Monday’s Mystery eBooks
A Serial Killer’s Guide to Marriage
by Asia Mackay
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.8 #ad
Hazel and Fox are an ordinary married couple with a baby. Except for one small thing: they’re murderers. Well, they used to be. They had it all. An enviable London lifestyle, five-star travels, and plenty of bad men to rid from the world. Then Hazel got pregnant.
Now, they’re just another mom-and-dad-and-baby. They gave up vigilante justice for life in the suburbs: arranged play dates instead of body disposals, diapers over daggers, mommy conversations instead of the sweet seduction right before a kill. Hazel finds her new life terribly dull. And the more she forces herself to play her monotonous, predictable role, the more she begins to feel that murderous itch again.
Dangerous Second Chances: Boxed Set
by Alexa Verde
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Get swept away into a world of love, danger, and second chances!
Tender romance, humor, family, faith, mysteries, and suspense combine in a set sure to keep you reading and give you hours of reading satisfaction. Each story is a clean romance with a heartwarming and uplifting happy ending!
Book 1: Seaside Cowboy’s Second Chance
Book 2: No Second Chance for a Cowboy
Book 3: Season of Affection
Book 4: Whisper of Danger
Book 5: Show Me a Second Chance
Book 6: Badge of Honor
The House of Cross
by James Patterson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
In Washington, DC…
The president-elect is tapping the country’s brightest legal minds as candidates for the Supreme Court. Then one of them is gunned down. Another is stabbed. A third is murdered near midnight on a city street.
Now it’s up to Detective Alex Cross, the FBI’s top expert in criminal behavior, to go inside the mind of a diabolical killer and protect the country’s best hope for justice.
Theme Music
by T. Marie Vandelly
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
She didn’t run from her dark past. She moved in.
For the lucky among us, life is what you make of it; but for Dixie Wheeler, the theme music for her story was chosen by another long ago, on the day her father butchered her mother and brothers and then slashed a knife across his own throat. Only one-year-old Dixie was spared, becoming infamously known as Baby Blue for the song left playing in the aftermath of the slaughter.
Twenty-five years later, Dixie is still desperate for a connection to the family she can’t remember. So when her childhood home goes up for sale, Dixie sets aside all reason and moves in…
Behind the Border
by Nina Kossman
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
With poignant innocence, Kossman writes of her childhood experiences in Russia…. Each chapter relates a memory tinged with the effects of the totalitarian regime that influenced every aspect of her and her family’s lives. The opening vignette reveals the unexpected restrictions of the border when a beach ball floats out to sea and young Nina is told that she would never be allowed into Turkey to retrieve it.
In the subsequent chapters, the author describes situations through the eyes of a 7-to-10-year-old in which adults reveal either fear of authority or of autocratic bullying. Her parents try to protect her, but her experiences at school eventually result in surprisingly mature conclusions as she comes to realize, fear, and resent the strictures under which she lives…
Stay Close
by Harlan Coben
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
NOW A NETFLIX SERIES!
The bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix dramas Fool Me Once and The Stranger proves that the past never truly fades away in this shocking thriller.
Megan is a suburban soccer mom who once upon a time walked on the wild side. Ray used to be a talented documentary photographer but now finds himself in a dead-end job posing as a paparazzo. Broome is a detective who can’t let go of a cold case. Each is hiding secrets that even those closest to them would never suspect.
“O” is for Outlaw
by Sue Grafton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Through fourteen books, fans have been fed short rations when it comes to Kinsey Millhone’s past: a morsel here, a dollop there. We know of the aunt who raised her, the second husband who left her, the long-lost family up the California coast. But husband number one remained a blip on the screen until now.
The call comes on a Monday morning from a guy who scavenges defaulted storage units at auction. Last week he bought a stack. They had stuff in them–Kinsey stuff. For thirty bucks, he’ll sell her the lot…
The Alienist
by Caleb Carr
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
When The Alienist was first published in 1994, it was a major phenomenon, spending six months on the New York Times bestseller list, receiving critical acclaim, and selling millions of copies. This modern classic continues to be a touchstone of historical suspense fiction for readers everywhere.
