Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Ankeny Arsonist
by G.G. Morris
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Daughter of a famous chanteuse, Wanda Whipple prefers sleuthing to champagne and caviar. When an arsonist lights up the mayor’s home, Wanda’s investigative skills are put to a trial by fire…literally!
Before long, a body is discovered in the rubble of the mayor’s home, and the hunt is on for a killer. Wanda’s old flame heads up the investigation, but Detective Rubio’s no match for Wanda’s talent for smoking out a suspect. Wanda soon learns, however, if you play with fire you’re apt to get burned. Can Wanda catch the Ankeny arsonist before she becomes the next victim?
The Exciting Adventures of George and Amy
by Douglas Ford
Kindle $4.03 Rating: 5.0 #ad
The five exciting and previously published adventures of George & Amy are collected here in a single book. Each story is a stand-alone adventure but there is a common thread that runs through all stories with recurring characters and references to past adventures and experiences.
The books provide a learning curve through many subjects and whilst not claiming to be of text-book level they are intended to stimulate the reader’s interest in a wide range of subjects and promote a desire to learn more about the characters and situations within each story.
Daisy in Chains
by Sharon Bolton
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
He’s a serial killer. A murderer of young women, all killed in brutal attacks.
But despite Hamish Wolfe’s conviction, he’s always stuck to his story—he’s innocent and he’s been wrongly imprisoned. And now he wants someone to investigate and, more importantly, to write his story.
Maggie Rose is a notorious defense attorney and writer whose specialty is getting convictions overturned. At first, Maggie is reluctant to even acknowledge Hamish’s requests to meet, ignoring his letters. But this is a very charismatic and persuasive man, good-looking and intelligent.
Clive Cussler The Corsican Shadow
by Dirk Cussler
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
In May 1940, as the German army blitzes Europe and Parisians flee their city, the chief curator of the Musée de l’Armée is ordered to get a mysterious piece of cargo out of the country. When he arrives at the port of Le Havre and learns that his intended ship has been sunk, he places the object on a decrepit steamer that sails out under German fire.
In the present day, National Underwater and Marine Agency Director Dirk Pitt is on a diving expedition in the English Channel when he discovers a cache of uncut diamonds on a shipwreck. When the diamonds are stolen, Pitt and the NUMA team find themselves up against a murderous cabal that soon reveals far more destructive plans than mere theft…
The Gathering
by C. J. Tudor
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
In a small Alaska town, a boy is found with his throat ripped out and all the blood drained from his body. The inhabitants of Deadhart haven’t seen a killing like this in twenty-five years. But they know who’s responsible: a member of the Colony, an ostracized community of vampyrs living in an old mine settlement deep in the woods.
Detective Barbara Atkins, a specialist in vampyr killings, is called in to officially determine if this is a Colony killing—and authorize a cull. Old suspicions die hard in a town like Deadhart, but Barbara isn’t so sure. Determined to find the truth, she enlists the help of a former Deadhart sheriff, Jenson Tucker, whose investigation into the previous murder almost cost him his life. Since then, Tucker has become a recluse. But he knows the Colony better than almost anyone.
The Max Quinn Thriller Box Set
by Harry Parker
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A single thumb-drive. A hidden list. A conspiracy older than the courts she once trusted. Family-law attorney Max Quinn built her reputation fighting bruising custody battles in Richmond, but everything changes the morning a neighbor’s dog uncovers human remains and a terrified whistle-blower shoves a USB into her hands. The drive exposes Management and the Circle–two rival shadow networks that have been grooming powerbrokers since childhood… #ad
Command and Control
by Marc Cameron
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
For a century, the Panama Canal has served as the path between the seas. Control of this vital waterway is the difference between free trade and chaos in world markets.
So when Panamanian President Rafael Botero asks for a show of support against the socialist opposition, his old friend President Jack Ryan can’t turn down an invitation to visit the country, but what seems like an ordinary opportunity to preach the values of democracy quickly turns into a nightmare when a full-blown coup d’état erupts.
Death of an Angel
by Donald Davis
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
When prosperous lawyer Ernest Brendel mysteriously disappeared, along with his wife Alice, and their eight-year-old daughter Emily, friends in the close-knit Rhode Island neighborhood worried that family had been kidnapped. It would be agonizing months in a massive FBI search before they would know the heartbreaking truth.
The shaken community began to lose hope that the family would ever be found alive. Their worst fears were confirmed when heavy rains from a tropical storm uncovered Alice and Ernest Brendel’s badly decomposed bodies—shot with a giant crossbow, strangled, and buried in the quiet woods of the town. Lying under her mother’s corpse was little Emily’s lifeless body, now a silent witness to her killer’s shocking identity.
Death of a Groom
by M. C. Beaton
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Sergeant Hamish Macbeth returns to protect his sleepy Scottish village of Lochdubh in the latest mystery in M.C. Beaton’s beloved, New York Times bestselling series.
