Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Confessions of an Amateur Sleuth
by Lynn Cahoon
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Twenty-something bookseller and sleuth Meg Gates has a confession: solving crimes may be easier than writing. She’s been working on a guide to becoming a detective—but she’s her own worst critic. She needs a how-to in order to write her how-to!
At the Bainbridge Island writers’ group, she meets freelance food critic Lee Anderson, who invites her to join him for dinner at the Local Crab so he won’t be suspected of reviewing the place. Lee is a bit of a crab himself and intends to do a hatchet job on the eatery.
Pickled Hearts Complete Series
by Robin Cutler, Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A grieving widower who hasn’t written a word in years walks onto a pickleball court — and meets the one woman stubborn enough to drag him back to life.
Iris Reyes doesn’t do pity, and somehow that’s exactly what Jack Harrington needs. As their unlikely doubles partnership transforms from disaster to triumph, something shifts between them — and then something pushes back. Strange, impossible things that make Jack question his sanity and his past.
Grief was never his only opponent. It just took the longest to name. Pick up this complete series and find out if Jack and Iris find love in an unexpected place.
Sassing Saul
by Gail Koger
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Annie used to believe in all that happily ever after crap, until the day she found out her Prince Charming husband was a conman with a wandering eye. On the same day she booted him to the curb, an alien fleet double-parked over Earth and life as she knew it ended. To survive she joined a militia unit and used her unique physic powers to fight off the alien invaders. She was so successful she earned the swell nickname of the Grim Reaper. Now she must fight for her own freedom because Saul Jones, a Coletti-hybrid warlord, has decided she’s his and he won’t stop until he possesses her.
General Saul Jones has his hands full. Not only is he a four-star Marine general, he’s also a Coletti warlord. To complicate matters, he’s the Coletti Overlord’s liaison to Earth and one of the patriarchs of “the” Jones clan.
Three Novels of Creeping Terror
by Robert McCammon
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Three novels of creeping horror from the New York Times–bestselling author who “delivers terror with skillful ferocity” (Publishers Weekly).
This collection from the Bram Stoker and World Fantasy Award–winning author of the Matthew Corbett novels includes:
The Night Boat
Baal
Bethany’s Sin
Saltwater
by Katy Hays
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
“Fans of family dramas and thrillers will devour this tense, suspenseful novel.”—Woman’s World
In 1992, Sarah Lingate is found dead below the cliffs of Capri, Italy, leaving behind her three-year-old daughter, Helen. Despite suspicions that the old-money Lingates are involved, Sarah’s death is ruled an accident. And every year, the family returns to prove it’s true. But on the thirtieth anniversary of her death, the Lingates arrive at the villa to find a surprise waiting for them—the necklace Sarah was wearing the night she died.
The Heretics Bible
by J. Robert Kennedy
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
FROM USA TODAY & MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR J. ROBERT KENNEDY
AN ANCIENT TEXT, THOUGHT NOT TO EXIST, HAS BEEN FOUND.
AND THE FIGHT TO DESTROY IT HAS JUST BEGUN.
In the thirteenth century, a battle for control of Christianity raged, pitting the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II against Pope Gregory IX. Both men claimed to be the legitimate leader of the Christian faith, and both would stop at nothing to attain their goal.
Full Blast
by Janet Evanovich, Charlotte Hughes
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 45 #ad
There’s never a dull moment for the residents of Beaumont, South Carolina. Lately, a heat wave’s spiked the mercury—and everyone’s sex drive. When newspaper owner Jamie Swift runs into millionaire playboy Max Holt, it’s all she can do not to tear his clothes off—and the feeling is mutual. But trouble seems to follow Max like moths to a flame, and Jamie suspects he’s all wrong for her. Meanwhile, the lingerie shop is having a sale on edible underwear, the bakery’s selling aphrodisiac-laced brownies and x-rated birthday cakes, and even Jamie’s dog is dodging passes from an amorous French poodle!
But when someone starts bumping off some of the town’s more annoying citizens, all clues lead straight to the new personals section in Jamie’s newspaper.
The Third Victim
by Lisa Gardner
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The past isn’t over….
An unspeakable act has ripped apart the idyllic town of Bakersville, Oregon, and its once-peaceful residents are demanding quick justice. But though a boy has confessed to the horrific crime, evidence shows he may not be guilty.
Officer Rainie Conner, leading her first homicide investigation, stands at the center of the controversy. It’s hitting too close to home, bringing back her worst nightmares, threatening to expose her secret sins. But with the boy’s life at stake, she won’t let anything stop her from finding the real killer.
Scratch Moss
by David Barnett
Kindle $7.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
It’s bad when the heart is ripped out of a community… it’s worse when it loses its soul.
1865. There is coal under the fields of Scratch Moss Manor and Sir Henry Brody is determined to get at it. But there is something else in the ground as well, something dark and evil
1905. A more Godless set of people the Reverend George Ackman has never known than the people of the northern town of Scratch Moss. But if not God, what do they believe in?
