Friday’s Mystery eBooks
The Mystery Guest
by Nita Prose
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Molly Gray is not like anyone else. With her flair for cleaning and proper etiquette, she has risen through the ranks of the glorious five-star Regency Grand Hotel to become the esteemed Head Maid. But just as her life reaches a pinnacle state of perfection, her world is turned upside down when J. D. Grimthorpe, the world-renowned mystery author, drops dead—very dead—on the hotel’s tearoom floor.
When Detective Stark, Molly’s old foe, investigates the author’s unexpected demise, it becomes clear that this death was murder most foul…
EMP: The Cold Road Home
by James Hunt
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Twenty miles, a blizzard, and the chaos of an EMP stand between Nick Franklin and reuniting with his family. Nick has spent his life preparing for this very moment.
Now that the time has arrived to enact his emergency plan, Nick must decide how much of his humanity he will sacrifice to save his family.
Life Sentences
by Laura Lippman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.8 #ad
USA Today calls Laura Lippman, “A writing powerhouse,” and Life Sentences powerfully confirms it. Past and present, truth and memory collide in this searing novel from a New York Times bestselling author whose novels have won virtually every major prize bestowed for crime fiction—from the Edgar® to the Anthony to the Agatha to the Nero Wolfe Award. As she did in her blockbuster What the Dead Know, Lippman takes a brief hiatus from her popular series character, Baltimore p.i. Tess Monaghan, to tell a riveting story of deceptions and dangerously fragile truths that People magazine says, “Succeeds brilliantly.”
Magic Hour
by Kristin Hannah
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
In the rugged Pacific Northwest lies the Olympic National Forest—nearly a million acres of impenetrable darkness and impossible beauty. From deep within this old growth forest, a six-year-old girl appears. Speechless and alone, she offers no clue as to her identity, no hint of her past.
Having retreated to her western Washington hometown after a scandal left her career in ruins, child psychiatrist Dr. Julia Cates is determined to free the extraordinary little girl she calls Alice from a prison of unimaginable fear and isolation.
The Key West Novels
by Meryl Sawyer
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Two novels of sizzling romantic suspense set in the steamy Florida Keys from a New York Times–bestselling author who “always entertains” (Heather Graham).
Half Moon Bay
Thunder Island
Broken Rhodes
by Kimber Silver
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Kinsley Rhodes blows into Harlow, Kansas like a tornado, twisting Sheriff Lincoln James’ life into knots. Her grandfather has been murdered and she wants answers.
As if the town’s first homicide in twenty years wasn’t enough, the beleaguered sheriff now has to deal with Henry Rhodes’ bobcat of a granddaughter, plunging his life deeper into chaos. As a dark storm threatens, long-held secrets are exposed, placing Kinsley directly in harm’s way.
All I Want for Christmas
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In a heartwarming holiday tale from #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts, two twin boys have one wish for Christmas: a mom.
Zack and Zeke have one request for Santa this year (besides new bikes, of course)… a mom. And the new music teacher, Nell Davis, seems like the perfect candidate for their father, Mac. But Mac’s been hurt by love before and suspects that this new woman from the big city won’t stick around their town for long. The twins might just have to band together to show their dad that Nell is more than worth the risk of loving again.
Shadows Rising
by Madeleine Roux
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
“The Horde is nothing!” With those infamous words, Sylvanas Windrunner betrayed and abandoned the Horde she vowed to serve. The Dark Lady and her forces now work in the shadows as both the Horde and Alliance, including her own sister, Alleria, race to uncover her next move. Struggling to shoulder the crushing weight of leadership, King Anduin entrusts the void elf and High Exarch Turalyon to uncover Sylvanas’s whereabouts.
The Horde now stands at a crossroads. The various factions form a council, leaving the mantle of warchief to rest. Thrall, Lor’themar Theron, Baine Bloodhoof, First Arcanist Thalyssra, and many other familiar faces rise to this new challenge. But the threats are numerous, and the distrust runs too deep.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
A Death on Fools Lane
by Jane Suen
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Her happy holiday is about to become a dead man’s funeral.
College student Eve Sawyer is anticipating a fun winter vacation with her two friends until a dog sniffs out a body hanging from a tree in the yard of the house where they’re staying.
Implored by the dead man’s grieving mother, Eve and her friends set out to investigate the case. Was it suicide or murder? That’s the question on everyone’s lips.
