Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
How to Survive a Horror Story
by Mallory Arnold
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
When legendary horror author Mortimer Queen passes, a group of writers find themselves invited to his last will and testament reading expecting a piece of his massive fortune. Each have their own unique connection to the literary icon, some known, some soon to be discovered, and they’ve been waiting for their chance to step into the author’s shoes for some time.
Instead, they arrive at his grand manor and are invited to play a game. The rules are simple, solve the riddle and progress to the next room. If they don’t, the manor will take one of them for itself.
Whispers of Kith and Kin
by Kaye Brownstone
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Lizzy James doesn’t want to ruffle any feathers. Still dealing with trauma from her past, the cautious appraiser is horrified when an ordinary day on the job turns up a trio of dead bodies. And when Witness Protection sweeps her off to a sleepy Mississippi hamlet, the determined twenty-something plans to pursue peaceful anonymity… until her gossipy neighbor joins the not-so-dearly departed.
Fending off accusations of murder from an unscrupulous sheriff, the desperate woman arms herself with wits, faith, and the support of a sharp-eyed ten-year-old.
The Perfect Witness
by Iris Johansen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
When Teresa Casali was young she discovered she had a strange gift: the ability to read people’s memories. But the gift seemed more like a curse as her mob boss father used her to gain the upper hand in his world of corruption and violence. Exposed by her own family to the darkest impulses of mankind, Teresa is alone and unprotected. She realizes that if she is to survive, she has to run.
Out of nowhere, or so she believes, a man by the name of Andre Mandak appears.
The Mischief Thief
by Johnnie Alexander
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Chaney Rose survives by staying in the shadows. Pick the lock. Lift the cash. Disappear. But when her cousin is jailed protecting her, staying invisible is no longer an option.
A missing veterinarian and a stolen racehorse worth millions could be her only chance to secure his freedom—if she can find them before a ruthless crime boss does. The search leads straight to Adam Thorne, a recently fired minister desperate to locate his vanished father. What begins as a calculated move quickly spirals into something far more dangerous.
Vampires II (Classic Monsters Book 4)
by Kevin J. Kennedy
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
From war-torn Europe and WWII battlefields to southern backroads, abandoned arcades, isolated campsites, and post-apocalyptic highways, these stories explore vampires as monsters, predators, lovers, ghosts, weapons, and myths. You’ll find ancient Slavic spectres, elemental creatures hunted by their own kind, bat-like horrors that stalk the night, and old-world vampires clashing with modern survival. Revenge, addiction, secrecy, and sacrifice run through the collection, alongside moments of poetry, erotic danger, and raw human tragedy.
Some stories are intimate and unsettling; others are violent, fast, and unforgiving.
The Safe Room
by Sarah A. Denzil
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
When I was fifteen years old, I made a mistake. I trusted the warm smile of a stranger called Peter Harlow, and accepted a ride home in his car. It would be the last moment of my life I’d ever feel safe again.
The trauma of what happened that night will never leave me—and it was only the beginning. For the last nineteen years, I’ve been trapped in a nightmare of blocked numbers, violated restraining orders, and the compulsion to scan every face in every crowd, waiting for the day when his will be among them.
Solomon’s Ring (The Unseen Truth Series)
by William Pickrel
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
The ring was never a weapon. It was a receipt. For twenty years Dr. Elias Brock dug the Ophel in Jerusalem on money he never questioned. Then, live on air, with Solomon’s Ring on a velvet pedestal in front of the cameras, nine figures stepped out of nowhere and asked for it back.
Nine seconds later the ring was gone and the feed was dead. Within days, everyone who had been in that tent remembered a power surge. Everyone except Brock.
Requiem of a Lost Nation
by Angel Ramon
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Otilia is a woman who returns to El Salvador decades after escaping the civil war back in the 1980s. At the age of 51, she decides to write a requiem about her life and times before and during the Civil War. However, it proves to be a painful experience as she opens up old wounds from some of her worst days in life as the civil war intensifies.
As she writes about her past, she ends up bumping into painful memories even in the present time, such as a war memorial and a hotel that used to be an orphanage.
I Am Pilgrim: A Thriller
by Terry Hayes
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A breakneck race against time…and an implacable enemy.
An anonymous young woman murdered in a run-down hotel, all identifying characteristics dissolved by acid. A father publicly beheaded in the blistering heat of a Saudi Arabian public square.
A notorious Syrian biotech expert found eyeless in a Damascus junkyard. Smoldering human remains on a remote mountainside in Afghanistan.
A flawless plot to commit an appalling crime against humanity. One path links them all, and only one man can make the journey.
Partita
by Barbara Kingsolver
Kindle $15.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Livia Cable has made her peace with her marriage and modest livelihood in the farm country where she grew up, until a shocking phone call from an old lover shakes her to the core. Decades earlier, this man knew her as Livia Bohusz, a music conservatory student estranged from her home and family, uncertain of anything except her passion for music and promise as an extraordinary pianist.
His request, now, to see her again stirs up ghosts she’s kept at bay for a lifetime.