Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Irish Soda Bread Murder Collection
by Carlene O’Connor, Peggy Ehrhart, Liz Ireland
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
It’s almost time for the delicious warmth of Irish soda bread, but be careful where you bite–some of these recipes call for murder in this delicious collection of cozy mystery novellas featuring the popular St. Paddy’s Day treat.
IRISH SODA BREAD MURDER by CARLENE O’CONNOR
AN IRISH RECIPE FOR MURDER by PEGGY EHRHART
MRS. CLAUS AND THE SINISTER SODA BREAD MAN by LIZ IRELAND
The Murder Diaries – Seven Times Over
by David Carter
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Late at night on a deserted Chester ring road, a man is run down and killed. But is it an accident, suicide, or murder?
First thing next day Inspector Walter Darriteau is on the case. The dead man was a lay preacher up for promotion. Surely that couldn’t be relevant, but they are zealous and jealous in that game. Or could it be something more sinister? Why didn’t the driver stop?
And the wife doesn’t seem too upset about it. Her main concern is the insurance policy that should pay off their mortgage. Where was she when it happened?
The Girl from Devil’s Lake
by J. A. Jance
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Arizona County Sheriff Joanna Brady solves her biggest case yet, from a body in the desert to crimes spanning decades and countries, in the thrilling latest installment in the New York Times bestselling suspense series.
Sheriff Joanna Brady is looking forward to the holidays with her busy family, and to celebrating her daughter Jenny’s graduation from the police academy. But the family is interrupted when a body is discovered beneath a flooded bridge in the Arizona desert, and Joanna is called onto the case. A young boy was murdered, and the details of the crime scene tell Joanna two things: This was not the killer’s first murder. And it’s only a matter of time before he kills again.
Gut Instinct: Based on a True Story
by Hannah McNamara
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
When seventeen-year-old Willow Carter and her parents head to their annual camping trip at a small Pacific Northwest beach town, the last thing they expect is to have their vacation upended and their safety threatened.
Twin Harbors State Park is all too familiar to the Carters, who have been camping there for years alongside their longtime family friends. As the two families settle into their neighboring campsites, they are greeted unexpectedly by a stranger who has no problem inserting himself into their daily activities. While her friends and family grow more and more comfortable around him, Willow has a gut instinct that something is not right…
The Haunting of Velkwood
by Gwendolyn Kiste
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.9 #ad
The Velkwood Vicinity was the topic of occult theorists, tabloid one-hour documentaries, and even some pseudo-scientific investigations as the block of homes disappeared behind a near-impenetrable veil that only three survivors could enter—and only one has in the past twenty years, until now.
Talitha Velkwood has avoided anything to do with the tragedy that took her mother and eight-year-old sister, drifting from one job to another, never settling anywhere or with anyone, feeling as trapped by her past as if she was still there in the small town she so desperately wanted to escape from…
The Stranger She Loved
by Shanna Hogan
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In 2007, Dr. Martin MacNeill—a doctor, lawyer, and Mormon bishop—discovered his wife of 30 years dead in the bathtub of their Pleasant Grove, Utah home, her face bearing the scars of a facelift he persuaded her to undergo just a week prior.
At first the death of 50-year-old Michele MacNeill, a former beauty queen and mother of eight, appeared natural. But days after the funeral when Dr. MacNeill moved his much younger mistress into the family home, his children grew suspicious. Conducting their own investigation into their mother’s death, the MacNeill’s daughters uncovered their father’s multiple marital affairs, past criminal record, and falsified college transcripts he used to con his way into medical school…
The Testimony of Agent Adams
by Alicia Gilliam
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The Bureau betrayed him. Took away his beloved desk job and now expects him to elicit the confession of a dangerous con artist.
Quincy “Q” Adams thought he’d seen the last of the manipulative woman after he’d tracked her down, but his boss isn’t satisfied with charges of white-collar crimes.
To win her trust—and to keep her talking—the awkward agent pulls his own scam: offering to testify on her behalf for a defense she doesn’t actually need. While the deceptive relationship unnerves him, her traumatic story compels him onward—even when fulfilling his duty begins undermining an idyllic relationship with his fiancée.
Opposites Attract
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Once they ruled the tennis courts. Ty Starbuck reduced opponents to ash with his fiery athleticism. Asher Wolfe’s cool cunning skills left players frozen in their tracks. Their temperaments could not be more mismatched, but the drive that made them champions also propelled them into a steamy and scandalous affair that drove Asher from the sport and into a bad marriage. Now, three years later, she’s making a comeback that will bring her face to face with Ty only to discover their rivalry isn’t about defeating each other in Grand Slam victories, but about winning a tournament of the heart.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
The Welcoming
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A tale of danger and desire from #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts, The Welcoming follows a man in pursuit of a master criminal risking more than his life when he meets a woman who steals his heart.
Charity Ford’s seaside inn on Orcas Island is a home away from home for people seeking the simple pleasures in life. Falling prey to a hit-and-run accident has made Charity even more aware of how precious life is. But what she doesn’t know is some of her guests are not who they appear to be. Some are involved in illegal activities—and they’re responsible for Charity’s near death experience.
