Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Charmed City Complete Series
by Kelli Robyns
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Lila Matthews is just a barista trying to make rent in Manhattan until mysterious green sparks erupt from her fingertips during her shift and her life bursts into flames.
Lila finds a mentor in Caleb Blackwood, a stern warlock from a secretive Council of Magical Guardians, but the attraction develops into more than mentor and student.
With Manhattan becoming a battleground of dangerous, swirling magic, will Lila embrace her magical destiny and save the city or will she lose everything, including the forbidden love that’s developing for Caleb?
Grab this complete trilogy today to find out!
“L” is for Lawless
by Sue Grafton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
“L” Is for Lawless: Call it Kinsey Millhone in bad company. Call it a mystery without a murder, a treasure hunt without a map, a quest novel with truly mixed-up motives. Call it the return of Kinsey as bad girl– quick-witted and quicksilvery, smart-mouthed and smart-alecky– poking her nose into everyone’s dirty laundry as she joins up with a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde in an Our Gang comedy that will take her halfway across the country and leave her with a major headache and an empty bank balance.
The Ice Man
by Philip Carlo
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Philip Carlo’s The Ice Man spent over six weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List. For thirty years, Richard “The Iceman” Kuklinski led a shocking double life, becoming the most notorious professional assassin in American history while happily hosting neighborhood barbecues in suburban New Jersey.
Kuklinski was Sammy the Bull Gravano’s partner in the killing of Paul Castellano, then head of the Gambino crime family, at Sparks Steakhouse. Mob boss John Gotti hired him to torture and kill the neighbor who accidentally ran over his child. For an additional price, Kuklinski would make his victims suffer; he conducted this sadistic business with coldhearted intensity and shocking efficiency, never disappointing his customers…
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
by P. D. JamesP. D. James, Arthur Conan Doyle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Conan Doyle wrote four novels and fifty-six short stories that featured Holmes. All but four stories were narrated by Holmes’ friend and biographer, Dr. John H. Watson, two having been narrated by Holmes himself, and two others written in the third person. The first two stories, short novels, appeared in Beeton’s Christmas Annual for 1887 and Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine in 1890. The character grew tremendously in popularity with the beginning of the first series of short stories in The Strand Magazine in 1891. Further series of short stories and two serialized novels appeared almost right up to Conan Doyle’s death in 1930. The tales cover a period from around 1878 up to 1903, with a final case in 1914.
Total Control
by David Baldacci
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Sidney Archer has it all: a husband she loves, a job at which she excels, and a cherished young daughter. Then, as a plane plummets into the Virginia countryside, everything changes. And suddenly there is no one whom Sidney Archer can trust.
Jason Archer is a rising young executive at Triton Global, the world’s leading technology conglomerate. Determined to give his family the best of everything, Archer has secretly entered into a deadly game. He is about to disappear — leaving behind a wife who must sort out his lies from his truths, an accident team that wants to know why the plane he was ticketed on crashed, and a veteran FBI agent who wants to know it all.
The Charley Huxley Mysteries
by Dennis Higgins
Kindle $3.00 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Charley Huxley had two mysteries in his life that have never been solved. The first one was about his sister, Linda, who died when they were both children. The only thing his parents would reveal was that she succumbed to a horrific accident. Charley and Linda had been close siblings, and he desperately needed to find the answers.
Charley’s second mystery concerned the true love of his life. Back in 1969, a young hip girl stepped out of the Meeman-Shelby Forest in Memphis, Tennessee, and into his heart. She called herself Moon Beam. After a long, wonderful conversation, she faded back into the forest, just as mysteriously as she had arrived…
Deep Lie
by Stuart Woods
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Sifting through reams of seemingly unrelated intelligence, CIA analyst Kate Rule discovers a chilling pattern: an ultrasecret Baltic submarine base…a crafty Russian spy-master in command…a carefully planned invasion about to be launched from dark waters.
Her suspicions, however, are dismissed by those higher up; her theory, they say, is too crazy to be true. But to Kate, it’s just crazy enough to succeed—unless she can stop it. If she’s right, an attack sub has already penetrated friendly waters. Worse yet, the enemy has penetrated deep into her own life, so deep she can touch him. And in this game, one wrong touch can mean Armageddon.
My Husband’s Wife
by Alice Feeney
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Eden Fox, an artist on the brink of her big break, sets off for a run before her first exhibition. When she returns to the home she recently moved into, Spyglass, an enchanting old house in Hope Falls, nothing is as it should be. Her key doesn’t fit. A woman, eerily similar to her, answers the door. And her husband insists that the stranger is his wife.
One house. One husband. Two women. Someone is lying.
Stolen in Death
by J. D. Robb
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
A violent death and a vault of stolen treasures has Eve Dallas struggling to solve crimes old and new in the next thriller in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series.