The year is 1896. The city is New York. Newspaper reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned by his friend Dr. Laszlo Kreizler—a psychologist, or “alienist”—to view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy abandoned on the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge. F…
Vigil
by George Saunders
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand new Release #ad
“Vibrant, fiendishly clever . . . Vigil is pure Saunders: the death of empathy, he insists, is greatly exaggerated.”—The Boston Globe
Not for the first time, Jill “Doll” Blaine finds herself hurtling toward earth, reconstituting as she falls, right down to her favorite black pumps. She plummets towards her newest charge, yet another soul she must usher into the afterlife, and lands headfirst in the circular drive of his ornate mansion.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Bridge to Nowhere
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
The first Miz Mike Cozy Christian Mystery finds best-selling author Mike Rice—or Miz Mike to friends in Three Prongs, Texas, the place ‘where the misfits fit’—minding her own business…sort of. Mike’s son accuses his mother of meddling because her compassionate heart spurs the slightly clumsy, slightly bonkers, forty-something Mike into solving mysteries and rescuing the unloved and unlovely. And it doesn’t help that Miz Mike’s motto is: Never Let an Adventure Pass by Unmolested.
Mike is playing her secret M&M candy game and envisioning her upcoming lunch date with cowboy hero Marty Richards when a lovely young stranger barges into her office and asks her to solve her sister’s murder…
Black Hills
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Cooper Sullivan spent the summers of his youth on his grandparents’ South Dakota ranch, sharing innocent games and stolen kisses with the neighbor girl, Lil Chance. Now, twelve years after they last walked together hand in hand, fate has brought them back to the Black Hills.
Though the memory of Coop’s touch still haunts her, Lil has let nothing stop her dream of opening the Chance Wildlife Refuge, but something—or someone—has been keeping a close watch. When small pranks and acts of destruction escalate into a heartless attack on Lil’s beloved cougar, memories of an unsolved murder have Coop springing to action to keep Lil safe.
Finding Love in Pine Valley
by Judy Ann Davis
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Award-winning author Judy Ann Davis weaves another heartwarming and compelling romantic mystery of two disenchanted people searching for a stolen vintage trinket box and love again.
Lena Starron knew that leaving her two-timing ex-husband and her job in New York as a writer would be a challenge. Starting over always is. But she never thought she’d return to her old hometown in Pennsylvania where two new jobs awaited her, only to discover she had no place to live.
Wyatt Taylor of Taylor Tree Farm hired Lena to organize and open a new café while she also worked writing publicity for Pine Valley’s 200th Anniversary Celebration…
How to Sell a Haunted House
by Grady Hendrix
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. She doesn’t want to deal with her family home, stuffed to the rafters with the remnants of her father’s academic career and her mother’s lifelong obsession with puppets and dolls. She doesn’t want to learn how to live without the two people who knew and loved her best in the world.
Most of all, she doesn’t want to deal with her brother, Mark, who never left their hometown, gets fired from one job after another, and resents her success. Unfortunately, she’ll need his help to get the house ready for sale because it’ll take more than some new paint on the walls and clearing out a lifetime of memories to get this place on the market.
Before the Fall
by Ellis Grayson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Before the Fall is the gripping first book in The Fall Series, showing the final days before society collapsed. As panic spreads and the dead begin to rise, Derek, Jennifer, and their friends fight to protect each other while the world they knew unravels around them. Survival starts here.
The Silent Girl
by Tess Gerritsen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In the murky shadows of Boston’s Chinatown lies a severed hand. On the tenement rooftop above is the corpse belonging to that hand, a red-haired woman dressed in black, her head nearly decapitated. Two strands of silver hair—not human—cling to her body. They are homicide cop Jane Rizzoli’s only clues, but they’re enough for her and medical examiner Maura Isles to make the startling discovery: that this violent death had a chilling prequel. Nineteen years earlier, a horrifying murder-suicide in a Chinatown restaurant left five people dead.
