Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
A Curiously Convenient Demise
by Hannah Hendy
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The higher the bid, the heavier the price.
Summerview Secondary School is holding its annual charity auction. Margery and Clementine Butcher-Baker are on hand to prepare delicious baked goods for the big day with the assistance of Clementine’s mysterious sister, Maria.
As the auction begins, chaos erupts when Eleanor Black, the owner of Dewstow Museum, is found murdered in the stage storeroom. Maria has vanished. Her fingerprints cover the crime scene.
The Perfect Couple
by Jackie Kabler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
The perfect couple … or the perfect lie?
A devoted wife… A year ago, Gemma met the love of her life, Danny. Since then, their relationship has been perfect. But one evening, Danny doesn’t return home.
A missing husband… Gemma turns to the police. She is horrified by what she discovers – a serial killer is on the loose in Bristol. When she sees photos of the victims she is even more stunned…they all look just like Danny.
Who would you believe?
Escaping the Dashia
by Rebecca Inch-Partridge
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Discovering who you are can be dangerous—even deadly.
Twyla’s been living in hiding on Earth, hoping to leave her past behind.
But when her mother, Madam Cassiopeia DeConnett finds her and kidnaps her back to the Paraxous Star Cluster, she expects her daughter to take her rightful place within the family business. The DeConnetts are Dashia—a group of genetically- engineered telepaths who use their powers to control some and ruin others. Their criminal organization is rich, powerful, and spans The Cluster.
Parallel Roads
by Dennis Higgins
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
When the spring of 1946 comes, Katherine Callahan decides to leave her loving husband and newborn baby so that she may embark upon an unknowingly tragic journey across the famous American highway from Chicago to her sister’s home in Burbank. She never does arrive.
Fast forward into the present, Kevin Callahan, Katherine’s grandson, along with his best friend Cheryl Bachman, traces his grandmother’s steps along the now decommissioned road to uncover the mystery surrounding her disappearance. They are armed with only a handful of postcards from Katherine and a Victorian secret code involving postage stamps surrounding a mysterious man from her past.
Keeper of the Bride
by Tess Gerritsen
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
If Nina Cormier’s wedding had taken place, she would be dead. But after the bride was left at the altar, the church stood empty when the bomb exploded. It wasn’t until a stranger tried to run her off the road that Nina realized someone actually wanted to kill her. But who?
That’s what Detective Sam Navarro has to find out…fast. With a nightmare unfolding all around them, Sam and Nina must try to decipher the terrifying truth: they are at the mercy of a brilliant madman, one who is playing for keeps.…
The End of the World As We Know It
by Christopher Golden, Brian Keene, Stephen King
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
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An original short story anthology based on master storyteller Stephen King’s #1 New York Times bestselling classic The Stand!
Since its initial publication in 1978, The Stand has been considered Stephen King’s seminal masterpiece of apocalyptic fiction, with millions of copies sold and adapted twice for television. Although there are other extraordinary works exploring the unraveling of human society, none have been as influential as this iconic novel—generations of writers have been impacted by its dark yet ultimately hopeful vision of the end and new beginning of civilization, and its stunning array of characters.
Deadly Greed
by Joe Sharkey
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The true crime story of a Boston man who murdered his pregnant wife and pinned the crime on a black man—the case behind HBO’s Murder in Boston.
On October 23, 1989, affluent businessman Charles Stuart made a frantic 911 call from his car to report that he and his seven-months-pregnant wife, Carol, a lawyer, had been robbed and shot by a black male in the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston. By the time police arrived, Carol was dead, and the baby was soon lost as well. The attack incited a furor during a time of heightened racial tension in the community.
Wait and See
by Iris Johansen, Roy Johansen
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Investigator Kendra Michaels—formerly blind and now with uniquely insightful observational skills in the tradition of Sherlock Holmes—returns in this action-packed novel from the #1 New York Times and Edgar Award-winning writing duo Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen.
When Kendra Michaels receives a cryptic message from her sometimes-paramour Adam Lynch, she concludes that he must be in extreme danger—the kind where he can’t trust his FBI and Justice department colleagues to rescue him. Lynch has saved Kendra’s life during past investigations so she’s immediately willing to put everything on the line for him.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Southern Man
by Greg Iles
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The final thrilling, page-turner in the Penn Cage series from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Natchez Burning trilogy and Cemetery Road, a Southern thriller about a man—and a town—rocked by anarchy and tragedy, but unbowed in the fight to save those they love.
