Friday’s Mystery eBooks
City of Toys
by Lindy S Hudis
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 3.5 #ad
Four beautiful women seek fame and fortune in Hollywood, the City of Toys, where actresses are like dolls, playing pretend on the big screen.
Marlo: a former child actress from New York City.
Rhonda: a small-town beauty queen.
Kim: a “nice Jewish girl” with a painful childhood.
Guyla: a “serious actress” with a debilitating, stress-induced illness.
Marlo, Rhonda, Kim, and Guyla, become friends living in the same apartment complex, in the city where dreams and disasters go hand-in-hand. They come to rely on each other as they deal with sexual come-ons, crazed stalkers, jealous starlets and the constant pressure of trying to make it in showbiz.
Torts “R” Us – A Legal Farce
by T.C. Morrison
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 3.8 #ad
Patrick A. Peters (“Pap”) and his twin brother Prescott U. Peters (“Pup”) are lawyers with a distinctive eye for opportunity. Pap convinces Pup who is a good lawyer despite having gone to Yale Law School that they should leave their respective big-firm practices in New York City to start up a hopefully lucrative practice as plaintiffs’ class action lawyers.
The brothers meet a variety of clients, judges, and lawyers as they embark on a resourceful and unique approach to lawyer-client relationships all inspired by actual court cases…
Fever of the Bone
by Val McDermid
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A criminal profiler races to catch a serial killer preying upon teenagers in this shocking crime thriller by the author of The Wire in the Blood.
He is psychologist and criminal profiler Dr. Tony Hill’s worst nightmare – a killer driven by the most perverted hungers and unmoved by youth and innocence, a killer with a long shopping list of victims who leaves no trail. The murder-mutilation of teenager Jennifer Maidment is horrific enough on its own, but Hill quickly realizes that it’s just the beginning of a chilling campaign targeting an apparently unconnected group of young people—victims that the monster has been grooming through a social networking site.
The Girls in the Stilt House
by Kelly Mustian
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Set in 1920s Mississippi, this debut Southern novel weaves a beautiful and harrowing story of two teenage girls cast in an unlikely partnership through murder—perfect for readers of Where the Crawdads Sing and If the Creek Don’t Rise.
Ada promised herself she would never go back to the Trace, to her hard life on the swamp and her harsh father. But now, after running away to Baton Rouge and briefly knowing a different kind of life, she finds herself with nowhere to go but back home. And she knows there will be a price to pay with her father.
Hide Away
by Iris Johansen
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A New York Times bestseller, Hide Away is an explosive Eve Duncan novel from Iris Johansen
DARK SECRETS World-famous forensic sculptor Eve Duncan has landed in a well-guarded hospital room in Carmel, California. But hidden danger looms for Eve, her beloved Joe Quinn, and Cara Delaney, the young girl they’ve both sworn to protect. With Cara’s enemies on the move, Eve has no choice but to flee the hospital—no matter what the doctors say.
DESPERATE MEASURES For years, Jane has been avoiding pressure to find a treasure thought to be buried in Scotland—but she’s finally succumbed to John MacDuff’s pleas to track it down. Eve and Cara join Jane in the remote mountains, but soon realize that nowhere is far enough away from the ruthless predators who are on their trail. . .
A Gathering of Spies
by John Altman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A beautiful Nazi spy and a British double agent match wits in this classic World War II thriller “full of action, suspense, and wheels within wheels” (Stephen Coonts).
Gorgeous, cunning, and lethal, Katarina Heinrich is America’s worst nightmare. For years, the German spy has been deep undercover, posing as the happy wife of a Princeton scientist. Now she is rushing home with key intelligence pertaining to the atomic bomb. If she reaches her destination, the war will be lost.
The Dying Hours
by Mark Billingham
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Recently demoted for stepping out of line once too often, prickly inspector Tom Thorne is convinced that a spate of suicides among the elderly in south London is something more sinister. When his concerns are dismissed by former colleagues at the CID, and even by his patient girlfriend, Thorne can only trust himself and his best friend—gay pub-crawling pathologist Phil Hendricks—with his suspicions of murder.
Thorne draws a chilling connection between the deaths and a controversial case three decades old. But by going solo with his investigation, he not only risks the lives of those closest to him, but also further endangers those being targeted by a deranged killer—a man with the power and cold-blooded motives to coerce his vulnerable victims toward a breathtaking end.
Close Encounters with Tort$
by T. C. Morrison
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
“Pap” and “Pup” Peters, those intrepid tort lawyers whose hilarious exploits have delighted readers of the four prior books in this series, return with yet another round of legal shenanigans that will make you laugh until you cry.
