Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Bad Company
by Virginia Swift
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Jubilee Days: Laramie, Wyoming’s annual rodeo bash and sin fest. It’s a whole week of broncos bucking, guitars twanging, and cash registers ringing. Nobody much wants to spoil the party, not even when a local loser turns up dead in the mountains east of town.
Almost nobody. Sally Adler and Hawk Green, a couple of college professors out for an afternoon hike, find the body, and for Sally and Hawk, murder is anything but academic. Like the victim, Sally’s done her time in the glare of the late-night neon lights, and she knows how thin the line can be between honky-tonk angels and lost souls…
The Grey Beginning
by Barbara Michaels
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Devastated by her husband’s death, Kathy Malone has traveled to his childhood home, hoping to come to terms with the recent tragedy. Here in the beautiful rolling hills of Tuscany, she seeks solace – and discovers something sinister instead. Befriending a lonely boy named Pietro – accepting the chilly hospitality of the aristocratic Contessa Morandini – Kathy begins to uncover the pieces of an ominous puzzle and hints of a deadly obsession. And now she has stumbled upon a murderous plot that could cost Kathy her life—for it was meant to stay hidden . . . forever.
Starvation Heights
by Gregg Olsen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
In this true story—a haunting saga of medical murder set in an era of steamships and gaslights—Gregg Olsen reveals one of the most unusual and disturbing criminal cases in American history.
In 1911 two wealthy British heiresses, Claire and Dora Williamson, arrived at a sanitorium in the forests of the Pacific Northwest to undergo the revolutionary “fasting treatment” of Dr. Linda Burfield Hazzard. It was supposed to be a holiday for the two sisters, but within a month of arriving at what the locals called Starvation Heights, the women underwent brutal treatments and were emaciated shadows of their former selves…
The Look of Love
by Mary Jane Clark
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Piper’s back in The Look of Love, on cake creating assignment at a West Coast luxury spa for the wealthy and famous – where nip and tuck and murder are offered in equal measures. Clark really hits her stride with The Look of Love, providing a winning recipe for delectable mystery that combines chills, twists, humor and often very romantic suspense in the bestselling vein of Mary Higgins Clark, Carol Higgins Clark, Faye Kellerman, Elizabeth Lowell, and Jayne Ann Krentz. She even includes scrumptious pastry recipes and fabulous cake design tips.
Blood Sport
by Dick Francis
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
From a New York Times bestseller, “galloping entertainment” about a British secret agent searching for a missing racehorse in the United States (Kirkus Reviews).
Dick Francis, Edgar Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
With only his tormented past for company, Gene Hawkins is restlessly facing three lonely weeks of vacation. So when his boss asks for his help assisting millionaire Dave Teller locate a missing priceless breeding stallion he accepts, against his better judgement.
East of Evil
by Joni M Fisher
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A colossal fortune. A secret reaper. A young woman whose drive for justice makes her the target of dangerous people…
Nefi Jenkins dreams of becoming an FBI agent. After exposing her parents’ heartless killer, the Harvard grad focuses on getting into a stellar criminal justice master’s degree program. But her career goals take a back seat when she inherits a ten-million-dollar trust from her late parents…with a hefty chunk gone.
Can Nefi restore her parent’s wealth before her investigation turns fatal?
Darkness Under the Sun
by Dean Koontz
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
The chilling account of a pivotal encounter between innocence and ultimate malice, Darkness Under the Sun is the perfect read for Halloween—or for any haunted night—and reveals a secret, fateful turning point in the career of Alton Turner Blackwood, the killer at the dark heart of What the Night Knows, the forthcoming novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz.
There once was a killer who knew the night, its secrets and rhythms. How to hide within its shadows. When to hunt…
Daniel Hudson
by Jesse Storm
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When outlaw Jeb Thornton and his gang ride into town, leaving destruction in their wake and killing Daniel Hudson’s friend, Sheriff Timothy Norton, everything changed. Fueled by grief, Daniel sets out to confront Thornton and his gang.
Along the way Daniel meets Alice Waterson, a fiery woman on a mission of her own. As it turns out, Thornton has killed her husband and she has been hunting him down ever since.
As Daniel and Alice dig into Thornton’s past, they discover a tale of tragedy and revenge…
Sixty Blades of Grass
by Elizabeth Millane
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The bond between a Dutch teenager and her father is tested as the Resistance wages its secret war on the Nazis: “Darkly lyrical . . . An action filled plot.” —Mary Glickman, author of By the Rivers of Babylon
During the Second World War, Rika, a seventeen-year-old Dutch Resistance fighter, paints in fields overlooking the busy rail yards. Hidden in her artwork is information crucial to the Dutch Underground about the concentration camps and Jewish prisoner transports.