Washington
by Thomas J. Gebhardt III
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
With the sound of gunshots, the crowd erupts in crying and screams. Some of them wonder what to do, some worry, all wanting to make it out alive. Evan finds he doesn’t think of himself at all but about Judith. Where could she be? Is she safe?
Before that dreaded day, Evan is a new transfer to Washington High School, where he’s reunited with his best friends from childhood. He’s a typical slacker who would rather sketch and daydream than pay attention in class, waiting for the bell to ring so he can go to the arcade and comic book shop after school. When he meets Judith, who aims for perfection and top honors, they slowly grow closer and closer. Evan is unsure how he feels, if he fits in or what he wants out of life. And before he can think things through, he finds out a new member of his group of friends is being bullied…
Sidney Sheldon’s The Tides of Memory
by Sidney Sheldon, Tilly Bagshawe
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The conservative party’s newest superstar, Alexia De Vere has worked hard to realize her political ambitions. The brilliant and ruthless wife of wealthy aristocrat Teddy De Vere, Alexia relishes her power and the control it gives her to shape and destroy lives.
Yet success has also demanded sacrifice. Her daughter, Roxie, a bitter young woman confined to a wheelchair after a failed suicide attempt, blames Alexia for ruining her life. Alexia’s dashing son, Michael, is risking the family’s good name to jump-start his entre-preneurial dreams. Thankfully, Alexia has Teddy, her devoted husband who will stop at nothing to protect her.
Bah Hum-Blood!
by Josh Burnell
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Every Christmas Eve, he kills again. For eleven years, the Bah Humbug Butcher has terrorized the town—impaling girls on candy canes, strangling them with twinkle lights, and even crushing them beneath Christmas trees.
This year, Sheriff Eva Christian has one last chance to stop him. Guided by the ghost of her father and the spirits of Victims Past, Present, and Future, Eva must relive each gruesome murder—one terrifying vision at a time. What she finds isn’t just blood and bodies… but the clues that could finally unmask the Butcher.
Hold Tight
by Harlan Coben
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix dramas Stay Close and The Stranger delivers a #1 New York Times bestseller that asks how well parents really know their children—and puts them on a technological roller coaster of their worst fears.
“We’re losing him.” With those words, Mike and Tia Baye decide to spy on their sixteen-year-old son Adam, who has become increasingly moody and withdrawn since the suicide of his best friend. The software they install on his computer shows them every Web site visited, every e-mail sent or received, every instant message. And each keystroke draws them deeper and deeper into a maze of mayhem and violence that could destroy them all….
The Hunter
by Tana French
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die.
Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace. He’s found it, more or less: he’s built a relationship with a local woman, Lena, and he’s gradually turning Trey Reddy from a half-feral teenager into a good kid going good places. But then Trey’s long-absent father reappears, bringing along an English millionaire and a scheme to find gold in the townland, and suddenly everything the three of them have been building is under threat…
The Three Kitties That Saved My Life
by Michael Meyer
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A true romance memoir. “This is like drinking tea and honey on a cold day.” When tragedy struck, I thought for sure that my own life was at an end. I was wrong. This is the true story of how two stray rescue cats and a woman named Kitty, whom I finally met after a wild ride of internet dating, brought love, romance, and laughter back into my life.
Love was then. Love is now. Love is forever.
WINNER of the 2018 Stephen Memorial Award
FINALIST for the 2014 RONE AWARD
The Bala Lake Killings
by Simon McCleave
Kindle $5.99 Rating: Brand new Release #ad
There’s no place to hide…
A local MP is murdered by a far-right extremist gang in Snowdonia. DI Ruth Hunter and DS Nick Evans arrest one of the killers, Raymond Clarke, who agrees to give evidence if he and his family are taken into protective custody. Ruth is sure they’ll be out of harm’s way in the remote wilds near Bala Lake.
But the location of the safe house is leaked and Clarke’s family is kidnapped.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Meet Your Baker
by Ellie Alexander
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Welcome to Torte-a friendly, small-town family bake shop where the treats are so good that, sometimes, it’s criminal…
After graduating from culinary school, Juliet Capshaw returns to her quaint hometown of Ashland, Oregon, to heal a broken heart and help her mom at the family bakery. The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is bringing in lots of tourists looking for some crumpets to go with their heroic couplets. But when one of Torte’s customers turns up dead, there’s much ado about murder…
Candle In The Wind
by Kim Baccellia
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
What if you discovered everything you’ve been taught is a lie? For most of her life, seventeen-year-old Espie Hernandez’s world revolved around the Branch of Thomas, a cult-like haven in what’s left of a war-ravaged America.