Their latest exploits find them defending the eccentric Mona Lott, who has been arrested for disclosing classified information regarding the mysterious UFOs that have been sighted over the East Coast. Mona’s case eventually leads the brothers to being “persuaded” by the CIA to represent the Government in a lawsuit against Russia, its spy agency and some unsavory oligarchs for using drones to spy on US airbases and naval installations.
The Thirteenth Hour
by R.J. Patterson
Kindle $5.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
They swore an oath to defend the Constitution. Now they’re destroying it from within.
Blake Barrett has faced terrorists, assassins, and foreign enemies—but nothing prepared him for this: the Echo Syndicate has infiltrated the very heart of American democracy.
When a routine surveillance mission reveals a secret cabal of legislators systematically dismantling constitutional protections, Barrett and his Mercury team discover that democracy’s greatest threat isn’t foreign invasion—it’s domestic betrayal..
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder Runs in the Family
by Tamara Berry
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Amber thought she had troubles before her grandma was arrested for murder…
Former PI-in-training Amber Winslow has decided to flee her life in the dead of night, carrying nothing but the clothes on her back. Down on her luck and with no other choice, she heads to the sunny state of Arizona to the luxury accommodations of her grandmother’s retirement community. Never mind that Amber’s never actually met her estranged and eccentric Grandma Jade.
Isabelle Night and the Demon’s Flute
by Heidi Jarvis Smallidge
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
It was the last day of seventh grade and 13-year-old Isabelle Night was SO looking forward to a lazy summer! You know what can ruin a lazy summer? Demons. That’s what can ruin a lazy summer.
In this smart-kid adventure, Isabelle finds herself traveling to the Middle East with her mother, archaeologist Annaliese Night, to help their good friend Gunther Braun solve a mystery. Two mysteries actually. First, a strange man appearing out of the desert to offer Gunther help with his dig, telling of ancient secrets hidden in the palace and guarded by demons.
And then, the very next day, two guards go missing at a mysterious pit only recently opened.
The Law is a Lady
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Friendly, New Mexico is the perfect setting for director Phillip Kincaid to film his latest blockbuster. But the small town hospitality he expected turns downright hostile when he finds himself behind bars for speeding—arrested by the sexiest police officer to ever slap a pair of handcuffs on him.
Now, Phillip wants nothing more than to show Sheriff Victoria “Tory” Ashton how an outlaw can bring pleasurable disorder to her life.
The Last Child
by John Hart
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Heralded by the Washington Post as a “a magnificent creation, Huck Finn channeled through Lord of the Flies”, John Hart’s The Last Child is his most significant work to date, an intricate, powerful story of loss, hope, and courage in the face of evil.
Thirteen year-old Johnny Merrimon had the perfect life: a warm home and loving parents; a twin sister, Alyssa, with whom he shared an irreplaceable bond. He knew nothing of loss, until the day Alyssa vanished from the side of a lonely street. Now, a year later, Johnny finds himself isolated and alone, failed by the people he’d been taught since birth to trust. No one else believes that Alyssa is still alive, but Johnny is certain that she is—confident in a way that he can never fully explain.
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
by R. A. Dick, Adriana Trigiani
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Burdened by debt after her husband’s death, Lucy Muir insists on moving into the very cheap Gull Cottage in the quaint seaside village of Whitecliff, despite multiple warnings that the house is haunted. Upon discovering the rumors to be true, the young widow ends up forming a special companionship with the ghost of handsome former sea captain Daniel Gregg. Through the struggles of supporting her children, seeking out romance from the wrong places, and working to publish the captain’s story as a book, Blood and Swash, Lucy finds in her secret relationship with Captain Gregg a comfort and blossoming love she never could have predicted.
After Death
by Dean Koontz
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Michael Mace, head of security at a top-secret research facility, opens his eyes in a makeshift morgue twenty-four hours following an event in which everyone perished—including him and his best friend, Shelby Shrewsberry.
Having awakened with an extraordinary ability unlike anything he—or anyone else—has ever imagined, Michael is capable of being as elusive as a ghost. He sets out to honor his late friend by helping Nina Dozier and her son, John, whom Shelby greatly admired. Although what Michael does for Nina is life changing, his actions also evoke the wrath of John’s father, a member of one of the most violent street gangs in Los Angeles.
Through the Darkness
by Stacey Wilk
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Mackenzie Scirocco grapples with the daily challenges of being a single mother of five-year-old twins and the responsibilities of running her bakery. Some days she fools herself that all the proverbial balls are in the air. Especially when the man she has a crush on asks her out. But her world—and those balls—crashes around her when her ex-husband questions her sanity and files for full custody of the boys.
Captain Phoenix Egan of the Water Course Fire Department gets trapped inside a burning building and can’t save himself from the consequences. His physical wound is nothing compared to the emotional one. He has to keep his fear of fighting fires a secret or risk his career and that makes him dangerous. Mack is the only person who can help him be whole again, and she can’t be with him.