But Rika’s covert activities aren’t the only thing on her mind. In these uncertain times, even trusting family is risky. She suspects her father of collaborating with the Germans and is determined to uncover the truth.
The Clan of Hogan Falls Boxed Set
by Serena Meadows
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Prepare yourself for these eight stories about female wolf shifters whose lives have been in danger since birth. Abandoned by their clans, they all grew up together and now run a successful bed and breakfast.
But it isn’t until they meet their fated mates that everything becomes turbulent again. The enemies have returned, and the women have much more to lose than just their lives. They now also have their hearts on the line.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Help the Poor Struggler
by Martha Grimes
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Around bleak Dartmoor, where the Hound of the Baskervilles once bayed, three children have been brutally murdered. Now Richard Jury of Scotland Yard joins forces with a hot-tempered local constable named Brian Macalvie to track down the killer. The trail begins at a desolate pub, Help the Poor Struggler. It leads straight to the estate of Lady Jessica, a ten-year-old orphaned heiress who lives with her mysterious uncle and ever-changing series of governesses. And as suspense spreads across the forbidding landscape, an old injustice returns to haunt Macalvie…with clues that link a murder in the distant past with a killing yet to come.
Find Her
by Lisa Gardner
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Lisa Gardner’s runaway New York Times bestseller—a fast-paced thrill ride featuring Detective D. D. Warren.
Seven years ago, carefree college student Flora Dane was kidnapped while on spring break. For 472 days, Flora learned just how much one person can endure.
Miraculously alive after her ordeal, Flora has spent the past five years reacquainting herself with the rhythms of normal life, working with her FBI victim advocate, Samuel Keynes. She has a mother who’s never stopped loving her, a brother who is scared of the person she’s become, and a bedroom wall covered with photos of other girls who’ve never made it home.
Easy Go
by Michael Crichton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Egyptologist Harold Barnaby has just made the discovery of the century. While retranslating some old hieroglyphs, he has found clues to the location of a pharaoh’s lost tomb. But this discovery leads him to make the ultimate choice: rather than share his find with the rest of the world, Professor Barnaby is determined to locate the tomb and keep whatever treasure he finds inside for himself.
But to pull off the greatest heist in the archaeological history, Barnaby will need help. Enter Robert Pierce, a transient freelance writer looking for excitement…
Two Worlds
by Carly Brady
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
The Heroes of Olympus meets The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe in this action-packed, humorous, epic fantasy with mysterious villains, never-before-seen magical creatures, and magical dimensions.
When the lines between reality and magic blur, one teen must find the power within to save the worlds.
One minute James is just a normal high school kid—the next, he’s transported by a crystal ball into another dimension.
Stuck inside this unfamiliar place, James is uncontrollably catapulted through multiple eras in different bodies. Here he meets two wizards Willow and Nova, and an elf named Christopher. To get back to Earth, they must survive deserts, jungles, and war-torn lands from a previous world war.
Night Shadow
by Catherine Coulter
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
You met Knight Winthrop, Viscount Castlerosse, in Night Fire. He’s the quintessential Regency bachelor, very happy with his life just the way it is. Then Lily shows up on his doorstep claiming she was betrothed to his murdered cousin. With her are his cousin’s three children. She has no money, nowhere to go. What’s even worse—Ugly Arnold is hard on her heels.
So what’s Knight supposed to do now? He takes them in and kisses his former life goodbye.
In the Heart of the Dark Wood
by Billy Coffey
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A motherless girl hungry for hope . . . and the dream that could be leading her astray.
Almost two years have passed since twelve-year-old Allie Granderson’s beloved mother, Mary, disappeared into the wild tornado winds. Her body has never been found.
Allie clings to memories of her mother, just as she clings to the broken compass she left behind, the makeshift Nativity scene in the front yard, and her best friend Zach. But even with Zach at her side, the compass on her wrist, and the Nativity right outside the window, Allie cannot help but feel lost in all the growing up that must get done.
The Winter List
by S.G. MacLean
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By the summer of 1660 the last remnants of the Republic have been swept away and the Stuarts have been restored under their king, Charles II. A list of regicides believed to be involved in the death of Charles I is drawn up. Gruesome executions begin to take place and the hunt intensifies for those who have gone into hiding at home or abroad.
Although not a regicide, staunch Republican Damian Seeker is on a list of traitors to the king. Royalist spy, Lady Anne Winter, is employed to find evidence of guilt or innocence among the names on this Winter List. Seeker has fled England but his beloved daughter Manon remains, married to Seeker’s friend, the lawyer Lawrence Ingolby, and living in York.
Hard Money
by Diane Capri
Kindle $9.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
Accident, curse, or revenge?
