Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Troubled Blood
by Robert Galbraith
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Private Detective Cormoran Strike is visiting his family in Cornwall when he is approached by a woman asking for help finding her mother, Margot Bamborough—who went missing in mysterious circumstances in 1974.
Strike has never tackled a cold case before, let alone one forty years old. But despite the slim chance of success, he is intrigued and takes it on; adding to the long list of cases that he and his partner in the agency, Robin Ellacott, are currently working on. And Robin herself is also juggling a messy divorce and unwanted male attention, as well as battling her own feelings about Strike.
A Second Helping of Crazy
by John D. Ottini
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A Second Helping of Crazy
In A Second Helping of Crazy, author John D. Ottini has collected thirteen of his most memorable stories in one volume. Three stories were previously chosen as Finalists in the annual Florida Writers Association Royal Palm Literary Awards competition, and the rest are a selection of the author’s personal favorites.
“I didn’t know what to expect (how many times have you read that?), but I was happily surprised by almost every story I read (I think there was one that was iffy). Wonderfully told, characters everyday people, great twists at the end that were actually unforeseeable. I think you’ll like this one, guys!” by Amazon Customer
The Ice Angels
by Caroline Mitchell
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The first in a new crime series with Nordic-noir elements featuring a compelling female detective, for fans of Lisa Jewell and Stieg Larsson, by New York Times bestselling author Caroline Mitchell
A deadly pattern: Jenny Flynn, Chelsea Hobbs, Sophie Miller. All three children were snatched from the streets of Lincoln, England years apart. All stolen in the bitter chill of winter. All on their way home from school. Then Sophie Miller is found. She’s not speaking, but she may hold a clue to the whereabouts of the missing girls, if someone can get her to open up. Some what reluctantly, Detective Swann calls in his not-quite ex-wife, the perfect woman for the job…
Depths of Deception
by Stacy Angell Curtis
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Her parents are dead. And Bryn Marsh doesn’t want to believe allegations from the FBI about her deceased mother.
Then her uncle reveals an old secret. And her world turns upside down.
Jack McKerrick would do anything to protect Bryn—as her billionaire uncle’s head of security and as a man who wants to spend the rest of his life with her. But when a nineteenth-century corpse and new deadly threats collide with a Cat 4 hurricane, Jack will need a miracle to keep Bryn alive.
Metamorphosis
by Ross Jeffery, William Sterling, Truborn Press
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Metamorphosis is a haunting exploration of grief, obsession, and transformation. Cynthia, a woman who once thrived in her autonomy, now finds herself ensnared by a relentless desire to reclaim what she has lost.
Living a double life, she meticulously plans a path that blurs the lines between love and madness. Armed with a mask that reflects her inner turmoil, Cynthia descends into a world where reality and fantasy intertwine, revealing the dark depths of her psyche…
The Flamesworn Saga Complete Series
by Lyn South, Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Monster hunting is a family business for the Fairbornes.
Maisie and her sister Sela have been trained by their mother to take down anything with claws, teeth, or dark magic, and they’re damn good at it.
After odious Alistair Bramble, the richest man in Draklûn Bay, threatens to take their home unless Maisie agrees to marry him, the sisters take the biggest job of their lives: a quest from King Rodmar of Valendar to find a legendary treasure buried deep in the mountains.
Enter Sir Castian. Grumpy, guarded, and infuriatingly noble. He’s assigned by the king to help them on their quest…
Dirty John and Other
True Stories of Outlaws and Outsiders
by Christopher Goffard
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A collection of newspaper stories by award-winning Los Angeles Times reporter Christopher Goffard—including “Dirty John,” the basis for the hit podcast and the upcoming Bravo scripted series starring Connie Britton and Eric Bana.
Since its release in fall 2017, the Dirty John podcast—about a conman who terrorizes a Southern California family—has been downloaded more than twenty million times, and will soon premiere as a scripted drama on Bravo starring Connie Britton and Eric Bana. The story, which also ran as a print series in the Los Angeles Times, wasn’t unfamiliar terrain to its writer, Christopher Goffard…
When the Wolves Are Silent
by C. S. Harris
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
A brutal string of ritualistic killings terrorizes a city already shaken by economic and political turmoil in this chilling new historical mystery from C. S. Harris, USA Today bestselling author of Who Will Remember.
