Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder Rinse Repeat
by Gerald Hansen
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
She lathered her own death into her hair.
Two hairdressers are dead. The latest, Gloria Baggot, was killed in the one place no one saw danger coming—the shower.
DI Liam McLaughlin and his Major Investigation Team can’t find a clean link between the two women—no shared history, no shared enemies, no obvious motive. The only thing they had in common was their profession. And that alone is enough to spread terror through the city’s salons…
A Very Important Teapot
by Sheppard Steve
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Dawson is the unlikeliest MI6 spy you’ll ever meet. Good thing he has the lethally competent Lucy Smith for company.
From important teapots to vengeful assassins to international conspiracies, is there any escapade that Dawson can’t stumble into or any that Lucy can’t rescue him from? Find out in the funniest spy thriller series you’ll ever read.
Dawson’s life is going nowhere. Out of work and nearly out of money, he is forlornly pursuing the love of Rachel Whyte. But Rachel is engaged to Pat Bootle, an apparently successful local solicitor who has appeared from nowhere…
Stone’s Throw
by Mike Lupica
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Paradise is rocked by the mayor’s untimely death in the latest novel starring police chief Jesse Stone.
The town of Paradise receives a tragic shock when the mayor is discovered dead, his body lying in a shallow grave on a property on the lake. It’s ostensibly suicide, but Jesse’s has his doubts . . . especially because the piece of land where the man was found is the subject of a contentious and dodgy land deal.
Two powerful moguls are fighting over the right to buy and develop the prime piece of real estate, and one of them has brought in a hired gun, an old adversary of Jesse’s: Wilson Cromartie, aka Crow…
Bad Dolls
by Rachel Harrison
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
In this stunning new collection of four horror stories, award-winning author Rachel Harrison explores themes of body image, complicated female friendship, heartbreak, and hauntings.
In “Reply Hazy, Try Again,” an indecisive young woman finds a mysterious Magic 8 Ball that might just have the answers she’s been looking for…or might lead her down a path of self-destruction.
In “Bachelorette,” a bridesmaid attends her childhood best friend’s bachelorette weekend, only to discover the itinerary may demand more than she’s willing to sacrifice.
The Shadow Friends
by Tess Gerritsen
Kindle $3.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
From New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen comes a harrowing and emotional thriller where ghosts of the Cold War return with a vengeance—and cannot be outrun.
When a renowned disease expert and Russian defector dies mysteriously during a global affairs conference in Purity, Maine, the tight-knit band of former spies in the Martini Club once again sees their quiet coastal retirement interrupted by international intrigue. And when a waitress at the conference hotel is found murdered, Ingrid Slocum sees chilling links to a disastrous mission that nearly killed her three decades ago…
Murder Next Door
by Michele PW, Michele Pariza Wacek
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Everyone knows vampires don’t exist.
So when Mildred Schmidt, one of Charlie’s customers, is convinced that her next-door neighbor’s house sitter is actually a vampire, Charlie of course has to step in to see what is really going on.
What she finds is … disturbing. The house sitter DOES have some peculiar habits—like digging holes in the backyard in the middle of the night.
Surely, they aren’t … graves…
The Day the Sheriff Died
by Jesse Storm
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
They killed the sheriff. Now his son has to wear the badge.
In Dusty Gorge, the coming railroad promises fortunes for the men ruthless enough to seize them. No one stands in the way of cattle baron Raymond Rourke – except Sheriff Thomas Mercer.
So Rourke has him murdered.
The killing leaves the town frightened and desperate for someone to stand against the violence tightening around the valley. That burden falls to Thomas’s son, Elias Mercer, a 24-year-old deputy who never believed he was ready to become sheriff.
The Seventh Floor
by David McCloskey
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Six CIA officers. Dear friends and cherished enemies. For a quarter century they have stolen other people’s secrets. Now they must steal each other’s.
A Russian arrives in Singapore with a secret to sell. When the Russian is killed and Sam Joseph, the CIA officer dispatched for the meet, goes missing, operational chief Artemis Procter is made a scapegoat for the disaster and run out of the service. Months later, Sam appears at Procter’s doorstep with an explosive secret: there is a Russian mole burrowed deep within the highest ranks of the CIA.
The Blue Blood
by James Leonard
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Sebastian Harrow once had a title, a fortune, and a future in England. Then his fiancée was murdered, and vengeance cost him all three.
Years later, he’s a bounty hunter in the American West, better known for his gun than his bloodline. When Harrow rides into Cinder Creek, a corrupt sheriff sees the perfect weapon.
Etta Blaine is a saloon owner with her own reasons to fear outlaw Abel Nighthorse. The sheriff tells her Harrow has agreed to protect her.
