Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
A Bookish Ending
by Anthea Fraser
Kindle $0.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Meet Rona Parish, a feisty biographer with a talent for digging up murder and mystery wherever she goes — and Gus, the adorable Golden Retriever trotting loyally at her heels!
Rona’s determined to give this book an ending. Or die trying.
When Rona’s agent asks her to complete Russell Page’s final biography, Rona jumps at the chance. Russell was a fine writer, who’d pursue the truth no matter where it led . . . Until his untimely death in a car crash.
Brazen Virtue
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
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After a demanding book tour, superstar mystery novelist Grace McCabe decides to visit her sister, Kathleen, who’s embroiled in a custody battle after a bitter divorce. Arriving in D.C., Grace is shocked to find Kathleen living in a run-down neighborhood and, hoping to afford a hotshot lawyer, supplementing her meager teacher’s salary by moonlighting as a phone sex operator.
Veil of Silence
by Danielle Abi-Saab
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Beirut, 1985. Amid the destruction and chaos of the Lebanese Civil War, romantic and idealistic fifteen-year-old Hoda longs for love above all else.
Believing they are safeguarding their daughter’s honor, Hoda’s parents force her into an arranged marriage with Tony, a man more than twice her age. Swayed by his generous gifts and attention, Hoda believes Tony’s promises of a better life away from her shattered city. But will her marriage be the fairytale she dreams it to be? Bound by religious law and familial duties, Hoda must play the hand she was dealt: to be a devoted wife, a good mother, and a faithful daughter, even if it means remaining silent about the truth.
Garden of Shadows
by V.C. Andrews
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Olivia dreamed of a sun-filled love, a happy life. Then she entered Foxworth Hall…
V.C. Andrews’ thrilling novel spins a tale of dreadful secrets and dark, forbidden passions—of the time before Flowers in the Attic began. Long before terror flowered in the attic, thin, spinsterish Olivia came to Virginia as Malcolm Foxworth’s bride. At last, with her tall handsome husband, she would find the joy she had waited for, longed for. But in the gloomy mansion filled with hidden rooms and festering desires, a stain of jealous obsession begins to spread…an evil that will threaten her children, two lovely boys and one very special, beautiful girl.
Texas
by James A. Michener
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Spanning four and a half centuries, James A. Michener’s monumental saga chronicles the epic history of Texas, from its Spanish roots in the age of the conquistadors to its current reputation as one of America’s most affluent, diverse, and provocative states. Among his finely drawn cast of characters, emotional and political alliances are made and broken, as the loyalties established over the course of each turbulent age inevitably collapse under the weight of wealth and industry. With Michener as our guide, Texas is a tale of patriotism and statesmanship, growth and development, violence and betrayal—a stunning achievement by a literary master.
The Big Tilt
by Dan Flanigan
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
An old flame in danger. A friend framed. A Mafia vow to see him buried.
To save the people he loves, O’Keefe must walk into the past he never escaped.
A year after exposing a violent criminal ring, Peter O’Keefe is back in his hometown, trying to build a steadier life for himself and his daughter.
O’Keefe’s closest friend, attorney Mike Harrigan, is arrested and publicly humiliated. The charges are flimsy, the timing is convenient, and the forces behind the case are anything but innocent. Then comes the worst blow of all: the Mafia boss O’Keefe crossed in the desert left one final order before he died—kill O’Keefe.
The Price of Butcher’s Meat
by Reginald Hill
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
While recovering from injuries at a seaside resort, the Yorkshire detective stumbles onto a deadly smalltown scandal in this acclaimed crime series.
A bomb couldn’t kill Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel—but his convalescence at the Avalon Clinic in the quaint seaside resort of Sandytown (“Home of the Healthy Holiday”) just might. Sneaking out to the local pub provides Fat Andy with a bit of necessary diversion, allowing him a pint or two on the sly, plus an update on the world of trouble outside the clinic…
Backtrack
by Marc Cameron
Kindle $9.18 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
A generations-old vendetta catches up to Deputy U.S. Marshal Arliss Cutter in a propulsive thriller about revenge and blood ties on the deceptively calm waters of Alaska’s Inside Passage.
D Wayne Cutter is a former U.S. Army Green Beret, part-time horseshoer, and a full-time Texas deputy sheriff with a second grandchild on the way when a quiet Sunday morning ends in murder and a manhunt. The theft of five million dollars in diamonds from an armored truck leaves two guards dead, one outlaw tracked down and taken out by Cutter…
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Bryant & May
by Christopher Fowler
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
When a prominent politician is crushed by a fruit van making a delivery, the singular team of Arthur Bryant and John May overcome insurmountable odds to reunite the PCU and solve the case in this brainy new mystery from acclaimed author Christopher Fowler.