Included bonus short story Freaks
What We Did
by Brian R. O’Rourke
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
She can’t remember what happened that night. But someone else does.
After years of struggle, Raven Kendrick is giving up on her dream of a theater career in New York. Returning to her hometown, she moves back in with her parents and resigns herself to a quiet life.
But that humble dream is shattered when her tyrannical father is murdered. Even worse, Raven is convinced her beloved mother killed him while sleepwalking. So instead of calling the police, she decides to cover up the crime.
Bone Valley
by Gilbert King
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
In 1987, Leo Schofield was arrested and charged with the murder of his wife, Michelle. Always insistent on his innocence, he was poorly served by his legal defense: the investigation was sloppy, the case flimsy, and numerous pieces of evidence were ignored. He was sentenced to life in prison.
Over thirty years later, Gilbert King is tipped off to Leo’s case and is astonished by what he found: layers of corruption, flawed evidence, and deep-seated errors. He can’t shake the story and starts to get to know Leo and his family. Leo shows an incomprehensible amount of grace and love about his situation, which spurs Gilbert even more to tell his story.
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
How to Seal Your Own Fate
by Kristen Perrin
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Welcome to Castle Knoll, the idyllic English village home to a surprising number of murderers.
Present day: Annie Adams is just settling into life in Castle Knoll when local fortune teller Peony Lane shares a cryptic message only hours before being found dead inside the locked Gravesdown Estate. Annie has no choice but to delve into the dark secrets of her new countryside home in order to find out just what Peony Lane was trying to warn her about, before her brand new life comes crashing down around her.
1967: Teenage Frances Adams, Annie’s great aunt, finds herself caught between two men. Ford Gravesdown is one of the only remaining members of a family known for its wealth and dubious uses of power…
Beach Camper Caper
by Katlee Davis
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Dive in today! This entertaining and thought-provoking young adult mystery is filled with humorous camping adventures, engaging computer logic puzzles, and a heartfelt self-discovery journey that will keep you guessing to the end. Crack the clues and you just might discover yourself!
It’s the summer of 1999, and fourteen-year-old Mandy Mardell’s idyllic beach camping vacation plunges into hilarious chaos when her grandmother’s beloved childhood camping scrapbook mysteriously vanishes from its hiding spot in Mandy’s tent and is replaced with a cryptic ransom note…
Death in Summer
by Lina Areklew
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.2 #ad
The long, bright days of Midsummer hide dark and deadly secrets in this gripping Scandinavian crime thriller.
In 1994, thirteen-year-old Fredrik Fröding lost his entire family in Europe’s worst ferry disaster, the shipwreck of MS Estonia. Twenty-five years later, still suffering from PTSD, he remains convinced that his younger brother survived. And when Fredrik thinks he sees him in a Stockholm hotel, his obsession drives him to follow the hotel’s owner to Ulvön Island to find out the truth. But a drunken Midsummer Eve leaves Fredrik unable to remember what happened—and the hotel owner dead.
Good Girl, Bad Girl
by Michael Robotham
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Novel
From the internationally bestselling author who Stephen King calls “an absolute master,” a fiendishly clever psychological thriller about a dangerous young woman with the ability to know when someone is lying—and the criminal psychologist who must outwit her to survive.
A girl is discovered hiding in a secret room in the aftermath of a terrible crime. Half-starved and filthy, she won’t tell anyone her name, or her age, or where she came from. Maybe she is twelve, maybe fifteen.
Ruthless Kingdom
by Cathrina Constantine
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Two Kingdoms – Two Kings. One King Vows to Rule Them All
Born under a scarlet moon, Avianna Morningstar should have been revered and feared, as the prophecy proclaimed. But Avia is taken to a remote realm where she would be safe from the anarchy festering in the Kingdoms, meanwhile her potential as a sorceress is all but extinguished.