Children of Wrath
by Paul Grossman
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Willi Kraus tackles the case of the Kinderfresser, the vicious Child-Eater of Berlin. Turning the clock back two years from The Sleepwalkers, the story starts out in the fall of 1929, the last days of prosperity.
Berlin is deep in the throes of a giddy rush to forget its troubled past. But the same day the stock market crashes in New York, the dark underside of the German capital flushes to the surface in the form of a burlap sack spewed by floodwaters from the city sewer system. When Willi is called to investigate and discovers the sack is full of children’s bones with teeth marks on them–and a bible with a single phrase circled in red: children of wrath–he fears he’s run into “something darker than he’s ever known.”
Fatal Heat
by Diane Capri
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
For fans of Lee Child, Jack Reacher, John Grisham, and James Patterson’s Women’s Murder Club
Investigative reporter Jess Kimball, dedicated to helping crime victims, assists a friend in tracking down and stopping a dangerous killer amid the scorching, deadly heat of Arizona. It’s a fast-paced, exciting read full of tension.
One Moment
by Linda Green
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Finn and Kaz are about to meet for the first time.
Ten-year-old Finn, a quirky, sensitive boy who talks a lot and only eats at cafes with a 5-star hygiene rating, is having a tough time at school and home.
Outspoken Kaz, 59, who has an acerbic sense of humour and a heart of gold, is working at the café when Finn and his mum come in. They don’t know it yet, but the second time they meet will be a moment which changes both of their lives forever . . .
The Shadowkiller
by Matthew Scott Hansen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Every hair on Ty’s body, the skin on his neck and arms, everything was clenched in a primeval fear stimulus response. In the thick of the woods not ten yards away stood a creature, manlike, apelike . . . some sort of hairy humanoid, like a gorilla standing upright on long legs. Motionless, it stared at Ty, and Ty froze dead in his tracks.
Jesus Christ, this is Bigfoot.
BIGFOOT IS ANGRY.
17 Blade
by Jesse Storm
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Slade “The Blade” Cassidy has only one aim in life – revenge.
At 17, he’s already a weapon, forged not by choice but by tragedy. Once a sweet boy, now a relentless young man, Blade rides to avenge his murdered family.
His sister, Millie, survived the brutal assault that claimed their home, but trauma has stolen her voice, leaving Blade with a vow to make their enemies pay.
Riding with him is Dakota Hawthorne, half-white, half-Chinese, and every bit his equal. Raised alongside Blade and also 17 years old, she can outshoot men twice her age, and she, too, lost her parents during the unprovoked attack.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Armchair Detectives
by Matt Dunn
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Meet Martin Maxwell: octogenarian, dog lover and amateur sleuth.
For most residents at Twilight Lodge, a picture-perfect retirement home by the sea, their days are filled with jigsaws, endless cups of tea and afternoon karaoke. But when Martin discovers that three residents have died in less than two weeks, all with clean bills of health, he suspects foul play. Trouble is, no-one believes him.
Martin knows he needs expert help and who better than fellow ‘Lodger’ Albie – Martin’s arch-nemesis back when they worked for a secret government organization. With the life of his puzzle-loving sweetheart Barbara under threat, Albie reluctantly agrees to join forces.
Lights out America
by Colton Lively
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
An EMP Post Apocalypse Prepper Survival Thriller Boxset
After a mysterious blackout shatters society, Samantha and her dog Dean journey through looted cities and treacherous wilds. Haunted by her parents’ deaths and unable to save a wounded survivor, she finds an unlikely ally in Gabriel. As danger closes in, a hidden bunker may be their last chance at hope.
Bodyguard
by William C. Dietz
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.0 #ad
From a New York Times–bestselling author: In a future where androids do most of the work, one man manages to find a job—but it may cost him his life . . .
Max Maxon is an ex-marine who makes his living with a gun. Sasha Casad is a rich teenager trying to catch the next spaceship home. Max’s job is to get her there alive. Somebody’s trying to stop them–somebody with plenty of money and firepower. That doesn’t bother Max. A contract is a contract. Against all odds, he’s going to fulfill this one. And then he’s going to make somebody pay!
From Potter’s Field
by Patricia Cornwell
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
An unidentified nude female sits propped against a fountain in Central Park. There are no signs of struggle. When Dr. Kay Scarpetta and her colleagues Benton Wesley and Pete Marino arrive on the scene, they instantly recognize the signature of serial killer Temple Brooks Gault. Scarpetta, on assignment with the FBI, visits the New York City morgue on Christmas morning, where she must use her forensic expertise to give a name to the nameless—a difficult task. But as she sorts through conflicting forensic clues, Gault claims his next victim.
Unraveling Oliver
by Liz Nugent
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
“Top-notch grip lit…incredibly brilliant.” – Marian Keyes, New York Times bestselling author
In this astonishing debut novel, a man’s shocking act of savagery stuns a local community—and the revelations that follow will keep you gripped until the very last page.
Oliver Ryan has the perfect life. Elegant and seductive, he wants for nothing, sharing a lovely home with his steadfast wife, Alice, who illustrates the award-winning children’s books that have brought him wealth and fame. Until one evening, after eating the dinner Alice has carefully prepared, Oliver savagely assaults her and leaves her for dead.