On a spring morning in London’s Strand, the Speaker of the House of Commons is nearly killed by a van unloading oranges and lemons for the annual St. Clement Danes celebration. It’s an absurd near-death experience, but the government is more interested in investigating the Speaker’s state of mind just prior to his accident.
Gemini
by Mark Burnell
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Around the world, my face has many names. Long ago, when I was a complete person, I was somebody called Stephanie Patrick. But almost nobody remembers her now. Sometimes, not even me.
Stephanie Patrick has left behind the dark world of spies, lies, and aliases, to live a normal civilian life in London. But then a shocking discovery envelops her, forcing her back into her former life. Scientific and weapons secrets and personnel are being sent via the people-smuggling routes from China, through Albania and the former Yugoslavia to Europe and Britain.
Heinous Crimes Unit Boxed Set One
by Daniel Scott
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Atlanta keeps finding bodies that look like surgical experiments. The eyes are never found.
The media call him the Surgeon. Precise. Patient. Always a step ahead of the FBI’s brand-new Heinous Crimes Unit. Then the unit gets its strangest recruit: Christian Windsor, twenty-three years old, two doctorates, fresh out of Quantico, happier alone with data than in any room full of people. Christian doesn’t profile killers. He follows their logic step for step, as if it were his own.
Every scene the Surgeon leaves is a language only Christian speaks: the rules he follows, the things he keeps. But living inside a killer’s head has a price. Every trip cuts away a little more of what holds Christian together. And the closer he gets to the Surgeon, the closer he gets to a truth the Bureau isn’t ready to hear: the worst monster on this case has a badge.
Perilous
by Jimmy Gear
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
In the desert there’s nowhere to run.
Emma Cauthen wakes up in a dilapidated motel room in the middle of the Sonoran Desert, her feet and hands chained. She suspects that she’s been drugged and abducted, her worst fears confirmed when one of her captors visits, a man with a rough mask over his head whom she comes to know as “Rucksack.”
But he is not acting alone. Emma discovers that she is a victim of a human trafficking operation, and that she’s not the only one being held captive. Her friend Tori is somewhere nearby, and there might be others as well.
Grief Cottage
by Gail Godwin
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The haunting tale of a desolate cottage, and the hair-thin junction between this life and the next, from bestselling National Book Award finalist Gail Godwin.
After his mother’s death, eleven-year-old Marcus is sent to live on a small South Carolina island with his great aunt, a reclusive painter with a haunted past. Aunt Charlotte, otherwise a woman of few words, points out a ruined cottage, telling Marcus she had visited it regularly after she’d moved there thirty years ago because it matched the ruin of her own life. Eventually she was inspired to take up painting so she could capture its utter desolation.
The President’s Assassin
by Brian Haig
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
With just three days to prevent the assassination of the President, Army lawyer Sean Drummond races the clock in the high-stakes countdown of his career.
It looked like a mass execution: six people, systematically shot and killed in a private Washington mansion. One of the targets happened to be the White House Chief of Staff. But that wasn’t the reason Sean Drummond was called in on the case. Newly enlisted in a CIA cell called the Office of Special Projects, the former Army lawyer was informed that the murders were just a warning. The killer had left a note: “You can’t stop us. There will be others, and the President will be history in the next two days.”
The House on the Strand
by Daphne du Maurier
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Dick Young is lent a house in Cornwall by his friend Professor Magnus Lane. During his stay he agrees to serve as a guinea pig for a new drug that Magnus has discovered in his scientific research.
When Dick samples Magnus’s potion, he finds himself doing the impossible: traveling through time while staying in place, thrown all the way back into Medieval Cornwall. The concoction wears off after several hours, but its effects are intoxicating and Dick cannot resist his newfound powers. As his journeys increase, Dick begins to resent the days he must spend in the modern world, longing ever more fervently to get back into his world of centuries before, and the home of the beautiful Lady Isolda . . .
Welcome to Poppy Creek
by Rachael Bloome
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Three heartwarming romances. One unforgettable small town. Endless reasons to fall in love with Poppy Creek.
Escape to the charming mountain town of Poppy Creek, where neighbors become family, hope always finds a way, and love appears when it’s least expected.
This special boxed set includes the first three full-length novels in USA Today bestselling author Rachael Bloome’s beloved Poppy Creek series—more than 900 pages of sweet romance, memorable characters, and feel-good stories readers can’t put down.
Getting Away with Murder
by Shari Lapena
Kindle $13.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Jill and Ted adore their New York brownstone the way others adore their children. They have carefully, expensively, made every inch of it their own. It reflects who they are, their status and tastes. With the grand mahogany staircase and state-of-the-art kitchen, it is the stuff of glossy magazines and real-estate dreams. It is their sanctuary.
So when Ted’s inheritance runs out and he makes a bad investment, they panic. How can they protect their beloved home and enviable lifestyle?