Fifteen years after the events of the Natchez Burning trilogy, Penn Cage is alone. Nearly all his loved ones are dead, his old allies gone, and he carries a mortal secret that separates him from the world. But Penn’s exile comes to an end when a brawl at a Mississippi rap festival triggers a bloody mass shooting—an act of domestic terrorism that nearly takes the life of his daughter Annie.
The Twisted Road Ahead
by John D. Ottini
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Finalist in the 2018 Royal Palm Literary Awards Competition
Our journey through life rarely follows a straight and narrow path. The road is filled with unexpected twists and turns and sometimes things are not as they seem. In The Twisted Road Ahead, John D. Ottini leads us on an excursion through eight suspenseful tales, each filled with joy, heartache, mystery, intrigue and a pinch of humor.
In “Tormented Heart” Austin Drummond discovers that fulfilling his departed wife’s final request is more than he ever bargained for.
When tragedy strikes, Blake Thomas is left with a broken heart and a guilty conscience. Rather than searching within his heart for the forgiveness he needs, he decides that sometimes it’s easier to just “Blame it on the Weather.”
Chat
by Archer Mayor
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
News travels fast in the small state of Vermont. In this tight-knit society, police officers and investigators maintain a kinship that transcends the boundaries of their jurisdictions. When an unidentified body is found in the town of Brattleboro, local police and the Vermont Bureau of Investigation both appear at the scene.
But before investigator Joe Gunther gather evidence of murder, a family emergency sends him to his hometown, where the lives of his mother and brother have been threatened. Gunther reaches out to a network of police officers who know him only by name and reputation as he attempts to discover the source of this imminent danger.
Wrong Choice
by Jessica Lynn Sorensen
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
A BIRTHDAY GAME WHERE COLORS KILL.
To celebrate turning another year older, Taylor and her closest friends head to her uncle’s casino… chasing thrills, luck, and one unforgettable night. But later that night when the doors lock behind them, the casino reveals its true purpose… an underground game where chance decides who lives and who dies.
Forced into a twisted version of roulette, Taylor is made to choose colors on the wheel, each sealing the fate of someone she loves. The house always wins, and the cost of losing is far more personal than she ever imagined.
The Gathering Dark
by Brett Armstrong
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
After a thousand years of light, darkness covers the Lowlands.
Jason has spent his life running from the past. But when it finally catches up to him, he takes refuge in a strange inn—and hears a story that shouldn’t matter… yet changes everything.
It’s the story of Anargen.
A young man bound by loyalty to the legendary High King of All Realms, Anargen is called away from everything he loves to fulfill a dangerous mission. Alongside his mentor, Cinaed, he journeys north to broker peace between two ancient enemies—the men of Ecthelowall and the dwarfs of Ordumair.
Her Dark Lies
by J.T. Ellison
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Fast-paced and brilliantly unpredictable, J.T. Ellison’s breathtaking novel invites you to a wedding none will forget—and some won’t survive.
Jutting from sparkling turquoise waters off the Italian coast, Isle Isola is an idyllic setting for a wedding. In the majestic cliff-top villa owned by the wealthy Compton family, up-and-coming artist Claire Hunter will marry handsome, charming Jack Compton, surrounded by close family, intimate friends…and a host of dark secrets.
The Name of the Game
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Television producer Johanna Patterson forged her career through talent and tenacity, avoiding the egos and libidos of her male counterparts who dominate the industry. So when movie star Sam Weaver sets his sights on her, she knows better than to trust his words and actions. But as Sam reveals more of his true self, Johanna finds herself falling for a man completely different from his celebrity persona.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder, She Wrote
by Jessica Fletcher, Terrie Farley Moran
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The newest entry in the USA Today bestselling Murder, She Wrote series.
It’s leaf-peeping season in Cabot Cove, but for someone, it’s killing season!
A quartet of friends from Florida have come to Maine to experience a New England autumn, complete with hiking in the woods and fishing. When one of them goes missing, the town rallies to find the presumably lost but otherwise safe tourist. But when newspaper editor Dan Andrews is biking on the trail along a ridge, he looks down and sees a leg caught in the branches of a tree…
The Book of Seila
by Wilda Hughes
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The Book of Seila is a dystopian novel about sisters seeking to save each other from a police state and biblical law.
Ruby Lambert is in hiding after escaping a brutal police redemption camp. For five years, she’s been wanted for murder, heresy, and abomination.
