Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
MURDER AT THE FOLLY
by JANE ADAMS
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A crumbling old manor house with its own sinister folly.
A cast full of suspects with secrets to hide. And a killer waiting in the wings . . .
Retirement suits actress Rina Martin just fine. Until she’s tempted back for one last hurrah, reprising her role as sharp-witted TV sleuth Lydia Marchant.
But is Rina returning for an encore — or the final curtain?
Rina’s seen plenty of drama over the years. But nothing like the chaos she finds on location at Septon Hall. Her costar, the decidedly sour Grace Sweeting, gets a poison pen letter — in what looks like a tasteless prank. Until . . .
Saving Grace
by Madison Lov
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
The man she left behind is now her only hope of staying alive.
Grace Atwood vanished from my life nearly three decades ago, leaving me heartbroken on the courthouse steps. Now, she’s back—using a pen name, hiding from an unknown enemy, and asking for my help. As a journalist who witnessed the murder of a whistleblower, she’s seen too much. And someone is trying to make sure she stays silent.
As a former Air Force Pararescueman turned elite protection specialist for the Southern Knights, I never thought I’d see Grace again—let alone be the one assigned to protect her…
The Law of Innocence
by Michael Connelly
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
On the night he celebrates a big win, defense attorney Mickey Haller is pulled over by police, who find the body of a former client in the trunk of his Lincoln. Haller is immediately charged with murder but can’t post the exorbitant $5 million bail slapped on him by a vindictive judge.
Mickey elects to represent himself and is forced to mount his defense from his jail cell in the Twin Towers Correctional Center in downtown Los Angeles. All the while he needs to look over his shoulder—as an officer of the court he is an instant target, and he makes few friends when he reveals a corruption plot within the jail.
Bride Price
by Barbara Nadel
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Every relationship comes at a cost in this tense and gripping Turkish mystery from award-winning crime writer Barbara Nadel and featuring Ikmen – ‘one of modern crime fiction’s true heroes’ The Times
When jeweler Fahrettin Muftugolu is found dead in his apartment in the Istanbul district of Vefa, it looks like suicide. Searching the jeweler’s home, Inspector Mehmet Suleyman and his team come across a hoard of extraordinary artefacts including solid gold religious relics and a mummified human head. But are they real and, if so, who owns these priceless possessions?
The Housekeeper
by Joy Fielding
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A woman hires a housekeeper to care for her aging parents—only to watch as she takes over their lives in this riveting novel from the New York Times bestselling author Samantha M. Bailey calls “an ingenious master of domestic suspense.”
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Reader’s Digest
In the end, I have only myself to blame. I’m the one who let her in.
Jodi Bishop knows success. She’s the breadwinner, a top-notch real estate agent. Her husband, Harrison . . . not so much. Once, he had big dreams. But now, he’s a middling writer who resents his wife’s success.
Boom!Town
by Robert Pondillo
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
Bob Pondillo is back!The award-winning screenwriter and author returns with a hilariously dark crime story,BOOM!Town—a satire of every mob movie you’ve ever seen!
It’s a bonkers tale packed with noir comedy and mayhem! If you’re looking for a slow-burn mystery forget it! This mob parody moves like a runaway train!
It’s Youngstown, Ohio, 1962. They call it “Bomb City, USA” for good reason.
When a car bomb rocks the neighborhood and a bloody, severed foot—still wearing its shoe and argyle sock—lands on his roof, retired Mafia cleaner Nunzio sees an opportunity. The foot belongs to Salvatore, a mob turncoat who stole a pile of cash before “losing his breathing license” in a spectacular car bombing. Scribbled on the foot’s arch? A cryptic code that might lead to the missing loot.
Dance of Dreams
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts, two ballet artists whose performances grace the world’s most famous stages discover a more passionate connection when they engage in a Dance of Dreams.
Five years have passed since prima ballerina Ruth Bannion joined the company founded by Russian choreographer Nikolai Davidov. Five years of intense training and conditioning to achieve the physical perfection her impulsive mentor demands of all his dancers. Five years as student and teacher before appearing on stage as equals in a sensual ballet that will inspire Ruth to break through Nikolai’s reserves so they can finally share their hearts’ desires for one another.
Your Next Breath
by Iris Johansen
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Your Next Breath is an explosive thriller from New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen
Catherine Ling is one of the CIA’s most prized operatives. Raised on the streets of Hong Kong, she was pulled into the agency at the age of fourteen. If life has taught her anything, it is not to get attached, but there are two exceptions to that rule: her son Luke and her mentor Hu Chang. Luke was kidnapped at age two, and now, nine years later, he has astonishingly been returned to her. Catherine vows never to fail him again.
The Final Storm
by Fern Michaels
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In an exciting and richly moving new standalone page-turner from New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels, an acclaimed photographer who has overcome her difficult past is suddenly faced with a test of all her courage and resilience.
In her award-winning wildlife photographs, Charlotte Gray captures all the beauty and wonder of the natural world. Far better to focus on breathtaking landscapes than to turn the lens on her own painful childhood and the uncaring mother she left behind in Florida. Piece by piece, Charlotte has built a new, independent life, one she’s eager to protect.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Easter Bunny Murder
by Leslie Meier
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A sleuth keeps her ear to the ground in this mystery by the New York Times-bestselling author: “Delightful…Cozy fans will enjoy Lucy’s hunt for the truth.”—Publishers Weekly
With a harsh Maine winter finally over, Lucy Stone is excited to cover the annual Easter egg hunt for the Tinker’s Cove Pennysaver. Hosted by elderly socialite Vivian Van Vorst at her oceanfront estate, it’s a swanky event where the eggs are as likely to contain savings bonds as jelly beans. But when Lucy arrives at Pine Point, the gates are locked, and a man dressed as the Easter Bunny emerges, only to drop dead moments later…
Her Cold Justice
by Robert Dugoni
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
To save a client accused of murder, defense attorney Keera Duggan must fight a complex web of corruption in a riveting novel of suspense by New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni.