London, 1816: When a notorious young aristocrat is burned alive on a windswept hill popular with neo-Druids, former cavalry officer Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, finds himself plunged into a murder investigation shadowed by tales of ancient human sacrifices and long-buried secrets.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Mango Chili Cruiser
by Leena Clover
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The Butler women are on a cruise to the Mexican Riviera to attend a shipboard wedding, looking forward to sipping margaritas in the sun. When Cassie’s friend, a rich heiress goes missing before the wedding, chaos ensues. Was it just wedding jitters or did something sinister happen to her?
Anna sets her grief aside and goes sleuthing again, accompanied by her debonair gentleman friend. Neither wedding guest nor family member escapes her scrutiny as she struggles to find a motive. The stakes are raised when the bride’s old beau meets a sticky end.
The Thicket
by Joe R. Lansdale
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Jack Parker thought he’d already seen his fair share of tragedy. His grandmother was killed in a farm accident when he was barely five years old. His parents have just succumbed to the smallpox epidemic sweeping turn-of-the-century East Texas — orphaning him and his younger sister, Lula.
Then catastrophe strikes on the way to their uncle’s farm, when a traveling group of bank-robbing bandits murder Jack’s grandfather and kidnap his sister…
World of Warcraft: Thrall
by Christie Golden
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The Hour of Twilight has come.
The dragonflights sense a coming reckoning—an ancient threat tied to Deathwing and the breaking of the world itself. As Azeroth struggles to recover from devastation, Ysera and the other Aspects know that the greatest battle may still lie ahead. Yet the key to that battle is neither dragon nor titan—but a mortal who walks between worlds.
Thrall—former Warchief of the Horde, shaman, and champion of balance—must confront his destiny at the Maelstrom, where the elemental chaos unleashed by Deathwing threatens to consume Azeroth.
The Watch Mysteries: Books 1 – 3
by Kay DiBianca
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Three complete novels: The Watch on the Fencepost, Dead Man’s Watch, and Time After Tyme, from award-winning author Kay DiBianca.
The Watch
Dead Man’s Watch
Time After Tyme
“I enjoyed all three of the books. They have great characters and lots mysteries to be solved. I highly recommend this set of books” by Amazon Customer
And All the Saints
by Michael Walsh
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Winner of the American Book Award for Fiction
His life of crime began at the age of ten, after he crossed the Atlantic with his family and landed in America. Starting as the leader of the most violent Irish street gang in Hell’s Kitchen, the young immigrant rose to prominence as the leading brewer and bootlegger in Prohibition-era New York. In due course, he also became Mae West’s lover; the founder and proprietor of the Cotton Club; the owner of five heavyweight champions; the man who gave his childhood friend George Raft his big break in Hollywood; and more.
Between Sisters
by Kristin Hannah
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Years ago, Meghann Dontess made a terrible choice that cost her everything, including the love of her sister, Claire. Now, Meghann is a highly successful attorney who doesn’t believe in intimacy—until she meets the one man who can change her mind. Claire Cavenaugh has fallen in love for the first time in her life. As her wedding day approaches, she prepares to face her strong-willed older sister. Reunited after more than two decades apart, these two women who believe they have nothing in common will try to become what they never were: a family.
The Best Cadet
by Lucas Kinkaid
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Saint Michael’s Military Academy is a private school that needs a miracle. It has lost an unfair lawsuit and can no longer afford to continue operating. The administration does not know how to overcome this problem. A reason for hope arrives one day in the form of a very unlikely individual.
A defiant young man is forced by his wealthy family to attend the academy. Paul Wildman needs to attend the military academy to stay in good graces with his family. The academy needs the financial help this will provide.
As Good as the Best
by D. Novo
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Power and Possibility Beyond C-PTSD
Your curiosity is your superpower. Your brain might have been wired for danger, yet you are still looking for answers. Still willing to move toward the unknown.
Still open. This book meets you where you are: not “broken,” not a “survivor”, but an exemplar of the power of the human spirit and the capacity to shape what comes next, on your own terms.
The Reader’s Companion to the Hampshire Stories Series
by Joe Giampaolo
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Step into the vibrant world of 19th-century England with The Reader’s Companion to the Hampshire Stories Series, a delightful and concise guide to its rich history, traditions, and literature.
