Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Troubled Blood
by Robert Galbraith
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Private Detective Cormoran Strike is visiting his family in Cornwall when he is approached by a woman asking for help finding her mother, Margot Bamborough—who went missing in mysterious circumstances in 1974.
Strike has never tackled a cold case before, let alone one forty years old. But despite the slim chance of success, he is intrigued and takes it on; adding to the long list of cases that he and his partner in the agency, Robin Ellacott, are currently working on. And Robin herself is also juggling a messy divorce and unwanted male attention, as well as battling her own feelings about Strike.
A Second Helping of Crazy
by John D. Ottini
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A Second Helping of Crazy
In A Second Helping of Crazy, author John D. Ottini has collected thirteen of his most memorable stories in one volume. Three stories were previously chosen as Finalists in the annual Florida Writers Association Royal Palm Literary Awards competition, and the rest are a selection of the author’s personal favorites.
“I didn’t know what to expect (how many times have you read that?), but I was happily surprised by almost every story I read (I think there was one that was iffy). Wonderfully told, characters everyday people, great twists at the end that were actually unforeseeable. I think you’ll like this one, guys!” by Amazon Customer
The Ice Angels
by Caroline Mitchell
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The first in a new crime series with Nordic-noir elements featuring a compelling female detective, for fans of Lisa Jewell and Stieg Larsson, by New York Times bestselling author Caroline Mitchell
A deadly pattern: Jenny Flynn, Chelsea Hobbs, Sophie Miller. All three children were snatched from the streets of Lincoln, England years apart. All stolen in the bitter chill of winter. All on their way home from school. Then Sophie Miller is found. She’s not speaking, but she may hold a clue to the whereabouts of the missing girls, if someone can get her to open up. Some what reluctantly, Detective Swann calls in his not-quite ex-wife, the perfect woman for the job…
Depths of Deception
by Stacy Angell Curtis
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Her parents are dead. And Bryn Marsh doesn’t want to believe allegations from the FBI about her deceased mother.
Then her uncle reveals an old secret. And her world turns upside down.
Jack McKerrick would do anything to protect Bryn—as her billionaire uncle’s head of security and as a man who wants to spend the rest of his life with her. But when a nineteenth-century corpse and new deadly threats collide with a Cat 4 hurricane, Jack will need a miracle to keep Bryn alive.
Metamorphosis
by Ross Jeffery, William Sterling, Truborn Press
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Metamorphosis is a haunting exploration of grief, obsession, and transformation. Cynthia, a woman who once thrived in her autonomy, now finds herself ensnared by a relentless desire to reclaim what she has lost.
Living a double life, she meticulously plans a path that blurs the lines between love and madness. Armed with a mask that reflects her inner turmoil, Cynthia descends into a world where reality and fantasy intertwine, revealing the dark depths of her psyche…
The Flamesworn Saga Complete Series
by Lyn South, Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Monster hunting is a family business for the Fairbornes.
Maisie and her sister Sela have been trained by their mother to take down anything with claws, teeth, or dark magic, and they’re damn good at it.
After odious Alistair Bramble, the richest man in Draklûn Bay, threatens to take their home unless Maisie agrees to marry him, the sisters take the biggest job of their lives: a quest from King Rodmar of Valendar to find a legendary treasure buried deep in the mountains.
Enter Sir Castian. Grumpy, guarded, and infuriatingly noble. He’s assigned by the king to help them on their quest…
Dirty John and Other
True Stories of Outlaws and Outsiders
by Christopher Goffard
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A collection of newspaper stories by award-winning Los Angeles Times reporter Christopher Goffard—including “Dirty John,” the basis for the hit podcast and the upcoming Bravo scripted series starring Connie Britton and Eric Bana.
Since its release in fall 2017, the Dirty John podcast—about a conman who terrorizes a Southern California family—has been downloaded more than twenty million times, and will soon premiere as a scripted drama on Bravo starring Connie Britton and Eric Bana. The story, which also ran as a print series in the Los Angeles Times, wasn’t unfamiliar terrain to its writer, Christopher Goffard…
Locked In
by Jussi Adler-Olsen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In this tenth installment of the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling series, the team must solve the cold case that has put their own leader behind bars, a place where his enemies are plentiful and time is quickly running out.
When the head of Department Q, Detective Carl Mørck, finds himself handcuffed in a police car headed for Copenhagen’s Vestre prison, he realizes that a violent case from his past has finally caught up with him. But he is being framed. Someone has a million-dollar bounty on his head to make sure he doesn’t talk, putting him in grave danger among the prison’s incarcerated criminals and corrupt officers.
Fatal
by Michael Palmer
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In Chicago, a pregnant cafeteria worker suffering nothing more malevolent than flulike symptoms begins hemorrhaging from every part of her body. In Boston, a brilliant musician, her face disfigured by an unknown disease, rapidly descends into a lethal paranoia. In Belinda, West Virginia, a miner suddenly goes berserk, causing a cave-in that kills two of his co-workers. Finding the link between these events could prove FATAL.
When the Wolves Are Silent
by C. S. Harris
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
A brutal string of ritualistic killings terrorizes a city already shaken by economic and political turmoil in this chilling new historical mystery from C. S. Harris, USA Today bestselling author of Who Will Remember.
London, 1816: When a notorious young aristocrat is burned alive on a windswept hill popular with neo-Druids, former cavalry officer Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, finds himself plunged into a murder investigation shadowed by tales of ancient human sacrifices and long-buried secrets.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Mango Chili Cruiser
by Leena Clover
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The Butler women are on a cruise to the Mexican Riviera to attend a shipboard wedding, looking forward to sipping margaritas in the sun. When Cassie’s friend, a rich heiress goes missing before the wedding, chaos ensues. Was it just wedding jitters or did something sinister happen to her?