A sinfully attractive tracker is tasked with bringing Avia back to a homeland she has never known in hopes of awakening the power that has lain dormant within her.
The Kingdoms of Verdae and Inkwood are intrigued and unsettled by the sudden return of the king’s illegitimate daughter. Troublesome is the coiling and churning of forbidden black magic throughout the land…
Bourbon Hammer
by J.A. Konrath
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
SOME DRINKS ARE TO DIE FOR…
If your name is Jack Daniels, you must have a soft spot for whiskey.
So when former Homicide cop Jacqueline “Jack” Daniels gets an opportunity to tour one of the best craft distilleries in Colorado, she’s hoping for a fun getaway with friends.
It doesn’t matter that the distillery is supposedly haunted. Or that it is the source of dark rumors—going back over a hundred years—of missing and murdered people.
After a lifetime of dealing with serial killers, Jack knows the odds of running into another one are astronomical.
My Husband’s Wife
by Alice Feeney
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
“Nonstop thrills! The best Feeney book yet!” – FREIDA MCFADDEN
“Propulsive, compulsive, addictive.” – LISA JEWELL
Eden Fox, an artist on the brink of her big break, sets off for a run before her first exhibition. When she returns to the home she recently moved into, Spyglass, an enchanting old house in Hope Falls, nothing is as it should be. Her key doesn’t fit. A woman, eerily similar to her, answers the door. And her husband insists that the stranger is his wife.
One house. One husband. Two women. Someone is lying.
Surrender
by Deborah Lamoreaux
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
It’s 2125 and aliens live among us on earth. They are Verndari – the defenders.
At the turn of the 22nd century they came, with solutions for world hunger, disease, and with ground-breaking technology beyond anything mankind could ever imagine. But, they are not what they seem.
Alrissa Cole is a confident and accomplished professional by day, but by night, in that place between sleep and waking, she is unsteady and unsure–plagued by strange visitations and sights that test the strength of her beliefs. She wins a ticket to the International Academy Awards, where 3-D holograms of the world’s stars, past and present, mingle with live ones, creating an experience of a lifetime.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Banana Cream Pie Murder
by Joanne Fluke
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A romantic seven-day cruise is the perfect start to bakery owner Hannah Swensen’s marriage. However, with a murder mystery heating up back in Minnesota, it seems the newlywed’s homecoming won’t be as sweet as anticipated.
Hannah’s eager to settle down in Lake Eden and turn domestic daydreams into reality. But then her mother’s neighbor is discovered murdered in the condo downstairs. Victoria Bascomb, once a renowned stage actress, was active in the theater community during her brief appearance in town, and made throngs of enemies along the way. Did a random intruder murder the woman as police claim, or was a deadlier scheme at play?
Reset
by Tim Goff
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The sun sputters. Cultists rally in the streets, calling this a sign of the apocalyptic ‘Reset.’
Hounded by cultists and corrupt government agents, Sitex and his siblings seek to forge new lives for themselves in the growing chaos, following a thin thread that may ensure their survival.
But nothing about the Reset or their world is as it seems…
Exiles
by Jane Harper
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Federal Investigator Aaron Falk is on his way to a small town deep in Southern Australian wine country for the christening of an old friend’s baby. But mystery follows him, even on vacation.
This weekend marks the one-year anniversary of Kim Gillespie’s disappearance. One year ago, at a busy town festival on a warm spring night, Kim safely tucked her sleeping baby into her stroller, then vanished into the crowd. No one has seen her since. When Kim’s older daughter makes a plea for anyone with information about her missing mom to come forward, Falk and his old buddy Raco can’t leave the case alone.
A Conjuring of Ravens
by Azalea Ellis
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In a world where magic is a science, Siobhan is a genius. But even geniuses need schooling.