The book covers a variety of topics, including courtship and weddings, social calls, and dancing and parlour games. Readers can also explore the London Season, music and the performing arts, and learn about the monarchy and the nobility. Occupations, religion and the Church, and Christmas traditions all feature prominently. The book highlights typical English fare, fashion, modes of transportation, and the lives of the middle and upper classes.
Death Times Seven
by Anne Perry, Victoria Zackheim
Kindle $13.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
1913: Junior attorney Daniel Pitt must step in for his friend, fellow attorney Toby Kitteridge, whose parents have been brutally attacked. Toby’s mother is dead and his father, a village vicar, is barely alive. With Toby returning to the family home in rural Ipswich, struggling with grief and disbelief, Daniel remains in London to substitute for Toby and defend Peter Ward, on trial for the sexual assault and murder of a young woman.
Daniel is convinced that Ward is innocent, yet the evidence seems to prove otherwise. Eager to assist, his pathologist wife, Miriam fford Croft, offers her forensics expertise and exposes a community of fellow pathologists who may have purposefully omitted information from their autopsy reports…
The Mother-Daughter Book Club
by Susan Patterson, James Patterson
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Between their busy lives and their far-flung residences, the Mother-Daughter Book Club—four longtime college friends and their five daughters—more often discuss the books on their nightstands via 2 a.m. texts than in-person meetings. And maybe it’s just as well, after what happened at their last get-together …
So it’s an emotional reunion when they finally gather again, this time on the spectacular shores of Italy’s Lake Como. Sightseeing excursions, reminiscing fueled by “Como-politans,” and a hint of vacation romance all build toward the book club’s trademark “Night of Secrets.”
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Big Easy
by Eric Wilder
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
“Forget about it, Wyatt. It’s the Big Easy.”
Step into the sultry streets of New Orleans and immerse yourself in a world of voodoo, mystery, and murder in this gripping crime thriller. N.O.P.D. homicide detective Tony Nicosia faces the greatest challenge of his career: a sadistic serial killer who delights in ritualistic murders of his victims. With voodoo as the only link, Tony enlists the help of urban French Quarter private investigator Wyatt Thomas and voodoo mambo Mama Mulate to unravel the paranormal mystery and bring the killer to justice.
As Tony and Mama delve deeper into the world of voodoo, they uncover a shocking truth: the killer is none other than a former U.S. senator and a prominent member of New Orleans’ high society. Is he a demon, psychic, shapeshifter, vampire, voodoo spirit, or all of the above? With the clock ticking and the stakes higher than ever, Tony must navigate the dark, treacherous waters of local politics and mob corruption to stop the ominous killer before it’s too late.
Murder on the Marlow Belle
by Robert Thorogood
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Verity Beresford is worried about her husband. Oliver didn’t come home last night, so of course Verity goes straight to Judith Potts, Marlow’s resident amateur sleuth, for help. Oliver, founder of the Marlow Amateur Dramatic Society, had rented The Marlow Belle, a private pleasure cruiser, to host an exclusive party for the society, but no one remembers seeing him disembark. And when Oliver’s body washes up on the Thames with two bullet holes in him, it’s time for the Marlow Murder Club to leap into action.
All Her Lies
by Matt McGregor
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Brie wanted to start over. But not like this.
Drowning in debt and desperate to escape her controlling boyfriend, Brie MacKenzie jumps at a summer job at Pine Ridge Homestead. The remote property offers a fresh start. And the owners, Grace and Bradley, seem like the perfect couple. They’re not.
Locked doors. Veiled threats. And rumors of a young woman who vanished from the property years ago—and was never seen again.
The Living and the Dea
by Christoffer Carlsson, Rachel Willson-Broyles
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Small towns sometimes have a voice of their own.
On a snowy winter night in 1999, Sander and Killian leave a house party together outside a small town in rural Sweden. The very best of friends, the two seventeen-year-olds imagine they will remain so forever. But by the next morning, a corpse is found in the trunk of a car, and each boy is a suspect in the murder. Each has something they want to conceal from the police. And from the other.
The Intruder
by Freida McFadden
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Who knows what the storm will blow in…
Casey’s cabin in the wilderness is not built for a hurricane. Her roof shakes, the lights flicker, and the tree outside her front door sways ominously in the wind. But she’s a lot more worried about the girl she discovers lurking outside her kitchen window. She’s young. She’s alone. And she’s covered in blood.