When her sister’s husband is killed, her sister becomes a suspect in his death. To save her, Ruby comes out of hiding to help her flee the southern Covenant States.
On their way north, the women are ambushed and separated. Thus begins the clash with a twisted and cloying web of true believers and informers in the dystopian town of Wendell…
Want to Know a Secret?
by Freida McFadden
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Everyone has secrets.
YouTube baking sensation April Masterson knows the secret to the perfect gooey brownies. Or how to make key lime squares that will melt in your mouth. But if you keep watching her offline, you may find out some other secrets about April. Secrets she’d rather you didn’t know.
Like where did her son go when he snuck out of the house? What was she doing with the local soccer coach behind fogged windows?
And what’s buried in her backyard?
The Trigger Man
by Aiden Bailey
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
He’s a good guy who kills bad guys for a living.
CIA operative Mark Pierce is a trained killer with a strict moral code – he only targets those who truly deserve to die. So he has no qualms about taking out Victor Vautrin, an international arms dealer supplying fanatical terrorists in West Africa who may soon trigger a brutal civil war.
But when he is tasked with other objectives – rescue kidnapped tourists, recover eleven million dollars of stolen CIA money – it quickly becomes clear to Pierce that someone doesn’t want him to succeed in his primary mission.
Seeing Red
by Sandra Brown
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
From #1 bestselling author Sandra Brown, a tale of thrilling sexual tension and vengeance without mercy.
Kerra Bailey is a TV journalist chasing a career-changing story: an interview with hero Major Franklin Trapper, who led survivors to safety after a hotel bombing twenty-five years ago. Kerra will do anything for this story—even if she has to secure an introduction from his estranged son, former ATF agent John Trapper. Trapper wants no association with the bombing or the Major, but Kerra rouses his interest despite himself.
The Darkwar Saga
by Raymond E. Feist
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The Complete Epic Fantasy Trilogy of the Third and Most Dramatic Riftwar
Get all three fantasy novels in New York Times bestselling author Raymond E. Feist’s the Darkwar Saga in one e-book, including: Flight of the Nighthawks, Into a Dark Realm, and Wrath of a Mad God. This explosive trilogy revisits Feist’s signature worlds of Midkemia and Kelewan that ushers in the third, and most dramatic Riftwar yet: the Darkwar.
The Heir of Whitestone
by Catherine Coulter
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
When Alex Ivanov was 12, someone tried to kill him. Now, 11 years later, they still want him dead.
England, 1842. Queen Victoria reigns, Buckingham Palace is overrun with rats, and the streets of London are filled with intrigue.
Alex Ivanov is a brilliant young innovator, designing cutting-edge train engines. But Alex has a secret—he isn’t really Alex Ivanov. As a boy, he was pulled from the Thames, presumed drowned, with no memory of who he was. Rescued and raised by the formidable Ryder Sherbrooke, Alex has built a new life, but his past is catching up with him.
The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe
by James Patterson, Imogen Edwards-Jones
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
“Electrifying … A spellbinding new account of the star’s final days by the world’s greatest thriller writer.” —Daily Mail
In life, Marilyn Monroe’s superstardom defies classification. In death, she remains shrouded in mystery.
In the months before her death, Marilyn polishes the script for her ultimately unfinished film, Something’s Got to Give.
In the weeks before her death, she drinks champagne on Santa Monica Beach with the last photographer to take her picture.
Seed
by Ania Ahlborn
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
With nothing but the clothes on his back—and something horrific snapping at his heels—Jack Winter fled his rural Georgia home when he was still just a boy. Watching the world he knew vanish in a trucker’s rearview mirror, he thought he was leaving an unspeakable nightmare behind forever. But years later, the bright new future he’s built suddenly turns pitch black, as something fiendishly familiar looms dead ahead.
When Jack, his wife Aimee, and their two small children survive a violent car crash, it seems like a miracle. But Jack knows what he saw on the road that night, and it wasn’t divine intervention.
Ferneyford
by Rosa Miraffmo
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
In 1927, Phyllis Walsh visits Ferneyford Hall,the Hazelton family estate. Hoping to find work and a new home for herself and her young daughter, Laura, she learns of the owner’s search for an heir.
Years later, as war seems inevitable, Laura becomes enmeshed in espionage and intrigue at the Hall.
Can Laura overcome the difficulties and dangers she faces, and find true love?
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
The Clementine Complex
by Bob Mortimer
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Beloved comedian and #1 Sunday Times (London) bestselling author of the memoir And Away… Bob Mortimer returns with a delightfully quirky mystery in the vein of Richard Osman and Nita Prose.