The Complete Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft
by H. P. Lovecraft
Kindle $0.45 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft collects the author’s all Solo Writings as an adult. Written between the years 1917 and 1935, this collection features Lovecraft’s trademark fantastical creatures and supernatural thrills, as well as many horrific and cautionary science-fiction themes.
This Edition has over 60 Stories; Included in this volume are, ‘The Tomb’; ‘The Case of Charles Dexter Ward’, ‘Old Bugs’; ‘The Call of Cthulhu’, ‘The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath’, ‘At the Mountains of Madness’, ‘The Temple’, ‘The Haunter of The Dark’, ‘The Shadow Over Innsmouth’, ‘The Color Out of Space’, ‘The Dunwich Horror’, and many more hair-raising tales.
Taming the Wind
by Joe R. Eagleman
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
What if the power to command the storm was no longer natures alone?
Dr. Jack Engle, a brilliant scientist, respected professor, and bestselling textbook author, has done the unthinkable: he has engineered the first artificial tornado. Designed to revolutionize clean energy, his creation could change the world—or destroy it.
But Engle isn’t just a scientist. He’s also a family man who finds balance in Sunday jam sessions with his children and grandchildren, performing in the family band that keeps him grounded. His world of music, teaching, and family dinners is suddenly shattered when his discovery ignites a corporate firestorm…
Superhero Summer Camp
by Asaf Gitler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Help kids discover their inner superhero in an empowering and mindful environment!
Danny is used to being shy and nervous, but today, everything feels especially stressful because he’s starting the Superhero Summer Camp. Good thing he has friends like Naomi, Eithan, and Maya to help him find his Inner Dragon Breath, become Super Flexible, or transform his world with Magic Glasses for every need. In the end, Danny might discover that he had a superhero inside him all along.
With thoughtful, empowering lessons for children and adults, Danny’s relatable story will not only delight young readers from age 6 to 12
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
After the Pulse
by Robert J. Walker
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
An EMP strike shatters the nation.
Keith flees biker gangs, his daughter is trapped in mall rubble, and his wife fights through burning streets.
Their only hope is Eddie’s off-grid mountain homestead.
Survival, family, and chaos collide in this explosive thriller.
Faint Trace
by M. P. Cooley
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.0 #ad
In her former life as an FBI agent in Oakland, California, June Lyons didn’t flinch at tough assignments investigating gangs. But this hot and weary summer, she finds herself on the sidelines of the action, fruitlessly searching through a boiling hot storage facility for evidence of a counterfeiter.
When June’s lead on the forger becomes a dead end, and her personal life threatens to overwhelm, she’s ready to surrender to the sweltering heat—fighting back when she finds out that the stakes are much higher than she realized.
The Space Between Worlds
by Micaiah Johnson
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.4 #ad
WINNER OF THE COMPTON CROOK AWARD
FINALIST FOR THE LOCUS AWARD
Multiverse travel is finally possible, but there’s just one catch: No one can visit a world where their counterpart is still alive. Enter Cara, whose parallel selves happen to be exceptionally good at dying—from disease, turf wars, or vendettas they couldn’t outrun. Cara’s life has been cut short on 372 worlds in total.
On this dystopian Earth, however, Cara has survived. Identified as an outlier and therefore a perfect candidate for multiverse travel, Cara is plucked from the dirt of the wastelands. Now what once made her marginalized has finally become an unexpected source of power…
Choke
by Stuart Woods
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Murder is not a spectator sport.
Chuck Chandler has choked on more than one occasion—first as a pro tennis player at Wimbledon, then as a womanizing coach at posh tennis clubs around the country. Now at Key West’s Old Racquet Club, Chuck gets involved with the wrong married woman—the enticing Clare Carras, married to an enigmatic older man—and soon he is in way over his head.
Enter Tommy Sculley, a retired New York homicide detective who has just joined the Key West force, and his young green partner, Daryl Haynes, who turns out to be smarter than he looks…
Matters of Choice
by Noah Gordon
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
A woman physician confronts the moral issues of her time in the third novel in the New York Times–bestselling author’s historical medical trilogy.
Roberta Jeanne d’Arc Cole is favored to be named associate chief of medicine at a Boston hospital. She is married to a surgeon. They own a trophy residence on historic Brattle Street in Cambridge and a summer house in the Berkshire Hills. Everything melts away. Her gender and her work at an abortion clinic cost her the hospital appointment. Her marriage fails.
Dead of Night
by Lisa Gray
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A crime writer. A cold case. Will she survive to tell the story?
Since the sudden and tragic death of her partner, bestselling crime author Serena Winters hasn’t written a word. With deadlines looming, she packs up her grief and escapes from New York City to a secluded clifftop house in small-town California, hoping the change of scenery will cure her writer’s block.
But as news of her arrival spreads, Serena finds herself facing strange accusations that she’s here to cash in on the house’s history. When she uncovers the chilling story of a young family who mysteriously vanished from the very same house thirty years earlier, she can’t help asking more questions…