The girl won’t explain where she came from or loosen her grip on the knife in her right hand. And when Casey makes a disturbing discovery in the middle of the night, things take a turn for the worse.
The Perfect Hosts
by Heather Gudenkauf
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
A couple’s gender reveal party turns deadly and everyone is a suspect in this gripping thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Overnight Guest.
Is it a boy or a girl? They would die to know…
Madeline and Wes Drake have invited two hundred of their closest friends and family to their sprawling horse ranch for the most anticipated event of the year: a “pistols and pearls” gender reveal party so sensational it is sure to make headlines. But the party descends into chaos when the celebratory explosive misfires, leaving one woman dead and a trail of secrets.
The Family Across the Street
by Nicole Trope
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Sometimes, the most perfect families are hiding the most terrible secrets. How well do you know the people next door…?
Everybody wants to live on Hogarth Street, the pretty, tree-lined avenue with its white houses. The new family, the Wests, are a perfect fit. Katherine and John seem so in love and their gorgeous five-year-old twins race screeching around their beautiful emerald-green lawn.
But soon people start to notice: why don’t they join backyard barbecues?
The Housemaid
by Sarah A. Denzil
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
The Howards don’t know who I really am, but I’m learning all their secrets.
When I was six months old, my mother gave me to her sister. Then she left to work as a maid at Highwood Hall. She never came back for me. I want to know why she abandoned me. So I retrace her steps, lying my way into the same job she held over twenty years ago.
As I slip through the old corridors of this stately home – uncovering secret tunnels and peepholes hidden behind the gloomy portraits—I’m desperate to uncover the truth. But it won’t be easy. No one knows why I’m really here.
The Rules of Wolfe
by James Carlos Blake
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Eddie Gato Wolfe is a young, impetuous member of the Wolfe family of Texas gun-runners that goes back generations. Increasingly unfulfilled by his minor role in family operations and eager to set out on his own, Eddie crosses the border to work security for a major Mexican drug cartel led by the ruthless La Navaja.
Falling for a mysterious woman named Miranda, Eddie learns too late that an intimate member of La Navaja’s organization considers her his property. When their romance is discovered, Eddie and Miranda are forced to run for their lives, fleeing into the deadly Sonora Desert in hope of crossing the border to safety…
Say Nothing
by Patrick Radden Keefe
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, TIME, NPR, and more!
Jean McConville’s abduction was one of the most notorious episodes of the vicious conflict known as The Troubles. Everyone in the neighborhood knew the I.R.A. was responsible. But in a climate of fear and paranoia, no one would speak of it. In 2003, five years after an accord brought an uneasy peace to Northern Ireland, a set of human bones was discovered on a beach. McConville’s children knew it was their mother when they were told a blue safety pin was attached to the dress–with so many kids, she had always kept it handy for diapers or ripped clothes.
Alone in the Woods
by Charly Cox
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The parents are dead. The girls are hiding. The killer is still inside the house.
Gabriel Kensington and his wife Lydia have been brutally slain in their luxurious home in New Mexico. A frantic, whispered phone call from their teenage daughter Addis, and her best friend Emerson, quickly alerts the authorities to the killings.
But when detective Alyssa Wyatt and the squad appear at the house, the unthinkable has happened. The girls are nowhere to be found and neither is the killer.
On Mystic Lake
by Kristin Hannah
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
“A beautifully simple, deeply compassionate story.” – Diana Gabaldon
Annie Colwater’s only child has just left home for school abroad. On that same day, her husband of twenty years confesses that he’s in love with a younger woman. Alone in the house that is no longer a home, Annie comes to the painful realization that for years she has been slowly disappearing. Lonely and afraid, she retreats to Mystic, the small Washington town where she grew up, hoping that there she can reclaim the woman she once was—the woman she is now desperate to become again.
Runaway Dragon Mates
by Serena Meadows
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
They were promised forever… but fate had other plans—dangerous, fated, and covered in dragon fire.
Each bride flees heartbreak, betrayal, or danger—only to crash straight into the arms of a powerful alpha dragon who would die to protect her.
But the past doesn’t let go so easily. Obsessed exes, deadly secrets, forbidden bonds, and scorching desire all collide in this steamy collection of dragon shifter romances.