Their ruler, Reverent Father, keeps them safe from the Others, those outside the compound who wish to harm them. Espie questions what she’s been taught and finds herself banished from the compound. She’s thrust into the harsh world beyond their walls with the mission to prove the Others actually have a plot against them. When tensions escalate, Espie must figure out who to trust before everything she loves is torn apart.
The Stand
by Stephen King
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A patient escapes from a biological testing facility, unknowingly carrying a deadly weapon: a mutated strain of super-flu that will wipe out 99 percent of the world’s population within a few weeks. Those who remain are scared, bewildered, and in need of a leader. Two emerge – Mother Abagail, the benevolent 108-year-old woman who urges them to build a peaceful community in Boulder, Colorado; and Randall Flagg, the nefarious “Dark Man,” who delights in chaos and violence. As the dark man and the peaceful woman gather power, the survivors will have to choose between them – and ultimately decide the fate of all humanity.
“J” is for Judgment
by Sue Grafton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Five years ago, when Jaffe’s thirty-five-foot Fuji ketch was found drifting off the Baja coast, it seemed a sure thing he’d gone overboard. The note he left behind admitted he was flat broke, his business bankrupt, his real estate gambit nothing but a huge Ponzi scheme about to collapse, with criminal indictment certain to follow. When the authorities soon after descended on his banks and his books, there was nothing left: Jaffe had stripped the lot.
The Fred Carver Mysteries Volume Two
by John Lutz
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The second set of crime thrillers starring a tough Florida PI from the New York Times–bestselling author of Single White Female and “one of the masters” (Ridley Pearson).
New York Times– and USA Today–bestselling author John Lutz has been hailed as “a major talent” by John Lescroart, and he “just keeps getting better and better” (Tony Hillerman). “Lutz offers up a heart-pounding roller coaster” (Jeffery Deaver) in his thrillers and “knows how to make you shiver” (Harlan Coben).
The Hero
by Lee Child
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.5 #ad
In his first work of nonfiction, the creator of the multimillion-selling Jack Reacher series explores the endurance of heroes from Achilles to Bond, showing us how this age-old myth is a fundamental part of what makes us human. He demonstrates how hero stories continue to shape our world – arguing that we need them now more than ever.
From the Stone Age to the Greek Tragedies, from Shakespeare to Robin Hood, we have always had our heroes. The hero is at the centre of formative myths in every culture and persists to this day in world-conquering books, films and TV shows…
Next to Last Stand
by Craig Johnson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
One of the most viewed paintings in American history, Custer’s Last Fight, copied and distributed by Anheuser-Busch at a rate of over two million copies a year, was destroyed in a fire at the 7th Cavalry Headquarters in Fort Bliss, Texas, in 1946. Or was it? When Charley Lee Stillwater dies of an apparent heart attack at the Wyoming Home for Soldiers & Sailors, Walt Longmire is called in to try and make sense of a piece of a painting and a Florsheim shoebox containing a million dollars, sending the good sheriff on the trail of a dangerous art heist.
The Whispering Room
by Dean Koontz
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
These are the words that ring in the mind of mild-mannered, beloved schoolteacher Cora Gundersun – just before she takes her own life, and many others’, in a shocking act of carnage. When the disturbing contents of her secret journal are discovered, it seems certain that she must have been insane. But Jane Hawk knows better.
In the wake of her husband’s inexplicable suicide – and the equally mysterious deaths of scores of other exemplary individuals – Jane picks up the trail of a secret cabal of powerful players who think themselves above the law and beyond punishment.
Mile High Miracle
by J. S. Kingsley
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All I wanted for Christmas was a flight home to my Grandma’s cookies. Instead, I got unwrapped by a silver fox billionaire at 30,000 feet.
The flight was a disaster until Marcel Dubois saved me. Older. Sophisticated. Richer than sin.
He offered his private suite. I gave him my virginity.
The rule was simple: One night. No names. No strings.
But the holidays are full of surprises. When I walk into my new job to save my grandmother’s town, I freeze.
The ruthless developer bulldozing our library? It’s him. The Grinch stealing our Christmas? Him.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Bleeding Tarts
by Kirsten Weiss
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Val’s new pies are foolproof–but not bulletproof.
