Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Mistletoe Mayhem Collection
by Kassandra Lamb
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Christmas mayhem in Florida… Two novellas and a novelette, one from each of author Kassandra Lamb’s series, offer short “fun in the sun” reads to entertain during the busy holiday season (and year round).
An Unsaintly Season in St. Augustine
A Mayfair Christmas Carol
The Twelve Heists of Christmas
TWICE A BROKEN BREATH
by Lisette Brodey
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Although Liam Tallamore can’t remember the first fourteen years of his life, he’s built a happy home with his wife, Carly, and their two children in suburban New Jersey … until one Friday afternoon when everything changes.
While cashing his paycheck, he’s told his bank accounts have been emptied. Once at home, he learns Carly has left him for her first love – one he never knew existed. Most devastating of all, she’s taken their eight-year-old daughter, Rayelle, and is preparing to leave the country. As if things couldn’t get worse, he has no idea where their twenty-year-old son is or why he’s been unreachable for the past two months.
Behold the Monster
by Jillian Lauren, Michael Connelly
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Jillian Lauren had no idea what she was getting into when she wrote her first letter to prolific serial killer Samuel Little. All she knew was her research had led her to believe he was good for far more murders than the three for which he had been convicted. While the two exchanged dozens of letters and embarked on hundreds of hours of interviews, Lauren gained the trust of a monster. After maintaining his innocence for decades, Little confessed to the murders of ninety-three women, often drawing his victims in haunting detail as he spoke. How could one man evade justice, manipulating the system for over four decades?
As the FBI, the DOJ, the LAPD, and countless law enforcement officials across the country worked to connect their cold cases with the confessions, Lauren’s coverage of the investigations and obsession with Little’s victims only escalated.
Closer Than She Knows
by Kelly Irvin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A serial killer bent on revenge . . . and striking too close to home.
Teagan O’Rourke has always loved murder mysteries. In her job as a court reporter, she has written official records for dozens of real-life murders. She’s slapped evidence stickers on crime scene photos. She’s listened to hours of chilling testimony. But she’s never known the smell of death. And she never thought she might be a victim. Until now.
The Night Is Alive
by Heather Graham
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
It’s a city of beauty, history hauntings. And one of the most haunted places in Savannah is a tavern called The Dragonslayer, built in the 1750s. The current owner, Gus Anderson, is a descendant of the original innkeeper and his pirate brother, Blue.
Gus summons his granddaughter, Abigail, home from Virginia, where she’s studying at the FBI Academy. When she arrives, she’s devastated to find him dead. Murdered. But Abby soon learns that Gus isn’t the only one to meet a brutal and untimely end; there’ve been at least two other victims. Then Captain Blue Anderson starts making ghostly appearances, and the FBI’s paranormal investigation unit, the Krewe of Hunters, sends in Agent Malachi Gordon.
Murder at the Kennedy Center
by Margaret Truman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
“An exciting romp through the maze of Washington politics.” – The Dallas Morning News
During a gala benefit for the Democratic Party’s hottest presidential hopeful at the glittering Kennedy Center, a young woman dies, a victim of quick and brutal violence. The murder weapon belongs to the candidate. The chief suspect is the candidate’s son. The dynamic campaign of Senator Kenneth Ewald has collided with a tragedy that can send his son to jail—and wreck his own career.
108: An Eco-Thriller
by Dheepa Maturi
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
While working the night shift at a San Francisco news agency, Bayla Jeevan has a shocking out-of-body experience. Her consciousness is transported deep into an Indian forest, where she witnesses a noxious liquid spreading through the soil. At the same time, she receives a message from her father, presumed dead for fifteen years, warning her of imminent danger. Coincidence? Unlikely.
Halfway around the world, agrochemical corporation ZedChem-led by billionaire Krakun Zed-tests its latest innovation, a product heralded as the solution to topsoil erosion. But the data reveals something else entirely.
The Final Witness
by T. R. Britten
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
In a world where faith is forbidden and society is rigidly divided by the State, one boy refuses to surrender. After the tragic loss of his parents, David returns to England to live with his aunt and enrols at Angel Academy—a school under the iron rule of a sinister director, Mr. Molech. As David doubts God, he finds unexpected hope through two loyal friends and mysterious chalkboard messages from an unseen ally.
But as classmates begin to vanish and the regime tightens its grip, David faces an impossible choice: conform to survive—or risk everything to follow the truth. Meanwhile, the enigmatic Shinar Cane demonstrates to the world his telepathic connection to an ‘alien’ entity, promising power but leading down a dark and deceptive path.
My Years With Gillian Lane
by Daniel M. Wolpe
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Jonathan Ferguson and Gillian Lane meet as children and it’s far from love at first sight for them. But as they become friends and their families grow closer despite their political differences, they must navigate many events of the time including the fight for women’s rights, the aftermath of World War 1, The Jazz Age and The Great Depression. As Jonathan and Gillian fall in love and rebel against their par-ents by pursuing their dreams and moving to New York City, they always have each other’s support, no matter the challenges they face. But is that ultimately enough to sustain their relationship in a changing world?