Rowena and the Dark Lord
by Melodie Campbell
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
When Rowena is abducted back to medieval Land’s End, all is in turmoil. Gareth is trapped in the middle-world. Cedric is losing his soul to the black arts. What’s a modern girl to do? Learn how to control her powers of magic, of course. Things go wrong when she accidently conjures up a Roman Legion in mid-battle. Now she has to prevent Roman and Land’s End warriors from killing each other.
A royal banquet quickly dissolves into a brutal battle. The Dark Lord appears and raises the stakes by trapping Rowena in a cyclone of lust and passion. Once again, Rowena is torn between the man she loves and the mage who fires her desire.
Angel Creek – Violet
by Suzanne Jenkins
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A nurse practitioner on the run from heartbreak takes a temporary job in a secluded mountain town—only to discover a community, and a sheriff, willing to help her heal.
After a broken engagement and a brush with danger, nurse practitioner Violet Love escapes to the snowy mountain town of Angel Creek, hoping to heal in peace. But the quirky townspeople, stubborn patients, and a brooding local cop with secrets of his own make “quiet” impossible.
Carson Jackson is guarded, grieving, and unexpectedly protective — and something in Violet stirs the part of him he thought was long gone.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Welcome to Murder Week
by Karen Dukess
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
When thirty-four-year-old Cath loses her mostly absentee mother, she is ambivalent. With days of quiet, unassuming routine in Buffalo, New York, Cath consciously avoids the impulsive, thrill-seeking lifestyle that her mother once led. But when she’s forced to go through her mother’s things one afternoon, Cath is perplexed to find tickets for an upcoming “murder week” in England’s Peak District: a whole town has come together to stage a fake murder mystery to attract tourism to their quaint hamlet. Baffled but helplessly intrigued by her mother’s secret purchase, Cath decides to go on the trip herself—and begins a journey she never could have anticipated.
When You See Me
by Lisa Gardner
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
FBI Special Agent Kimberly Quincy and Sergeant Detective D D Warren have built a task force to follow the digital bread crumbs left behind by deceased serial kidnapper Jacob Ness. When a disturbing piece of evidence is discovered in the hills of Georgia, they bring Flora Dane and true-crime savant Keith Edgar to a small town where something seems to be deeply wrong. What at first looks like a Gothic eeriness soon hardens into something much more sinister . . . and they discover that for all the evil Jacob committed while alive, his worst secret is still to be revealed.
Time Pilgrims: The Complete Trilogy
by Dennis Higgins
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Time Pilgrims is unique in the time travel genre. It features a blend of fantasy, action, humor, and romance. Time Pilgrim, Katya is a strong, independent young woman plagued with a condition known as temporal amnesia. She can’t remember which year she is from and is desperately trying to locate her family. Because of Katya’s time displacement and amnesia, she has not matured beyond the age of twenty-two. She becomes a sponge in every time period she visits…
Agatha Christie. Hercule Poirot Ultimate Collection
by Agatha Christie
Kindle $0.49 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Hercule Poirot is a fictional Belgian detective created by British writer Agatha Christie. Poirot is one of Christie’s most famous and long-running characters, appearing in 33 novels, two plays and more than 50 short stories.
The Poirot books take readers through the whole of his life in England, from the first book (The Mysterious Affair at Styles), where he is a refugee staying at Styles, to the last Poirot book (Curtain), where he visits Styles before his death.
Spearhead
by Adam Makos
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
“A band of brothers in an American tank . . . Makos drops the reader back into the Pershing’s turret and dials up a battle scene to rival the peak moments of Fury.”—The Wall Street Journal
When Clarence Smoyer is assigned to the gunner’s seat of his Sherman tank, he discovers a hidden talent: He’s a natural-born shooter. At first, Clarence and his fellow crews in the legendary 3rd Armored Division—“Spearhead”—thought their tanks were invincible. Then they met the murderous German Panther and a pattern soon emerged: The lead tank always gets hit.
The Husbands
by Chandler Baker
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 3.8 #ad
To what lengths will a woman go for a little more help from her husband?
Nora Spangler is a successful attorney but when it comes to domestic life, she packs the lunches, schedules the doctor appointments, knows where the extra paper towel rolls are, and designs and orders the holiday cards. Her husband works hard, too… but why does it seem like she is always working so much harder?
When the Spanglers go house hunting in Dynasty Ranch, an exclusive suburban neighborhood, Nora meets a group of high-powered women—a tech CEO, a neurosurgeon, an award-winning therapist, a bestselling author—with enviably supportive husbands.