Harrow is told nothing.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
One True Mate 1
by Lisa Ladew
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
An all wolf-shifter police force has been the only thing between humans and an unknown evil for centuries, but the pack is in danger of dying if they don’t find their promised mates soon.
Trevor Burbank is a shifter cop in a world of humans who don’t know the evil that wants them dead. If he does his job well, the humans will never need to know, but he feels like he’s working against the clock, because his pack is about to die. The females have all been killed, and the half-breeds they make when they mate with humans aren’t skilled or strong enough to fight.
I Call Upon Thee
by Ania Ahlborn
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Maggie Olsen had a pretty ordinary childhood—swimming and sleepovers, movie nights and dad jokes. And then there were the other things…the darker things…the shadow that followed her home from the cemetery and settled into the corners of her home, refusing to let her grow up in peace.
Now, after three years away from the place she’s convinced she inadvertently haunted, and after yet another family tragedy strikes, Maggie is forced to return to the sweltering heat of a Savannah summer to come to terms with her past. All along, she’s been telling herself, it was just in your head, and she nearly convinces herself that she’d imagined it all.
Bloodlines
by Sharon Sala
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Olivia Sealy was only two years old when her parents were murdered and she was kidnapped for ransom. While Olivia was ultimately returned to surviving family members, the police never caught those responsible. Decades later, Olivia’s ordeal resurfaces when a child’s skeleton is discovered in a hidden wall—a child with whom Olivia shares a unique family trait.
With the help of Det. Trey Bonney, her childhood sweetheart, Olivia is pulled deeper into the mystery. As she tries to connect the events of her past and present, Olivia can’t help wanting to get closer to Trey.
Unfettered III
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Lacking health insurance when he was diagnosed with cancer, Shawn Speakman asked friends in the science fiction and fantasy writing community to donate short stories he could use to counter mounting medical debt. The result was Unfettered, an anthology offering tales from some of the best authors working today.
Now, in Unfettered III, Speakman continues to pay forward the aid he received, raising money to combat medical debt for SF&F artists and authors. He has gathered together a great mix of new and favorite writers―free to write what they like―the result a powerful new anthology perfect for all readers.
Leaving Reality
by Ralph Hecht
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Leaving Reality is a metaphysical science fantasy novel about Julian Vance, an ordinary government records analyst who discovers that the world he knows may be only the outermost layer of something far stranger.
When a hidden seam opens inside the machinery of official truth, Julian is drawn beyond familiar reality into a living architecture of memory, death, grief, protection, shadow, nature, and consciousness. There he meets Ana, a woman who has crossed worlds and lifetimes searching for him, and together they pass through boundaries that test whether love can survive loss without becoming a shrine, safety without becoming control, and freedom without becoming abandonment. From the room of the dead to the Builders’ city of walls, from the final Shadow to the quiet country of Forever Love, their journey asks what death reveals, what life conceals, and whether freedom begins when love is no longer forced to prove itself inside a cage.
Night Watch
by Iris Johansen, Roy Johansen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A VIEW TO A KILL
Born blind, Kendra Michaels spent the first twenty years of her life in darkness. Then, thanks to a revolutionary medical procedure developed by the Night Watch Project, she was given the gift of sight. Her highly developed senses—honed during her years in the dark—combined with her newfound vision have made Kendra a formidable investigator, sought after by law-enforcement agencies all over the country. But in her newest case she uncovers the stunning truth about the shadowy organization that has given her so much.
IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE…
Good Humans Make Great Leaders
by Jody Fletcher
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
Exceptional leaders start by looking inward and making big changes, one small step at a time.
In his three decades of military leadership, Jody Fletcher discovered two fundamental truths: If you don’t show up as a good human, you’ll never be a great leader. But being a good human doesn’t automatically make you someone worth following. These qualities must be learned, and the first lesson starts with taking a hard look at the person staring back at you in the mirror.
Well-meaning organizations often promote people into positions of leadership without offering much—if any—proper training. In Good Humans Make Great Leaders, Fletcher offers a simple and sturdy bridge between self-awareness and practical leadership skills to teach new and aspiring managers to lead with trust, respect, and empathy.
The House That Eats the Dead
by Max Doty
Kindle $11.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
A family moves into their dream home—only to discover that it hides an insatiable hunger—in this dread-laced and darkly outrageous domestic horror novel.
“Doty’s devilishly voracious novel ended up devouring me.”—Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes and Devil Inside
The new house is a fresh start for Claire and her family. It’s a move away from the cityscape of a declining San Francisco and towards the quiet suburban life she has craved since her turbulent childhood; a step up the corporate ladder for her husband, Tom; and a safe haven for their two children.