Unremarkable legal assistant Gary Thorn goes for a pint with his coworker Brendan, unaware his life is about to change. There, Gary meets a beautiful woman, but she leaves before he catches her name. All he has to remember her by is the title of the book she was reading: The Clementine Complex. And when Brendan goes missing, too, Gary needs to track down the girl he now calls Clementine to get some answers…
The Teacher
by Freida McFadden
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Lesson #1: Trust no one.
Eve has a good life. She wakes up each day, kisses her husband Nate, and heads off to teach math at the local high school. All is as it should be. Except…
Last year, Caseham High was rocked by a scandal involving a student-teacher affair, with one student, Addie, at its center. But Eve knows there is far more to these ugly rumors than meets the eye.
Addie can’t be trusted. She lies. She hurts people. She destroys lives. At least, that’s what everyone says.
Pendergast: The Beginning
by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
From the #1 New York Times bestselling duo Preston and Child comes the Agent Pendergast origin story—a golden opportunity for longtime fans and new readers to learn about Agent Pendergast’s strange and shocking first case.
It only took six months for the life of Special Agent Dwight Chambers to crumble around him. First, he lost his partner, and then, tragically, his wife. Returning to work at the New Orleans Field Office, Chambers is dismayed to find himself saddled with mentoring a brand new FBI agent—a certain A. X. L. Pendergast. As Chambers tries to pull himself together, his enigmatic and exasperating junior partner pulls an outrageous stunt that gets both of them suspended.
Ugly Love
by Colleen Hoover
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Regretting You, Verity, and It Ends with Us comes a hauntingly seductive tale of love, control, and the devastating secrets that can destroy it all.
When Tate Collins moves in with her brother, the last thing she expects is to collide with Miles Archer, a brooding pilot with an unrelenting grip on his past. Their attraction is electric, undeniable, and all-consuming—but Miles has rules. No questions. No future. A no-strings arrangement seems simple at first, but a deep, shattering truth lurks just beneath the surface.
Tate soon realizes that Miles is not just guarded but fractured. Torn between desire and self-destruction, his pain bleeds into every part of their dynamic.
Bullets in the Briar
by Kimber Silver
Kindle $5.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The discovery of a mutilated body on remote farmland is only the start of Sheriff Lincoln James’ latest investigation. A mysterious religious sect and an intimidating biker gang add fuel to the fire. Within the sheriff’s circle of friends is someone with a hidden connection – If only she’d be willing to step forward…
To add to his problems, Lincoln has a fiercely contested election to win if he’s going to continue as sheriff. His opponent is a smooth out-of-towner who is making friends among the local people, so it’s going to be a fight.
Memory Man
by David Baldacci
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
This #1 New York Times bestseller introduces Amos Decker, a gifted police detective with a perfect memory who must solve a mystery he wishes he could forget: his family’s murder. Amos Decker’s life changed forever—twice. The first time was on the gridiron. A big, towering athlete, he was the only person from his hometown of Burlington ever to play in the NFL.
But his career ended before it had a chance to begin. On his very first play, a violent helmet-to-helmet collision knocked him off the field forever, and left him with an improbable side effect—he can forget nothing.
Stolen in Death
by J. D. Robb
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A violent death and a vault of stolen treasures has Eve Dallas struggling to solve crimes old and new in the next thriller in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series.
A blow to the head with a block of amethyst has left multibillionaire Nathan Barrister dead—while nearby, a vault, its door ajar, sits filled with priceless paintings, jewelry, and other treasures. Lieutenant Eve Dallas’s husband, Roarke—who misspent his youth in Ireland as a scrappy thief—recognizes at least two stolen pieces among the hoard. The crime scene suggests a burglar caught in the act. But only one item seems to be missing.
Seasons of Darkness
by Belinda G. Buchanan
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Ethan Harrington’s innocence was lost seven years ago when his mother took her own life.
Forced to grow up in a hurry, he quickly learns to build a wall around his heart, vowing to never let it be hurt again. Left alone with his controlling, alcoholic, and abusive father in an isolated farmhouse, Ethan struggles to live among the shattered remains of a family that was never functional to begin with.
A kindhearted doctor, a beautiful girl, and a caring nanny all love him in different ways, but Ethan, now sixteen and still ravaged by his mother’s suicide, turns to what he has seen his father take comfort in time and time again – thus giving rise to an inner demon that will not turn him loose.