1 bestselling author Fern Michaels.
The Sisterhood: a group of women from all walks of life bound by friendship and years of adventure. Armed with vast resources, top-notch expertise, and a loyal network of allies around the globe, the Sisterhood will not rest until every wrong is made right.
Theresa Gallagher has never met her Aunt Dottie, though she remembers her mother’s stories about the wild sister who left home at seventeen. When a letter arrives from one of Dottie’s neighbors, telling Theresa that her aunt is now incapacitated and in a nursing home, Theresa decides to fly out to Arizona to see her.
Black Magic Woman
by Eric Wilder
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
There’s a voodoo woman in New Orleans who knows your darkest secrets
French Quarter paranormal investigator Wyatt Thomas learns he’s permanently linked to the spirit of a man with whom he’d fought a duel during another lifetime. The only person who can free Wyatt from his curse is long-dead voodoo queen Marie Laveaux. To seek her help, he must travel back to Antebellum New Orleans, succeed in his endeavor, or be trapped in the past forever. When Wyatt meets his former lover at the Mulatto Ball, he doesn’t know if he wants to return.
While Wyatt is time traveling, detective Tony Nicosia and U.S. Attorney Eddie Toledo are working for mob boss Frankie Castellano to try and retrieve a stolen cornet given to him by jazz legend Louis Armstrong. Their failure could result in having their throats cut and bodies thrown in the bayou for the gators to eat.
Knife Edge
by JT Sawyer
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Kyle Payne – the last face the bad guys will ever see.
CIA black-ops veteran Kyle Payne is on leave after a brutal mission. But when he gets word that his mentor, John Heller, has been killed in a high-speed crash in Pineland, Arizona, Payne smells a setup.
This was no accident – Heller was taken out.
Unimpressed by local law enforcement, Payne launches his own investigation, crossing paths with beautiful DEA agent Lara Medina. Together, they uncover evidence of a ruthless cartel looking to turn Pineland into the center of their drug empire.
Dear Debbie
by Freida McFadden
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Sometimes, enough is enough…
Debbie Mullen is losing it. For years, she has compiled all of her best advice into her column, Dear Debbie, where the wives of New England come for sympathy and neighborly advice. Through her work, Debbie has heard from countless women who are ignored, belittled, or even abused by their husbands. And Debbie does her best to guide them in the right direction. Or at least, she did…