Anna sets her grief aside and goes sleuthing again, accompanied by her debonair gentleman friend. Neither wedding guest nor family member escapes her scrutiny as she struggles to find a motive. The stakes are raised when the bride’s old beau meets a sticky end.
The Thicket
by Joe R. Lansdale
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Jack Parker thought he’d already seen his fair share of tragedy. His grandmother was killed in a farm accident when he was barely five years old. His parents have just succumbed to the smallpox epidemic sweeping turn-of-the-century East Texas — orphaning him and his younger sister, Lula.
Then catastrophe strikes on the way to their uncle’s farm, when a traveling group of bank-robbing bandits murder Jack’s grandfather and kidnap his sister…
World of Warcraft: Thrall
by Christie Golden
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The Hour of Twilight has come.
The dragonflights sense a coming reckoning—an ancient threat tied to Deathwing and the breaking of the world itself. As Azeroth struggles to recover from devastation, Ysera and the other Aspects know that the greatest battle may still lie ahead. Yet the key to that battle is neither dragon nor titan—but a mortal who walks between worlds.
Thrall—former Warchief of the Horde, shaman, and champion of balance—must confront his destiny at the Maelstrom, where the elemental chaos unleashed by Deathwing threatens to consume Azeroth.
The Watch Mysteries: Books 1 – 3
by Kay DiBianca
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Three complete novels: The Watch on the Fencepost, Dead Man’s Watch, and Time After Tyme, from award-winning author Kay DiBianca.
The Watch
Dead Man’s Watch
Time After Tyme
“I enjoyed all three of the books. They have great characters and lots mysteries to be solved. I highly recommend this set of books” by Amazon Customer
And All the Saints
by Michael Walsh
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Winner of the American Book Award for Fiction
His life of crime began at the age of ten, after he crossed the Atlantic with his family and landed in America. Starting as the leader of the most violent Irish street gang in Hell’s Kitchen, the young immigrant rose to prominence as the leading brewer and bootlegger in Prohibition-era New York. In due course, he also became Mae West’s lover; the founder and proprietor of the Cotton Club; the owner of five heavyweight champions; the man who gave his childhood friend George Raft his big break in Hollywood; and more.
Between Sisters
by Kristin Hannah
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Years ago, Meghann Dontess made a terrible choice that cost her everything, including the love of her sister, Claire. Now, Meghann is a highly successful attorney who doesn’t believe in intimacy—until she meets the one man who can change her mind. Claire Cavenaugh has fallen in love for the first time in her life. As her wedding day approaches, she prepares to face her strong-willed older sister. Reunited after more than two decades apart, these two women who believe they have nothing in common will try to become what they never were: a family.
The Best Cadet
by Lucas Kinkaid
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Saint Michael’s Military Academy is a private school that needs a miracle. It has lost an unfair lawsuit and can no longer afford to continue operating. The administration does not know how to overcome this problem. A reason for hope arrives one day in the form of a very unlikely individual.
A defiant young man is forced by his wealthy family to attend the academy. Paul Wildman needs to attend the military academy to stay in good graces with his family. The academy needs the financial help this will provide.
As Good as the Best
by D. Novo
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Power and Possibility Beyond C-PTSD
Your curiosity is your superpower. Your brain might have been wired for danger, yet you are still looking for answers. Still willing to move toward the unknown.
Still open. This book meets you where you are: not “broken,” not a “survivor”, but an exemplar of the power of the human spirit and the capacity to shape what comes next, on your own terms.
The Reader’s Companion to the Hampshire Stories Series
by Joe Giampaolo
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Step into the vibrant world of 19th-century England with The Reader’s Companion to the Hampshire Stories Series, a delightful and concise guide to its rich history, traditions, and literature.
The book covers a variety of topics, including courtship and weddings, social calls, and dancing and parlour games. Readers can also explore the London Season, music and the performing arts, and learn about the monarchy and the nobility. Occupations, religion and the Church, and Christmas traditions all feature prominently. The book highlights typical English fare, fashion, modes of transportation, and the lives of the middle and upper classes.
Death Times Seven
by Anne Perry, Victoria Zackheim
Kindle $13.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
1913: Junior attorney Daniel Pitt must step in for his friend, fellow attorney Toby Kitteridge, whose parents have been brutally attacked. Toby’s mother is dead and his father, a village vicar, is barely alive. With Toby returning to the family home in rural Ipswich, struggling with grief and disbelief, Daniel remains in London to substitute for Toby and defend Peter Ward, on trial for the sexual assault and murder of a young woman.
Daniel is convinced that Ward is innocent, yet the evidence seems to prove otherwise. Eager to assist, his pathologist wife, Miriam fford Croft, offers her forensics expertise and exposes a community of fellow pathologists who may have purposefully omitted information from their autopsy reports…
The Mother-Daughter Book Club
by Susan Patterson, James Patterson
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Between their busy lives and their far-flung residences, the Mother-Daughter Book Club—four longtime college friends and their five daughters—more often discuss the books on their nightstands via 2 a.m. texts than in-person meetings. And maybe it’s just as well, after what happened at their last get-together …
So it’s an emotional reunion when they finally gather again, this time on the spectacular shores of Italy’s Lake Como. Sightseeing excursions, reminiscing fueled by “Como-politans,” and a hint of vacation romance all build toward the book club’s trademark “Night of Secrets.”