1945. Arthur works for the Coal Commission, visiting privately-owned pits ahead of their nationalisation. But something is amiss in Scratch Moss, with a disturbing number of deaths at the mine and children going missing in the tunnels.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Sugar and Spice at the Pumpkin Corner Café
by Laura Briggs
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
The perfect new cozy-up-with-a-pumpkin-spice-latte read that’s meant for fans of Laurie Gilmore and Rebecca Raisin!
Professional pastry chef Blaire Reese is blindsided when her beloved Aunt Rachel dies, leaving her the Sugar and Spice Pastry Cafe in Willow Grove. Returning to her hometown, Blaire discovers her beloved family business is in trouble, and—to make things worse—its most-cherished recipe is missing.
Her first love and former summer crush, Evan Hadley, is also back in town, having traded a corporate career to help manage his family’s Heath Acre Farm, famous for its autumn Hay Daze corn maze…
The Billionaire’s Double Take
by J.M Griffin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Art gallery owner Erin Cameron has a problem. Not only has she lost her way after the death of her parents, she lost a bit of herself as well. Her only solace, is the constant, loving care of her housekeeper, Mrs. Hardy and the beloved family art gallery that she inherited from her father. In order to side-step the limelight and still get her work done, Erin creates an alter-ego named “Penny Boucher” as her assistant. Each day, the beautiful, violet-eyed brunette transforms herself into a brown-eyed, blonde and heads off to work. Her disguise works so well, that her own staff prefers having Penny around rather than Erin.
But a double life has a way of creating double trouble…
Innocent In Death
by J. D. Robb
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Lieutenant Eve Dallas hunts for the killer of a seemingly ordinary history teacher—and uncovers some extraordinary surprises—in this thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling In Death series.
Eve Dallas doesn’t like to see innocent people murdered. And the death of history teacher Craig Foster is clearly a murder case. The lunch that his wife lovingly packed was tainted with deadly ricin. And Mr. Foster’s colleagues, shocked as they may be, have some shocking secrets of their own. It’s Eve’s job to get a feel for all the potential suspects—and find out why someone would have done this to a man who seemed so inoffensive, so pleasant…so innocent.
The Peter Blauner Collection Volume One
by Peter Blauner
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Gripping crime thrillers from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Intruder and Proving Ground—”Nobody writing suspense novels does it as well” (James Patterson).
Praised by everyone from Stephen King and James Patterson to Dennis Lehane and James Ellroy, New York Times–bestselling author Peter Blauner has proven himself a master of the crime thriller. In the three novels collected here—including Blauner’s Edgar Award–winning debut—the former journalist delivers breathtaking suspense alongside provocative questions of morality and ethics.
The Woman in the Villa
by Helen Cooper
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A holiday to Italy with my husband and his family should be a dream trip. Spending two weeks in the scorching sun, relaxing by the pool, sipping on local wine…
Two weeks of trying to hide what I’ve done.
When I meet Carmen, the woman staying in the villa next to us, I’m immediately drawn to her, thankful to have some normalcy against the intensity of my in laws. I didn’t expect to tell her my biggest secret, one that could tear my whole life apart.
Spasm
by Robin Cook
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
When Laurie Montgomery temporarily steps down from her position as Chief Medical Examiner, she and Jack find themselves uncharacteristically free for a couple of weeks. And the timing couldn’t be better when they receive a call from Jack’s former medical school classmate, Robert Neilson, who is the sole family practitioner in Essex Falls, an idyllic town tucked away in New York State’s Adirondack Mountains. Serving also as the Hamilton County coroner, Dr. Neilson is in over his head trying to explain the sudden death of a young, healthy pest control worker on top of an outbreak of rapidly progressive Alzheimer’s-like cases, and he pleads with Jack and Laurie to come lend a professional hand. Unable to resist a good mystery and a vacation in one, Laurie and Jack agree to help and head upstate.
The Paleontologist
by Luke Dumas
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A haunted paleontologist returns to the museum where his sister was abducted years earlier and is faced with a terrifying and murderous spirit in this chilling novel.
Curator of paleontology Dr. Simon Nealy never expected to return to his Pennsylvania hometown, let alone the Hawthorne Museum of Natural History. He was just a boy when his six-year-old sister, Morgan, was abducted from the museum under his watch, and the guilt has haunted Simon ever since. After a recent breakup and the death of the aunt who raised him, Simon feels drawn back to the place where Morgan vanished, in search of the bones they never found.
The Anniversary
by Alex Finlay
Kindle $6.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Every May 1st, a serial killer stalks a small town. Every year he comes for them . . .
On May 1, 1992, Jules Delaney and Quinn Riley hardly know each other.
Jules is high school queen bee in a small Midwestern town when she survives a brutal attack by the elusive May Day Killer—a predator who strikes every May 1st and then vanishes without a trace. Quinn, a boy from the wrong side of the tracks, is arrested the same night after trying to break up a fight and nearly killing someone.
By morning, their lives are forever connected.