Spencer Lyman managed to break free from his criminal underworld and build a legitimate empire. But escaping a crime syndicate is dangerous business.
Old man Lyman won’t accept that his grandson, Ward, is gone. He’s convinced Ward is out there, somewhere, and he’s desperate to find him before those who seek to destroy him finish what they started.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
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Too Late To Run Collection
by Jennifer Youngblood
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Never trust a stranger with your heart… An irresistible collection of heart-pounding romantic suspense that will keep you turning pages until well into the night.
False Identity
False Trust
Burned
Promise Me Love
The Reckless Warrior
Chasing Whispers
Poirot Investigates &
Murder in the Mews Bundle
by Agatha Christie
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
“It’s interesting to read Agatha Christie – just a fledgling author – in the initial collection. These short detective stories are fine early efforts, if somewhat derivative of Doyle. The second collection of stories finds Christie at full power.” by Amazon Customer
The Dark Heart of Florence
by Tasha Alexander
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From acclaimed author Tasha Alexander transports readers to the legendary city of Florence, where Lady Emily and Colin must solve a murder with clues leading back to the time of the Medici.
In 1903, tensions between Britain and Germany are starting to loom over Europe, something that has not gone unnoticed by Lady Emily and her husband, Colin Hargreaves. An agent of the Crown, Colin carries the weight of the Empire, but his focus is drawn to Italy by a series of burglaries at his daughter’s palazzo in Florence—burglaries that might have international ramifications. He and Emily travel to Tuscany where, soon after their arrival, a stranger is thrown to his death from the roof onto the marble palazzo floor.
The Last Place
by Laura Lippman
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When New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman’s Tess Monaghan investigates five cold case murders, she doesn’t expect the investigation to become personal…
Tess Monaghan agrees to look into a series of unsolved homicides that date back over the past six years despite the fact that the assignment originates from a troubling source: wealthy Baltimore benefactor Luisa O’Neal, who was both instrumental in launching Tess’s present career and intimately connected with the murder of Tess’s former boyfriend.
Apart from the suspicion that each death was the result of domestic violence, nothing else seems to connect them…
Hell Is Empty
by Craig Johnson
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Walt Longmire faces an icy hell in this New York Times bestseller from the author of Land of Wolves
Raynaud Shade, an adopted Crow Indian rumored to be one of the country’s most dangerous sociopaths, has just confessed to murdering a boy ten years ago and burying him deep within the Bighorn Mountains. Walt is asked to transport Shade through a blizzard to the site, but what begins as a typical criminal transport turns personal when the veteran lawman learns that he knows the dead boy’s family. Guided only by Indian mysticism and a battered paperback of Dante’s Inferno, Walt braves the icy hell of the Cloud Peak Wilderness Area, cheating death to ensure that justice–both civil and spiritual–is served.
In the Shadow of Greed
by Nancy C. Weeks
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She protects the cyber world. He defends his fellow man. What neither expected . . . someone would kill to ensure they both fail.
Cyber security analyst Sarah Tu’s ordered life has crumbled in hours. While she turned the outside world off to prevent dangerous malware from spreading, her sister was brutally attacked and left in a coma. They both should’ve been on a beach drinking margaritas. Guilt will forever haunt her, and she’ll find the monster who left Hanna to die. But how does she protect her heart from the detective who has taken an unusual interest in her life? She can’t stop thinking about him.
Children of the Night
by Dan Simmons
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
“Simmons writes like a hot-rodding angel.” –Stephen King
An evil legacy comes to life in this classic and ultimately human novel about believable vampires, featuring a brand-new introduction by Dan Simmons. Children of the Night will take you to a place that no one knows – yet all of us fear.
In a desolate orphanage in post-Communist Romania, a desperately ill infant is given the wrong blood transfusion—and flourishes rather than dies. For immunologist Kate Neuman, the infant’s immune system may hold the key to cure cancer and AIDS.
Con Artist on the Coast
by K.L. Montgomery
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Does this brand of beauty come at a price?
There’s a new visitor to Bryce Beach, and she’s captured the hearts–and wallets–of all the ladies in town. Miranda Mason is so glamorous, so fashionable, so chic–no wonder her handmade skin care and wellness products are selling like hotcakes. Mmmm. Hotcakes.
Sunshine begins to suspect there’s more than meets the eye when it comes to Miranda. Her friends think she’s just jealous, but when a dead body is found near the boardwalk, Sunshine fears Ms. Mason is worse than a con artist–she might even be a murderer…
Pain, Pumpernickel & Profound Forgiveness
by Rosanne D’Ausilio PhD
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
Have you ever experienced moments that felt truly miraculous or beyond explanation?