Old West ghost towns are as American as apple pie. So what better place to sponsor a pie-eating contest than the Bar X, a fake ghost town available for exclusive private events on the edge of Silicon Valley. Valentine Harris is providing the pies, hoping to boost business for her struggling Pie Town shop and become a regular supplier for the Bar X.
But no sooner does she arrive in town than a stray bullet explodes the cherry pie in her hands. And the delicious dessert is not the only victim. Val finds the Bar X bartender shot dead in an alley…
The Ones Who Got Away
by Stephen Graham Jones
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Thirteen stories of monsters, murder, and mayhem from a master of horror, the New York Times–bestselling author of I Was a Teenage Slasher.
Stephen Graham Jones takes familiar horror tropes—zombies, camping mishaps, damaged children—and intertwines them with the dark forces of human nature to create unique and unforgettable short fiction. These thirteen tales run the gamut, immersing you in worlds you think you’ve seen before, but with outcomes you’ll never see coming.
In “Father, Son, Holy Rabbit,” a dad and his child are lost in a snowstorm and learn what the true cost of survival is. A snake-oil salesman makes his way across Arizona territory, peddling his wares to unsuspecting customers—and leaving ghost towns in his wake—in “Lonegan’s Luck.” While in “Raphael,” four twelve-year-old outcasts, seemingly invisible to everyone around them, make up a “scare” club, pushing themselves further and further into the unthinkable.
The Terry Henry Walton Saga
by Craig Martelle, Michael Anderle, Justin Sloan
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
They say that behind every great man is a great woman…but what if that woman is a Werewolf?
Join Terry Henry Walton as he helps drag humanity back into civilization after the World’s Worst Day Ever with the Terry Henry Walton Chronicles. Continue the story as Terry Henry, Char, and their people head to space in The Bad Company!
Get 19 books encompassing two complete series and more than 4600 pages of action and adventure-filled urban fantasy and science fiction with this digital boxed set
Left to Die
by Lisa Jackson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
NOTHING’S MORE TERRIFYING . . . One by one, the victims are carefully captured, toyed with, then subjected to a slow and agonizing death. Piece by piece, his exquisite plan takes shape. The police can’t yet see the beauty in his work—but soon, very soon, they will . . .
THAN BEING LEFT ALONE . . . In the lonely woods around Grizzly Falls, Montana, four bodies have been discovered. Detectives Selena Alvarez and Regan Pescoli have been hoping for a career-making case, but this is a nightmare. Even with the FBI involved, Selena and Regan have nothing to go on but a killer’s cryptic notes, and the unsettling knowledge that there is much worse to come . . .
TO DIE . . .
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
by Agatha Christie
Kindle $0.49 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In Agatha Christie’s short story, “The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding,” Poirot is asked to attend a Christmas celebration in order to apprehend a jewel-thief who has taken advantage of an unwary eastern prince. Full of English holiday tradition and plenty of intrigue, this holiday tale first appeared in the December 12, 1923 issue of The Sketch magazine.
Wolf Pack
by C. J. Box
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett encounters bad behavior on his own turf—only to have the FBI and the DOJ ask him to stand down–in the thrilling novel from #1 New York Times-bestselling author C.J. Box.
The good news is that Joe Pickett has his job back, after his last adventure in The Disappeared. The bad news is that he’s come to learn that a drone is killing wildlife—and the drone belongs to a mysterious and wealthy man whose son is dating Joe’s own daughter, Lucy…
The Whisper of His Irons
by James Leonard
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Here comes another western adventure of relentless action, obstacles and a touch of western romance
At twelve years old, Flint McCrae buried his mother with his own hands after raiders tore through their Missouri homestead. From that day, he swore he’d never show mercy again. Seven years later, he has his father’s guns and a list of names. The men who killed her are nearly gone, one bullet at a time.
To most, Flint is already a legend. A shadow on horseback who rides the wind from Kansas to the frontier towns beyond. To Edda May, daughter of a boardinghouse keeper, he’s a quiet young man hollowed by grief.
The Life of Chuck
by Stephen King
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Originally featured in the acclaimed story collection If It Bleeds, this unforgettable, mind-bending tale unfolds in reverse, taking readers through the extraordinary life of Charles “Chuck” Krantz.
In a crumbling world plagued by natural disasters, collapsing infrastructure, and mass panic, bizarre billboards and advertisements appear throughout town: “Charles Krantz. Thirty-nine great years. Thanks, Chuck!” Marty Anderson, a schoolteacher, becomes obsessed with these messages as the world, inexplicably linked to Chuck’s life, seems to be approaching its end.