It is February and the Scottish Highlands village of Lochdubh is dealing with heavy snow and freezing temperatures. Sergeant Hamish Macbeth can handle the weather, but with a surprise influx of high-society visitors for a Valentine’s Day wedding at Tommel Castle Hotel, he has bigger problems…
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Case of the Careless Kitten
by Erle Stanley Gardner, Otto Penzler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The lawyer who inspired the HBO series unravels a mystery surrounding a back-from-the-dead banker in “one of the best of the Perry Mason tales” (The New York Times).
Helen Kendal’s woes begin when she receives a phone call from her vanished uncle Franklin, long presumed dead, who urges her to contact criminal defense attorney Perry Mason; soon after, she finds herself the main suspect in the murder of an unfamiliar man. Her kitten has just survived a poisoning attempt, as has her aunt Matilda, the woman who always maintained that Franklin was alive.
Time to Kill
by Jack Coughlin, Donald A. Davis
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
When terrorists blow up the Sphinx, it’s time for American Sniper Kyle Swanson to take the shot before Egypt and Iran explode into war.
In Jack Coughlin and Donald A. Davis’ newest pulse-racing thriller in The New York Times bestselling series featuring American sniper Kyle Swanson, the Sphinx, a symbol of Egypt’s ancient history and power, is blown up by terrorists. A visit to Cairo by Iran’s national soccer team ends in a bloodbath. Egyptian missiles sink an Iranian vessel in the Red Sea. The Muslim Brotherhood is on the march, working behind the scenes to provoke a war between Egypt and its powerful neighbor, Iran—a war that would certainly result in an Iranian victory. At stake is nothing less than total control of the Suez Canal through which most of the world’s oil flows.
The Elemental Chronicles Complete Series
by River Tatum, Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
When fire loves water, worlds burn.
In a realm divided by ancient elemental powers, Ember, a fierce fire mage from Ignis, has always been taught that water is her natural enemy. Her loyalty to her homeland has never been questioned—until now.
When mysterious sabotage begins affecting all four elemental domains, Ember is tasked with investigating the growing crisis alongside Marius, a calm and steady water mage from Aqua.
Their elements should repel each other. Instead…an attraction is growing.
Pick up this complete trilogy to find out if they can restore balance to their world!
No Easy Target
by Iris Johansen
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen, an explosive thriller featuring fan favorite Margaret Douglas, an animal psychic.
Margaret Douglas has worked hard to put her painful past behind her. Raised off the grid in an abusive home, her only escape was the nearby forest where she sought refuge whenever she could. There, in the peaceful woods, she discovered a strange gift: the ability to understand animals and to communicate with them. And so those creatures became her only friends, her only joy during a desolate childhood. Now Margaret wants nothing more than to live a quiet life, close to the animals and under the radar. But her abilities have not gone unnoticed and there are those who would use them for their own purposes…
Dark Stars: New Tales of Darkest Horror
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Within these pages you’ll find tales of dead men walking, an insidious secret summer fling, an island harboring unspeakable power, and a dark hallway that beckons. You’ll encounter terrible monsters—both human and supernatural—and be forever changed. The stories in Dark Stars run the gamut from traditional to modern, from dark fantasy to neo-noir, from explorations of beloved horror tropes to the unknown—possibly unknowable—threats.
It’s all in here because it’s all out there, now, in horror.
Costly Secrets Complete Series
by Jacie Middlemann
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
It began with a call…a secret code she’d been taught as a child without ever believing she’d have to use it…an attempted murder…and the last man on earth she wanted to be within ten feet of.
Danae knew before she ever heard her brother’s voice that it was bad…and it didn’t take long to find out just how bad it was. She and everyone in her family had always understood the high cost of secrets…and quickly learned that sometimes the price of truths was far more costly.
It took her even less time to realize that she’d never really known true heart-stopping fear.
She knew what it was now and that the heart-pounding terror she’d experienced in those handful of moments when a gun was pointed at her brother as they stood to one side of the ridge was something she was never going to forget.
The Sequel
by Jean Hanff Korelitz
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Anna Williams-Bonner has taken care of business. That is to say, she’s taken care of her husband, bestselling novelist Jacob Finch Bonner, and laid to rest those anonymous accusations of plagiarism that so tormented him. Now she is living the contented life of a literary widow, enjoying her husband’s royalty checks in perpetuity, but for the second time in her life, a work of fiction intercedes, and this time it’s her own debut novel, The Afterword.
After all, how hard can it really be to write a universally lauded bestseller?
Cold Zero
by Brad Thor, Ward Larsen
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
A vanished plane. An earth-shattering secret. A countdown to World War III.
Hemisphere Airlines Flight 777—the most advanced jetliner ever built—disappears without a trace over the North Pole. Crippled by sabotage, it crash-lands on the ice, stranding the surviving passengers in a wasteland of frigid cold and chaos.
The real storm, however, is still coming.