Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder at Vinland
by Alyssa Maxwell
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Reporter and sleuth Emma Cross Andrews must stop a bold poisoner who is targeting the society wives of the Four Hundred in Gilded Age Newport, Rhode Island . . .
August 1901: A fundraiser for a new Rhode Island Audubon Society brings Emma to Vinland, the Viking-themed seaside home of her relative, Florence Vanderbilt Twombly, where the guest of honor is Edith Roosevelt, wife of Vice President Theodore Roosevelt. Listening to the speakers and observing the ladies in attendance, Emma is struck by the contrast of the Viking warrior–inspired elements in the house and the admirable but admittedly genteel cause of bird protection. Vinland bears the name of the Vikings’ first landfall in North America, but in this room today there is most assuredly no one to fear…
Three Times A Killer
by Gerald Hansen
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Three ways to die, one baffling case.
DI Liam McLaughlin and DS Nancy D’Arcy are seasoned pros, but even their skills are stretched when a battered body turns up in an alley across from the hair salon. Declan Hoagett was a seemingly harmless indigent who spent his days hanging out on the street corner. He rarely asked for handouts but did occasionally burst into song. Nobody would kill him for that, would they?
Criminal (with bonus novella Snatched
by Karin Slaughter
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Will Trent is a brilliant agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Newly in love, he is beginning to put a difficult past behind him. Then a local college student goes missing, and Will is inexplicably kept off the case by his supervisor and mentor, deputy director Amanda Wagner. Will cannot fathom Amanda’s motivation until the two of them literally collide in an abandoned orphanage they have both been drawn to for different reasons. Decades before, when his father was imprisoned for murder, this was Will’s home…
Dirty Job
by Sabrina Hollands
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Reality TV star Jake Stillwater thrives on charm, danger, and his million-dollar smile as the host of the hit show America’s Worst Jobs. But when tough-as-nails camerawoman Tess Hardy joins his crew, she’s not impressed by his celebrity persona. Tess sees the womanizing player beneath the surface—and she’s not afraid to call him out.
Sparks fly both on and off set as Tess shakes up Jake’s all-male production team. What begins as an enemies-to-lovers clash transforms when a dangerous prank unveils the fierce, talented woman behind the lens. Jake is captivated by the fiery chemistry between them, but Tess’s trust isn’t easy to earn.
The Monster of Florence
by Douglas Preston
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In the nonfiction tradition of John Berendt and Erik Larson, the author of the #1 NYT bestseller The Lost City of the Monkey God presents a gripping account of crime and punishment in the lush hills surrounding Florence as he seeks to uncover one of the most infamous figures in Italian history.
In 2000, Douglas Preston fulfilled a dream to move his family to Italy. Then he discovered that the olive grove in front of their 14th century farmhouse had been the scene of the most infamous double-murders in Italian history, committed by a serial killer known as the Monster of Florence. Preston, intrigued, meets Italian investigative journalist Mario Spezi to learn more…
Death of a Gingerbread Man
by Lee Hollis
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
It’s a killer Christmas in more ways than one in the latest Hayley Powell Food & Cocktails mystery set in Bar Harbor, Maine.
With the holiday season in full swing, food and cocktails columnist and restauranteur Hayley Powell has lots to check off her last-minute to-do list. Not included is the sudden arrival of her father, who hasn’t been in the picture since she believed in Santa Claus. Dwight Jordan’s presence in Bar Harbor might just be the unwanted gift that keeps on giving—especially after he becomes the top suspect in a case of yuletide murder…
The Hunting Party
by Lucy Foley
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Everyone’s invited…everyone’s a suspect…
During the languid days of the Christmas break, a group of thirtysomething friends from Oxford meet to welcome in the New Year together, a tradition they began as students ten years ago. For this vacation, they’ve chosen an idyllic and isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands—the perfect place to get away and unwind by themselves.
The trip begins innocently enough: admiring the stunning if foreboding scenery, champagne in front of a crackling fire, and reminiscences about the past…
To Die For
by David Baldacci
Kindle $7.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
From a #1 New York Times bestselling author, the 6:20 Man returns, this time sent to the Pacific Northwest to aid in a complicated FBI case—and he’s about to come face-to-face with his nemesis, the girl on the train.
Travis Devine has become a pro at accomplishing any mission he’s given. But this time it’s not his skills that send him to Seattle to aid the FBI in escorting orphaned, twelve-year-old Betsy Odom to a meeting with her uncle, who’s under federal investigation. Instead, he’s hoping to lay low and keep off the radar of an enemy–the girl on the train.
The Moonlighters Collection
by Terri Blackstock
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Terri Blackstock’s bestselling Moonlighters trilogy—now available in one volume!
Truth Stained Lies: When truth doesn’t make sense, will lies prevail?
Distortion: A husband’s lies can have deadly consequences.
Twisted Innocence: Holly Cramer’s past choices have finally caught up to her, but she never expected them to endanger her baby.
Holmes Is Missing: Patterson’s Most-Requested Sequel Ever
by James Patterson, Brian Sitts
Kindle $14.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
Success has come quickly to Holmes, Marple & Poe Investigations. The New York City agency led by three detectives—Brendan Holmes, “the brain,” Margaret Marple, “the eyes,” and Auguste Poe, the “muscle”—with famous names and mysterious pasts is one major case away from cementing its professional reputation.
But as a series of child abductions tests the PIs’ legendary skills, the cerebral Holmes’s absence leaves a gaping hole in the agency roster…
U.S. Marshal Hunter Cole
by Jesse Storm
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
U.S. Marshal Hunter Cole is called upon to restore peace and stop a gang from attacking a sacred site of the Apaches.
The small town of Thunder Ridge is built near an ancient Apache ruins, where whispers of hidden treasure stir excitement. A notorious gang led by Lucas Crane rides into town, seeking gold and priceless artifacts rumored to be buried by Apache ancestors.
The town’s peace crumbles when its residents start fearing the outlaws’ greed might provoke a war with the Apache tribe.
Silent Caravan
by Frank Wheeler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A classic western novel from Frank Wheeler with non-stop epic adventure and a blend of western romance
Amos Cole has always known hardship, but after his wife’s murder, survival isn’t about himself.
It’s about his six-year-old daughter, Lulu.
Desperate for a fresh start, Amos joins a wagon train heading west, where the promise of a new life is too enticing to dismiss.
What he doesn’t expect to find on the trail is love—or death.