24 Hours
by Greg Iles
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
It begins on a perfect night, with a perfect family about to be trapped in a perfect crime…
Will Jennings is a successful young doctor in Jackson, Mississippi, with a thriving practice, a beautiful wife, and a five-year-old daughter he loves beyond measure. But Will and his family are being watched by a con man and psychopath who may be a genius. A man who has never been caught and whose victims have never talked to the police. A man whose life’s work strikes at the heart of every family’s unspoken fear: the unstoppable kidnapping.
The Warden Series (Books 1 – 3)
by Kevin Hardman
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
WARDEN (BOOK 1: WENDIGO FEVER)
WARDEN (BOOK 2: LURE OF THE LAMIA)
WARDEN (BOOK 3: ATTACK OF THE ASWANG)
“There are monsters and the wall keeping them out of the world broke. Generations of Wardens are raised to hold back the monsters and one is reluctant to follow in his ancestors footsteps. I loved these books and want more!” by Amazon Customer
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Big Jack
by J. D. Robb
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Lieutenant Eve Dallas’s search for a precious fortune leads her into untold danger in this thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb.
In New York City in 2059, someone is pursuing missing gems from a decades-old heist…someone who’s willing to kill for them. Sharp-witted and sexy, Detective Lieutenant Eve Dallas is used to traveling in the shadowy corners outside the law. And in a future where crime meets cutting-edge technology, she will attempt to track down the diamonds once and for all—and stop the danger and death that has surrounded them for years.
TOO FAR STANDING STILL
by Lisette Brodey
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
From the author of Twice a Broken Breath and What the Years Remember
How far would you go to realize your dreams?
Tilly Henley was raised in a life of privilege. The daughter of prominent, wealthy New Yorkers, she wants for little. In her late twenties, she marries attorney Jim McNaughton, and the two of them happily plan to start a family. But, for the first time in her life, Tilly learns that being born into money doesn’t guarantee you get everything you want. Far from it. Unable to conceive, and now, after years of failed IVF treatments, her dream of motherhood is slipping away—and so is her marriage.
Dark Winter
by Colton Lively
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
When an EMP strike plunges the country into chaos, off-grid homesteader May Bloom must survive a collapsing world and find her missing sister before it’s too late.
As panic spreads and systems fail, May’s quiet town becomes ground zero for a disaster no one saw coming.
The Third Gate
by Lincoln Child
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Deep in a nearly impassable swamp south of the Egyptian border, an archaeological team is searching for the burial chamber of King Narmer, the fabled pharaoh. Narmer’s crown might be buried with him: the elusive “double” crown of the two Egypts. Amid the nightmarish, disorienting tangle of mud and dead vegetation, strange things begin to happen. Could an ancient curse be responsible? Jeremy Logan, history professor and master interpreter of bizarre and inexplicable enigmas, is brought onto the project to investigate. What he finds raises fresh questions … and immediate alarm.
The Chill
by Scott Carson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A supernatural force—set in motion a century ago—threatens to devastate New York City in this “terrific horror/suspense/disaster novel” that “grips from the first page” (Stephen King).
Far upstate, in New York’s ancient forests, a drowned village lays beneath the dark, still waters of the Chilewaukee reservoir. Early in the 20th century, the town was destroyed for the greater good: bringing water to the millions living downstate. Or at least that’s what the politicians from Manhattan insisted at the time. The local families, settled there since America’s founding, were forced from their land, but some didn’t leave…
The Chestnut Man
by Soren Sveistrup
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
From Søren Sveistrup, creator of the hit television show, The Killing—a stylish and atmospheric thriller that follows the race to find a serial killer terrorizing Copenhagen.
A psychopath is terrorizing Copenhagen.
His calling card is a “chestnut man”—a handmade doll made of matchsticks and two chestnuts—which he leaves at each bloody crime scene…
The Invisible Woman
by James Patterson, Susan DiLallo
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
No one sees her, but she sees everything. Elinor Gilbert was once a young woman with a thriving career at the FBI.
Now decades past solving crimes with the bureau, she is personally and professionally forgettable.
Which is exactly what her former FBI boss needs. He disguises Elinor as a middle-aged nanny, and casts her as an agent on the inside of his investigation into a New York art dealer suspected of ties to organized crime. But as Elinor pushes toward the truth, her superpower—anonymity—morphs into a fatal flaw.
Izzie Berens Boxed Set
by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Magic is real. So are monsters. And Izzie Berens is the one who hunts them down.
Paranormal Defense Agent Izzie Berens and her partner, Rafe, are called in to investigate a series of violent attacks in Austin. Izzie soon realizes she’s no longer just tracking a rogue magical but something far worse.
Grab this complete series boxed set today and dive into a world where magic is deadly, secrets are dangerous, and Izzie Berens doesn’t back down from a fight.