In this intimate journey, she unveils the tumultuous relationship with her father—a metamorphosis from the shackles of pain, hurt, and fear to the liberating embrace of compassion, generosity, and forgiveness.
This book is both raw and redemptive — Rosanne invites you into the haunting image of a young girl, clad in a yellow pinafore, white socks, and shoes, too afraid to smile. Yet, amid the shadows, there are heartwarming vignettes of Sunday morning adventures to the bakery, where watermelon-sized pumpernickel bread and the alchemy of coconut bars become the catalysts for father-daughter camaraderie.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
At Wits’ End: A Doyle Cozy Mystery
by Kirsten Weiss
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A laugh-out-loud mystery that’s out of this world… Men in Black. Conspiracy-crazed old ladies. Can a clueless innkeeper catch a killer … and stick to her carefully crafted schedule?
When control-freak Susan Witsend inherits her grandmother’s UFO-themed B&B, she’s ready to put her organizational skills to the test. She knows she can make the B&B work, even if there is a faux-UFO in the roof. After all, what’s not to love about a Victorian nestled in the high Sierra foothills?
The Echo Man
by Sam Holland
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Detectives Cara Elliott and Noah Deakin are on the case of a series of seemingly unconnected murders, each different in method, but each shocking and brutal. As the body count increases, they can’t ignore the details that echo famous cases of the past—Manson, Kemper, Dahmer, and more. As Elliott and Deakin get closer to unmasking the killer, the murders are moving closer to home.
Meanwhile, Jessica Ambrose is on the run. She’s been implicated as the arsonist who killed her neglectful husband and injured her young daughter…
A Place of Darkness and Other Stories
by John D. Ottini
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Vigo Pointer has survived an unhappy childhood with an absentee father and alcoholic mother, then his own marriage has gone to pieces. Now all he wants is to be left alone.
It’s taken years of therapy to heal the emotional scars, control his alcoholism, reconcile his feelings of failure, and begin to live a productive life.
Everything seems to be under control until a strange telephone message and envelope set in motion a series of events that could once again destabilize Vigo’s fragile mental equilibrium. Will Vigo overcome this final, life-threatening challenge, or is his world about to unravel?
An Aria for the Vampire Complete Series
by Philippa Norcross, Michael Anderle
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Cora has found herself in a pickle. Namely, she’s dying.
No one can change the hand that fate deals, yet Cora is offered a choice when she reaches the limits of what medicine can do to keep her alive.
Will she defy fate and agree to an attempt to transform her into a vampire?
Grab this complete series boxed set to find out!
Girls’ Night Out
by J. A. Jance
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A skilled mechanic and certified spitfire, Twinkle Winkleman is as hard as nails; she has to be with a name like hers. Twinkle learned everything there is to know about cars from her time in her daddy’s garage in Anchorage, and when her father dies, she gains ownership of the shop and Maude, her dad’s prized 1973 International Harvester Travelall.
Life has not been kind to Twinkle: she grew up without her mother, her daddy’s gone, her ex-husband betrayed her, and her son Tad was killed after a trip to Seattle to handle some “unfinished business.” Right now, the only things Twinkle truly cares for are her garage, Maude, and Cindy—her daughter-in-law and Tad’s widow.
Double Jeopardy
by Catherine Coulter
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The Target – Coulter “keeps readers guessing” (Booklist) as a little girl is pursued by men who prove as relentless as their motives are baffling. And FBI agents Savich and Sherlock must unravel the clues.
The Edge – In this “fast-paced thriller” (People), an FBI agent’s sister disappears after an attempted suicide. When Savich and Sherlock join the search, they discover a startling connection to a puzzling murder – and put their lives on the line to uncover the truth.
Haunted River
by J. T. Bishop
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Don’t Deny the Dead
A woman, clad only in a white nightgown, is dead – her body discovered on the banks of Black River. Her unsolved murder, and her ghost, still haunt the small town where she lived and died.
Twenty-five years later, Detective Gordon Daniels inherits his estranged grandfather’s home on the property where the body was found. Anxious to sell it, Daniels invites his partner, Detective Aaron Remalla to help him clean it out and enjoy some time off from their high-pressure job. But their getaway is interrupted when a second woman’s body is found on the river, clad in a white nightgown, and they are unwittingly thrown them into an investigation they would prefer to avoid.
Never
by Ken Follett
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A shrinking oasis in the Sahara Desert; a stolen US Army drone; an uninhabited Japanese island; and one country’s secret stash of deadly chemical poisons: all these play roles in a relentlessly escalating crisis.
Struggling to prevent the outbreak of world war are a young woman intelligence officer; a spy working undercover with jihadists; a brilliant Chinese spymaster; and Pauline herself, beleaguered by a populist rival for the next president election.