A blow to the head with a block of amethyst has left multibillionaire Nathan Barrister dead—while nearby, a vault, its door ajar, sits filled with priceless paintings, jewelry, and other treasures. Lieutenant Eve Dallas’s husband, Roarke—who misspent his youth in Ireland as a scrappy thief—recognizes at least two stolen pieces among the hoard. The crime scene suggests a burglar caught in the act. But only one item seems to be missing.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
A Serial Killer’s Guide to Marriage
by Asia Mackay
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.8 #ad
Hazel and Fox are an ordinary married couple with a baby. Except for one small thing: they’re murderers. Well, they used to be. They had it all. An enviable London lifestyle, five-star travels, and plenty of bad men to rid from the world. Then Hazel got pregnant.
Now, they’re just another mom-and-dad-and-baby. They gave up vigilante justice for life in the suburbs: arranged play dates instead of body disposals, diapers over daggers, mommy conversations instead of the sweet seduction right before a kill. Hazel finds her new life terribly dull. And the more she forces herself to play her monotonous, predictable role, the more she begins to feel that murderous itch again.
Dangerous Second Chances: Boxed Set
by Alexa Verde
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Get swept away into a world of love, danger, and second chances!
Tender romance, humor, family, faith, mysteries, and suspense combine in a set sure to keep you reading and give you hours of reading satisfaction. Each story is a clean romance with a heartwarming and uplifting happy ending!
Book 1: Seaside Cowboy’s Second Chance
Book 2: No Second Chance for a Cowboy
Book 3: Season of Affection
Book 4: Whisper of Danger
Book 5: Show Me a Second Chance
Book 6: Badge of Honor
The House of Cross
by James Patterson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
In Washington, DC…
The president-elect is tapping the country’s brightest legal minds as candidates for the Supreme Court. Then one of them is gunned down. Another is stabbed. A third is murdered near midnight on a city street.
Now it’s up to Detective Alex Cross, the FBI’s top expert in criminal behavior, to go inside the mind of a diabolical killer and protect the country’s best hope for justice.
Theme Music
by T. Marie Vandelly
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
She didn’t run from her dark past. She moved in.
For the lucky among us, life is what you make of it; but for Dixie Wheeler, the theme music for her story was chosen by another long ago, on the day her father butchered her mother and brothers and then slashed a knife across his own throat. Only one-year-old Dixie was spared, becoming infamously known as Baby Blue for the song left playing in the aftermath of the slaughter.
Twenty-five years later, Dixie is still desperate for a connection to the family she can’t remember. So when her childhood home goes up for sale, Dixie sets aside all reason and moves in…
Behind the Border
by Nina Kossman
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
With poignant innocence, Kossman writes of her childhood experiences in Russia…. Each chapter relates a memory tinged with the effects of the totalitarian regime that influenced every aspect of her and her family’s lives. The opening vignette reveals the unexpected restrictions of the border when a beach ball floats out to sea and young Nina is told that she would never be allowed into Turkey to retrieve it.
In the subsequent chapters, the author describes situations through the eyes of a 7-to-10-year-old in which adults reveal either fear of authority or of autocratic bullying. Her parents try to protect her, but her experiences at school eventually result in surprisingly mature conclusions as she comes to realize, fear, and resent the strictures under which she lives…
Stay Close
by Harlan Coben
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
NOW A NETFLIX SERIES!
The bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix dramas Fool Me Once and The Stranger proves that the past never truly fades away in this shocking thriller.
Megan is a suburban soccer mom who once upon a time walked on the wild side. Ray used to be a talented documentary photographer but now finds himself in a dead-end job posing as a paparazzo. Broome is a detective who can’t let go of a cold case. Each is hiding secrets that even those closest to them would never suspect.
“O” is for Outlaw
by Sue Grafton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Through fourteen books, fans have been fed short rations when it comes to Kinsey Millhone’s past: a morsel here, a dollop there. We know of the aunt who raised her, the second husband who left her, the long-lost family up the California coast. But husband number one remained a blip on the screen until now.
The call comes on a Monday morning from a guy who scavenges defaulted storage units at auction. Last week he bought a stack. They had stuff in them–Kinsey stuff. For thirty bucks, he’ll sell her the lot…
The Alienist
by Caleb Carr
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
When The Alienist was first published in 1994, it was a major phenomenon, spending six months on the New York Times bestseller list, receiving critical acclaim, and selling millions of copies. This modern classic continues to be a touchstone of historical suspense fiction for readers everywhere.
The year is 1896. The city is New York. Newspaper reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned by his friend Dr. Laszlo Kreizler—a psychologist, or “alienist”—to view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy abandoned on the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge. F…
Vigil
by George Saunders
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand new Release #ad
“Vibrant, fiendishly clever . . . Vigil is pure Saunders: the death of empathy, he insists, is greatly exaggerated.”—The Boston Globe
Not for the first time, Jill “Doll” Blaine finds herself hurtling toward earth, reconstituting as she falls, right down to her favorite black pumps. She plummets towards her newest charge, yet another soul she must usher into the afterlife, and lands headfirst in the circular drive of his ornate mansion.