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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
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.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Death of a Smuggler
by M. C. Beaton, R.W. Green
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
All Hamish Macbeth wants is a quiet life in his peaceful home in the Highland village of Lochdubh. But when his newly-assigned constable arrives, he presents Hamish with a surprise and a secret.
Getting to the bottom of the secret becomes the least of Hamish’s problems when he meets a family who have a score to settle with a sinister man who has mysteriously gone missing. Discovering a murdered woman’s body puts further pressure on Hamish, especially when it becomes clear that the murdered woman and the missing man are linked.
Unloved, a love story
by Katy Regnery
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Katy Regnery comes a unique story about the sins of the father…and the burdens of the son.
My name is Cassidy Porter…
My father, Paul Isaac Porter, was convicted twenty years ago for the brutal murder of a dozen innocent girls. Though I was only eight-years-old at the time, I am aware – every day of my life – that I am his child, his only son.
To protect the world from the poison in my veins, I live a quiet life, off the grid, away from humanity. I promised myself, and my mother, not to infect innocent lives with the darkness that swirls within me, waiting to make itself known. It’s a promise I would have kept…if Brynn Cadogan hadn’t stumbled into my life.
Chasing Whispers
by Jennifer Youngblood
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I tried to resist him, but he’s a force I can’t escape …
There’s only one thing standing in the way of Effie Romeo’s success as an interior designer at the famed Oliver Hotel—Talon Chasing, the manager.
Not only is Talon dangerously handsome with his crooked smile and adorable dimple, but he also happens to be the oldest son of one of the wealthiest families on the East Coast. The more Effie tries to evade Talon, the harder he pursues her.
Effie is reluctant to get involved with Talon because of their work relationship and also because of the whispers of suspicion surrounding his ex-wife’s disappearance. The closer Effie gets to Talon, the more she starts to question his innocence.
Call Game
by Graham Elder, Laura Cody
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
“An exceptional debut novel full of intrigue, surprising twists, and medical stories portraying the drama found every day in the hospital.” – Gary Gerlacher, Bestselling Author of the AJ Docker Series
Chief orthopedic resident, Dr. Rylan Fraser, knows she’s in for a bad on-call night when she arrives in the trauma bay to find a young father barely holding on after a major motorcycle accident. It’s the eve of Thanksgiving, so staffing is thin, but things slide further downhill when she learns her junior resident is AWOL and the blizzard raging outside has stranded her supervising attending in a roadside ditch. This means she must fly solo, breaking the established chain-of-command to perform a series of emergency operations she is almost-but-not-entirely qualified to do on her own. Just when she thinks things can’t get any worse, they do. In between surgeries, Rylan is summoned to the ward to check on her post-op patients—only to find one after the other dead in their beds.
The Maze
by Catherine Coulter
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
As the head of the FBI’s Criminal Apprehension Unit, Dillon Savich has developed predictive analogue programs to aid in the capture of serial killers. Enter Lacey Sherlock, a very well-qualified new agent who seems bright and eager and on the up-and-up. But is she really?
When there’s a vicious murder in Boston, she’s off like a shot, lying to Savich. When Savich finds out what’s going on, he realizes they’ll all be in deep trouble, maybe even victims themselves, if he and Sherlock don’t find out who murdered her sister seven years before….
Christine
by Stephen King
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
It’s love at first sight for high school student Arnie Cunningham when he and his best friend Dennis Guilder spot the dilapidated 1958 red-and-white Plymouth Fury for sale—dubbed “Christine” by its original cantankerous owner—rusting away on a front lawn of their suburban Pennsylvania neighborhood. Dennis knows that Arnie’s never had much luck in the popularity department, or really taken an interest in owning a car…but Christine quickly changes all that.
Arnie suddenly has the newfound confidence to stick up for himself, going as far as dating the most beautiful girl at Libertyville High—transfer student Leigh Cabot—even as a mysteriously restored Christine systematically and terrifyingly consumes every aspect of Arnie’s life.
The General Zapped an Angel
A Touch of Infinity
by Howard Fast
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A pair of imaginative science fiction story collections from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Spartacus, Freedom Road, and the Immigrants saga.
Over his long and illustrious career, New York Times–bestselling author and prolific novelist Howard Fast proved himself a master of any literary genre, from historical fiction in Spartacus to family generational drama in his bestselling Immigrants saga. Although his output in fantasy and science fiction is relatively modest, these two short story collections, reminiscent of classic Twilight Zone episodes, demonstrate that Fast’s imagination knew no boundaries.
Gallows Hill
by Darcy Coates
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
It’s time to come home…
The Hull family has owned the Gallows Hill Winery for generations. Their wine wins awards. Their business prospers. Their family thrives. People whisper that the curse has awakened once more.
The sprawling old house has long been perched on top of a hill overlooking the nearby town, jealously guarding the estate’s secrets.
It’s been more than a decade since Margot Hull last saw her childhood home. She was young enough when she was sent away that she barely remembers its dark passageways and secret corners…
The Bitter Trail
by James Leonard
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
The trail ended. What follow wouldn’t.
Blackberry Jacobs has never known a winter like this one. Frozen nights on a mountain trail with a dead outlaw across his saddle and snow biting straight to the bone. He brings Hale Fellweather’s body into Seven Breaks, hoping to heal, rest, and steal a warm hour with Meliya Quiet Waters, the healer who sees through every scar he tries to hide.
But just because Hale was a criminal doesn’t mean he won’t be missed.