Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody) by Barbara Mertz (writing as Elizabeth Peters) (Mysterious Press) is $2.99
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Thirty-one-year-old Victorian gentlewoman Amelia Peabody has not only inherited her father’s fortune, but she is also blessed with his strong will as well.
Now she’s headed for Cairo, accompanied by a girl with a tarnished past, to indulge her passion for Egyptology.
Little did she know that murder and a homicidal mummy lay in wait for her.
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More Than You Know by Nan Rossiter (Kensington Books) is $2.99
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New York Times bestselling author Nan Rossiter weaves a poignant, empowering novel in which three sisters gather to celebrate their mother’s life–and find new inspiration for living their own. . .
Losing her father on the night she was born could have torn Beryl Graham’s family apart. Instead, it knitted them together. Under their mother’s steady guidance, Beryl and her older sisters, Isak and Rumer, shared a childhood filled with happiness. But now Mia Graham has passed away after battling Alzheimer’s, and her three daughters return to their New Hampshire home to say goodbye.
Swept up in memories and funeral preparations, the sisters catch up on each other’s lives. Rumer and Isak have both known recent heartache, while Beryl has given up hope of marriage. But surprising revelations abound, especially when they uncover Mia’s handwritten memoir. In it are secrets they never guessed at–clandestine romance, passionate dreams, joy and guilt. And as Beryl, Rumer, and Isak face a future without her, they realize it’s never too late to heed a mother’s lessons–about taking chances, keeping faith, and loving in spite of the risks. . .
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The Dangerous Days of Daniel X: 1 by James Patterson (Little, Brown and Company) is $3.79
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The greatest superpower of all isn’t to be part spider, part man, or to cast magic spells–the greatest power is the power to create.
Daniel X has that power.
Daniel’s secret abilities — like being able to manipulate objects and animals with his mind or to recreate himself in any shape he chooses — have helped him survive. But Daniel doesn’t have a normal life. He is the protector of the earth, the Alien Hunter, with a mission beyond what anyone’s imagining.
From the day that his parents were brutally murdered before of his very eyes, Daniel has used his unique gifts to hunt down their assassin. Finally, with the help of The List, bequeathed to him in his parents’ dying breath, he is closing in on the killer.
Now, on his own, he vows to take on his father’s mission–and to take vengeance in the process.
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The Blessing Way (Joe Leaphorn) by Tony Hillerman (HarperCollins) is $1.99
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Homicide is always an abomination, but there is something exceptionally disturbing about the victim discovered in a high lonely place, a corpse with a mouth full of sand, abandoned at a crime scene seemingly devoid of tracks or useful clues.
Though it goes against his better judgment, Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn cannot help but suspect the hand of a supernatural killer. There is palpable evil in the air, and Leaphorn’s pursuit of a Wolf-Witch is leading him where even the bravest men fear, on a chilling trail that winds perilously between mysticism and murder.
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Chow Down (A Melanie Travis Mystery) by Laurien Berenson (Kensington Books) is $1.99
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If Melanie Travis was planning on a quiet family summer with her Standard Poodle Faith, son Davey, and new husband Sam, her plans are about to turn upside down. An unexpected competition, a trip to New York, and–oh yes, a murder–later, Melanie finds herself in a choke collar of deceit and corruption.
When she receives the letter from the Champions Dog Food Company informing her that Faith has been selected as a finalist in the “All Dogs Are Champions” contest, Melanie is mystified–until she discovers it was Davey who entered Faith in the contest.
At the reception where they meet the other finalists, Melanie immediately picks up the scent that this pack is a bone’s throw away from a major dog fight. And when Larry Kim, one of the finalists, dies in a suspicious fall, something smells rotten to Melanie. With the final decision for a winner drawing near and the competition getting downright ferocious, Melanie and Faith will have to watch their backs–because Melanie’s digging may well unearth a barking-mad killer who’ll do anything to win.
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