When Siobhan stumbled into the theft of a priceless magical book, she thought her dreams of becoming the world’s most powerful sorcerer were destroyed. But then a mysterious spell changed her life forever…
Siobhan is now wearing the body of a strange man and has a new identity—Sebastien. With a new chance for a new start, she allies herself with a local gang—secretly a revolutionary party funding itself through crime. Now, she is bound by vow to repay them in magic and favors.
Fatal Past: Twin Oaks Secrets
by Sarah Hamaker
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
When a pediatrician foils an attempted child abduction, she’s thrust into a dangerous game in which she must rely on the help of her former boyfriend to stay alive.
Dr. Eve Davenport has forged a life for herself far from the pain of her past. But when she foils the kidnapping attempt of Ethan Smith, she comes face-to-face with the boy’s father, Jefferson Smith—the high school sweetheart who broke her heart and left her with secrets she’s buried for nearly a decade. Jefferson can’t believe the woman who saved Ethan, his late twin brother’s son, is Eve—the girl he once loved and lost. But as the danger mounts, Jefferson and Eve must confront their tangled history and uncover who is behind the attacks targeting Ethan and Eve.
Fire Knife Dancing
by John Enright
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Det. Apelu Soifua risks losing his career – and his life – in a case that exposes the dark heart of American Samoa, from the author of Pago Pago Tango.
Long before he was a cop, Apelu Soifua performed as a fire knife dancer during his teen years in San Francisco. The Polynesian dance troupe was headed by Ezra Strand and his wife, who now live in a secluded house on the cliffs between the ocean and the jungle in Piapiatele. The elderly Ezra has once again been caught discharging a firearm, and Apelu must confiscate the weapon. He never expects Ezra to turn the shotgun on him…
A Breath of Fresh Air
by John B. Rosenman
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Michael Windsor’s luck has abandoned him. His wife, Muriel, left him, taking his beloved seven-year-old son Andy with her, and is sleeping with a rich lawyer.
As if that isn’t enough, he experiences three near-death episodes in his sleep, fighting for breath and nearly suffocating. It’s called obstructive sleep apnea, and his neurologist advises him to use a device to help regulate his breathing at night. It sounds even more miserable, but Michael agrees.
What follows is a whirlwind of surreal changes as his body strengthens, his life improves, and he feels somehow more alive. He knows it’s the machine, but he also knows that’s crazy…
Rescuing the Warrior
by Roxanne Hicks
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Returning from multiple tours of duty in Afghanistan, Liam Blackmer takes up a quest to find his deceased sister’s child before the local trafficker does.
Back cover paragraph–When Liam Blackmer returned home from multiple tours of duty in Afghanistan as a medic, his father and sister were both deceased. He hires on as a paramedic with the Woodridge Fire and Rescue Department. A motorcycle accident lands him in the hospital and then the home of his parents’ former pastor to recover.
Cold Cold Heart
by Tami Hoag
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Dana Nolan was a promising young TV reporter until a notorious serial killer tried to add her to his list of victims. Nearly a year has passed since she survived her ordeal, but the physical, emotional, and psychological scars run deep. Struggling with the torment of post-traumatic stress syndrome, plagued by flashbacks and nightmares, Dana returns to her hometown in an attempt to begin to put her life back together. But home doesn’t provide the comfort she expects.
Dana’s harrowing story and her return to small-town life have rekindled police and media interest in the unsolved case of her childhood best friend, Casey Grant, who disappeared without a trace the summer after their graduation from high school…
The Countering
by Patrick Higgins
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
After countless millions silently and mysteriously vanished from the face of the earth—including all small children—in the blink of an eye, the world was plunged into unbridled chaos.
In the days following the Rapture of Christ’s Church, the ultimate enemy of God raised up his primary human agent in the flesh to carry out his diabolical mission, Salvador Romanero.
With a secret society working feverishly behind the scenes, and with Romanero being supernaturally empowered by the prince of darkness, the former lawyer from Spain quickly rose above the landscape of humanity to become the most powerful man on earth.