In a quiet South Seattle neighborhood, a suspected drug smuggler and his girlfriend are murdered in their home. When a young man named Michael Westbrook is accused of the brutal double homicide, his uncle JP Harrison turns to Keera Duggan to defend him. JP is Keera’s trusted investigator, and he desperately needs Keera to save his nephew against escalating odds.
Belshazzar’s Daughter
by Barbara Nadel
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 3.8 #ad
A secret worth killing for…
Leonid Meyer is found murdered in his flat in Balat, Istanbul’s decrepit Jewish quarter, a swastika daubed on the wall in the old man’s blood. But Inspector Cetin Ikmen is quick to eschew the obvious conclusion that this is a racist attack. The evidence leads Ikmen and his young lieutenant, Suleyman, to two people: Robert Cornelius, a teacher observed outside Meyer’s flat shortly after the murder, and a retired businessman, Reinhold Smits, known to have had Nazi sympathies. But another link connects these two: a ninety-year-old Russian émigré, Maria Gulcu, a widow who thinks she possesses a secret worth killing for…
In My Mind’s Eye Complete Series
by Kelli Robyns
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
She’s been drawing him in her dreams for twenty years. But destiny isn’t always what it seems.
Ivy Lewis thought her visions were just nightmares—until the stranger from her childhood sketches walks into her San Francisco tarot shop. Lucien Grey is impossibly real, devastatingly beautiful, and claims they’re fated mates bound across lifetimes. Their telepathic connection ignites with terrifying intensity, thoughts bleeding together until she can’t tell where she ends and he begins.
But the man who promised her destiny is hiding dangerous secrets…
The Friend of the Family
by Dean Koontz
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In this historical novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz, a girl liberated from a carnival sideshow discovers her mysterious purpose in a moving story about family, sacrifice, and transcendent love.
The human “oddities” in the Museum of the Strange are less wondrous than the gawking rubes had been promised. But Alida is something else. The real thing. Traveling Depression-era America from carnival midways to speakeasies, Alida is resigned to an exploited and lonely life on the road as the museum’s golden ticket. Until she’s rescued by two compassionate strangers.
Boom!Town
by Robert Pondillo
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
Bob Pondillo is back!The award-winning screenwriter and author returns with a hilariously dark crime story,BOOM!Town—a satire of every mob movie you’ve ever seen!
It’s a bonkers tale packed with noir comedy and mayhem! If you’re looking for a slow-burn mystery forget it! This mob parody moves like a runaway train!
It’s Youngstown, Ohio, 1962. They call it “Bomb City, USA” for good reason.
When a car bomb rocks the neighborhood and a bloody, severed foot—still wearing its shoe and argyle sock—lands on his roof, retired Mafia cleaner Nunzio sees an opportunity. The foot belongs to Salvatore, a mob turncoat who stole a pile of cash before “losing his breathing license” in a spectacular car bombing. Scribbled on the foot’s arch? A cryptic code that might lead to the missing loot.
Iberia
by James A. Michener
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Spain is an immemorial land like no other, one that James A. Michener, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author and celebrated citizen of the world, came to love as his own. Iberia is Michener’s enduring nonfiction tribute to his cherished second home. In the fresh and vivid prose that is his trademark, he not only reveals the celebrated history of bullfighters and warrior kings, painters and processions, cathedrals and olive orchards, he also shares the intimate, often hidden country he came to know, where the congeniality of living souls is thrust against the dark weight of history. Wild, contradictory, passionately beautiful, this is Spain as experienced by a master writer.
Revenge Prey
by John Sandford
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Lucas Davenport must track down a ruthless Russian hit team, in this latest thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford.
Leonard Summers – not his real name – is on the run. A former high-ranking Russian intelligence officer who defected to the U.S. after providing critical information about Russian spies in U.S. government service, Leonard, his wife Martha, and son Bernard have spent the past year holed up in a CIA facility near Washington. After the CIA makes a deal with the U.S. Marshal Service’s Witness Protection Program (WPP), Leonard’s family is transported to Minneapolis. The plan is to hide them in a wooded Minneapolis suburb that resembles their former home and dacha near Moscow.
Mexican Hat
by Michael McGarrity
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
With his dazzling debut, Tularosa, Michael McGarrity was hailed “a born storyteller” (Denver Post)—and introduced readers to a memorable new hero, ex-Santa Fe chief of detectives Kevin Kerney. Now, featuring his vivid feel for the southwest, McGarrity’s second gripping novel hurls Kerney onto the toughest case of his life.
Taking a job as a seasonal forest ranger in New Mexico’s Gila Wilderness, Kevin Kerney is looking forward to a quiet summer high in the mountains. But the murder of a Mexican tourist, and the discovery of a disoriented old man in the wild, thrust Kerney into an investigation that will carry him back in time to a sixty-year-old feud between two land-rich brothers, Edgar and Eugene Cox.