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
White Elephant Dead
by Carolyn Hart
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Murder is, surprisingly, not all that uncommon on timy Broward’s Rock, an idyllic sea island community off the South Carolina coast.
Annie Darling’s popular mystery bookshop, Death on Demand, is where the locals come to discuss the juicy details of each criminal offense–under the watchful gaze of a pampered feline prima donna named Agatha. But now Annie’s dear friend (and best customer) Henny Brawley stands accused of murdering a Women’s Club volunteer-cum-blackmailer.
Heir to the Empire
by Timothy Zahn
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Five years ago, the Rebel Alliance destroyed the Death Star, defeated Darth Vader and the Emperor, and drove the remnants of the old Imperial Starfleet to a distant corner of the galaxy. Princess Leia and Han Solo are married and expecting twins. And Luke Skywalker has become the first in a long-awaited line of Jedi Knights.
But thousands of light-years away, the last of the Emperor’s warlords, Grand Admiral Thrawn, has taken command of the shattered Imperial fleet, readied it for war, and pointed it at the fragile heart of the New Republic…
Echoes of Evil
by Heather Graham
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Something lurks beneath the surface…
Brodie McFadden is supposed to be on vacation, getting some sunshine and deciding if he wants to join his brothers in the Krewe of Hunters, a special paranormal investigation unit of the FBI. But a diving excursion with an old navy buddy to a historic shipwreck uncovers a crime scene—and the corpse is new.
Museum curator Dakota “Kody” McCoy just wants her Key West culture festival to succeed. She’s always had a deep connection to her home, including being regularly haunted by some of the resident ghosts.
Three Dark Kings and the Starlit Court
by Everly Frost
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Three dark kings rule my fate.
The Ember King burns with fury and thirsts for destruction.
The Frost King strikes without mercy and delights in cruelty.
And the Iron King weaves lies into chains to cage his enemies.
For centuries, a cursed war has raged between the three fae kingdoms, their ruthless kings hunting for the power to destroy each other once and for all.
All my life, my father has warned me: the power they seek… is me.
Once In, Never Out
by Dan Mahoney
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A girl missing in New York. A political bombing in Iceland. No ordinary cop would see a connection. But Detective First Grade Brian McKenna didn’t earn his reputation by being ordinary. In Once In, Never Out, McKenna travels the globe in pursuit of his darkest foe yet–a terrorist bomber whose next target could be New York’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Along the way he finds a good friend and cunning ally in Thor Erikson, Iceland’s sole homicide detective. This is a case that brings McKenna to the edge of his abilities, and puts both his detecting and survival skills to the ultimate test.
A Gambling Man
by David Baldacci
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Aloysius Archer, the straight-talking World War II veteran fresh out of prison, returns in this riveting #1 New York Times bestselling thriller from David Baldacci.
The 1950s are on the horizon, and Archer is in dire need of a fresh start after a nearly fatal detour in Poca City. So Archer hops on a bus and begins the long journey out west to California, where rumor has it there is money to be made if you’re hard-working, lucky, criminal—or all three.
The Haunting of Sorrow’s Leap
by Chris Sorensen
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Ellen Marx used to talk to the dead. Now they’re ghosting her. With her psychic gifts on the fritz, she’s been demoted to hawking discount crystals at third-rate paranormal conventions. But when she inadvertently solves a supernatural challenge at New Jersey’s Hooky Spooky Convention, she catches the eye of the event’s reclusive sponsor: a washed-up horror author with a haunted mansion in need of a serious cleansing.
Reluctantly, Ellen joins his ragtag crew of psychic misfits (a near-death survivor, a paranormal tech bro, and a woman who may or may not be possessed) to investigate the mystery lurking inside his crumbling Hudson Valley estate.
FROM THE PAINTED TOMB
by Brenda Hill
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
2021 Readers’ Favorite Silver Medal Award
Literary Titan’s Golden Book Award
Born an exalted Egyptian prince, 3rd son of Thutmose III, Prince Rahmor stood in favor with his father–until he commits the one unpardonable sin – he falls in love with a slave his father has chosen to be queen. His love for this woman not only endangers his life, but the consequences carry through the ages to a contemporary copper-haired American woman. He didn’t count on falling in love with her, nor did he know he’d have a fight to the death with a mystical werewolf that follows him through time.